The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-07

by Luke A. Platt of Susouehanna town.
sup, was taken from the Iaterner Hons.
sIanie on Saturday night lasr, but was re-
ireu next DAY by party who alleged that
ne ha" round the animal running loose ahou,
two miles this side of wimore How he
knew where the horse belonged the chan
diin.t wait long enough TO explain.
-James and John jackson and John
biain, all colored If we mistake not. were
taken to the Penitentiarv from westmore.
land county on Saturday last to serve a term
or nine years each for burglary and WIN
Eihs; for the larceny of goods from cars of
sne ra. n. X. Co, was consigned TO the
same institution for n period of thirteen
months. Four young men were sent to the
/ Allegheny Workhouse from the same conn.
| fy for larceny
The steep and stupendous lies indulced
IN Oy some OF our exchanges in regard IN
the yield of wheat per acre in certain sec,
Mons This season throws Baron Munchausen
completely in the shade. The latest we
have noticed is an item in Somerset n amer
winch calm and deliberately asserts that a
FARMER IN that county raised niaetu- three
bnshels by weight, or eighty-tro bushels nv
measure, from one acre. The President of the
Nevada Lying Society will now be prepared
70 send the belt for the championship. which
ne has Worn 80 long, TO the county of Somer-
set, where it will he likely to remain for
many u day to come
The Logan Base Ball Club of Altoona
came to time on Saturday last according TO
promise, Notwithstanding the inclemency of
the weather, but did not get their hands in
on the match game with the Junior Moun
falneers of this place until il was TOO late 70
play more than five innings which resulted
IN i score of seven rims for the Logars TO
nary one for the j NJ. s. Our bows showed
themselves the peers of their opponents At
The hat and in the field but the curve balls
OF the Logan pitcher were too much for then,
aud they were forced TO submit TO the iuevi-
table.
make 'em ON Saturday morning last when
he reached his place of busiaeSs aud fuund
That some of the bovine breed had been call
ing upon him during the night previous and
not finding him at home had left their cards
scattered about promiscuously over ,he porch
and pavement In front of hfs matchmaker
shop in Collonade Row, ami not content
with that, had even plastered some OF tlein
up against the side of the house. AS an adj
denda to the diabulical work some wap
ornmented each OF the cards with "a flag
consisting of scrap of paper mounted Oh a
short stick.
Abraham Lincoln Nimmy the colored
youth who administered poison to The other
members of his fathers family at Green's
burg about two months ago, thereby causing
the death of his father and one of his sisters
was tried in the Wes:moreland county court
last week before udge Stowe, of Pittsburgh,
(Jndge Logan being a principal witness,
and fonnd guilty on one indictment of mnr-
der in the second degrae, aud a similar plea
was entered without trial on the other in
dictmcnt. a sentence of ten years in The
Western PcEitentiary each indictment
was then imposed, making twenty years in
all. Young Nimmy's age is about fourteen
years.
Mr.. A. T. Pindle, of Blacklick town
ship, has !eN with us n small sample of Red
Russian, Tread well and Clawson wheat, the
former of which is of the bearded and the
two latter of the smooth varieties. They
We're grown on new ground AZ what is known
as Ritter Furnace, in Blacklick township.
and arethe finest specimens of grain that
have ever seen produced any where. Speak
ing of 'he Clawson wheat the Germantown
IetdgFaph saws that from thirty 10 forty i've
bushels TO The acre have been produced in
several instance this season. Either of the
varieties named can he obtained from Mr..
Pindle at 50. 80 per bushel.
Our yuung friend, Ed Buckley, of East
Conemaugh, who for the past year so has
been reading law in the office of +. A Shoe
maker, Esq, in this place, was admitted to
practice on Tuesday forenoon, after passing
one of the best, if not the very best, eXamin-
ations that has ever taken place in this
county, the entire committee of examination
being a unit il pronouncing MIN cmiuentlv
fitted tor admission TO the bar. Mr.. Buckley
is young man of great moral worth and
more than ordinary literary attainments, aud
we feel safe i'll saying that il life aud heaith
are spared TO him he will make mis- mark in
the world before very many years have come
and gone. He has the best wishes OF all
who know him for successful aud brilliant
career in the learned profession he has
chosen.
The nomination for District Attorney by
the Republican county convention of a gem
tleman with the same initials who subse-
quently declined the honor, if honor il
be called, may have given rise TO the rumor
which prevailed on Monday last that that
jolly good fellow, George NJ. Riddle, of
Philadelphia, had been chosen TO i'll a posi-
tion which no Republican with more or less
knowledge of the law could he prevailed
upon or coerred into accepting. Be that,
however, as it may, if Mr.. Riddle was on
th. track at all, which we neither deny nor
affirm, we are glad to say that he Rose from
his sumhers next morning fully convinced
that he wasn't the right lamb for the slaugh-
ter, in rs much as he knew little or noihing
about any law except the law of supply ard
demand in the dry goods trade, and coniln't
he elected on the Republican ticket even If
he did, withstanding lis great popularity
among the frosty sons of thunder"
THE REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION.