The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-09-27

repair for several MONTHS, mas Deeu torn
down this week, the intention Of the Com
missioners being to put it up again in some
SORT of shape that when person walks
past 1t lie will go slow and not stop TO ask
whether 1t means to fall down on him or not
Two or three evenings since. Mrs. Su-
san Rhe= an aged and much-esteemed lady
of this tom, while walking on the pavement
in front of Judge Lloyd's residence, Glanced
to strike her foot on a boulder which was
two or three inches higher than the general
level. She fell, and when she was lifted mp,
it was discovered that her shOulder-blade
was dslocated. Kind hands removed her
20 her domicil, aud medical aid was sums
moned, and it will he a qualification TO any
/ who know the old lady any of her family
to be assured that she is mending as rapidly
as could be expected for one of her years
Her age is 50 or theTeabOut.
( Owen Hughes, the man whose feats of
hercuean strength as manifested I'm the
breaking of handouts and hobbies in our
county jail have heretofore received notice
in these columns, was removed to DiXmont
. Wednesday morning by Sheriff Ryan. He
was adjudged, at the late session of our
Court a lunatic, and, though at times appa-
renIly harmless, il was thought better for
the good OF society to place him where he
could do no harm TO himself or to others, and
where. if anywhere, he might be afforded
opportunity to recover his lost reason To
guard against further indulgence of his
biting proclivi'ies. be was handcuted with
lis arms behind his back before he left his
cell.
| Major John Thompson, till lately post
. master of EbenSburg, and. in addition, pro-
prietor of n general country merchandising
establishment, has it in contemplation TO
take a new departure. He has purchased,
for the sum of $500 from Mr.. John Jones'
the elegant store room en- High street know
as the Mills property and will ere long
remove thereto his entire stock in trade. As
/ a buyer and seller the Major. assisted hy
bis energetic sons Jimmy and doc" has
ever been popular, and the measure of sue
cess which will attend his removal to what
is known as the "center Of trade" can
scarcely fail 10 meet his most sanguine ex-
pectatiOus-
A piece of wooG stretched across the
railroad at point contiguous to BarlIer's
. mill, in the East Ward, threw the Branch
. trai off the track "Wednesday night. No
damage TO either life or property ensued,
bU1 the passengers were required 10 foot 1t
about twice the usual distance in order TO
get to town, and they didn't like that. The
accident NAV he one eXplainable on the Ev-
poJhesiS Of high winds prevailing AT the
time. hut IL lS q Well-dehueu idea in the
minds of many that the slab was put on the
( track for the express purpose Of wreckiGg
the train. Should this turn out to be the
case, and the guilty party or parties be ar
rested and convicted, il will be very bad for
him or them.
Jim Flanagan. ESQ. n member Of the
Blair county bar, with Altoona as his nosr-
f office address, was here Tuesday and We'd
= EeSday- He repeated within OuT hearing
} the full pari;culars Of how he shot and some
what scared and Scarified Counsellor Doyle,
of the same city and same bar, and threw n
= community into mOmenJary CONSERVATION,
: PH these particulars bring cOeval with Pc
= riod somewhat remote; hut inasmUrh as
the daily prints down in that section failed
= TO make mention Of the facts at the proper
= time we positively decline to spread them
before our readers here and now. COa's at
Z Christmas are welcome. Jim is welcome At
any period and on all occasions, meal time
D alone excepted.
? "A party of tLoughtless boys played a
= very naughty trick on Prof. Barker's sing
: ing class last Tuesday evening. The class
- meets thrice a week in the Academy build-
= ing, and, on the occasion referred TO, a ire
= composed mainly of sulphur smothered all
D attempts at melody. EETess from the build
/ ing was attempted but il was discovered that
!, The front door locked and the key
/ thrown away. The pupils of Mr.. Barker s
= class are young and of both sexes aud il was
h natural that considerable Consideration n
+ should prevail among them for the time he
$ ing. When all the facts came out. however,
. it resolved that this sort of fun would
n do to begin with, hut the sooner it was stop
/ ped the better for those concerned.
! AIR. Ed. II. Gardner, of Hollidayshu
one of the recently elected assiguees of the
estate of VIM. NJ. Lloyd & Co, bankrupts,
s died on Sunday evening .ast of iuf1ammatory
4 rheumatism. aged about A years. The de.
n ceased, whom knew from ca rlv child
e hood he and the writer hereof having been
- boys aud for some time schoolmates together
} was IN every sense OF the WOfu n ihOT0ugE
J. gentleman, an accomplished accountant, and
s an honest, tru7tworthy and much esteemed
a citizen. He was the eldest son of Judge
James Gardner, now and for many years
f past n weil-kuown banker of Hoidaysburg
t His remains were taken TO Brooklyn, y. y.
S where he at one time resided, to be inferred
T., in the wOrld-renowned Greenwood Cemetery
II where two Of his daughters are alread '
n laid to rest. a wife and fou- surviving
II children mourn the loss of a loving husband
h and an affectionate father. Peace to hi
" ashes.
Our friend Andy Topper, of ClearfieIt
Y township, called to see us Tuesday. He ex
2 planned to Us, amongst multiplicity o
e things that squirrels were plenty in thu
? neigh horhood of his home, and parties com
" ing there would be permitted to trespass oI
e his farm and shoot as much they wanted
e to if they pointed ;hcir guns in an opposite
, direction from where he resides that elder
J. berries and grapes had no place of habitatioi
y within his knowledge; that no peaches wer
II for sale for steal down in his direction
and that if anybody said he could catch cat
e fish there, or eelS either he must have beeI
. afflicted with one of the many maladies in
e ciGent To the changes Of the moon, bUt tina
e the man who suggested 10 the reporter of tn
is FREEMAN last week the idea that he wen
IL into limbo twentv-fUur hours by reason of
Il scarcity of legal tenders VAS fool in whou
Il folly predominated TO an alarming extent
n II so!emnly deClared-did Topper-tIlat n
< had thirteen cents left after all costs la,
.r beon paiG.
Oar estimahle fellow citizen, Mr.. Cham
Z Roberts, vas at one time in what has heel
is for him successful business career a priu
is ter. He learned the business in the old Al
n lpghdHjdH office of this town under the aus
IS pieces of Mr.. Joseph Durborrow, the edito
le just now of the Huntington National. I'm
10 bued with the idea that Horace Grerlv's ad
- vice was correct, he went West in 1856 ant
N worked at the case in the pioneer Republi
or can newspaper office of bleeding Kansas
ID at Lawrence, at and along that date, for Nh
period of one year by the almanac. Til
D. Honorable Jim Lane lived there then and
u suhseQ uentiy, the town was burned down b
It. QuantTell. This is infrOd uctorv to savin
= that Mr.. Roberts eft our midst TueSda
1t evening, with the intention uDpermnst j
OF his mind of revisting some of the stamping
ld grounds of his earlier years--Lawreucr
j. Fort Riley and the forks of the Solomon
Is river heing down prominently on the lis,
fit These points have since been brought with
at in the pale of civilization, and we confident
&c lv expect Mr.. Roberts return inside thre
weeks. when he will tell us what he saw an
IL how things looked.
)u We Witnessed the dying throes in A
~ toona the other day Of an old grey COOS
r which had attained the remarkable age {
IN eighteen years, and possibly more 1t wa
ty the property of our venerable and reall
az moiherly friend. Mrs. James Flanagan. VIII