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

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Cambria county ever had, was arrested i'm
Greensburg and taken to Pittsburg on Tues
day last to answer an alleged attemDt to OH
tain pension for himself by false and fraud
ulent representations. Tuesday, Sept 10th
was fixed for the hearing of his ease and
meantime the accused was released on bail.
Miss Mary Adams. daughter of Mrs
Ann Adams and Mr. NJ NJ Adams. decd.
late OF CresSon, died of consumption at the
residence of her sister in PhiladelDhia on
Monday last. Her remains were brought
nome and inferred in the Catholic cemetery
at Summityille on Wednesday. We failed
to learn her age May her soul rest in peace.
The Altoona sun riSes-in circulation
more and more every day. Glad to hear it.
Tor there are no more honorable or deserving
men in the profession than Brothers Barclay
nor Is there anywhere in the State nor out
OF II either for that matter, more staunch
and steadfast Democratic journal than the
aforesaid Sun. Long may it shine.
Il couple of months ago a Young Al
tOOna girl named Anna Radigan made a
narrow escape from burning to death by her
clothing taking fire from a bonfire which
had been built in the street by some BOYS
she recovered from her INJURIES but on
Thursday last she died from cholera morbus
supeTInduced by eating unripe fruit.
The Nilmore camp-meeting after a sue
cessful session of one week, closed its Iabors
last Monday. The attendance the preceding
sunday was unusually large. The Cone
maugh camp-meeting ais folded its tents at
fully up to the figures of other years, not
Withstanding the inclement weather
v. ;. Barker q Bro. inform US that they
do not intend starting a wholesale boot and
shoe store, as some people might be led to
infer from the great stock of boots and shoes
they have on hand, but they are determined
nevertheless to sell such goods cheaper than
any one else in town. They have the stock
and the disposition to do what they say.
The Johnstown Tribune gets off this
pun, and it Is a pretty good one EX-
changes in different parts of the country are
still telling about the slight fall of snow in
Somerset county some weeks ago. 1t has
not occurred to any of them to remark upon
the SinGularity of the fact that it was in
Somerset where the Winter-set in so early
the season.
Mr.. Theodore Slick, Of Johnstown. de-
claTeS on the honor of a man who would
ScOrn to tell a lie that one dav last week he
fell from the railroad at PackSaddIe near
BlaIrSVllle, to the river bottom, a sheer de
scent OF about l7j feet, and beyond a slight
Shaking-up. escaped without injury 1t was
certainly a Slick escape, provided, of course,
1t is not a Slick figment of the brain.
a leak in the reservoir of the water
works has throughout the summer prevented
/ the water from rising above a certain point
in that receptacle. On Friday and Saturday
. last, Street Commissioner Humphreys made
close inquiry into the nature of the trouble,
and was successful in finding the leak 1t
was stopped, and the supply of water it is
The Altoona base ball club had made
arrangements to come to Ebcnsburg on Tues
day of this week, to measure bats with
q home nine, but the game was necessarily
deferred by reason of the wet weather. If
nothing intervene to prevent, they will arrive
here tomorrow on the morning train and
the game will be played in the afternoon,
p TOhably, if at all, at the picnic grounds.
The First National bank, ohm Dibcrt &
Co bank, and the Savings bank, all Johns
town Institutions, have each had a Yale Lock
Company time-piecc attached TO their safes
When the safe is closed, and the time-piece
is set to a given hour, anything short of a ton
. of giant powder would Signally fail to prevail
on the doors to swing open till that hour had
. rolled round. The time-pieces work 20 a
charm.
Forgetting for a moment that he had a
long pole across his shoulder, Abe IIeitShue
turned around in front of FTeidhoff ; store
on Wednesday last to see who had spoken to
him in passing and the result was that the
other end of the pole went crashing into a
large pane of sglasS in one of the show win
dOwS. leaving a hole large enough for the
biggest bargain in the store to be showed
through with the greatest ease.
Robert y. Clarke, Esq, died in Nc
NeytOwn last Sunday, and was buried the
following Tuesday morning He was a
member Of the bar, and for several years
practised his profession in Altoona in part
ncrship with d. J. Netf, Esq. Above the
common stature Of men, aud a perfect speci-
men Of physical manhood, he yet fell an early
prey to the inSidiOuS advances of cOnSump-
tion, and died i'll the full bloom of useful
ness.
Father Vincent, the Passionist priest
. who concluded very successful Mission at
the Church Of the Holy Name in this place,
a daV or two ago. left Yesterday for W!lmOre,
where he Is now conducting another Mission
which we have no doubt will prove equally
successful. Father Vincent is a profound
TcaSOner and an eloquent eNpOUnder OF Cath
Ollie doctrines and we are sure that our peO-
srfa sfFl4 70 ga'1 n
time.
Sunday night last was pitch dark, and
torrents of rain fell, but this unfavOraOle
combination of circumstances failed to deter
u couple of Young persons of this place from
leaving WilmOre camp-lnccting at midnight
and attempting to come home. They travelled
and Travelled till they ran the buggy over the
roadside. when they quit and craWled INTO
a convenient barn and waited for daylight.
The buggy was somewhat damaged, but its
occupants weren't
An interesting scene occurred in the
Lancaster county court Tuesday afternoon
of last week, in which elimination and re-
elimination passed freely between three
prominent lawyers, District Attorney Eslle-
man, j. Hay Brown and F. X. Martin. All
three belong to the Republican party, and
each elOQuently accused the other of black
mail bribery, and prevaricatiOn, Mr.. Mar
tin is well known here, he having graduated
to the bar from the office OF +. y. Shoemaker,
Esq.
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Cleartield county firm named Hopkins &
Irwin for getting out is, 600, 600 feet of logs at
Cherry Tree, Indiana county, about eighteen
miles north of this place, within the next
three years. Operations have already been
commenced on the building of tram road
from the timber tract to the river, distance
of three and a half miles. The logs are to be
taken out for MeSsrs. Baird & Cassidy, who
we presume are Lock Haven or Williams
port firm.
Mrs Brawlev, the venerable wife Of Mr..
Michael Brawley, of Portage township, at
tempted to mount three-legged chair the
other day for the purpose of securing some
thing beyond her reach, when the chair up
set aud She fell with her side on the back OF
it. fracturing several of her ribs if we are
rightly informed, and otherwise injuFing
herself internally to such an extent that 1t
was thought at latest accounts she could not
recover Her age is upward OF seventy years,
ard for that reason If none other her injuries
are likely to prove fatal.
A few nights since, Mrs. Haley, who
lives at Sandy Run, near Altoona, Blair
county, was returning from picnic in a
grove near her home having in heraTmS her
year-old child, when she accidentally walked
into the mouth of an old ore shaft, and slid
down an embankment a distance of eighty
feet or more. Killed? No. \ party of
men, attracted by her cries, speedily re
stored both woman and child to terra firma
and conveyed them to their home, where an
examination demonstrated that neither had
B received serious injury
There is every promise Of good weather
and every assurance of a gay time at the
Catholic picnic in this place tomorrow (Sat-
urday), nothing having been left undone by
/ the management to make it a festival of fun
and a feast of friendship. Excursion tickets
viii be sold at Johnstown and Altoona, and
a special train to connect at Cresson with