The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-05-21

while the latter welded the weapon. How
Well they succeeded NAV be inferred from
the fact that DR.. Miller, of Galitzin, wa.
summoned soon after to re-eStabliSh bono
. OF union between one of Mary'S hands and
arms, which the ak came near parting fol
good and all.
The GreensbuTg argus says that let tel
was recently unearthed in that place, by
some WOrkmen engaged in making an eX
cayatIOn, after having been buried for forty
four years The seal was broken and the
letter and contents-a So bill-were found tC
De IN good state of preservation. The
. letter was written before the era of envelopes
and while the pOstOffice was located in the
building under which the excavation was
BENG made The misSive is supposed to
+ have been mislaid in transit
n young man named James 6. Davis,
who claims Altoona as his abiding place, was
brought to Jail here from Johnstown, on
Tuesday last, and locked up to await trial
on the charge Of raising the figures on two
checks foI 50 and S7.7j to SIS and S17.75, re-
Spectiyeiy-Sald checks having been given
him for wages due at the Gautier Wire
W Norks, where he had been employed for q
short time. The accused was formerly a
fireman on the p. r. r., and is said to have
a wife aud TWO children in Blair county.
Mr.. Chas. J. Forestal son of the senior
member Of the Philadelphia firm Of r. II.
fOreStal 4 Co., manufacturers and dealers
IN prlntlHg and other papers, having day TO
I spare on his way back from business trip
to the west, took in Ebensburg on Wednes-
day, and Of course called 20 interview Us on
the subject Of new supply of the raw ma
terlal Flndlng him genial young gentle
man and the representative of a firm which
can hold its own with any of Them we had
no hesitation about giving him an order
-Ihe man SweitZer, of Chest Springs
who was reported to have been arrested for
completely IN the murder of a peddler whose
body was not found in pile of Saw-duSt in
Susquehanna township, rumOrS to the con-
trary notwithstanding. and who was not ar
rested at all, though possibly suspected, is
very emphatic in the assertion chat the story
was cOncOcted out of the whole cloth by
certain enemies of his, and that he IS deter
mined to make them sweat for it if there is
any law in the land to meet the emergency.
The Grand Lodge Of the !. Q. O. f. of
Pennsylvania and the Grand Encampment
OF the same order are now in session at
Heading and among the delegates present
are Mr. c. I. Roberts, OF this place, who
represents Highland Lodge, No. 42S, as well
as the Ebensburg Encampment; Col John
Z Linton, representing COuemaueh Lodge ::
John Y. Shafer, representing Cambria
hodge; Irwin HOrreN, representing Alma
Lodge, all of JOhnst0wn, and Gen. Jacob NJ.
Campbell, who represents the Grand En-
campment Of the same place.
The HoliidaySburg correspondent of the
Altoona Tribune says that on Friday night,
about O'Clock, isOme deeply-dyed villain
seized a little girl about fifteen years of age
rs she entered the GayspOTt bridge and pull
ed her into the main entrance. The child'S
screams brought assistance, but the would
be TaViSIcT got scared and bV running over
the railroad succeeded in making his escape
without being known. The girl was 50
much frightened that she could not tell her
name, and while the persons who went 90
her rescue were in pursuit Of the man she
ran up Allegheny street.
The forest fires in the immediate neigh
-bOrhOOd of John NIcBTide's farm, q couple Of
miles west Of Gown, threatened for a time to
encroach upon the premises of that gentle
4 I1f4 g1s.T
him by a g0odly number of his friends and
neiShoors from EbenSburg and vicinity, who
worked manfUlly for several hours in fighting
the flames on Saturday and Sunday last, the
probabilities are that his dwelling house and
other buildings would have been destroyed.
Through their united efforts. however. the
fire vas kept in allegiance, and as a cOnSe-
quence but little damage was done.
-NcWTy, Blair county, was enyiTCued by
forest fires the early part Of this week, and
may be even yet for aught we know. On
Sunday last the entire male population were
out i'm fun force battling with the flames,
which at the time were approaching uncOm-
forgabiy near To the village. An iHceGdiary
fire at Hummer Cap, in Logan valley, also
caused considerable alarm among the mhab-
itaUts of that vicinity, though fortunately il
was eNLinguished before much damage was
done. James y. GWiH, who with others was
fighting the fire, came near being burned to
death, but fortunately escaped by being
dragged out by a lady.
john Young, of Derry Station, cot up
in his sleep and stepped out of third story
window at the Zimmerman House, Greens
burg, where he was attending court, about
o'clock on Wednesday morning of last
week, and falling to porch below, a dis
taHcc of twenty-seven feet, broke of a
ScaEtIiug railing but, strange to say, fractur-
ed no bones and received no other injuries
except q slight scratch on the right ear. Mr..
Young, notwithstanding his name, is about
fOrty-eight years Old and weighs two hum
vtrsFz rfrf fvr n
miraculous one, and we doubt whether any
other living man could perform the same
feat with a like result.
-Rev. Dr. Fink, Of Johnstown, was
awakened from his slumbers about . O'Clock
Tuesday morning and summoned to the resi-
dence of Mrs. BinGle, in COnemaugh borough,
where he found SIr B. r Vaughan and
Miss Annie BiEg.e ready and willing TO
ceavc to each other until either death or
divorce shall tear them asunder. The reason
for selecting so unreasonable an hour was
that the young folks. who probably had
been billing and cooling during the greater
part of the night, had suddenly made up
their minds to get married then and there
aud start next morning for Wheeling, w.
Va, on a wedding tour. Nav they be as
happy as they were haSty.
Ago as-yOU-pleaSe' picnic of the basket
persuasion, with Louisville rs the objective
point and Saturday, June 18th, as tile day
and date, is just now being looked forward
TO with considerable interest by quite a num-
Der of young ana even mlddle-aCed people
of EbcuSburg. CreSSOn and other localities.
The enterprise is under the efficient direction
Of such com9eteut gentlemen as p r. r.
Agent Corbett, of CressGn, AIr. G.. II. Later
ner of this place, and others Of equal merit
here, there and elsewhere. A special train
viii be run from CTeSSOn on the occasion,
and tickets will be sold at excursion rates.
All respectable parties wishing to participate
will receive a hearty welcome.
What the JohnstOwn Tribune calls
singular incident though it seems to us COM
mOnplacc enough, occurred when the mortal
remains of Scott Mardis, the counterfeiter
who died in tie Western Penitcntiarv few
days ago, were about TO be borne to the grave
from his former home i'm Burlington town
ship. Indiana county. According to that
paper, the pall-bearers lifted up their in
animate burden at the hour appointed, and
just as they were passing out al the door
deck of cards, which had been leftOn a shelf
above, was jostIed down, and the face cards
and spots distributed themselves pTOmis-
cuously on the floor with the exception of
the Jack of Clubs, which fell face upward
on the COfuu lid, near the head.
The fire which threatened for a time the
de stTuctiOn of the buildings on the farm Of
Mr.. JOhE Mcbride, i'm Cambria township, of
which mention is made in another item, had
its origin several DAYS previous in Jackson
towShip, near what is known as the old
Simon DOnmyrc mill, and was no doubt
started either maiiciOuSly or through care
leSSuess. The distance between the two
points-that is the place where the fire Ori gin
atcd and the point at which it was finally
subdupd-iS about eight miles, and in traverS-
ing that distance it is estimated that the
flames swept over no less that fifteen hun
dred acres, destroying great deal OF timber,
principally hemiOck, besides innumerable
fences and much other property OF more or
less value.
The Bennington correspondent Of the