The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-07-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Japanese Tommy has been made
captain in the japanese army, and intends
another visit to this country.
Lightning struck the Court House
Of Orange county, Va, on the night of
the I'd inst, setting it on fire and destroy
ing it and FIVE other buildings.
The silver chalice of st. MichaePs
Church, Charleston, s. c., has been res
cued from a pawnbroker's shop in New
York and restored to the church.
Prentice says tits pity that elections
In the South cannot take place at this time,
for although the negroes there are strong
Aow they will be stronger in the dog days.
Mrs. Hannah Armstrong, residing in
the lower part of the city of Philadelphia,
committed suicide by taking laudanum
Friday night. She said her domestic
troubles were more than she could bear.
Two boys who were standing in a
harvest field about four miles from Litch-
6eld, ILL.,, were struck by lightning during
a storm on the Sd, and instantly killed.
A house in Gillespie was struck during
the same storm, and one boy killed.
"A man named Mccarthy, in Balti-
more, took girl named Ruth Langford
out riding in buggy, Friday afternoon,
and, when few miles from the city, the
pair got into a quarrel, when Mccarthy
drew a pistol and shot Ruth, killing her
instantly. The murderer was arrested.
Mrs. Swisshelm says there is little
''sculptress'' at Washington who sis as
lavish in the display of her own bust as
that of her Congressman patrons" This
must be the same fascinating creature who
got an appropriation of SIS, 900 from the
Rump for doing up the slate lamented" in
marble.
A few days ago o gentleman went
into saloon in Boston, and upon calling
for some strawberries, observed a man
near him eating some with his fingers.
"Don't you furnish your customers with
spoons r. asked the astonished stranger Of
the proprietor. ''Oh yes, sir" said he,
''but that is General Butler at that table!''
The following is said to be a sure
cure for neuralgia: Take two large table
spoons full of cologne, two tablespoonsful
of fine salt, and mix them together in a
small bottle every time you have any
acute affection of the nerve or neuralgia
simply breathe the fumes in your nose
from the bottle, and you will be immedi-
ately relieved.
Among the novelties abroad is a
small steamer, made of steel, as thin as
card board, to be used by the exploring
party in search of DR.. Livingstone. The
boat is thirty feet in length, and from
gunwale to gunwale eight feet sin breadth,
the weight being rather more than one ton.
The boat can be taken to pieces in a very
short time, and taken across the country
BY negroes
The following hints are seasonable,
and may be true; they are at least worth
trying oil of pennyroyal will keep mus
quitoes out of room, if scattered about
In small quantities. Reaches are exter-
minated by scattering handful of fresh
cucumber parings about the house. No
fly will light on the window which has
been washed with water in which a little
garlic has been boiled.
"A terrible riot occurred last Friday
week, at circus, at Marietta. 1t seems
that quarrel took place between a show
man and citizen, when the former shot
the latter through the head, killing him.
A general fight then ensued, when citizen
struck the above Snowman on his head
with the butt of the piece, killing him.
At the same time the gun was discharged,
the bullet passing through the heart of the
man in whose hands it was.
A man in Brooklyn having reason to
suspect that his wife was criminalIy init
mate with male friend, bored some holes
in the ceiling of her apartment, and,
stationing himself in the room above, arm
ed with bottle of Vitriol, awaited the
course of events. He saw conclusive
evidence of guilt, and used the vitriol with
such terrible effect that both eyes of the
woman were destroyed, and her visitor
was burned so badly that he could not be
removed from the house.
"A convict named Dewitt Clinton
Scholl, undergoing sentence at the New
Jersey State prison, few days since re-
eeived letter containing the highly i'm
portant and satisfactory information, that
by the death of his great grandmother be
had fallen heir to a fortune of thirty thous-
and dollars His comrades and others in
prison warmly congratulated the lncky
scamp, who seemed intensely elevated
with the idea of good fortune, although he
has to serve five years longer In the prison
before ne can enjoy it.