The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-08-29


Niclnage, attempted to go to church the other
Sunday on mule-back, but failed TO get there
because Mr.. Donkey, who, like all of the
breed, spells his praying with great big b.
suddenly stopped in the middle of the road
and allowed Mr.. Fleck to go on-over his
head and into the mud, greatly demoralizing
his Sunday -gO-tO-meetin' clothes and knock
ing the piety out of him very completely
Mr. NJ. J. Smith is the name of a Johns
town individual who last week made couple
OF desperate attempts to commit suicide He
flrst drew a case knife across his wrist till
drop or two of blood put in an appearance.
and then quit and afterward attempted to
dlSembOwel himself with the blunt edge of
pole-aX. The police took him to the lookup,
ana after he had slept off the fumes Of an
overdose OF bad whisky which he had gulped
down he felt exceedingly ashamed of himself.
On the night of the 14th of July last. a
valuable mare belonging to Mr.. Simon P.
Kline, of Carroll township, was stolen from
his pasture-feld. The animal was traced
to the possession of man living in Midtown,
one OF Altoona's suburbs, who promptly
surrendered it to its rightful owner Further
research discovered the fact that two youths,
named respectively John Will and John
Bel ringer, were the thieves, and they were
taken into custody Thursday last and COM
mitted to jail to answer at Court. They had
sold the mare for $50, two dollars of which
were paid them in hand
Judge" j. J. Cannon, a travelling sales
man for the firm of Burns, Schmucker & Co,
Philadelphia, died suddenly at his home in
that city last Thursday morning. The de-
ceased was well known throughout this
county, having for many years paid our
grOcers periodical business visits. 1t is no
more than a month since he was in our
midst, looking the picture of health. We
have said that the Judge" was well known.
It may be added that his winning ways
made him general favOrite, and hosts of
friends here and elsewhere will learn of his
untimely deceaSe with feelings of sincere
* Qerpx a
-JohnstOwn is to have both new paSsen-
ger depot and new freight station. The
plans have been sent to the Philadelphia office
and have been approved, and it is understood
that the work will be begun Immediately and
be pushed forward to an early completion.
The freight depot is to be fitted up for pas
Senger depot and a new freight house built
on the site of the present passenger station.
The idea in changing the location Of the
freight house is tOleSSen the danger to teams,
as under the present arrangement it is I'M
possible to reach the building without cross
ing the railroad track twice and running the
risk of being run into by locomotive.
The Local NeicS says that Huntington
can also produce witness to the truth that
the Ethiopian can change his skin. Mrs.
Moses TOlivar, who fifteen years ago, was
muattO is now almost white, and can hard
" be distinguished from a true Caucasian.
The change has taken place gradually, leav-
ing spots of the original color, which have
now disappeared. We mention this case
merely because so inuCn dtO mas been lldue
in eastern papers about the same remarka-
bic fact in that vicinity No doubt there
are many cases IN different parts of the
Union, as we see that Mrs. Cook, of Wood
vale, Cambria county, has also changed in
appearance from a mUlattO to fairer color.
Last Friday, the Sheriff of Blair county,
assisted by posse, proceeded to tract of
land about one mile in a SOutherly direction
from Kittanning Point and dispOsSeSSed
family by the name of Duncan, who had
Squattcd on the land. Resistance was offer
ed by the DUncanS, and two of them, father
and son, were arrested and taken to HOlll-
daySburg Jail, where, at last accounts, they
remained. hal! not being forthcoming This
tract of land, which is said to be quite valu-
able, has been in dispute for some time, the
DuncanS claiming their title to be valid, and
others disputing this \ lawsuit of big di-
menSiOnS will gTOW out of the MATTER, SeV-
eral Pittsburgh lawyers having been retained
by the DuucanS to attend to their interests
"A festival and fair in aid of the Congre-
gational church of this place will open in the
old Thompson StOre-TOOm. next door to the
bank. High street on Monday evening next,
and remain open probably throughout the
week. y large number of donated articles
viii be disposed of at either public OF private
sale while a table bouutifully supplied will
tempt the palate of the hungry In word,
there viii be good things to eat, and nice
things to look at and buy, to say nothing Of
a host of handsome young lady attendants
who may be looked at but not bought, and
~
strange indeed if the public do not patrOniZe
this entertainment in the manner it so we'll
deserves. The money realized, we under
stand. win be devoted to the purchase of
heater for the church building.
A young man named Thomas Lyle, of
Philadelphia, was in charge of drove Of
cattle which We're being conveyed eastward
over p. Il. r. "Wednesday of last week. On
the evening of that day, when the train had
reached Lilly'S station, this county, he
started to walk over the tops of the cars,
and in the darkness missed his footing and
fell to the track beneath. y number of the
cars passed over him, and he was horribly
mangled by the wheels, one arm and one leg
being ground off. Medical aid was imme-
diatcly summoned, but in vain. Death put
an end to his SuffeTingS the following morn
ing The deceased was 2l years of age and
his mother resides at !, ,4O1 North Eighteenth
street, Philadelphia. In abedience to in
StTuctions telegTaphcd by her, the body was
prepared for burial and forwarded to her
address on the Atlantic express Thursday
evening.
A gentleman in this place who might
never hear the last of it and would possibly
7Cnr wrOth at d1ri concerned If we mentioned
his name undertook the other day, at the
suggestion Of his ''beJter half, to capture
one or more Of the pertty little yellow birds
so common in this latitude, and for that pur-
pose put charge of powder in an old blum
derhuss, which he rammed home with pa
per wad, and on top OF that poured a small
quantity of water, the object being to stun
the birds and then gObble them up before
they could recover their equanImity. Thus
equipped, hc blaZed away three times in sue
ceSsiOn without result, and then determin-
ing to do or die he put in an extra charge of
powder and whole barrel (gun barreD Of
water. This time the old fuZee went of with
great eclat, and so did the pivot and one Of
the clasps which served as a bond of union
between the barrel and the stock. or was
that all that went OFF, as the jUd-nO, the
gentleman discovered soon after when he
picked himself up out of a pumpkin patch
and found to his great delight that he had
escaped with nothing worse than few slight
bruises and a well-pOwdered shirt front. 1t
is proper to say, by way of conclusion, that
our iudici-OuS friend has changed his mind
about yellow birds and now AYERS that if he
had thousand cages he wouldn't give one
Of them a hole to poke its head IN.
y DEPARTED CANINE.-On Sunday night
last ''Maic." the wcll-EnOwn fOurfOOted
member of the Thompson household of this
place, calmly breathed his last, which was
u1cl the sole he had. We know it is not Gus
tomarv to announce the demise of dogs in the
columns Of a newspaper, but we make an
execution of 'AIaie'' for the twO-fOld reason
that he was known to everybody in town and
petted by all, and that he had attained the
patriarchal age (for dOg) of1Syears. Born
at the beginning of the late war, he hoped
and feared with the rest throughout that
tremendous contest and wagCed his tail when
treason died he saw, or might have seen If
he had been there, Grant go into Office and
out he saw, or might, etc, the uprearlng OF
the High Joint Commission, and must have
heard the shrek which Liberty gave utter
ance to when Hayes was counted in he saw
Coffroth elected to Congress last fall, and he
saw the two Democratic county conventions
of the present year. Few dogs living OF dead
can or could boast of as much. 'MaJe' died