The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-02-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

White gunpowder, which is entirely
consumed and leaves no residuum in the
gun, is the latest military Improvement in
France.
"A judge in Indianapolis has sentenced
a negro to imprisonment for two years and
five thousand dollars fine for marrying a
white woman.
"A party oc single gentlemen at War
renton, Virginia have organized mutual
expense club, rented a house, and gone
10 housekeeping.
The little town of Conway, Mass
up among the hills of Franklin county,
has nineteen persons over eighty, and one
lady hundred years old.
=. The President has nomiuated r. II.
Kerr as Marshal of the Western District
of Pennsylvania, and T. Scott Stewart as
Consul at Osaca and Hiego.
In 1866 potatoes were purchased in
Ireland foc eight cents per bushel and
shipped to Baltimore, where they were
sold for two dollars per bushel.
Jesse A. Harry, of East FaIlowfel9,
slaughtered a Chester white hog, twenty
two months old, which weighed six
hundred and twenty pounds when dressed.
The Sergeant who is carrying the
flag to Washington arrived at jackson,
Mississippi on the 30th. He reports moth
ing but kind treatment along the route.
The Connecticut Democratic State
Committee has nominated the whole State
ticket of last year. That's right hold
fast to that which is good-and success
fuI.
The pudlers Of Allentown are on
strike, A reduction of one dollar per ton
was made in their wages, which the men
refused to accede to, and hence the diff
Guilty.
Whitney Haynes, of Binghamton,
having laid a wager of 5000, drove his
horse from that place to Montrose, a
distance of twentyfour miles, in one hour
and forty minutes.
Mr.. Evan Hopkins, of England, is
satisfied that the crust of our globe is slow
ly travelling northward, and that, in few
centuries, New England will be at the
North Pole. Great pity it hadn't reached
that point long since
One night recently, a man apparent
ly above 10 years of age, was seen to
pass Greenwood station, on the Baltimore
Central Railroad, and the next morning
his body was found short distance be-
yond, frozen hard, with life entirely ex>
tinct.
Whilst three hundred passengers from
a railroad train were, crossing the Missis~
sippi, on the ice at ST. Louis, on the Both,
the ice broke loose from both shores and
| tioated several hundred yards down stream,
a great fright resulted but they were all
safely taken of.
..On Thursday last, the trial of Stokes,
| indicted with w. j. Ovens, in the Phila-
deIphia Court of Oyer and Terminer, fol
the murder of Col. William Riddle, was
concluded, the jary bringing in a verdict
Of acquittal The jury in the case of Ov
! ems came into Court about six O'Clock
Friday evening, and also rendered a YER
dict of not guilty. The prisoners wer'
discharged.
..On Friday sleigh containing a wo
man and child was crossing the track o
the Boston and Maine railroad, betweeI
South Reading and Stoneham, when i
was struck by an approaching train ant
demolished. The woman was knocke
into a contiguous snow bank, but was no
seriously injured, nor was the child, al
though it was caught upon the engine ant
carried along until the train stopped.
"A most bareNfaced act of piracy wa
commated in New York the other day
Two men walked into the store of Bott
man & Kern, in Rivington street, an
planting red flag at the door, proceeGe
to sell the concern by auction, against tn
will and protest of the bewiIdered owners
To save the property Kern bid 81 900 fo
it, and the auctioneer knocked it down t
him, demanded ten per cent as his fee,
got it, and walked off with it.