The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-12-16
general News Eaetns. ::

Tie Pope thinks false human science
! and impiety were never before SO strong
| today. His Holiness is right.
A negro man in DavieSs county, Ky,
! formerly the property of the Mitchussons. is
eating his third Set Of teeth. He is So years
/ of age.
"A dog was accidentally shut up in
Bridgewater. Conn, for ffty-seven days
When discovered, he was alive and well,
| having been without food for the entire pc
Rod lie appeared to be dog goned hungry.
An old gentleman, always regarded as
a miser, and an eccentric. died IN Boston the
| other day leaving behind him half million
worth of fine pictures While some misers
have gold for their god he erected art for
his idol.
A young man in North Adams. Mass,
who last week learned that the woman whom
he had looked npon as his wife for four
years, was the lawful wife Of another man
Immediately left her for his fathers house,
and then soon sickened and died Of grief.
-Eckel who recently died in the Albany
Penitentiary, and who was connecsed with
the famous Burdell murder, is said to have
stated on his dying bed, that he had moth
ing to do gth the murder. but hnted that
! Mrs. Cunningham was the actual murderer.
A young lady at Burlington, tried to
elope by dropping from second story win
dow instead Of falling into lovers arms,
/ she soused over head into a water-hutt. Her
ardor was not damped though, for she "got, !"
her frozen garments cracking like breaking
windows.
Respecting the Cardiff giant. the latest
. is that number of gentlemen have made
afidavits that the appearance Of the pit from
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ti0n of the soil in the neighborhood, were
such as to place the burial of the image at
least beyond the memory Of those now living
"A young man thought to frighten two
young ladies' upon their return from party
iii Sparta. Tenn a few nights ago. by
wrapping himself in a sheet and suddenly
appearing before them on q lonely road.
One Of the ladies faiEtcd and fell to the
ground, and the other ran home, reaching
there raving maniac.
The Dubuque Time: has discovered that
the Cardiff qiant humbug is Western pro-
duction The block Of gypsum was qnar-
Tied in June, 1868. near Fort Dodge, Iewa !;
sent to Chicago. and worked into statue.
/ Thence it was taken to Heweli's farm. New
York. 1t is said that the man who carved
| the giant is now in Chicago, but prefers 10
keep quiet.
DR., Paul Scheppe, under sentence of
death, has presented a petition to the Su-
| pTeme Court, Pennsylvania, earnestly assert
! ing his innocence of the murder of Miss
| Steinicke and asked a new hearing on a writ
of error. Attorney General Brewster has
| assented to the grating of writ Of error
raturnable on the first Monday in January,
! which will be issued.
| In Boone county, Iowa, on the goth
| u!t., young man named Emery Aokerman.
/ while crossing the country with his gun,
! fell into an old deserted well. thirty feet
( deep. covered with rotten pl8nks and earth
/ hidden with snow, and was found on the
/ sixth day afterward dead He had scratched
! an account Of his accident on a stone on the
/ bottom. and it is thought. died on the fourth
/ Gay after falling in.
The Cincinnati UniOE states that A D.
! Richardson married Miss Pease. in that
| city. the daughter of a periodical vender,
who. fourteen years ago, kept store on
! Sixth street. TIE marriage was an unhap-
/ py one, and when certain facts connected
with Il are ventilated. the memory of the
I late a. d. r. will not shine SO uminously
| as the Rev Bcecher aud others of his admi-
! rers would have it. Miss Pease at one time
( professed to be great spiritual medium
! Last spring a widow, living near Roch-
! ester. n. Y, was persuaded to trade her
! house with neighbor for farm in Wiscou-
! sin. giving $500 in addition. She subse
/ quently went out to settle on the farm. but
! found It far from railroads and settlements
most of it water and the rest sand banks
! Moreover, it was a fine place for the '.sha-
kers," with which all the family were taken
sick. and now that their money is gone, they
are in the poor house. That neighbor ought
to be looked after
kentucky, which is the most nnfincb-
| ingly Democratic State in the Union, hav
ing never yielded to Radicalism. or allowed
that pestiient party to obtain foUthold in
| her borders, has no State debt Under
! Democratic rule her financial affairs have
heen honestly managed. while the Radicals
have been piiing up National ald State
! debts of the hneest proportions. There is
a lesson for the taxpaying masses of States
which are laboriug under Ra,iical rule Let
the voters of Pennsylvania lay it to heart.
An tfort is making in New York. to
raise funds to de:ray the expense attendant
/ upon McFarland's defence-one gentleman
has contributed $500, aud another $lOO.
1t is stated that Mcfarland is wholly with
out resources. and the expenses of his defence
| will reach SIS 1000, as many witnesses will
have to be brought from a distance. Dur>
ing the past year Mcfarland received. as an
assistant Assessor. l 800. out uf which he
repaid nearly $500 which he had borrowed
and the rest was exhausted in the support
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