The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-09-03
Political and News Items.


week.
Forty bears were surrounded and
destroyed by fire in one of the swanps of
Canada lately.
"A Seminole chief has an unpronounc-
able name, which when translated, means
Go-to-the-devil- and stay-there.
John Morrissey denies that he is
betting against Seymour and Blair. He
says he cordially supports their election.
AN explosion OF gas took place in the
United States Mint Philadelphia on Mon
day. One person was dangerously, and
two seriously injured.
Gen. Richard Coulter, of Westmore-
land county, better known as fighting
Dick, has come out for Seymour and
Blair. He is real General.
IA special train from Lawrence to
Lowell, Mass, > on Sunday, ran into a
crowd of boys on the Cuban Railroad
Bridge, instantly killing two of them.
Jeremiah Carhart, the inventor of
the meIodeon, died few days since in
New York, leaving fortune after endur-
ing adverse circumstances for many years.
"A farmer IN the State of Minnesota,
who has seventeen hundred acres devoted
to wheat, will, it is stated, clear $780,
600 from the last and the present harvests.
Mrs. Rachel Posey died recently at
Valley Forge, at the ripe age of 102
years and odd months. Her husband
was revolutionary soldier. She lived
to see her graudchiid Of her gTeat~grand-
child.
AT Wesel, Prussia, a wealthy man
died few weeks ago, who had beard
IL feet long, worn wrapt up on his
breast. He directed in his will that the
skin of his chin be tanned and the beard
thus be preserved.
1t has be discovered that colored
messenger, formerly employed in the
office of the Controller of the Currency at
Washington, stole SI7,55O in national
bank notes, to which he forged signatures,
and pat them in circulation as genuine.
The Enterprise, of Nevada City, tells
of Michael Kelly, in that city, who, on
the 22d ult., had such powerful sneeze
that he actually sneezed his shoulder out
of joint, and it required a surgeon and
good deal of pulling to pull it in again.
'"OCbCie'l ACbdth VI NASHUA, 1NCn
Hampshire, has in his artificial pond at
least five hundred trout, which will weigh
from one>half to two and a half pounds
each. Of. ten thousand eggs deposited
last March, only one thousand failed to
hatch.
In Chicago the Radicals refused to
let a club of negro "Grant Tanners"
march in torchlight procession. Their
sable allies are indignant at this treatment,
and threaten to tan the hides of their
white brethren when next they appear in
public.
DR.. Osgood says there is something
in the readiness of the laboring men and
women among the Catholics to contribute
to church art, that could teach lesson to
many Christians Of boasted liberality,
who have little idea of any beauty beyond
dress and furniture.
Last year four hundred and seventy
one millions of dollars were paid by the
tax payers into the National Treasury,
and yet the Radical Congress expended it
all in their mad and reasonable schemes,
instead of making any provision for the
payment Of the National debt.
In the garden of Captain David E.
Moore, Lexington, Va, there is growing
on a grapevine a fully developed apple
On one side of the apple is an appearance
of what might have been grape>bloom.
This interesting luSus naturae is, 50 far as
we know, without precedent.
"A young girl named Mary Ann
Russell, who was killed on Thursday
night by being run over by the Hudson
River cars at Peekskill, proves to have
been violated by two men, and then
placed across the rails in an insensible con-
dition. The villains are still at large.
The best remedy for burns, in any
stage, is a strong solution of Epson salts
in water. The application at once re-
lieves the pain, and healing takes places
with wonderful rapidity. Our personal
experience furnishes several instances of
remarkable cures from the application of
this remedy.
..Toothache, according to DR.. Keyscr,
can be cured by the following preparation
of carbolic acid: To one drachm of coll
lodium ado two drachms of carbolic acid.
A gelatinous mass is precipitated, small
pOIilOD OI WHICH, lttSetTlG III tue cavity Ol
an aching tooth, invariably gives imme-
diate relief
:. Greeley wants some 'fheologian" to
make an estimate of the "vaIue'' of Hora-
ito Seymour's "God bless you," which
he pronounced to the Democratic Cons
vention. Perhaps Duganne can give US
his views on Greeley's red hot "God d-n
you J" as pronounced to him in the New
York Constitutional Convention
John Finn, resident at Woods
Run, was walking on the track of the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railway, near the outer depot, on Satur-
day evening, when the engine drawing the
New Brighton Accommodation struck
him on the back of the head, producing
injuries which caused death within an
hour
The Indian outrages in Kansas are