The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-10-08

JDhnSlOWn ItiSIrlCJ SouEty on wednesday
last, before which he had been summoned
to answer the serious charge of rape, prefer
red against him by girl named Cathariue
Shelley, of Adams township. Mr.. Dough-
erty, whom we conceive to he an honorable
gentleman, had no trouble in establishing an
, dIibt, and the jury returned with a verdict
of mot guilty" shortly after leaving the box.
Now put up the little stove-pipe with II
meek and Christian grace stuff your mouth
with your rose-wipe, smear the smut about
your face for you'll be just as gay and hap
py, and vour stars you'll surely bless, when,
like good, indugent "pappy," you buy
your winter clothes from Hess, who with
his younger brother can supply the world
with ''duds," and don't care n SNAP if other
dealers think their soap all suds Oak Hall,
24l and 2i3 Main street, Johustown.
George T. Swank, editor of the Johns
town Tribune, and the champion political
drawer of the long bow in this State, was
elected Chairman of the Republican County
Committee by the convention of that party
on Tuesday last. His selection to run the
Republican machine i'm this county Will in
crease Pershing's majority ut least t,cO hun
dred. For the success of the Democratic
party in Cambria county, Swank is beyond
question the right man i'm the right place.
For the first Time perhaps in the history
of this community, the deepest depth of in
fanny has boeu reached. An editor has
. been rObbetl- yea. verify, robbed of n pair of
half-worn pants, three pairs of woolen socks
and n couple of neither garments which no
-
the femerity To put himself inside of all
stolen from poor editors clothes line at one
fell swoop. Gone 10 meet Barnuns big
show or-tbe rariical county convention.
The dead body of an old man named
George Brown, aged 90 years, employed as
"a wood-sawyer Ivy the Pa, X. X. c., was
found on the railroad track two miles east
of Altoona, on Sunday morning last, with
such marks upon his person as might have
been the result of accident, but which We're
sufficiently suggestive of foul play to induce
the Mirror to criticize the Coroner's jury for
not making further inquiry before return
ing, they did, verdict of accidental
death.
The big show and the small convention
that is, the convention of the smallest
party in this county-lcd to the gathering of
large crowd in our town on Tuesday last,
the large crowd led to the consumption of
more than the usual amount of whisky, the
consumption of the whisky led to several
free fights, and before it was all orer there
was the maxim of one or two damaged Wis
ages and the chawing up of a thumb for one
of the participants in the festivities of the
occasion.
The MEEK, but not lowly, editor of the
BellefOnte WGtchmau moraliZes thusly in his
last issue We are sorry to see by the pro-
ceedings of the Democratic county conven-
tion of Cambria county, that our friend Nc
Pike, of the Freeman, was among the unsuc-
cessful aspirants for County Treasurer. For
that position the Democracy of Cambria
one more deserving, than McPike. But
''sich is life The most deserving are those
who get the least.
1t is now maintained that the fly does
not walk ON the ceiling by means of atmos-
pheric pressure, s. popularity taught, but
that the hairs of the feet, clothed as they are
with glutiuous substance poured ont ia
minute quantities, are what makes Mr.. Fly
stick rs tightly TO his perilous perch rs cash
paying purchasers do 10 f. j. Mills after
they have found out, rs they invariably 10
at the first visit, that they cannot save mon
~ more easily than 10y buying what they
need AZ his establishment.
r. j. STEPHENS, Of Glen white, Blair
county. George Leuz, of L"rrtto. - Cook,
Of Bedford aud n Subscriber" OF Altoona,
have all S-ut correct answers To the problem
published ia uur last issue, n follows: Two
Old men paid - each. six Young men paid
- cents each. aud four young ladies paid p
cents -ach-makiug total of twelve persons
aud Sl2 Mr. stephens, the gentleman re-
fsrrrd Co abuvr, aud Mr.. John q. WIilinaun.
~ Carroll township, have each furnished n
with a problem, both u which will appear
next week
-Mr. AMI Mrs. Hctrick of Roaring Spring,
Blair rouuty. were throwd from a carriage
u1i saturday last. while returning from the
funeral ct a relative, aud Mrs. H., who was
a very heavy woman, weighing over two
hundred pounds, struck the ground head
rprtuu-t auti broke her neck, death resulting
Immediately. Mr.. Hrtrick escaped with a
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hy a Young man running the tongue of y
vehicle which he was driving into the rear
end of the carriage containing the unfortun-
ate couple.
The Republican county convention i'm
agined that any Porter other place of refuge
would do in n storm, but Porter pere, (Johu,
failed to see it in that Ii ghi and hence his card
in another column. Like father like son, -
is old adage that won't hold water in this
instance. rs The father evidently don't like
il a bit-this thing of being slaughtered for
County Commissioner and then have 1t rub
bed in by attempting to bamboozle him into
the support of the ticket through the selection
of his son for County Auditor. Not any of
that for John, thank you
On Tuesday. Sept. 2Sth, says the Clear
field Republican, Michael Shaffer, of Brady
township, on returning from tho barn, en-
tered tile house and was met by his wife " 10
hourisI,ed a butcher knife and attempted to
take his life, but he made his escape from
the house. Failing to injure her husband,
she thrust the knife into her own abdomen,
disenboweling herself and then started for
the woods. She did not run far until she
fell and expired in a short time. She has
been subject to periods of insanity, and no
doubt was laboring under such influences
when she committed the deed.
Our ever welcome but not always ap-
nreciated corr@-spondent-Cide the present
week-'Independent," who has recently
returned from a sojourn OF several months
at a normal school in Ohio, sends us this
among other local mems from MS NOME III
Tavlor township: 'Copperheads' are be-
coming plentiful, Messrs. Dan. Grove and
Jerry Long having recently killed two rep
tiles of that species almost within the limits
of the borough of Johnstown, one OF which
measured two feet ten inches in length. A
microscopic examination failed, however, to
disclose the presence of ears CO.
-Messrs Baxter s. Son of this place have
fully made up thoir minds to retire from the
mercantile business, and with that OBJECT In
view are determined to get rid of everything
i'm their store as soon as possible, no matter
what the sacrifice. They even pledge their
words 10 sell goods cheaper than they can
he or rather are being, bought at auction,
and will take butter, eggs, and other mar
ketable produce, in exchange for merchan-
dlse-allowing the highest price for what
tney buy and accepting less than cost Tor
what they sell Go and invest now while
there's a chance for first choice. tl0-S.-tf.l