The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-05

( crushed from the hand to the shoulder while
/ engaged Tuesday forenoon in coupling cars
\ In the Altoona yard. The unfortunate man.
I after receiving medical treatment, was sent
to his home In Indiana county.
The question now seems to be whether
{ Cambria ought to be represented i'm the next
+ Legislature by two men each of whom has
two syllables in his name, OF whether two
men with one syllable each will serve the
purpose just as well. In other words, will
Fenlon and Woodruff, or zahm and King,
be nominated by the next Democratic county
convention? And if not, why not
Mcdonald & Co., of Loretto, sell good
brown sugar at cents per ID. light brown
sugar at &c; white sugar at 1Oc. ; granulated
sugar at lie; good green coffee at lie; best
green coffee at 20c.; roasted coffee at 18c; /;
best roasted coffee at 22c.; Goldfish at:6c. per
ID mackerel at 20 cents per dozen; carbon
oil at IS cents per gallon; molasses at So
cents and good syrup at 80 cents per gallon.
The Curwensville Times compliments
the FREEMAN by, saying that it is one of the
newsiest county papers on its exchange list
but administers dose Of ipccac with the
compliment by adding, "barring its abomi-
nable politics." Thanks, Brother Brainard
for what is palatabIe in the above dose, but
heucefoTth please don't exercise your Brain
(sO) ard on such abominable sentences as
at all times
"A paper published in an adjoining
county says that when a certain rival editor
over there was 4 little boy a TRANSMISSION
doctor came around, and, as an experiment.
injected into his veins the warm blood of a
jackass; and yet, strange to relate, the
editor OF the paper from which we quote
don't base his knowledge on the fact that he
himself furnished the blood though it may
be that ne did
a tramp went into the press room Of the
Altoona Tribune office the other day, and,
strange as it may seem, stole gold watch
(think Of that "a gold watch in a print
shop" from the pocket Of vest hanging in
the room, which belonged to the pressman.
lie was caught five miles east of the city,
when he gave up the property and after hav-
ing administered to him a sound thrashing
was allowed to resume bis travels.
The recent assessment made by the Cam
bril Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and the
money now being received from that source
oy Z. ". Dick, Esq, Secretary and Treasur-
eT, Is designed 70 make good the loss OF Mr..
barn and the greater part of its contents
were destroyed by fire a little over two
months ago, involving a loss which is es-
timated at nearly six hundred dollars.
a fftpen-year-oId lad named Z. \. Wilt,
whose home is at Bennington Furnace, at
tempted to get on west-bound passenger
train at Auegrippus on Tuesday last, but as
the cars were in rapid motion at the time, he
missed his mark and fell under the wheels,
several of which passed over his legs and cut
them of below the knees. The unfortunate
youth was still living when last heard from,
. but his recovery is next to impossible.
The work OF making steel for the East
river bridge, which is designed to connect
New York with Brooklin, has been begun,
as we learn from the New York SJp1 Of Mon
dav last, at the steel works at JohDstown,
whittier Col. VIM. Paine, of the Engineer
Corps, has come to begin the work of in.
spectfon, which is to be carried on where
the steel is made as well as where it is to be
he rolled into the proper shapes for the
bridge.
William Carney, of Munster township,
whose prosecution for an assault and battery
committed on Martin Sanders, of Cambria
week. very sensibly nipped the case in the
bud by appearing before Esquire kinkeao
on Friday last and complying with the con
ditions demanded by the prosecutor-that IS
paving the costs and entering into bonds tC
keep the peace toward Mr.. Sanders for {
term of one year.
The Washington House, a famous hote
at the foot of Plane No . when the old Portage
rail road was in successful operation, ha'
been purchased by Mcssrs. Martin & Co, o
Portage. and viii ere long be torn down
AS hotel it has had varied and interest
ing history, which we propose to ventilat,
some time in the near future. We under
stand that the price paid for the propert,
was only 500 It has been occupied b.
Jacob s KiehI as a tavern stand for mum
her Of years.
ON Tuesday morning last, Mr.. John T
McGough, of SummeThill township, walke'
from his home to this place, distance of tel
and a half miles, in exactly three hours
feat Of redestrianism which, taking into &C
count the almost impossible condition Of tn
roads. it would be no easy task to excel
Mr.. McGough, we presume, did not come t
town specially for the purpose, but Will
here he qIaddened the printers heart all tn
same. as cid many other staunch friends o
the FREEMAN this week. by paying for hi
paper like the honest man he is.
So many good men and true called to Sc
r1s this week. as is invariably the case durin
the sfttings Of court, that we must be eN
cused from attempting to classify then
though professional courtesy demands tn
acknowledgment of a visit from Hon. l. L
woodruff. of the Johnstown Democrat, c.
Easily, local editor of the Daily Tribune an
G. T. Schubert, Of the Freie PresSe-aI c
whom we were as glad to see, though wit
; ouite 2 different kind of gladness, as til
host Of friends who dropped in to pay the
respects and their subscriptions at the sam
, time
After a good deal Of wrestling with Il
Fuolish language and the expenditure
something less than n half keg Of printer
ink the Johnstown Tribune and Altoou
S,11 and can. all three daily, succeeded SON
time last week in locating the very sp'
! unou which the house stands that Mill
Quart and his family are to occupy whe
] thew move from this place to CreSson on II
b first Of April next. Be ye glad, therefor
and rejoice with exceeding great JOY th'
] this aIl-absorbing question has been settle
fralIv and we hope to the satisfaction OF Q
concerned.
The name Of ex-Sherif Baumer, OF John
f. town. is prominently mentioned in come
{ ton with the Democratic nomination f
I state Senator from this district Our town
man r 4 Shoemaker. Esq. is also credite