The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21

little that we would not be just as we'll of
I II we had not seen
In the Inauguration procession at Har-
risburg on Tuesday, Capt. Samuel w Davis,
of this place, acted as aiG TO Gen. Howard
Reeder Marshal of the First Division of the
/ Second Grand Division, and Col. j. p. Lin
ton, of Johnstown, as an aid to Col. William
/ B. Mann Marshal of the Second Division of
the same Grand Division.
The lecture OF Victoria C. woodruff, IN
Altoona, on Tuesday evening last, although
not very largely attended. seems to have
given universal satisfaction. 1t is said to
have been an eloquent forcible and very
| truthful representation of the true and false
socially, and was devoid of any expression
/ to which truly modest people could file an
objection.
The Democratic Representative Dele
gates of this district met at Altoona on Tues
day and selected r. l.. Johnston, Esq, of
, this place, to fill the vacancy ON the Demo-
/ cratic State Committee occasioned by the
removal of Capt. John Porter to Westrnore-
| land county. Mr.. Johnston left "Wednesday
evening for Harrisburg, where u meeting OF
the State Committee was held yesterday.
Tie "Chan"pion boy baby of the CEN
tennial year 1876 put in an appearance the
! other day, and considering that he was pre-
ceted by three of the feminine persuasion,
it may well be conceived sIiat a hearty wol-
come greeted his advent, and fair il is to
presume tl.at he will be cherished as a je,cel
or the household and carefully ,oaiclcd over
for many a day to come. Long may lie live
aud prosper
| In the Senate, Col. John Lemon occu-
pie The position Of chairman of the Com
mittee on Accounts aud is also u member of
| the Committees on Railroads aud Agricul-
ture, and i'll the House, Hon. John Hannah
! has been placed on the Committees on Local
| Judiciary, Railroads, Elections and Counties
and Towns hips, while Hon John Buck has
/ been assigned TO the Manufacturing and
Agricultural Committees
| A lad named Slater Murdoch was
drowned near Lgonier Westmoreland coUn-
| ty, on Saturday last. He and two or three
of his associates were amusing Themselves
skating, whom the ice parted from tn shore,
carrying its living freight to the middle Of
I-the stream, where it subsequently broke to
pieces, precipitatirg the boys into the water.
from which, however, ali but young HIurdoch
succeeded in making their escape.
AZ the convention OF Poor Directors in
Altoona, on Wednesday last, twenty-five
districts OF the State were represented the
number IL delegates present being sixty
five. The convention lret ~ 10 o'ciuck, a
m. and after eiectiug the necessary officers,
among whom r. l.. Johnston, Esq. oc this
place, was chosen as one of the Vice Presi-
dents the meeting adjourned until p. m,
since y hen we have heard nothing in regard
to its dpirgs.
Mondays Altoona sfrror says: 'Rev.
Daniel Devlin, president of ST. Eraucis'
College, LoTe;to, passed through this city
from Williamsburg this morning. In con-
versation with him he referred 10 a book in
his possession which, for age, is certainly
worthy OF note. 1t was published in Rome
$50 years ago. IS eighteen inches long and ten
inches wide, bound in WOOD about mn inch
and quarter in thickness. Il is a Latin
theological work"
Despite several days OF cold weather
which visited us during the past week, "a
vast multitude of wild pigeons populate our
woods, in quest of brechuuts and other quail
tiles Of food. a renowned NiInrod gives
it as his opinion hat they viii remain with
us during the residue of the winter,
long the supply of mast holds ont, and
the sportsInrn are happy, even though the
birds are extremely wild and the number
brought to pot per day is not alarmingly
large.
Miss Fannie i. HanI:n, whose lecture
~ the COugreg stional church "Wednesday
evening last gave unbuunded satisfaction to
au apprecil!iye audience, has consented to
deliver a lecture at the Court House Oh
Monday evening next, under the auspices Of
ths Gambia Guards. The subject an
nouuccd for the coming lecture is Faces at
the window" and an admission fee of 20
cents will be charged.
The fifth annual report OF che Johns'cwn
Savings Bank, shows thatinslitut!ou to be in
a most satisfactory financial condition. AS a
proof of the high esteem in which it is held by
the public, itrray be mentioned that the mum
ber Of depositors is in excess of Two thousand,
while the dividends for the past five years
have reached six per cent. Would that az
the banks Of the country were based on like
measure of soIidity and prosperity.
Cellar thieves are annoying some of our
citizens One of the victims requests us to
announce that he will in no wise hold him
self responsible for damage done on his
premises to the depreiators by the going Off
of steel-traps spring guns in places visited
by them, while another suggests that if the
idea had not been first promulgated by the
Johrstown Tribune, many years ago, he
would be soreIy tempted TO cure his beef
steak with strychnine. a word TO the wise
and the otherwise ought to be sufficient.
We congratulate the fraternity upon the
return of our much esteemed friend, Z. B. F.
M'Crun. Esq, late senior editor of the AL
toona Tribune, to the ranks journalistic, he /,
having recently purchased and assumed con /
troll of the MiiflntOwn Independent, which +
will henceforth be published as Republican
neyspaper Mr. NJ Crum is an able editor, /