The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-02-16


eastward bound freight train when nearIv
opposite the hotel of Mr. John FL Clark. a,
Cresson, but missing his hold he fell under
,ne wheels and was literally torn pieces,
his oouy oeing cut in two and his eutrails
scattered for a considerable distance alouo
'he track The train. we are assured; was
moving At the rate of twentv-fv We miles an
Eour aud the attempt TO board IL which rul-
minated in the death of the unfortunate man
Was the second effort of the kind he had
made, the hr>: one resulting in throwing him
With great force, but without anyslpparent
injury, TO one side of the road. There VIA.
nothihg about his person to indicate his name
or hahitation. His remains were taken I'm
charge and buried at the expeuse of ,bs
county.
Few housebolds have ever been moro
seriously afflicted than In that Of Mr. ,awis
Hoover, OF this place, where. two children
SONS OF John and James Hoover aged re-
spectively about three years and uineteen
mohths, died on SUNDAY last within an hour
or two OF each other. aud two more children
III me same family are still ailing, with fhe
r,""aoiiti"s against their recovery. John
frooNer, one OF the bereaved parrnrs is also
quite i'll, his mind being or having been
somewha affected, and the house, which is
comparatively siuall, presents, as NAV we'll
ne conceived, the appearance of a miniature
hospital. The disease which eliminated in
the deaths above noted and which affiicts
the two children now suffering is said 10 be
wbooping cough which i'm the two fatal cases
nj least was followed by lung fever, or some
similar aiiUent, the latter in all probability
being the more Immediate cause of death
1t appears that the Blair county Repub-
ncans, after having for some years tested
ana learned from bitter experience the fol-
lies AMI the frauds 1T what is we'll known as
Tue crawford county system" of nonina-
ung candidates for county Offices and after
new mode of delegate elections having been
suhsiiin'ed, will which the present R-pub-
l!can Office seekers of that county are not
satisfied, have determined, on Tuesday next
To submit to the Republican voters of that
county the question of either re-adoptine the
Crawford county system or retaining the
present one. The Crawford county system
has some merits, is plausible and well cal
cuiated to deceive, and vet in almost every
county in which il has been adopted it has
been abandoned, after full and disastrous
experience. The Clearffeld county plan Of
electing delegates in proportion to the Dem
ocratic vote in the di fferent election districts
Is the fair and honest one, AMI has made that
county The most thorough and reliable Dem
ocratic county in the State. Why Will not
the Democracy of Cambria follow the exam
pie Of Clearfield
The Patton method of taking short cui
on the present incumbent of the Altoona
post-office, as well as on the nuniberless other
Republican aspirants in that city for the po-
sition named, looks very much like an at
tempt Oh part OF President Grant and the U
S. Senate Ia 'buli-dnze" HAYES in the event
of his being declared The chief magistrate of
the nation on and after the 5,h of March
next, which is ~ yer, however, very far from
being an accomplished though by no means
an Improbable fact. Still as the same pure
10 patriots who have run the Grant admin
istraii"n of late years will undoubtedly he
assigned to front seats in the new Republi-
can synagogue when built, if bult al all, we
presume the appointments will tie permitted
to stand, NOT withstafding the sharp trick re-
sorted to in securing ii. OF the appointee
Mr. L. Blair Paitor, it is proper to say that
he is well qu~l fie for the position and will
make an obliging and attentive officer
though that may not strike many minds as
beiug sufficient excuse for so uucerenou-
iously displaciug one of whom 1t may with
truth be said that he has proven "a good and
and faithful'-Stewart.
Somewhat of a sensation was created in
our midst shortly after noon on Sunday last
10y the arrival of IA specihl train conveying
eleven tramps To the Jail in this place, seven
of whom were arrested at Niueveii, West
moreland county, where they retired TO
sleep in the shook shop of Nutter, Cunning
ham X Co, on the charge of driving wooden
and iron wedges into one of the railroad
frogs near Sang Hollow, below Juhustown,
on Saturday evening last, with the evident
inteDton of wrecking the Phila. Express
east, but which were fortunately discovered
just in the niche OF time to prevent the
threatened catastrophe. The four remain
ing tramps brought to Jail here, and " who are
said To have been Implicated with five
others, not yet taken, in stoning the EN-
rloyees on freigli: train west on Saturday
last, were arrested in Conemaagh township
by Mr.. Joseph Parks aud others Tie
charge against these four is assault aud bat
terry with intent to kill John Lauahan and
James Moran, employees on the freight
train. The entire party gave their names as
VIM. Hines Chas. Clark, Saml Brown
VIM. Rohesou, Chas. Briggs, JAS. Clark and
Michael McDule. charged with the first
named offence, and Jos. Davis, Chas. Muir
ply, Edward Jones and John Walsh, ac-
cused of the latter crime. The evidence is
said to be strong against all of them.