The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-01-20

know 10 be deserving OF everybOdy'S patron
ace. Forget him not when shopping yOu 90
Since our last issue, the Altoona papers
record the death of four persons from small
pOX, three of the victims having died at the
close of last week, and the fourth on Tuesday
night of the present week. The case last
referred to was that of Miss Josephine Hoo
yer, aged % years. She was a daughter of
Mr. John Hoover, who resides in Elder town
ship, this county, and had been employed as
a domestic in the family Of Mr.. Kuhn, of
Altoona for the past three years
The Crawford house. in this place, has
for a couple Of months past been under the
management of Mr. 2. F. Brown, who at
that time succeeded his brother, ]. Il Brown,
and like him is keeping the house in good
style Visitors to Ebensburg will find salts
factory accommodations at moderate figures
by hanging up their hats with our friend
Brown, who with his good wife viii leave
nothing undOne to make their stay pleasant
and their future patronage certain.
A man named Morgan Berkey, an en-
plOve OF Mes srs. West & Dumm0nd meT-
chants at Bolivar, WestmOreland county,
surprised a burglar in the store Of said firm
at an early hour on Sunday morning last, and
was shot and slightly wounded for his pains
p. S-A Greensburg letter to the Pittsburgh
Dispatch of Tuesday last says that Berkey
was shot through the body, the ball coming
out near the spinal column, and that there
were no hopes at that time for his recovery.
Had it been Gods will we would have
been glad to dispense with the services Of a
certain class Of mechanics known as under
takers but since that was not to be we have
no hesitation in commencing Messrs. Lynch
& Stevens OF Altoona, and Messrs. Owens &
Lightly, OF this place to the patronage Of all
who may be called upon to mourn the death
Of any lOYed-Ones. Both firms are prompt
reliable and moderate in their charges, and
while we hope that none of our readers will
ever have cause to employ them, we can say
in all sincerity that they deserve to be en-
ployed when necessity demands.
H..
tude Of one million till a person underta kes
to count it in One-twO-three order Then,
he is likely to give up the job in dispair and
90 to wOOd-chOpping Well the cash capital
OF the Etna Insurance Company, of Hart
ford, Conn, was during the past year in
creased from 81, 600, 600 to s., 600 900 This
Company has been in existence siXty-three
years, and during that period paid losses az
gregating Sj34, 600 600. It's cash I'm bank on
the 1st instant was S11Sl, 739. &C, and the
sum total of its assets IS, ,902, 2T2 81. T. w.
Dick, Esq, is agent for the Etna for Ebens-
burg.
We don't own the house we live in, which
may be more our misfortune than our fault,
but it is qualification to know that a gener-
ous, whOle-sOuled gentleman does own it,
and that gentleman is Geo. F. Huff, Esq, of
G1eensburg. OF all the kindnesses shown to
US since death invaded our household and
made such terrible havoc among our loved
ones there have been none to compare in
extent, though all have been prompted by
the same noble, Christian spirit, with the un-
pXpectpd and undFSarvf d generosity display
ed towards us by the worthy gentleman we
have named. That God may bless and pros
per him here and reward him hereafter is the
heartfelt PRAYER of those whom his noble act
has placed under deep and never tO-be-fOr-
gotten obligations.
-Four men engaged i'm hewing timber for
a new barn in Allegheny township, were en-
gagged on Thursday last in cutting down
tree at least one or tive of them were, but
thpv hadn't got in much of their work before
a large bear came gliding down the tree, and
the four men-wel they all glided in another
direction lust as fast as their legs could carry
them being evidently impressed with the
idea that trOubls was bTuin for them then
and there It is needless to say that the bear
didn't follow them, as he was about as badly
scared as they we're. The came animal was
seen again on SATURDAY. last, but as seeing
him didn't hurt him any he was still well and
hearty 1T latest accounts. Perhaps the four
heroes Of the above adventure don't get up
on their respective ears when anybody shouts
"bpar" at them.
Col. solomon Baer died at his home in
the vicinity OF Somerset an Friday last, in
the eighty ninth year of his age. He was
the father Of Hon. VIM. j. Baer, the ne wly
elected President Judge of the Somerset and
Bedford district, and during his long life
maintained the reputation of an honest m an
and a good citizen. In his younger days he
was an enthusiastic military man, and he is
well remembered by some Of our citizens as
u
cOunOsed of Somerset and Cambria counties,
which always required his presence here o n
the tenth Of May in each year at the big
muster as il was called, to review the mill
tia. \ uersOn who had the good luck to wit
ness "big muster" and All that 1t implied,
under tbe old militia law Of the State, will
not be likely ever to forget il.
Miss Jennie Welfel, whose mysterious
disappearance on Monday night Of last week
from the residence Of Mr.. Z. Zang, in Johns
town. at whose store she was employed, and
who was believed to have gone away with
VIM. II. Hoffman, formerly of JOhnstown,
but now of Homestead, Allegheny county,
and who when ne lived in the former place
was Miss Welfels fellow" all OF which
was stated in our last issue, has very salts
factorily explained her sudden departure by
writing letter to her parents, dated Home
stead, informing them that she was married
to Hoffman on the Wednesday after she left
J0hustOWn in his company, by Rev. Father
Bullion, pastor Of the Catholic church at
Homestead-that she and her husband have
commenced housekeeping, and that she will
paw them a visit at an early day.
-FrOma statement published in q recent
number Of the jOhuStOwn Tribune II appears
that the total cost of building the smallpox
hospital for the admission of patients from
that and the surrounding bOrOughs, as well
as all the expenses pertaining TO the same,
from the opening Of the hospital on the sec
Ond day Of last August, until the first day of
the present month. was S211S.9O. OF this
ed with the payment Of 81 ,O59. 40; JOhnStOwn,
S6O565T COnemauEh borough, 1927. So Mill
vile, S12413; Cambria borough, ST9. 10, and
WOOdvale SD 90. Fifteen persons were adj
mitted to the hospital during the period
above mentioned, two Of whom died. The
committee from whose report these facts are
gathered keptnO record Of deaths from small
pOx except those that occurred at the hos
pital
Cambria county can boast of some ia
nous hunters who are sound both in body
and limb but in the village Of Jacks Cor
uers, in Bedford county, if the newspaper
account of him can be relied on, there dwells
a cripple sixty years of age who IS far ahead
iu that business so far as heard from. His
name is Joseph r. McIlray and for the last
three wears he has walked with two stats.
During that time he has killed in HOpewell
township, in which the village above named
il situated. the following list of game Two
bears, four wolves, siXty-eight deer, nifty
wild cats forty foxes, two hundred TaCOOns,
two hundred and fifty-seven wildi turkeys
and lots Of smaller game of which no account
was kept The story looks very big but the
the Altoona Tribune publishes it as the stub
born truth, unaccOmpanied however, by an
affidavit.
NEW COAI. DEVELOPMENT We under
stand that MessTS. A T Piudle, of this cOun-
ty, and A. Axe and i. p. Work, Of Altoona,
have lust concluded a lease on royalty Of the
coal and other minerals underlying the lands
OF MesSrs Michael and Patrick Bracken,
situate on the main line of the Pennsylvania
railroad, near Mineral Point, as we'll as the
coal underlying land owned by Mr.. Charles
Wilson, and adjoining the above tract the
whole containing nearly 400 acres, A drift
or heading is now being driven into the
coal, for the purpose Of testing its quality.