The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-12-10

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tlhit seven feet four inches. and the other
.'dJe oy James Alexander. of H0IEdavhurr
IHu measuring twenty two feet TO a dot
'-'"9eu ground hog long drawn ont
1t Is contrary 90 cur custom TO recon-
tueEu any KIND CT patent medicine: but after
We We nave seen the great effects Of POBEKTs'
iipHNE POWDERS UB0n the horses in tIlis sec
'ioIt Jhdt have been cured of the ef,izootic "a
wen as other diseases, we deem it our dutv
as good citlzsus 60 recommend il 10 ali own
T,s Oh horses. For sale by Y. s. Barker &
An old man named John Fov. who has
spent DIS entire lie in the neiubhorbood Of
olo1estoWH, Somerset county, and vet has
never pald visit 20 either Johusf0vyu or
S2oneISet, saw a locomotive engine on the
somerset aud JohnstOWn road the other dav
lor The first time III his life, and the appari-
his boots. ''' u
The Johnstown Tribune thinks that if
tHe teachers Of the lower end of the county
nave reason 10 anticipate The cyperfepc. tilaZ-
had ln 'tis place on account OF tie severe
weather oi TWO years ago, the probabilities
are Jl.aJ ebe attendance mt the COMING Teach
~ ihNlituLe from that section viii be COM
pardJIFeiy meagrc. Can't keep the Young
iady teachers away by any such paIayer as
W here are YOUR crutches, uncle 81
Here they are" showing John bottle of
VI. B- ROBERTs' ENBRoCATION "You don't
say Jhat threeq quarters of a bottle of EABRO-
CATION mas relieved you of YOur rheumatism,
:
{ Il DO, and thank a kind Providence for lead
ing me to read that advertisement in the star
last week" Sold by V. 5. Barker 81 Bro,
Z Ebensburg.
When John McAfee was called M, in
Court for trial Wednesday evening on the
charge of robbery, the fact was elected that
he was without counsel and without the
means TO employ counsel. In other words
there was no lawyer to max fee off AIcA-
F Zee Capt. Kuhn, of JOhnstown. was an
pointed TO defend him, but as the accused
concluded to plead guilty of larceny, there
was very little for the Captain To do
4 This world is all feetinC show" but
. It takes very lively work for some Of us to
/ Keep hold Of OuI tickets of admission a great
. many of us are put ont at the exits, "Pneu-
mOnia" and Consumption :" but the num-
/ ber of these has been greatly reduced since
so many nave been ''nIpped in thu bud'' bv
the timely use of SINEs' TAR, WILD CHER
IY AND HOARHOUED For sale by V g
Barker & Bro, and all druggists, at % and
30 cents
DR.. Creepy, of this place, got on the
. Branch train at Kaylor's station to return
home on Tuesday forenoon, and became 50
much CH-roSSed IN warming his feet ut the
stove that he forgot that he had his right
hand against the amb of the door. The fact
however was sseediiy, recalled to his memo
" 10y the opening % the door and closing OF
the same on M thumb, the first joint of
which was very BADLY pinchcd, but fortunate
ly no boneys,yys1 s1e broken.
One ofati.ea rge pulp cooking boilers in
Co, at Roadrg Spring, Blair county eX-
p.0ded witlrtefJihc effect about S O'Clock on
last Tuesday morning, making an almost
complete wreck of that portion of the mill
and so frightfully scaldinE an employee
named David Mckee, q married man and the
father o. two children, aged about % years,
that he died in about six hours after. The
loss is estimated at from Sl2, coo to $500
on which there IS a partial Insurance.
All who know Owen Cunningham viii
smile huge smole when they read, as they
can in another column, copied from the Al
tCOua sun, about the ''daShing young man
who was arrested in that city on Saturday
last for forging the name of our friend and
patron, Mr.. Andrew H HaUG, Of Carroll
town, to a number OF receipts for money
collected by him as pretended agent Of said
complainant. Cunningham, VINO, by the
way has been committed to jail at Holidays
burg in default of $500 bail, is a good deal on
the dash, but not much on the young, his
aye being about forty years.
Probably the worst fooled man IN this
State during the present year was q poultry
thief in Marietta, Lancaster county. lie was
determined to have first class sunday meal,
and ON last SATURDAY night week, went to
the poultry house Of 4 Mrs. Preston in that
plaC-. and stole therefrom an Old goose whose
age, as Mrs. =. Is willing to verify by her sol
emu affidavit, was j7ceHtyJ0J-r gears. Words
cannot express, but the imagination may
possibly conceive the wear and tear of teeth
and the amount OF Jaw ache in that thief S
family. after vanity trying to get away with
q goose. or eander. as the case may have been.
Arthur McManuS, the man who plead
guilty in our county court on Tuesday last
To- the charge Of larceny and was sentenced
tJa year and 4 half in the penitentiary- has
divuged the particulars Of a plot which he
saws was entered into LetWeen Edward
Rodgers. with whom he became acquainted
while serving Il term in the Eastern Peni-
teutiary for rape, another man named Ar
mold and himself to waylay and rob the
cashier Of the e. l. Co, JOhnstown, while he
was returning from the First National Bank
with the necessary funds to pay the en-
pIOvees Of said company in October last, but
why the scheme was not carried out Nc
Manus fails to explain.
The lifeless remains of an unknown man
were found in Lawrence township, Ciearheld
county on Friday last, by a couple OF hunters,
and the coroner being notified, an inquest
was held on the body next morning, when
evidence was adduced which left no doubt in
the minds Of the jury that the deceased had
registered himself at tie Mansion House,
ClpariieId, on the sta of September last as
flames NJ LaugHlin, Of Jefferson county,
and that he had came to his death by shots
fired from a revolver i'm his own hand-s3id
revolver being subsequently, found within a
. short distance of where the body lay The
. unfortunate man had evidently been impell-
ed to suicide by some other motive tEan pow
ertv a roll of gTeenbacks amounting TO S52U
and an open-faced gold watch We're found on
his person
CA,rBrIA CoUxTY's Coal CENTRE
South Fork Station, on the PENNSYLVANIA
. Rail Road in CrOyle township, this county,
1,rornisos soon 20 become very important