The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-04-10


resolution fixing the date Of final ad-
Iournmant for Friday, May sth.
-Mr Andrew Foster, tho well-known
and cntcrprislug merchant Of JohnStown,
has change OF adj IN this issue which
every reader Of the FREEMAN should OBJ
, serve.
In the United States annually about
2,JoO persons are tried for murder, with an
average Of about 100 legal executions. In
five of the States imprisonment for life has
been established for the death penalty.
Another imported horse was purchased
by q company of gentlemen in this Vicini-
ty, this week for the sum OF 200. The
horse purchased is an English coach horse
1 -four years old and is fine specimen OF the
equine race.
-Sawdust is now used for mixing with
mortar in lieu Of hair. A most effective
combination is two parts of sawdust. two
parts of lime. five of sand and one of ce-
mcnt. which il is said Will remain firm and
will not peel Off.
There were ninety funerals in Pitts
burg on Sunday last. most of the persons
having died from grippe. The underta-
kcrS we're una BILE To attend all the calls in
uaNHght. ana some DI inc lllItTdiS lboh
place after dark 1t was "a weird scene.
A dispatch from Braddock says: Ifa
termination of the coke strike does not re-
suit soon. all the machinery in the Edgar
Thompson plant will have TO be stopped
There are five furnaces now in bl asst, they
consume a great deal of coke, and there Is
but small supply left.
Huntingdon county. was blown open We'd
ncsday night Of last week by burglars and
$40 in postage stamps and S23 in money be-
longing To the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company taken. Thomas X. Henderson,
the postmaster. acted as agent for the
Company.
Some people assert that snow water is
absolutely pure. The reverse of ii is true.
SO far from being pure. snow is, practically,
great purifier OF the atmosphere from
floating particles and noNious gases.
These the flakes of snow impriSOn or alb
sOrb as they fall, and. as matter of course,
when the snow mclts il is loaded with this
rubbish.
Joseph LciSe single man, aged about
twcnty-Six years. whose home was in
"
Cambria Blast Furnace, was instantly killed
on Monday morning by being struck on
the head by mass of iron ore weighing
about five hundred pound which rolled
down from the top of pile of ore, and,
striking him on the head, fractured his
skull.
AT the funeral of the Nicely brothers,
on Sunday afternoon, after the cortage
had reached the graves on their fathers
farm, and just a. the coflnS were about TO
be lowered. the parents and Mrs. Joe Nice
" requested Undertaken Lowry to remove
the coffin plates and the handles, as they
desired II keep them aS memorials OF the
awful tragedy. The coffin fixtures were
taken back home and laid carefully away.
The attention of our readers is called
To the advertisement of the Carrolltown
Normal school in another column. The
/ school will open on Monday, May 4th,
/ next. under the charge OF ex-Superintend
cnt Straycr and will continue for term of
ten weeks The energy and ability OF ex-
Superintendent Strayer as an educator are
sure guarantees of the success of the school
and those intending TO go during the COM
ing summer will find the Carrolltown Nor
NAL School up TO the highest standard.
Judge Henderson OF Crawford county
handed down two important decisions last
week in cases growing out of the failure of
the Delamater Bank The first decision is
that persons having deposits with Delama-
ter 4 Co. when the bank failed can use
those deposits as on offset TO notes owing
ID. K Co.. whether such notes We're in the
bank at the time of the failure or had been
rcdiStOuntcd by another bank. The sec
cond decision is to the effect that the in
( divdual deposits of q member OF 4 firm is
n sct-off against a note of the firm held by
the bank.
Farmers notes for 500 each in all parts
of Bcrlis county are out. Whether the
farmers themselves are out for like sums,
In joining cooperative companies TO i'm
prove their stock" is as yet an open ques-
ton. Many of them have given their notes
, TO pay 800 each toward a stallion for their
neighborhood, the horse to be of gilt-edgc
pedigree and worth 3, 600 TO 81, 500. These
contracts have been filled with cheap stall
lions, the farmers notes have reached in
nOcent hands and must be paid, and the
farmers themselves are going to law
Philadelphia Times.
Miss Solt, Of Snow Shoe township
Center County, aged Is years was found
dead in her bed ON Sunday morning An
inquest was held and post mOrtcm cx-
animation made, from which il was
learned that the indirect cause OF the
young lady'S death was eating too many
peanuts. Tn" direct cause of death was
the bursting of "A blood vessel which was
undoubtedly caused 10y severe attack Of
cramp, tn" latter the result of the peanuts
4 The young lady had eaten. Ii is said that
she ate three quarts On Saturday evening
but this i probably too large "a quantity.
When trees begin TO blossom and the
viol"tS To bloom: when the bull frogs in
the meadow warble boom-ah boom m
boom; when ducks are flying nurthward
and bright butterflies are out, and robins
20 housekeeping in the broken water spout;
when graSShopperS are hopping and black
bats come ont at night, and venture in
your bed-aoom attracted by the light;
when birds fly down the chimney. and hens
walk in the door, and beetles hold conven-
tion in the centre of the floor; when the
mud Is DER your shoe tops as you cross the
new-ploughed land-you may count ON i,
as certain that sweet spring is near at
hand.
The Bedford Inq,Itrer says that Albel
Darlington, of Glen Mills. Bedford county.
while driving a team of six horses loaded
with hay from the station TO his home. on
Saturday last, saw one of his horses drown
right in the public road. The horses be-
came fast in the mud and flood. lie
whipped the leader and he fell. The flow
of water was so great at the time that the
horse was drowned before he could get up.
This perhaps is single instance in all the
history of bad roads in this country. When
will the time come that such things will be
impossible? The horse referred to was the