The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-03-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK,


Minnesota for forty eight years
-Barnum gives notice that he has res
tired forever from the museum business.
The people everywhere, with the ex-
ception of those fellows who expect office
from drunken Ben Wade, condemn the
RumP impeachment infamy.
An old gentleman named Lewis,
aged seventy~two, was married in Peoria.
to Mrs. Parker, on Thursday evening
last. The latter is in her sixty-nintb
year.
Gen. Grant, before the war, was a
dealer in hides and tan bark Now he is
a dealer in politics-and- double dealer
at that. And he has had his own hide
tanned.
1t is singular fact that no President,
except those chosen by the Democracy,
has, since the time of John Quincy Ad~
ans, lived out the term for which he was
elected.
Col. Shepherd, of Washington coun~
ty, Texas, has realized $50, 900 from an
investment Of only $500 in sheep five
years ago. Sheep raising is profita BILE in
the "Lone Star" State
Ulysses once worked for four years on a
farm given him ny his wifes father, and
at the end of the time was poorer than
when he began. Uncle SANS farm does
not need that treatment.
In Burlington County. New Jersey,
the Democracy have elected a majority OF
the Board of Freeholders, carrying Bur
lngton City, which is a gain, and increas-
ing their vote IA in Pemberton. with
handsome gains in other townships
Congressman Washburne, of Indiana.
who had his trowsers captured at Mems
pbis during the war, delicately describes
a Democratic speaker as ''a man so low
down that it would require miracle Of
the Almighty to raise him to the level
Of tt tai depravity."
A Boston fireman has invented a
self f-propelling steam fire engine, which
will run almost noiselessly along. the
street, up and down inclines as well as
on a level and round the sharpest corners.
1t burns petroleum and emits no smoke
while in operation.
The annual election in Casco, Maine,
holden on the 9th, resulted in the choice
all Of whom are Democrats. For several
years past the Radicals have carried every
spring election, but this time the Demo
Gratis made clean sweep.
In Ireland it is reported that the
Feniap prisoners who were captured some
time ago at Dungarvan were offered their
pardons, on condition that they would
give their paroles to leave the kingdom.
Ii Is added that the prisoners unanimous
ly refused to assent to this proposition.
The Carlisle Oil. } papers speak of a
phenomenon near Scotlvile, Macoupin
county. In digging in several localities
near that place, after a depth of five or
six feet has been attained, FIRE breaks out
and continues blazing up to this time.
| Macoupin county must be very near per-
dition.
-Ritualism is bea.i ing fruit in England.
| A London journal announces that few
weeks since ''seTen ladies belonging te
an Anglican SisterhOod in the northeast
! Of London were received into the Catholic
! Church, and that The establishment to
which they belonged will have to be
broken up
/ A-OAiShiiIS tIop'A Gays
! discovery of new gold mining region, SUI
perior to that of California in its palmiest
days, within fifty miles of Louisville, in
Kentucky, will shortly create an excite
ment far beyond anything ever witnessed
in this section. We are not at liberty to
name the locality at present"
1t having been stated in Detroit
paper that large numbers of young men in
that city were out of employment, a gen
| tleman just across the Canada line writes
that he will employ one hundred of them
in cutting wood at five shillings a cord in
gold, and others will do as much But
the young men do not want TO cut wood.
As a remarkable yield of honey, it
is reported that bee-raiser at Windham,
IN Maine, during two months and half
of 1867, obtained 448 pounds of honey
from two swarms of bees. The youn gest
swarm made thirty five pounds in three
weeks during September, which is consid-
cred bountiful yield for the season.
The largest pendulum in existence is
said TO be that which regulates a new
! clock at st. Georges Church, New York.
The pendulum in question is 30 feet long,
and vibrates in three seconds. The weight
on it's 800 pounds, and is 4 feet long by
inches in diameter. The clock has
only three wheels in what is called the
''g DING train"
On Sunday afternoon the rear car of
a construction train on the Grand Rapids
and Indiana Railroad ran off the track
when about eight miles north of Grand
Rapids. The car contained about thirty
passengers at the time, eight or ten of
whom were injured. Alfred Mayhem, of
Grand Rapids, undertook to save himself
by jumping from the train, when he was
caught under the car as it was overturned,
and instantly crushed to death
A novel law suit came off a few DAYS
ago, at Miles Point, Carroll county, Mo =,
before Justice of the Peace, to decide
the ownership of colt Fifteen witnesses
were examined on each side, and all swore
positively to the ownership The verdict