The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-13

/ Saturday last, aid vanquished them in
/ score of 16to 13.
1t is no doubt true, as the Tribune an
nounces, that Maj. Hamilton of Johnstown
has realized sixty pounds of honey from Oue
soap of bees, but it is cutting our Cambria
township friend off with a shilling, rs it
were, to say that he expects to realize about
one ton of honey, when the truth u.s. accord
/ ing to his estimate that not less than four
/ tons will be the yield.
/ "A ,Johnstown lady and two children
/ were thrown from buggy near East Cone
maugh the other day, but fortunately es-
capped without injury. The horse attempted
/ to run away after the accident, bnt the lines
I caught in railroad spike and threw him on
. the track from which perilous position he
was rescued just in time to save him from
being run over by the Day Express.
Venus and Jupiter finally exchanged
{ compliments with each other last night after
/ having couqUitted together for some time
past. They came within a degree of each
other, and then embraced at long present
ing picture to star gazers which was second
/ only to the beautiful array of elegant cheap
goods so temptingly displayed at the low
/ priced cash store of Myers & Lloyd, Main
street Ebensburg.
We are sorry to learn of the death of
I Il little daughter, four and n half years old,
/ of our friend and patron, Mr.. Joseph Elig,
of Cambria township, which sad event oc-
Cured we believe on Monday last. Her
/ disease was dysentery, brought on it is
I thought by eating wild cherries without
/ taking the precaution to discard the seeds.
Interment in the Catholic cemetery in this
place on Wednesday.
A number of gentlemen met recently in
Huntingdon county for the purpose of or
ganizing Peoples party, ''the object of
which shall be the restoration of confidence
/ to the country" etc. Addresses were made
by Rev. Cyrus Jeffries, John Dougherty,
Joseph Bardiue, 4. L. Guss, and others.
/ An executive committee of five was ap-
pointed to prepare a call for n convention in
Huntingdon at an early day, to nominate
. fUll county ticket.
BERNARD NIcCUC, 4 former citizen of
GaIIilziu, this county, where he is very re-
specially connected, was to have been hung
NJ Wlliamsport for the murder of John
. Deter, near Muucy, on Monday last but
through the iutcrpoSitiou of his friends here
and elsewhere the Board of Pardons have
month for the purpose of hearing and decid-
ing upon an application made TO have his
punishment commuted to Imprisonment for
life.
Mrs Behccca !. Fleming, the beloved
wife of Mr.. W. !. Fleming, one of the pro
prietors OF the Altoona Erening Mirror, died
in that city on Sunday morning last, after
severe illness, at the early age Of 2S years
Z ,,rI 4
the home of her parents in Mifilin county
for iutermeut ON the following day. Mr..
Fleming has our earnest sympafhies in the
loss of "a devoted wife and a loving helpmate,
for whom we have reason to believe tue
highest respect was entertained by all who
hal the pleasure OF her acquaintance.
VIM. Baer, of Ludwick, Westmoreland
Z county, either committed suicide on Wed
nesday noon by drowning himself in an old
/ unused tan vat on his fathers premises, or
( else, as another account has it, went TO n
/ spring while laboring under n severe attack
of typhoid fever, and foil into the water and
was drowned while in the act of STOPPING
over for the purpose of wetting cloth to
: lay ON his aching forehead Both of these
reports were telcgraphed to the Johnstown
/ Tribune, and it published them the same day
without knowing which was the correct ver-
sion Of the sad occurrence.
IF a certain COW in this community
don't TEf.shvo herself around on n double
quick some of these fine mornings, she may
find 4 few more pores in her epidermis than
nature ever provided her with At least n
neighbor Of ours who woke up yesterday
morning and found several of his cabbagcs
bcheaded. number of fine roastiug-cars
denudcd of all that makes them luscious,
and general ruin spread broadcast throughout
his carefully titled AMI highly priced garden
patch, has sworn upon the altar Of his coun-
try, so to speak, that the aforesaid bovine
must pay the penalty if she ever makes
another raid on his premises.
Tine Juhnstowu Trijanc, which is never
so happy as when it is making a point, how
ever pcintless, on Ebensbure, has started
the stupid story that the Cambria Guards
Of this place intend toprovde themselves
with four days rations and march hence 10
Huntingdon to attend the military review
10 be held there on the 9th of next month,
and many of our exchanges copy the item
rs a piece of reliable news, 1t is needless
to say perhaps, that our "sojer boys" are
not fools, and hence would not undertake
the fatigues of long march when they can
reach Huntingdon much more comfortably
ard expeditiously by railroad.
In a portion of our edition last week we
made mention of the fact that an explosion
ofpowder took place, on Thursday afternoon,
in a stone quarry owned and operated by
Messrs. p. NJ. & J. Brown, of Summerkill,
and that one man had both eyes blown out
and two others named Jacob Popp and --
Callahan, were also very severely injured,
the former being badly mutilated and the
latter having an arm fractured and his head
cut in several places. All three we are glad
to announce, are in fair way of recovering,
although the misf1rtunate man first men
toned, who formerly resided ut Gallitzin,