The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-02-19


! timabie young ladies each received vote
apiece for the office of School Director
! Women eligible to this office in this
State, and the time is not far distant, we
trust, when n majority of the School boards
will be controlled by representatives of the
fair sex.
To revive . dying Are on Saturday
morning last. Mrs. Andrew Clouse, of
/ Stumptown, Blair county, picked mp n coal
oil can, and while in the act of pouring the
fluid on the Goals in the stove, the oil in the
can ignited and an explosion occurred, ac-
coInpanied by a report something after :he
style of that of cannon. Mrs. c. cloth
ing caught fire and she received such iniu
ries that she shortly afterward died.
-O'ceola has a lively female who peram
bulates the streets of that borough in male
+ attire. She is good-looking a good talker,
and the manner in which her newly assum-
ed toggery fits her is a wonder to those who
be hold her. This idea suggests the belief
that she must have bought her male attire
at Jas. j. Nurphy's, 199 Clinton street,
Johnstown, who Sci the nicrst and neatest
ready made clothing to be found in West
ern Pennsylvania.
John A Cbristy, an Oil City merchant,
and formerly of Cambria county, n few day 3
ago lied voluntary petition in bankruptcy,
in the United States Court, Pittsburg His
Liabilities foot up $4,000, while his only
I assets are n watch and chain valued at SlG0
and a breastpin valued at Sl00, which he
claims. though, are exempt under the law
Dan Rice, Bill Keenan's favorite candidate
for the Presidency, sees Mr.. Christy and
goes SlS2, 900 better on liabilities and Sf25
worse on assets.
Owing to the extremely cold weather
passenger travel on the p. r. r. and branch
es is extremely dull. This is peculiarly the
on the Ebensburg branch, which was
showed up Thursday week, and from pres
cut indications will continue in that inte--
cstiug condition for a considerable length
of time 10 come. Passengers to and from
Cresson are conveyed in sleighs, aud freight
and express matter in Sle0s. oh the snow,
the beautiful snow but too much of a good
thing is too mucn, you know
Capt. Theodore Burchiield has been
unanimously reelected Captain of the AL
toona Latta Guard. The Captain, it will be
RENE m bsred, was relieved from command
for ioaning the arms of mis- company TO the
=. r. Il. Co. during tho late Powers Run
uupleasantness. We are glad to hear it,
for he is not only one who is well versed i'll
military tactics, but a gentleman withal,
aud in addition, his command should not in
the first place have been broken.
An Altoona woman the other morning
ground some coffee for her frugal meal. She
had forgotten that she had made the coffee
mill a receptacle for her surplus scrip, and
aftrr-o observation discovered the fact that
ten dollars and seventy-fve cents had been
reduced TO minute PARTICLES along with the
Coffre. She wasn't mad. Oh, no Merely
remlr<iug, There go the fixirgs for nv
new bonnet - she drankthe Mocha and then
went out and smashed the coffee e-IniII
The Sunday Dd,Cn saws it, and we en-
dorse every word of it Senator John A
Lemons home papers cordially endorse his
stay law. Johns head is level on all sub
jects and he has as much influence on the
floor Of the Senate as any man ia it princi-
pally, because be is modest, the antipode
of Harry White unobtrusive, honest and
sincere. We have known John for twenty
i've years, and have always found him the
same agreeable, big hearted, clear-headed
gentleman he was born and raised"
according to law, the returns of the late
election must by fled with the Clerk of the
Courts within three days after the election
and our streets were consequently Yesterday
and the day before enlivened by the pres
enCe of an unusual num- her of visitors One
return judge hailing from the country was
so unfortunate as to lose his papers be-
fore arriving ut this point hut whose fault
it not the tailors, as it that there was a
hole in his pocket? He would have our
spmpathies were ii not that he did not ap-
pear to take it hard about the little mishap
that had befallea him.
A gentleman residing in Jackson town
ship Informs contemporary that though he
is a tirst-class shoemaker, vet two hundred
pairs of boots and shoes made 10y him inside
the past six months have been absolutely
worn out. He attributes the cause of this
destruction OF sole-leather, not o had work
manship on his part, but TO the fact that
Jackson township is not far removed from
acd that .Johnstown is the place
where S. j. Hess 81 Bro sail cheap ready
made clothing, and that it is about as easy
riding to Johnstowu as walking. 24I and
2i3 Main street.
The Altoona Tribunc says 'In conver-
sation with n numbc of merchants of the |
city we learn that thew are favorable to an |
early closing of the stores of the city. Let |
he matter he agitated.' The me rchants of |
several weeks ago determined I
and are now vigorously carrying into exc |
cution the plan of early closing of stores |
The firm Of Myers 81 Lloyd High. street,
are among those ho have adopted this in I
novation, but owing to the fact that their I
goods are marked down to panic prices, no /
iiminution of their sales is perceptible
They sell cheaper than the cheapest.
A Barr township correspondent writes: |
Il notice in one of your late issues that +.
III. Barker, of Ebensburg, made three
eighths string with n rifle, off hand, at a
distance of thirty-fvs yards. Barr town
ship can see this aud 60 one better. j. j.
hirsch rerently dropped the paper ten times
IN succession at forty yards, off hand, and
,lso made a three-eighths shot at one hun
tred yards Mr.. Barker and Mr.. Kirsch
ought both 20 make application for mem ber-
ship in the American rIde-team, and go with
that organization to Ireland next summer
and show tie folks over there how to shoot
Hon. q. w. Elsly, Democrat was on
Tuesday elected Burgess of Johnstown by
80 majority over Irwin Rutledge, Esq. Re
publican. Johnstown is usually Republi-
AN by SEQ majority. 1t is evidently an iu-
ticatinu of the incoming of the Democratic
1dal wave, and comment were supsrhuous /
N this connection The Johnstown Tribune
ays: Judge Easily, who succeeds (Col.
3owman) TO the position, is in every way
is thoroughly posted in its duties
laving served for three years previous, from
S56 to 1889, and will make a careful, pains
aiing, and honest official, or he will 60
ack on his past record" And the Johns
own Voice says: "a Democrat has been |
lected Republican Burgess mast give
p ms seat TO man pure in every respect
ne whom our citizens can point TO with
ride. Now we are assured that the duties
f the office will be faithfully fulillsd, and
y n Democrat"
THE ELECTToN.-The election for muni-
I pal officers was held last Tuesday. c..d
hough the day was an extremely cold ore
he poll was large for = Spring election.
\bout go votes were cas-. The principal
ght WIS for SurCeSs q, which Off ne Genrpe |