The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-10-27
news of the week.

Judge McKibben. of Iowa. sleeps only
one hour a day, and for fifteen months during
the war he never slept wink.
New Castle has an owl measuring four
feet and four inches from tip to tip, and ;ur-
nip 81 inches in circumference, and squash
54 inches around.
Henry Sessemer. inventor of the cele>
brated Bessemer steel process, has been
elected President of the Iron and Steel In
stitute of Great Britain.
Mr.. William Stillson, colored educator
of Raleigh, n. C, has an engagement to be
hanged at an early day, for too much init
macy with females
-Ex- Governor Packer left collection OF
old coins valued at nearly $40 900, and sup
posed to be second to but one other collection
in the United States.
i Difference to the advice of all the pow
ers, the Pope, it is reported, will remain at
Rome. Rome will have fourteen deputies
in the Chamber of Deputies.
Some trouble has been caused in Wash
ington by the daughter of prominent officer
in the United States Navy wearing Grape on
her arm for General Lee.
Carpenters and masons get ffty>four
cents a day in the cities of Sweden /; but
fifty cents will buy more in Sweden than
FIVE times that sum would in this country.
An impulsive Texan steer had a lot OF
fun with Mr.. Hopkins, of Illinois, the other
day. A good oculist thinks Mr.. H's sight
can be saved, but his nose has gone in, and
his limbs will have to be wired on.
twenty-five persons are employed to
attend to ten patients at the United States
naval hospital at Chelsea. Mass. 1t Is
guarded by three naval officers, whose az
nual salaries are $4 900, So. 900, and $1,000
From Canada we learn that there has
been general failure of the wheat crop in
that country. Barley is short and inferior,
and hay has failed everywhere. The yield
Of potatoes, corn, and fruit has been excel
! lent.
/ "A smart woman has been engaged at
! Nashua. n. H., fo- some time past, in selling
| several hundred dollars worth of molasses
| and water as a valuable chemical mixture
/ for the removal Of warts, pimples, coTns and
moleS.
"A favorable change has manifested
| itself in the Chinese government. 4 num-
Der of the principal agents III the Tlen-I Ism
massacre have been punishe1-some Of them
with deatb-and an embassy is preparing 6
to go to France.
As Senator Cameron's illness. which
was maguihed into a stroke Of paralysis,
turns out to be nothing but chill, 1t has
been surmised that this cold spasm was pro
duced by the unfavorable news from Penn
sylvania, Indiana, and Ohio.
-Samatanen. a young Indian. was or
dained a priest of the Roman Catholic
Church in the village of Laretta, near Que
| bee, on Tuesday week. He takes the name
of Vincent, and is said to be the first led
man made priest.
"A good JOKE was perpetrated by news
| paper man of Pittsburg, who on receiving
the news of the earthquake on Thursday,
started the newsboys of for smoked glass to
| sell to the crowd around the bulletin boards.
Eclipse and earthquake were all the same t.
the boys.
New York is once more agitated by the
possible discovery of the murderer OF Nathan.
Detectives have just arrived from Europe
with important witnesses or with prisoner
The affair is kept secret until the case is
either worked up to successful conclusion
or abandoned.
"A female child with two heads, three
feet and eighteen toes, was born near Car
diugdun, Ohio, on the I4th instant The
two heads are perfect in shape, but the third
limb is as large as the other two. 1t seems
to be quite healthy. and takes food in both
mouths at the same time.
On Thursday week Mrs. Henry Ellis,
of Mead tow nship, Crawford county, gave
ner little two-year-old some chestnuts. which
the mother herself had previously made fine.
| While eating the child began to cry, and
drawing some of the chestnuts into its wind
pipe, it was choked, and died within fifteen
minutes.
Mrs. Merriman, wife of Mr.. H. Merri-
man, of Beaver county, in this State, learned
quite recently that she was one of the heirs
of Sir Francis Drake, of England. and there
E,li 70 hoY fha IF Mra
| Merrimap, we understand, is descendant OF
Sir. Francis. but in what degree Of relation
| ship are not able to say.
An adventurer named HOrnbeck died
some time since in California, leaving $780,
900 worth of property for distribution
among some poor relatives in Rondout, in
/ New York, and 5000, 900 for his servants.
He left New York city mysteriously twenty
FIVE years ago, with little more than money
enough to pay steerage passage.
"A correspondent of the St. Louis Repub-
lican reports that's some of the most respon-
sible and veracious citizens of Los Cruces
claim to have discovered in Grant county,
| New Mexico, a ledge or ledges of quartz
which, though top rock, would yield eighty
per cent. OF pure silver. Chloride, or muri
ate of silver, known by miners as horu-sil-
yer, abound there.
In Erie. on Wednesday afternoon, a
| plasterer named Boyd, who was working on
a new building, fell through the basement,
| the back of his head striking on one of the
foundation stones. When be recovered con-
sciousness he could not comprehend that he
had fallen and been hurt. nor could he even
remember where he lived, and he still re-
mains in that condition.
The Newburyport Herald thus describes
] the aurora which has attracted so much at
tention throughout the country: Last
evening, as soon as TIthonus had retired for
the night. and was enjoying his first snooze,
! his spouse, the rosy fingered Aurora, daugh-
ter of the morning, snatched the saffron COW
erlet from his bed, and wrapped it around
her. dancing a jig in the northern sky"
The will of Recently deceased cit
izen of Kings county, New York. was filed
! in the suIrogates Office last week hv which