The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-03-14


| received - portion Of the money from Mr..
/ Scott Williams for our old press and other
/ material, the latter OF which we will replace
| with new type, etc. In course OF . week or
two, IL may be accepted as q nxed fact that
4 Carrollt1vn will soon rejoice in q paper OF
| It's own, which we believe is to be OF the in
/ dependent stripe. There is certainly no
community In the county where better pay
( ing Subscribers can Se obtained than in and
about Carrolltown, and if Mr.. Williams
/ don't succeed in making living out OF the
enterprise X will not be because the people
/ there do not pay him, but because there are
/ not enough OF them to support paper which
must of necessity depend in great measure
| on home patronage. Mr.. Williams certainly
/ has our best wishes for full realization OF
his most isanguiue anticipations.
The n. Y. Sun of Monday contains a
1 letter addressed TO the County Clerk of Troy,
/ n. Y, by the postmaster at Georgia Station,
Georges Station is of course meant,) in
/ Westmoreand county, this State, in which
the writer asks whether IL Is true, as report
ed in his neighborhood, that the County
Clerk aforesaid has In his possession . will
made by man named Karns, a resident of
/ that city, rs the writer alleges. 1s0 years
! ago, when that city was no city at all, but
! howlinR wilderness, and In which the alleged
| devisee was considerate enough to leave the
enormous sum of 5000, ,000, 900 TO his heirs OF
I the fifth generation, nearly all of whom,
the letter AYERS are now living in the vicin-
ity OF Georges Station. An early answer is
respectfully solicited, not only to the main
question at issue, but also as to the cost OF
{ furnishing a copy of said will, if in existence,
/ to the parties Immediately interested.
. The Cambria Iron Company is said to
. be negotiating or trying to negotiate for the
[ purchase OF large tracts of coal land for
Z cokin9 purposes in the vicinity of Lilly's
station, but the discrepancy between the
price offered and asked is said to be so great
that The probabilities are thai no sale will
be effected. Should it prove otherwise, how
ever, we are told that not less than four
. hundred a
and as that would be bigthiug and good
thing for Lilly's, well as for the county
a: large, we trust that the Company will
succeed In its efforts, though the outlook is
far from promising when consider that
the tender is from SI5 to $50 per acre, ac-
cordiug to location, and the demand in at
least one instance fully ten times that
amount. Failing in .his direction, the Com
pany, if we are correctly in for med, proposes
to build a narrow guage railroad up Kings
tons Run for the purpose of tapping large
deposits of coal owned by it in jackson
township, this county, and in one or more
of the adjoining townships in Indiana
county
Our old friend, James Wilk inson, pro-
prietos of the Loretto Marble Works, drop
ped in to see Monday last, and as he
/ does not call very often we deem it proper to
say something sbout him ard his business
/ 1t is generally admitted that newspaper men
have the best opportunities for informing
themselves in regard to what is going on in
the great world Of industry, and IS practice
makes perfect il is fair to presume that their
/ experience enables them to see things as
they really are. Hence 1t is that when we
say that Mr.. Wilkinson is master nechau
/ ic In his line of business, we expect the
statement to he received a veritable fact.
! Having received an apprenticeship in one OF
the best shops in Harrisburg and worked at
his trade in various cities throughout the
. Union, Mr.. W. availed himself of the many
: opportunities afforded for acquiring thor
+ ough knowledge of the commemorative art
vavafa rT l. Il all
the cemeteries in this county will fully tes-
( tity he has during an experience of twenty
years attained proficiency aud skill as a
designer OF tOm5stOnes and in the work OF
monumental carving ald lettering second TO
, no man in the business. More than that, he
has recently made a decided reduction in his
, prices, aud is determined not ouly to furnish
, the best of marble and the finest of work
, but will permit no one to uudersell him. All
, persons therefore who Zeal with Mr.. w. will
find him gentleman in all his transactions,
and may depend upon receiving full value
, for their money, as he would not stoop to
anything unbecoming the principles of a
man. And hereof we affirm with an un-
questioning belief in the truth Of what We
, say.
How SINGER SUFFERED so AS BY FIRE
James NJ. Singer, Esq, late Register and
! Recorder of Cambria county, on Friday
night of last week, accompanied by two of
his children, paid a visit on 10 jackson
? township about nine miles southwest
Of this place, to see mother and = sister
5 who were 10th on a sick-bed and nigh unto
8 | death. When he next got tidings from
his wife and two other children left behind
: It was to the effect that his honse, located in
: the West ward of Ebensburg, had been al
I ! most com Pietely destroyed by fire. The
: / flames, 80 far as known, originated from
e defective fue in the second story Of the
: building. Mrs. Singer was wakened from
= sound sleep by the falling of heavy body
: and investigation showed that the garre
. and other parts of the house were then il
& flames ami that the ruins were tumblinJ
q down down over their heads. She and TIN
c children made their escape as speedily pos
f sibe and gave the alarm. The fire compan!
responded TO the summons and deluge O
/ water ere long quenched the flames. AS
g dispatch to the Jobnstown Tribune of Satur
Y day says, 'the Ehensburg water-wor8s are
: success when it comes to fighting fire -.
l. Mr.. Singers loss has bot yet been computed
o though it may be estimated as away up il
Il the hundreds. His house, on wbich there
an insurance of 81, 900 in the Etna Compau '
# was reduced to q shell, while his househol,
:, furniture was badly demoralized by fire an
q water. Mr.. Singer and family have removed
It with the wreck of their household goods {
y what is known the Lloyd building" i
the near neighborhood, where they will re
}, main till suck time a supervisory boar
V shall assess damages, or till April the firs
T. coming anyhow. After that date MIR. Sir
4 ger talks of either going TO Texas or eu
r gaging in line of business in our mids
/. I which shall hereafter appear.
a SUDDEN DEATH OF EX- -SHFRIFF LINTON
:, Robert p. Linton, the oldest ex-Sheriff