The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-10-16

ready some OF the material on the ground
and has commenced work
| 1t has been very stormy and disagree
able for several days, the rain blowing a Sc
we're gale on Monday and Tuesday nights,
but with the exceptions of few trees being
blown across the country roads, but little
damage has been done Considerable rain
has fallen which was badly needed as the
water in the creeks had got to be very low.
Mr.. J. &. Stineman was interviewing
the voters of Csrrolltown and township on
Tuesday. Meeting " ith but little encourage
/ meut he struck out for Susquehanna on
/ wednesday, where he found it was only
/ going further to fare worse. Reinforce
ments from EbensbHty we're sent out the
same day to keep up his courage
/ In part OF a lot in the East ward Hon.
A A. Rarker has raised between thirty and
forty head of cabbage. each of which weighs
between forty and nifty pounds; and on a
Z piece Of ground sixteen feet by twenty-fOur
he has forty sweet pumpkins the aggregate
weight of which is estimated at afteen hun
dred pounds
Every one Is talking hard times, and tel
ling how scarce money is, &c, but from the
looks of the big pile of goods down at Bar
kers' they certainly do not expect hard times,
unless it should be hard time to get rid Of
all them, they say the hardest times they
have is to find place to put them. so hurry
down and buy some OF them.
The contract for the pumping apparatus
to pump the water from the new dam now
being erected mp to the old reservoir, has
been awarded to Messrs. Mcmillan & Waters,
Of JOhns.Own. It is to he Cameron water
works pump and is to have a capacity Of
twelve thousand gallons per hour and to
be ready for use on the 18th Of next month.
1t is no use for US to tell you about one
half the new goods that Barkers' have Just
received, but will say that they have the
largest stock Of goods we have ever seen in
EbensburR, and seem to have most every
thing that you ask for. We would advise
you TO call on them, as we know that you
will find low prices on anY thing you want
-Messrs. T. & j. W. Johnston. Of 325
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, have issued
a neat little hook entitled the Law Of
Marriages in Pennsylvania" In contains
all the Information in regard to marriages
t under the recent law aud should he in the
hands Of every minister, justice OF the
peace and clerk of the Orphans court.
? Sent on receipt of 25 cents.
The Commercial published at Meyers
, dale, Somerset county, has hauled down the
2 name Of John G. Barron, the nominee of
the Republicans for Poor House Director,
\ and hoistad the name OF Samuel PhilsOn,
the Meversdale banker, who is the Demo-
cratic nominee for the same office. The
a Commercial has no candidate Cor jury COM
4, missioner.
The tanners are complaining about the
Z low price Of leather, that they cannot make
anything In tanning and we do not see how
they can. judging from the low prices OF
boots and shoes at Berkers'. They have
= boots for sale cheaper than our shoemakers
y say they can buy the leather and pegs
that's the place to buy your boots.
"A wealthy Bedford county man named
:, William Palmer, aged about sixty year.
and having wife and six children, elOpeC
one 6ay last wek with a buxon grass
, widow, fair, fat and forty years of age
. Unlike the generality Of elopers he left hi
e wife we'll provided for, having decided he
about $50 600 worth Of real estate before tax
n. ing his chances with the widow.
h. "A new school mouse, to cost SO 900. is Il
# course of construction at SummerhiIl Th
briIding is of frame, VIII cuntaIn fou
I roona. and will be fitted m ~ Long IS th
i, u, '.-.-..,.,,sOr IN cnarPe. The house will b
completed and ready for occupancy in
e short time.
2, Mrs. Eliza Ann Murphy, Execu:rix /
D John Dougherty, deceased, will sell at pub
lie vendue on Monday, November %, at hl
!, late residence in this place, large quantIt
,r of household and kitchen furniture, bed
:, and bedding, stoves, etc. Posters for tn
sale are now being printed at this office
Il Mrs. Murphy desires US to say that the az
NJ counts OF her father and the accounts OF he
I, sister, Anu DouGherty, deceased, have bee
left with John Seaman, Esq, FOR collec
r tiOn.
: -HOllidaysbuTg correspondent of the A
% tOona Tribune: Some time ago Mr. Ri;
- lost pig and his whereabouts was uC
4 known until day or two since, when tn
animal was discovered in the bottom of a
= old dry we'll about fifteen feet deep, int
u which his piQship bad fallen. Ten day
had elapsed from the time he was misse
Fl until found, ard when the porker was take
out it was not only alive, but active a
D. his companions, the only difference bein
10 that he was somewhat thinner than tn
e others.
= A panther is terrorizine farmers VIII
live near Chaneysville Bedford county
y On Sunday evening a week ago Philil
: vile on horseback, and had reached poin
a mile north of the village, VIXEN the pan
ther spraug upon him, tore his coat frou
3 his back and lacerated bis leg from the MI
Z to the knee. The horse shook the savag
d beast of This is the second time the pan
o ther has attacked SwartZwelder, and othe
farmers have been chased by It, There ar
= extensive forests in that section which fur
it nish safe haunts for sHch animals.
Mr. ID. A. Hadds and Stewart Thomp
c son, two Altoona carpenters, while at worl
OF pair of platform scales N the rear o
= John o O'Neils paper and rag warehouse il
! that city. on Monday morning fonnd bun
die wrapped in part of an old cOffeu sack
On examination the bundle was found +
10 contain the dead body of a male infant re
. Gently born. The body was still warm. I
:, cOTOner's jury investigated the case, and tn
testimony OF the physicians called went t
= show that the child bad been born elive and
= had died from exposure. Mo clue to tn
guilty mother has as yet been found
: On Friday last the daily papers con
, tanned the announcement of the fact tina
4 President Cleveland had on Thursday ap
=, pointed James q. HassOn as postmaster o
EbeLsburg via Edward James. suspended