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

Taunton, Mass, there are to be thirty-fonr
severe snow stprms this winter
"A white man, name unknown, on
Friday, Jai B isht Hope Coalpits, in
Chest rrieId c1snfy, Virginia, was thrown
down a shaft thousand feet deep. The
murderer escaped.
IA female hid Of fourteen, recently
married u an of thirty five. in Baltimore.
Five DAYS after lie we'd ing she had a
connutiaI qua Il, aud attempted suicide
with lHni NUN
The salaries OF tax collectors con-
nected wi b the in crest OH United States
bonds amounts TO mors row than all the
expenses of the o -ernpent under Gene al
Jackson's administration
Six broth, rs in Mclean Co nty, Ill
nam,d II ughnan, weigh twenty-two
hundred ami nineteen pounds. The small.
est weighs two hundred aud eighty pounds
the heaviest four hundred and fifty.
A MARI age took place last week in
Council Blnff,, Ark, between two chil>
dren, aged sixteen and fourteen. The
youth was ma II d Willie Ke' and tie
young gill Happy Augusta Gar 'ner.
j. a dams, of Wate' town, New York,
walked 100 mics in p hours and 8 min
utes, on the 4th and 5th, for purse of
500. He did not stop to sleep during
the task. The last two miles were per-
formed in % minutes.
"A young lady, aged sixteen years,
the daughter of one Of the wealhiest res
idents of Richmond, Ind, disappeared
nearly two weeks since and has not vet
/
ing made to find her by her anxious
| parents
I'm our new possession, the Island of
| st. Thomas, slavery is still maintained,
and the question at once arises, what will
be the status OF the slaves under the Amer
lean government! Does the emancipa-
! ton act extend to them, or is slavery again
( to be permitted lii part Of our Reps blIc
AT Quincy, Illinois, is a German
with curious blood mark. 1t is per-
! feet deer, abont the size of a silver dollar,
line of the deer are as perfecs as could be
drawn by an artist, and show a deer in
the act Of leaping. 1t is a bright red
! col T.
Twenty thousand Roman Catholics
are sail to live in Japan, vino are descen-
dants of converts made by missionaries
who labor el there two hundred years ago.
They have bishop and number of
priests, and are said to have preserved tie
religion in all its original purity, undis-
turbed by their heaillen neIghbors.
Allen and Co!beck, two grocers. re-
Gently left Char lottestown, Prince Edward
Island. for the mainland, in fishing boat,
| in order 10 cheat their creditors. They
were overtaken by storm, and the boat
has since dritted ashore with the dead
body Of one OF them entangled in the rig
| giDg. The other is supposed to be
druw ned
"A ierGble accident occurred on the
! Oswsgo and Rome railroad on the night
-Atti4.a hiI Itssr IaaA<'-..- freight tram
wEh EN- ,ty cars, an into a tree which
mad blown across the track The engine
Mas iown from the track, and the wreck
destroyed by fire. Five freight cars also
burned. The engineer, Jesse Trumbuil,
and the fireman, John Mather were killed.
One of Wesiun's old shoes, with
proper atiestatlon OF irs genuineness, was
received by mail at Portland, Me-, with
ZIG iOlO"ltiS inscription on The tag attach
cd TO package; '.One. of Weston's shoes,
procured al enormous expense by the ciii-
zens of Cleveland, Ohio, ard presented by
them 10 the citizens of Portland, bIe, as
a monument to the enterprise OF one of
it's cliizenS"
The nation can breathe freer The
House of Representatives have voted, by a
! majority of one hundred and eight To fifiy>
seven. against impeachment of the Presi-
dent. We can now hope that Congress
will attend to the practical business of the
country. 1t should henceforth bend all
lis energies to relieve the people from the
'eruShing taxation that oppresses them to
the last point of endurance
The solution of the Albemarle ghost.
which has been causing great excitement
IN that portion of Virginia for several
weeks past, has been found A negro
wIth"a magic lantern had been employed
by man who wished to buy Morris farm,
to trishten the family off, 50 that he might
get II for low price. He has been ar
rested, after having brought the entire
community into uasual fever for more than
three weeks.