The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-12

/ thorough and best gotten up work OF the
/ kind that ever emenated from the Auditor
; Generals office
} Tho many friends, personal and politi-
1 cal, Of Congressman Coffroth at present in
I Washington, and ex-Congressman Reilly. of
Altoona, will be sorry to learn that both gen.
tlemen are on the sick list, though we trust
not seriously. Mr. Coffroth's disease is said
. to be pneumonia.
Scott Stains, an emplove at the Altoona
Iron Co.'S rolling mill, had two Of his ribs
broken on Friday evening last by being
struck with pair of tongs by fellow work
man named Samuel Carson, who was sub
sequently arrested and held in $500 bail to
answer at court.
The people Of CheTytTee did not attend
the CarrOlltown railroad meeting in anv
great numbers as was anticipated and the
reason why is that "there's a tide in the af
fairs OF men which, taken at the flood. leads
on to"-MarieUta and other points along the
Susquchanna river.
The little "Game of Fifteen" plaved the
other day against the new postoffice building
in Altoona has brought down anathemas
loud and deep upon the devoted heads of
the rash but honest gentlemen who had the
temerity to sign the protest against the
sought for improvement.
dimes and dollars, dollars and dimes ::
an empty pocket, the worst Of crimes, has
caused the collapse of the Slnda,, Times.
which, like ''that good old soul, " Mr.. Grimes.
has given up the ghost and furnished an ex-
cuse for the palming off upon patient pub
lie OF. these shocking bad rhymes.
Mr.. Timothy Farrell, whom we knew
for many years as an honest, peaceable and
conscientious citizen, died Of consum ption
at his home in Altoona on Friday evening
last. The can says he told his family on
Friday morning that lie would die at six
o'clock that evening, and he did die shortly
after five
About this time Of the year, wheL people
are getting ready to clean house, many there
are, no doubt. who will want 10 buy new
carpeting, and as Y. 5. Barker and Bro. have
large and in fact the only assortment of
carpets in Ebensburg, it will 5ehoOve such
persons to give them a call. Stock high and
prices low
If Brother Brainard, ,'of the Curwensville
Times, understood us as meaning "such
abominable sentences as the last One," in
stead of ''such abOminable sentences as at
all times" which the types in some mystic
rious way made us say in our last issue, he
got a correct conception of the idea we wish.
ed to convey.
We learn from the Altoona DGjlp san
that Mr. Charles Simon, the popular cloth
ier, has removed his store from the corner Of
Thirteenth street and Eleventh avenue to
1906 Eleventh avenue, and has on hand a
fine stock of clothing, gents furnishing
goods, etc, which ne invites the public to
call and Inspect
Sheriff Grifith and his deputy Harry
Kinkead, started for Pittsburg yesterday
morning with Andrew Mallatt and Patrick
Flynn in charge, the former (that Is Mallatt)
being route for the peuitentiary for term
Of three years, and the latter. who was ad-
judged insane, being consigned to DixmCnt,
for life it may be.
Lieut.. s. A. Shoemaker, the youngest
of the well known Shoemaker brothers of
this place, who is now in Utah as an at
tacLe, if not as chief, of the PaymasteI' S
Department L. :. Army, in that territory,
has placed US under obligations for bundle
of late papers, both Gentle and Mormon,
published in Salt Lake City
A man named Nicholas Wikenbach fell
into the mould bosh at the Edgar Thompson
Steel works, Braddock, Pa, a couple of
weeks go, and was so terribly scalded that
he died a few days after Having been
thoughtful enough to take out policy in an
accident insurance company, his wife will
receive q thousand dollars from that source.
Col John \. Lemon, of Holidaysburg,
has once more emerged from his room, tc
which ne was confined for several weeks by
Of rFr nj i Foir
to presume that he is now, as heretofore, ru
uinating on his chances for election to the
Office of Auditor Generals to which
chances there is a decided room for improve
ment.
-Mcssrs. =. B. Corn x Co., Of Altoona
whom we have no hesitation in recommend
ing to the liberal patronage Of our readers,
knowing as We do that they will deal justly
with all who favor them with their custom
have lust opened branch store in Johns
town, where their honest goods and low
prices cannot fail to recommend them t
cash buyers.
1t is poor county that can't afford Z
new Court House every fifty years, provide
it needs one, and as Cambria is not a pool
county and as the present Court House wa,
built in 1899, she certainly can afford the
outlay now, especially as we are assured
that the new building is to be a substantial
and not a gaudy one-much for use and little
for ornament. So mote it be.
Commissioners Campbell and Davis are
in HolHdaysburg as we 60 to press on Thurs
dav, but whether for the purpose of buying
the new Court House in that place and re
moving it to Ebensburg or with the inten
tion of examining it thoroughly and model
ing our own after it, barring, of course, its
imperfections, and it has a few, everybody
is at liberty to judge Cor himself.
-NIoung Edward, Karen, who has beer
in this country for a number Of years ob
tanning an education, and who intends Il
sail for Burmah next month, viii lecture il
the First Baptist church, Altoona, on Thurs
dav evening next on the subject Of "a Bird :
Eve View Of Burmah and its Inhabitants.
If any Of our readers are carin' to see and
hear a Karen, now is the time to do it.
The 'iav-todd'' who dishes up the Eb
ensburr news for the JohnstOwn Trj5uH
when there is any to dish up, and who draw
ON his Imagination somewhat when Their
amt, is a little premature, to say the least
about the future intentions and purposes o
the editor Of this paper, who may possioi,
live for many years to come and finally On
in Ebensburg for all that is yet detnitel
known to the contrary.
The hour for commencing the fourt
grand entertainment of the Newman Liter
, nv ,u5 Dramatic Society of St Francis