The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-04-26

fear yOu forget, that If yOu buy at their store
! vou will never regret the investment vou'v We
made, for It's plain to the eye that goods a.
their prices twill pay all to buy. So give
them n call and plank the cash down at the
/ cheapest cheap store in Ebensburg towr.
Mr., Michael FitZhaTris, well known for
several years past as the Obliging and attPn-
tive landlord of the st. Charles Hotel. AL
tOOna, has recently taken possession OF the
/ St. Lawrence, corner of Eleventh avenue
/ and Thirteenth street, in that City-a house
/ which has recently been refitted and is now
/ opened for the first time as a we'll conducted
/ hotel. One of the attractive features of the
establishment is a fine aquarium tastefully
arranged in one of the large show windows
+ and abundantly stocked with gold fish and
/ other specimens of the fnuy tribe
Postmaster Thompson received notice
+ from Washington city yesterday that the
/ ''tme arroveu had arriveu" for him to ''step
down and OUT in order to make room for
( Mr.. i. James. editor of the Herald who had
been appointed in his place. The mail that
/ brought this announcement also hrOught TO
Mr.. James the blank bonds necessary to he
/ Fl led up and returned after which his com
/ mission viii he forwarded. The Office is
rated IN the fourth class, and is said TO be
/ worth less than $500 per wear. We have
not learned where the new appointee intends
to locate. buy our citizens are not likely to
/ I've kept in suspense on the score for more
/ than 4 week n: the utmost.
! "A man named Aaron Hider was arrested
/ I'm Westmoreland comfy a few days ago on
!
] to Hider conceal the fact what he claims
} 10 be fact. any longer, he made the start
! ling revelations that bis employer, John Q.
Fox, had within year set fire to two barn 5
[ owned by his brother. Levi Fox, and that he
(Hiderl had been offered $50 hv John G. if
/ he would bu-n Lewis house. The accused
was speedily arrested, hut subsequently
released on very heavy bail. The crimes
charged said to have been iustigated by
/ the fact that the father of the Fox brothers
died in 1874 and left over S95. 900 to Levi
while he cut John off with paltry dollar.
The Harrisburg Patriot of Tuesday last
. contains letter from Thomas &. Mcdowell,
I Esq, formerly resident Of this place, to
! Richard J. Haldeman, at one time editor of
I the Patriot dated at Honolulu the capital of
. theiSanl wichi Islands, on the 25tl Of March.
/ Mr.. Mcdowell states that he is editor of the
4 Gazette, the leading DaDer of the plaCe-fhat
he is also practising law, and is getting
along with much success as he had reason
10 anticipate. His health Is good and he
J speaks in glowing terms of the capacity Of
The islands for sugar culture, heir principal
article of export. When he left Harrisburg
be was a member of the wOrlIiuCmen's party
but he does not state in his letter to what
party he belongs n0tc.
J Two Juvenile tramps who gave their
( name as Kearuey and claimed te be twin
, brothers from Pittsburgh, were ordered off
/ n moving freight train somewhere between
/ Kittauing Point and Altoona, on Tuesday
? morning last anil while in the act Of Ofiev-
I ing he command one Of them hal the mis-
( fortune to fracture q bone near his left
/ ankle. This of course prevented him from
( walking. hut with a courage and endurance
I tLItfWas simDlv astonishing his brOtbertoOlS
/ him on his back and carried him all the wav
| to Altoona, where they lost no time in cali
ing on DR.. T. r. Goodman, who indeed
/ proved a good man to the injured lad, for he
not only set the bTokerf-kone. but procured
pass for the little unfortunate and sent
him hack to Pittsburgh next morning.
| Meantime the other brother started to make
his way home as best he could.
"A man giving his name as James Nav
and claiming to have no fixed habitation.
was brought to Jail here Sunday forenoon
and locked up to await trial on the charge of
entering the store of VIM. G. Lyon in chfrge
of his son, Adolph Lyon, at ST. Augustine,
in Clearfeid township, about o'clock that
morning, for the apparent purpose ofrohbing
the establishment which he would no don bt
| have accomplished had not the proprietor,
who was warned in some way of his coming,
posted no less than seven men in the store
TO nab him az soon as he made his appear
auce. On the other hand, the prisoner
claims that while intoxicated he was furnish
eel with koy to the store and induced 70
make the raid simply Joke on the Jew -
All which, If true, will probably been made
manifest at the coming trial
! The stOre-roOm or Mr.. Z. J. Mills IN
this place was entered by burglar or burg
lars on Thursday night last and eleven
hundred dollars in money stolen from the
safe. At least such is the story told by the
proprietor, whose word heretofore has been
unquestioned and unqnestionahle and WHO
says that iugTess was effected through the
coal hole into the cellar and thence through
trap-doOr in the floor, which was forced
1 open, into the stOre-rOom prODor where the
the rotber robbers, with false KEYS or
/ other appliances, succeeded in getting into
Z the safe after considerably denoralizinp the
lock in their efforts. This done they gobble
ep up the cash aud made their exit bv the
back dOoT. Such, as we have aiferdv said
Is the story, but wether it is confirmed oI
otherwise by the subsequent ASST gnneuu hv
Mr. Mills OF all his property, said 10 he worth
now no more than 80, ,OO0 to pay his debts
/ which probably do not exceed that amount
we leave the reader 20 judge for himself
( During the absence at church on last
Sunday forenoon Of Poor Director .JacoI
Kirk patrick, Of Elder township and the Old.
er members OF his family, no one h~iug lef'
at home except y thirteeiI-y year-old daughter
aud the younger children, the roof Of the
hOnse caught fire from the overheafiup of \
patent fiue and had ir not teerl,for fine heroic
efforts of the little girl referred to. not only
the dwelling but every other buildfug on the
premises, as we'll as much other prouertv
I would no doubt have bseu DESTROYED tins
day being windy. AS it WAS. hhe uuicklv v
removed the children from the house and
then repaired 10 the garret, where with the
AID OF water andIotheT devices she succeed ed
in keeping the fire under suIisction 1nti
assistance reached her, which was not We
are told, until half IN hour after the are bad
broken ont, whom the full extent of damages
was found 10 be a hole in the roof about
eight feet square. Such heroic contluct on
part OF one so young, and especially of tho
weaker sex, is worthy OF the highest com.
meudatiou
IF anything was needed to manifest :he
h'gh regard entertained in this community
Tor Miss Mary F. Blair whose death we
noticed last week, as well as for the family
OF which she was n member it was certainly
shown in the immense concourse of people
who assembled on last Saturday afternoon
20 pay the Inst sad tribnte Of respect to he1
mortal remains. The funeral was one of the
largest ever witnessed in this place and
Sfrewn as the handsome casket was with an
abundance of living flowers and preceded
as the procession WAS by number Of little
girls dressed in white and hearing floral of.
terings, 1t was an event. gratifying though
solemn, long to be remembered with Daiofpl
pleasure bv her surviving relatives The
funeral proceeded TO the Catholic. church
where the last sad rites were performed and
pathetic and Instructive sermon preached
by Rev. Father BOYLE, after which all that
was mortal of Mary z. Blair was laid 10 res,