The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-07-20
Political and News ltems.
They have a two tailed calf ia p

county.
-Berks county can boast of stalk Of
oats six feet seven inches in lengh..
Witch hazel made into tea, and taken
in doses of a gill three or. four times day,
will relieve female weakness.
The Democracy of Columbia county
have concluded to abandon the Crawford
county system of making nominations.
As Grant is to be the Long Branch
candidate In 1872. tho Richmond Enquirer
wishes to know who will be the Olive Branch
candidate.
Five drops of the tincture Of aconite in
a tumbler of water. and teaspoonful taken
every half hour or hour, will relieve colo
and cure many forms of fever.
Philadelphia now owes ffty-one million
dollars. twenty millions of which have been
heaped up since the Radical party took
charge of affairs, ten years ago.
The largest telescope in the world, prob
ably, IS now being made at Cambridge,
Mass, for the Government. Three or four
years " i'll be required to complete it.
Mrs Amy Franks. of Fayette county.
is ninety years of age. the mother OF four
teen children, and is said to have, in all,
nearly five hundred descendants living.
The Post Office Department during the
quarter ending June 80, issued 124, ,76l.-
envelopes, and ] III, 800 newspaper wrap
pers.
The orders fer lager beer stamps received
by the Internal Revenue Office now average
about 40 900 daily. or nearly four times as
many es at the corresponding period Of last
year.
No less than three individuals in differ
ent parts of the country have recently shot
themselves iu showing how Nallandlgham
killed himself 1t is time the experiment
ceased.
A large fire broke out in Bellefonte on
Sunday night last, burning nine stables. one
dwelling. the post Office, six stores and two
law offices. Loss about $40, 600, with some
insurance.
Mr.. Jacob Wertz, aged eeventy-three
years and residing in Frauklin'county, raked
and bound after two cradles at the same
time during the late harvest, for period Of
eight days.
On Thursday last the first narrow guage
passenger engine ever built in America, the
Montezuma. was shipped from Philadelphia
to ''its place of labor beneath the shadows
of Pixies Peak"
Friday last. little boy named Henry
Nj 'er, a ! 9th legs ut fl, an arm broken,
fingers crushed and muriiaJea, and his head
pail fu Y tru's d, bile jumping On rain g Of
cars at York. Pa.
The Saratogian says rooster while TAX
ing thunder-shower bath on Sunday was
struck by lightning, and that every feather
was stripped from its body and found in a
wad on the ground near by.
The Ku-KIux Committee have discover
ed another outrage. A radical editor has
been cowhided somewhere down in Alabama,
for publishing a scurrilOus article about a
young woman who had big brother"
"A widow lady named White aged fifty
three years. died of starvation, in Lancaster.
on Mondas a week. She resided with a
daughter, whose pride would not allow her
te let the public know of their desttution.
"A powder mill in Paris exploded on Fri
day doing terrible damage and causing great
excitement. as a large number Of men, wo-
men, and children were at work in it. 1t is
reported that so were killed and great many
wounded.
Atlanta. Ga, has a woman shoemaker.
Her husband, who fell battling for the South
left her his kit of tools ouly as a legacy, but
hard times coming on. she has taken to the
strap and the last, and is pegging out an
honest livelihood.
One tablespoonful of pulverized cubebs
and two taslespoonfuls of white sugar rubbed
together, and Tablespoonful of the mix
ture taken three or four times a day, will
cure colds and relieve cough Philadelphia
Medical Independent.
The new departure of the Democratic
party has been a thorn in the sides of the
Republicans, but not half so keen as the we'll
grounded apprehension that in October next
they themselves will have to make a new
eparture-from Office.
"A Philadelphia young lady appeared at
the ball at Cape May. on the Fourth OF
July. in dress made entirely of white lace,
which was purchased in Brussels at a cost of
about s., 900. 1t is kept in an air-tight case,
aud the sunlight is never allowed to fall Upon
it.
1t is reported that photographer who
took several photographs Of dead child in
Fall River, Mass, recently, found clearly de-
fined on the sixth negative the face of the
child's mother, who has been dead for som e
time. There is a sensation in FAN River in
consequence.
-EarIy in May Senator Morton wrote to
a friend in Indiana, whose name we have
that in six weeks he would be in the State
Department, when he weuld be able % serve
him. Where is the hitch 2 Has Ulysses
gone back on his friend, that he is thrown
into the dog days without the coveted port
folio ?-PuSburgh Post.
There is Mrs. Leininger, widow, 90
years old, living in .Reinholdsvi!le. West
Cocaico township, Lancaster county, who,
July 7th. bound wheat upon the premises OF
John. G.. Metzipger. in Reinholdsville. Mrs
L is exceedingly active, works in the garden,
does ordinary housework, and enjoys excel
lent health.
If the Oransemen who paraded In New
York were aliens, how much protection had
they right to claim. They owe no allegi.
ance. and were exempt from the draft. when
this country was in its death struggle, and
refused to shoulder a nlusket in its defence
Yet they now demand the muskets Of Amer.
ican citizens to protect them.
"A terrible hurricane visited St. Joseph
Mo-, and vicinity. on the night of the 18th
inst. Houses were blown down and unroof.
! ed in every part of the city Four or five