The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-29
Political and News Items.


The apple crop is promising in New
York State. There isn't pippin to be found
on the trees In and around Boston.
Fourteen hundred persons went to Long
Branch to see Grant sail in with his family
and friends in the Tallapoosa at government
expense.
Two men. father and son, were killed
by the explosion of keg of powder in a
coal mine near Ashland, Schuylkill county.
on the 9th inst.
The length Of the Pacific Railroad is
such that a courtship begun in Ohio was
consummated in a marriage before the two
travellers reached the end of their route,
"A United States flag W tn this device is
suspended across their track from the offices
of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company at
South Bethlehem ASA Packer for Govern
or"
Peter Reddick, mulGtto, was hung on
Friday at Portsmouth, Va, for the murder.
in January last, of Cornelius Hayes. During
the execution n frame building, on which
seven wOrkmen were, fell, injurding them
severely.
One of Grants favorite horses is dead.
There now is an opportunity for a good
office The horse was able to trot his mile
in 2:22. Another horse of equal swiftness
ought to bring foreign mission. at least.
Who buys2
The puddlers employed at the National
Iron Company's works, at DSnVille, are on
a strike, demanding six dollars per ton for
pudding. and better quality of coal. Five
dollars and ffty cents per ton has heretofore
been paid.
On Tuesday night. the goth instant, a
man aged 80 years, named Ingstaf, was
literally roasted to death by being caught in
the betting and held against the boiler in
the engine house of the Smith we'll on the
Allegheny river.
The Radical newspapers excuse Grants
trips in government vessels, and his junket-
ing about at watering places by declaring
that be needs relaxation. If rumor tells the
truth he is in the habit of getting very much
relaxed oftener than semi-occasionally.
Two young ladies named Turner. of
Marlestown, Mass, visiting in Auburn,
Maine. and two sons of the Rev Mr.. Libby,
of Auburn, were drowned in Lake Auburn
on Saturday last by the sinking of boat in
which they were rowing. Two other per-
sons in the boat escaped.
"A little girl named Catharine London,
was burned so that she died IL few hours.
the other day, at Waynesburg, by trying to
kinde fire with coal oil. She had placed
the can containing the oil on the stove, and
the heat caused it to explode, throwing the
burning fluid over her.
The Irish Church Disestablishment ri
has finally passed. The House of Commons,
without a division agreed to the amend
ments, which relate Ouly to minor details.
Thus is one of the most vexed and exciting
subjects in the range of English politics fl
nally and peaceabIy disposed Of.
Mr.. John a. Roebing, Civil Engineer
who died in Brooklyn. n. Y. on Thursday.
was one OF the abest in bis profession in this
country. He engineered some of the most
important works ia the States, and met with
the accident which caused his death while
surveying ground fer the great bridge which
is to be put over East River, New York.
The destructive food in the Colorado
Valley is subsiding. 1t is said to have fallen
six feet, but the Brazos is still rising. At
Eagle Lake bottom, where the people have
taken refuge in the tree-tops, the water is
said to be two feet above the tops of the
telegraph poles. On the 14th cars were sent
from Harrisburg with boats to rescue them
from the perilous position in which they had
been for two days. All communication with
Bastrop is cut off. and nothing can be known
of the damage in that locality.