The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-26
Portage, No. 2, and parts ad djacent there

| unto, are rapidly acquiring unenvfabI
reputation as being the haunt of gang o
rowdies whose acquaintance it is not desi
rable for decent people to cultivate. On,
day last week, another of the oft-recurrine
! pugilistic encounters characteristic of tn,
section came off between two or more par
! ties, and, though no one had an eye gouged
out or an ear chawsd off. yet considerable
blood was spilled. A criminal prosecution
/ before our Court is threateued as one Of the
results
! Sheriff Linton and family, for the past
soven or eight years connected with the
! Mountain House of this place, will early the
J coming week remove to East Conemaugb
where the former purposes engaging in the
mercantile business. The House, which
will be extensively reitted and refurnishcd
will hereafter be under the control of Mrs
P. L. Linton, relict of the junior member OF
the former rirm of proprictors. We bespeak
for Sheriff L. and family pleasant and pros
! porous career in their new home, and for
the Mountain House under it's new manage
ment largely Increased and profitable line
of patronage.
The remains of Peter Collins, ST., were
| conveyed hence to the Summit for inter
ment per special train on Wednesday morn.
| ing, Solemn High Mass of Requiem, over
the dead having been previously celebrated
in the Church of the Holy Name by Rev.
Father Boyle, celebrant, assisted by Rev.
Father Dcvlin, of Loretto, as deacon, and
Rev. Father McHugh, of wilmore, as sub.
deacon. a funeral discourse was delivered
by Father Boyle, in the course of which a
/ iyh he
ed was paid. All the members of the fami-
ly, together with a large number of relations
and friends, accompanied the body to its
Aual home
Hand bills posted here AID there an
nouncc that the celebrated Blind Tom will
give musical entertainment in the Court
House on Tuesday evening of next week.
Blind at his birth, the son of ignorant field
hands, and himself totally devoid of educa-
ton, Tom Is yet possessed of talents and
geni"s which are acknowledged to he at
once the admiration and asuonishment of the
musical world. He has been before the pub
lie for many years, and wherever he has ap-
ceared, east, west, north or SOUTH the mca-
sure of applause that has greeted him has
been uubounded. The mere mention of his
namo, we know, will f1ll the Court House
auditorium to repletion on the appointed
evening. He goes hence TO Johnstown
A lucky chap, while walking on the
highway in the neigbborhood of Cresson,
last Tuesday, touched with his toe a bit of
wrapped-up paper that lay in his way, and
out of the package flew-just think of it =
genuine five dollar gold piece Under the
mistaken impression that he had discovered
mine Of the precious metal, he walked a
mile in every direction from the point " here
he picked up the coin, institnting meanwhile
vigorous search for other stray packages
os paper, but his labor was the only reward
he got for his pains. Had it been nearer the
first of April, he says he would pronounce
the whole thing an all-fools' trick Asitis
he wonders why the Ave dollar piece might
not just we'll have been ten dollars. and
consequently he is not altogether happy.
This item from the Curwensyil,e Times.
Many of our exchanges are Dragging about
the heavy weights, single and aggregate, of
families in their localities. We haze quietly
held our peace uutil now, hoping some paper
would publish the weight of some which
would balance the scales against oar family
but we have failed to find one vet There
resides on the Luthersburg pike, two miles
west of town, family named Conrod four
members of which pull down the scales at
l,OI0 pounds. Isaac, the father weiphs
25o; The mother $50; CathariRe a young lady
just married, 260, and John, a young man
20. There are two other members of this
family whose weight we did not learn, but
1t Is safe to estimate the whole six at 45o
pouncs. Now, let rs hear who can beat this
----e >-
AN UNLAWFUL LOvE.-Tbe Huntingdon
Monitor OF last week records a notable in
stance of unlawful love. 1t appears that
Mary Whitherstone, young, single woman,
of respectable parents, residing up Broad
Top, recently eioped with colored man
named Noble Robinson, living in the same
Heighborhood, who has a family cops1sting
of a wife and five children, The mongrei
couple stopped at Mount Union yesterday,
for the purpose of being united in the bonds
of matrimony. 1t happened, however, that
some of the citizens OF the place were ac-
Yuainted with the betrothed parties, and
knew Robinson to he a married man h,v;po