The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-03-17

/ their inimltable entertainments at the Court
| House, in this place, on next Monday ev en-
| ing. Reserve seat tickets for sale at Jane s.
drug store.
"A Huntingdon firm is credited with the
discovery of a preparation, composed of
herbs, which will make the hair grow on the
baldest heads. After we hear from a couple
I of animated billiard balls who grace the edi-
1 tOnal profession thereaway we shall know
more about it.
"A large quantity of ore fell on a young
| man named Joseph Burke, on Monday last
/ while at work in a mine on Benshoff Hill,
| Johnstown, but fortunately he escaped with
/ comparatively light injuries the worst hunt
| he received being a fracture Of his right
| leg below the knee.
Our butcher friend Lew. Rodgers, Of
this place, slaughtered a four weeks. old calf
the other day which netted 90 pounds of
clean meat The calf was bought from Mr.
Thomas Davis (North), and was probably
the largest for its size that has ever bleated
a bleat in this vicinity.
Two children of Mr.. David Imer, of
Woodberry township Blair county, have re-
Gently died from diphtheria. One Of them, a
son aged 90 years, leaves a widow II years
old, and the other victim was little girl aged
years. The bereaved ones have our sincere
and earnest sympathy.
This is the last regular term of Court for
the present Court House. It has served the
purpose for which it was built for fully fifty
years, half the time affording totally made
quate accommodations, and will be superse-
ded by building at once safe, commodious,
elegant aud ornamental.
Many a merchant owns larger store
and more extensive stock than John Owens
owns, but when it comes to a choice assort-
ment Of fresh groceries, hats, caps, boots,
shoes, notions, etc, at the very lowest prices,
everybody owns that John Owens can hold
his own with any Of them.
Altoona 5 oldest inhabitant died on last
Friday morning. Her name was Mary Gal
braith and her age 94 years. In 1851 her
husband and herself took up their residence
at what is now corner of Lexington avenue
and Ninth street, where she continued to re-
side M to the time of her death.
Mr. FOs. Lloyd is in town on a brief visit
to his parents and friends. He was formerly
telegraph operator here and at Cresson, and
is now employed in the same capacity in the
Western Union Office at Pittsburgh. Weare
glad to know that he likes his new quarters
and that his new quarters like him.
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound revives the dropping spirit invigor-
ates and harmonizes the organic functions !;
gives elasticity and frmness to the step, re-
I stores the natural Iustre to the eve, and
plants on the pale cheek of beauty the fresh
roses Of life's spring and early summer time.
-Newry, Blair county. which in its time,
and a long time, has probably had more and
better brass bands than any other town of its
size in the State, has Just organized another
one, which is to be put through its 'toots'
by Charles Conrad, Esq, who has few equals
and fewer superiOrs as a musician.
; The Semi Weekly (Huntingdon) Ne,Cs
I entered upon its eighth year last week The
| Ne1Cs has a circulation OF over 800 in the
/ county in which it is published, and its local
/ department, which is its speciality, is always
full and complete. 1t is a good paper, and
+ we are pleased to know meets with the sue
/ cess which the care and industry Of its editor,
our good friend Mr. Lindsay, so well merits
/ A carpenter named Joseph Lewis, en-
. ployed by the contractors who are building
the addition to the Mountain House. at Cres-
/ son, fell from the top of that structure to the
/ ground, on last Monday morning. receiving
injuries from which he died the same even
ing. The unfortunate mans home was at
| Howard, Centre county, where his remains
+ were taken for burial. He leaves wife and
. two children
When lightning and thunder manifest
I themselves while the mercury is down to
I 80 degrees above zero and a snow or sleet
storm is prevailing as was the case on last
I Wednesday night, IL looks very much as IL
/ there was big screw loose somewhere in the
weather department. This is the second
/ time within a month that this thing has hap
/ pened, and people hereaway begin to wonder
/ what It all means
AT meeting Of the Cambria County Bar
held Monday evening, it was resolved that a
Bar Association, similar to one now in force
in Blair as well as in other adjoining counties
should forthwith be organized. The object.
as we understand IT, is primarily for closer
union OF the fraternity. and secondarily, for
the purchase of a law library for the use of
bench and bar, the same to be an adjunct of
the new Court House.
IF our young friend Harry A. Jacobs
gains as much financially rs the cart preser-
vative" loses professionally by his retirement
from the local edtorship of the Huntingdon
Globe, and his intended affiliation with his
father in the hardware and tinware business
at Hnllidavsburg, as we certainly hope he
may, there viii be some ''baIm in Gilead'
for us fellows he leaves behind. All the same
we are real sorry to part with him
We would not willingly detract from the
/ character or corporosity of any man, woman
or child, and hence we hasten to correct an
error we fell into last week about the avoir-
dupois Of Judge Watson, of Doylestown,
Z who assured us during a hasty but pleasant
visit to our sanctum, on Friday last, that he
: weighs nearly 300 pounds, instead of 300, as
we were wrongly informed. Watson his
/ bones the Judge is certainly entitled to.
The Johustown Tribune saws that ped
dler sold to widow lady pair of spectacles
the other day for 50, and afterward sold his
whole stock to a hardware merchant at such
a price that the latter could realize his Gus
tomary profit by selling them at twenty five
| cents pair. They were ordinary twenty-five
/ cent steel spectacIes- Our advice to town
people as we'll as to country folks is TO give
. peddlers a wide berth. There is no need for
them.
Judge Watson, who filed the bench last
week in the absence of Judge Dean, uses an
old-fashioned quill-pep while writing. AT
the end Of the session last Friday he handed