The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-06-29

.-ihe VIII of the late Henry Foster decd,
or this place, which is very brief occunving
only single page of foolscap, devises all his
telegraph stock, bonds, household goods n
tract of land in jackson township and his
Interest in a tract in Chest township to his
wife, with provision however. that his fun
erdl expenses shall first be.pad. Mr. Joseph
dutwalG is named in the will as his execu.
tor.
The lamb near Martinsburg Blair conn
ty, which lamb-eGted so much aboutits dead
mother and refused for day or two to leave
the spot where she was buried an account
of which from the Il Altoona Mirror annearad
In our last issue, has finally become recon-
ciled to its loss, and is now as friskv and
fro!icsome under the care of a foster mother
as if it had never known what it was re- ne n
poor lone orphan.
N o man or woman has n right TO do as
they please unless they please to do right
One of the most desirable ways of doing
right is for all classes to buy what thev need
in the line Of dry goods, groceries, boots.
shoes, etc, at the cheap cash store of Myers
x Lloyd, who are ever anxious ani willing
to do the greatest good to the greatest num-
Der of people seeking big bargains at this
popular establishment.
The Belgian glass works, after all that
has been said and done, are likely to end in
something akin to gas works, minus the
works, so far at least as Huntington is con-
cerned, the latest probabilities being that
Pittsburgh will carry off the prize owing to
the cheapness of coal in that vicinity Still
It looks as if the enterprise would end in
/ talk, no matter what locality may be finally
fixed upon for the purpose.
We learn from the Johnstown Tribune
that the saw-mill of p. j w oleslagle at Bens-
creek, near Lilly's station, this county, was
burned down on Friday night last. The Il re
broke ont about half past 10 o'clock, and be-
fore an organized effort could be made TO
quench the flames the building was a total
loss. How the fire originated is involved in
mystery, but il is the general supposition
! that sparks from the engine ignited some
shavings in the building.
In order to enable US to bridge over the
Fourth of July, it being necessary TO issue
the FREEMAN next week owing to the pub
lication of Sheriffs sales and other matters
relating to Argument Court, we put our pa
per to press this week some what earlier than
| is our wont, though for all that we do not
propose to fOrrgo our usual summer vaca-
| tion, which we design taking at the close of
! tie first half of the present volume, which
4 will he two weeks hence.
w under obligations to somebody
| for a very handsome pamphlet, gotten up in
| coPy-hook style, as compliment from the
| Pa. Il. r. and the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western r. X. to the PENNSYLVANIA Ed
/ itorial a Association, and cont aiming fine views
/ of the Delaware Water Gap, Easton, Pa,
/ Trenton, y. j., the new Pa. II. r. Depot at
Philadelphia. and several other handsome
engravings. It is a neat work of art and
| well worthy of preservation.
| The music at the picnic in aid of the
/ Church of the Holy Name in this place, on
! the Fourth of july, next, will be furnished
! by the O. Brien brothers, assisted by another
/ violinist of equal merit, forming altogether
! one of the best string bands in the county.
/ So If you want TO "trip the light fantastic
/ TO the sweetest of music, to say nothing of
| other enioyments and pastimes in profusion, ,
/ don't fail to attend the flora! festival in West
/ End grove, Ebensburg, on Wednesday next
| We have been requested to notify a. per-
| sons indebted 20 the late firm of Pryce, Bax
! ter & Co., well as TO the former prOprie-
! tors of the Ebensbulg Wooden Factory, that
/ if they do lot call and settle their respective
| accounts with Mr.. VIM. J. Mclaughlin, at
! the Company's store, on or before the 18th
! of July, proximo, they will find their bills
/ in the hands of an officer for collection, with
! costs added Let all interested heed this
notice. which is the last that will he given.
! A new barn belonging to Mr.. VIM. Behe &,
! of Washington township, near Lilly's sta
| ton was burned to the ground one day last
! week, and several farming utensils and a
| small quantity of feed and hay were also
! consumed. The barn was neither large nor
| costly, but the loss nevertheless falls heavily
| on Mr.. Behe, who is poor man. The hre
! is supposed to have been caused by exploit
| ing n shooting cracker in a gun from which
| one of Mr. Il. sons attempting to dis
| charge AN old load.
| Mirror last week on the third year OF its eX-
| isterce but when we thought of the number
| of times IL has put us in the papers against
I onr earnest protestations, the old Adam IN
/ our nature rose mp and bade MS hoid o'r
| peace nd that's how il came To pass that
/ The snriphtly little daily in question ceie-
bratei its fourth anniversary a few days
| ago without as much az kindly greeting
| from the mountain top. But then the baT-
| ror. 10 which our best wishes are extended
! for all that, has Step too long In the HoodS
| TO be scared by any (h)owl of ours.
| The Bedford Gazette trots out big snake
story which it forbids its Somerset and
! Cambria neighbors to copy, but consinerlng
! ,urcclf fully able to "kmOck the stufiln out
| of either or both tie editors of that paper il
! they "get MP un their ears aboutlf, we h"en
NOT their edict but give the story in full.
| Here it is on Tuesday Mr.. Da'ld Eelg-
| hard of Snake Spring township, kllied an
! immense rattlesnake. He didn't measure it,,
| as there were no rails close by. 1t had nine
rattIes and a button. After the death OF his
! snakeship Mr.. Reighard held partlal post
mortem and found fuii grown ersS squiL-
| he nursued the matter further he would no
! Doubt have discovered several rapDltS, u
| vearlinq calf and the dear knows what all.
! That was n big snake -
! Willie Brotheriin and Joseph Irwin, were
! seated on the front steps of the residence Oh
John Brotherlin, Esq, in HoiildaysourS, on
! Wednesday night of last week, the former
| noirted a revolver at the latter and teiiihg
The hovs to '.Iook out, I'm going TO shoot,
Gred off the pistol the ball from which struck
Young irwin in the fieshy part of the arm
and plowed its way towards the shoulder,
fortunately, however. without ina'c,ing very
| serious injury The lad who did the shoot-
! ;u, decIared that he did not know the weap-
on was loaded, and we presume he told the
truth. but that is certainly no excuse ior
such criminal careessness, nor are the pa
rents of the lad to be excused for permitting 9
t;n, 70 haze n pistol in his possession II they
| were aware of the fact.
! "A two story water-closet connected Wl'h
the county almshouse, near this place, py a
forty-foot covered passage-way waS Sc. VI, ",
fire i'm the lower story at an early hour OF,
FRIDAY morning last, and when discovered
The flames had made such progress tHat e
We're it not that it had rained heavily Tor
some days previous and several hGgsheaas % s sna "s
49,, nh,,jned the probabilities are that not
pWcG,' W ~ .,'a,ar- -cIoset but the main building