The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-22
LATE NEWS ITEsGs.

on cal; fours"
judge Peter Herbine, of Columbia CO.,
was drowned. in the mill race at Shutdown,
few days since. 1t is suspected that he
was foully dealt with
Al the municipal election at St.
Paul, MINI, Gilman (DemocraD and Max
well, (Gfepubican,) candidates for Mayor,
each had 1865 votes. The city charter
provides that in case of tie vote the choice
shall be decided by lot. -.
AT Perm, H., fortunes have been made
in the ice business during the past winter.
One firm alone has cleared over hundred
thousand dollars, and it is estimated that
Peru will be the gamer to the amount OF
quarter of million dollars.
A lad in Owingsville, KY, the other
day had all the fingers of the right hand
chopped off with an axe by comrade. He
picked up the severed members without an
exclamation Of pain or fear, carried them
home, and told of the accident.
VIM. Hurlbut, of Cornwall, Vt, died
last week of starvation, having eaten moth
ing. save what was forced into his stomach,
for nearly year, from the fear that be
should become a town pauper, although
worth about eight thousand dollars, and
bachelor seventy years old.
&C. H. Stinson was elected Speaker Of
]
Gratis voted for ". III. Randall. Stinson has
received his reward for deprivlng Judge
/ Greenbank of his seat upon the bench he
! was elected to by the people of Philadel Phia.
/ The colored population of Washington
are in a state of excitement over the fact
/ that the President has selected a white man
( from Philadelphia as steward for the White
4 House. Who knows but that this act viii
! deprive the Iiadcal party Of the negro vote 2
| An extensive and valuable gold miue
/ has recently been examined near Warsaw,
in Milton county, Ga. and its quality test
| ed. 1t has eight distinct veins, and has
| been long known to the old residents of the
/ county. Nr. Graham, the owner, has just
secured titles to it, after thirty years strug-
/ gle.
/ An animal, about two feet tail, shaped
] like chitd, and with human voice, but
/ covered with silver gray hair. six inches
! long, has been frequently seen in the woods
| near Unionville, Ky. 1t burrows in the
! earth. is very foad of food, and, although
I several times pursued, has easily made its
escape. -.
! Some OF the laborers excavating the
| great mound in the northern part Of ST.
! Louis have uuearthed row of Indian graves
! sixty feet in length and twenty FIVE feet be-
| low the surface. Large quantities of bones,
/ beads, coins, and other relics have been
! thrown up and the place has been visited
by great numbers of curiosity hunters
= Mount Hood, and other high peaks in
/ Oregon, have begun to smoke and the in
habitants of the State fear earthquakes.
! Hood $4,000 feet bigh.J Jefferson (ll,000
| feet,) and the Sisters-not Brothers, as
some Of the papers print it, 1900 feet.
are extinct volcanoes and Mount Hood has
! been active within the tradition Of the In
| dian tribes.
! "A remarkable instance of suspension of
! animation has been recently developed in
Brooklyn, New York. Nr. E. r ele sus-
tanned by fall from his h ,rse injuries so
severe that he sank rapidly and appeared to
die. Preparations were made for his funer
/ al, but twenty-four hours after his supposed
| death he revived, considerably startling at
| the unde5taker.
A man named Fay aimed rev Oliver
! directly at his forehead while walking on
! Twenty-sixth street, New York. the other
day, pulled the trigger. and the next mo-
meut the bullet. instead of penetrating the
| skull, fell upon the pavement as fat as
/ penny. Fay is not jugsler. but his front
/ al bone must be curiosity. Tbs shot mere
! ly shocked him.
| John s.. Garlic, formerly a democratic
/ U. S. Senator from West Virginia, aposta-
tised last fall, and did all in his power to
aid in the defeat of Mr. Seymour Grant
undertook TO reward him for his. tTsachery
to the democracy by appointing him Min
/ however. refused to confirm him. They love
! the treason, but despise the traitor.
! A little boy, bootbiack, Eamed Eras-
/ tus Dean, on Friday evening attempted to
jump on an empty coal train, at Harrisburg.
while it was moving from the Lebanon Val
| ley to the Pennsylvania Railroad, aud slip
/ ping, fell under the cars. aud had his legs
/ terribly nlangled-so much SO that ampu-
/ tation could not be avoided. Eight cars
ran over him before he wss extricated.
| An ingenious individual has laid before
! Professor. Morse, the electrician, a plan for
sending yelocipedes over wires by electricity.
/ He proposes that the wheels shall run on
/ wires, one above and one below, the tires
| being groovod. he thinks that they can be
used for carrying the mail, and even goes
| so far as to propose to send man from
/ New York to New Orleans in an hour and a
| half
| "A negro in Montgomery, Ala, picked
/ up. love of bonnet in the streets of that
| city. and was shortly afterwards arrested by
| the police charged with having in his pos
session swindling device. The identity of
the article was established after considerable
| CfOuole, and the court decided that 1t was a
swindling device. but that the negro was
not a swindler. The court is a married man
THE Harrisburg Patriot, of Saturday,
says: Early yesterday morning an invalid
| soldier, while in fit of insanity. fell on the
railroad at the Pennsylvania depot as
train was approaching, and but for the
oPportune interposition of several persons
would have been killed. One of his feet
was somew hat crushed, the men not being
able to get him entirely off the track in time
to prevent injury.
Two daughters Of Frank Hilliard, ged
respectively thirteen and three year,, were
burned to death on the 1st inst, at their
parents residence in Washington tp., But
Ter county. The oldest girl attempted to
revive the fire. which was low. by pouring
petroleum on it. when the flames reached
the can and exploded it, scattered the burn
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