The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-12-08
Neyys and PolltlcaI Itenas.

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the Republican party in Fayette county, |
asserts that Democracy and Catholicism |
are joint stock concern"
"A white girl of ConestogA Centre, Lam
caster county, has just assisted in replenish-
ing the earth by giving birth to mulatto
baby-one of the fruits of social equality.
For over thirty years an old gentleman
at St. Albans, VT, has made practice of
getting out of bed every night at IL. and
4 O'Clock, to enjoy comfortable smoke"
There is a righteous law in Ohio. under
which family Of children in GAINESVILLE
have been awarded $500 damages against a
saloon-keeptr who sold liquor to their father.
John Q. Hodges, negro member of the
Virginia Legislature. from the Norfolk dis
tiict, has been arrested for burglary. OF
such is the Republican party in the South
composed
"A letter-writer, describing recent ball,
says the feature which made the deepest
impression on him ''was the unusual number
, of very plump women foaming over the tops
of their dresses"
The almshouse barn of York county,
| filled with grain aBd seventeen head Of cat
tie, was destroyed by fire early on Sunday
| morning. The building was one OF the lar
| gest in the State.
"A writer in the Binghampton Repub-
| lican says that some burned shingles were
| recently taken from a roof at Clifton
! Springs, and carried by the wind to dis
| tance of four miles.
! There is a we'll in the Oil Region owned
by ladies', which produces one hundred and
fifty barrels per day. 1t is commonly known
| as the Ladies Well'' and is eight hundred
and sixty-fve feet deep.
| The war in Europe looks like it were
simply bargain between King William
and Napoleon to swop populations. by get
ting all the Germans into France and all the
| Frenchmen into Germany.
Washington county contains % persons
between the age of 90 and 95 years, and
four who are over 100 years old. One of
the latter, Robert Collins, is l02. and can
still read without spectacles.
A porter of one of the Chicago hotels,
an industrious and very saving man, has
amassed a snug little fortune Of twenty thou
sand dollars from his salary and perquisities
during the last fifteen years.
John II. Surratt is announced to lecture
in Rockville. Md, on what he knows about
J. Wilkes Booth. the abduction plot, and
his own adventures after bearing OF the as
sassination. while at Elmira.
BY singular coincideDc the aggregate
Radical majority in New Jersey (or the ma
iority for the Camden and Amboy Railroad,
Just as the reader pleases) is 3.423. exactly
the majority polled by the Democracy in
1868.
A Cincinnati Judge decides that boy
marrying under 18 years without the con-
sent of his parents or guardians, may repu
diate such marriage and marry again. if he
does not recognize his first wife as such after
he is 18.
The official returns received at the of
fee of the Secretary of State at Albany
show that Hoffman received 299 .490 votes
for Governor. and Woodford. 366 .423; Beach
39o .O53 for Lieutenant G Governor, aud Kauf-
man 368 PAS.
The Catholics of New York. through
their Bishops and Archbishop. have framed
an address of sympathy to the Pope, EN-
bolying the strong protest of the clergy and
laity against the occupation, recently, Of
, Rome by the King of Italy.
, Mrs. Luella Gross has died 10 Maine
from the excessive use of tobacco for l07
, years and to show the insidious nature of
, the poison, it is stated that she apparently
: enjoyed perfect health all the while her con-
; stitution was being undermined.
, 1t is now alleged that General Grant
has paid over one hundred and fifty thous-
and dollars to Baez, on account of the an
nexation treaty job, and that the former
f will be compelled to push the work through
! the Senate, or meet an exposure.
"A young lady was recently left waiting
, four hours for her intended bridegroom at
an Indiana church. At length the an
nouncement came that the courage Of the
} youag fellow had given out at the last mo-
ment. and that he had blown his brains out
Miss Anna Moore. Miss Catharine Du-
bois and Dave Mathews jumped for one hun
dred and fifty dollars recently in Armstrong
county. They were all dressed in kits and
tights. Miss Moore won. getting over dis
tance Of eleven feet and one and half ir-
/ ches on one jump.
= The Winterset. Iowa, Sun says that 10
, the old times the Treasurer of Madison
, County kept the public funds in his wife's
stocking-eg. Some one suggests that that
was an insecure place for SO much money
? the Treasurer replied that no vaualt in the
: world was safer than his wife's stocking.
"A physician in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
? was arrested for whipping his wife. and was
5 requested to enter into bonds to keep the
f peace. On his return home. he tore down
D his sign, and swore 81 he would not practice
r in any d. d town where the authorities
J knew better than he what was good for his
E wife"
a Tie Japanese carpenters are ingenious
workmen. and their work is done with mar
g velous neatness. A curiosity of their hous e;
] is that they do not contain single nail. al
: their joists and timbers being dovetailed to-
e gether by many ingenious devices and the
3 whole work, even to the rafters, is as smooth
: as if it had been polished down with sane
$ paper.
D "A fire, early on Sunday morning. ir
e Lawrenceburg, above Parker's Landing
t destroyed the Revere House, the Butler
!. House, Florence Hotel, New York Hotel
+ Adams Fosters dry good store. Christ
!. lows grocery, Lewis & Co.'s cigars. anc
about thirty private dwellings, and the lie
gal Tender and Independent oil wells. Loss
l 100000. Tho FIRE was the work of an in
9 cendiary.
t The census>takers in some portions O
S the West have as funny experiences as thoe,
!. in the large cities in this section. Ore ha
s discovered lady in Indiana who is happ,
q an6 contented in the name of Jane Juliett
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