The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-02-03

ern Avenue, Lynn, Mass, for pampblets
Inc connecting of the names of Mr.. Jno.
Sanders and his two sons with the recent
shocking death at Benscreek of Mr. Louis
Delahunt, is an outrage on those gentlemen
which demands prompt UetractiOn from all
the papers and persons who have given cur
rency to the story.
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Druggist Ebensburg Pa. L4-1.-e.o o.w.1v.1
The only citizen OF Cambria county. and
a worthy, upright man he is, who has ever
been known 10 decline nomination for Of
fice-that Of State SenatOr-Out of Dure mod
esty in declaring himself unfit for the posi.
tion, was IN town on Wednesday, and the
printer IS tLree dollars and a a-haif better off
for it. ~
The /. o. o. T. brethren of this pIaca in
dulged in big feed and good time gener-
ally at their lodge room on last Wednesday
night. About seventy ladies and gentlemen
participated, and nothing stronger than
toastS, arfd not many of them, was drank
Mr.. Swartz, of the new confectionery store,
engineered the eatabes.
If Henry Barnhart, Hattie Carney. John
Cellar Annie Hildebraad, Miss Elizabeth
Jones and Mrs. f. Thomson call AFT fine FIJI
ensburg postOffice and ask each for an ad-
yertised letter, they will have no more din
Guilty in getting it than James Glasgow or
Evan Powell would have in getting two each
for the same amount of asking.
The recent destruction by fire of the Ian
caster Enquirer building resulted among the
other disasters in wiping outthe PENNSYLVANIA
Scaoot Journal printed at said Office, out of
existence for a few weeks SubscrlbarS 70
the Journal who read this notice will there
fore be able to account for their failure to
receive lt for month or so to come
&c Sup't Strayer and Mr.. &. A Riddle
Is. T., superintendent of the Fbensburg nub-
schools. intend a
at the Union school building, this place, for
the intellectual and professional training of
teachers, commencing about the first of Nav
and continuing for ten or twelve weeks We
wish them success.
R. L. Johnston, Esq of this place, de-
Ilyered very interesting lecture on the
Irish land question before the Land League
at Minersville. this county. last SUNDAY
evening. Daniel Mclaughlin, ESQ, of
JohnstOwn, grated on the same occasion
Both addresses were worthy of the respective
authors, but Mr.. JOhnstOn's was the longest
ana, lt Is needless to say, replete with wit.
The existing mail arrangement is the
worst EbensbuIg ever was cursed with
About half the time of late there has been no
morning mail at all, that matter reaching us
AT . 80 P. NJ, while no mail can come a night
under any circumstances, and no letters can
be answered from here until twenty four
hourS after their receipt. We are praying
Tor new schedule OF other change for the
better at an early day-the earlier the better.
deIphla, Mr.. Mcclellan (late of the Logan
House, Altoona, and CressOn Springs HOuSe)
proprietor, has changed or soon will change
hands, Baltimore firm having bought the
property. Our tOwnsman Mr. r. II. Thomp-
son is clerk in the Bingham. and we pre-
sume will remain in the like capacity under
the nt disptnsatiOr. Mr.. Mcclellan will
60 TO Erie to re embark in the hotel business.
-MeSsrS. Gibbs HassOn and John Farren
will constitute firm who will embark i'm the
general merchandising business in the room
now occupied by Mr.. Edward Griffith, High
street, on the 1st of April coming. Mr.. Grit
fifth has purchased the property next door
westward, lately owned by Hon. John
Thomas, on which he designs erecting a
building suitable for grocery purposes. to be
ready for occupancy by the 1st of April. So
we 20.
An item is going the rounds that Col.
Thomas A. Scott, decd, was the first con-
ductOr on the Indiana branch twenty-five
years ago. He may have been the first reqlt-
lar conductor, but it is within our knowledge
that Philip 5. Neon. Esq, decd, was con
ductoT Of train for the MeSsrs. Collins, con-
tractors for the construction of the road,
which carried passengers prior to the ap-
pearance of Col. Scott i'm those parts Mr.
Noon lived and died i'm Ehensburg.
The two TrjblHes (jOhnstOwn and Al
toona) say they have been reliably informed
the former having informed the latter, that
we did not wear when we 'ped" one Of
the FREEMAN forms on Friday last As
that settles what might otherwise have been
mOOted question, there seems to be no
need for us swearing that we didn't swear
single swear on that mOmentOus occasion
Cause why, we never allow any form" to
OutdO US i'm the matter of pi-ety.
The Bradfock Times says that officer
John Harris, Of Johnstown, passed east on
Thursday having i'm charge two prisoners
whom he had captured in Pittsburg. One
o! the men was implicated in the shooting of
Young man in Reese & Hammond's store,
at Bolivar. short time ago, and the other
was arrested on q charge of Jumping his
board bill Officer Harris has been very
successful in hunting down criminals, and
he may be truly said to oe detective that
detects"
The new Presbyterian church Of this
place will be dedicated to the service OF Al
mighty God on Sunday the 18th inst The
services Will doubtless be interesting but
we have not been furnished with any infor-
nation on that subject The church edifce
was finished last week, and has been turned
over TO the trustees by the contractor. Mr..
Shenk, of Erie, Pa, who is also contractor
Tor the new Court House. II is needless to
say that in both instances his work has been
well done.
Minnie Long, the fifteen-year old daupb
ter of Mr. 3. f. Long, Of the Central Hotel
JnhnstOwn, got up on her ear SATURDAY. even
ing because her father had administered to
her much needed correction, and thereupon
swallowed abOutan Ounc OF laudanum with
suicidal intent. Proper antidotes promptly
administered brought the desired answer
wouldn't have been very long for this world.
Next time she essays a role so desperate NAV
be i would be as well for Minnie to try what
virtue there is in her namesake of the rife
persuasion.
One of our forms fell into an incongIom-
crate mass Of ''pi'' while being washed or
last Friday morning, and nobody or at least
no printer, need be told that the asserting
and distributing of eight columns of sadly
demOraliZed burgeOis1, miniOn, nOnpareil
and display type, to say nothing of resettng
the advertisements, was anything but a de-
liRhtful task. With the aid however, of
some extra help and good deal of extra la
Dor on part of Ourself and our office force
the annoying difficulty was overcome with
out causing any delay in the issuing of the
present number of the FREEMAN
The semi-OfliCial draft of the new rail-
road proposed to be run through this neigh
borhOOd Is to be seen at the banking house
nt AeSsrs. Johnston, Shoemaker & Bucks
There are two projected lines. One leaves
the L. X. X. at pOintnOt Ear from CTessOn,
touches Ebensburg on the SOUTH and pur-
sues general southwestern direction and
the other leaves the Ebensburg branch near
Bradey's and goes northwestward toward
CdrrOlitOwn, ultimately striking the Indiana
branch at or near Homer. Either route
leaves Indiana borough out in the cold, and (
the people over there are in a bad frame of
mind in consequence.
The LatterneT House in this place has 4
been leased for a term of .wO years from the .
lst OF April next, with the privilege of re- !
naming two years longer, by Mr. Peter J. .
Martin, of HOlidaySburg, at an annual rem
tai of S275. Mr.. Martin is a young man of