The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-07-28
general News Items.
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ton, attempted suicide on the oath. but failed.
Among the prisoners Of the York pa,
iail is man who has been confined for over
nine years for refusing TO answer question
in court.
Some workmen digging in Iowa broke into
a cave, the air from which was 50 cold as
to freeze the water in pitcher and drive
the men away.
"A pubIic>school teacher in Iowa. who
is conscientiouly opposed to whipping, has
been dismissed for twisting little girls
neck round till she became senseless.
1t is reported that Senator Revels was
elected from a streetc1r IN LoulsYnie on
Wednesday, and viii bring civil suit
against the company in consequence.
The Grand Haven mich. NelcS con-
soles radical farmers who complain Of hard
times, by advising them to "go naked, eat
green's. and vote The republican ticket"
There is a cannon in the PalaiS Royal
which is discharged by the heat OF the sur
concentrated by magnifyinS glass. Il is
so regulated as TO 90 off Immediately at noon.
The majority for Grover, Democratic
candidate for Governor of Oregon, is 63 |. q
gain of 958 since last governors election,
when Woods, Radical, as elected. by 827
majority.
Only three counties in Illinois gave ma
ton of that State. The Supreme Court just
chosen consists Of four Democrats and three
Republicans.
Twelve thousand five hundred dollars
have been appropriated by Congress for
negro college in Chester county in this State.
All for the negro nothing for white men, is
the motto of the Radicals.
Professor yelling, Of the old Iatsliigen-
Ger. and Mr. Harvey. ex minister 90 Portu-
gal. will edit the new Democratic or gan a.
Washington. 1t viii be ca led The Patri-
ot," and have a capital of 100000.
A Long Branch Jenkins asserts that
the hotel proprietors at that place made up
and presented Grant with a fifty thousand
dollar purse, which induced him TO agree 10
stay there several weeks this season
The census taker on Hooper's Island.
Nd. bas discovered a colored woman aged
III years. For a wonder she did not claim
to have been a servant to General Washing
ton. Perhaps she forgets all about It,
-Christiara Scheelkopl, German ser
want girl, twenty three years of age and
seven weeks in this country, was frightfuliy
and probably fatally burned at Reading. on
Friday last, while trying TO light FIRE with
coal oil.
Judge Paschal, of Texas. has written
letter to the President praying for the releass
.
commissions. The judge argues that accord
ing to the bill Of rights their Incarceration
is illegal.
"Details of the massacre of foreigners at
Pekin, China, are received. The first ac
counts did uot exaggerate the horrors Of the
affair. Neither age nor sex were spared.
and some persons were burned to death in
the buildings destroyed.
/ An Illinois lady, without the slightes,
/ ascertainabie moral or emotional provoca-
ton. has been weeping without intermission
for nearly month, and physicians recon-
mend patent sewer as the only means of
saving her from a wateIeye grave.
At FIRE in B ston on Monday, 25th.
property valued at $500 900 was destroyed,
aud one fireman was so badly injured that
he died On the same day nearly the entire
7 business portion of Coebrook, \. H.. was
, laid waste by the same devourimg element
An. inquest was held in New York on
Friday upon the body of the late Austrian
+ Consul, General @. de Loosely. who died sud
denly the night previous. The post>1ao1tem
( examination showed that death was caused
/ by the rupture Of a blood vessel near the
/ heart.
/ Mrs. Sarah a. Grant, residing in Ando-
yer, Mass, died suddenly on Friday after>
noon, from the sting of a bee Immediately
/ after she stung she lay down on
lounge, saying al am dead" and going into
convulsions, died in about two hours after
wards.
/ Springfield, Fayette county, is excited
over q huge ghost that is reported to have
/ been seen in and about a house in that place
The ghost is said to have a semblance of an
4 immense man with great horns on his head
When approached it is said to vanish in
stantly.
Lady franklin. widow Of Sir John
Franklin, the Arctic explorer, arrived. IN
Cincinnati on July 23d, from California
| She visited that city to confer with Captain
Hall on the subject of the proposed Arctic
/ expedition. and was to leave for Washington
on Monday.
Gen. VIM. A. Leech, Register of Wills
/ of Philadelphia, died few days ago. He
was prominent member of the Democratic
party, by whom he was elected to that office
in 1867. He was a graduate of West Point
and served with distinction from the break
ing out until the close of the war.
The Duplex Elliptic" has again pro-
we'd of service in the saving of life. An uu-
fortunate girl attempted suicide few days
ago at St. Louis by jumping into the river.
/ The fall rendered her insensible, and the
hoop-skirt kept her afoat until rescued by
one of the loungers about the wharves
On opening box car of train for Bos-
ton. Wednesday morning at Windsor, Vt,
it was found that of one hundred and twen-
/ ty-fve lambs confined therein. and on the
way to market, only four were alive! One
hundred and twenty-five lambs crowded into
tight car. on hot day, was the work of a
fiend or fool
The Lynchburg News says: cit is
stated that the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road Company intend employing immediate
( ly one thousand Chinese to work on the con
struction of the road. They are induced
to take this step, it is said, because of the
/ unre!iability of the negro la borers. who have
/ left and are still leaving the road in large
numbers"
The Vevay Democrat says old Jesse