The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-02-03
LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE.
PORTAGE. Pa Jan. 30. 1889

OklAdhS EA-t Jan. 80, 1857.
DEAR FREEMAN.-Business is quite brisk
in this locality, and quite a number of new
puldlngs are being erected Messrs J. C.
MARTIN q Co. contemplate the erection of
some twenty new houses (yOu don't suppose
SY SIeY Wouid oulld old ones do you p in the
spring (of the year, This enterprisinp firm
are also extending their railroad about one
hIie, IN the direction of Jerry Gleason's TO
point at which they have tapped the "vvbite
asn VEN OF coal. The coal in this vein at
Salu Salu point IS declared by experts (no. insan
ity experts) to be beautifuI and bountiTni
gorReo1sly excellent. so to speak II is of
much brightness, and of anthracitical aolid
Ity. Nhen Messrs. NJ. & Co. get their road
Completed they will have one of the insst
coal operations on the mountaIn nroviTod
none OF the "Stalwart'' comnanIes nouncs
down upon it two hundred STRONG and i-aaI
1t over into Trout Run. ~ ''1U NV
Much talk there has been ol-,+ +,,, 49,.
ing OF coal on land of E. McGIade. ESQ and
a,So T on the reservation of the Messrs. Finn
1nese enterprises will, in all human nroba
oe,llty; oud forth in the early Spring Nav
Our schools are progressing A Iitt1o late
Deelhnlng, but then, you know, great enter
prises must OF necessity, move slowly
"A lecture on ireland of To-day was de-
Friday evening last, by Rev J. J. Kerr. of
AIIoona Mr.. Kerr handled the subject in a
mastery manner, and though his mission is
no donpt to preach ''peace and good will TO
lhCiit iiC hiuil I nd0lfeSt mnPh love for Rrif-
Ish IyISItS IN MS lecture on the above occa-
SION. How could he, and be man. and
eSpeciaIIN an American citizen
MISS Ellen Mclaughlin, one of two maiden
tury on the Mclaughlin estate at cola No
:, near this city Chow are you, citv?), died
on w NenneSday last aged about seventy wears
her sister Rose, some years Younger, survives
heT; May she rest in peace
The general health of our neonIa ie var,,
good. The only artisan that cannot find re-
inuheratlve employment here is the doctor
we we are are very healthy people, considering
Messrs. Hahn & McGearv have established
an an agency here in the sewing machine line
lueY are young gentlemen of energy and
aoIIIty, and are driving a brisk trade II
dlS houSeKeeper whom thew NAV tackle does
not become possessed of a sewing machine II
VIII be because they are not afraid of being
tlIked 10 death. The Singer variety is what
they deal in. and these Young men saw tbe
name IS very appropriate, as they are well
calculated to make the person sins, who one
rates them. though thev never 'tSinoe(r1d,
Detore so nice, smooth and noiselpsslv do
they run. SvDT.x
BEN's CREEK, Jan. 81. 1882.
EDITOR FREEMAN.-On the nirht of Sat
urday the 21st inst, Louis DeIahunt got off
tne tnali train at this station and started for
ms home about one-half mile east of here
lie walked along the railroad track, and the
o
the influence of liquor, he was unfortunately
Mic q by freight train. His body was mn
JiaVed almost beyond recognition All this
was horrible to contemplate and esneciaIIv
was u distressing to his family and friends
ana IN their great distress they have the sim
cere sympathy Of the whole community. But
was IL not enough for them to suffer7 ? In the
opinion or some of the Uerg wise men of the
community 1t seems not. An inquest was
ihaugurated, and, to make that appear ius-
tnaple, the story must be put in circulation
Inat MI. Delahunt had heen foullv dealt with.
IhiS was communicated to the press far and
near, and all the dai!ies. east and west. LARGE
ana small, bad the horrible story prominent
~ presented in their columns as ga murder
at Ben's Creek, ." "StrOng suspicion of fouI
play etc. physician was sent for. who.
atter careful examination, couldn't see the
reasonable q Ound for suspicion - the iurv.
afteT two days deliberation, couldn't see, If
and nobody else could see it, except those
VINO wanted nOtoTiety-and they have got il
cambria cOunty's greatest coroner 7tight
probably have seen it in the same LIGHT. were
he still on deck BFN's CRFE,E