The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-14

az least, IN ami about j ohnstown, if nowhere
else in the county, have determined to hold
nominating convention in tais place on
Monday week, Sept. oath for the purpose of
putting county ticket in the field renre-
senfing their particular views on the labor
question In particular ard on various other
questions in general. Delegates to the con-
Ventlon Will be chosen tomorrow week.
Philip II. Jones, of Cambria township
was arrested by officer WHEREBY, of the West
Ward, on Wednesday last and brought be-
lore Esquire Kinkead on a charge of surety
OF the peace and cruelty 10 one of his own
horses, preferred against him by a yeupg
man named Geo. s Boring. The accused
gave hail for his appearances at Court to an
swer the frs: charge, and entered into re-
coghlgance for the payment of 80 fine a1d
case.
Mr.. p NJ. Brown, of Summerhirl, has
been invited to deliver a lecture at Chest
Springs tomorrow (Sa.nrday) evening. on
the subject of ''The Use and Abuse of the
Bible, topic TO which he has given con-
siderable attention and which we have no
doubt he will treat in thorough and mas
ierly manner. a small admittance fee will
he charged TO defray expenses, but we hone
that will not deter any one from attend, inv
the lecture, which cannot fail to prove inter
esting and instructive.
Prof. Hugh III. Hughes formerly of this
vicinity, now Of Kansas City, Mo. a gentle.
man of acknowledged ability as a vocalist,
church in this place, on Tuesday evening
next, Sept. 18th, in conjunction with the adj :
nlrable choir connected with said church
The programme will consist of sacred and
sentimental songs, and the entertainment as
a whole promises to I've in every respect a
rich musical treat Admission price for
adult, 10 cents children, 10 cents. Don't
fai. to attend
Harry l.. Woods, author of "First Ven
.ure,' reference to which was made in these
"a q ~ ptlla of l,o. l.,
sent us copy of the neat little volume re-
ferfed to, which contains some fifty of his
poetic and one of his prose productions. The
book is dedicated TO Lieut.. Gov. John Latta
and as a typographical specimen of the work
done at the Altoona Mirror office it is some
thing worth Dragging about. We hope the
talented young author will not only get out
of the Woods financially, but reap a rich
harvest from his First Venture"
An adventurer calling himself Abram
Gerod gave couple of concerts i'll Carroll
town a few evenings ago, and as his wear
ing apparel was not in fit condition to ap-
pear in public on the stage, Mr.. a. II. Hang,
with whom he was stopping and who has a
heart as big as mountain, kindly loaned
him complete outfit, including even n
breast tpin and watch chain. with which the
unerateful scamp slid ont at the conclusion
of the last entertainment and has not been
heard from since. He also took with him o
silver watch borrowed from Mr.. Denk,
jeweler Of that place.
The Altoona sun says that Col. Harry
Dern. of the Tribune. returned on Wednes-
day afternoon from Westmoreland county
hrin- -ing with him nineteen squirrels as me-
mentoes of a walk through the woods with
a gun on his shoulder. Nineteen squirrels
are pretty good, especially they seem TO
have surrendered without discretion to a
man Who did nothing more than carry a gun
on his shoulder but Col. (?J Harry Dern is
decidedly better, though we confess ourself
at loss to know whose nut was cracked
when he got the kernel
"A Pa. Il. r. freight brakeman named
John Dill, John y. Dell, or John Odell, as
the case may be- a resident of Bolivar, was
u little too dilatory in his movements while
attempting to get from one engine TO another
of a 'douhle- header train, u few miles this
side of Latrohe, on Monday morning last,
and rhe result W as that he fell under the
wheels and had his right leg cut off above the
knee aud one of his arms badly bruised.
The unfortunate man was taken to Greens
burg, where the Company's physician, DIR.
LOmiSon, amputated the leg, and he is now
doing as we'll as could he expected.
Alexander and Kate Thomas, son and
daughter of Mr.. Philip Thomas, of Chest
township, and nephew and niece OF Judge
Thomas, of this place. we've thrown from a
buggy n few DAYS ago, and although neither
of them We're hurt very much, the worst in
iuries being sustained by the yonug lady,
" no had one of her ankles srrained and was
some hat bruised otherwise, as was also her
injury was really remarkable, as the acci-
tent was the result of II runaway and &C.
Cured while they were descending n steep
ilecIivity known WenJz's hill, in that
Young men who hesitate about getting
married in consequence of the stringency of
The times should take heart at the experience
pf that other Young (man), who although
the husband of nineteen wives aud the father
of sixty children, managed to accumulate
"a
in spite %. rhe fact that he did not enjoy the
posseSsed bv married folks
and all other folks in this vicinity of buying
Try goods, groceries, etc, from Myers ~
Lloyd at prices so remarkably cheap that all
Utah would experience the bgges" kind of
a sensation if they were even hinted at in
hat far-off region.
Now that the political pot has begnn to
boil. the Hollidaysburg Register may take
Hart, if it has Il mind 20, al the TACT that the
have man TO Sterrett and
Passmore enthusiasm along the line than
they have enjoved for several years past, hut
" hen the Democracy throw Schell IN TO
the radical camp next November there will
be n Noyes along the line aforesaid which
cannot fail TO convince The opposition that
our candidates have brought their Turk (ev)
with them and propose TO take and Keep
possession of the several State Offices in dis
pute for too, three and twenty-one years re-
spec;fn,lv if not for much longer periods.
side at ST. Nicholas in Barr township, this
county, was, like many thoughtless person
before her, hurried into eternity rev days
ago at Connellsville, Pa, where she was EN-
ploved as a domestic while attempting 10
hurry mp sluggish fire with the aid ot coal
oil. The accident, IL it may he called an ac-
cident occurred about o'clock in the after
noon. and the unfortunate girl, who was
burned in n shocking manner, died in great
agony in less than seven hours after Her
relatives and friends in this county, as may
we'll be conceived, are in great distress OF
mind at her sad fate, her mother IN parflcn-
lar, if we are rightly Informed, being almost
distracted with grief
AT the State Temperance convention
which met at Harrisburg ON "Wednesday last
onr we'll known tovnsttran, "A. A. BARKER,
ESQ was h3nored with the nomination for
uuitor General The compliment paid
Mr.. Barker was well deserved for his con-
sistent and energetic advocacy of the canse
derst,p1s that his nomination is entirely
aud that npon his broad shon!-