The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-07-01
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Kansas repTe,eu an abundant WIedt mar Fess-
The Democrats of California have re
nominated Governor Haight. The election
takes place 10 August.
A negro named Isbel was lynched by
mob at Springfield, Missouri, for.committng
a rane on Mrs. Christian Of that city.
DR.. Bulls, Republican nominee Tor
Lieutenant Governor Of Iowa, was thrown
ont Of sulky at Dacotah, on the 22d. ana
sustained injuries supposed to be fatal.
On Monday Of last week, an employee
of the MiGdlstOwD, Pa, car shops, name"
Irwin. struck a loafer. Hinkls by name, Oh
the bead with an iron bar, inftlctIns iAta'
iuiures.
Fred D. Grant. the Presidents son grad
uated at West Point last week His stand
ing in his class OF ii was IS follows Cen
eral standing 81 general discipline 4I-the
first nan behind.
Three hundred and seventy-eight Ro-
man coins and urBs have recently been dug
up IN Luxembutg. They telong to the
reigus Of Vespasian, DJmitian, Nero, traJan:
and their successors.
-A'California man requested his wife 10 a
ballroom to hold the baby Of another mans
wife while he danced with the baby's mother
but she didn't hold il. Some wives are
too disobedieDt to put up with.
They say President Grant IS AFRAID OF
only one thing. and that is Young Mems
Christian Association They follow him up
and sing Old Hundred at him until be
breads to 90 any place at all now.
"A black snake has appeared IN RittcTs-
will. Lehigh county. measuring between
twenty-five and thirty feet in length, with
stove pipe thickness. An organized effort
is being made to capture the monster.
Some Kentucky women. few nights
y-Fy,. L.
mis-. took him from his bed aud beat him
with 13O stripes, explaining that they thus
nisused him because lie had violently I'll
treated his wife.
AT Mount Morris, Wisconsin, on Friday,
the 22d. tvo young ladies, named Carrie
Olson, aged fifteen. aud Susan Caul, aged
fourteen, while bathing, were drowhed-
George Tracy, who attempted 10 rescue the
girls. was also drowned
Few persons know how homely sig
nifcanCe the name "TUileries" has. The
site on which the palace was erected had
been used for making tiles French tuiies),
hence upon the building Of the structure 1t
was called the Tuileries.
The experiment Of towing canal boats
by means Of a road steamer, which travels
along she tow~path. has been tried on the
Erie Canal. It was found that one machine
WOu.L draw LlItS oOdtS iu4ls tSt@-CS g. 1--@
rate of three miles per hour.
While Governor Scott Of South Carolina
was at Washington the negro Lieutenant
Governor and one or two others, fixed up
little game for calling the Legislature togeth-
er a9d impeaching him. Bis unexpected
arrival at home saved his bacon.
South Joggins. Nova Scotia, has its
scientific mystery, which the native pundlts
are scratching their heads over with slight
hope Of solution. 1t is nothing less than
fossil human foot, which a gentleman Of
an observing turn OF mind recently dug oCt
Of a sandstone rock.
An Intelligent young clerk in a music
store at Rochester, n Y. spent an idle mo-
ment in front Of a five hundred dollar mir
ror by writing his name across the centre
with his diamond ring, If anybody wants
a nice young man in 4 store they can get
this one. as he is 10 longer connected with
that establishment.
Joanna Marin Perkemans. who recently
died on board a train bound for California,
was the daughter of a celebrated Antwerp
physician. She was thiTty-one years old,
rich and eccentric. Aside from the diamonds
and jewelry found on her person, she had
twelve thousand dollars in money aud pat
ent Of nobility on her mothers side.
"A young woman aged about 20 years,
name unknown. was murdered at an early
hour on Saturday morning, near Chase's
Station, on the Philadelphia and Baltimore
Railroad, by party Of men who claim to
have mistaken her for n man dressed iu wo-
mems clothes who had been pTOwliDg about
that neighborhood for some time past.
In Edinburgh new musical instrument
is exhibited 1t is a keyed instrument of
six octaves, resembling a harmonicum in
form but different in mechanism. The sounds
are produced by the friction of wooden ham
mers against revolving cylinder of wood
set in motion by tho feet. The tones pro
duced are said to be sweet and varied.
George W. Richardson. the Radical So
licitor of Coosa county. Alabama, blindfold
ed, gagged and whipped two little negro
girls, and threatened them with death if
they should ever tell who committed the out
rage. He was trying to manufacture KH-
Klux outrage to serve as the basis for fur
ther persecution of Southern Democrats -
But. fortunately, be was detected, and his
design exposed by negro
A man in Portland. Maine, claims that
air can be compressed in reservoir 10 an
extent double the power of the engine that
comprosses and has invented a governor
which is said to control the pressure to COM
pleteiy as the governor of steam engine.
He afirms that pipes can be extended 10 an
almost indefinite length. as by a simple in
veution he has overcome the obstacle of fric-
ton which previous experiments have found
SO difficult to deal with.
A Florida journal says that while q lady
of jacksonville was dressing fish recently.
preparatory to cooking, she discovered. en-
bedded in its flesh, a small stone, resembling
glass, aud nearly the size of Northern
white bean. The stone resembles diamond,
cuts glass freely, and is very transparent
and Tefractive. Should this prove to be
diamond, It's value is estimated at four or
five thousand dollars, should it be otherwise.
the stone is at least valuable to mount as
an ornament The lady has already been
offered one hundred dollars for it.