The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-05-06

1t is reported that there is to be gen.
eral strike among the miners of Luzerne,
Carbon and Schuylkill COMMITTEES in few
days.
A man in Milford, Massachusetts,, is
making velocipede with wheels eight feet
high. 1t is intended to make thirty miles
an hour.
The son of a Turkish Pasha and Mrs.
Strong, New York leader of fashion, are
among the recent converts to the Catholic
church in Rome.
"A Western Radical journal speaking OF
Presiden: CRAFTS nomination of negroes to
Office, says "the Republican party will yet
die of the black vomit.'
Every day brings news Of more MANNED
heroes being tnrned out of office by Grant.
He butchers his own soldiers as remorseless-
ly as he did in the Wilderness.
1t is loosely remarked that every ap-
pointment made by Grant takes away from
Washington train load Of 500 sergers-
the appointee and 499 applicants.
An artificial sponge, made by filling
india rubber in fluid state. with bubbles
of gas, and allowing it to harden, has just
been introduced in England aud this coun-
try.
= There is an organ grinder at Novara who
recently returned from the United States
with $50, 900 in gold. an amount he had col
lected in the streets during the last ten or
twelve years.
At Montgomery, Ohio, Thursday, Alon-
20 G. Mueller was shot dead. while dining
with his family. by Abraham Crest, his
brother-in-lAw. They were Gisputing about
q family matter.
In franklin county, Maine. the roads
are full of snow, and all the travelling is upon
runners. The ground has been covered un-
interruptedly since the 9th of November,
period of 100 days.
-Michaux, the French velocipsde maker
and inventor, nearly starved while he was
trying to introduce his machines. He now
employs Eve hundred men, and Is still una
bic to meet the demand.
"A railway stove. just patented, has a
reservoir of water SO situated above it as not
to become heated. In case of an accident
the shock will throw open couple Of valves,
and the fire be extinguished.
David Trisler, butcher of Oonestoga
Centre, was bitten by dog on Wednesday
last, which he had purchased in Lancaster
and was taking home tied 10 his wagon.
The dog died an hour or so afterwards.
A stick Of chestnut timber cut at Trum
bull, Connecticut, when hewed and squared.
measured 24xl0 inches. was % feet long,
and was perfectly sound throughout. 1t re-
quired seven yoke of cattle to draw it from
the woods.
"A man in Boston. few nights since,
rode a velocipede (with grooved wheels
upon tight rope, twenty feet above the
heads of his audience, while another man
performed antics on trapeze attached to
the vslocipede.
An able bodied negro died of starvation
at Columbus. Ga, recently. the evidence at
the inquest showing that he starved rather
than work. Congress should appoint an
investigating committee to inquire into this
Ku Klux outrage.
Jacob Kuntz was killed by lightning
last Thursday afternoon in his fathers barn
in Salisbury township, Lancaster county
He was standing between his father and an
other brother on the barn floor, neither Of
whom were injured.
Two daughters of Mr.. Ochsenheiser, of
East Mauch Chunk, were kindling Ere the
other morning when they thoughtlessly
poured coal oil on the wood, which. igniting,
set fire to the clothing of the younger sister,
burning her fatally.
"A New York physician reports a Curl
Gus case of dog, which had just died. hav-
ing fresh blood passed into the carotid. The
dead animal was revived, stood on his feet,
wagged his tail and lived over twelve hours,
when he died again.
"A Mississippi editor and justice of the
peace msrreid couple in 1858, divorced
them in 1860, married the man TO another
woman in 1861, married the woman to an
other man in 1862, and last week he remar-
ried the original couple.
Mrs. Bedford. mother of DR.. Bedford,
died at Waverly, Luzerne county, the other
day. in the Goth year of her age. She was
a participant in the bloody scenes of massa-
ere when the Wyoming Valley was laid
waste by Butler and Brandt and their saw
age followers.
Captain D. A. Moore, of the Sixty-frgt
New York Regiment lwho lost leg in the
seven days fight before Richmond, has lost
the Post Office at Columbia, S. c., to which
President Grant has appointed Charles Fl.
Wilder. An sx-slave, who is scarcely able to
read or write.
"A colored man, his wife, his wife's sis
ter, and baby fourteen months old were
burned to death near New Road Station
South Carolina: on the night of the 14th ult
Their charred remains were found next day
in the smouldering ruins of the house in
which thoy had lived.
While Judge Archer, of Marshall. In
diana, was removing some boxes from a
shelf one day this week, mouse jumped out
of one of them and into the mouth of the
Judge, and started directly down his throat
The Judge had hard work to stop him, and
was considerably scared.
Van Wyck, the famous New York sur.
geon. warns the public against the use ol
the velocipeds. BE says the severe jar OF
the small, hard seat, produces disease of the
prostrate gland. and If young men wish tc
preserve their manhood they should cease
the use of the Vslocipede.
Several men who wrote to the President
in favor of the appointment of friends have
been astonished at receiving unsolicited com.
missions themselves. The mystery was solved
by the fact that they closed their letters by
saying "I have the honor to subscribe nv.
self," ETC., it being the rule to give all sub
acribers something.
"A more astonishing musical prodigy
than Mozart is little Susie MedburY, Of Bal
tic, Massachusetts,. Before she could speak
words, when but ten months old, she would
sing entire tunes cOPrecklv Az fuo and =