The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-05-30


and huckleberry vines which grew on the
mountain slopes along the railroad between
CreSSOn and WilmOre. The handling OF
these berries for market usually nets from
$1,000 to $40, 900 per season to the people of
the section named, and the nipping in the
bud of the crop will spoil many bright calcu-
lations, If not work some absolute hardShipS.
One John j. Mason was arrested in
JOhnstOwn last Saturday on the charge Of
stealing iron from the Cambria Iron Com
pany. He demanded a jury trial, and
was accommodated the following Monday
morning. The jury wrangled over the merits
OF the case couple of hours, and then agreed
10 disagree. Another Jury was empdneled
later in the day, and, with no special trouble,
II arrived at the conclusion that this Mason
worked on the square and turned him loose.
That man George Marquedant is again
IN trouble. 1t viii he remembered that he
was arrested last March on the charge Of
passing counterfeit money on the Cambria
House hOStler of this place, but was Subse-
quently discharged without trial. Io-mOr-
row, before ESQUIRE Cox in COnemaugh bOr-
Ough, he will be called on to answer in an
action for treSpaSS preferred by Mr.. y. Il.
Griffith for carelessy building a FIRE on his
lot in Conemaugh township and allowing the
flames to spread over the property Of his
neighbOTs.
Two practical drillers from Edenburg,
Clarion county, named TOmlmson and
Lachty, have taken the contract to put down
the much mOOted oil we4l in Jackson town
ship to a distance of 500 feet. They have
arrived on the ground, and viii begin work
next week. The confidence felt by Mr..
Richards, the proprietor, in getting good
we'll is shared bV MeSSTS. TOmlinSOn and
Lachty, who aver that better surface indica-
tiOns have never come under their obServa-
ton. We trust the hopes Of all of them may
be crowned by a strike equalling that Of the
renowned Bullion"
-CaTolltOwn had two weddings Tuesday
last on which occasion MeSsrs. :. H. Buck
and Ii. c. Scanlan were made respectively
happy for life by Miss Amanda Byrnes and
Miss Charlotte Noel, the latter Of whom Is
daughter of our staunch friend and patron,
Mr.. VIM a. Noel, of CarroltOwn. The
high contracting parties are well worthy of
each others love and devotion, and we SIN
cerely hope their days will be long and their
prosperity great in the land. BY the way,
amt Buck-some brides becoming somewhat
abundant nOyN-days? But, then, the more
the merrieT<aye, and happier too.
AS EOenSburg was minus a Democratic
paper and CarTolltown had not yet been glad
dened by the advent of the Ne7Cs when the
+ FREEMAN was established, nearly twelve and
a-half years ago, we fail to see the force Of the
discovery made by our dynamite friend about
McPike having received county printing from
the first day he started his paper. 1t was an
invarablc rule those days to give party pa
tTonaCe to party organs, and as the FREE
MAN was an instrument of that kind, and the
only one north, we couldn't have got away
from the county printing II we mad wanted
to-and goodness knows we didn't want to.
We have no fault to find with Brother
Williams for the way he has seen fit to show
his GSperity towards us, but can assure him
in all sincerity that we had no wish to offend
or desire to injure him either in his business
or reputation. The world is wide enough for
all of us, Scott, and no one knows better than
you do that we wish you well with all our
heart. If YOU print a sound Democratic pa
. per and advocate harmony in the Democratic
fCld-Eome folks not worth minding say you
haven't commenced doing that yet-we hope
that you will not only get full share Of the
county printing but that every Democrat IN
the county and lots of them outside of il viii
subscribe for the Ne1rS and pay for 1t in adj
vance ''Nuff sed."
A young man named Fred Jones, resi-
dent of this place, met with an accident one
day last week which came very near wind
ing up his earthly career. lie was engaged
at the time in saving wood by horse power
for Mr.. John VI. Hughes, in Cambria town
ship, when a handspIke against which he was
pressing slipped from its fulcrum and struck
him a heavy blow on the side of the head.
. He was felled to the ground, and for time
it was feared he had been killed outright, but
judiciOus treatment restored him to con-
. sciousneSs, and at last reports lie was mend
ing rapidly. Fred IS the young man who ac-
cOmpanied Mr.. Elias Jones and family to
the West few years ago didn't Ike the
exchange of soil and climate i've had made /;
started back home lost his money, and eff
fected the larger portion of the journey on
foot. He seems to be a child Of misfortune.
the M'Cauley shops, We're destroyed by fire
last Friday evening. The establishment was
built at the close Of the war. when prices
We're high, by Mr.. Thomas NCaulev, and
cost So, 600. Subsequent improvements
brought the amount of money invested up to
the ueighbOrhOOd Of $4,000. The works
were run with varying degrees of non-SUcceSS
till they were sold at Sherifl'S sale for So, =
600 to an association Of gentlemen who took
the firm name Of 'the Altoona Car Works,
f. Limited" This Company recently leased
the shops to Mr.. ASbury Green, and, his
management proving unsuccessful arrange
meuts were made for selling the works to
Mr.. Fred SChiling for $4,000, but the trans
fer Of the property had not yet taken place.
The shops were insured for $4,000, and by
their destruction fifty workmen are thrown
out of employment. 1t Is understood they
. will not be rebuilt.
We are certainly much obliged to our
Clearfeld township correspondent for the
good wishes he expresses on bchaH OF the
. FREEMAN, and the hopes ne entertainS that
il will not be supplauted in the affections of
. the Democrats of northern Cambria by the
new Journalistic venture nearer home, but we
beg leave to assure him that the FREEMAN
asks nothing but an open field and fair
4 fight. Ii we earnestly enaeavOr in the future
as i'm the past to publish paper worthy of
patronage, and worthy of the party we are
sure no Democrat will withdraw his support
simply because We are ten miles further
seuth than our more recently established CO.
temporary. If, however, 5hey can get pa
per fully as good, not to say better, for less
. or even the same amount of money, it is meet
and proper that they should be off with the
old and on with the new, provided of course
they are not able or not willing to subscribe
. for more than one paper. As our cores
. pOndcnt very pleasantly remarks, those are
. our sentiments, and We don t care who knows
them.
An agent for the sale of certain Western
. lands and in that capacity employed in the
interest of certain railroads having Western
connections, arrived in town from Pittsburgh
on the train last Thursday night. His object
in coming hither was TO effect arrangements
for the transportation of one hundred of our
people to Kansas, q letter having reached him
announcing that colony Of that size pro
. posed cutting loose from this section Of the
old keystone and becoming residents Of that
far-Off State. 1t is scarcely necessary to say
that the letter was bogus one, written by
some party unknown, and having the name
Of the renowned plain VIM. T Davis at
tached thereto and when realization OF
this fact struck the agent he became disgust
ed with the depravity of human nature and
went back home by the early train next
morning. Notwithstanding the joke was a
poor one, the agent would like to know who
set il up on him and though not a million
aire. he would willingly give dollar and a
half to find out the name of the man whose
+ sense of humor tends in the direction of the
promotion Of wild-gOose chases two hundred
miles in length.
-Atthe time when the Altoona CarWOrks,
limited, were burned down, last Friday, the
7 establishment was being run under the man.
agement of Mr.. Asbury Green as lessee. Mr..
Green is an extensive contractor Tor the cree
ton Of houses, etc, he having engaged to put
up some eighteen or twenty buildings IN
Altoona during the present season. The
lumber designed for this purpose was stored