The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-03-11


for the recent revolutionary doings of a ma
jority of the county committee. This, too,
notwithstanding we have heard either direct
ly or indirectly from hundreds of the best
Democrats in all sections of the county.
For paper that expresses the opinions
and represents the views of nobody but the
editor, as an cold, true and tried Democrat
of Ebensburg' puts it in an interview pub
lished in the last CarrOlltown Netos. the
FREEMAN has had the best boom this week
in the way of new subscribers and paid-up
subscriptions. that it has ever experienced in
the same length of time since it was first es-
tablished. Strange that Democrats would
take SO much interest in paper that mis-
represents them in matters so important as
the doings of a County Committee!
-TrGe to his traditions, VIM. Litzinger,
Esq, of Loretto, dropped in on US last week
and paid for three copies of the FREEMAN in
advance. For years Mr.. Litzinger has been
alone in his glory as to the number of advance
payments from his own pocllet-book, but
this week he ''found foeman worthy of his
steel' in the person of Mr.. Edward Adams,
Of Clearfield township, who not only paid in
advance for his mother and brother, but also
subscribed and paid one year for himself
Would that we had nine hundred and nine
ty-eight more such patrons as the two gen
tlemen named.
The attention of the Clearfield RepttJH-
can was called on Monday last to one of the
most wonderful freaks of nature we have
ever heard of. It is, in fact perfect mon
strosity, and is owned by a Girard township
farmer named David /. Smith, one OF whose
cows dropped it on the 18th of last January
and it was soon after found dead in the
barnyard. The Republican says that it is a
compound of human, canine and bovine, and
is so grossly deformed that it is impossible to
describe it. Mr.. Smith has preserved the
skin and stuffed it and proposes to put it on
exhibition commencing at LockpOrt during
the rafting season.
Casper w Easily, of the Johnstown Tri-
b11le, and G. T. Shubert of the Johnstown
Friei Ps'esse, represented the editorial frater
nifty from q distance at Court this week.
Hon. H. A Boggs our State Senator, who is
not ashamed to say that he was in other
years a member of the same guild also spent
few hours in our midst. 1t is against our
! principles to say aught of flattery about a
Republican, but the sense of honor which
to Harry is wanting with u.s. Ex-Sheriffs
Banner and Ryan registered at the hotels,
as did host of other good fellows too nu-
( merous to mention.
Mr. Michael Fitzharris, of Altoona, in
/ tends to return to Cambria county on the
first of next month and TepOssess the hotel
/ owned by him at Gallitzn, now in the occu-
( pancv of Mr.. James Maulls, who proposes to
/ betake himself to Huntingdon county, where
/ ne will embark in the same business some
/ where along the line of the II. & 3. T. r. II.
/ We welcome Mr.. Fitzharris back to his old
/ stamping-ground, and hope that he and Mr.
: Maulls, who well earned the reputation of
keeping one of the best and most respecta-
! bic houses along the line of the p r. r.,
| will both succeed to their hearts content in
+ their new departures.
Our branch railroad was showed up
again last Friday. Tie train went out at
the usual hour in the morning, but instead Of
returning at II o'clock, it was in the after
noon before it got back. The snow which
fell was over foot in depth, and all the cuts
along the line were drifted full and running
over. No attempt was made to run out at
night, and Saturday mornings endeayor in
tive went on the dry dock at Munster.
+ But Sunday, aid was rendered from the main
line, and the following morning and ever
since the mails and passengers have had
! nothing 10 complain of on the score Of prompt
! delivery.
/ We may be entirely too skeptical for
! anything, but we must confess that our
( faith in the assertions of "a true and tried
/ Democrat of Ebensburg' Is Of such meagre
description that we are willing to give secur-
/ ity for the payment of twenty-five cents per
/ head for all Democrats who, over their own
/ signatures, viii publicly approve through
! the newspapers of the doings of the County
Committee at its recent meeting, provided
the "true and tried viii guarantee the pay
ment to US of ten cents per head for all Dem
! ocrats who in like manner sustain the FREE
MAN in its utterances on that subject. Now
then, in the language of the turf, put up or
shut up"
The special train which conveyed Mr..
Hayes and his friends from Washington on
Saturday last not only met with serious
/ mishap on the Baltimore and Potomac Rail-
road, as will be seen by an item in our gen
eral news department, but also narrowly es-
capped a frightful wreck at Spruce Creek
tunnel, in Huntington county, on the same
day. An Altoona special to the Philadel-
! phia Times says that the spring under one
I side of the car containing the horses of the
! Cleveland City Troop gave way, causing the
I car to lean considerably. On entering the
tunnel the corner of the car struck the ma
sonry, tearing almost the entire side Of the
car away. The President and party were
badly frightened and somewhat shaken up,
but not injured.
Mr.. Harry G. Rose, son of Mr.. w J..
l Rose, of Johnstown, and nephew of ex-Dis-
/ trict Attorney Rose, in whose Office he has
been a clerk and student for the past three
I years or more, underwent preliminary ex-
animation before the Bar Committee, OF
which Col John p Linton is chairman and
Messrs. Mclaughlin, Barker, Evans and
John f. Scanlan are members, on last Wed
/ nesday forenoon, and it is almost needless tC
say that with snch talents as he possesses
! and such a tutor to train him, he came out
with flying cOlors. The examination was
thorough and searching, occupying nearly
( three hours, and the ease and accuracy will
to him left no doubt in the minds of the ex
amining committee that our young friend i:
destined to become in due time one of tht
shining lights of the legal profession.
As was stated in our columns last week
our local military company Co A, Fiftl
regiment, y. G. P. } left home on Thursday
afternoon, at the hour of three o'clock, t,
eFrf Of