The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-08-11

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demnation on Grants administration
| Who's next2
Two boys, named Harvey Sellich I'D
Charles Downey, were killed by lightning
near Stanford \. Y, on Thursday afternoon.
Several persons were injured during the
same storm at kIorrisania.
Two young ladies, in Randall county,
| Ind. recently waylaid and soundly thrashed
a young man who-as they accidentally dis
coverei--was engaged to be married to both
of them. He has emigra:ed
Mrs Sarah Jordan, of East Braintree.
Mass. died last week at the advanced age
of eighty-seven years. She has been married
sixty-six years, and was buried in the identi-
| cal costume which she wore at her wedding.
a German named John Willis. residing
on Stanislaus River, Nevada, is the owner
of a calf having no forelegs. The Animal is
represented as being in good condition. and
able to run about as well as any of the
others on the farm.
Five buildings on wheels, with stove
pipes protrudng from the rear, and each
drawn by fonr yoke of oxen. passed through
Clinton. Mo-, the other day, heading for the
southwest. Each wagon formed house, to
entitle the owner to homestead farm.
Three young naVigators have sailed
from Elmira, n. Y, for Baltimore in a skff
They took along three baskets of champagne,
q keg of lager, three demijohns of whisky
and a loaf of bread. The Elmira folks don't
see what they want with so much bread.
No less than four Of the most able Re-
publican Representatives in Congress from
| Ohio have positively declined denomination.
Now it is rather interesting to know wheth-
er then decinations were impelled by de-
sign to get out of bad company or by feel
ing that their reelection was not quite so
certain.
General Schenck. despite his protesta-
ttons to the contrary, has lem renaminated
for Congress by the Radicals IF the Third dis
trict. His declination Of a denomination was
a shrewd dodge 1t had the desired fleet.
Had he contended for the nomination. the
probabilities are that he would have been
/ defeated.
David Thomas, heater in a rolling
mill, residing at Skunk Hollow, Allegheny
county, drank a bowl of I've some eight
weeks since. He has been under the care of
physicians. but without relief. He is terri
bly, emacated. his condition being described
by the attendant physician as one of slow
star walton.
They want to send young woman to
Congress from Wyoming territory. Why
not? If any young woman can be found
who will Voluntarily incur the company of
the two Buffers, to say nothing of the cadet
thieves, and the negroes, and the cerpet bag
gers. we would say that Congress is the prop
er place for her.
Senator Browniow, Of Tennessee, pub
fishes card in the papers to deny the stories
about bis i'll health. He says he is, on the
contrary, first rate; is able to receive all
callers, and meane to live good while in
spite of what the papers say. But who
knows how soon his Satanic majesty may
need some new recruits.
On Thursday last party of boys left
PfonIXvllle, Pa, to pick berries. They !
heard the train from Philadelphia approach
ing, and one of them seated himself on the 4
track to show how near the engine might /
approach and allow him to esca pc. The !
cowcatcher struck him and tossed him thirty I
feet, killing him instantly.
Mr. Wm. Stevens, deputy United States
Marshal to take the census for the lower
half of Carolina county, Nd, has unearthed (
two centenarians whilst in the discharge of
his duty-Jane Hutson, familiarly known
as Jennie Dublin" aged l16 years, and
Ann Murray, aged 40 years. The county
record show that these are their true ages,s
Three bachelors in a midland town re-
Gently made themselves as famous as the
three black crows, by a game of euchre.-
The "victim" is to marry before the close of
the year, aad support the other two during
the year following. The finding of a wife
is an easy matter enough. but the trouble
will be to induce her to comply with the
terms Of the contract.
An indiscreet farmer Of Norwich, Conn.
having heard that flies would make excellent
food for chickens. spread poisoned paper in
all the windows of his house IN til be had an
accumulation of two pounds weight on hand
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and on the following day fourteen of his best
fowls were found cold and stiff upon their
roosting boards.
"A Radical western journal inquiries
1--WE wonder what the Democracy will {
charge US with next % 1t is hard to ell
The Radical party has about gone through l
the calendar of wickedness, and it is hard to
mention the next swindling invention in ad
vance. There is one thing, however. that
the leaders need not be afraid of being charg- S
sl with, and that is-honesty
The bank of John Handy & Co, of the
,ity of Scranton, was robbed of thirty thou {
sand dollars in bank bills and green backs t
about ten O'Clock Monday forenoon The
'obbery was perpetrated by young man
who walked into the vault and helped him
self to three packages of bills containing ten
thousand dollars each, in broad daylight aud
n immediate view of the bank teller.
Grant is an awful sprawier, and verv
unny besides. He tried to smoke in his
path last week and the surf would not let
him, and he said-well never mind what he
aid. He went to the Methodist church
lext day. and we hope he made it all right,
when he said "Forgive US our sins" He
,ever says debts, because that word might
oe constructed into an obligation to those =
Who had seat little gold buttoned boots to
Miss Nellie.
C C. Harrington and wife, young
married couple, stopping at Usage, Iowa,
rave been arrested for numbering their own !
hild, an infant a few weeks old. They took
carriage, went some distance into the coun-
ry with the child. smothered it to death
md then rolled over large leg, placed the
hild where the log had lain and then rolled
back in that place. 1t was found dead
nd entirely naked, crushed in a terrible
manner