The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-01
Political and News Items.

the chimney and surprise the family by
emerging from the fireplace. put got wedged
in at bend of the fue and had to be dug
out with picks. 81.
The New York Sun, black enough to
suit any reasonable niger, says Grant lis
like the yellow dog in a menagerie-he is
too small for lion. he don't look like a
tiger, and nobody wants to see dog"
An ivory tusk. six feet three inches long
and twenty-five and one~quarter inches in
circumference, has recently been exhumed
in Montana. 1t was found buried in the
sand, twenty two feet below the surface.
The inhuman officers of the ship James
Foster were sentenced. at New York, Oh Fri
day. Lynn, the carpenter, received fifteen
years, Caruthers, the boatswaip, seven years,
and Murphy. the third mate, five years in
the Pentcntiary. H fa
On June 7th, a lady residing about one
mile from Stonersville. in Exeter township.
Berks county, gave birth to two girls and
one boy, weighing in the aggregate, nine
teen pounds. They are all as lively as
crickets, and are fair specimens of Young
America"
"A private soldier in California has in
vented new method of skimming milk
He fits fine gauze sieve to hoop the size
of the pan. The milk is then poured into
the pan as tn little more than cover the
sieve. When the cream has risen the hoop
is lifted and the cream is thus completely
removed.
"A harp, formed of withered leaves and
flowers, and withered wreath near the
head, are all the decorations which mark
the last resting place of ''Milts O'Reilly."
Only short time since and the newspapers
teemed with eulog:stic obituaries of him
10 haS il cd nd
forgotten.
The chances are that the apple yield in.
Pennsylvania this fall will be the largest it
has known for long stretch of years.
Should this hold good all over the country
She poor man may once more have barrel
of apples in his cellar. For years past the
fruit has been second only TO oranges in
point of eXpensiveness.
"A week or two ago, young lady Of
Iowa, while on the way to her wedding,
was offered FIVE dollars by another young
man if she would marry him, and consented.
The disappointed lover was not to be Who'll
ly cheated out of his matrimony, and there
fore proposed and was accepted by and
married the sister Of the jilter on the same
day. .r.
"A little girl of Mrs. Manno Deihert, of
North Whitehall township, Lehgh county,
i
muuthful of whisky to ease it, and going
out into the garden, left the child in the
house While the mother was out, the child
got the bottle and drank about half pint
of the whisky, from the effects of which 1t
died that night.
"A, diamond ring which has been lost
snre the fall Of 1882, was found in a well
in OSwego few days ago. The we'll was
being cleaned, process which it had un-
dergone several times since the less of the
ring. Forty-six years this jewel lay at the
bottom of the well, and it came out as bright
aud pure the day it sunk. The grand
daughter of the lady who lost the ring is
now its owner and wearer.
The Hon. jeremiah S. Black is still at
the st. Joseph's Intirmary, Louisville. KY.
Although four weeks have elapsed since the
serious accident on the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad, by which his arm was badly
broken, he had not until Monday been able
to be assisted from his bed. He conva' esces
slowly. but the Louisville Express says will
recover the use of his arm. His son. Chaun-
cey F. Black, Esq. of York, Pa, is still in
attendance on his father.
-Dud Dunbar was shot and instantly
killed, by Mr.. George Upton. near Rich
mond, on Monday evening last. 1t seems
that Dunbar had been cruelty beating his
wife, who fled to her fathers house for pro-
lection, and MIR. Tipton, her brother-in-law,
accompanied her home, with view of es-
tablishing peace but, during the conversa-
tion that ensued. Dunbar drew his revolver
and attempted to shoot Upton. The latter
was TOO quick for him, however, and shot
him dead.
"A curious marriage took place at Green
vile, S. c., June Is. The parties were en-
gagged in Ireland nearly forty years ago.
The lady came to America. The gentleman
entered the British army and was soldier
| twenty-one years has been in every part of
the globe; has spent some years in Montana
Territory, and last month left there and ar
rived at Greenville, June IL, claimed his af-
fianced and was married. 1t is a remarka-
bic instance of early, constant and successful
love.
President Grant, on his way from
Washington to Boston by rail, ran over a
COW. Everybody, says the New York DEM
OcrGt, Congratulates the President on his
escape, but no one has said anything about
the poor cow, run over and mutilated,
although it has been discovered that it was
the identical cow to whose tail the President
attached himself in his younger days, on her
way to Washington to claim Office on the
ground of old acqaintanceship.
On Thursday Mr.. w P Turley who,
a few days ago married Miss Anna Surratt,
whose mother a short time ago, was murder
ed by a set of van6als who claimed to be the
Government of the United States, was dis
missed from the Surgeon Generals Office,
because he welded the daughter OF that inno-
cent woman. The same day burly niggsr,
named Cook, brother of the recently elected
Register of Washington City. was appointed
to .tfrst-ciGsS clerkship in the Internal
Revenue office. No need for comment.