The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-12-17

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Joseph JUrt, aged Il years employed as
a driver in the mill coal mine of the Cambria
w orkS, JchnStOWn. was kicked in the face
by a mule on Tuesday afternoon, and had
ms Jaw-b bone fractured, ten teeth Knocked
out, and the flesh on the lower part of his
face badly cut and confused. IN other words,
the mules leg gave squirt and young JOS
eph Jurt was pretty considerably hurt.
The bank notes taken from the person
OF James Mclaughlin, who was found dead
IN the 'Barrens,' - near Clearfield, Il cOuple
OF week ago, were so highly perfumed that
TO one wished to possess them so they Were
sent to Washington to be exchanged The
package OF bills passed through the Tyrone
postofnce last Thursday. and created quite
dlSagreeable stencil while they remained.
I'd. W. Rodgers. of Johustovn. who
was charged by Arthur NcAIsnus. one of
the parties convicted in our county court
last week of larceny, with having been con-
eeTued an plot to rob the cashier of the c.
l. Co, most emphaticaly denies the soft i'm
peachmcnt, and declares that although he
served a term in the Eastern penitentarv he
IS now reformed man and means to remain
one.
The Altoona Daily sun entered upon the
second year of its existence on Saturday last.
/ he sun IS a DemOcIa attic paper without any
1 prehX or atiE, and Is conducted with marked
ability. It's local department is most care
fully attended to, and it is certainly to be
commended for the industry it displays i'm
furnishing its readers with an exhaustive re-
port OF everything that possesses local in-
: Mrs Anna NJ. Mccartney, widow Of the
/ late j. &. Mccartney, and daughter of Al
derman Rose, of Altoona, was terribly burn
ed from her right foot all the way up her
side and back to her shoulder about 10 o.
clock on Thursday forenoon by her clothes
taking fire from the kitchen stove, but for
7 tunately she avoided iuhalng any of the
flames and no fears are entertained for her
I recovery.
-''Where are YOUR crutches, uncle %
I Here they are showing John a bottle of
NJ. 3. ROBERTS ENBROCATION. ''YOu don't
say that three-quaTters Of bottle of EMBRO-
CATION has relieved you Of your rheumatism.
so you can walk without your crutcheS 90
Il do, and thank kind Providence for lead
ing me to read Jbat advertisement in the star
EbensbuTg.
We don't know whether It was case Of
bounce or not, butNIr. NJ J. Shannon has re-
tired from the editorial management of the
Che TTytree Record which now floats no other
names than those Of AIessrS. Harter & DrS-
coll, editors and prOprietOrS. Mr.. Shannon
Is racy writer and we are sorry that he has
retired, willingly or otherwise, from the
. ranks journalistic. We wish the Record
abundant success all the same, however.
( Mr. Peter b. Myers, of Washington town
ship, brought to our Office the other day
specimen of cabbage composed of thirty-two
separate and distinct heads, all grown on one
stalk and all clustered together i'm the form
of an average sized head, with leaves enclOS-
ing the entire mass when pulled from the
ground. 1t is queer freak Of nature, and
has probably never Deen equalled in the num-
Der and cOmpactneSS of the pTOtubcUanceS.
Up to Friday last eghty-four engines of
. all classes were built in the p. II. r. shops,
Altoona, during the year 1880. This is the
largest number ever turned out in the same
I length of time in any previous year. \ new
. class of engines, to be known as class l., are
soon to he built for local trains, and are to
. have q pilot in front and rear, so that the
locomotive viii ALWAYS have business end
rY1ro
ming.
This world is all a heeting show" but
it takes very lively work for some of lis to
keep hold Of our tickets of admission great
many of us are put ont at the exits, "Pneu-
monia" and Consumption - but the num-
Der of these has been greatly reduced since
. so many have been ''nipped in the bud' by
, the timely use of SINEs' TAR, WILD CHER
. IiY AND HOARHOUND. For sale by '. :.
Barker & Bro, and all druggists, at p and
80 cents.
James Malaga and George Mullen, EN-
plOyec5 at Gaysport Furnace No. >, were
= thrown to the ground, a distance of about
thirty feet. on Saturday last, by the falling
r upon the scatfOd upon which they were
= . standing of q heavy mass of brick from over
I head. and were almost buried besides IN tht
. red-hot ashes which had accumulated behind
the inwalls They we're both dangerously
injured by the fall and badly burned by The
= hot ashes.
E A poor widow woman who lives les
than thousand miles from this place wa,
y invited by a nCighboring family to assist OF
one of the recent cold days in butcherine
@ three hogs, and when the work was comple
+ ted and everything cleaned up nicely. SIT
was dismissed with the remark, aS trlgId as
the weather Itself, Thank you until You ar
N better paid" Rather refreshing, wasn't 1t
and yet, you know, there is some pork tina
s. will boil that way.
. -rTbe eleventh return Of the sale Of rea
=, / estate was made in the L. ;. District Court
o Pittsburgh, on Monday last, by the assignee
e Of VIM. VI. Lloyd, and their report was MAD
. absolute. They were also empowered at IN
4 . same time to sell certain real estate WhIc
4 the Altoona Tribune locates i'm ChppeW
g + county, Virginia but as there is no sue
~ . county I'M that State, and as there IS IN bot
= Michigan and Wisconsin, we presume on
of the latter and most probably Michigan
r is the State meant
- The wife Of Mr 4. J. StiverS, residin
N near Bedford. returned to her house after
. few minutes absence, on last Saturda
IN week to find that her fOur-yeaT-Old daushte
had been burned almost to crisp. How IN
pr shocking accident happened could not ,
If ascertaiucd, as n younger child, not able I
m talk WAS the only witness of the sad aitaI
n hut it is believed that a spark or red he
- coal from the cooking stove set hre to ht
clothing. The little unfortunate died I'D
, few minutes after her mothers return.
,s A thirteen-year-old son of John MclI
10 tyre. track foreman of the WiliamshuI
"a Branch railroad, rolled of a lounge at b
" fathers residence, a short distance east
> UoIIidavsburg. on Monday last, and fell Q
l. . the uoint Of a rusty bayOnet with WllIch ]
3 had been PLAYING. The weapon was force
n clean through his neck, from the right TO u
ar Iert ear and although it was withdrawn
,rr speediIv as possible by his horror strlcke
= father the wound is of such nature as
5. cause lockjaw and Of course Ldeath at al
50 moment.
ia John Brown and James White are DO
~ black Notwithstanding the color OF the
bs names. as is also David Cray, the latter
4j whom charges the first named with u
stealing of a silver watch from him at t.
2 boUsc Of James White, in JohnStown, whe
q the complainant and defendant both boar
at ed As the evidence against MN ptOduc'
or at a hearing before Justice StrayeF ON NO
ID day last was deemed suthclehVIy c,edl
~ ali practical purposes, Brown was DIoug
TO iaiI here the same night and committed
~ HNrr, John SomerviIIc, of Susquehan
u toyvuShiD Is one of the best cltlZeHs 4
.at most unswerving Democrats in the count
i but that he struck 4 four-foot VEN OF =
nd quartz while drilling well on ms Ptei,lii'
A few DAYS ago, as reported Oy OII ilel?iio .L?II
81 fine Herald is more than Mt. SoheINIii
Z" .. snvbodv else is prepared to believe, becaI
60 ~ = siuinIv Inpossible in this anti-aurifert
~ ~ rooion THAT the find is a deposit OF II
O ny ,-,ites which are frequently mistaken
~, t5a nrecfous ore. we have no dOubt-a
he n1ore's the pity that it is so.
in the account given in our lasI 81 - - ug .
o. the various coal works at SouJh foIA I
- ,I,,rty we inadvertently credited MI u
le9 ~ S,f,,,er,on with the ownership OF III
So beIon0inp to his brother, Nj. ) I. S1ineln
- ,,,o is one OF the two oldest operators
- . tI,at vicinity and who assures Us thlJ ne
- a ,g,rkinr force in his emyloy suHlcieh'
% teta ont not less tnau two hundred IONS
.at. coal per day. We also gave 'ue Il ud,lS "