The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-05-27
Political and News Etems.

Worcester, Mass, the other day, an item ol
six dollars was allowed her daughter for at
tending her funeral.
Oh Monday last Vice President Colfax
was stricken with paralysis, and it is con-
sidered extremely doubtful whether he VIII
survive if a second attack ensues.
Lately fire at Bradford, Canada. de-
stroyed the entire business portion OF the
town, the town hail. and one hundred dwell
ings. Not one store is left in the place.
james Jones, a boy. accidentally shot
himself dead on Wednesday evening in
Strattauville, Clarion county, while careless
ly handling pistol he thought urloaded.
Utah is again troubled with swarm
of locusts. They eat up all green things.
They poster the people OF Utah almost as the
carpet -baggers do the people of the South.
Several of the priests confined by the
Commune in the Paris prisons havo died
from the exceptional cruelty and harshnoss
with which they have been treated by their
rutal ], ilers.
Two distinct shocks of earthquake were
felt at Toronto, Quebec. Ottawa and other
places in Canada. on Sunday. The vlbra-
ton lasted for over ten seconds. No dam
age ia reported.
An Euglshman has invented a new
help for writers, q votaie electric penholder,
with pens especially adapted to generate
small stream of electricity, which relieves the
nervous system and prevents fatigue in wri-
ting.
The steamship Paraguay from London
to New York, returned to London on Mon
day last, having been damaged at sea by
collision with the screw -seamer Wells. The
latter fourdered Immediately and thirteen
lives were lost.
AN extraordinary and almost incredible
event has occurred in St. Louis. Ernst
Susisky. formerly Treasurer of that city.
was on the 10Th inst. sentenced to the peni-
tsntiary fer five years for embezzlement
while in ofice.
As lady was looking at a burning build
ing in Brockyille, Canada, fsw evenings
ago, she fancied that she saw a man fall
through the roof into the flames, and SO
greatly was she shocked that she fell to the
sidewalk. dead.
"A Bennington (Vt.) man Is trying to
invent portable water wheel which will
supersede locomotives. With one of these
wheels and a tub of water mounted on
wheels, he claims the vehicle will run until
the water evaporates.
1t is thought that three men who were
swept over Niagara Falls in boat last week
were peddlers, as they left several packages
of prize candy, bogus gold watches, boxes Of
blscking, and SO forth. at one Of the hotels.
They did not register their names.
The o!eapder-so popular asa house
and garden plants said to be extremely
poisonous. A child who recently ate some
fragments clipped from an oleander bush
was poisoned, the symptoms being sudden
and violent, and the result almost fatal.
The Courier Journal says: We are told
by the Albany Argus that Gen. Sherman's
father died when he WAS q lad, leaving
large family of children" This, if true, is
a very remarkable circumstance. The lad
may have died and left the children. but we
can never be made to believe that they were
his own.
A hen in Monogshela City was found on
Wednesday, in a wood pile. where it had
been jammed in, unable to escape. without
food or water for twenty days. This is al
most beyond belief, but Is sttested. The
chicken at first seemed stupid, but picked up
few grains of corn. then went to eating
grass aud by eveuing was as lively as a
cricket.
in Elmore county, Alabama, a few days
ago, William Brigg, minister Of the gospel.
on trial before the Baptist church charged
with seducing the sister of his brOthsr-in-law,
Harper James. was dismissed from the
church, when, a few moments afterwards
and while yet inside the church building.
he drew a knife and stabbed James in the
throat. killing him almost instantly.
The Delaware and Eastern Shore Mary
land peach growers held a convention at Do
yer, Delaware, last week. They report that
from present appearances they will ship
three million five hundred thousand baskets
the coming season. This is 500 900 more
than were shipped 10 1863. ...the champion
peach year. More than five hundred thous-
and new trees were planted the past season.
In the Legislature of South Carolina
there are fifty negroes aud thirteen white
members. Of the fifty negroes. only thirty
two can read aud write, and nineteen on ly
pay taxes, the sum total of their contribu-
tions to the support of the government be-
ing s146.10. AS this body has just levied
81 100000 taxes to be collected the current
year, the beauties of the system will be at
once apparent.
Mrs. Isaac Talbot, of st. Charles,
Mimi, shot herself on Friday of last week
with Spencer carbine, by placing the muz-
zIe OF the gun to the lower part of the abdo-
men, and, as is supposed. touching the trig-
ger with her toe. The ball passed diagonal!y
through the body, coming out az the hack
near the shoulder-blade. She made one
scream as the gun went off, and died in two
or three minutes.
The New York Globe says 1t is reminded
of rather good story. told of the former
Miss Lane while she was ths charming mis-
tress of the Executive Mansion. pho
tographer in New York presented her with
an album, superbly bound, containing AZ
different views of Miss Lane. Jones re-
marked, on seeing it one day. that it was
the most Miss = Lsneous book be had ever
seen. The laugh comes In on miscellane.
Gus.
In Hall township. Bureau county, Ill.,, |
last Tuesday. Germau-name not given
aged about ifty-fvs years, in a fit of mental |
alteration Gas it is supposed } set fire to his
house. and corn-crib containing about 500 |
bushels Of corn. The flames set an adioin- |
ing stable, also belonging to him, on fire, |
burning that with it's contents. including |
three horses. The man then deliberately |
cut his throat aud died.