The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-09-03
LEAVES SOUTHWARK.



Go to J. &. Fl. A. Shoemaker for your
sections and repairs for the Champion
mowers and reapers.
You can. work too much purpose IN
less you are we'll, but you can Ouild up
your health and strength with Parker's
Tonic, and work will then become easy.
1t sets the lungs, liver and kidneys in
working order. Coughs and Coulds vanish
befOr it. Take it in time.
Go to J. & H. A Shoemaker for your
sections and repairs for the Tiger mowers,
the John P. NANNY mowers and the john
stOn mowers and reapers.
The eight year-uld son Of widow Gal
laRher, of Prospect, on Friday last during .
his mothers absence attempted to hurry up |
the fire under wash kettle by pouring car
bon oil on the FIRE. The can exploded and /
the boy was badly burned about the legs |
and thighs but may possibly recover.
Go to j. & H. A. Shoemaker to buynew
mowers, reapers and twine binders. They
have the best and will sell cheaper for the
same quality of machines.
Matthew WeakIand, who runs the in
dependent hack line from this place to
CarroIltown, has leased the Carrolltown
Hotel, formerly occupied by Mr.. b. Eng
lehart and in the future will entertain
everybody who may be pleased to stop with
him at that we'll known hostelrie to the
best Of his ability.
-HoIsemen, cut this out An eastern
veterinary surgeon says it Is fact that seed
Of the sunfiower is the best remedy ever dis
| covered for the speedy cure of founder in
| horses Immediately on discovering that
! young horse is foundered, put about one
pint of whole seeds into his feed, it will
work a perfect cure.
Mr.. J. A. Grazier, the miller, who re-
| sides Just outside of the borough line, has
| left at our office two stalks of oats, one OF
whicn shows what nature can do in the oats
line when she tries. Its head measures %
| inches and bears 272 grains. The ether is
/ no quite so large nor so prolific. Taken TO-
gether they are the most remarkable spec
linens of oats that we have ever seen.
The following named persons can each
get a letter by applying at the Ebensburg
Postoffice: Mrs. s. r. Horner, Mrs. Harriet
Jones, Mrs. Celia Jackson, Miss Katie V.
Murphy, Miss Jennie HandlOn, Miss Minnie
MCIintock, Mr.. Edward Garbrick, Mt. Will
liam Breueman, Mr.. Frank M'C0nnen Mr..
Anson 8idweu. Mr. Robert FIeninhen, Mar
tin Flick, John ). NaPle, S. W. Fry.
On Monday last during the thunder
storm. lightning struck an unoocupied
house belonging to Mr.. Philip Collins in
Ioretto. striking first the lue and then fol
lowing a rafter down to the edge of the roof
I Of nath
then following the spouting down 20 the
ground tearing off some weatherboarding
: The building was but slightly damaged.
David Kinney, a middle aged mai
whose home is in Portage, had the misfor
: tune to slip while attempting to board al
[ engine at Portage on Monday evening
last week, and fell beneath the wheels an'
had one of his limbs so badly crushed as T.
necessitate amputation above the ankle
= He has a large family and has been employ
ed at ". Fl. Piper & Co.'S coal works
7 Ben's Creek for a number Of years
. Pc nsion checks are Of no value after th
death of the pensiOner. Among the euec'
of an Indiana county widow who died IT
r Gently her administrator found four checS
n of the value or eighteen dollars eact
,, These were presented at an Indiana pan
a and we're cashed. The checks were ais
naid by the Pittsburg pension department
# ! INT when they reached the pension ourea
Is at Washington they we're refused A spe
2. iaI pepsIon agent who visited lndlana
N -1ook the matter up says that pension checi
y are not personal property. They are mac
,o,ahla 70 the pensioner and no one els
n At the death OF the pensiOner all money d'
sr =, cbacks uppaid reverts to the Treasury
4 the United States.
= Mrs. Elizabeth Rblett residing ne
III Cambria Furnace, on Saturday last
Ks borriblv burned BY attempting 10 kindie
to fire in the kitchen stove WITH carbon
Sne was pouring the oil from acan conta'
4, ing about three pints of oil on Tue COZ
!, ,yban the fire from the Goals ignited the
D. and ran into the can causing al eHp'osi
mt which scattered the burning oil all over .
be clothing. She ran out of the house WI
her clothing all in blaze, and before
,t- peigbbOrs succeeded in extingulshibg
md esmes her clothing was almost complete
Nv and her BODY badly burned. she dieu IN
he few hours afterward. She was about elR
,is cen years of age. was married about eieV
noptt,s- and was q daughter of Wilil'
.,a stevens of jackson tovnship.
at We learn that Mr.. HUFF, OF Pittsourg'
brother of Senator Huff, OF Westmoreia
of county, ) a gas and oil expert, who represe'
,t on extensive and successful oil and gas
n of that city, in company with A. l. inu
N. To Supt. of THE Cambria Lana Co'u'
on nc !" visited the Biacklick region se'e
~ dovs AGO. The test wells in jackson to'
sbJn and the 'bore" pear Armagh 10 10
-, ana county, as likewise the old gas
- poar Ritter Furnace, on the lands OF
Cambria Land Company, were critically
auined bv Mr. Huff, who was most favora
imnressed with all he saw, pronounc'ng
~ ,n- .a,nrsI indications as highly favorable
=, abundant yield of both oil ana gas
TX ,hoea localities. Mr.. Huff discovered
~ 'n oi, hearing sand rocks of Bradford ard .
s '.s ion at various points Throughout the tefT'U
"a he examined. and he intimated tna' IL
., n,s intention to lease, if practicabie' foI
" capitalists he represents a large area Oh Il
on - Blaeklick. and 10 proceed to deVeio
for oil and gas at once.