The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-02-27


was delivered by Robert Ferguson. Of the
s"uie township. We do not believe there Is
any better coal in this section of the county.
QUITE number of our citizens are on
snort allowance OF water, their hydrapts
ana water pipes being frozen up by the re
cent cold snap. The main pine on Ce,tra
street opposite the Court hous is frezen mn
and water has TO be hauled for the purposa
or supplying the boilers of the heating an.
paratus of the Court house.
-there will be an annular eclipse OF the
sun with the moon on the 10th OF March
Inc eclipse will be partially visible in this
see0ioh from ll.3S a. m. to 2.18 D. m of that
uay. Inc moon will be partially eclipsed
Oh Tue 5oth or the same month, the eclipse
not oelng visible in the United States. but
visible In Europe and Africa
"A new device by which passenger cars
are heated has just been introduced by the
pennsylvania railroad, and gives eutire sat
I istacttOn. The new heating aDparatu. ia
a self feeding stove OF furnace placed under
'ns car moor capable of holding one bushel,
"nIch IS hlIsd with anthracite coal and will
make run of one hundred miles.
IL the great body of snow that now GOV
CTS the ground should happen to 90 away
with rain it will be the cause of a great
Hood but whether it goes away with a rain
or not. people should go to John Owens
store for dry goods, groceries, provisions,
oOots and shoes, etc where you will at all
times find gOoG goods at low prices.
Armstrong county has voted against the
erection OF poor house with emphasis
Ihere were 4,O26 ballots cast against to /. 400
for the project. In Kittanning borough the
vote was tie at 1856 Voters were not so
much opposed TO the institution as they
we're AFRAID OF Job5ery in the purchase OF
farm and constructing the buildings.
The sill providing for the establishment
OF the whipping post for wife beaters was
/ defeated in the Senate last week by vote
OF "A to 16. 1t Is but Just to say that the
statesmen who voted against it did so, not
on account of desiring to avoid any unneces-
sary personal risk to themselves, but that it
was step backward towards barbarism.
The Figilant fire company of Altoona
have met with another heavy loss in the
death of one of their ngw horses. Mr. w.
I w Trout recently purchased three horses
Tor the company in Illinois, for which he
| paid the snug sum of 81 ,OOO and ever since
their arrival in Altoona on Friday last. the
one which died had been aiIing, the trouble
being lung fever.
Information is wanted OF the whsrea
| bouts of John Butler, bright and active
boy. aged about 16 years, who left his home
In Huntingdon in search of work on the 18th
OF November last and when last heard from
was in Clearfield. When there he wrote on
the 1st Of December that he would be home
in few days, but since then nothing has
been heard from him.
Mr.. William Lewis, one of the most
| highly respected and prominent citizens of
Huntingdon, died at his residence in that
place on Sunday night last, aged II years.
He was printer by trade and was political
editor of the Huntingdon Globe from 1916 to
| 1874, after which he disposed OF his interest
in that paper and connected himself with
the mercantile business.
, "A tin box containing toy monkey was
found under the Greensburp Court house
steps one day last week, and the supposition
of the finder that it was an Internal machine
loaded with dynamite was sufficient to alarm
the inhabitants OF that place. aud great was
their Joy when they discovered that what
they thought to be fuse was only a string
to make the monkey dance
MIR. Joseph Erb, one OF the men who
was killed at South FORK last week by the
railroad accident, was formerly Lancaster
county clergyman, having left that county
thirty live years ago, and intending to make
a visit to his native place entered inte part
nership with Mr.. Bowman and bought
car load Of horses which they shipped to
New Holland in that county.
The verdict of the Coroner's Jury that
investigated the accident at South Fork bv
which two drovers were killed last week,
says THAT the men killed came to their death
through the gross negligence or wilful mis-
conduct of James B. Anderson, engineer of
No. 628, and that A. L. Gibson, fiagman on
the train ran into, was negligent of his
duty" The engineer and dagman have
been arrested.
Mr.. John Schwab, of Loretto, left on
Saturday last for Pittsburg, his intention be-
ing to enter Mercy Hospital for the treat
ment OF one of Fis eyes, which has been
troubling him for some time Mrs. VIM.
Lang, OF this place. who is a sister OF Mr.
Schwab, accompanied by her little daughter
Gussie, who has been afflicted with a spinal
affection, also went at the same time for the
purpose OF having her daughter treated by
the medical faculty of that institution.
The Pittsburg Times reports a some
what Indefinite remark of Lawrence j. Mil.
Ter, mising engineer for the Atlantic Coal
Company, the largest concern in the Clear.
field coal region, as follows Mr., Miller saws
the New York Central Is after the Rochester
& Pittsburgh, and thinks their chances for
getting it are reasonably sure. In that
event, says the gentleman, the Rochester &
Pittsburgh will be opened through from
Punxsutawney to Johnstown, where a con-
nection will be made with the B. &. o.
The cottage alleged to have been burg
larized by William Slough at Cresson recent
ly, was that of John Chalfant, of Pittsburg.
This morning Miss. Ellen Murphy, who was
with Mr.. Chalfant's family last summer. and
who Is now at the Mountain House. and
Agent Corbet, of Cresson, appeared at the
Burgess office to look at the goods recover.
ed from Slough when he was arrested. Miss
Murphy identified eight pieces of lace. two
blankets, four towels, three small Bohemi-
an goblets, and other articles as the proper.
ty OF the Chalfants.-J JohnstolSn Tribune,
On Thursday last as Peter Miller, an old
gentleman residing near Altoona, and Mr..
Nj. A. Yeager, of that city, were driving
past the White Hall stables a horse that had
got frightened suddenly ran out of the ward.
and being unable to turn aside jumped into
the sleigh, striking both men with bis fore
feet, throwing them out of the sleigh, and
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