The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-02-04

nSOn, OF > JOhnStOWn, as physician to the out
door paupers in and about that place.
We had a call to-day (Thursday) from
our young friend Mr.. l.. Strayer, of Johns
town. who is on the ''war-path'' for County
and doing all lie can in an
honorable way to make his calling and cleo
tion sure. Mr.. Strayer Is one Of the most sc-
and successful teachers in the
county, and is well fitted by nature and edu-
ton to fill the position he is seeking
Commissioner Gurley will be candidate
fOI reelection next November, provided he
secures the approval of the coming Demo
cratic convention. We have been at variaUce
with Mr.. Gurley on matter pertaining TO his
position in times past, but would not now
stand in the way Of his success if we had the
and on the whole has made q faithful public
power to prevent cit. He needs the Office
servant.
AS is known to a majority Of our LEGAL
readers, Messrs VIM. II. Sechier & Co Iare
endeSvOring to Introduce steam into heir
grist-mill, situate mile south of town. The
stack to oyertop the machinery aTrivedhe
Wednesday, and is being placed in petition
by Mr.. John Grouse, OF Chest Springs. The
likelihood is that the first Crist under tfs new
process will be ground out in the coure Of a
few days.
John Leffler will be called on y our
county court next month to answe' to
charge of desertion preferred by hi4 wife,
Mrs Mary f. Letter, nee Ribblett Oi Jack
son township, whom he married il July,
1879, ard soon after abandoned, sind when
he has only contributed the insignihqnt sum
OF five dollars towards the support cfhersef
and child to which she gave birth a fear ago
last month.
Owing to too much Snow, the bads be-
tween this point and Carrolt@n were
blockaded Wednesday of last wees and the
transportation OF the mails to al fro the
two succeeding days was found lpossibIe.
On Saturday, however, a passageT2s forced
through the drifts by the sleigEhack and
the news-famine out northward 1appily Cis-
sipated. The road to Loretto VS. also open
ed the same day.
George Coulson and Thoras Ragor at
tempted TO gain admission tCthe house Of
Simon TTice, farmer living s)out two miles
from GreensbuTg, at an earlyhOnr on Sun
day morning, when Trice she Ragor, filling
both Of his eyes with shot sId, it is feared,
fatally iniuring him. Trie# and Coulson
were arrested and placed in Jail. Ragor
will be removed to the Comfy Home to re-
ceive proper medical treatnsnt
Mr.. Joseph Davis, br6heT Of Clerk to
Council John s. Davis, die. at the residence
of the latter, in this plac, on last Sunday
morning. His disease. Iptracted one, was
consumption, to which to other brothers
had previously fallen vIctps His age was
about 80 years. The renains were inferred
in IIoyd cemetery TueSIav afternoon, fol
lowed to their last resting plaos by large
cencOurse of sorrowiIg Taative and friends
Mr. George Weber, q theFoSter House
in this place, passed some yess OF ms life
time amongst the Rockiss an Sierra Neva-
da- and points vet further. eastward. At
Echo canyOu eight .hUusad feet or 50
above sea level. he saws he frequently saw
snOw-drifts twenty and thIf feet deep, and
the people out there thOu1l 1t rather well
done than rare. This is sele comfort, but
not much, to us, whose sFpest drifts may
be measured by yardstiei
Mr.. Thomas Foley al Miss Elfen o.
Neil. of Pine tOwnship Indiana county,
were married at the Cathoc church in Cam
erOn's Bottom on Thuray last, by Rev.
Father Nash. There is pthlng remarkable
about the wedding eXcet that the groom,
whose first wife was a sier of F. 4. Storm,
ESQ, Of Allegheny towTnIp, TINS county, =
aged about 20 wears. low old the bride is
we have not learned, tfugh we presume she
is not mucn behind heTlege lord.
Mr.. W. II. Schwa-Z, a newspaper wri-
ter who has feweGuaIs.nd fewer superiorS in
the profession, has rcently transferred his
allegiance from th9 ollidaysburg Standard
to the Altoona Trbne, succeeding Mr.. A.
J. Greer as editOrA -chiei OF that sprghtiy
little daily Whatte latter gentleman pro-
poses to do is nor than we can tell, but
should he concluded withdraw permanently
from Journalism tire viii be a vacancy in
the ranks which vi be difficult to fill.
1t is reported hat a gentleman visited
EbensburC insiddle past ten days, Ostensi-
bly in the interey OF a New York firm, for
the purpose of pertaining whether Ebens-
burg would be desirable spot whereon to
erect first-clas summer hotel His views
on the subject ere not made public, but,
should they pre favorable, the possibility
is q rival to thnew hotel now going up at
Cresson may ifiue course of time grace one
OF the many eIible spots in this immediate
vicinity.
Should IL weather prove favorable,
party of our Jung folks propose going to
Summit this friday) evening in sleighs, TO
/ rnhfTICra in tbA A7Fx1 Of 2 hOn st Cant
/ .inton's hOte They expect to be met
iere by a part, from HollidaysbuTg with a
! feciSely simila object in view, and the ar
+ ngement is tIst the person first suggest
/ y an adiOurment before broad daylight in
Il morning iIAll be sentenced to eat a
/ q'Tt Of ice-cre.m in the open air with the
I tnmometer atkerO.
A l. ThCnpson, OF Pike township,
Ctfeld eouity, last summer marked a
tTen the LAID Of +. A. Irwin for a spar.
/ lhstorm of last November blew it down
anoOke it, aud Mr.. T. thought il too short
, 10 Le spar. He concluded to work u
! | up'.yever, and made spar Seyenty-six
, ( teetr which measured thirty-one inches
+ tweI st from the butt and twenty-four
j incht the top out of the top he made a
fiftyt stick of timber that squared four
e teeIffteep inches. Somewhat of tree
a tha
9 : learn from the Johnstown Tribune
. thaessrs. Hay & Bro. of that place
t / wEt establishment has been constantly
, adved in the FREEMAN during the last
fOun years, are now engaged in taking
. thelnual account Of stock This enter
1 prE firm, it affords us pleasure to saw
+ haven doing more than ordinarily sue
: ces business for some time past, their
$ storade alone during the present winter
Y ha, been unusually large. May it ever
be day after day, with our friends ever
: firtrank and John Hay.
= you cut, burn, or bruise yourself
G the nothing that will so quickly and ef-
t feCly give you relief as one application
e I Off ROBERTS ENBROCATIoN. II dur
$ inc extreme cold weather YOU have fro
! zeur feet or hands, and after using, &C
= cog TO directions, one half bottle OF En-
T BlTIoE, you are not satisfied that it is
2 " ten times what it cost you. by sending
; vname and address TO the SIMS MFG
h or Philadelphia, they will paw you 81 90
: fe remainder. For sale by all druggists,
4 sand 20 cents, and also by Y. s. Barker
n, EbensburE.
t The Altoona Tribune got up thrilling
r, , on Saturday morning last about Tom
v {, an aged watchman at Huntington
r having been caught by the head and
n lgIed TO death between two pickets Of a
e e he was trying to scale the day previous.
: IOurSe the story was SELL the victim OF
lcat-astrophe, if there was any victim at
! being no more nor less than a Thomas /
!. Ali the same. the Philadelphia Record !
Il Times swallowed the bait with evident 4
4 ton, but being too polite to nickname the /
FORTUNATE, they very felinely spoke OF him |
9 Mr.. Thomas Ascat.
i,-John p Gardner, shipping clerk for the 1
/ Co JohnstOwn was on Thursday 4
llrning last, crushed to death between two 1
RS on the Company track. The deceased /
ad that morning for the first time gone to .
ork in the capacity of shipping clerk, but /
ad for seven years previous been in the .
nplOy Of the company in other capacities. [
lme three months since he became men, (
sr of an organization known as the ROYAL 4
rcanum and paid his initiation fee of elev-
dollars, and an assessment of one dollar
nd fFa