The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-01-09
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Mary K. Aiken, Of Mifiin county Moore
! Aiken voids we suppose in the ranks of
single cuSsedneSS
CONGRESSMAN Coffroth has placed us nm
der renewed Obligations for two handsomely
bound copies Of Part l and part of Volume
Of the Congressional Record for the Isl
Session Of the 46th Congress, with an elegant
index thereto, bound in the same scryiceable
style Many thanks
DR.. Abner Griffith. of this place took
his departure on Wednesday morning Of last
week for Florida, whittier Ne goes in hopes
of recruiting his health, which we are glad
70 say has improved very considerably of
late. That he may fully realize his fOndest
anticipatons is our sincere hope
Mrs. Fisher wife OF George Fisher. a
German Shoemaker residing i'm Allegheny
township, near LoTettO, died on Friday last,
aged about - wears. She was said 10 he an
nterment in the Catholic cemetery at Ioretto
on Monday. May her soul rest in peace
-Pmlp Keller, farmer residing in the
Loop. near lIOliidavsburg. sold a hog the
other day which it is said will weigh over
one thousand pounds, and Is alleged to D..
the largest pOrker in the State-newsDaper
subscribers who take a paper five or ten
years without paying for il alone excented
John NJ Shrum was run over and crush
cd 10 death 10y the cars near Sheridan station
this county, ON Monday of last week He
had been on a visit to his family in NestmOrt-
land county, and jumped from a freight train
on which he was returning to Johnstown
where he had been at work, with the sad re-
suit stated.
Recorder Lake was called upon while i'm
JOHn-tbWu not a great while AGO to probate.
the will of man who is still living. and who
was present at the time in very fair health
considering his age. OF course the thing
couldn't be done, notwithstanding the urgent
solicitation and apparent surprise and indie-
nation Of the parties Interested.
Three or four gentlemen of this place aD-
pointed themSelve a committee of the whole
TO see that cX-SheTIH Ryan left none of his
children behind him when he moved hence
To Jobnstown, but We don't think any of
them reported for duty when the critical mo
ment came, though we guess it would have
been ,ailee samee' if they had
The name of Col. Theodore Burchield,
foreman of the Tribune job room, is mention
ed i'm connection with the Republican nomi-
nation for Mayor of Altoona. The Colonel
Is an excellent printer and q clever gentle
man and if lie should happen to be nominated
we hope his Democratic opponent will let
him down as tendeTly as possible
John Cunningham, an emDi0Ne at the
Wire Rod Mil of the Cambria Works. was
caught about the thighs by loop of red hot
iron, at an early hour on SATURDAY morning
last, and just as his fellow employees expect
ed to see him cut in two, the "housing~''
broke and the impeTilled man was saved,
though not without some very painful burns.
The value of being fully acquainted
with all the important news of the day is as
apparent to every thinking man as the en-
tertainment afforded at tile family firesida
This can be secured in such full degree bv
subscribing to our paper and receiving the
PlttSburg Weekly Dispatch for the full year
that all shOIld take advantage Of the offer.
-GOdfrey Wolf, the popular pioneer cloth
ing dealer Of Altoona, is determined to close
out his entire stock of winter clothing, and
especially OvercOatS, even if lie has to sell at
less than cost prices and present every pUT-
chaser with a first class chrome into the bar
gain. So now is the time and this is the
crisis at which to pitch in and buy al low
prices.
Hon. Marcus W. Atcheson, of Washing
ton county, has been appointed by Mr.. Hayes
20 fill the vacancy OccaSiOncd by the death OF
Judge ketchum in the L. :. District Court
of which Hon. II. = Frazer, son of Johns
towns famous druggist, Mr. CT. Frazer. is
likely to be appointed Clerk. 1t will thus be
Readc-iiy seen that Cambria county has seen
left out in Jhe cold
DR.. Bowers can be consulted free Of
charge at the Blair House on the 10th, 18th
and 18th OF the present month. The Doctor
has performed some great cures during the
short visits ne has made to our county, and
claims TO be emiUcutlV successful in the
treatment OF consumption, catarrh, heart
disease, scTofula, spinal diseases, paralysis
cancer, tumors, falling hts, dyspepsia, etc,
etc. IT
\ letter from Allegheny township, con
tairing among other things obituary notices
Of Mr.. John ChrysOstOm EckenrOde, who
died Dee. 2Tth. aged A. years and months,
and of simon. son of Aaron Burlcy, Of Car
roll township. whose death occurred Dee.
23d, aged IL years, 10 months and p days,
reached us after our paper mad been put to
press auG of course was too late for publ
cation this week.
Mr. VIM Laytou. brakeman on the c.
I. Co S railroad, JOhnstown, was caught and
so badly crushed between two cars he was
engaged i'm coupling about two O'Clock on
Tuesday morning last that it does not seem
, possible for him to recover. His right breast
Hr ~ Rf nj
the ribs penetrated his right lung, thus in
hicting injuries which il IS thought must ne
CcsSarilv prove fatal
Mr. Patrick Carroll an honest man and
true died at his home in COuemauGh bOro',
about Is O'Clock ON Wednesday morning of
. last week. AGED about 80 yeIIS. lie was one
of the oldest and most upright citizens OF the
lower end Of tlIC county, and having been all
through life an humble and devout member
OF the Catholic Church, we feel conhdeut he
has received the great reward he so well mcr-
tied. May his soul rest in peace.
1t is always in order to get married, but
il seems to have been specially 50 III the case
OF Mi Oliver =. Orr, of Centre county, and
Miss Catharine 4. DER. of Juniata, county,
who were united in wedieck at the Second
Tuthpru church, Altoona. on Christmas day,
aud who evidently thought the occasion a
, prJpitious one on which TO Orr-DerT II up
and Quit plaving il alone May good Orr
Drrr ever prevail IN their household.
Mr. L. =. lIaiugs, late of the W lIIiamS-
started with 500 and recently sold for SO
COO. has bought a half interest in the Altoona
Ere7l.gq Call and being himself a ready and
fearless writer, he hopes, with the assistance
Yf our Young friend Cal Hackett, who IS one
of the best of local editors, to make things
exceedingly lively in the journalistic circles
of that CITY. Nav success crown his efforts.
During the past month, and perhaps
LONGER a fair and festival in aid OF the
Catholic church al Summitville, Father DAWN
pastor had from time to time been held at
Iulv's The closing entertainment for the
present was given Tuesday afternoon ana
evening last. when the attendance was lllhllei
only by the dimensions of LeahV haH we
have not heard what sum Of money was
realized but it must have been a nice p lun.
Mr. Wm Jones' assignee in BANKRUPTCY
for VIM NJ Llovd and Geo. NJ. Reade Esq,
counsel for assiguees, went To Altoona tues
dav night last, on business connected win
the settlement Of the affairs of that estate.
Several suits for the recovery OF moneys
which of right should have been turned over
to the assignees, but which have been with
held. among Others one for nearly two hun
drei thousand dollars will shortly be Inst
tuted before the United States court.
The first cut nails made in the central
mart of PENNSYLVANIA were manufactured IN
the town Of Newry Blair county, over hity
wears ago. Mr. Robert Mcnamara father OF
VIM Mcnamara, of Gaysport, and uncle OF
Thomas Mcnamara of this place brought q
small hand machine from Philadelphia Ia
that town and made cat nails Six pounds
of nails which sold at - cents pound were
considered a big DAYS work on the machlnc
So, at least, says the Altoona Tribune.
Mr. Morrison, of the paper manutactur
ing firm of Morrison Bare x Co, Roaring
Springs, Blair county, was IN town on ues-
dav looking after linn wood, immense guam
tfty,- ,f vvbicb are used by them i'm the manu-