The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-01

"A dry summer is the prediction of the
weather prophets IN great many of our
heignooriDg exchanges. No wonder So
Few licenses having been granted in our
nelehooring counties, it does not require
much OF a prophet to predict dry time
People IN those counties who are we'll enough
of to keep kegs of their own should not al
low their neighbours 20 suffer.
The Ca,ro!.t0wu NelCs has changed
hands aau in the future will be published bv
DR.. j. o. Creery and Mir. II. O Stolz We
are Informed that the retiring editor. Nj
James P. Baker, will remove to Cookport.
Indiana county, where he will connect him
self with the Monitor at the latter place. but
in what capacity we have not learned We
wish them all success in Their new venture.
Philip Z. ToIand, formerly citizen of
Altoona, but for the past year residing in
Philadelphia, and VINO was assistant road
foreman of engines on the Pniadelpnia di-
vision of the Pennsylvania railroad, was
killed in railroad collision on the Iron
Mountain road, Seventeen miles from ST.
Louis, on Monday last. Louis Crist. the
fireman, was also killed and several others
badly injured.
The Centre Democrat. Of BeHefoute, Of
/ 1
be in town this week aud work will soon be-
gin on tue Buffalo Run, BeIIefoute and Bald
Eagle Railroad. We hope this is not mere
rumOr, as much Of the future success Of our
town depends on the completion this road.
, Mr.. Collins has said all along that the road
would he built, aud We have no reason to
doubt his word
The town of Plymouth, in Luzerne
county, is suffering frOm d terrible epidemic
OF typhoid nature, said TO have been
brought on by the accumulation Of Gltn in
I the town, The town contains a population
/ of between seven ana eight thousand iuhab
| jtants aud it Is estimated that tueIa are at
( present from one thousand TO twelve hun
/ dred cases Of sickness in the town, and al.
/ ready some fifty deaths have occurred from
/ it,
Only nine liquor licenses were granted
I by the Court at Huntingdon un Friday last.
/ OF those granted six are in Huntington,
/ one each in WauiOTsmark, Mil Creek and
/ Orbisnnia. The landlords were called be
! fore the Court and required to give their
} 3 ,EsouaI pledges that they will not sell to
/ persons Of intempera.e habits nor 20 others
| to whom tie sale of liquor is prohibited by
/ law, and that they will close their bars at 10
/ O'Clock at night.
/ Among the deeds left for record at the
| Recorders Office during the past week was
one that was torn all in pieces and .heu
patched together. The explanation of It's
/ condition was that the husband and wife
had a family racket over the property, when
the wife seized the deed aud tore it into
ribbons, tut the husband succeeded in gath
! ering up the pieces and patching them t..
/ gether so that iJ can be recorded. 1t looks
about as neat as crazy quilt.
Some person either ma iciousy OF
thOughtlessIy started a fire on Thursday OF
/ last week, on the road leading from Car
rolltown to Hopper Valley on farm be.
longing TO Mr, EiSar Farabaugh, about a
mile and half from Carrolltowu, and be-
fore It was discovered and got under CON
troll destroyed a lot Of fencing Tor Nh Fara
baugh and one or bis ueIahbors, MIR Peter
Elig. The fire ran in the high grass and
was only headed of by blowing furrOw.
through the fields.
"A young man in a neighboriug town was
/ recently enjoying moon light walk in oDnI-
pany with several Of his lady friends, when
he was treated to liberal dose of buck
| wheat flour by some OF his supposed jea!ou,
I rivals. AS a consequence, there is ''bl0Od
. on the NOON and be and bis friends threat
en- vengeance dire or the perpetrators of Jht
. uumanIy joke. He should have done as die
. a pair of Ebensburg swains who had ike
. experience in the same town, not long sine,
simply Kept it quiet.
-Cleagtield Citizen: Last week one day
yOlnR man dropped dead Of heart disease a
Parker's log camp, in Elk county. His
friends got the corpse ready and sent one o
! their number with it to the logman's home
When the coffin was placed on the railroad
car, it was placed beside the coffin uf tht
dead mans father, who had died in the sam,
week. The vile and mother was on Jht
. same train with her husbands corpse, aut
never dreamed that heI sons corpse was on
the same train, as she had not yet learned o
his death. Such a picture is beyond de
scrption.
On Monday of last week fight occur
red in the barrOOm Of dOhman Bros, il
Johnstown, in which Frank Roberts, a col
Ored man, was 50 badly beaten that he dieC
on Friday last. He was about 26 years o
age, and worked in the wire mill. Warrant
were issued for Henry Turner and Charles
Adams, who are believed to be responsible,
for the death Of Roberts. Since writing tn,
above a coroner's jury has investigated the
cause of Roberts death, and the physician.
who made the autopsy found that death re
suited from acute pneumonia, aud not from
violence.