The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-07-21
General News Items.
Only ten day left for trout fishing.

Only ten day left for trout fishing.
"A young man of Cincinnati wants the
law to restrain his father in his loose expen-
ditures on a woman not his wife. Amount
estimated, $86 900.
-Whittemore, the model Radical cadet
seller, has announced himself as a candidate
for election to the Forty Congress
He is just the man for popularity among the
Radicals, and his district has large ajor
ity of negroes.
In a distance Of five miles on the North
Western Railroad, between Elgin and Gill
bert's station, Illinois, twenty telegraph poles
were shattered by lightning on Thursday
night. The wires were melted in several
instances. The thunder was terrible.
Four men were drowned at Montrose,
Iowa, twelve miles above Keokuk. by falling
into the river from the wheelhouse of the
steamer North Western, which they were
engaged in washing. Their names are not
given. They were hands on that boat.
"A Sunday school excursion train return
ing to Richmond, Va. on Tuesday. was
thrown from the track by falling tree
Four cars and the engine were smashed, and
one hundred yards of the track torn up
One Of the excursionists was killed, and
number were injured.
"A Mr.. Rye, q photographer of New
York, has just brought out a new process of
light-printing from Photographic negatives
by which, on an ordinary printing press,
and with printers ink, ten thousand delicate
pictures can be taken from one plate of pre-
pared steel, copper, or glass.
A Cincinnati doctor protests against
pouring water on the head in case Of sun
stroke. He prescribes warm water applica-
tions and an emetic, after which sulphuric
ether, in teaspoonful doses every fifteen min
utes, and friction along the spine by means
of mustard and strong liniment.
At indianapolis, on Sunday afternoon,
Mr.. Isaac Merchant, Jr., fred a shotgun at
a dog that was chasing flock of geese along
the banks of White river, when the body of
his father rose from the water. The old gen.
tleman, who had been suffering from cancer
in the throat, had committed suicide by
drowning only few hours previous.
"A lady at fair in Springfield, Ohio,
the other day, saw what she took to be
very nice piece of candy, and quietly put it
in her mouth. 1t proved to be miniature
bombshell, and exploded, larcerating her
mouth and shattering her teeth in an exceed
ingly unpleasant manner. Att emptipg TO
eat bombshells is a dangerous busin, S.
d. w. Bissel, of Lancaster. has pull
let which commenced laying eggs at four
months of age. 1t was hItched on the last
day of last February. and on the first of the
present month laid an egg, and has dropped
one each alternate day since, except on last
Friday and Saturday. on both of which days
it laid an egg. The eggs are little larger
than those of partridge.
"A freight train was wrecked on the Kan
sas Pacific Railroad at two o'clock on Thurs
day morning, few miles from Hays City
The engineer, Reynolds, and fireman, Wills,
were instantly killed. A brakeman was
fatally hurt, and the conductor, Palmer. Sc
riously injured. Five cars were wrecked
and the engine disabled. The accident oc
CURED from the washing away of a culvert
by heavy rains.
"A mortgage for SIS .00O, 900. given by
man ]. Lombaert, in trust for the bondhold-
ers of the above company, is being put upon
record in the Uffice of the Recorder of Deeds
of Lancaster county. The same document
will also be recorded in fifteen other coun-
ties in this State. The stamps required on
this paper amount to So 900. The So ,0OO,-
900 are divided into bonds of IS, 900 each.
Later and authentic advices from Tien-
stsin by telegraph through Siberia, confirm
the previous report Of the massacre of for
eigners in China. The outrages were COM
mitted on the 10th of June The natives t
fire to and destroyed the French establish
ments but left those of the Germans unmo-
Tested. The representatives of the European
powers at Pekin, had addressed jnint note
to the Chinese government, demanding the
pun ishnent of the rioters and indemnity for
the losses sustained.