The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-03-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


their servant. aged l15, all died last week
at Jamaica, N. Y.
Mrs. Lydia Beecher, mother Of Henry
Ward Beecher, died in Brooklyn on Satur-
day morning. aged eighty.
Two thousand citizens of Indianapolis
signed the pledge at great temperance
meeting on New Years day. Eleven still
keep it.
Dixon. Elgin. and Rock Island, Illinois.
have all elected Democratic city govern
ments within week. Last year they were
carried by the Radicals
"A man in Fairfax county, Va, died re-
Gently of delirium tremens, aud the next
day his wife died of the same disease. 10
death they were not divided.
"A Boston firm has received an order
from China for six hundred cases of cheap
boots and shoes. probably the first consign
meDt of the kind ever sent to the country.
President Grant should now issue an
order to have ''thst Galena sidewalk built"
He has got just much right 10 60 it az he
has to recommend negro suffrage for IIli-
nois.
They have had a velocipede race at
Mauch Chunk. Charles Baker coming our
winner. The distance run was quarter of
a mile and Baker made it in two minutes
and FIVE seconds.
One of the richest men in Berlin is
named Moss, who has made fortune in
few years by an advertising agency. Roll
ing rocks gather TO moss. but lively Moss
seems to have gathered the rocks.
e. w. G. Green, late Pension Agent
for Pennsylvania, has resigned, and it is
said that he is a great defaulter to the gov
ernment-and which accounts for the long
delay of the pensions due 1st of January
"A house in Philadelphia. occupied by a
family named Kidd, fell Oh thursday. from
bad construction. hurying the entire family
in the ruins. Mr. Kidd was taken out alive,
but his wife and two children were instant
ly killed.
Ono Of the last acts of the Fortieth
United States Senate was to vote to perpet-
uate and sustain the Whisky Ring and its
plunderings, by refusing to repeal the Ten
ure-of- Office law. They don't want their
profits reduced.
-Silas A. Hartman. brother of Mrs.
Glen. who few days ago made confes-
sion of the murder of Jacob Young and wife.
committed suicide in his cell in Jail at In
dianapo'is on Wednesday, by cutting his
throat with razor.
-Dr. G. w. Darden, who killed Charles
Wallace. editor of the Clipper, was taken
from Jail at Warrenton, Georgia, Friday
pight. by party of disguised men, who
took him some distance from town, where
they shot and Killed him.
During a terrific snow storm at Quebec.
Canada. on Wednesday, wooden house at
Point Levi was blown to pieces. and the
people within. comprising family of three
persons, were buried in the snow. The
bodies hsve rot yet been recovered.
A gentleman who recently svisited
Laneshoro. Minnesota, saws there was not
single house in the place last July. Now a
$4,000 hotel is being built. the public
school numbers ninety-fve scholars. and
the lowest figure for business lot is 81 600.
Grant has ordered several of Johnson's
pardons to he cancelled. 1t would be graft
flying to the people Of the United States to
know whence the new President derived
ruch extraordinary powers as these. Per-
haps he found the authority in the act of
1889.
= A devoted young lady of Kansas City.
Missouri. recently went to the neishboring
town of Independence, released her lover
from Jail at that place, by paying his fine,
and then married him. Husbands are evil
IDENTIFY in great request in that part of the
country.
Mrs. Dianna Vies. who has q great
great-g-eat grand daughter of three years.
and four hundred direct descendants, rides
near Nashville. Tennessee. though in her
Hath year. She has blooming daughter
of ninety. and draws pension for three Rev
olutionary soldier husbands.
India has had curious railway acci-
dent An elephant. seeing the red light and
the smoke, concluded that the noisy loco
motive was an enemy to be summarily de-
molished He accordingly placed himself
on the track. and met the strange creature
head on, with trunk and tusks The result
was dead elephant and eleven cars cap
sized
"A car coupling it is rerorted. has
been invented, in operating which it is not
necessary to pass between the cars, and
thus run the risk of being crushed The
other advantages of the Invention are that
by its use the disaereeable Jerks in the
starting of train is avoided n spring be-
ing so arranged as to play on to an adiusta-
bic head and take up the lost motion of the
link
Massachusetts has two members of the
Cabinet. and her two Senators are at the
head of the important Committees of the
Senate. The twelve Senators from New
England have Chairmen for eight of the
principal Committees, whilst Pennsvlvania.
with population equal to all of New Eng
land. can afford but one. Nothing like be-
ing of the Yankee nation, particularly of
Boston.
The Allentown (Pa) Democrat saws
The average cost per ton for the'production
OF pig fronts S26. The selling price of pig
iron for the last year has ranged from Ss7
to S42 per ton. Our iron men have been
realizing profit ranging from SIl to SI6
per ton-pro6its greater. perhaps. than are
derived from any other business in the
country, the cotton lords of New England
not excepted.
"A few days ago Newcastle was more
than excited She thought she had risen to
the dignity of heing visited by an earth
quake in propria personE. Alas for the
hopes of the community. An inspection
closed the fact that only portion of the
upper surface of the old coal mine upon
which part of the city is built had given
away. carrying with it some out-house and
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