The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-02-04
News of the Week.

-Annie Wilhelm, a little cir! of Dan-l
vile, was burnt to death on the 25, inst,
her clothes having accidentally caught fire.
Lent begins this year on Ash Wednes-I
day. February 10th. Good Friday comes
on March 26th, and Easter Sunday on March,
2Sth.
The great question now is "Was Gen.
Grant the creature Of an accident 2" Per-
haps his mother would know most about
that.
"A man somewhere in the oil regions was
scrubbing his floor with benzine, when itl
caught fire and blew the roof off and himself
out into the street.
1t is stated that the President has de
cided to pardon DIR. Mudd, one of the alleged
conspirators sentenced for life to imprison-
ment at the Dry Tortugas.
"A negro girl, aged eleven years, eight
months and eighteen days, living near Pu-
laski, Tennessee, a short time since, gaveI
birth to female child. The mother and
child are both living and in perfect health
| Monsieur Schorn, disti1guiSLNu CIVIL
| engineer Of Belgium, is .: present on AM
| official visit to Pennsylvania, to make in
vestigati >-o as to the workings Of our mines.
H. rs now in the Wyoming and Lackawan-
ma coal regions.
The total Catholic population of Penn
| sylvania is'433 coo, which is distributed as
follows: In the Diocese of Philadelphia. 200,-
600; Pittsburgh Diocese. lis. 900; Scran-
ton Diocese, sc, 900; Erie Diocese, 10000 !;
| Harrisburg Diocese, %, 900.
In reply to a letter from a number of
the prominent Democrats of Chambersburg,
Asa Packer yields his consent to be the
Democratic candidate for Governor in the
| event the State Convention should see fit TO
nominate him.
-Urquiza, ex-Dictator of the Argentine
| Confederation. is one of the richest men in
the world. In his palace are canary bird
cages worth thousands of dollars each, aud
upon his estates there is in progress an arti-
hcial lake which has already cost him upward
of five millions.
Hon. p. Gray Meek, editor OF the Belle
| tonte W0tchmdil, was prosecuted for libel by
the officials of the Dickinson seminary,
Williamsport, and the case was tried the
other day, the jury bringing in verdict of
not guilty. We congratulate brother Meek
upon his acquittal
| H. L. Helmbold, the millionaire drug
| gist of New York, lately purchased ten acres
Of land at Long Branch for SO, 900. 1t is
the intention of the doctor to make of it the
finest private park in this country. If he
undertakes to make it the best, it is quite
safe to say nobody will beat him.
| -Four colored men and white man,
/
of Colonel Welleson from the tomb, about
seven miles from Kingston, North Carolina,
were taken from the Jail in that place. where
they were held. few days ago, and muir
dered by band of thirty or forty citizens of
the place. No arrests have as yet been
made.
The Des Moines Register says that there
! is a family living eight or ten miIcs west of
that city, in which there are thirteen chill
| dren, all of whom are deaf and dumb The
family is good one. and one much respect
cd 10 the community. We doubt if there is
another family on earth with as much silence
| II it as this.
! Gen. Fitzpatrick, in his recent letter to
General Butler on the question of consolida-
ting the South American Missions, said the
| people OF Chill were so grieved at the death
Of Lincoln that TIE Deunas were sung in all
the churches. This being an anthem of 10y,
| either the people were not very sorry or
| Fitzpatrick didn't know what he was writin g
about. How is it
| "A Jacksonville (Florida) paper says ::
| There are 1S.00O,O 900 acres of land in this
State subject'to the claims of actual settlers
under what is known as the homestead act.
| Any man, black or white, may take posses
sion of one hundred and sixty acres to day,
clear it, improve it, and build home upon
it, aud in five years Uncle Sam will give him
/ a deed of it.
| Two boys living near Meridian, Miss >,
aged respectfully ten and thirteen, while out
| rabbit-hunting; recently felled tree so
awk wardly, that the arm of the elder was
caught, mangled, and hopeless1y imprisoned
between the stump and the PROSTATE tree.
| He told his companion to chop off the cap
tured member which was done with one
| blow of the axe. The boys staunched the
blood as best they could, and both walk ed
| home.
| About week ago a trunk was received
at one of the express offices in Buffalo.
marked "to be called for" Owing to the
fact that very dsagreeable smell was en-
mitted from the box, and no one having
called TOR it, it was opened on Monday, and
found to contain the body of woman badly
mutllated. just above the heart stab was
| discovered. Efforts are being made to solve
the mystery.
Poor Sue Murphy There is a strong
probability that her claim has gone up the
| spout, because some supposed Federal officer
has discovered that she is the daughter of an
''old seceSsionist" he had the honor of lock
ing up IN Alabama for waving a ''secesh''
flag, and that she was indignant thereat.
This thing will be most likely to upset the
young lady's fry, because it is tainted with
disloyalty, you know.
The old Moravian Mill il Bethlehem
was burned dswn on the 9th ult. 1t was
built in 1744 by Luckenbach & Son, and has
continued in possession of the family ever
since. 1t was built of massive stone. The
first miller was Christian Christianson who
was placed in charge of it under Count Yin
zendorf. he was a man of skill and project ]
ed the present water works in Bethlehem
the first works of the kind in the State.
1t is matter for congratulation to the
Democracy of the whole country that the
brave Democrats of the Nutmeg State have!
| renominated Governor James E. English
and his cO1sfreres on the State ticket. The
election takes place in April, and the re-!
nomination of tried and faithful officers
makes it certain that Connecticut will agaiuI
lit herself from the clouds of darkness that;
were thrown over her in November.