The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-30
NEWS ITEMS.

Two men have agreed to skate one
hundred miles on the Hudson river for
81 900 a side.
The wheat crop looks bad in York
and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Cecil
and Hartford counties, Maryland.
The Sioux and Ceyenne Indians are
again becoming very troublesome in the
neighborhood of Fort Phil Kearney
AS far south as Texas the snow has
been unusually heavy. Titus county,
Texas, has had an inch and half Of the
white dressing.
John Kane, a small merchant OF
Chicago, has had his head turned by the
news of fortune left him in England,
and was picked up crazy in Newark, n.
J.
A revolving crime occurred on Thurs
day, in Milwaukee. A heinous outrage
was committed on the person of home
less white girl by an abandoned negro,
who is now under arrest.
More news has been received from DR..
Livingstone. He has been seen alive and
well in Central Africa by an Arabian
merchant, and all doubts of his existence
are now said to be dissipated
Sumner declares that s'before we
stop we will have a stable government"
From the number of asses in the Capitol
at the present time, we should take that
building to be stable already.
Many or the coffins of soldiers, bur-
led by contract at St. Louis. have been
found filed with sticks and stones. The
bodies were doubtless sold by the con-
tractors for anatomical purposes
The English are terribly afraid of the
Fenians. Pilot engines are sent in adj
vance of some of the English mail trains
in consequence of information that mis-
chief has been threatened by the Brother
hood.
Mr.. John Henry, of Charlotte, Va,
the last survivor save one of the children
of Patrick Henry, and owner of the old
family seat and burial place of the great
orator, died on the 7th instant, in the I'D
year of his age.
Six miles from Brunswick, NO., is a
farm of four hundred acres, valued at
twelve thousand dollars. having an apple
and peach orchard, the fruits of which
ibis season have brought two thousand
five hundred in cash. n
When every Court in the country
has decided that debts contracted by in
dividuals to be paid in gold, may, accord
ing to law, be paid in currency, there is
40 reason why the same law should not
apply to tie Government.
At Sparta, Miss, a Methodist
preacher, Rev. L. Young, ased c;ohty-siS,
las married Mrs. G.. Mixjou, aged eighty
hree. Their united family numbers over
one hundred children and grandchildren.
This is Mr. Young g's fifth wife.
"A letter has been safely delivered to
he person to whom it was addressed in
Iowa, which had, besides the usual super
these words: ''There is a ten
lollar bill folded in this letter, and if you
want it worse than my mother does, take
t."
w. H Bunnell, auctioneer in New |
Orleans, was seized with a congestive
chill, and sent for his business partner,
Mr.. Bailey. The latter fell dead of heart
disease as he ascended the steps of Bun
lelfs house, and half an hour later the
other expired.
The Boston Transcript says: ''Seven
children under three years of age consti-
ute the nursery of a lady of Chelsea, who
ecently gave birth to triplets. Twice
previously she had been blessed with |
wins. All these babies are reported to
De remarkably healthy
Huge icicIes and mountains of solid
20 hox 4 a.
If Niagara Falls from the constant ac-
creations of spray, forming beautiful
sight. An ice bridge has also formed
below the Falls and hundreds of people
lave passed over it,
In Ohio, fruit farmer is planting a
orchard, which will consist of
1000 apple trees, 10000, peach tress,
1000 pear trees, $500 cherry trees, 1,4
800 Chickasaw plums, acres of ounces,
wenty acres of Strawberries, twenty acres
# raspberries, eight acres of blackberries,
md eigteen acres of grapes.
1t appears that the late campaign in
Kansas in favor of woman's rights has
lot been without tangible results. On
last, Miss Emma Hunt was
lected enrolling clerk of the lower
House of the Legislature of that State.
This is said to be the first case of the kind
N record.
The Union Pacific railroad will be
completed to the summit of the Black
Hills in a few days. This is the highest
'oint on the road, being an elevation of
light thousand two hundred and eighty
eet above the level of the sea. The head
quarters of the Union Pacific Railroad
ngineer department are established at
EoIi Sander.
The turning to Rome of several
Anglican sisters, and clergymen in Eng
and, recently chronicled, has been follow
d by the profession of the Roman Cath
'hc religion by three members of the
rish aristocracy, Lords Douth and Gran
IRE, and the Countess of Portarlinoton.
These events have caused much COM
nent in religious circles in Great Britain.
The Philadelphia Sunday Truscy1pt
IN original Grant paper, in speaking Of