The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-03

OWihg 10 An error in the copy furnished
u.s. u.s. ane erection proclamation pablished in
our columns has called for the closing of tho
poiIs on Tuesday next at 6 o'clock, D. IN,
when in fact they should be kept open from
in the morning until In the evening"
Election officers and all others interested
Will please make a note of this correction,
and guide themselves accordingly
Harry Slep, Esq, one of the proprietors
OF the Altoona Mirror, and Geo. j. Akers,
Esq, local editor Of that paper, were on
rrGay evening :ast arrested on a charge of
libel preferred against them by j. NJ Stiff
Ter, the Republican candidate for Sheriff in
that county. Bail in the sum of 81 900 each
for the two gentlemen named, as well as a
like sum for Mr.. Fleming, the remaining
proprietor of the journal in question. was
promptly furnished, and the accused we're
thereupon set at liberty. We wish them a
safe deliverence from their troubles, which
DO not, however, seem TO press very heavily
upon them.
sued for libel by the Republican cand idate
for sherig of Blair county, for charging him
with being in combination with real estate
ring in that county, says: SIT is hoped that
the bottom OF this real estate business will
be reached in this trial, and il such a blessing
chould result from the cause at issue between
the Commonwealth and the editors and pub
Usher, of the Mirror, it will be sufficient re-
ward for our labor in the interests Of the
people. But whatever betide, we will con-
tinne our warfare on the ring and its candi-
date for sheriff, until a verdict shall have
been rendered by the honest voters of Blair
county,"
-Mar,h w. Jones, a worthy young Eb-
ensbtrger who for a considerable time past
as occupied the position of book keeper in
an extensive mar BILE and statuary establish
mont at GAINESVILLE, Ohio. spent several days
at ais old LONE In this place dur ng the pa t
week. and while mere joined with the other
members of the family in reunion at his
mothers residence, being the first time they
all met together for five years. To those
who know Marsh. we need scarcely say that
in moral and intellectual sense he carries
a level head on his shoulders, and that he is
well fitted to make his way in the world and
eminent!y deserving of all the good things
that tickle fortune, we doubt not, has still
i'm store for him.
A very edifying and enthusiastic meet
Ing of the Democracy of Washington town.
ship was held at Lily's Station on Friday
evening last, at which earnest and eloquent
speeches were made by Messrs. n. Horne,
w. II. Rose, l.. ID. Woodruff, Caron Leahy,
assured, has fully four hundred Democratic
voters on the registry list this year, and the
determination is to bring every man of them
to the polls that can be moved in any way.
Won't that be glorious for the staunch and
ever faithful "little Berts' of Cambria
county, which has never heretofore faltered
In the good work but is fully determined on
this occasion to excel even herself by more
than one hundred and fifty votes? Hip,
hip, hurrah for the true and trustful Demo
Gratis of Washington township.
MIR Luke Meyer, a former citizen of this
county, having been born and raised in
Clearfield township, was so severely injured
OH Thursday morning last, near Renova, by
the explosion of a locomotive boiler, that he
died about A o'clock. p. m, of tie same day.
Mr.. Meyer was employed as conductor on
freight train and was in the caboose car
when the catastrophe occurred, the force of
the explosion wrenchlng OF the large iron
door beneath the headlight and driving it
into the caboose at the rear Of the train, the
result bcirg not only the fatal scalding and
injury of Mr.. Meyer, as already stated, and
the infiiction of like injuries on four other
occupants of the cahoose, al, of whom, how
ever, will survive, but the complete demol-
ition of the cabOose, the roof and both ends
of which were blown ont. Mr.. Meyer was
a nephew of ex-sheriff Myers, of this place,
and leaves a wife and n large family of chill
dren to mourn his terrible death. Interment
in ST. Joseph's (Catholic) cemetery, near
Drury's Run, on Saturday afternoon last.
A seven year old colored lad named
Frank Roberts, son of VIM. Roberts, OF this
place, disappeared from home on Monday OF
last week, minus his hat coat and shoes,
and nothing more was heard of him until
Monday of the present week, when his older
brother and an aunt found him in Altoona
and brought him back to his distracted
mother. 1t seems that Frank was intent
upon visiting the centennial, and with that
object in view hid himself under the steps
of the passenger car on our Branch road and
succeeded by that means in reaching Cresson,
from whence he secured passage to Altoona
by slowing himself away under the tank of
an engine, at least that was the position
he was found in when the locomotive went
into the round house i'm that city. From
Altoona he made his way on foot to Tyrone,
but eventually gave up the journey and
walked back to Altoona, where he was found
as already stated. He is evidently q veD-
turesome spirit, and if he don't get to see
the world before he dies it will not be from
lack of courage and perseverance,
When Mr.. Ryan called at the office of
the Johnstown Tribune to ask the editor of
that paper to publish his (Ryan s) afhdavit,
printed elsewhere in our columns to-day, ne
was accompanied by Mr.. Joseph kuntz,
reputable and responsible citizen OF Johns
town. i'm whose presence Tom Swank at first
declined to publish the affidavit, alleging
that it would injure Mr.. Davis chances for
election and thar the Democratic papers OF
the county would not do anything of that
kind for the latter gentleman. Swank fur
ther alleged that the FREEMAN had prom
ised to give him n hearing in regard TO his
alleged or presumed connection with the
failure of Lloyd's bank, but when an article
was furnished us on that subject we failed
to make good our promise. All which we
pronounce a sheer fabrication. No such ar
ticle was ever received by us. aud as q con-
sequence we could not and did not refuse TO
publish it. Our readers can therefore rest
assured that Tom Swank's little story is an
other of those despicable falsehoods so free
ly circulated by the unprincipled ring which
has Mr. Davis peculiarly in it's keeping, aud
which is willing to resort to any means, be
they fair or foul, to encompass the defeat OF
our worthy candidate for Sheriff
A REMINIsCENCE-I September, 1852,
during the presidential campaign of that
year, the Democrats of Blair county held
grand parade and mass meeting in this bOr-
ough Governor Bigler and many other no
tables were in attendance i'm short, the
meeting was one of those ld-fashoned gath
erings for which the Democrats of those days
were famous Among those present was
Samnel j. Tilden, then member OF the