The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-04-15
News and Political Etems.

3Tbe Pennsylvania legislature has made
all women over twenty one years Oh ASe
sibIe as school directors
"A catfish measuring twenty-five lnches
and weighing six pounds was caught III the
Conestoga. Lancaster county, a few days ago
a Young woman who has been getting
"a month for general Homework III TINS
State. has fallen heress to an English estate
of $4,000.
The narns Of John Smith does not ap.
near once in the directory" of the CITY oil
Wilmington. n. C, containing fifteen thous~
and or more inhabitants.
Buffalo snats are killing large mum
her Of horses, mules, and cattle along the
Missouri river. The recent overtfo" made
them and musqditoes very numerous.
The citizens of Centreyille near the
junction of the Union and Titusyllle ana Inc
Oil Creek railroads offer to give Sl,sOo 10
anv person who will build good gri't mill
at their village.
Christian d. Busse, of Northumber-
land county, supposed to have oscn IN .id ,
est Justice of the peace in the State, die1
recently. He was justice for forty three
consecutive years.
The Jaw and part Of the head of mas
todon found in Ross county, Ohio. have
reached the State Agricultural Rooms Sci,
entific men say they indicate an animal
forty feet long by twenty high.
Nearly fifteen thousand tons more of
bituminous coal have been shipped from the
Broad Top mountain thus far this year than
during the corresponding time in 1870
Total amount shipped up to recent date.
"A son of John Tyler, formerly presldsnt
Of the United States, is said to have served
calamity as a Uhlau, in The PTusslan army
during the late war. He had been study ing
mining in Germany, and is only 81 years old
"A young lady in Oregon has made
runaway match with Celestial pagan
Her family opposed her love. so she then
and heather elnped together, aud call them
selves married, though her parents insist
that the rite was all wrong.
Moon -Refiected-in-the-L Lake, Choctaw
chief who left his tribe and took to a white
wife soms years ago. died at Ba;esviile, Ark,
last week, leaving Mrs. Moon Rehected-in-
the-Lake and fifteen little Moor-ReBected-
in-the Lakes to mourn his loss.
1t is said that Brigham Young is dead
IF so what a lot of widows weeds Will be
necessary. Salt Lake ought to be good
place, Just now, to open out in the mouTn>
ing goods business. He leaves more orphans
than would supply Girard College.
-Messrs. D & A. Luck bach, OF Beth
leheno are the owners of a sun dial one hun
dred and twenty wears old. 1t was taken
from thei. old mill that was burned down
several years ago. 1t is in an excellent state
Of preservation. and is again to be pnt ln use.
Moses ). Tsrwillger murdered his
mother at Shawangunk, Ulster county. n.
Y, on Saturday night by choking her to
death. He then hid her body in a cellar
and fred tho house to conceal his crime
-, Ian tala md lnd pI
the Kingston JAIL He confessed the crime,
but is be lieved to be insane.
The inmates OF the Wheeling. w. Va,
peutentiary corcplain loudly of the inse'
curity of that building. 4 successful bur
glary was perpetrated through its walls last
week, and there's nothing to prevent the
same thing happening again at any time
and nervous convicts ceclare that they can't
sleep wink % nights for thinking about it.
Knoxville, Tenn. boasts of youn g
Samson, named Louis Kuckert. One of his
feats is TO lie flat on bis back on the floor,
with the palm of his hand upward, and for
heavy man to place foot in either hand.
when he will raise him with ease, and get
up on his feet. He has lifted men weighing
nearly two hundred pounds in this manner.
The body of drayman who died in
Atlanta, Ga, few days ago. was followed
drays. his fellew workmsn thus testifying
to their respect and regard for him. There
may have been more imposing funeral pro-
cessions. but il is doubtful if there ever was
one which showed more hearty good will
and tender regret.
An astrologer. who calls herself Ara
bella Makapos. and pretends to have been
born D one of the Greek isl ands 2 900 years
ago, is creating a sensation in Symrna by
revealing the future in a manner declared
to be wholly supernatural. She is reputed
to be extremsiy handsome, and not to look
more than twenty five. Her history is al
together mysterious.
-Nittany valley, near Cintonville, Gin
ton county, lived David Barner. a few
days since be went out to his stable to see
about his horses. and whilst among them be
was palsied, falling down between them
WheG no was discovered, bis friends were
shocked to behold him in great agony. the
horses having trampled upon him and ip-
jursG his skull so that he died in a short
time afterwards.
"A goose and colt belonging to Mr..
Williams. of South Bingham, have struck up
an attachment of a decidedly romantic char
acter. They fight for each other, and are
constantly together. When the colt lays
down the goose will sit down close beside
him and wait till be gets up. When the
colt is fed corn in the ear. be will fill his
mouth with sheied corn and drop it W here
the goose can pick it up.
The most terrible Ku Kltx outrage that
the Radical papers now have, is first OF
April hoax started by the Macon Telegraph,
Democratic paper, about a man being
flayed alive, then seasoned with pepper and
and salt and roasted for grand Ku Klux
banquet. This silly hoax is now being
served by Radical editors to their readers in
double-leaded capitals with exclamation
sauce. 1t is a bout as reliable, however, as
most of the stories they tell
Moses s. Ferwilliger. who choked his
mother to death at Brunswick, Ulster coun-
ty, N. Y, on Saturday. has been lodged in
Kingston Jail. and has made full confes-
sion. He entered her room in the midd lie