The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-12-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

appointed by General Pope a Justice of
the P2ace IN Tuscaloosa county, Alaba-
MP.
A severe shock Of an earthquake was
experienced at Utica. N. Y, and the ad-
! joining country, early on Wednesday
morning.
"A young wife in Northern New York
threw her bonnet and shawl into the river,
left a suicidal note for her husband, and
eloped with another man.
"A robCer took $4,000 worth Of dia-
monds from jewelers. store in Cincinnati,
on Wednesday night. The scoundrsl was
pursued, captured, and nearly all the. .valu-
| able property recovered.
The late Seth Hinshaw, noted
spirituaIist, Of Greensboro, Henry county,
Ind, had his gravestoncs engraved and
prepared for about twenty years before his
death. He used them as counters in his
store.
On Saturday night last, William
Rogers, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, ac-
cused his wife of infidelity, which she de-
MED, whereupon Rogers leveled his revol-
yer, and shot her twice, killing her in
stantly.
The Cumberland County Poor House
took fire-on Thursday night, and was dam
aged to the amount of 80, 500. Three
persons were burned to death-oue, an
insane man who was chained to the floor,
being literally roasted alive,
The widow of q former member oI
Congress, residing in Hallowell, Me, late
~ married her hostter. He lr4-..sd her
go, and she applied for a divorce,
whereupon he decamped with $50, 900 in
bonds, leaving her in destitute circum-
stances.
They have earthquakes at ST. Thom-
as at the rate of AZ in 24 hours or about
one every 80 minutes and in St. John,
recently, they had ia in eight days
For these desirable residences, we believe
Mr. Seward wants US to pay 81, ,50O,OOO
in gold.
IS. j. Woodman, of Chicago, I'll
writes TO the New York Farmers Club,
that barrel or cask of new sweet ci-
der, bHried so as to be well covered with
fresh earth, will turn to vinegar in three
or four weeks, as good as ever sought
affinity with cabbage, pickles, or table
sauce.
The Pacific States have been visited
with a decidedly unpacic storm. Califor
mia, Oregon, and Washington Territory
have been afflicted, some smSl towns have
been swept away, and any number of
dams carried down stream. 1t requires
some nerve On the part of gold miners to
lose their dams without swearing.
A negro boy was arrested at St Jo-
seph on the 9Th instant tor setting fire to
the house in which'he was employed as
servant. A reprobate old African told
him that he was working for ''rebels,"
and urged him to burn them out. Ac-
cepting this Radical teaching, he placed
burning Goals on the roof of the kitchen.
The Cooper Ironworks at Phillipsburg,
n j., with the mining lands belonging
to them, were sold last week for six huns
dred thousand dollars. One of these
mines belonged to William Penn, and the
first lot of American iron made from it
was landed at Liverpool, England, thirty
years before the Declaration of Independ-
ence.
The Coronel's jury, on the bodies of
the persons that persisted by the late tene-
ment house fire in n Y, returned verdict
Thursday TO the effect that the fire was
originated by Max Miller, and censured
the owner of the house for not providing
suitable means of escape from the building.
Miller has been committed for trial with
out bail.
"A few days since a boy in Littleton,
\. II act fire 10 a stump on the land of
his father, near the village, and, it having
burned away, he discovered in the earth,
at lis roots, a small tin can, tightly seal
eG, which was found to contain a quantity
of coun. rrfei: dies, well preserved in oil.
1t had eviden.' .'Iy remained there for some
length of time. The ties were we'll exc
cuted, and for tie Purpose OF making
small American coin.
The attempt is again being made to !
confederate into single nation the South ,
American Republics on the Pacific slope |
of the Andes. Peru has taken the initia- |
tive, and has addressed a circular upon |
the subject to tie government of Chill, |
Bolivia and Ecuador. These four nations,
which, it is proposed, shall form the new
Republic, have 5000 miles of sea coast,
contain G. .8oO0,O 900 inhabitants, and cover
1,lS5,000 square miles of territory.
Colonel Parker, the Indian chief on |
G aneral Grants staff, who was to have
been married on Monday last to belle of
Washington city, has turned up. He
Says he was drugged by brother Indian,
to preTent him marrying white woman.
AS Colonel Parker is about the color of
new saddle, in view of the future. he had
better take darker iiued maiden claiming
to be of the superior race. 1t is likely he
would not be drugged under an arrange>
ment of this kind
"A novel wedding took place in CO.. |