The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-26
we haze too much snow up in this sec.

NuntaSe tnat we possess over our nelghDOrS
Of the lowiands is that our souls are af-
frighted not by the possibility of an ice-
gorge with its resultant devastations.
The house of man named Bradley, a
resident of the Summit, caught fire on
Wednesday morning last Through the cx-
ertions of a number of Ebensburgers who
CHANGED to be present at the time, the flames
were extipgushed before much damage had
been done.
Our butcher friend Mr.. Joe Gutwalt
paraded two show cattle through the
streets on Wednesday. They were the
finest specimens of the bovine genus that
have been seen here for many day, and
will be served up in the shape of steaks and
roasts to-morrow-just IN time for Easter
Sunday.
How are you Sam? you tell me
the cheapest place in town TO buy goods ?''
"How do you know my name is Sam p"
why I guessed it," "Well, then, guess
the chea pest place TO buy goods "Why,
at s. J. Hess & Bros, PAL and 243 Main
street, Johnstown." Correct. You may
pass
The most melancholy thought coupled
with the approach of spring is, that the time
will soon be here when it Will be necessary
To blacken our boots twice n month Talk
ing about boots, E. j. Mills, High street,
has just received a new stock of the finest
and best boots, shoes, and slippers ever
brought to Ebensburg.
The Clearfeld Roftsman's Journal says ::
THE amount of square timber TO be run to
market from: this region will not much ex-
coed one-haf the usual supply, Judging
from the information We have on the sub
ject. "A limited supply will undoubtedly
insure better prices than could be obtained
were the quantity greater"
The local editor OF Il fashion magazine
says that "there is something very pretty in
ladies' gloves this season" That unrar-
ried boy evidently means the ladies hands
He might have added, and truthfuily, too,
that the prettiest ladies gloves for spring
were ICGe found in EIersburg an d are for
sale ut Myers y Lloyd's, High street.
As an indication of the severity of the
weather we have been lately experiencing,
it may be mentioned that large numbers of
the blue jay, ,oue Of the most timurous of the
feathered tribe in the summer time, are to
be found fitting hither and thither in our
=
thence ia quest of crumbs to preserve their
lives.
The robins ard bluebirls that left us
and went South last week, having been be-
guiled here by couple of days that showed
no surface indications of snow or ice, have
not come back. Their arrival here again
along with that of the swallows and mar
tins, may be momentarily expected, for the
Altoona Tribune informs us that the "reign
of winter has been broken"
late reports assure us that Hon A. c.
Mul!in, formerly of Ebenshurg, is dying at
his home in Ashland, SchuyIiil county,
His brothers and sisters have been sum-
moned to his bedside. He has many friends
and no cneIniss here, and one and all will
unite in the expression OF sorrow at the an
proat hing demise of one so young, so bril-
liant, and whose future seemed SO fair and
uucloud.d.
On the Tyrone division Of tho Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, additional rolling stock will
be placed, 30 as to accommodate the rapidly
increasing business of that branch. The
folks over there want additional facilities for
going 10 JoLnsto~n, TO the end that thew
may lie enab'd 10 rny visit to Jas. J.
Murrhy's, 100 Clinton street, that CITY.
and Iuy salt of the cheap ard fashionable
ready-m ahe cloShing he has just received.
Near B!acklick, Indiana county, lives a
man named william Fair. Thirty years
ago he became religious enthusiast and
LOST his reason, and since that time mp to The
present date it has been found necessary to
confine him in a room which is in reality a
prison. He IL 50 years old, and hale and
hearty, and passes the major portion of his
time in singing and praying. At least the
Johnstown Tribune leads US to infer that
such is the case.
A case of violation of municipal law
was lately before the burgess of HOLIDAYS
bnrg- That official in his 'charge," said
that the punishment to be accorded the ac-
cused-there Were two of them, and both
had been adjudgcd guil;y-would he Il fine
In certain amount, or else Imprisonment
Tor certain number of hours with ssbread
water, and molasses OF the black-stYap va
riety" for pabuluin till they again breathed
the pure air of heaven.
"A young man named Willard Plummer.
aged 2l years, employed as brakeman on a
shifting crew in the railroad cotnpang's
the performance OF his duty on Tuesday
morning. 1t seems that while in the act of
coupling cars one of his feet caught in a
frog, which caused him 20 fall on the track
with great violence. a portion of The train
ran over him and his body was fearfully mu-
uiated. He lived about an hour after the
accident.
IA young man, twenty-five years of age
named William Emigb, fell off freight
train in the neighborhood of Kittanning
Point last Saturday night, and the wheels
of the cars passed over both his legs. He
was removed to Altoona and the injured
members amputated, but death ensued the
following day. The remains were taken to
Wilmore, of which place he was resident.
the following Monday, and inferred He
was the farman of the tram hy ,xb;.b bo