The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-09-20

Mary snatches up her slate, her satchel
and her rule. and bustles of lest she be late
and get her lanm ~ school. Mary's big
sisters, who are ladies of exquisite taste,
buy the dainty shoes they wear at the Great
Eastern Boot and Shoe Store. 1119 Eleventh
avenue, Altoona, and Mary herself will do
the same thing when she is older grown.
Mr.. s. Blumenthal is proprietor OF that
mammoth emporium, and the bargains he is
daily throwing out to crowds of customers
have made hIs name a household word in
Blair and Cambria counties. An order sent
by mail will receive the same attention that
is shown n customer at the counter.
On Monday evening, Billy Brady, one
of the most trustworthy engineers on the
Pa. r. r. acconfpau led by gentleman who
signed himselfoHaines on the hotel register,
and another whose name must be McEirath
or nothing. arrived in town. They were
armed and equipped the law allows, the
new game act heing in consideration, and
when they come back they said they would
come backjfrom the GircCtonof S.rongstown,
Indiana county, with seventeen million
squirrels or an elephant. Neither squirrels
nor elephant have yet been heard from at this
office. p. S Billy and his friends including
Conductor Quartz and Proth'y O'DonneI,
returned Wednesday afternoon minus the
elephant aud with only ffty-two of the sew
enteen million squirrels they fondly hoped
to bag.
The public want just now seems to he ::
Low prices and good accommodations. Re-
CGgnIZlng JnlS Gatt, the pTOpTleIOTS Oh Tue %.
Cloud Hotel, Philadelphia, have reduced
their rates per day to $3.50, at the same
time keeping up their table to its customary
standard of excellence. The St. Cloud has
ever been known as the best located hotel
in the Quaker city, and, since some enlarge
ments and improvements recently made, 1t
takes rank as one Of the most commOdiOus.
Mr.. Geo. w. Mullin, the senior proprietor. Is
well and favorably known to all Cambrians
as The former landlord of the Cresson Springs
aV,II l. q
Der of the firm, is equally favor!te here.
Their every enfeavor is directed toward
making one feel at home while in Philadel-
phia, and their efforts have been crowded
with so much success that Il you stop with
them once you will never fail to repeat the
experiment whenever the opportunity offers.
Among the friends who have visited MS
during the present week, Mr.. James A.
Kittell, of Emleuton, NenanG0 county, must
be remembered as not the least, albeit his
mission here was sad one. Years agone
'Buh' was member of the FREEMAN
force, and when lie left us we were sorry.
But now he comes mack full-faCed, in good
health, aud with "A card which reads, Kit
tell x Dean, prOprietOrs of the Semi Weekly
Echo. EmleDtUn. Pa" and we are glad
The oil business, Mr.. Kitten tells rs, is at
present under a cloud, but after the Standard
Company, the evil genius of the oil section
shall have been Dispersed Ejnlenton will
take its proper rank amongst the natural
ceuJcrs of that peculiar line of trade, when
we trust the Echo, a. is to he, the original
sound not having yet been produced, will he
quoted authority on that greasy subject.
Beyond that. we hope the new firm will
have the full measure of success which at
tends competent printers in the right place.
but if misfortune should perChance befall
them it Will certainly not he from Il lack Of
energy and enterprise on the part of "Bub. y
A meeting O! the citizens Of EheHsburg
in aid of the yellow fever sufferers of the
South was held in the Court House last Sat
Urdav evening. Burgess John f. Seaman.
. In some well-chOSen words, SketChed the
object Of the gathering aud called Mr.. Thos.
Davis To the chair. MessrS, Ed. James and
III. y. McPike were appointed Secretaries.
r n. Shoemaker, Esq. spoke to the point
aud general interchange of sentiment en-
sued. The hope was expressed that Ebens-
burg would respond uobly, and the follow
ing named committees were appointed to
: receive contributions East ward, north
east--RiChaTd Giitings l. Rodgers, Maggie
Lloyd, NJ ollie Griffith soulheast-ISicharh
Jones, Jr., V. 5. Barker, Emily Roberts,
Maggie Jones. West ward northwest -
Julia Lennon, Kaiie Bum, Jesse Bosiuger,
r. L. Smith south wpst-Rusie Johnston
Mary Ellen O'N-ilI, d. w. Evans, w. w
Blair. Those who have not vet enrolled
their names in the list of contributors should
make haste to do SO, for the books will he
closed with the expiration of the present
week, and in our next issue we will publish
the names and amounts received.
The biood-curdling snake story recently
told hy a Williamsburg correspondent of the
Altoona Tribune seems to have been true in
ali essential particulars, save and except
that DIR. Paulhamus didn't buy pair ol
blowing vipers' from tramp, he and his
daughter dIdn I enter the Doctor : office after
dark, an owl didn't fly in through the tran
som, the jar containing the vipers WASH;
. knocked dO.vu and broken 10y said owl OF
ANY other man. one of the reptiles didn't
tasten its fangS in Miss Paulhamus' leg and
the,0ther in the Doctors boot blowing vipers
have no faugs, the young lady didn't swell
up to twice her natural size and lie a horri.
bic ceath next morning, DIR. Paulhamus of
Williamsburg, has no daughter. Miss Paul.
I hamus. of Williamsburg, has no father and
even Williamsburg itself does not number
among i:s people any person, male or female,
bearing snCh Il name. In brief and in truth
the story emanated from the diseased brain
of the same Imaginative cnss who unearthe,i
the mammoth cave near Alexandria Hunt.
j ingion county, discovered some of the treas
ure trOve of the robher Lewis in n hollow
tree III the same locality, and got M the
story about Nicodemus Yocnm formerly of
the ancient village aforesaid, having found
his way to China, where he was finally
transrnogritied into full -hedged mandarin
and Is now in this country (in n horu) as a
member of the Chinese Embassy.