The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-07-02
Senator Grimes's recovery IS 80

Senator Grimes's recovery is scarcely
to be expected. We observe that those
papers which spoke worst of him il con-
Dection with Impeachment, now refer to
the loss the Senate will sustain through
his death most teelingiy, and award to
him the highest degree Of worth and
praise.
Forney says he ''woud rather trust
! his pock ct book with the negroes than
/ with The Democrats" That Is very
/ likely, for if the Democrats got hold of
his pocket book they, being honest, would
return It's contents 10 the Government
treasury, it having better title to them
than Forney.
"A machine has recently been invent
cd which, from ordinary ash or ether soft
and flexible wood, turns out two hundred
strawberry boxes per minute Tue i'm
mense number which can be manufactur-
ed in short time materially reduces the
price, and these boxes, which are of a
unique design, can be purchased at six
cents dozen.
AT late dinner in North Carolina
there sat DOM 10 table three ex~G over
nors, an ex-Justice of the Supreme Court,
two ex members of Congress, and some
other men Of honorable distinction in their
State, and the only person in the room
who could vote or hold Office was the ne
gro who waited on the table. Such Is
reconstruction.
There is lady in Petersham, Me-,
who has lived 81 years, and is still active
and useful, who has son -, q grand
daughter 43, a greal>grand daughter %,
d great-great- grand daughter five months
old, making five generations, all living.
This venerable lady has made cheese with
her own hands fer more than eighty con-
sccutive years,
"A rich farmer Of Calais, Maine,
aged sixty five, recently married a second
wife who is only ninelecn years of age.
A daughter by his first wife is for ty years
old. and h1r daughter aged twcnty is
about 70 be married. Thus there is a
child who is twenly-one years older than
her mother, and a grand dnother who is a
year younger than hcr granddaughter.
"A Bengal tiger recently escaped from .
his cage at Antwerp and went on ram +
page through the city lie broke his I
fast on a cart-horse in the approved Ben
gal style, ate an unfortunate gardener who .
came in his way, and was mcIilating an
into dwelling through the sec
ond story window, when the street was
oarlicadcd and his majesty shot while
;rouching for a spring.
= The ErprcSs states that a boy, son
1f George B0rman. residing in Poquea
ownSIip, Lancaster county, was struck
Iy lightning on Thursday morning. The
Joy, who was driving cattle TO pasture,
vent under tree during a shower of
ain, when current of electricity passed
.own along his body, tearing his panta-
oCns, and knocking the sole from one Of
is boots. The lad received only slight
injury. He had with him at the time Of
he occurrence, a hay fork.
Father Lambert Young, the Catholic
Tiest who has been confined in the Louis
ille (ky.) jail for declining to testify in
he Frankfort negro lynching case, before
be United States Court. was released on
Ionday by Judge Ballard, on bond
'atbcr Young was dangerously attacked
.ith Cry-ipelas about three years ago,
nd his Confinement in jail caused the
lsease TO break cat again. The bond
'as fixed at 5 900 for ten days, or such
me as he may have fully recovered.
Robert Batcheldor, of Salisbury, New
hampshire, has flock of twenty-eight
lcep, which, during the winter, were {
oused in a place where their wool be-
anne filed with hay seed They have ,
cen out to pasture for several weeks past, /
nd the excessive wet weather has caused +
e seed to sprout, and they are now bear !
g about with them crop of grass two a
ches in length, The owner is waiting j
'w for the grass to ripen that he can I
3rycst the crop before shearin0 his sheen