The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-05-04

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so neat, lis hard indeed To find in l,rgerr
p,ies, or better styles, or ANYTHING else at
an, IKE what is sold, for silver scrip or
e"lu, ~ Murphy's Star Hall, 109 Clinton
1t seems strange brt IL rnus. bo ,
as the Altoona Globe says so, that a man
named John Smith (singular cnynomenl w,s
ronned on the public highway at .be east
emu oI the lower yard, \ Altonna Saturdav
forenoon, OF a watch, revolver and several
o'her articles, 10y party of tranps hailipo
iio,ii montgomery county. Insatiate foot
P'"ts would no other rnau than John Smith
{ sulhce! No arrests, but tlier,. ourht IN ha
J 'or The sake of so precious name if nothing
else. - "0'n'S
{ The Iohnstown Democrat says that Mrs
opSeph Schal.er, of fCouemaugh borough was
! awakened from her sleep and terribly fr;gbt
eheu on Monday morning last by hearing AN
uhusnai noise, and looking from her window
"iScoEeFet a man raising ladder to the
second story window of her house She gave
4 an alarm, the man fed and i'm his hiuht l.f,
me iHddcr Robbery is supposed 10 have
J heen the object of the would he hurgler. but
IL fortunately proved n IScIdllei. outcome this
time.
/ --Messrs William. John and Thomas
Doran. of Summerhill township sol,, and de.
I llvered, on Wednes,iav last TO our butcher
friend, Mr. Joseph Gutwald of this place
hve heat OF as tine young cattle as were
/ probably ever raised in Cambria countv
Ihey are all known stwo year ods though
+ The largest and fa:test of them lacks nearly
two months of that age, and their aggregate
/ weight is 5,l60 pounds. "Unce" .toe's ia.
irons may therefore expert to he served with
3 luscious beef for a few weeks tt, come
"A. J Greer, Esq, we are glad TO learn
has sufficiently recovered from his recent
illness to resume his editorial duties on the
Altoona Tribune. The Mirror saws lie looks
very thin. but we trust that he is far from
helnG 80 attcnuaied as the item about the
"handsorne" (?) editor of the FREEMAN
written by the Dern cuss who run the ma
? q No. in Lie al. N.-i
last issue of that paper. But, never mind
II we ever catch any of them up this way
Wei try ai'd get even "u the tiattcry biz
We learn from the Altoona sun that
Ktv. ii. Baker, of that CITY, united III the
bonds of wedlock, on Tuesday. April oath
at the residence Of the byide's parents a
sevenieen-ytar-oldb boy named Owen Wac-
/ ner TO a fifteen year-Old giIl nau4ed Hattie,
/ Elias. The Juveniles have ou- hest wishes
OF course, but if the world ain't o Owen Wag-
/ ner and his tender young bride !. long and
blissfui welded lif, which il is willing to
pay on sight, sensible people generally will
very naturally conclude that they drew ON
( the world for payment entirely too long be-
fore maturity.
/ II am waiting f. r the SUMNER" sang a
maiden in the gloom, ''for cant let johnny
kiss me with the old folks in the room. Ia
I the bright and hlIuty weather Ve can wall
der, he and 1, where there no one To observe
us hut the hedges and the sky and when
the wedding days appointed, and we have
talked The matter DER, m sure that johnny
. quick will HE him tO Godfrey VOLTS Giean
store, where Il wedding suit to please him
/ the finest to be found, can he bought at lower
prices than in all the country round" Next
door to the post office Altoona, is where the
b:s store ir question il located.
II. y. Bolsingrr * Co, Hollidaysburg
firm recently engaged III the tobacco and
notion business, had their establishment
cleaned ont pretty etfrctuaily by burglars on
Tuesday last, and that too in broad daylight
I he md 81 4. inn i,
value TO about SiG0- How the robbery WAS
/ accomplished without detection is what just
now buthrrS tie average Holiday yshurger,
hut a. the town is about as sleepy an old
/ place our own, il is fair To- presume that
no one hut the thieves were astr At The time.
The senior rnrmhcr of the victimized firm ~
| Il nephew of Mr.. Jesse ;. BulSiuger, OF this
place.
"A monster plant might have been seen
/ in fact seen hv mauy-at ;he county
almShouse ou Thursday last, upon which oc-
casiun no less than fftyttree barrels Of potatoes
were planted on the farm connected with
that Institution. aud Steward Lilly assures
us that il wasn't the best day he ever saw
( for planting potatoes either. Seven more
barrels Of tile satite eScuicuts were suhSe-
! quentIy hidden underneath the ground on
the same plantation, waking i'll all sixty
barrels of potatoes planted in one patch. a
hg days work that, we take il, hut how
many persous were engaged in the business
We failed to learn.
those who have ther Information direct,
that some of the mi!l"rs of that county are
iu the habit of adultcrating their -four in
the following manner They purchase white
corn, which at course, they get for less than
half tlr, cost of wheat. This is y cheap
swiudle bur very mean one, and the miller
who will allow his avarice 20 overcome hiS
honesty in this way ought to lose the patron
age of every one ~; his customers. And all
honest millrrs ought TO make common cause
i'm exposiuc such n miserable cheat and
swiudler. OF course Cambria county
miller would do such 4 thing.
On the list of eminent prelates and
priasts who sailed from New York on Sat
iIrtlay last on their way to Rome To attend
the pnpe's golden Jubilee, as punished III
the World, notice the name OF Right Rev
AIpxius EdrIbrprk, q. s. Il. Abbot OF the
Benedictine Abbey of ST. Louis on The Lake,
in Sfearrs county. Mimi. This young man
is a graduate of 81. Niuc"nts Ahhty, III
Westmoreland county, aud is of an old plo-
neer family o: this (hs native) state, and
when first appninted to found an abbey IN
the barren wilderness, where now stands.a
beautiful monument of his zeal, hc set TO
work in ;he blue denim clothes of his earlier
davs aud with his axe led the line OF tree
f.Il-rs He is six feet four ia his stocking
feet aud a giaut in strength
In our notice last week of the huruiIg
of Mr. James MalOy's barn in Allegheny
towuslti3, between Loretio ami ChrSt
Springs. we gave the report a. we got ",
that the cunhagratiun was caused Ivy some
neigIbors' chiidreu who were at The utie
al, yiu0 i'm The, t,arn This was mistake,
and in Justice to Mr.. Maloys neighhors we
deem il right to say that two grandchildren
of that gentleman, boys aged respectively
about five and seven years, aud wh" llVe
with Mr.. NJ were the little folks VINO, un-
Intentionally of course, set fire TO the build
ing In all uther respects, except mat one
yrarlinc colt, brsides the two horses ana
pir already mentioned, perishcd IN the
flarnes We did not learn the extent OF MI.
MaIov' s loss but understand he had no IN
surapcc His misfortune is n very heavy
one on him, heug o:d and decrepid, and ap-
peals very strongly to the charity OF an,
whom we trust will not refuse to ald hIin IN
the rebuilding of his barn when appealed Ia,
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