The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-11-02

stole various surgical Instruments from ORA
MMar1ourg. Of JohDstown, and Wilson, Of
N Nsn.nn borough, was brought back on
Monday last from Perry county, where he
80 arrested few days ago, by Chief-of-
Police Harris, and after hearing before
Sustice Strayer, Of Johnstown, WAS, in de-
hui. a.' OF tne necessary security. sent to Jail
mere to await trial at December sessions.
:..How the wSiling, signing November
winds, rising and swsyiug In plaiutive ea-
dences around the house, will make one
mink OF the comfort and warmth experinced
oy the man who has had thouphtfulness
enough TO purchase . winter outfit Of sub-
stantial, well made and neat fitting gar
ments IT :he great cheap cash clothing en-
Poriun ct Godfrey Wo'n, on Twelfth street,
next door to the post-office, Altoona. whers.
no one who gives him q call can fail to be
suited In price, style, texture, shade and
quality of the goods offered for sale DO cbsap.
Mr.. JAS. F. Campbell. late Of the now
defunct Johustown Poice and Echo, but for
some time past proprietor of the Oil Times,
paper established by him at Edeuburp.
Claiion county, published An article in his
issue OF last week rejecting very severely
on Mr. j. NJ. Clifford, editor of the Daily
he accused him (Gifford) among other things
OF being drunkard and a debauchee, for
All which, as we judge from the reply of the
Herald, which denies in toto the charges
preferred, Campbell will be, If he has not
already been, prosecuted for libel Go where
he will, it seems to be Campbell's fortune or
misfortune to get himself into hot water,
metaphorically speaking, but as he seems to
IKE II no one else, If we except the parties
aggrieved, has a right to complain.
"A colored girl in male attire arrived in
Latrobe from Pittsburgh, a few nights ago,
says the Altoona Mirror, having taken pas.
sage ~ the latter city on one of the trucks of
a car on the Fast Line. When she reached
mere her sex was suspected, and, on being
examined, the suspicious were confirmed.
She is abont twenty years Of age and has
beat her way in the manner above de-
scrlbed from point two hund red miles west
OF Denver, where she was employed rs q
sheep herder by a man who abused her bru-
tally. Getting tired of this mode of living,
she sole suit belonging to the mans son,
and made her escape with a band of Indians
who were going to Denver. She was on her
way To her former home in Rochester, N. Y,
and money was furnished her by those who
learned of her history in Iatrobe from
which place she departed on a freight train.
Edward w. Fisher, young man of re-
spectacle parentage but decidedly disso!ute
habits, whose home is in Huntingdon, swal-
lowed big dose of gin and laulanum, anG
afterwards shot himself in the left breast
with revolver, at house of ill fame in
Harrisburg, on Saturday night last, but for
tnna'eiy for him. II for no one else, neither
attempt proved fatal, the laudanum, for
some reason, not getting in it's work and the
bullet lodging in the left side, just below the
arm-pit and near the first rib, from whence
it was readily extracted without having
caused any very serious injury to the reck-
less youth. Fisher, it seems, was .weet on
the proprietress of the bagnio, Sadie Keller
hv name, who had excitetl his jealousy by
dcsertng him for n friend of hers named
q. r. Krerger, of Danville, after having
spent the day in buggy riding with him
(Fisher) all over the country.
We have no desire TO detract from the
merits of the Altoona Mirror, but when
some of our exchanges speak of it as the best
daily paper In western Pennsylvania they
give n flight to their fancies which does a
manifest, though no doubt unintent;ona al
in Justice to the JohnstOwn Tribune, which
10 the peer as n local and general news jour
nal of tho Mirror or any other daily published
outside aud, with very few exceptions, in
side Of any of the large cities. We have no
sympathy with the political sentiments OF
the Tribune, nor perhaps as much patience
As We should have with the spirit of mis-
chief which prompts il not unfreQueDtly to
speak disparaginRly Of our town, but that
does not prevent us from saying what We
belirve tn I've true, that wero it not for the
Tribune The weekly press In this part of the
State at least, and the FREEMAN IL no ex-
ception, would find Il exceedingly difficult
to get up local department that wonld a:
all compare with what such of them ~ are
not too lazy to avail themselves of the oppor
tuuity now do with the aid Of the paper
in question. Honor to whom honor is due,
SAY
Capt. 8. w. Davis reached home last
Tues.lay afternoon with the mare, buggy
and harness recently stolen from the livery
Arm Of l.. & s. w. Davis. in this place and
Of which we gave a fun account in our last
issue. The harness were found at the house
Of Mrs. Dufterfeli, mother of the parties
who stole them, 1t or near Everett, Bedford
county, and the buggy was secured Flint
stone, III tho same county, where IL had bee n
tra4ie,l to Dr. EInigh, a brothcr-in-law Of the
Rut,rrf-ld.. formerly of this place, for an
other vehicle while the little mare, a. We
stated last week, WAS recovered 1t Tunnel
ton, about seventy miles west OF CuWbe
land the parties in possession having failed
Ia dispose Of the animal in the later place,
owing io a general belief that the mare had
teen stolen. The two pseudo p-pole
hunters, John and Lew is Butterh-ld, who
hired the outfit aud fprg ct to return it, are
now in iaii 1T Bedford ad orned with n pair
eacii OF old fashioned hobGlcs, but the prob
abilities are that they will be brought here
to answer the above charge before they are
put upon trial in that county for n like trick
that was vain prac'ised upon Mr.. Cessna, OF
Bedford
We speak Ivy authority wuen we extend
to j udgr Lloyd the thanks of the citizens of
Ebensburg for the good work he did last
Tuesday in tearing down the old apt nm
slightly log stable which has so long disfig-
urea the uorth corner of his lot on Centre
and Sample streets The logs of awhich she
stable was built have history. They were
originally used in erecting the Welsh Con-
gregationai church. about 1So0, which STOOD
some ,lisiaucc east of the spot occupied by
the stable JUS. RACED. 1t was the first church
built i'm This place, and the Welsh people
who composed the congregation were under
tho charge respectively of Rev. Rees Lloyd,
the grand father Of Judge Lloyd, Rev. Geo
Roberts and Rev. VIM. Tibbott- When the
congregation, about 1880, built the brick
church on the opposite side of the street, the
old edifcr which was weatherhoarted aad
painted red Was s6ld:.to John Lloyd, Judge
Lloyd's father, who tore it down in 1872 and
ont of the logs erected the stable which has
Just beeu demolished. The logs were prin
cipally beech and cherry, and many of them
were almost As sound and perfect on Tues
day last as when they were FIRST cut and
hewed seventy-one years ago.
THE LOCAL PAPER.-Thus aptly and
truttfuUy rrr,arks the Exeter Netrs Letter
on a subject that does not receive the atten'
tion il deserves in this or any other com