The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-02-08

by the G. /. Co. in what is known as Frog
| Hollow, is now suffering with several seyere
/ injuries, external as well as internal, and as
he is about 56 years Old it may prove a SAD
| If not a fatal accident to him
| Two women, mother and daughter
were brought to Jail here, on Wednesday
| last, from Portage station, for failing to an
pear at December term of Court 70 a5sxyer.
charge Of larceny preferred against them
| FOR stealing lot OF corn from one of their
neighbors some time last summer but snc
! ceeded sc0n after their incarceration in se-
curing bail, and were again set at liberty
| A young lady named Rachel James was
| attacked by couple of ferocious dogs in this
place on Monday evening last and not ONLY
injured to some extent, but so badly friobi
ened that she was thrown into fifs from,
/ ~hich she has suffered more or less ever
/ since: Kill the dogs, say we even if the
harmless little cur that finds shelter beneath
our own roof should be the first one led to
| the slaughter "
hrm of Myers & Lloyd, proposes to euiov
ms share of the big fortune said TO have been
left to the Lloyd family, ,chen he acts IL. he
doh intend to retire from the mercantile
business SO long as the house to which he is
attached receives, as it we'll deserves, the
large patronage now bestowed upnn it, and
is able, as the proprietors determined il
snail even be, to sell the very best goods at
the very lowest prices.
| "A secret movement is at presept ,o;no
on at Harrisburg which will soon unfold il.
sell In the Senate, it is thought il can be mt
through both houses, TO add Fulton county
10 This Jndici9l district and elect an afdi-
tional law judge. The project is said to be
engineered by ii. G.. Fisher, who represents
Huntingdon and Franklin counties in the
State Senate. If it should assume definate
shape before the Legislature we shall have
something to say on the subject,
we are sorry indeed to learn that finan-
clai troubles have overtaken our go od friend
T. G. McCrum, Esq, and that his well con-
ducted and neatly printed journal, the Milf.
hlntown Tribune, has passed into the hand =
of receiver, though still published under
the editorial and mechanical guidance of
John NJ Bowman, Esq, formerly of Johns
town, who is fully competent for the task
We extend to Mac our heartiest sympa-
thies, trusting meantime that he will soon
escape the smarts and darts OF cruel fortune
Mr.. John Sagers, of Logsns'owp, near
Altoona, died few days ago without the
aid, though attended, by one or two doctors
ana as hls case puzzled the medical fraterni-
" somewhat, post mortem examination
was made, which revealed the fact that the
heart was enlarged TO twice its normal size,
while the pericardium or heart sac was filled
With about a half gallon of dropsical effusion.
The right lung, though free from organic
lesion, was also found to be soldiheI from
compression by the enlarged and displaced
heart sac.
oh that we knew of some phrase we
could use to convince every body of the bar
gains they lose in failing to buy all the cloth
I'M. they need from man. who In dealing
is honest indeed, and who keeps a big stock
OF all shades aud all styles, while in the
make and the texture he no one bepuiles
and the name of that man, as it's easy to
guess, is Godfrey Wolf, whose prices are less
than can elsewhere be found in the east or
the west, and whose stock is the largest, the
finest and best Store on Twelfth ST., next
door to the post-office, Altoona, Pa.
The State Pardon Beard which meets
at Harrisburg on Tuesday next, will, among
other cases, be called upon TO decide for or
against executive clcnency to Patrick
Leonard, who vas convicted of murder in
the second degree in our county court Sept.
9Th, 1876, and sentenced to eight years In
the Western Peniteutiary, for killing Pat
! rick O'Brien railroad switchman at Gal
litzin, The case of John Carroll, of Cresson,
convicted and sentenced one year to the
Blair county Jail for participating In the
railroad riots of last July, will aiss come
before the Board for consideration at that
time.
Mr.. Philip Collins was in this place at
the time the steamship Metropolis met with
the terrible disaster the coast of North
Carolina, and as we bore him company Fri
day morning as far as Altoona, be being
tn, II on his way to Philadelphia, we know
that tie did not learn the terrible news be-
fore he reached that city, at:least, aud if re-
ports he true not until he had proce eded as
far as Tyrone on his journey, the claim
OF the Mirror reporter that he had the
honor, if honor II may be called of inform
ing MIR. Collius of the fea rful fate that had
befalien one of his vessels, to the contra ry
notwithstanding.
Mrs. Levi Wingard, of Conemaugh bor-
ough. inserted poker in the stove for the
purpose Of heating aud using it TO thaw
some ice in a drain pipe, and leaving IL
there absented herself from the room but
had not been long away when Emma, a
four-year-old daughter of TIE lady named,
withdrew the poker, then at red heat, and
in her childish simplicity allowed it to come
/ I'M m q
diately caught fl re- and burned her terribly,
Notwithstanding the mother was promptly
summoned to the scene by her agonizing
screams, that IL is feared the little qDfOrtu-
nate cannot recover.
In the Blair county court on Monday
next, will be commenced a suit brought by a
lady named Mrs. Pike, of Holldaysburg,
who is the widow of a gent fleman employed
as a supervisor on the Pa. K. II. about TWEEN
ty-five years ago, for the ejectment of the
present occupants from certain lots of ground
in Logantown, second ward of Altoona.
| which were sold for taxes as far back as 1858
and 1854 and for which she claims to possess
a good title. If the old lady-we presume
she is not very young by this time-succeeds
In making good her claim we shall begin to
consider the propriety of dropping the INC"
from name and claiming Relationship .
with her.
Miss Ella Muiligan, employed do
mestic in the family of Mr.. James B. Bow
man, of Altoona, went into the cellar about
anime the heater, and while so engaged her
dress came in contact with lighted lamp
which she had thoughtlessly sat on the floor
behind her, and the sad result was that her
clothing caught FIRE and her back and limbs
were very severely burned before Mr.. Bow
man and his brother-in-law, John Doyle,
Esq, who speedily answered her cries for
assistance, and whose hands were badly
scOrched in the effort could succeed in ex-
| tinguishing the flames. The young lady is
seriously though ii is thought not danger
ously injured.
Miss Maggie Rooney, the young lady
who played and sang so sweetly at the
I recent entertainment given In this place by
ST. Johns Choral Club of Altoona, entered
upon her nOvitiate at the convent of the
Sisters of Charity IT. that city, on Saturday
last, the Feast of the Publication. The
young lady in question, who by the way, is
a niece of our worthy friend and patron,
James Cullen, Esq, of Spruce Creek, a
justly esteemed supervisor on the Pa. II. R.,
not only possesses rare talents, literary as
I we'll as musical, but, as the Tribune very
pertiten.ly remarks is endowed with beau
ty of character and Centleuess of disposition