The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-02-26

eficial effect, he coming back amongst us
with the impress discernable about him of
renewed youth and an increased capacity
for his usual business pursuits.
If you have a fair thought, express it in
the simplest language possible. A diamond
should have a fair setting. Finding this
advice in a newspaper, we proceed to act on
the suggestion contained therein by saying
that at f09 Clinton street, Johnstown, may
be found as good. if not better, bargains In
ready made clothing than at any other es-
tablishment III the six counties surrounding.
An aged lady named Mrs. Catharins
Butterbaugh, died IN Altoona, Friday last,
from the effects of exposure to cold. 1t APP
pears :hat the house in which sCe resided is
a mere she'll, and she was un able - protec:
herself properly from the severity N tne
then very cold weather. One of the neiSh-
bors called in and found her frozen almost
stiff. and few hours subsequently she died
AT midnight. Tuesday the dry goods
and grocery establishment of Davis, Jones
q Co, at Irwin's Station, Westmoreland
county, was destroyed by fire. Loss, about
SIS, 900. on which was an insurance of So
600. The members comprising this firm are
Cambria county men, and hence their mis-
fortune appeals more directly to the sympa-
thies of our people, which they certainly
have in their great loss.
Three to four cents on a pound of sugar
two to three cents n yard of calico, fiftv
cents on pair of shoes, one dollar on a
rair of boots, fifty cents to one dollar on q
good hat, fifty TO seventy-five cents on a
pound of tea, and from two to three cents on
a pound of coffee are some of the margins
thar can he made by buying your goods from
NJ L. Oatman, who sells for cash and gives
more for the same amount of money than
any other merchant in Ebensburg.
Through the influence of hot sun and
warm breezes, the snow for all practical
purposes has babe good bye What be-
fore was solid foot of snow and ice, is now
a of mud, and though this is somewhat
uncomfortable IN certain aspects of the case
yet it is found infinitely preferable TO the
mercury down to zero and the pump froze
mp. And. besides, is it not a falsification of
that uncomfortable off-shoot of Caudlemas
Gay known as the ground hog theory?
Mr.. Mike Quartz, the popular conductor
Of the Ebensburg branch train, has just
been presented with valuable Kentucky
rifle by jams Creighton, Esq, Sap't West
Penn r. r., and the proficiency lie has al
really attained in locating bullets inside a
target the size of the New York Graphic
balloon at twenty yards distance, with OF
without rest, is described as remarkable.
He will likely join the team that is going to
ireland next summer.
James NJ. Coleman, Esq, formerly of
the Indiana county bar, was in 1872 before
the United States District Cour:, found
guilty ot forging and altering pension vouch-
ers and of Withholding pension money from
claimants, and was sentenced TO pay fine
of s., 800 aId undergo imprisonment in the
Western penitentiarv for the period of a We
years. On Friday last he was the recipient
of an unconditional pardon from President
Grant, who Is candidate for the third
term.
On Tuesday of last week, the wife of
Joachim Noel, residing in Derry township,
Westmoreland county, left her infant child.
aged about nine months, lying in a crib
while she went TO another part of the house
10 attend to some domestic duties Upon
her return, she found the crib in flames and
the child burned so badly that il survived
only short time. A spark from n CRATE is
supposed to have caused the horror Mrs
Noel, before her marriage, was a resident of
Ca mbria county.
The weather prophets tell us that an
otEer ami very severe stretch of cold cath
er is before us this spring. In authorization
of this event, the firm of Baxter & Son
High street, have perfected arrangements
for the supplying of our citizens with coal
of a superior quality either by the carload
or by the ton. The coal furnished by them
Il OF tue best bituminous production and
mas never tailed IT, give satisfaction. Orders
lett at the mercantile establishment of the
firm will I've promptly attended to.
James Curran, of ,Johnstown who has
done m ore in his time to put down whisky
than all the local option laws that were ever
enacted, took notion on Friday last that
his head was of 10 further use to him. so he
attempted 10 separate it from The main trunk,
otherwise known as his body, by drawing
an old razor across his throat. The blade
was dull, however, aud the pressure light,
perhaps-anyhow, James still lives and is
likely to keep on living for some time to
come far as that attempt at selfmurder
is concerned.
There were two of them The name of
one is Hare, and the other is Beaner though
it ought TO he Breadth, to make good the
simile, as they both had rather a hair
breadth escape of it. They are clerks in
Wood, Morrell s. Co.'S store in Gaysport.
Blair county, TO the rear of which establish
ment they repaired the other day for the
purpose of indulging in a little target shoot
ing with a revolver. The first shot began
aud ended the sport, the ball from the pistol
passing through BeaIner's left hand and i'm
bedding itself in one of Hare's feet, where
it still remains
1T seems, and we are glad indeed to say
20, that we We're somewhat premature in
announcing the precarious condition of Rev
Father Christy's health last week. the latest
assurance from himself being that the hemor-
rhages were from his stomach and other
sources less vital than the lungs, and that
he at present not only feels rejuvenated and
disenthrallcd from the ills that have so long
oppressed him, but that the doctors and his
own feelings agree in the conviction that
the crisis has been passed and that he will
soon be restored to his former robust health
and usefulness For all which he has the
earnest prayers of his many friends in this
vicinity.
e. W. Eisenbise, one Of the oldest and
IhoSe BoPuidi pdSSctSer COuuuCtOrS on the
Pa. X. R., poet of mean pretensions
and a gentleman of taste and culture, has
commenced the publication, at Williamsburg
Pa, of a small semi monthly journal called
the 'EastEnder," at the low price of 75 cts.
per year. The two first copies of the paper
before us are replete with good things, in
Guiding several of Mr.. BIS best poems, but
the get-up typographical is simply execra-
ble, being evidently the work of one who has
stood on a street corner and watched the
manipulators of type metal at work in the
third story of a .'print shop across the way
that and nothing more.
Like clap of thunder from a cloudlcss
sky came The announcement on Wednesday
of the death of John j. Burns, Esq , an act
ing Justice of The Peace for st. Augustine,
Cambria county. Only a couple of weeks
prior, he, accompanied by his estimable wife,
had visited this place, with the hnsh of
youthful health OF his face, and the tidings
OF his demise fell therefore upon us with