The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-05-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Salt Lake City is favored with one
legged acrobat who walks the tight-roPe and
swallows a sword when in the middle.
A Pitts6eld lad recently sold 2O1 musk
rat skins of his own trapping, and with the
avails thereof paid his last winters tuition
at school.
A whiskey barrel IN an Evansville
brewery exploded on Wednesday, while
man was boring q hole in it. injuring one OF
his eyes so that he win lose it.
"A soldier with bullet in his breast
not back-received at Bull Run, has just
been removed from an Indiana Postotlce,
to make place for q rich radical.
Hon. Horotio Sey mOur has been buying
large tracts Of land in Iowa, and has become
president Of lake and river transportation
com pany operating IN Wisconsin.
Schuyler isn't as careful OF his relations
as Grant Is He allowed old Ben Wade to
miss the commissions ership of the PacIhc
Railroad even after Grant had promised it.
A successful Office seeker in Washing
ton had to search the Gazetteer to ascertain
where the country was to which he was ap-
pointed as minister from the United States
z. T. Hockenberry was convicted OF
murder in the 6rst degree, at Butler, the
other day, for shooting his cousin, Miss Nc
Candless, who would not accept him as
lover.
Weston, the pedestrian. made another
attempt to walk one hundred miles in twen-
ty-four hours, recently. and failed. he IS
ike Grants administration. Constitutional
failure"
Gold has been discovered in the rocks
Of the Stevens estate. at Hoboken. New
Jersey. It viii pay eighty dollars per ton
for crushing There il considerable excite
ment iD Hoboken over the discovery.
Boil one pound of poke root in one pint
of water until the strength is exhausted, and
then mix the 6ecoctioa with molas'e and
spl cad it upon plates and feed it to your
reaches, if you want them to get sick and
die.
A Mrs, Arbuckle. of Indiana, draws a
pension fer herself and sixteen children.
! Pensions are not allowed children after they
become sixteen wears old. How many chill
dren exceeding that age Mrs. Arbuckle has,
is not stated.
ID. A. Moore, who lost leg in the sew
en- days fight in front of Richmond, wanted
to be postmaster at Columbia. South Carroll
na. but Grant appointed a negro, who can
hardly write his name. This is making
treason odioUS."
Some two weeks ago q passenger on the
/ Cumberland aud Pennsylvania railroad. re-
| fusing to pay his fare. was about being for
/ ciblv elected from the cars by the concuc-
tor and train hands, when he fred pistol
killing the baggage master.
An oyster was recently fshed up at
/ Stamford, Connecticut, which contained one
| hundred and twenty-seven pearls. and one
/ at New Haven which had one hundred and
/ thirty-seven, varying in size from that OF
! buckshot to mustard seed.
Simon Wolf, the Jew who electioneered
! 30 hard with the race for Grant last sum
mer. has been appointed Register of Deeds
/ fer the District of Columbia. an office worth
/ $1,000 to Sc 900 per annum. Pretty good
! for wolf in sleeps clothing.
In the prize drawing of the Good Will
! concert at Allentown. on the 5th inst, the
/ first prizs of fifteen hundred dollars IN gold
( csn was drawn bv Carl Reno Beno, editor
of the County aud State, a German news
paper published in that place
j Holmes Grover was recently appoint
/ ed by General Grant, Consul a: Ancona,
italy. The Buffalo Courier says this is in
return for "can of plums" which the
aforesaid Holmes sert General Grant last
fall Like master, like man."
The South Bend Register tells OF q
/ young lady of sweet sixteen, from Angola.
/ having passed through that place en- route
/ for Chicago, who tu.Cs the beam at SIX hun
I dred aud ninety pounds. She takes posi-
tion in Woods Museum. Hefty and deli
/ cate.
A plumber of Davenport. Iowa, bought
$4,000 pounds Of army belt buckles at Rock
Island for seven cents pound. They cost
nearly a dollar pound, and would have
Inen. They are to be melted down for the
brass and solder.
| "A three story brick house, eighteen
| by forty feet, and in the construction OF
which $50 bricks were used, was built in
Lancaster, Pa, week before last, in nine
teen ard a half hours, and peEsous wei 9 iiv-
ing in it within three days from the time it
was commenced.
On the farm Of Mr.. E. Craft, IN Fayette
county, is an apple tree that is now almost
hundred years old. II was planted in
1872, four years before the revolutionary
war. It still retains much of its viGor. As
many forty bushels Of apples have been
gathered from il in a single season.
"A well known New York capitalist has
purchased a large area Of land in New Jer-
sey for the manufacture Of peat. He claims
that the discoveries thus far made warrant
his being able to supply the entire New
York market IL short time wita an article
equal to the best coal, and much cheaper.
The shell Of land turtle with the flesh
freshly picked out, fell into the town OF
Meriden, Connecticut, the otter day, proba-
bly, from the claws Of an eagle who had
made dinner Of him. The she'll was en-
graved with an initial w, and the date
1850. The old fellow had long life and .
distinguished death.
-Aipeoria Bradley, late of Sing Sing,
and more recently radical member Of the
Georgia Senate, denies the report that be
has been rendered foreign appointment BY
. PraSi1anf he ~,
bis ease is that he is not related to Grant
bat be thinks that not beipg so is full CON-
pensation for his failure to get an Office
The body Of Mrs. Thomas Taft, who
died in Elgin, Ohio. about three weeks since
in mysterious manner, his been exh1med
aud microscopically examined by the medi-
cal fraternity Of that city. Muscles from
the different parts Of the body showed trich-
ina to exist. not only IN large numbers. but