The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-02-24

alba) were shipped from Aiken. S. g., the
other day, for northern confectioners and
cracker bakers.
There are two patient white mon in
CASTOR, n. @. Last Monday they got into
a fight, at the end Of which one threw the
other down and set on him Tor four hours.
The steamer Emma. No. 8, struck
snag and sunk in the Mississippi river, fifty
miles above Memphis, on SATURDAY. morning
last, and some thirty or forty persons were
drowned.
Mr.. George Fox. a New York niser
who died some days ago. left will IN which
he devises property valued at 100000 to
the United States Government, to assist In
the payment of the national debt.
"A woman at Pine Island. Minnesota,
has given birth to twins, one white the
other black. 1t is considered remarkable
circumstance up there. as the father OF the
children had been in Montana for two yea s.
Simeon Hayden. ho died recently in
Sprague, Conn, at the ripe old age Of 95,
had lived under two governments, mon
archal and republican, and in thiee differ
cut towns, withou. ever changing his resi-
dence.
Some fellow who hasn't the fear Of a
sharp pointer pen before his eyes. has pros
ecuted Brick" PomerOy for libel. 1t will
be the only libel suit that will ever be blo't,
by that reckless wight, against the irrepres-
sible editor.
The cliffs of the Cumberland river, 10
Kentucky are swarming with robins One
roost is three miles long. They can be
picked eff the bushes by hundreds, and per-
sous come a distance of ten miles to fill their
baskets with them,
An earthquake visited SaH Francisco
on Friday last. Quite panic was created In
! certain quarters of the city, but little dam
| age done to property. No lives were lost.
| In other portions OF the State the shock was
! felt with greater or less violence.
Mr.. John c. Holloway, Superintendent
of the Pennsy lvab:a Eastern PCnitentiary.
died about ten days ago His wife, over
came by grief survived him but few days.
and his daughter, who came from distance
! to attend his funeral, died on Tuesday.
The Governor has signed the bill to pre-
vent the injury or destruction Of baggage.
| This will be sad ntws for trunk makers.
But on tie other hand. person can now
! hope that his effects will be safe from the
mashing process adopted by the employees
of railroad companies.
George Dixon. of Michigan. who caused
the death of his little son by ilI-treatment,
has been sent 10 prison for fifteen years.
He expressed the opinion that the whole
! prosecution nAO DcGD q uSplIdCN against
him. He threw his little boy down and
stamped upon his breast.
David Craig, Erq., Representative from
Lawrence county. has prosecuted the editor
of the Couraht, republican paper publish
ed in that county, fer libel. The proSecu-
tion grows out of charges made against Craig
| by the COurdnt in reference to his (Craig's J
vote for Gen. Irwin for State Treasurer.
The general voice of regret occasioned
| in the United States by the sci icus illness of
the Empress Eugenie must be gratifying to
Napoleon III. For years Queen Victoria
was the one sovereign of Europe whom the
American people looked on with favor, but
the Empress has long surpassed her in pop
ularity.
New Hampshire robins don't migrate
deep glen in Tue Sandwich mountains,
clothed tfickly with hemleck. spruce, fir
and tamarack, where the snow is nearly all
lodged on the tree tops, and the light of day
and northern winds cannot strongly enter,
is fopnd to be peoped this winter with thou
sands Of robins.
A singular hermit dwells in Fletcher,
VT. lie is about fifty years old, lives in a
barn, sleeps In cavern dug in the hay
NOW, feeds himself on crackers, pork and
milk, never has any washing done, bur gets
a suit of clothes and uses them till they ''are
no more" Disappointment in a love affair
produced this enviable state Of things.
An oil company mas been formed at
Leechburg, on the West Pennsylvania rail
road, Armstrong county, for the purpose OF
putting down a well in that vicinity deep
enough to thoroughly test the matter to
Whether or not there is oil on the Couemaugh.
The company proposes to put down the well
the distance of fifteen hundred feet, or deep
er if necessary.
The Maine law was recently enforced
in East Hampton, CT, and every drop OF
liquor in town was seized and stored. In
Buel's public house, the officers broke open
closet and took some forty bottles of native
wine owned by Mrs Buel and never used
except in case of sickness and Buel was
forwards filed for having it in in his house
Legislation in Maine is controlled by Radi-
Gals.
The Lancaster Express (republican)
says in regard to the decision of the COM
mittee in the Schulz Findlay case: 1--WE
do bot believe there are five men in the SEN
ate who are not perfectly satisfied that the
decision of the Committee was correct and
proper, and we are confident that every one
of these would have been more than satisfied
with it if Findlay had been the republican
instead of the Democrat
Since the great coal fever of 1929 the
demand for Pennsylvania coal has been stead
lily on the increase, but, although millions oi
tons have been drawn from the mines, the
deposits show no signs of diminution. Ex-
pertinent has established the fact that be-
meath the soil of our State three hundred
thousand million tons lie buried-ten times
more than that of England, Scotland, Wales
and Ireland combiued more than sufficient
to supply the whole world for ages to come
The Grand Haven (Mich. Herald says
:hat two year old daughter of Joseph Je.
anuot, living at the mouth of Black Lake
while playing with some watermelon seeds
a few days since. took one of the seeds and
put Ii up her right nostril. When discovered
by the mother it was so far inserted that il
was hardly perceivable, Mrs. Jeannot be-