The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-09-29

/ SUNDAY Inns IS always a StaSOI
| of memorial among the Hebrews, accompan-
| led with religious services.
| An Erie county minister prayed in his
church that "the wicked game of base ball,
and the devils tattoo. called Shoe Fly, may
/ speedily spend their force"
! The population of Washington is shown
! by the census to be 100 .338. and that Of
| the District of Columbia 13l ,389. The
/ increase over 1860 is 70 per cect.
! The census taker in Davis county, Iowa,
/ asked a woman at farm house the age of
her eldest child and thereby was: "You've
come around about month too soon.
Washington county,, Indiana. has no
| Jail, and so the supervisors have imported
a couple of iron cages. which can be placed
! In any room, and hold criminals very nicely
One hundred coolies arrived at Bellville,
N j., on Tuesday (the goth inst They
are to work in steam laundry. The Irish
girls previously employed were ct once dis
charged.
Some mean thief at Lanesberough,
Mimi, recently took advantage of the alb
sence of a family at the funeral of one of its
members to steal the sheets and pillows
from all the beds.
Miss Lizzie Barrigan is the champion
swimmer of Charlestown. Mass. She can
swim faster and farther, dive deeper and
come out dryer than any one else in the
place, and altogether she is ''duck of a
woman"
American ministers sign their despatch
es to the State Department simply Motley
sWashburne,' Jones &C.. in imitation of
royalty and nobility. Thus it IS that the
trausplanted Podunk grub develops into the
gorgeous butterfly.
"A horrible accident happened in Mama
City, Ohio, on the 22d inst. A brick wall
in process of building fell. throwing five
lsborers into the cellar, distance Of twenty
eight feet. Two will probably die, and the
others are severely injured.
"A Singular disease has broken out
among the cattle in Erie county. IL is Gu
taneous and generally coufnes itself to the
legs. 1t yields readily to treatment if taken
in season. but is fatal if suffered to get few
days start. 1t is called leprosy.
In Indiana. two years ago. two brothers
by the name of Kelch had quarrel concern
ing the ownership of barrel of salt. 1t
was decided last week by the Circuit Court.
at a cost to one of them Of 1925 81 besides
lawyers fees.
1t is confidently asserted that Mr. Col
fax s resolve to retire from public life is no
more an affair of the moment with him than
it is of moment to any one else; but simply
the result of retiring disposition which has
been growing on bin for years.
Mary Clark, of Cincinnati, said there
was altogether too much blowing in the
papers about the danger of kerosene, and
she proceeded. 10 kindle her FIRE with it. Her
widower says he don't know how in the
world be is going to get along with all them
children she left.
Here is a western democratic conun-
drum which none of the radical orators have
as Yet undertaken to answer 'sWhy do the
national banks have the privilege of issuing
their notes as money. said notes costing the
people nearly $40 600 900 a year, when
legal tender notes could have been issued for
nothing 2"
Joseph Healey. of Martin county, Irdi-
ana, recently sold a horse to gentleman
residing near Kentucky, the purchaser ia
king the animal to his home. A week later
Mr.. Healey was astonished at seeing the
same horse come trotting into his barn yard,
having crossed the Ohio river and found its
long way back to it's old home and master
Senator Carl Shurz has invited his col /
league. Senator Drake, to discuss the polit-
ieal questions of the day before the people |
of Missouri Drake declines. Meantime
the contest goes on, with all the Democrats
and all the liberal Republicans on the side |
of Shurz, and the negroes, sCalawags and |
carpet -baggers on the side of Drake. In !
such contest the sympathies of all decent |
white men will be with Carl Shurz
The editor of the Marysville Glenn |
Republican is a colored man, but not much |
inclined 10 follow the malignant teachings |
of scalawag Radicalsm. He says: Let |!
US not stop to unearth the dead issues of the /
past, but press forward with renew ed zeal, /
doing battle for the right and opposing the I
wrong. Conservatism in Tennessee means |
peace, law, order and equal rights to all it /
buries the past and builds up a prosperous |
and peaceful future"
One negro recently beat three white /
carpet baggers as Radical candidate for |
Congress in the first Alabama district, and |
now comes the news that DIR. Norton, black, |
beat DIR. Douglass, white. for the nomination I
in the first Virginia District. In both dis /
tricts the white Radicals have revolted.-I
That is fiat footed political rebellion, and /
Grant ought at once to write letter similar /
to that he forward to the Federal officials
of Missouri the other day.
For great many years past, regularly /
each summer. an old land tortoise has been
seen on the farm of Mr.. Michael Helfrich, or /
its vicinity, in South Whitehall, Lehigh
county. She has attained to a great age,
bearing the initials ID H., 1870" (Dan-
iel Henninger), on her shell. This would
make her present age 60 years, though
there is no telling how old she was when
Mr.. Henninger carved his initials on her
back. She was seen a short time ago, ap-
parently well and hearty.
The paymaster of Schoenbergcr's iron
mill, Pittsburg, while walking along the
street Wednesday afternoon Of last week.
was knocked down by man named Adams,
who seized satchel. containing SlI 900.
and ran into the Panhandle Railroad tunnel.
where the police captured him aud recovered
the money. The prisoner was tried on
Thursday and sentenced to twenty four years.
Adams shot twice at the
policeman who arrested him. thereby aoera-
vating his case. He was in the penitentiary
within twenty-four hours of the commission
Of the robbery.