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

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the cause of his death.
\ The Altoona Tribune stated one day last
week that Josephine aged 21 years, daughter
Of our friend Col. B. McDermitt, formerly
Of this place, but now Of that city, was down
with the smallpox. AS we have not since
seen any reference in the Tribune to the
matter, we infer, and hope we are correct,
that her case is not serious one.
The blue-birds made their first appear
ance in these parts last Monday, and the ma
pie trees are reported to have simultaneously
yielded up the spoils of the season, which are
counted the first. But on Tuesday came cold
. weather, followed by colder on Wednesday,
and both the songs Of the birds and the sap
. of the trees dried up all Of a sudden.
Brother Shrom, Of the Newport ledger,
gave as an excuse for sending half-sheets to
his exchanges last week that he had received
/ orders for sixty extra copies Of his paper af-
ter the outside had been printed. That's all
we'll enough, but unless each of the orders
was for full years subscription we shall
. expect Brother Shrom to make up the defe-
. iency. and that pretty middling quick.
A German named Birke, Of the Fourth
ward, JohnstGwn, who had Maggie Hoffman.
I a young girl, arrested last week on the charge
: Of stealing twenty dollars from his room. the
| money being afterwards found safe where
either he or his wife had placed it. gave the
/ girls mother ten dollars on SaturdavSiast on
/ condition that she would not bring suit
/ for malicious prosecution. He got of mighty
cheap.
Register and Recorder Brown showed ms
the other day the start he had made in trans
cribiDg the dockets and papers pertaining to
his office. These dockets and papers date
back to the period anterior to the formation
OF the county, and when we saw that each of
them must be re-recorded and fndexed care
fully and specifically, it IS enough for any.
body to cipher on and wonder if he can ever
get through.
We invite the attention Of our readers to
the advertisement Of J. Monroe TAYLOR. The
! house has been established nearly 40 wears
and his goods are celebrated ever vwhere for
purity and strength. We wouId recommend
a trial Of his Gold Medal brands to all who
appreciate good and wholesome bread. cakes.
etc. His Gold Medal saleratus or bi-carb.
sodais sold by NJ L. Oatman and John LLOYD,
, Ebeusburg. T1O-7.-4m.1
1t has no equal-the Lem Davis Horse
and Cattle Powder at James drug store.
Our merchant friend Owens, on business
intent, requests rs to say that all money
that's spent for fresh groceries and notions.
boots, shoes, and "sich. - at his store on High
street, viii ne'er make him rich. because his
prices are low and his profits are ''wee''
while the goods that he sells are as good as
can be. So make note Of these facts, and
when on shopping you're bent drop in on
fluyhne nd ha old AI,o4
went
Six horses, bought in this vicinity. were
taken to Cresson by the overland route We'd /
nesday. The intention was to ship them at
| Cresson for the eastern markets. The price
paid for each animal was about $50 per av-
erage Year by year our farmers are learn
ing the lesson that what was once regarded
as of no more account than untitled ground
is susceptible Of such cultivation as can de-
velop the highest and best growth of horned
cattle and horses
Mrs Minnie Brown, nee Mullen, of Con.
emaugh borough. who was divorced from
her husband. Fritz Brown, at the late Arru-
ment Court in This county. made IN for her
loss, and perhaps something over. bv marry
ing Frederick Johnson at the English I.uth
eran church, Johnstown, on Sunday last.
Minnie's mother. who engineered the first
wedding, had to take a back seat in the sec
ond one, but we don't know that either match
was made in heaven.
The boss bullock Of the season was
slaughtered bv our butcher friend avv Rod
gers yesterday Thursday, and will he Of
fered M as a sacrifice to his customers to-
day. tomorrow, and until every morseI Is /
disposed Of. 1t weighed .o55 pounds with
its clothes on and its stomach full. and was
raised hy Mr.. John J. Davis Of Cambria
township. It's age was rising four years.
and we venture to say there are few if any
| Ike unto It in the county or out of it,
"A letter from our esteemed friend Jacob
/ r. Stifier, formerly OF this county, whom we
/ had the pleasure Of visiting a aSnut three wears
/ ago at his home near New Cambria. Saline
I county, Kansas, brings the gratifying inteli-
cence that he and his family are in GOOD
health-that the prospects never were better
than now for big crop Of wheat since his
removal to that State. and that two new rail.
roads through Salina and Saline county are
/ confidently looked for before another wear
goes by.
1t has no Pqual-the Lem Davis Horse
and Cattle Powder at James drug store.
-Presuming that it Is a promotion. as no
doubt it is. and that he likes it. we conrrat-
ulate our estimable friend John c. Dickey,
formerly of Cresson, this county, on the fact
that he is to he transferred from the P r. r.
ticket Office at Hollidaysburg To the mueh
more extensive Office Of the same kind at
Pittsburg, where he is TO be boss. John is a
Johnstown boy, and that place never pro-
duced a more deserving or honorable gentle
man MAY we live to see him at the head of
the heap.
The PhilipsburC Journal, a weekly visitor
to our sanctum that is ALWAYS welcome. has
been enlarged to the size Of the FREEMAN,
and IS now printed on a Campbell power
press Brother Bair must have struck ''fat
take" or he couldn't bear the extra expense
which such costly and co,nmendable improve
ments entail Wouldn't object to a little
power press in ours, il we only had the
wherewithal to purchase it. Think we could
bear It about as well as Brother Bair OF any
other man.
We cannot too often repeat the assur-
ance we gave to our readers on several pre-
viousioccasions and that is, if they buy from
Cham. Roberts they'll help some to pave,
without any ifs,sands, or evasions. the-way
to success Of a man who entices his friends
to cleave to him by selling reliable goods at
honest, fair prices. It behooves Won. there
fore, when You need what he sells. to pitcb
in and buy, for his goods are the kind whose
oualitv tells