The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-02-06

sort ever seen anywhere.
Is there an ordinance on the statut,
books OF Ebensburg borough recurring nro
perty-holders to have the snow removed from
their respective sidewalks7 If so. it oueh
to be enforced. If not, such an ordinanc,
ought to be Immediately enacted.
An election of officers for the Blair Coun
" banking Company, located at Tyrone, was
held last week, and it gives us undfluted
pleasure to note that Cashier Robert A. Nc.
10y was continued in the position he has SO
acceptably filed for several years.
+ "A small wreck occurred at Cresson last
sunday evening, caused by a train breaking
ana the rear section catching up with the
'front.' one. Several cars were demolished
and the track blocked for few hours. bnt
no injury was done to life or limb.
Misses Matte and Julia Lennon antar-
tanned their friends, to the number Of six.
teen couples, at the house of their father
Ut. w. Lennon, Wednesday evening last
ne occasion IS said by one who was present
10 nave been most enjoyable one
james r. Bumbaugh the mail AGENT
who was recently arrested for abstractinp o
valuable letters, had preliminary hearing
before Commissioner McCandless Monday.
IN Plttsburgh, and was committed to iail in
default Of 5000 bail for trial at the term of
Court
The many friends of Mr.. Isaac Crav-
Iord' OF TINS place will be glad to learn that
the upfortunate man is in the enjoyment of
comparatively good health, and appears to
look upon the quarters at present occupied
oy MIN at the Poor House as anything but
unenviabe
Esquire McGough, of Clearfield town
snip, was in town this week several davs. on
business. During his stay, he enlivened all
hands with some most elegant music. both
vocal and instrumental. whilst the specimens
OF antique dancing reproduced by him were
too good for anything.
by reference to the official report of the
Poor House for the past year. it will be
noticed that the age of one of the inmates
Isaac Haws, colored, whose name appears
IN the death list, is set down at I2O wears.
II these figures are correct, he was certainly
the very oldest inhabitant.
The grounding theory, which had fallen
into disrepute, will again find many adyo-
Gates, Tor from all sections comes the news
OF storms of greater or less magnitude I'm
mediately following Candlemas day. But
whether that state Of things will continue
for six weeks, remains to be seen
The increased demand for railroad To-
cOmotives, on the line of the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad, has made it necessary to place
three more engines on each track in the
erecting shops in that city, so that repairs
can be made on seventeen engines at one
time, instead OF fourteen, as before
The miners sent by the Cambria Iron
oF Tnan iv,+
region to examine into the iron ole resources
Of that section are still at work Recent re-
ports from them are encouraging. They
state tkat the ore so far found is of good quail
ity, but its extent has not yet been fully as
certained.
The following among other sentences
were imposed on Blair county criminals by
Judge Del HoIIidaysburg last Monday
w j. n Nc na5 IN Tar stoning a train, one
year and four months in the Western Peni-
tentary Jacob Numper, alias "Redhead. =
carrying concealed weapons, one year in the
same institution.
-"Rafting on the Susquehanna" is the
title Of a series OF papers which promise to
run through the columns Of the Carrolltown
Ne,0s for an indefinite period. Very ap-
proprately, they begin with a quotation
from Tennyson, in this wise "For men
may come, and men may go, but 1 go on
forever" And who cares ?
"A freight brakeman named Michael J.
Whalen, while attempting to effect COUP
ling near Altoona, last Saturday, was run
over by the cars and so badly injured that
he died the following morning. He resided
at Derry, whittier he was removed i'm
mediateIy subsequent TO the accident, and
where the remains were inferred.
A veTdant Bedford county hotel man,
William Chenowith by name, went to Phia-
delphia last week and fell amongst thieves.
He smelled something, got awake 4 few
hours afterward, stretched himself and ex-
planned to the nearest police magistrate he
could find that he had been robbed OF a draft
for $3.50 and fifty dollars in money No clue
OF course.
Mr.. Joe Heininger proprietor of the
Heininger House, EJensburg, has filed with
the .Prothonotary a petition for tavern
license, to be acted on at March term Of
Court Mr.. NJ. Latterner, also Of Ebens-
BurG, has concluded to 90 out Of the liquor
business absolutely after March Ist and sur
render his license. The former Is new
hotel, and the latter an old one.
A Pittsburgh lady who visited relatives
residing in this place during the heated
term last summer gave birth the other day
to triplets, all healthy, promising chunks OF
humanity-and none of them got away,
either Still. we trust that Pittsburgh ladies,
or, for that matter, ladies from any other
city, town or hamlet, will not be afraid to
come to Ebensburg on that account.
We learn from a brief note received from
s. VI. Douglass, Esq, Of Chest Springs, that
DR.. G. W. Strohecker formerly of that place,
died in Cambridge, Henry county, Illinois,
on the 18th of January in the 54th year of
his age. His disease was dropsy of the
heart. A short time previous to his death be
became convert to the Catholic church.
His widow and six children survive him.
Mr.. David Jones, Cambria township
farmer who resides abOut two miles east of
Ebensburg was engaged in .he work Of
telling a tree last Monday. Unfortunately
a limb became detached, which, dropping
down distance of twenty feet, struck Mr..
Jones on the head and inflicted so painful a
wound that a doctor had to be sent for. A
few stitches and the profits of a few days
work lost will remedy the trouble.
-Messrs. John Borlzey and Henry Spring
er twoof Carroll townships patriarchs, died
few days since. Mr.. Borl1ey was n hale
and hearty man mp to within a few days of
his death, when gangrene attacked him in
the heel and speedily laid him low. His age
was 91 years As to Mr.. Springer we are