The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-03-03

E6TC ID uO uCatu k1euduy III
and the peniteDtiary now holds eighty MUIR
derers. thirty OF whom are women.
The Allentown Democrat reports man
in Bethlehem who is living altogather on cat
and dog meat. And lives well too, no doubt.
-Blighted affection has caused a Vermont
youth Of so to sell his house. live in, hay
now in his tarn, aud never have his clothes
washed.
"A pretty little girl of thirteen years,
hile endeavoring to master a difficult les
son N Philadelphia. few evenings ago.
was seized with brain fever and died next day.
Twenty thousand pounds sterling. it is
said. are lying in the Bank of England. de-
posted there by some Jealous botanist, as
reward for any Ole who shall produce blue
dahlia.
in recent trial of will case in Troy
a woman testified that she and the testator
stood before looking glass, t'ined hands.
| and agreed to live together man and wife.
She received by the will $4,000 in FIVE
twenties, and house and furniture therein.
| DR. Henry Krumme. Of Ridgway. Pa,
has inverted an Automatic Life Preserver.
which is pronounced bv experts 10 be the
best Life Preserver now in existence. The
DR.. has disposed of one half interest in the
invention for very handsome consideration.
| "A girl in Chester. VT. died q few days ago
| from tight lacing. For several months pie
vioHs to her death this poor victim had been
obliged to sleep with her corsets on, and
| frightened to the last notch. for the locsening
| gave such pain internally that she could not
! bear it.
Edward and Daniel Agnew we're arrest
| ed at Reading, on Friday last. charged with
| bigamy. They have wives in Philadelphia,
| and some two months since married two
! young girls. named Douoherty, AT Chester,
to whom they represented themselves as sim
! gle men.
"A negro burgler at Euclid, Ohio. enter
ed grocery at night in this way lie took
some wagon grease. which he plastered on a
! piece of paper, and then putting it against
pane cf glass pressed it. breaking the
pane in such a manner as to have all the
! pieces Of glass stick to the paper.
The delicate opeI alton of TRANSMISSION of
| blood has been successfully performed in
| Chicago. The patient was a young lady al
most hopelessly affected with consumption.
/ 'fhirty-six ounces-of blood were taken from
sister and two brothers. and injected into
/ her veins. and she is now recovering.
Some excitement has been created in
| Knoxville. Tenn, by baby which has de-
parted from the old established rules gov
I erring "cutting teeth' by cutting its back
teeth to start with. All manner of good
and bad things being predicted for the
! infant on account Of its extraordinary con-
duct.
"A woman in Oshkosh. Wisconsin. con-
victed of inhumanly beating her little step
son, pulling his hair out by the hardful and
/ locking him up in an out building, with no
covering but his night-shirt. until his feet
/ were frozen. was sentenced TO three months
| imprisonment. Her name was Martha
Large. but her punishment was small.
In view of the many thousands of able
bedied colored people in the District of Co.
lnmbia, General Alcorn. of Mississippi. offers
to send to his plantation in that State as
many as will go. at his own expense. and
employ them. and offering to give one-third
Of his crop, but can induce none to leave.
They once having partaken of Government
| charity. doled out in half ratons there, no
offer to be made, even of living anyw bere else,
will move them.
-'.The work goes bravely on" Chsu-
tauqua county. New York. the residence Of
| Senator Fenton. has elected democratic
majority in the board of supervisors. the first
since the organization of the old anti mason
ic party in 1928. Lewis county also elects
Democratic majority of the Board-the
first time since the organization of the Rad
| ical party. There are also heavy gains in
other portions Of the state. Pretty well for
a divided party. as the Radicals assert
-Three terrible calamities have been re
ported within The past week. Twenty-three
persons were killed and many injured bv a
railroad accident near Oxford, Miss. on Fri
| day last twenty or thirty men were killed
! by the explosiOn of boiler at a rolling mill
| in Scranton on last Monday, and sxty-four
lives are reported to have been lost by the
sinking of the U. 5. steam corvette Oneida
near 1okohoma. China. in consequence of
colliding with the British steamer Bombay
The discovery Of steel ore, in the c uIty
of York. of very superior quality, is likely
to lead to pleasant and profitable results
| LAST week a contract was entered into by
the York County Iron and Steel Works
with Messrs. S. w. Hopkins & Co.. an Eng.
lish house in New York. for one thousand
barrels of steel ore to be shipped to that
country. The English company also resrr>
we'd. in the contract. the privilege to take
five thousand tons at the same price, to wit !:
81 per ton.
"A party of unknown negroes murdered
an old man named John Irwin Mtcheliin
the village of Union Church. Jefferson coun-
ty, Miss, on the night of the IIth The
negroes knocked at the door of Mr.. Mitchelps
house, which was opened by his wife. when
| she WINS struck down with an axe. Mr. M
| on going TO his wife's assistance, was muir
dered outright. An alarm was given, hut
| when assistance came the murderers had es-
capped. Robbing was evidently The object
of the attack.
They say in Washington that the wives
and daughters of Republican Senators are in
a perplexing quandary about Mrs. Revels,
wife Of the colored Senator. OF course it
would never do to cut her acquaintance on
grounds of caste. 1t. reported of her that
she has all unpleasant way of saying thar"
and 'whar" and Il golIy me % as well as
talking about "hoe cake" and the relative
merits of pigs and things. nn drawingroom
ocasions. and has strong inclination to red
bandana handkercLiefs and colossal brass