The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-12-17
News OF the Week.

being built in Canton, China, and another
in Pekin.
Grant despises oratory. Balaam's ass,
in his opinion, was not near SO intelligent a
creature as Bonner's Dexter.
Among a number of crows seen recently
in Kirby, VT, was one half white. having
the most of the feathers in one wing and on
the back perfectly white.
"A female servant in the Adams House,
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was burned to death
on Wednesday. Her clothing took fire from
the explosion of kerosene lamp.
Finley, who attempted to rob and muir
der Mai White, in Schuylkill County, dep
the other day, in the Pottsville Jail from
wounds received in the conflict with his in
tended victim.
Helena Montana has curious speci-
ment of gold from boulder. 1t is correct
representation of the shell of snail, and
weighs $50. 1t is in its original form,
moulded in the rocks.
What may be expected of Grant, in the
event of his having occasion to exercise the
s'much abused" veto power: 'For reasons
best known to myself, have the honor to
return the bill without my signature"
Joseph S. Martin, aged sixty years,
resident of Brooklyn, New York, committed
suicide by hanging himself with silk hand
kerchief to the door knob of his bed room at
the State Capitol Hotel, Harrisburg, on Fri
day.
"A negro named Jones brutally abused
the wife of Rev. Mr.. James, eff Raleigh, n.
c.. on Friday, for taking 6re-wood. James,
upon expostuating with the negro was shot
dead by him. The murderer has been ar
rested.
canadian weather prophets predict
hard winter, from the number of bears and
other wild animals nearing the abodes of
men. We wonder how the bears expressed
their fears before the men inhabited the
region.
On Saturday. in Worcester, Mass, a
man named Luke Tulley attempted to muir
der his wife He shot her in three places
and then shot himself and gashed his. Throat
with a knife. The woman will recover, bL t
Tully can't survive.
-Ellwood Bates, young man employed
on the Railroad near Chadd's Ford, was
killed on Tuesday last, by derrick falling
on him. He was engaged in hosting a
stone. when the apparatus gave way, crush
ing him in its descent.
Weston has postponed his walk from
Biddeford, Me-, to st. Paul until the 9Th of
January. being delayed by the non arrival
of expected friends. He will at once go to
New York and make arrangements for his
return to Bangor to begin again.
A western millionaire astonishes New
Workers by driving span of blacks tandem,
with white leather harness. The million
aire must be Radical bondholder. Only
Radicals are trying to demonstrate how
well the blacks can do in white harness.
The Winthrop (Me) Bulletin tells a
story Of cat hfty-two years old. The ami
NAL is in the family of Nelson Norcross, of
Windham, Mass, and during her early life
she went three trips to the West Indies
before the mast. She has been the mother
Of 255 kittens.
The Chiffon (Wis.) Times says that, in
the town of Woodville, an Indian aud she
bear were found lying together. The Indian
had put six shots into the bear, and then
attacked her with his knife, and in ber dying
struggles she had grappled and squeezed the
life out of him.
in the family of Stephen Herrick, of
MiddleseX, Vt, there three mothers.
three grandmothers, three daughters. two
granddaughter, two wives, one widow, two
husbands, two fathers, two sons-in-law, one
/ grandfather and one son-in-law, and only
! six members in the family.
There was actually drawn from sthe
! United States Treasury 20 pay for the pur-
! chase of Alaska, 81 100000 but $4,000
! 600 was sent to the Gar. What became Oi
]
conundrum We shall be glad to furnish
the answer. as soon as we get it.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln while recently
making some purchases at a fancy goods
| store at Frankfort-on-the Main, suddenly
/ tainted away. She was removed to hel
| apartments in the Hotel @ Angleterre, where
at last accounts she was lying in a condi
ton which gave rise to grave apprehensions
Alexander Willis, (colored) the Fedora
soldier who was to have been hanged ii
Raleigh. n. c., Friday. for the murder O
/ Alexander Shelby, has had his sentence
commuted by Governor Holden to imprison
ment for life in the State Penitentiary. II
the eyes of loyal Governors color far surpass
es charity in covering sins.
Strange phenomena are reported IN
! the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the heaC
| of Kera river. The earth is said to have
been shaking for more than two weeks
almost constant shake, rolling rocks dowr
the mountains, and the earth waving lik,
the sea. 1t is supposed that it is a volcano
getting ready to burst out
"A scalawag organ in Tallahassee. Fla.
grieves because that State is not represented
in Congress by negroes. 1t says '.it Nigh
have been" had not the negro bolted th
regular Radical nomination. The part,
was so corrupt that the negro could no
swallow it, and the organ will have to b.
content with a carpet bag representative.
William Marshall, charged with tn
murder of his mother and brother, in Platt
county, Missouri, some time ago. and fo
whose arrest a reward of So 900 was offele ed
was secured last Sunday in Barry. Missouri
and lodged in Platte county Jail. The in
ducement to the crime was to secure tn
property which would revert to him at thei
deaths.
The Allegan Journal (Mongrel) says
"The Republican party has been truly re
presented by that sterling and steadfast Re
publican, Zachariah Chandler" ChaDdle
has been "steadfastly", drunk ever since b
entered the United States Senate, and if h
truly represents" his party, they must b
fearful set of inebriates and blackguards il
Michigan.
Mrs. Lyon. of Lehman township, Pix
county, is in Jail for alleged shooting of he
husband. She borrowed seN eral loads O
buckshot from her neighbor. and it is sup
posed loaded her husbands gun, and Will
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