The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-07-06

--Monday night last harm near ffoliidays-
onfg. owned by man named Rhoa,is. and
another OH Brush ihotiutaiu, name of owner
not ascertaned, We're struck bt lightning.
set on fire and totally consumed with ali
their contents. a house on Reservoir Hill
Altoona, was badly shattered the game
night.
Mr. Henry Cassidy. an engineer on the
western division, Pa. r, r., Informs the
Altoona Globe that while going fotSn the
eastern side of til mountain MontIay night
he observed the lightning strike the steel
rail in front of him at two different times
twenty feet
Mrs. NJ A. Quartz started to 20 TO the
Catholic picnic on the Fourth, but had not
proceeded very far when the spring wagon
In which she was seated struck a rut in the
road and threw her against the seat in front
with such force rs to fracture one of the
1gaturcs in her right knee and lame her
very badly though we hope not permanently
An old man named John Denithome
lost his balance while looking out of a
second story window in the effort to discover
The cause of some noise near his house at
fhuniXvllle, Chester county, few nights
aAo, and now Huntingdon is getting credit
!or the accident simply because n daughter
OF the unfortunate gentleman resides in that
place.
The Philadelphia Times credits the Cam
bria Herald with saying that the delegates
from this county have been instructed to
I
state convention for Auditor General and
! State Treasurer. AS the Cambria delegates
have not yet oeen chosen it looks very much
as Ii there was some mistake about this
nouncement.
Go forth In haste, with bills and paste
| proclaim 10 all the nation, that Wolf can
! sell of clothing we'll, enough for all creation;
and while you're out just yell and shout
! what's true beyond doubt, that cash in
/ hand will there command ti,e best of bar
! gains i'm the land. Don't forget G odfrey
/ Wolf's mammoth clothing emporium, next
1 door tn the post-office, Altoona.
! They meet-that is, she went to the
store and made him turn things Der and
/ DER, till he vanished behind the goods and
! then she pleasantly said she'd call again,
! though Randolph hopes, in his inmost heart,
! that still never more come TO the busy mart
where he as a salesman clever and true finds
business enough more pleasant TO do in
! waiting on people whose time is employed
in buying Cheap goods from Myers Lloyd.
! Parties having pianos 10 tune and put
! i'll order will do well to engage the services
| of Mr. VIM. c.. SEVERN, OF Carrolltown, who
| is not only fully competent for the task, but
| whose work is more thorough and charges
! less exorbitant than those of piana-tuners
! generally. Mr.. s. tuned and put in perfect
order piano in this place on NJ onday last,
! aud to quote al expression of the young
| lady who manpulates the keys, 'it is just
( splendid"
! Andrew Dean, residing near Everett,
| chain around his horses neck and turned
/! him out 10 pasture in the woods ON his farm.
! A short time afterward the animal was need
! et,, and found dead, the Chain having
. caught on the limb of a tree, and the horse
! strangled to death.
! Parties pretending TO be agents for
! certain patent hay-fork are said to be at
J work in several of the ueighboring Counties
| extorting money from some of the more gull
| hie farmers on the plea that forks owned
| and used 10y them are AN infringement of
| the patent represented by them. Our agri-
cultural friends should be.pn the Look out for
these and other swindlers of like character.
| The services of Daniel II. Zalm ms fire.
! man on our Branch train have been disposed
! with, and ID. NJ Ritter, heretofore hiling the
! positiou of brakeman has been put in his
| place Conductor Quartz meantime being
! qured 10 play il alone on the train proper,
| except if W mistake not, that Mr.. Ritter is
to assist him in some of the duties. Mr..
I Zahn, if report speaks truly, is to fire on
| one of the engines on the main line.
| We have been requested TO notify all per
| sons indebted 20 the late firm of Pryce, Bax-
ter II Co, as well as to the former rr"prie-
! tors of the Ebensbuig Woolen Factory, that
| if they do not call and settle their respective
accounts with Mr.. VIM. j. Mclaughlin. at
| the Company's store, on or before the lJ,h
Of July, proximo, they will tnd their hiis
| In the hands of officer for collection, with
costs added Let all interested heed this
notice which is the last that will he given
! If Won don't want to come to Griet you
hack. Grief, you know is the name OF the
| new contractor for carrying the mails from
| Ehensburg to Carroltown aud points beyond
| and his first trip was made on Monday last
| will, a fine new hack and spanking pair
| of grays Hope he won't come 10 grief him
! self though at the price for winch ne has
| agreed to do the work there are some people
! who think he will fiud 1t anything but a lat
| take.
! to the tree-too serenely assembled for An inn
mature peach which hung out or reach, ana
! when he came down his troueerioons were
! sn fearfuIIy rended that his indu!cent papa,
! who WAS obliged 10 go 10 Jas. j. Murphy 5
! Star Clothing Hall, 109 Clinton street johns
| town and buy him new pair, h;td no nesl-
! .ation in saying after he ulade the purchase
| thar better wearing apparel q" lower prices
| never sought purchasers among the children
| OF men.
MIR. James Smith, a resident OF GaIiit-
| zin aged about 60 years, was buried on ri
! day last in the Catholic cemetery on iuh
f, mel Hill Mr.. Smiths visited TINS place
| ahout one month ago, and while returning 10
| Gallitziu by way of Loretto, where he has
! married daughter residing, he was taken III,
but in a day or two after was aoe 20 p,oces'-
| 70 his home His illness, however, the ma
.nre of which we did not learn, proved fatal
in a few daye after. He was we'll known
aud highly respected by ALI his neighoors
and acauaintances. May he rest III peace.
| For three nights ia succession, ending
-, Monday night or rather at an early hour
ON Tuesday morning, this vicinity was Wis
tied bv thunder aah lightning storms OF al
most uneoualled ferocity, the one on Mon
dav night being especially terrinc an" aes-
! ,rnc,iye-iu fact such storm as has seldom
II ever been experienced in this latitude.
considerable damage was done to growing
crons i'm various parts of the county, and
small bridges were either swept away or
badly demoralized: but beyond 'h"' - n''
| .s ,,.. have learned little or no loss was snS-
tanned. if we except the drowning OF lew
chickens in the East Ward.
Nobody questions the superiority 0, w.
! & ID. Rinehart's No. L Long Out o"ohi"s
Tobacco. a., p,,,;c,,
What purported TO he the Repuonean
SopatoriaI conference of this district met Ill
I UoIIidavsburg on Monday last ana cohnrih-