The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-07-26

The skeletons of three soldiers Who
fought. Died and djej" under the unfortl-
nate British General Brajdort. were recent
ly eNhumod near BackliC1, Westno~eIaud
county. Tn one of the graves was found an
old hjut-ock musket bearing the stamp.
'1745, Lon" Al least such Is the story. anC
we have DGEn good authority from Mt
Pleasant for belle wing it.
The Altoona DAILY Globe has again sus-
pended, this time to be replaced bv "A weekly
! at 81 per year. AS the Phila Times face
. tiOuslv remarks, il has ACQUIRED a haiti of
suspending once or twice a week and proba-
bly, can't help IL. What it has so persistent
ly been doing as n daily il will not in view
of the price asked for it, if nothing else, take
il very long TO do weekly
The Johnstown Tribune saws Il ia H.
inteEtion of the Pa. r, II. Co. to give An
drew Purcell, James Westfall Henry Cas-
! sidy, and all the other old engineers in its
employ, together with their wives. a free
ride and all bills paid TO New York, Cane
May, W atkins Glen, Niagara Falls. sc.
on or about the middle of September next
a graceful act and we'll deserved.
The fire engine was brought out and
tested an Saturday evening last. To the
aStOnishment of every body it refused for n
time to squirt. An investigation was had
and it was discovered that somebody had
filled the nozzle with small pebbles Had A
IRE been in progress, with every minnie of
( time Ofincalculable value, this circumstance
4 suits
The story goes shat two roung ladies Of
Altoona recently visited PHILADELPHIA Al
ter a week 8 sOjOurn in the city one of Then
wrote home a follows eve attract a great
deal Of attenshuu promeuRdin' the streets
like other .adys and holen up our cloZe
Nobody isn't nothin' nowadays which
dom Z hold mp their cluZe, and the hiar YOU
holds EN- the more attenshun you attracts -
4 vile SANDER, of course.
Hon. Jacob NJ Campbell. we under
stand, - says the HOllidaysburg REGISTER of
last week. visited this place on Friday"
This is n curt announcements to make of a
visit of so distinguished a parsonage as MIR
Campbell. It is entirely too epigranmattic
to bode good to the honorable gentIenan an
and on his next journey through Blair coun-
ty he should make il his special business
TO stop Orer and so arrange matters that the
Register man shall be ''seeu'
The Altoona Mirror has 'the wrong mig
= by the ear" when it says there is a cavern
At the Summit, iE this county, 800 feet below
the earth's surface, in which ice forms sum
mer and winter, n spring of clear cold water
entirely surrounded 10y ice II located, ard
not only the ceiling and sides of which are
Of solid ice, bat an ice monument from floor
To roof has been formed by the continued
dropping and freezing of the water. An
ice story, surely, but Summit mixed as to
the location.
James Henry, Of Gallitzin, was convict
Cd in the Blair county court, on Tuesday
last, of higamy. james, it seems, was mar
Tlcd al ST Augustine, this county, on the
2Sth OF January, 1864. to Miss Mary DevIin
AMI without waiting for death or Obtaining
q divorce 20 relieve him of his fetters CON
tractei another marriage with Miss Livima
Mem ahan, Of HOllidayShurg, on the 28ih Of
last March, Justice Leet Of that place, per
forming the ceremony. Hence his ConviC-
tiOu. Not yet sentenced.
The uuprccedentIy hot weather which
marked all of July came to n welcome end
dropped from 94o 10 65O. Since that date it
has been possible to venture into the suns
rays without danger Of willing, and sherry
COhhleTs are not thought so much necessity
as .hpv were. But everything viii not be
exactly lovely till we have been visited Ivy
4 rain storm of immense proportions. No
rain has fallen for three weeks and the wells
and springs Eereaway are going dry.
William Il. Odenwaelder was fireman
on engine No. 252 which is presided over by
Engineer Michael Doran, of Wi!m0re. On
Monday, while attempting to tighten the
brake on the tender, a short distance east of
Gallitzu, this county, the brake-rod broke,
! Tins throwing him violently To the track
He struck on his head and shoulders and
though he arose uuasssted and remounted
the locomotive yet the shock communicated
to his system such thar he died few
hours after. He lived in Altoona, and his
+ age was - years
The Herald which is at present and has
for some time past been the accepted vehicle
for ali items of news from the county aims
house, says that Mary Henry, then and prob
ably now an inmate of said institution, has,
through the kindly efforts of Senator Lem
on, been accepted as one of two children en-
titled To admission from this county 10 the
Pennsylvania Training School for feeble
minded children, located at Media, Della
ware county, and to which she will be taken.
il she has not already been taken, in the
course of few days.
The members of the Pennsylvania, Ohio
and West Virginia Press Association will
indulge in an excursion to the MammCt tn
Cave, Kentucky, on Tuesday, 9th proXimo,
and remain there n week, providing the
money holds out. Col. Foulk, of Ptrsburg,
general buSiueSs agent of the Association,
who has much if not all to do with getting
MP the excursion, will pilot the party. II
will doubtless he a most pleasant reunion,
and failure on our part to take a hand,
should such failure occur, must be attributed
20 "A press of business, or business OF the
press.
-Tbe large illustrated advertisement Of
Nessrs w II. H. Nivling & Co., Founders
and MaChinists, Tyrone. Pa, ls big enough
and able enough to speak for itself, but new
eriheless we deem it OUr duty, and pleas
autoone to invite attention thereto, as well
as advise those of 0ur farmer friends who
stand in need and think of buylnG ihresh-
ing machine or horse power, 10 give The en-
terprisiug firm above named trial. We
are sure they deserve ali and more than all
equally sure they will furnish honest work
at honest prices.
Judge WIN. II. Sutton, of Pittsburgh,
spent Wednesday last in our town. In lo2S,
fnrtv-nine years ago, he went TO school III
the old academy in this place, His father
then resided on = farm on the Ola canal ,
about two miles north of Armagh, in adj
ana county. After leaving school here
Judge 5. studied law, emigrated to Arkau-
sas. and became judge of the courts IN one
of :he districts in that State. Soon AFTER the
close Of the late war he returned To his ma
tive State and settled in Pittsburgh where
he occupies a deservedly high rank as a law
yer and a citizen.
At a meeting Of the Town Councll oil
this borough, held Monday evening, 1t was
resolved 10 reduce the yearly Appropriation
10 the DauntIess Fire Company from SIOO
10 SIS This was mistaken economy, ana
the members of the company are justly IN
,1ir--,rt4t- -tIterea.- They think that instead
of a reduction. the sum should have been IN
creased, for 500 did not pay the actuai eX-
peuses of running the concern. IL the
Council are desirous Of forcing the dishand-
rnent of the company, they conld not nave
aIcpfed \ line of conduct which would