The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-11-17


and a. Eckeurude, consigned to large
yarn manufacturing establishment in
! Philadelphia.
! The latest fad Is a poverty Sociable.
! Every woman must wear calico dress ana
every man his old clothes. la addition.
each is fined twenty-five cents if size or he
does not have a patch on his or her cloth
| ing, and prize is given TO the one wearing
| the poorest garment Country editors are
admitted TO the sociable, but on account of
having sure thing of il are not allowed
to compete for the prize.
Mr., William Kimball of this place
who last week shipped car load Of horses
/ 10 Baltimore will ship car load of horses
! 20 Washington. ID, c., to-day friday.
! He will take the horses overland to Johns
| town, where, owing to the competition in
| freight rates between the Baltimore II
Ohio aud the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pauies he can save considerable money by
shipping them from that point.
People who belieYc in signs will doubt
! less find something new in the following:
1t is unlucky to be struck by lightning on
Monday. To sit on a circular saw in mo-
tion on Tuesday. To fall down stairs with
coal Scuttle on Wednesday. To see a tax
''li'Nboi bNfl y bNi ltlb ShOulNtI On I Iludy.
To marry on Saturday girl who practices
with ten pound dumb bells. To be one of
sixteen at the table on Sunday when there
is food for only six.
On Monday evening while having a
horse ShOd at the blacksmith shop in New
Alexandria. WeStmoreland county. George
Stewart. a well l-known stock man, was at
tackled by IA weak minded fellow named
Charles Dowden. The latter hurled a
stone at Stewart. striking him on the head,
knocking him inscnSiblc to the ground.
Dowden continued 10 stone Stewart and
hit him in the side. injurinS him internal
ly His life is despaired of. Dowden is a
desperate character when augcred.
Hiram l.. Light. of Lebanon. Pa. and
family. on Thursday enjoyed for dinner
perhaps the cOStlicst turkey ever killed in
this country, its cost being $1,000 or about
50 per pound. About year ago the tur-
key belonged TO another person and wan
dered to the premises of a neghboring
farmer who also claimed it. The case was
in the courts several times, and when it
was finally ended it was found that the
costs and lawyers fees had reached 81 900
The bird was then purchased by Mr.
Light.
The situation at GalltZin has not i'm
proved very much the past week. Taylor
X McCuy'S mine is still idlc and but little
work is being done AT the other mines, and
there seems TO be little prospcctof an early
change The business men are unable TO
make collections, as there is but little
money circulating in the town. There is
great deal Of distress in many quarters as
hundreds OF workmgmen have been idle
for almost five months. Every person is
living in hopes of better times, but they
seem far way Off.
- notice that some wise men In vari-
Gus parts of the country are predicting
an uurommouly severe winter" said the
old Lacbawauna Valley weather prophet
al Scranton. on Thursday, but they are
all wrong All the signs point To a mild
and open winter. When you see caterpil-
lars crawling on the ground all through
October AS they did last month. you may
set 10 down a. "a fact that the temperature
will bc uuSeasOuably hIgh throughout the
winter Cutterpillars don't crawl up to
election time when cold winter is ahead.
-Jumrs ". storm. the only survivor of
the Mexican war living in Tyrone. last
week received "a gun used in the war with
Mexico ana prizes il very highly as me-
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10 MIR. Storm by the adjutant general of
I'H">y wanna through Governor iaJ'.soh.
Ebrusburg has three surviving veterans or
the Mexican war who should get a gun.
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this country about i've years ago and since
that time resided principally ia the neigh
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committed 1be dreadful deed by wing a
,,ia,.,. ,f t.y,,ine around his neck. and stand
Ing on a stump. tied the string to the limb
of Il tree. and then Jumped of the stump.
The twine broke but it had drawn so tight
around mis- neck that il straugIcd him to
do,tb
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the iattei = years oI age were hI'leu
short distance east OF EIi|apeth furhace'