The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-08-06

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John H Brown, Esq, the newly APP
4 pointed RegiSter2n 2nd Recorder Of this county,
who was duly qrllifed according to law and
entered upon the duties of his Office on Tues
day last, has appointed Mr. j. G.. HasSOn, Of
/ thiS place, as his deputy, not because he pre-
ferred q Democrat, but because in his OWL
I political household there is no one who has
had amy experience and is OF course not so
/ we'll qualified for the duties of deputy
1 therefore Mr.. Brown HassOn this occasion,
at least, done well, though it is fair to pre-
/ sumo that he would have gone further and
/ Jared worse if he could have served a polti-
. cal purpose in so doing.
Hon. Louis w Hall, who is rusticatng
/ at Belmont one of our local summer resorts,
/ in conversation with prominent Democrat
/ of town, the other dav, stated that he looked
. upon 1t as q serious mistake that the course
I OF the Republican press had rendered it
/ necessary ON the part of Gen. Hancock to
. publish his letter to Gen. Sherman, regarding
! the dispute about the Presidential election Of
. 1876, and that in his (IIalls) opinion the
/ letter would make innUmcrable votes for
! Hancock. This Is a common sense view of
! the matter, although Republican editors were
7 clamOrOuS for the letter, believing that it
would knock Hancock ''higher than kite. "
And now comes postal card from Mr..
. Jno. l.. StTayeT, of JohnstOwn. an active
/ young democrat and one of the Secretaries
/ OF the late county convention informing us
: and asking us to inform our readers Of the
[ TACT jll'J be Il an aSpiTaut for Register and
N''b4 WI f'll tilt- AJtibtlbilt litNti itl VIII
/ be glad 10 accept q front seat If the powers
I that be so viii il. Our Young friend Straver,
like his father before him. is q Democrat to
7 the backbone, and if that and the ability to
MI the position he seeks with credit to HIM
+ self and satisfaction to the people be recon-
mendatlOnS worth considering, and certainly
+ they are and should be, he cannot fail to
stand as well before the Committee or CON
+ VeEunn, rs the case may he, as any of the
several worthy men now in pursuit of the
nomination.
Mrs. Wm. FisheH who resides. or rather
7 did reside until Sunday last not Gar from La
tTObe. is woman who evidently don't read
f the papers, for if she did she would certainly
have found ont that il is next to impossible 10
I pour coal o!l on fire and escape the terrible
! consequences which befell her and her house
hold on the day above Indicated, when she
tried the experiment with the usual result
an instantaneous explosion of the can. fol
. lowed by the burning to death of one Of her
. children, the house set on fire and c1mplctcly
destroyed, and herself and another of her
children so shockiHGIv burned that they
could not possibly survive. and have probably
died ere this. And yet there are thousands
( Of others in the world that will do just she
: did, and only learn wisdom when it Is too
late to be of any use To them.
A friend i'm Barr township sent lis a few
specimens the other of what has been pre-
. stunned by some Of the wiscacres ont there to
7 be nickel ore, and with the specimens came
. request Tor lis to submit them to the in
+ Npection Of certain gentleman who is at
who Is Interested IN some nickel mines in the
eastern part of the State We had no doubt
what his verdict would be, knowing as we
do that such ''nickel ore can he found ly-
. ing around loose almost anywhere, hence
were not surprised on being told that the
specimens We're nothing more than common
sandstOncs slightly mpregnat2d with mica,
/ and worth for what they contained Of that
: comparatively valueleSs commodity about
two cents per ton. And so ends this sore
true tale of the presumed nickel find in
/ Barr township
David Orr, of West Newton, WeStmore-
. land county. cot into an awful huff the other
! day because T. C. IIOugh, editor of the Press
! OF that place. said something unpleasant
. about him in his paper, and arming himself
/ with the necessary weapon he stood not on
the order of his going, but went at once and
4 introduced q COwhide to II0ugh'S hide on a
somewhat dis-Orr-derly manner and to the
slight damage and great disgust of the latter
gentleman. Rev PcrShing Of West Newton.
assuming the roll of peace maker, succeeded
. III parting tie bclligoTentS before any serious
7 consequences resulted. OTTwiS SubScquent-
. ~ arrested, however, and gave bail for his
. appearance at Court to answer the charge Of
. aggravated assault and battery. Meantime
1t must be admitted that the thing was rough
. enough on IIOugh.
Two or three members of the Catholic
church in this place took it into their heads
the other day that a Cold-headed cane was
about the right thing t. present to Rev.
Father Boyle, late pastor of said congTc@a-
tion, and acting on that conviction they went
earnestly TO work and collected between six
ty and seventy dollars. i'm sums ranging from
twenty-five cents to five dollars. with which
they propose to buy what viii no doubt be
aS handsome as we are sure it viii be useless
to the Rev. gentleman for whom il Is intend
ed, he being already the poSScSsor of a cane
of that description, presented to him wears
. ago by some of his many Pittsburgh friends.
Others Of the congregation, believing that
more substantial testimonial should be made
10 their late pastor, and-but no matter until
the thing assumes a more definite shape,
which it probably will in a day or two.
The Democratic County Committee,
which meets at the Court House in this
place on Monday next will probably take
upon itself the duty of filling the vacancies
on our county ticket, and in that event so
far rs we are ut present aware, it win he
obliged to make its choice for Register and
Recorder from the following list: Henry
EichcHSchr of Adams township: Michael
Swceny, of Cambria borough; Hugh Nc
MOuiclC, of Prospect; John +. StTaycT Of
,IOhnSt0wn LieUt. John Lynch. of Summit
vile: II. \. Shoemaker, of Ebensburg, and
Thomas Hoover. of Cambria township, with
a probability of one or two more whose
names we have not learned OF course we
don't pretend to say that this is all OF them,
bat it is certainly enough from which TO
make = selection, and when it Is made we
. are confident it viii be well made. for with
such material it i scarcely possible to make
a mistake.
3 CONTRARY to the usual, if rot the univcr-
sal. custom which prevails IN such cases,
Gov. Ii0vt has furnished another gIist 10 the
Republican mill by appointing john H.
Brown. Esq. Of C0uomaUgh borough. to the
. place recently made vacant by the death of the
Democratic cincUmbcnt'Ofthco office of Register
and Recorder of this county. John G.. Lake.
Esq, and said appOlntee- after complying
with the requirements demanded bV the law.
assumed the duties of his new position en-
Tuesday last This appointment Is of course
a display of p3TtiSanShip that would have
been more honored in the breach than in the
observance. but since the Governor Cruldn't
rise To the dignity of the occasion and ap-
point p Democrat 70 fill the vacancy it iS
gratifvlug to know that the thing has been
3 done up Brown and that worthy and
; competent gentleman has been chosen. Next
/ November, however, the color will he so
completely changed, that Republican
friends viii have cause enough to look awful
blue
Mrs. Elmer Epcr and her grown up
daughter, of Altoona, were awakened about
/ half-paSt II o'clock ON SATURDAY night last to
( a realization of the fact that peculiar OdOr
( pcryaded their bedroom and that they them
! selves, Judging from the peculiarly Opprcs-
/ sivc sensations which they experienced had
l narrowly escaped being SInOthered to death.
[ Mrs. EpIcr staggered to her feet and man
. aged with considerable difficulty to summon
I some of the neighborS her husband being
. absent from home at the time and an iDves-
tigatiOn revealed the presence of some kind
I of drug Splattcrcd on one of the window
sillS of the bedroom How it came there il q
question which remains unanswered, but the
presumption is that thieves intended to Oper
ate upon the premises, and in order To make
the way clear had thrown the drug into the
room for The purpose of Stupefyiug the in