The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-08-10

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me next term of Court, when we hone he viii
DE anie TO put different face on the MATTER
we note with regret the sudden rleath
vi, friday evening last. near Huntingdon.
mere she was soJorrning for the leueht III
ner health, of Mrs Clara Horton wife of onr
worthy friend and brother typo, Mr.. Jos. n
Horton formerly of tohnstown. bnt for
many years past resilient of Pbiiadelpbia
ietiR. '9 D"'-
Since first we learner, the noble Art of
welding subtle pen, we've met in manv a
ousy mart some very foolish men but those
more foolish than :he rest are they who fa;I
to bhy where clothing chenp. the verv hast
Is always kept, large and full supr,v2
winch of course is at JAS. j. Murphy's Star
Clothing Hall, 10e Clinton street. Jobns-
town.. 'o"''-
That ihisfortunes never come s;no,v ,s
evidenced in the fact that little daughter
on John Speece, of Altoona, had ore NJ her
ieet badly burned on Tuesday afternoon last
oS stepping INTO hot asher left on G reen ave
me, the remnants of a rubbish fire. and that
Speece himself was arrested the same even
ing on .he charge of participating in the re-
cent railroad strike.
An old feud between two families in
THIS place resulted on "Wednesday evepino
last in a suit and cross suit before Eso E;n
kead for assault: and battery n Young son
of one family and the mother and a daughter
OF the other Icing the parties implicated
The accused Oh one side gave bail after a
hearing and the other case was held over
until tomorrow evening.
This from the Holldaysburg Standard
Mr.. Nathaniel Horne of Cambria county
having tried for more years than one cares
TO remember to get the Democratic nomina-
tion for county office, and having always
falied, now proposes a little variation and
announces himself an independent candi-
date. Which is a very sad thing fo- Mr.
Horne.
A young man named Ed. Ki,nbal, was
struck by stone, knocked from his horse
and very painfully injured, on SATURDAY.
night last, while returning to town from the
farm of Mr.. Joseph Brown, about a mile
and half east of this place The perpetra-
tor of the outrage and the motive which
prompted the oowartlly act are as yet among
the things unknown.
The Huntingdon LOcGI Nptrs wants TO
know il the fire engine door in that place is
10 I've kicked in every :ine there is n 4 re
whether it wouldn't be well enough to ,eaye
n key convenient and n notice posted up tell
ing where il could he found. Perhaps it
would, nut If the fire engine has door,
which we doubt, and il ''is to be kicked in -
etc, what is the use of key when a strong
boot will answer the purpose much better?
The Dem orratic convention of Indiana
county. held last week, selected the follow
ing ticket: Register and Recorder, II. =.
Kelly; District Attorney, John Hill; Coun-
ty Surveyor James Smith. j. VI. Thompson
was elected Senatorial and Michael Brown
and Oliver =. Carson Representative dele
gateS 70 1ne Sl3te convention, WIN lhStruc-
tions TO support ID. O. Barr for State Treas
urer and w. +. Schell for Auditor General.
Sheriff Ryan did some tall travelling on
Friday last. At "a n. m. he boarded the
Pittsburgh Express at Johnstown, reached
Pittsburgh at S.15 a. M, where he took
breakfast and from there proceeded to Free
port Ivy way of the A. V. r. r. At the lat
Ter place he hired Il horse and buggy and
drove seven miles into the country, from
which trip he returned in time to take the
train and reach his home in this place at 9. 40
the same night.
Husbands will do well to cut this out
and read it to their wives when solicited TO
get oven kindling wood: Mr.. Daniel
Conrad, of w Warriorsmark, Huntingdon coun-
ty. was seized with profuse bleeding at the
month, a few days ago, while in the act of
commencing to chop wood, and returning to
his house died in five minutes after. The
deceased. who was Director of the Poor of
that county and aged about hfty-six years,
leaves wife and several grown up children.
We chronicle with sincere sorrow the
double bereavement of our friend X. Emmett
Smith, of Georgetown, ID. c.. eldest son of
Cant -CI Nelson Smith, who lost 10y death
! within three months past two mo.herless
little daughters, Bertha and Blanche Eliza
beth, both lovely and Interesting and both
victims of scarlet fever the former dying
a priI 30th aged IL years, and the latter on
the 3lst of July, aged years and 10 months
The greatly bereaved father has our heart
fetfcondolence.
Miss Annie c. Stricken of Huntingdon,
aged 20 years, swallowed ten cents worth
OF arsenic at 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon
of last week and died about O'Clock the
following morning. The unfortunate CIR!
was the victim of some heartless Seducer,
and the testimony of her father, who hrst sus-
pected that she was pregnant only two weeks
iefor, her death as ELECTED by the coroner's
iurv went To show that she had not been IN
her right mind for three months preceding
the commission of the rash act.
"A dwelling honse in Shantytown, su-
burb of Holiday sburg, owned by Mrs Bar.
hara Rachmau, and occupied by herself ana
a widow woman named Killinger, was burn
ed to the ground, with nearly All It's con-
tents between three and four O'Clock on
SATURDAY morning last, the Bachman family
narroulv escaping with their lives. The
! fire is supposed TO have originated from
| defective fane. The extent of tie loss is not
stated hut the insurance is gwen as Sl.ooO
! on tb,, buitliiIg and $500 on the furniture.
The Pittsbnrgh papers now deny the
trutb of the statement that during the riots
! in that city some of the mob took cchn 10
i General Pearson's house and to'd MS VIE
/ that if they could catch him they would XIII
! him and rnt his .,ody into II, which so
J shocked and terrified Mrs. =. that her hair
/ which was oc r. dark brown color, turned
/ perfectly white in one night WINE sne 's
I To be congratulated on having preserved the
! natural color of her hair, II ~ aln"s' p''y
mat such romantic story should he spoiled.
a
! tive COMMITTEES of Altoona, held on Satur-
! day evening last, S. j. Warmer, Esq omar,
! man of said Committee, was compllmenteo
; FOR aiding and A. V. Dively, Esq, Chair
/ man of the Democratic County tommn''ee'
! censure,t for opposing the election OF Il H.
I Greevv the regularly nominated candidate
! f,r Recorder of said city. This action on
/ mart of tie Committee should serve TO warn
! er ward of for all time to come snch nii'c
clustering schemes as the one cotnPia'"eo u
! in this instance.
We learn from the ,5ohnstown tribune
that large and powerfully. built Engiish-
man named Richard Reynolds fell from the
iron bridge at that place, on SUNDAY evening,
and after first striking on one OF tine stone
( ,,;er- feI TO the roadbed beneath, fracturlng
/ three Of his ribs, one of which is supposed 10
have penetrated one of bis lungs, ':i ana badly
I wrencbing his right foot His condi,ion az
20, q, ~. ,v,n,,ered AT when The height from
! .,rhi,h Le fell and the injuries sustalneu are