The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-10-06

General news Itens.

census marshal found married coupie' tnt
difference in the ages Of whom was Al years
the husband being 65 and the wife "A.
The library of Strasbourg, destroyed by
the bombs and shells launched by the ba
deuers. contained no less than 10000 vol
umes. Many of them cannot be replaced.
Mr.. FL. P. Comstock. the discoverer Oi
the Com stock Silver lode at Nevada, com
mitted suicide on the 29th ult., near Base
man. by shooting himself through the head
He was insane.
Newark, N. j., is to have the finest
cathe6rel iu the country. larger than the one
in New York, TO take twelve or fifteen years
in building, and to be of brown stone and
A berdeen granite.
The decaying remains of three persons,
all in pile. were found in the woods ia
Jasper county, Ind, recently. No clue to
their identity or the cause of their death has
been discovered.
-Cayuga has the longest railroad bridge
in the world, says New York paper. Not
so. The railroad bridge at Columbia, Penn
sylVania. is q mile and a quarter long.
while that at Cayuga is only mile and fifty
yards.
The Usage Mission Journal of Kansas.
says: The wealthiest people in the world
are the Osages. The tribe numbers 5000.
and have. after all expenses are paid. one
hundred and sixty acres Of choice land per
capita, and $4,000 900 in money"
The following lines it is said were
scratched with a piece of Bessemer steel on
the window glass of a Pittsburgh hotel, by
Gov. Geary:
Who's this comes waddling on his pegs,
Right straight athwart my optics 2
By all the bullets in my legs.
3Tis a Ghinaman with choUsticksl
in the centre of the City of Richmond,
Virginia. a schooner was anchored Sunday
night The crew pulled off in boats as if at
sea. The city is half submerged. and the
freshet is still rising. Many cases Of drown
ing are reported, A whole family was swept
away at Lynchburg. The bridges over the
rivers are nearly all gone, and the damage
everywhere is very great.
Another loyal thief has been discovered
to add to the three hundred and forty off
cially reported not long ago. John Speer.
ex-collector of internal revenue. was arrested
at Lawrence, Kansas, on the 22d ult..
charged with embezzling $159, ,OOe in Gov
ernmeDt bonds. His deputy, w. w. Bar
icklow, was also arrested. Speer gave bonds
in $S5 900. and then left-of course realizing
about 1924. 900 by the venture" Next!
in the Salt Lake District Court. the
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a Mormon, named Sanhorn. applied to be
naturaized. In reply to the question of
the Judge, Sanborn said he then had but
one wife, but that he believed it right, and
according to the laws of God, to marry an
other while his present wife was living, and.
although the laws of the land forbid, he
thought it his duty to obey the laws of God
rather than the laws of man. The Chief
Justice refused to naturalize him on account
of his opinions.
The fat renderers of Jersey City are on
the road to condign punishment. 1t seems
that these men have been putting diseased
meat-dogs and horses. as well as beef and
pork-through a certain chemical process,
and then selling it to the sausage makers.
The fact coming to the knowledge of a Jer-
sey City magistrate, he instituted an exam
ination into the matter, and discovered a
state of things which is too disgusting to
describe. 1t is expected that the guilty
parties will be brought up with short turn
in q few days. New Workers eat a good
many sausages, and. as a rule, they like to
have them made of healthy meat.
"A citizen of Massachusetts,, having late
" undergone a very severe operation at the
hands of the surgeons. was seized with the
conviction that they had removed all the
internal organs from his body, and left him
a mere anatomical shell. All their protesta-
tions to the contrary only convinced him the
more of the perfdy of the whole medical
profession. Under the circumstances it was,
of course. useless for him to eat or drink.
and he steadily refused to do either After
lingering in this condition for nearly month,
he died the other day in Salem hospital,
bewailing his stolen vitals, and execrating
the thievish doctors.
One of the Negro State Senators of Tex
as, who is married to white woman 1.-THE
shameless creature y was in New York last
week with his pale-faced bride. D. n.
Powell, Of the National Standard. sent notes
to ten of the leading hotels asking rooms
and equal accommodations for Senator Ruby
and wife. The proprietors of nine of them
civilly declined, but he of the Astor House
the Radical headquarters, added insult to
his declination, SO Mr.. Powell said in a
speech delivered subsequently at Cooper
Institute. He proposed that Mr.. Powell
should take the darkey Senator to Lis own
home, and he would stand the expense Nov
the question arises-did the insult to Powell
consist in asking him to entertain Ruby and
his other half, or in offering to pay for their
grubf Who can answer that conundrum