The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-12-22

We are T,nder obligations TO Mr. .job, T
MURPHY, Catholic bookseller an,, starionar
NO. l3o Grant street, PITTSBURGH tor,arIr !,
q Wen known and reputable merchant of
! HonusioWb, LOT a copy OF the Catholic Fam
! ny almanac TOR 1877, which Contains ali ,be
Information OF a general and relfoions cbar-
ac'er pertaining to work of this kind tIat
cou,u possibly be desired 10y members of that
am we adTlsc all our Catholic readers
: AT least TO enclose fifty cents to Mr. Nurnhy
anu Secure copy OF this iuvaluable aln.-
mac. 'i' d
-our genial friend and brothe. tvpo Mr.
Jas. T. Harizell, now and for many wears
-. connected with the wholesale and retail
,oOacco aud cigar establishment of Mr. II r
/ wallace, No. 81 Sixth stree. rit,,h,,rrI
ann with whom we spent many pleasapt
/ days IN times long past has kindly sent ns
very acceptatie Christmas gift in shane of
Oox OF prime cigars, for which we need
scarcely assure him, great lover AS we arc Of
1 ihe coiisoing weed, that he has our SINCERE
AMI heartfelt thanks. Jim is one Of ,pr
most esteemed and unselfish friends aud
- s,@ ,oAeu @ vi regard from him is more highly
priZeu on account % the source from whence
u comes than because of its own Intrinsic
value. - ~
If we may judge by the absence from
% oal co.unns OF any vertisement to THAT
effect, Old Santa Clause has evidently Fail.,,
I thls year as in years past to appoirt n aga,t
: III thln place 10 gladden. the hearts OF youur
ana and OH with toys, triukets, and ''sicl,' like
rms oversight has not, however, extended
/ 10 the sweetmeats so much sought for a III :
! particular season of the wear as we notice
/ with pleasure that L. c. Parrish has 6lle5
: 10 repletion his neat little establishment
around the corner with everything desirable
aud dellcInus In the way OF candies nuts
TNsins, iruits, etc, and 10 which he respec
} 'lVeiy Invites the attention of all Xyl,, ,risl,
/ 10 SEE happy aud smiling young faces about
them during the Christmas HOLIDAYS
ON Friday night last john or Jart,
n n Tt.Hs rra- -
maker by trade, had both of his legs taken
On at the knees by a ''pusler" eCpiuc at
attaining Point, where he had Just a!igbted
! nom 'he Mail train ON his way home from
. Altoona, aud WAS in the act of CROSSING ,he
: north track when the locomotive 9,,,a
along, and Knocking him down passed over
his person with the terrible result stated
1he inquired man was taken into a house
@ nea' oy' Whon the Company's surgeon, who
/ WAS ia Tie meantime summoned bv teIe-
graphed, proceeded TO dress his wounds hut
without any hope whatever of saving his
I me On the following day the poor nufor.
! tnhate Was removed TO the Blair county
alinshcuse, where he died in n few hours
after. The deceased. who was well known
, 10 many uf our readers WAS aged alsput so
years and unmarried
! Sell raising pancake. corn meal and
! brckwheat flour. The products of Mr. : :
= Marvin, the celebrated cracker manufacturer
3 of Pittsburgh, are new articles of diet inst
introduced into this community through the
iueGlum of 1he Thorn pson or pust-nf!i,. ,.,. .ior.
and 10 be found, We believe nowhere els, in
nur Town Having through the kindness of
Major Thompson been offered an oppor,uui
/ " TO test the pancake -four, we caa truly
say That II E!.s the bill to a dot As The
cakes which nanny Cor anybody elise )
( bakrs, after merely buildUziug the COM
( pound with little warm water arr. delicious
enough 10 bc counted in to the stomach ~
any hungry mortal in Christendorn. W..
! therefore advise all our local readers,to go 10
thc thompson store and procure sack OF
Tue pancake flour, and also a like quantity uf
the selt-raisirg buck wheat and corn meal
which we have no douJt are just as palata-
/ bic ard delicious.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mack, reiiot Of Jacob
VI ack, deceased, who died in Cambria town
! ship on the eth inst, at the advanced ape of
IS years, was the happy pOSsessOr of the
) FIRST piano ever brought To this place. This
was Ia the year ls2S or '29, and a gentleman
who waS then youth of less than n duz.D
summers assures US that the ad vent of this
comparatively uucoUth musical instru rnent
created as much excitement in the comruuni-
/ ty at that early day first class circu.
does among the Juveniles Of he present age
alSinx about pianos prompts as to ark
( whether any of our citizens ever stopueJ to
/ think how many of their instruments are
now owned and thumped upon in this COM
/ munity. Give IL mp, do you? There are by
! act ga. count no less than thirty three. OF
7 them, and W. have no Doubt there are nearly
/ u not quite that many paTlor orgaus and
melOdeOns, to say nothing of minor inusi-
( cal instruments almost beyoud computation
! II ow is that for a town OF less than fifteen
hundred inhabitants?
-An extensive carriage mauufacfory in
Grreusburg, owned and operated by Mr. G.
I IL. Sicrk, was totally destroyed by re about
I y. o'clock on Tuesday evening last and a
hardware store aud residence adjoiuing oc-
. cdpied J. VI. Steel and DR.. LoInisuu respect
+ lively, well as 4 stable owned by tlI, iatter
gentleman, were very badly damaged at the
same time. Owing TO the frozen and de-
mOTaliZcd condition of the two oid hand en-
gines owned 10y the borough, the fire for a
! time threatened Ia lay waste a large portion
of the town, bat 10y the almost suprrhuman
efforts Of men. women aud children, who
formed bucket brigade and worked like
Trojaus, the Haiues were eventually over
come aud n uiore widespread confiagratiou
/ averted. Mr.. Stark loss il estiuatcd at
So, 600, but a. me has an insurance of $50
900 ou the property We presume he can stand
il. The other loss1. are said TO aggregate
about So, 900, which there is only partial
Insurance. The fire is thought ~ have been
the work OF iHcendiaries.