The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-06-04

ing clothing at Godfrey VOLTS great Cloth
ing Bazaar, next door to the Post Office, Al
toona, where garments elegant and season
abie, TO suit every taste and every pocket
book, are now displayed in abu ndance great.
er than anywhere else in the country.
Mr.. Arthur Cullen, of Wilmore who by
the way ~ one of the best mechanics that
ever handled saw or showed n plane ac-
cnmplishpd the extraordinary feat on Friday
last of driving six Thousand and fifty shin
giles on building now being erected in that
place for Joseph Miller, Esq, from o'clock,
n M. until o'clock. p. M, with n recess of
one tour at noon. This is probably the best
days work that has ever been done by any
carpenter in this or any other county, and
the work itself will show, as we can testify,
having seen the roof on Monday last, that
the job has been done in first class style.
David kratzer, living near Ashland
Furnace, this county, had occasion to lift
a large stone while engaged in plowing, on
saturday last, aud under the stone he found
small green snake coiled up. At the same
time he felt n singing sensation in one of
his fingers, and supposing that he had been
bitten by the snake he hied him away to
J Altoona on u double quick to seek medical
all but on being assured by physician that
it was only a felon (stone feU on, his fin
ger probahiy) he felt quite relieved and
{ tnrned home more joyfully than sorrowfully
intent upon nursing his pet and thanking
God at the same time that il was no worse
The j Johnstown Tribune saws that within
n radius OF ten miles from the spot where
young Jonas Maurer was killed by light
ming, on Sunday week, in Jeuner toSnship
Somerset county, three similar fatal ac-
/ cldents have occurred within the past few
years. ~ Miss Fleshour was killed on a
Sunday afternoon by a flash of lightning
while she was sitting on a porch at the
house of Mr.. John Brooks next was q son
+ of Mr.. Daniel Shaffer, who was struck while
III his fathers barn, and instant death was
( the result, and Mr.. Wilt of Shade township
while walking along with mattock on his
4 6nT a lS1 mat Str,l.l
lightning.
A young man named Charles Boucher
plunged i knife into .he back of another
young man named Thos. McDermott, II
/ clerk in the employ of Mr.. John Ryan of
Cambria borough, on Monday night last in
hlcting wound under the right shoulder
blade over two inches deep. The injury is
/ not considered dangerous, but the condition
, OF the wounded man is such tn demand
careful treatment in order to avoid fatal re-
suits. Boucher was arrested aud after a
: hearing was brought to Jail in this place on
Tuesday evening. The cowar,lly act was
pr' mpted by desire for revenge, there hav-
ing been some previous trouble between the
assailant and his victim
Immediately after the storing of load
OF hay in the loft of DIR. j. j. Oatman's STA
BILE, in this place, during the early part of
April last, favorite cat belonging to the
family of the late Rev. j. w. Edie was dis
covered To he missing, and from that time
nothing was seen or heard of the rruaut fe-
.
found buried in the hay, still living but in
"A vofully emaciated condition, consequen
upon her long continued abstinence from
food and drink; yet with careful nursing it
. is thought she will soon I've herself again
That eat has nine lives seems to he we'll
verified in this instance, but how pussy
managed to worry through period of nearly
two months under Il load of hay it is not our
p',rr-pUs to conjecture, much less determine.
Ella, promising and interesting little
daughter of Mr.. VI. l.. Oatman, of this place
aged about one year and ahalf had the mis-
fortune To pull a tin-cup fall of boiling water
from the table during the momentary alb
seuce of her mother, ON Tuesday afternoon
last, thereby spilling the contents upon her
person and sCalding herself terribly on
, the chin, neck, right arm and right side as
To render her recovery next to Impossible,
the greater part of her body being left pei
feet mass of p1rboiled flesh devoid of skin
which peeled off i'll rolls from all parts of
her person where the hot water had done
its fearful work. OF course the sutferiugs
OF the poor child were excruciaring in The
extreme, but through the medical skill of DIR.
j. j. Oatinan her Sufferines were promptly
relieved 10 a great extent, and were il not
that very severe commissions have interv, !. Il
and so much of the body has been exposed
by the removal Of the skin, there would be
n reasonable hope, which now unfortunately
does not exist, for her ultimate recovery.
"A deaf man named VIM. j. Dougherty
aged about twenty-five years and hailing
from Newark, y. J., where he is respccta-
bly, connected, was struck by the engine of
the Pacific EXPRESS west, near Wimore, ri
Thursday morning of last week, and after
being thrown TO the height of twelve or fif-
teen feet, landed at the foot of an embank-
ment fully twenty feet from the starting
point, where he soon after picked up
and the discovery made that one of his arms
and one of his legs had been fractured and
that other severe injuries on his side, where
the engine struck him, and other parts of
his body had been inflicted. He was at once
removed 70 the hotel of Mr.. Joseph Horuer,
in WimOTe, where, being in destitute cir
cumstanres, he is ut present receiving med
zeal treatment under the direction of the
poor authorities of the county. The unfor-
tuuate man was engaged in reading man
lscript he held in his hands when the acc-
dent occurred, and being totally deaf from
childhood, owing to an attack Ot scarlet fever,
lie OF course did not hear the train approach
ing, aud hence his misfortune.
The beautiful and Interesting ceremony
of crowning the statue of the Blessed Virgin
took place ~ the Catholic church in this
borough on Monday evening last y long
procession of boys neatly attired and girls
dressed in white and wearing wreathS upon
their heads, filed into the church, carrying
appropriate banners, bearing boquets of the
choicest flowers, and singing the Litany of
the Blessed Virgin. Ten of rhe boys of Mt.
GallitZiu Seminary came forward after the
procession had halted in the church, with
boquets of flowers in their hands and after
each had in tnrn recited verse of poetry
expressive of the language of the several
flowers and the purpose for which they were
presented they made their floral offerings
in the proper order, the same being received
by Father Boyle and deposited upon the
altar, the final offering being a beautiful
crown composed of elegan. flowers, which
the pastor placed upon the head of the
statue surinOun:ing the altar of the Blessed
Virgin. This beautiful ceremony over,
Rev. Father Devlin, of Loretto, delivered
an edifying address TO the children, which
was listened 10 with marked attention.
Then folio we'd the Benedictiou of the Blessed
Sacrament, after which the congregation
dispersed and the deyotions which had been
held every evening during the month of
Nav came to an end.
On Friday last was witnessed the inn
pressive ceremony OF dedicating the hand