The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-01-24

will meet in Huntingdon next Tuesday the
2Sth, when il is expected the deeds will be
lifted aud the whole business closed up.
The Presbyterial Society of the Blairs-
YiIle Presbytery, embracing all the Home
and Foreign missionary societies in that
Presbyferv, will hold its regular annual
meeting in Johnstown beginning on We'd
nesday, she 19th of February next.
The stoCkholders of the Ebensburg &
CressOn Railroad hello their annual election
for officers on Monday of last week, The
old board having performed all the duties
required OF them IN "A salts factory manner,
were reelected without opposition.
A large sleighiug party from Johnstown,
to be composed mainly of those feminine
birch wielders who were showed up at the
Institute here three weeks ago, propose
coming to see us again so soon as the roads
make il possible to venture out on runners.
james CaulI the tramp who was suffO-
Gated by gas at Bennington Furnace couple
Of weeks ago was a resident Of Westmore-
land county. He belonged to the Pennsvl-
vania Reserves during the war, and in battle
received a wound which permanently un-
settled his reason.
Alvin Evans Esq, of this place. has
been appointed a Notary Public, vice Mr.
VIM. NJ Jones, resigned. The latter gentle
man Is one Of the assiguees of VIM. NJ Lloyd,
and the duties connected with that position
are so Onerous as 10 preclude his serving in
the other capacity.
AT Johustown, on Saturday night last
the mail bags thrown from the Fast Line
struck a snow bank on the side of the road
below the depot, and, falling back on the
rails, they were nearly cut to pieces. Letters
and papers were scattered along the track
for a considerable distance.
"A young man named Magnire, employed
in a blast furnace at Johnstowu had one of
his feet torn of by a heavy mass of ore fall
ing upon it one day last week His former
place Of residence was Gallitzin. and he had
obtained employment in the furnace only a
few days before the accident.
Mr.. Eli Green, Altoona's fat man, was
measured for a new suit Ot clothes the other
day. and these amongst other fgures were
JOtted down by the tailor: A round the
waist, 6S inches around the hips, ~ inches:
around the chest 81 inches. Ellis weight is
about 400 pounds, avOirdupois
The jury wheel to be drawn from during
the current year for the Courts of Cambria
county was filleu last week by Jury Com
missiouers Joseph Cramer and Thomas
DUNN and Sheriff Ryan. The number of
names of good men anG true" placed
therein was nearly one thousand.
Mr.. a .. Ford who for number OF years
was tue efficient p. r. r. agent AT Cresson,
has resigned that position to enable him to
accept the supeTint+ndency Of 4 coal com
pany in Westmoreland county. Mr.. William
Corbett has been appointed to fill the va
CauCy.
M. ]. Teitelbaum, Of I.oretto, has fust
added full line Of mems boots and over
shoes to his already large aud elegant as
determination TO sell them at prices which
never were equaled, much less exceIled,
for cheapness In Cambria county.
-"Uucle' Joe w eisser, who is every day
becoming an older il not wiser man, is
still anxious and willing to nav the highest
cash prices Tor furs Of al! kinds and espec-
tally for black skunk skins, easel, which he
viii receive in any quantities offered at the
rem lucrative price of sixty cents per skin.
The price of the Pittsburgh WeeEtu Post
isHau ell = fr e, l.,
subscribers aud to clubs of five and upward
from 81 80 TO 81 % per year. These are i'm
pOrtant reductions which ought TO add large
ly to the subscription list of that able eff
ficieut and interesting Democratic journal
Some Of the ICOrthieSt young men in this
vicinity, where the snow has evidently come
To spend the winter declare that but for the
happiness of riding i'm sleighs capable of
accommodating only two, this would be
very dreary season indeed Some of the
r0sjest yOung ladies among us are of the same
way OF thinking.
While Cyrus Mateer, a farmer residing
ln Catharine township, Blair county, was
engaged IN cuttiug fire wood "A few days ago,
the axe caught on a wire clothes line, thus
causing il to strike him on the left cheek
cutting deep gasE the sHJire breadth of the
blade and iniuriug him severely that his
life il despaired of.
We learn from Washington letter to
the Philadelphia Times that Hon. VIM S
StengeT, member of Congress from the Hunt
ingdoH district, will be before the Seuate for
Clerk. Hope he may win the prize as the
gallant fight he made during the last cam
paigu entities him TO some such recognition
from a Democratic body.
Mr.. John Stew art is collector Of tax for
Summit in the stead Of John w. Gillespie,
deceased. He was in town the other day,
aud remarked that though the snow drifts
are large here, they are vet more immense
AZ Gallitziu. Some two-story houses there
are nearly covered with them, aud. trance
a oh
A Aud-rw Greenwood was brought % Jail
from ohustowu on Tuesday last. There's n
woman Boz the case aud her name j. Druuum.
though We hope if her cause i just that she
will nos De beat ou that account Meantime
DO sretns NOT out Of place Co PROFOUND the old
c0nuudrum. "If such things can be done in
the Greenwood what may not be done in the
dry q"
Mr.. Francis Murphy. the temperance
orator. spoke To nearly seven hundred per
sons on Real Life" IN T0hnstOwn last Sat
uulay evening. His address consumed one
hour and hfteru minutes iu the delivery. and
the price be charged ana was paid for the
effort wa- SIS. He went thence TO \ ltoOna
where he lectured Monday aud Tuesday ey-
euiugs.
A young lady named Mccartney was
burned TO death IN a fire which destroyed
the residence Of her parents at New a Iexan-
dria Wes;mOreland county, on Monday
night Of last week. The fire broke out about
midnight, but the family all escaped except
the young lady in question, who was over
come by the smoke and perished in the
flames.
The case Of Joseph Heslop against sever
al boys for assault aud battery with intent
20 kill has been settled by the defendants
paying HeslOp's doctor bill and the costs of
suit. This was = j Johnstown misunderstand-
ing, and ;he Tribune, in referring to the
manner in which IL was settled, remarks
Evidently the prosecutor did not have a
very good case. "
"A u unknown man was run over by the
cars east Of Altoona Tuesday night last and
killed. When the news reached here, it was
in the shape that soldier of the Fifth re-
Einent, on .he return trip FROM the Inaugural
ton, was the victim of the melancholy ac-
Cident, and it created some anxiety here for
the time being, which was only dispellcd
by tne safe arrival home Of all the boys the
following morning
"A large shed has been erected on the
WestmOreland county Poor farm, TO take
the place for the time being Of the Poor
House burned down New Years night.
Some suspicious by tile way, are entertained