The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-07-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Saturday, June 29th, was the eigh- /
teen hundredth anniversary of st. Peters |
martyrdom.
AT echoes, New York, six boys have
been drowned while bathing within the |
past two weeks.
Two young men died in New York
city, and one In Brooklyn, last week. from
drinking ice water while playing base ball
"A lady brought before the Police
Court of Cleveland, for drunkenness, wore
five thousand dollars worth.of diamonds.
The corner stone of the Catholic
Cathedral, intended to be the largest
church edifice in Indiana, viii be laid at
indianapolis next week.
The prelates of the Catholic Church
Of America, now in Rome, have presented
the Pope with 5000, 900, in gold coin, and
silver model of the yacht Henrietta
LIN the very heart OF log which was
being sawed up at Augusta, Me-, the other
day, strip of paper was found on which
was written in pencil, GIFTS, J. B. Dun
kirk, with Arnold
AT an election for School Directors,
held at Lancaster, Pa, on Friday last,
the Democrats elected their ticket by a
thousand majority. This is the largest
majority ever given in that city.
Official dispatches from Mexico an
nounce the fact that Maximilian was shot
to death, by order of Juarez, on the 10Th
| of June, notwithstanding the humane In
::SSTppasitiou :S Of our government IN his behalf.
The Democracy of Philadelphia have
purchased property at the corner of Ninth
and Arch streets, upon which they propose
to erect club house of brown stone SINH
lar to the Union League House, on Broad
| street.
Jacob Venus, respectable farmer
of Springfield, York county, committed
suicide by hanging himself few days
ago. No cause is assigned for his COM
mitting the rash act He leaves wife
and several small children.
of nine negHbes arrested for the MUIR
der of Mr.. John Golden, merchant of
Warwick County, Virginia, on the I'd OF
December last, three have made their es-
cape, one has been acquitted, and five
have been sentenced to be hanged.
"A freedman in Texas proved claim
of $50 for wages against his master, but
negro jury would allow him only $I1O,
on the ground that they knew him to be
ga triiing, lazy scoundrel," /" and not worth
, what his employer agreed to give him.
Radical organs claim credit for Jadge
Williams because he studied law with
that distinguished sscopperhead,. Judge
: Lowry. To make anything out of any
of their candidates the RAIDS are alway.
compelled to hunt up Democratic roots.
"A raft passed Memphis, Tennessee
last week, which would, if placed on DIR,
land, cover over one and half acres o
! ground. It was composed of SGT tiers
averaging each SO feet, and containing ii
all about ], ,40o,0 900 square feet of finei,
. seasoned cypress.
8 The Philadelphia ledger says On
Col. Schumacher has just died in the luna
tic asylum, who is reported to have frs
e discovered coal in this State in 1911
q The people had no faith in his discovery
and after losing large fortune, he spen
8 the last twenty-cne years of his life in til
2 asylum.
Z "A Norwegian woman, dressed i
3 homespun, brief and limp, who, onl
seven weeks from her native land, arrive
at Milwaukee one day last week, wa
seen two hours after with bran new hoo
skirt under her arm, just entering scs
for Minnesota. II was her first trial {
8 Yankee institutions, and illustrates tt
ruling passion.
: -Forney, writing from England, says
II s'You would be astonished to find ho'
Charles Sumner is admired here )" Sic
ney Smith used to say: eff you exam
inc q blue-bottled fly with microscope
= you will find its body covered with uel
u little parasites, who believe their own pa
IN ticular fly the bluest, grandest, merrie
d | in the universe" Sumner is Forney
blue-bottled fly.
,gl LIN Norway and Sweden there Is +
" ported to be perfect mania on the su
u ject of emigration. All who can gath
9, together sufficient sum to pay their pas
he ages to America make start. They
at chiefly to Minnesota and other parts
: the Northwest. The people of the Unit
- States viii always welcome the poor a
W dissatisfied of other lands There 6
L. millions of broad and fertile acres th
4. need cultivation.
"A young clerk, j. G. I.oufee,
Greenfield, Ohio, who has long been So
= fering with peculiar pain IN his stonaac
= giddiness and dimness of vision. was
e. lieved, few days since, through the age
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