The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-12-14

seem TO appear, but as the M is still miss
ing, or at least is not in, the name as we
read it looks almost as thin the play bill
that tells US, in letters so black, that George
has got up on his little "Hunchback, and
as Sir Clifford, the bold, I'm the tightest of
tights, has made his debut behind the foot
lights yet it all may be true and if not
cell or sham ah we should all go to Phil
and see Riddle take in his dram-ah
Dress up for the holidays. Go to Jas
j. Murphy and dress up. Call at 109 Gin
ton street and dress up: Visit Star Cloth
ing II all and dress up. Slip down to Johns
town, enquire for MuTpnys cheap clothing
store, drop in, and then dress up. Take the
boys along and dress them up too. Dress
mp all round. Money is well spent and not
little of it saved by dressing up at Jas. j.
Murphy's Star Clothing Store, 100 Clinton
stree, Johnstown. Dress up in the rear and
clothes up in front. Dress up, every body
1t is a wonder of the day, and yet af act
DER true, that heavy banks are washed away
by too much failing due;" and thus oftimes
FROM honest hands is swept each dime and
cent, which, as many case then stands,
had better far been spent in buying clothing
cheap and good, of finest make and style,
from Godfrey Wolff, who long has stood,
with welcome word and smile, prepared to
sell to those who call, what none can fail to
prize, the best of suits for one and all, of
every texture, shade and size. Store on
Twelfth street, next door to the post-offlce,
Altoona, Pa.
The eleventh annual session of the Cam
bria County Teachers Institute will convene
in Johnstown on Monday, Dec. 24th and
close its sessions on Friday evening follow
ing. Teachers Of both public and private
schools, and those preparing themselves for
the profession, are respectfully solicited to
become members of the Institute, and all are
cordially invited TO attend. Excursion tick
cts will be sold at all railroad stations with
ont exhibiting orders, and reduced rates. for
accommodation have been obtained at sev-
eral hotels and private boarding houses in
Johnstown.
DR.. L. Douneily, of Pittsburg occupies
about a column OF Mondays Djspdtch in
telling what he knows about Brazil, where
ne resided for several years, and concludes
by advising the Messrs. Collins to take no
one to that country, white or black, who has
not passed n thorough medical examination
and been found fit for the venture, as he says
that the climate of Madeira and Benz is very
unhealthy, particularly in the rainy season,
when fevers prevalent and the nnacli-
mated suffer severely. He also declares that
= good supply of medical stores and first
class corps Of physicians and surgeons ar.
absolutely necessary. Don't want losish,
we presume.
j. D. Hicks. Esq, of Tyrone and II. II.
Herr, Esq, of Altoona two young and able
risrnbers OF the bar Of Blair comfy, showed
very plainly the kind of stntf they are made
of counsel for plaintiff in case which
came before our county court on Tuesday
evening last, but In which, through no fault
Of his attorneys, their client was forced 10
take a nonHuit Mr.. Hicks was particularly
happy in having the opportunity and pos
spssirg the peculiar k1ack of eliciting all the
evidence that could be adduced in the case,
and the way he popped the questions to the
defendant very naturally lea to the c"nclT-
sion that he is about as sharp as they maze
EN-, Not many years hence, we venture TO
say the people CT Blair county, II not Of the
entire State, will have to look to the top OF
the legal ladder To find Mr.. Hicks, who has
the ability aud determination to reach that
altituds ana stay there.
One of the most amusing cases that has
ever been on trial in this county, and per-
Eaps the only Y one of the kind that has cvt T
been before t1ry anywhere, was that q
'Kiper W.. Blum" which will he found
briefly reported under the head of Court
Proceedings" The PARTIES TO the suit both
Of whom are Germans, reside in Adams
township, and the action was brought to re-
cover $50 alleged to have been promised TO
the plaintiff for aud in consideration OF Inn
parting to a son of the defendant a full and
perfect knowledge of a certain art which
shall here be nameess, but the existence of
which Is very frequently and painfully
brought TO the knowledge of horses, cattle
and other domestic animals. During the
trial spectators, jury, lawyers, and even the
Court itself, were forced to ''s;nile many
smole' loud and deep, the testimony, to say
nothing OF the questions and remarks of the
counsel, j. J.. Linton and j. II. Brown,
Esqs., for the plaintiff, and Messrs. Johnston
81 Scanlan for defendant, was FOR the most
part so ludricious that few il any OF the
large crowd present could restrain their ris-
Utilities.
-Mr.J. Fl. Coogsn, of Clearfield township,
whose harm. tenement house and other o1;-
buildings were destroyed by fre the latter
part of September, had another experience
of a similar nature between and 6 o'clock
on Sunday morning last, when stable
erected for the temporary shelter OF his STOCK,
etc, until a new barn could be pnt up. was
burned to the ground with small quantity
la,S
horses cows and other live stock were i'll the
stable Al the time, but as the IRE was started
in tho nov instead of on or nnder the hist
floor, Mr.. Coogau succeeded IN gettlhg 'he
animals all out safely, though not until he
himself had been considerably burned he
tween the shoulders and one of the horses
was slightly scorched. There was no insur-
ance on tue structure. The impression IL
very general among Mr.. Coogans nelghbors
that the party or parties who are thus wan
tonly destroying his property could be poin'-
ed out without any difficulty, but az that
gentleman cannot be induced to believe what
seems plain enough TO every one else, the
proba abilities are that the burnl 1g VIII go on
"a long rs there is anything to feed the
flames, the yelling house perhaps excepted:
A correspondent in the northern part of
the county writes us to say that we were
mistaken in announcing two weeks ago that
Barnev Fogle of Barr township, whose I'LL
cit stills were cOnfiscated by revenue officers
on the Monday previous, was not al nome AT
the time the raid WAS made, the ract oeing
that he WAS not only TO the fore, out that the
of;icers of the law had succeeded in putting
the s'iewelry" upon him. That they did not
keep them on him, however, is equally true,
but why they did not our correspondent does
not pretend to say. though we learn from
another source that it was because some OF
tho lookerszon made fun of them tor using
such precautions when they were two to one
i'm the contest. Be that as 1t may, az soon
as the handouts were removed barney, as
our informant facetiously REMARKS, S.ruGt
csr h;ohar wages and that is how the milk
came fo Se in the cocoauut, though the VIC
timized minious of the law seem to have
been too modest to mention it, The same
correspondent assures us that II rumor ne
true thers are no less than ten Illicit stills In
operatiop along the sus1uehanna river, hve
Of which are run by steam and the other
1--WE by water power. If this is thus, the
question very naturally suggests itself, where
are the detectives?