The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-11-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


eighth husband.
Horace Greeley says, in his charac-
teristically mild way, that Thuriow Weed
is 'san eminent veteran liar"
A dead child, with one head and
two faces, one front and rear, with but
one body and four legs, is on exhibition
at Albany.
"A man named Michael Conlin is now
being tried for cow stealing in Chicago.
The theft of thirteen COWS has been proved
against him.
The RAIDS. used to call Sambo ga
man and brother - recent experience
has made them conclude that he is
''man and bother"
One McNeeley ran against time at
Terre Haute, Ind, on the first inst. He
made three miles in II minutes and 81
seconds, winning fifty dollars.
Virginia has nine and q half millions
acres of improved and eleven and quar-
ter millions acres of unimproved lands.
Plenty of room for improvement still.
Lieutenant Buskirk, of Monroe coun>
ty, Indiana, is frail specimen of humani-
ty, standing six feet ten in his stocking
feet and weighing four hundred pounds
gross.
An awful boiler explosion took place
in Pittsburgh, on Friday morning, at
Messrs. Reese, Graft & Dale's mill, by
which twenty men were killed and large
number severely injured.
The oil refinery of Messrs. HcKeown
& Bros, at Pitts6nrg, was consumed by
fire on Wednesday might. One of the
employees of the establishment perished
in the flames. Loss, $50, 900.
A couple from the country put up at
the Bay State House, in Worcester, Mass,
on Saturday, and upon going to bed blew
out the gas-jet. They were found insen>
sible in the morning and their lives were
saved with difficulty.
"A gentleman in New York has in
| vented an instrument by which counter
feits, however we'll executed, can be readi-
| ly detected. If two bonds or notes be
printed from different plates, the fact is
Immediately made apparent.
An exchange says that when George
Francis Train was in Australia, he sent
his wife home so that their coming child
might be born in the United States and
be eligible to the Presidency. The child
was born and proved to be girl
The word "Tariff'' comes from the
old Moorish foi itress of Tarifa, on a pro-
montory at the Straits of Gibraltar. The
MoorS occupying this fortress exacted
duty on all merchandise coming in or
going out of the Mediterranean Sea.
Ned Buntline, otherwise E. 2. c.
Judson, is alive, and in letter to
Nashville paper denies ever having had
any connection whatever with the pretty
Creole girl whose death as a pauper has
been 80 extensively noticed by the South
ern papers.
"A person in Southern Ohio fell into
trance, was buried in a vault, and stayed
there two days, when bright idea struck
BIN. He kicked the lid off and got out
The neighbors shot at him for a ghost,
and through much tribulation he finally
got back to his own house.
in three of the States which held
elections on Tuesday, United States Sena-
tors are to be chosen at the approaching
sessions of their Legislatures, In Wis
consin, successor to Mr. Doolittle; in
New York, a successor to Mr. Morgan,
and in Maryland to Reverdy johnson
The government has ordered head
boards to be pat at the graves of the con-
spirators who are buried in the arsenal
grounds for the purpose of Identification,
Tho request of their friends for the disinA
termept of the bodies, in order to give
them honorable burial, has been declined.
In the case of Rev. D. II. Murphy,
arrested in ST. Louis on the charge of Off
ciating as a minister of the Gospel with>
out first having taken the infamous oath
of so called loyalty, the Supreme Court
decided the test oath to be null and void,
and accordingly ordered the discharge of
the prisoner.
-"Bill Arp" the good Union man, So
called, is the Mayor of Rome, Georgia.
Mayor Charles H. Smith is grave, dig
nifsd gentleman, and withal Presbyte-
rian elder. A stranger would never take
him for the author Of the amusing let
ters which have given him q world wide
reputation,
-NGddlebury, Summit county, Ohio, is
the Banncr Democratic township in Ohio,
this year, hGyiug given the largest per-
centaEe of increa ad votes on the rish
side. The Democrat: State Committee
awarded the township the $500 silk ban
ncr. The township gave but Icur Demo-
cratic votes in 1866, and twenty in 1867,
being an increase of four hundred per cent.
"A woodsawing tournament came OF
at Lafayette, Indiana, few days ago,
during which thirty>six cords of wood
were sawed for the poor by four contest
ing parties of nine each. A large crowd
with bands Of music, attended the contest,
and large sum of money was realized in
contributions, admission fees, and from
the sale of saws and bucks, at the COM
pletion of the contest.
"A letter received in Baltimore from