The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-12-24

+ The last legal advertisement from the
. hands Of PTOthOnOtaTy O'Dolnea appears
! in our Columns to-day, and II y pIooao.y
/ the last 'crumb of comfort the FREEAAN
/ OF anv other Democratic paper will get from
| that Office for wears TO come. WITH the tlTee
best Offices in the county in the hands OF Re-
publicaES, and that, toe, when the DemocIalS
: have "a clear majority Of fully six hundred ls
not p pleasant picture to contemplate vet
l those who brought about the catastrophe NJ
. tie Thought perhaps, that they were lnli'ctihg
I a serious injury upon ther party organs,
? which TO =CE the least nave done lOtNlN4 10
/ deserve Suoh a fate 1t Is almost needless TO
say that the FREElIAc, keenly feels this loss
Of official patronage, and its only hope IS that
those who knOT,themSelYes indebted foT SUD
scriDGOn, advertising, etc. viii come 10 the
rescue JsfOre the commencement Of the next
volume, which Will be in less than month
hence, and thereby place our enterprise on 2
fair financial footing. We honestly believe
that we give all our patrons full value ToT
their money, and hence We have right TO
expect honest payment in return. VIII we
receive it2 That's the all important question
60 Ua and on its answer depends the loss and
the pTOits-aye, the very existence Of the
FREEMAN
Work on tie new Cresson Springs hotel
building is progressing rapidly. The hrst
story viii be Of stone, and large quantities
Of that material have been and are being
taken cut from QuaTries in the near neighboT-
hood. our tOwnsman Mr.. James {. Murray
has secured the contract FOR hauling about
five hundred perChes Of the stone and IS now
OQthc ground with his teams. A3CtheTOf our
friends and patrons, ,lNr John CIO' Neil, who
resides at Cress0n, has also contracted with
said Company FOR thc delivery on the ground
Of stone, lumber and other material to be
used in the construction Of said ediHce. Ihc
two remaininS stories Of the building viii be
frame, the whole suTmOuDted by French
roof = force Of workmen large enough to
compute the structure before the first OF
June next VIII be employed, at or about
which date tho present hotel viii be torn
down. BY the way, i6 may not be generally
known that the material Of which this hOtei
i composed, or the ma or portion OF II, was IN
other years constituent part of the big rail-
road hotel near the eastern terminus Of the
Portage Railroad a. Duncansville, Blair cOun-
r.. Il was removed from that point to-CTes-
s0G not long after the abandonment Of the
public works" The new hotel will be To-
Gated considerably further away from the
railroad depot than the present one.
a special despatch from Washington 10
the Philadelphia Record speaks Of Major
John DOWuey, ard another to the New York
TT55THs calls him Colonel John DOTney.
Both dGspatchss refer TO Captain John Dow
rev. Of this county, who is having peck
Of trOCble" Just now with Congressman COf-
fr0th about the cierkship of the Invalid Pen
sion Committee, to which Gen. CofrOth, as
chairman of said committee, appointed him
two wears ago. but from which ne now pro
poses to Oust him if In his power % do It.
Ihe committee, VIC are assured by the des-
patches, sustain Mr.. Downey, but ds the
right CT appointment seems to be inherent
in the chairman, their friendship can avail
him nothing. Mr.. COffroth, on the other
hand, is said to be determined 20 give the pO-
siJiOn TO q rural editor" as the dispatches
call him, Of & Democratic paper in this dis
tricr, and hence his desire to get rid OF Dow
ney. We don't know exactly how we stand
on this subject, and probably won't know
until VIC find ont to a certainty that we amt
the rural editor" referred to, in which
event we vii! likely not stand at all, but
pass" Meantime the name Of our friend
DOwney viii go down to pCsterity with no
less than three military titles affixed thereto.
Such is fame. p. S.-Iohn D. Hoffman,
writer on the Somerset Democrat, has cap
tEred the coveted clerkship.