The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-10-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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coughed up an inch and half of knife
blade.
The election of Sprague. Democratic
judicial candidate in California, is conce-
ded on partial returns from twenty-one
counties
Tho Mary Harris who killed Bur>
roughs is in the Government insane asy>
lum at Washington-not Congress, but
the other one.
-Advices from Vera Cruz state that
the trial of General Santa Anna had re-
suited in a sentence of exile from the
Mexican territory for eight years.
"A Paris journal says that the unfor-
tunate Empress Charlotte of Mexico, has
become worse than ever, and that there is
now no hope of ner recovery. She is un-
der strict surveillance.
George Leeming, a blacksmith at
Jeansville, Pa, has fallen heir to an estate
in England estimated at more than a mills
Lon of dollars, and has sailed for tha:
country TO take possession.
The trial of Jefferson Davis will
probably come off in Richmond on the
2Sth There is to be an effort to obtain
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stands 8 negroes to white men,
From New Orleans we have the
gratifying intelligence that the yellow
fever, after enrolling nearly four thousand
on its list of victims, is abating. This
pestilence has been one of the seyerest
scourges of the afflicted South.
"A lady of Ridgeville, Lorain county,
Ohio, having the rheumatism in her hip,
recently employed an Elyria doctor, who
administered morphine by blowing it into
the veins. 1t affected the whole system,
in an hour.
A real live manatee, or sea cow, has
been captured in the St Louis river, Flori>
da, and brought to Savannah by the
steamer Dictator. So few in number have
been the captures of this wonderful crea>
ture, that the fact of its existence in Florie
da has been doubted.
"A woman at Westvilie, near New
Haven, Conn, has recently lost both
cheek bones, which were diseased from
the Inhalation of phosphorus, while work
ing in a match factory She can now
only take liquid food, the roof of the mouth
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A tipsy fellow in Dubuque escaped
| from scme friends who were anxious to
smash his head, and leaping into the river
with roll Of greenbacks tightly grasped
in his hand, swan with one arm a dis
tance of one mie-a feat which would
have been impossible for temperate man
The rocks which obstruct Boston
harbor are being removed by Ehrhardt's
safety powder, Prussian invention. One
hundred and fifty tons of rock bave been
removed in six days by eight pounds of
this powder, while. but twenty tons were
removed by over five hundred pounds Of
ordinaryIpowder and thirty nine days work
The citizens cf Fitchburg, Mass, were
! greatly excited on Sunday by finding the
body of Frederick Powers buried in
sand~bank. The body exhibited several
stabs, and a wooden gag was found in his,
| mouth. Two Frenchmen and an Ameri>
can have been arrested on suspicion of the
murder.
! A day or two since, a peculiar odor
| was noticed in and about the house of a
| gentleman who resides al Sandwich, which
none of the family could account for. On
! inspection it was found that the house cat
! "a huge Maltese) had been shut up in an
oven, where she had concealed herself, and
was literally roasted alive
John Kern, of Jersey Shore, super
intendent of masonry at the Lewisburg
railroad and wagon bridge, now in pro-
gress of construction, met with a terrible
death the other day. The derrick on
which he was at work broke and fell,
crushing his head in horrible manner
and scattering his brains into the river
"A terrible accident occurred at the
Hoosac Tunnel on Saturday, by which
thirteen men were killed outright or suffo-
Gated to death. The gasoline works at
the mouth ofthe shaft exploded and burn
! ed, falling down the shaft and burying the
whole gang of workmen at the bottom
The bodies will not be exhumed for sew
! eral days.
The other day, Mrs. Carr, of Pitts
burgh, bonght a black cat, from which
she took three drops of blood to give a
child sick of Group. Her excited neigh
bors were about to mob the old lady for
| witchcraft, when the authorities interfered.
! Twenty witnesses proved in court that the
child recovered instantly on taking the
sanguinary dose of catnip.
Some three years ago man was arr
rested in New York and incarcerated in a
| foul and loathsome cell of dungeon by
military edict, his only crime beiIg that
he had spoken "disrespectfully of Mrs.
Liccoln'' she was the wife of the
government then. The. Radical papers
are now saying worse things about her
thar were ever dreamed of by any Demo
crat.
A WHITE GIRL FIVE YEARS OLD Our
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