The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-02-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

"A Southern paper says there Is COM
mon aunt to all children born in New Eng
land-ant-ipathy. Baby-raising is lost art
among the descendants of the Puritans.
MIR. Benjtmin Myer, aged 81 years, and
his wife, were discovered dead in bed on
Sunday, at Saugerties. N. Y, apparently
from the effects of coal gas from stove in
the adjoining room.
"A clergyman in Upper Mt. Bethel
township, Northampton county, has institu-
ted suit against a brother clergyman for
slander. Clergyman should confne their
ISLANDERS to the devil. 1t is safer.
Gen. J. c. Breckenridge and wife arrived
at st. Catharines on Tuesday. Since leaving
the.e, some two years ago, the Ex-General
has devoted his time to travelling, making
thorough tour of Syria and the East.
-IIunnicutt has turned up again. He is
canvassing the Richmond (Va) District for
a seat in Congress, against Charles II. Por-
ter. The Petersburg Hlder says Hunni-
cutt's cry now Is ''Down with the co-Po'-
baggers! 20
cit is said the puhIio oebt statement for
J,nnarv viii ssnow an increase of eighteen
mills. That is specimen of the Uigor
Gus economy which the Radical State Central
Committee talked about at Harrisburg the
other day.
We paid seven millions of dollars for
Alaska. but just think what an amount of
first-rate ice, two or three thousand feet
thick, we got In the purchase. Why, it
didn't cost US thousandth part of fArthing
per pound.
A Washington correspondent asserts
that Secretary McCulloch, on his retirement
from the Cabinet. will not return to the West
to live, but will continue his residence in
Washington Browning will go to Illinois,
j Al.
"A steer of slephantine proportions of
Ray county, Mo-. is eleven feet four inches
long from top of head to root of tail, twelve
feet around the chest and twenty-one hands
high from hoof to centre of withers. His age
is five years, and weight $500 pounds.
The body of Henry Frey, who disap-
peared from his home, in Plainfeld, North
ampton county, early in December last, was
found lying in the snow, some days since,
in Growers woods, in that county. The
dogs had eaten off part of the face. He
was so years Of age.
"A resident of Brooklyn recently, while
laboring under the insane idea that some
one was trying to rob him, took his watch
and $400 out on the street and gave them to
the first stranger he met The stranger has
not yet returned them. although the Brook
Ignite has become sane again.
- lie CTeuenGldlS Vi lu6 lOu 0Ouu CCOLI5
Pennsylvania's new Senator, which were
presented to the Senate on Thursday week
last, are engrossed on sheet of paper large
enough to embrace Mercator's projection of
the globe. and with the big seal of the Key
stone State make truly formidable docu-
ment.
The Portsmouth Journal has Subscri-
Der who has appeared in that Office nearly
every Friday afternoon for thirty-eight years,
with his coppers to pay for the paper. The
Journal estimates that the coppers would
weigh one hundred pounds and would make
a column of fifty feet in height if piled one
upon the other.
Mrs. Kelly, of Black Brook, N. Y, Is
years old, has been married
twenty one years, and is now the mother of
nineteen children without ever having had
twins, the youngest child being thirteen
months old. There is but ten months Gif-
ference in the ages Of her first born and
second born child.
There was recently cast at She Phoenix
Foundry. Bilston, England. a pair of iron
rolls for Sir John Browns works at Shelf
field, said to be the largest rolls in the world.
The rolls are fifteen feet six inches In extreme
length and three feet in diameter, and each
weighs eighteen tons. They are to be used
for rolling armor plates.
David Paul Brown, Jr, a prominent
member of the Philadelphia bar. died in
that city on Monday evening, of pneumonia.
He was School Director of the Fifth ward
several years ago, and until recently Uni
ted States Commissioner. He was highly
by tho members of his profession.
He was in his forty-frst year.
"A red-hot Radical paper at Meriden.
Conn.,, given to speaking the truth only too
plainly, says that so far from all the money
being ''legitimately used" as Hawley stated
in the last campaign, it knows of cases where
In thousands of dollars were paid for votes
and influence by the Republican party
How big is Jewell's pile this year
Another horrible outrage has occurred in
Duplin county, N. c. white man, named
Du Vaughn, who fired upon a party of ne
groes attempting TO violate the persons of
some young ladies, was murdered in his house
the following night, and his body cut in
halves and hung up in the room in which he
slept. No arrests have been made.
AN Ohio editor thus frees his mind
THE woman who made the butter which we
bought last week is respectfully requested to
exercise more judgment in proportioning the
Ingredients. The last batch had too much
lair in for butter, and not quite enough for
! waterfall. There is no sense in making |
Yourself bald-headed if butter is thirty-fve |
ents a pound"
Michael Kaufman, a German barber |
# Pittsburgh. shot a little boy named Ed
ward Miller, Saturday evening. The boy |
vas looking into the shop window, and after |
'eing ordered away by Kaufman, the latter |
ired revolver through the window, killing |
he boy almost instantly. Kaufman mar |
owly escaped lynching by the citizens, but
vas hurried to Jail.
Miss Winnie Ream was selected by Con-
ress to make a bust of Lincoln. During the
she refused to beg Senator
'ho lived at her mothers boarding house,
o vote for conviction. In revenge, the Radi-
ais now swear that her bust is not as hand
ONE as Mr.. Lincoln They are, on that
'lea, refusing to pay for il. Oh, Radicaism,
Vhere is thy blush?
"A resolution has been offered in the
legislature of this State. at the instance, as
supposed, of the officers of the Pennsyl-
GIonfr Poil