The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18


oi Altoona, official as to five wards and esti
mated as to three, show the poppIotIo,, -
that city to be 9,716. And vet Snnarrisor
"iiier mas forbidden our local enumerator to
tell now many people there are in Fbensburo
borough. '0 Al l. <
The annual exhibition Mt ST Frapcis,
college, Loretto, will take place on Tuesday
June 29th, commencing about o,c,ocl, g.
'ie IoIeRooh. The exhibition at st. Aloysius'
seminary, presided over by the Sisters Of
1ierey, VIII be held in the afternoon of the
same dav.
"A four-year-old son of Mr.. Christopber
belcIler, OF Altoona, broke his neck on Fri
Gay last by falling from a paling-fence
which he had mounted for the purpose of
picking cherries from a tree, and death re-
suited in few minutes after being carried
into the house.
Just received at N j. Freidhoff's man.
moth store, varied and elegant stock of
lawns. dress ginghams. piques, lace buntinrs.
armureS, poplins, black grenadines. tarmise
cloth, chevOits, and full line of dress. GOOD G
at bottom figures, which means that he will
not be undersoId
"A young man named Fultz has been ar
rested in Hollidaysburg for an alleged indie
cent assault on a sixteen-year-old Girl.
Fultz denies the most serious part of the
charge, but admits that he assaulted the girl
while drunk. He has been held in $500 bail
for his appearance at Court
-Messrs. Raphael Hite and Lewis J.
Bearer, two progressive farmers of Carroll
and Susquehanna townships, respectively.
have each raised a new barn within the past
week, and when the haIvest-time comes
once again we hope they will have abundance
OF produce with which to fill them
"A German emigrant woman gave birth
to child on the Mail Express train west
over the P. r. r, in the vicinity of Latrobe,
on Sunday morning last The front part of
the smoking car was utilized for the purpose,
and at latest accounts the mother and child
were getting along fnely-over the road and
otherwise
-Rev- w. ). Lloyd, of this place, went to
school in Ohio, to Gen. Jas A Garfield, the
Republican candidate for President from
1855 to 1857, but we don't know that that is
any good reason why the Democratic nomi,
nee shouldn't beat him--if it can be done,
and goodness knows it can il the right man
Is selected.
Peter McGough, Esq, of Portage, was
appointed by the Court last week to fill the
position Of Supervisor of she southern por-
tion of said township, vice John McGough,
who was elected but failed to file the requi-
site bond Considerable effort was made by
some parties to head the Squire off in this
appointment, but 1t seems they didn't have
large enough "header."
The dead body of a new born infant
was found tied up in a portion of a paper
sack, "a short distance west of the Johnstown
depot, on Thursday morning last. The pre-
sumption of some is that the remains were
thrown from passing train, but the opinion
most general is that the heariless mother
lives in or near JohnstowD.
The incessant downpour of rain on
Monday night, Tuesday and Tuesday night,
has no doubt created a booming flood in the
Susquehanna and its tributaries, and the
next thing we hope to hear of is the outgo Of
all the timber in said streams and the in
come of a goodly sum of money to Northern
Cambria and parts adjacent
The "gO-as-y ou-please" picnic at LloydS-
vile, on Saturday last, is said to have been
most enjoyable affair. About twenty per
sons from this place participated, and were
joined at Cresson and Gallttzin by fully five
times that number. The excursion and at
tendant festivities were in every respect de-
Iightful, and all returned well pleased with
the jaunt and the joIlification.
"A terrific wind and rain storm prevailed
in this vicinity for short time on last sun
day afternoon, but so far as we have learned
no serious damage resulted. Within the
borough limits several fruit and shade trees
were Frustrated, while IL the country not
only trees but fences and other moveable
property suffered to some extent.
The heavy rain of Saturday evening last
caused flood which swept away the st.
Clair dam in Lower Guder townrhip. from
which Johnstown was partially supplied
with water, and also took with it the greater
part of a saw mill, water wheel, tools and
other portable property, as we'll as bridge,
fences, and such like. A lady named Gates
had very narrow escape from drowning.
The Huntingdon Globe has commenced
its thirty-seventh annual revolution, and Mr..
Frank Willoughby has bowed himself out of
the Huntingdon Local Ne,Cs, leaving Brother
Lindsay all alone by himself, but we amt
going TO let on about it in either case until
next week, when we will try and give each
of them one of the best billiards in the shop.
The Altoona Sunday Cal is the latest
journalistic emanation from that city of live
newspapers and live people, and it is draw
ing it sufficiently mild to say that Brother
Haines shows excellent taste and more than
ordinary ability in the get up and make up Of
his new venture, which is in no sense re-
hash of the daily edition of that paper. May
its success be commensurate with its merits.
The terrible army worm which Just now
is devastating the grain crops in the eastern
part of this State, New Jersey and elsewhere,
is not unknown in the northern part of this
county, where it appeared some fifteen or
twenty years ago and played sad havoc with
the oats crop, especially in certain portions
of ClearieId township, which 1t reached
little too late to operate on the wheat, rye
and corn.
"A contract for Strengthening half mile
of the =. r. r. track near COatesyille, Ches-
ter county, has been awarded to Hon. John
A. Lemon, the Republican candidate for
Auditor General, and a contract fol the po-
Iitical Strengthening out of six feet, more or
less. Of the aforesaid contractor has been as
signed to Col. Robert p. Dechert, the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Office to which Col.
Lemon aspires.
Mr.. IsadOre H. Sultzbach, of Philadel-
phia. brother of Mr.. Simon Sultzbach, decd,
late of this place, and gentleman known
TO many Of our citizens, was on board the
iII-starred Narragansett when it was set on
fire and sunk in collision on Long Island
Sound, and had the good fortune not only.to
escape with his own life, but was the means
A. tifa ,f a moor rripplad uirl who