The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-09-09
PoI,sIcaI and News items.

Pratt. the great American traveller, Vi III
bava 10 subside. His rival, Grant. has been
making better time of late than Pratt ever
did.
A Canary bird belonging to Mr.. Henry
M. Smith, lighthouse-keepe at Clark's Point
New Bedford, died recently at the age OF 20
years.
Two men were precipitated down q shaft
into a coal mine, in LeavenwoTth. fiVe hun
dred and sixty-one feet, a week ago, and
were instantly killed.
-Tilton wants to live long enough to 60
To the polls sandviched between Mrs. Stan
ton and Mrs. Anthony. 1t would make a
remarkably dry old sandwich.
The wife of John Rarshberger. in Boon
county, Ind, lately gave birth to a living
child with two heads, one head being di-
rec:ly on the top of the other.
A building was lately erected in Rich
mond in the practical construction OF which
a colonel, major. two captains and several
lieutenants of Lees army took part.
Great fire at Cape Msy on the S1st
ultimo, which destroyed three hotels and
number of cottages. Loss estimated at two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
I'm the mari beds, in Upper Alloways
creek, in Salem county, N. j., the complete
skeleton of mastodon has been discovered.
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to unearth its head alone.
Sake, the poet, says that he ran twice
as the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Vermont, and came within one of being
elected each time. That one was the can
didate who rau against him.
"A woman died recently in Trenton,
Michigan, in giving birth TO her thirty>frst
child. Among the thirty were three
pair of twins, and the eldest of them, If
living, would be only twenty mine years
old.
The family quarrel among the Geary-
ties of Reading is growing in interest every
day. The editors of the Dispatch were pros
ecuted for libel on Thursday last. on COM
plaint of Mr.. Fulton. brother, and we
believe a white. radical.
In spite of the benevolent Quakers, the
Indian difficulties are cot as near solution as
ex pected. The authorities at Washington
are compelled to despatch more troops to the
Territory of Montana to put an end to the
Indian depredations.
What became of the seven millions Of
dollars which disappeared from the State
Treasury during the four years of Governor
John w. Geary's administration, and which
remain unaccountcd fcr2 Whose fingers
are soiled; whose pockets lined
The editor of of the Mahoming (Ohio)
ViRdicator truly says ''there is no way Of
dodging the issue. if you vote the Radical
ticket, you vote for negro suffrage. There
is no way of getting around, over. through,
or under it the WOODS in the Radical ticket.
The dead body CT man whose throat
had been cut from ear to ear, was found, a
few days ago, near Maple creek, Washing
with saddle, bridle. &c.. had first been found
near the spot, and both were much decom-
posed.
-Jedediah Osborne, the oldest man in
| Michigan, died on the 26th, in the one hun
dred and second year of his age. While in
bis garden he accidentally disturbed swarm
of bees, four or five stung him on the head,
and he fell backward and died almost in
stantly.
-Geary stands before the world as the
unqualified advocate of the Fifteenth Ar
ticle. Every vote for him is an acknowl-
edgement that the Constitution of the Com
monwealth may be contemptuously ignored
whenever it suits the purpose of radical par
tisans to disregard its sacred provisions.
In Memphis, on Friday, Mrs. Ann Deck,
a Northern lady, and teacher of the Avery
! Chapel colored school, murdered herself and
her colored baby by leeping into deep well
! containing fourteen feet of water. She tried
| to destroy her older white child, but the lit
| tie fellow saved himself by running away.
Tho Cincinnati Commercial says Mr..
! Kelley, of Pennsylvacia, should be aware
! tn at if the principle of protection 10 which
/ he devotes himself with so much vigor. is
sound, The labor Of the country. no less than
| the capital, is entitled to protection. Why
not protect the American laboTer against
Chinese emigration, as well as the Pennsyl-
vaniH iron manufacturer against English
| competition
| During a late tornado near Dewitt
Iowa. a sister of Mrs. Howett, whose house
was destroyed, saw the storm approaching
and rushed out of the building, when she
was seized by the wind and raised several
| feet into the air, and dashed violently to the
earth again. when she caught hold of a large
| stick of timber, and held by main strength
until the fury of the wind had abated. She
was considerably bruised.
AT Milford, N. H last Monday. Mr.
Moses Ordway. in leaping from a window
of the new freight depot, ten feet from the
| ground, was caught by the throat on hook
| at the end of a suspended chain. which pen.
etrated to the root of his tongue. He saved
his life by grasping the chain with his hands.
but was obliged to remain in this singular
but painful position until released. The in
| juries received were serious.
/
Canada, wearing highly. polished silver
pin, was looking at the eclipse considerably
through the ordinary smoked glass, during
the time of the transit. and afterward dis
covered that the eclipse had caguerreotyped
itself upon her pin at the time that the sun
| was about half obscured. The impression
| remains there permanently, resisting the
action of rubbing as well as exposure to the
atmosphere.
| Benjamin Brown, graduate of Harv.
ard, will give SIS 900 towards defraying the
expenses Of the Oxford boat crew, if they
will come to this country and row a match
with the lately defeated Harvards. Mr..
Brown proposes the Hudson or the Charles
river. This is very handsome offer. II
the Englishmen will consent to come here
| and be beaten they will find the best of en-
tertainment, and their trip viii not cost
them a cent.
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