The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-10-02

Cresson and back is run every evening
during the fair.
Miss Kate O'Nell, of this place who
has been visiting in Pittsburg, returned
home to-day Thursday
On Thursday afternoon Vreeland's
band will render some fine music at the
fair grounds Go and hear them.
! One very good reason why a man
! should tell the truth is, that il is not the
/ tax on his memory that a lie would be-
! "A new daily paper is soon to be issued
! from the StH office i'm Altoona. II will be
/ Il penny paper and Democratic in politics.
] Another shooting match will likely
/ come of on the fair grounds on Thursday.
/ The markSmen in attendance all want 10
/ try it over.
Mr.. p. +. Brown, of the Central hotel
has purchased another black horse and
now has a fine team of matched blacks TO
/ run in his bus.
| Francis Mccoy a prominent and well
/ known business man of Hollidaysburg,
| died al his home in that place on Monday
/ in the 74th year of his age.
/ The attendance at the fair on Tuesday
/ was not large but was fair turnout for
/ the opening day. Wednesday was better,
and to-day Thursday promises to be
boomer.
AT the Hollidaysburg falr on Thursday
last week il is estimated that 5000 people
| were on the grounds The fair was the
most successful one ever held in Blair
county,
The new two-dollar bills being issued
are said to be beauties, and will be ac-
,bs..r ri.,fin
FREEMAN if presented at this office with
in the next three months.
james NJ. Lawson, a resident of LigO-
nier, was arrested on Saturday last,
charged with counterfeiting. He was TAX
en- TO Jail at Pittsburg. Lawson has long
been known as a dangerous man.
"A foot race was run on the fair grounds
on Wednesday afternoon between Robert
Simpson. Bert Adams, William Pritchard,
William Howard and Harry Shinafelt, in
which Simpson was an easy winner.
On Monday night burglars attempted
to enter the residence of Samuel Dean at
East Conemaugh by way of a second d-Story
window, but were frightened off before
they succeeded in gaining an entrance.
While John Silvfs, of Pleasant Unity,
WeStmorcland. was crossing bridge near
tnat place. with steam engine, it gave
away. precipitating him and the engine in
to the creek, 10 feet below. Mr. SilvIs was
considerably injured and the engine badly
damaged.
Professor Stewart. the aereonaut who
made the ascension from the Holidays
burg fair grounds on Friday last in ba-
loon and jumped out when at the height
of about one thousand feet. landed safely,
but got ducking by landing in the Junu
alta river.
There has been "A good deal of survey
ing done by corps of B. & o. Engineers
in the southern part of Cambria county
and the northern end of Somerset the past
two weeks and our friends in that quarter
are considerably elated AT the prospect of
a railroad.-Somersct Herald.
The statement of business on all lines
of the Pennsylvania railroad company
east OF Pittsburg and Eric for August,
1891. compared with the same month in
1890 shows an increase in net earnings of
Sl5g3S4. All lines west of Pittsburg and
Erie for August. 1891, compared with the
same month in 1890. shows an increase in
net earnings of Sss,o50
On Monday morning Miss Agnes Cos
grove. sister of Or. w. Il. Cosgrove, of
Derry. was, perhaps, fatally injured in a
runaway accident at that place. She was
hurled from the buggy and, when found
lying by the roadside, she was uncon-
scious. Several of her ribs We're broken,
her spine was injured and she is hurt in
ternally. The vehicle is complete
wreck
The Greeasburg Coal Company's sta
bles. east of Grecnsburg, were destroyed by
fire early on Sunday morning. Eighteen
mules, fifty tons of hay, thirty sets of han
ness, aud corn and grain were destroyed,
with a loss of 5000 and small insurance.
Desperate efforts We're made to save the
animals. which were uncomfortable
through fear. The property was owned
by Congressman George +. HUFF and Rich
ard Coulter.
Notwithstanding il was reported that
no gambling games would be allowed
either on the fair ground or inside of the
borough limits during the fair, the reso-
luton of virtue so far as the borough Off
cials We're concerned seems to have been
easily overcome. One man operated his
machine at the diamond and at the corner
of High and Julian streets without moles-
tation and his pocket book waXed fat on
the credulity of his dupes.
A d. Shoemaker, of Spring Church,
Armstrong county, says the Kittaning
Times has mare that stands six feet four
inches high. or nineteen hands high; from
the tip of her nose to the end of her taIl is
just 10 feet inches, over a rod, she weighs
2,O00 pounds and is only in average condi-
tion, it IS estima ted that she could be made
weigh $500 pounds, and she is only six
years old. This mare was sired by Clyde,
weighing 500 pounds, and his dam was
Morgan mare weighing LOO pounds. Mr..
Shoemaker has refused big money tor
her.
"A contemporary observes ''One of
fhe greatest miseries IS the want of mon
ey. 1t is wretched to have to confront a
just and oft-repeated demand, and be with
out the means TO satisfy it; to deceive the
confidence that has been placed in you; ts
forfeit your credits 90 be at the power of
another and TO be indebted to his lenity;
to stand convicted of having played the
knaye or fool. and have nc way left of es-
Gaping contempt except by incurring pity.
The suddenly meeting OF creditor, on
turning the corner Of a street, whom you
have been trying TO avoid for months and
had persuaded you We're several hundred
miles off, skaters the nerves.
George wainwright. charged with for
gerry, made a bold attempt for liberty from
the GreeRsburg jail on Wednesday morn
ing of last week. party of the prisoners,
Wainright' among them, was directed to
scrub the corridor of the prison At mo-
mcnt when the jailer's eye was not direct
ed toward them, Wainwright went up to
no rd tiar nd lvfnU Ipv-p ed until