The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-24
News ana Political Items.

back printed.
small pox last week.
On the Pacific coast ene-hslf Of the peo'
ple are Roman Catholics.
Miss Bliss, OF Michigan, went to bliss
or some other place the other day. Coal
oil.
-Two~thirds of the women in lunatic
a,vIums are wives of farmers. Hard work
does it.
The Louisville Courier Journal says:
Grants relatives multiply at shocking rate.
Nearly every body now is Anti-Grant.
"A lode of copper is reported to exist
EIGHT miles from Council Bluffs. and its dis
covery has caused great excitement among
the farmers owning land.
Stanton, the Radical candidate for Au-
ditor General is paper Colonel. M'Cand-
less. the Democratic candidate. won the title
of General by devotion to his country and
bravery on the battle field.
AT Holly Springs, Miss. few nights
since, forty or fifty armed negroes took
coored man named Horace Washington
from his house and murdered him. Most Of
them have been arrested.
Unfortunate Ireland is threatened with
a great calamity growing out Of the almost
entire failure of the potato crop. The blight
has developed to an alarming extent, and
hard times seem in store for that country.
"A man who was driving a COW through
the streets of Waupun, Wis, was SO much
frustrated by sudden bow from lady that
in return, he made bow to the cow and
threw a stone at the lady. Imagine his
feelings!
There IS an enterprising young man in
Cheyenne. He began three years ago with
two COWS, and delivered milk on foot. He
now has a herd of three hundred valuable
cows and cattle, and drives two horses TO
milk wagon.
The Nodaway (Missouri) Republican
learns that a peculiar and fatal disease is
killing off the young porkers, from the suck :
iDg>pig to one-hundred~p pound shoats. The
pigs are taken suddenly with spasmodic
twitching which soon ends .bem.
The Joplin lead mines, recently discov-
cred in Jasper county, Mo-, have four hun
dred miners and prCspeetors at work. More
than a dozen shafts have been sunk. Out
of one of these more than thirty thousand
pounds of lead have been taken iu four
weeks.
The horses attached to one of the coach
es of the stage line between McConne!shurg
and Chambersburg took fright last Thursday
on top of the mountain and ran away
( The coach was overturned about mile from
the summit. killing the driver and seriously
iUjnring two passengers, lady and gentle~
man.,
-Advices from Yokohama, Japan, to
July 22d. received by way of San Francisco,
report a terrible typhoon at Kaba on July
4, which caused a loss of 400 lives. and de-
stroyed $500, 900 worth Of property. Sew
eral vessels were wrecked, including the
Pride of the Thames The captain. two
mates and steward Of the latter vessel per
shed.
On Sunday evening week some Young
people near Rocky Mount. Ga, were taking
a walk. One young lady having a small
switch in her hand struck a young man
who happened to have a small copper car
fridge In bis pantalcons pocket. which ex-
ploded, the ball passing through their cloth
ing, and lodging IN the knee Of the ladv.
producing painful and dangerous wound
"A negro, who outraged and murdered
little girl near Fulton Station, in Hickman
county, Kentucky a few days ago, wss
taken from Jail the night Of his arrest and
shot through the body seven times He was
left for dead, but the next morning he was
found sitting up and was taken to jail, where
his wounds were dressed. Subsequently. he
was taken out and hanged by party of cit
izens. after he had confessed the crime.
An extensive fire occurred on FRIDAY
evening last at Leicester, the capital of the
county of the same name, principal seat in
England for the manufacture of woolen and
other hosiery. One of the lambs wool spin
ming factories took fire and was entirely de
stroyed. Several persons were killed bv
falling walls or perished in the flames. Tie
bodies e1tricated from the ruins this morning
were so badly charred as to lie almost beyond
Identification.
-Abouti8 o'clock Sunday nightllast a fire
broke out in the stable of the Waverly house.
WiIiamsport. The wind was blowing a Gale
and the flames spread rapidly. aud in a short
space of time about thirty buildings were
consumed, including the Waverly house the
late Governor Packers residence. Mulberry
street church, and many stores and private
dwellings, The loss will reach SI25 600 :
/ insurance about SIS 600.
Jacob Vanderbilt. president of the Sto-
ten Island Ferry Company William Braist>
ed, superintendent, and the engineer, against
whom the coroner's jury returned a verdict
OF criminal negligence in connection with the
"Nestheld" disaster. were brought before
Coroner Keenan, Friday morning and com
mltted to the Toombs prison, the Coroner re-
fusing to accept bail bu: they were subse-
quently taken before Judge Sutherland. of
the Supreme Court, on writs of habeas corpu
and bailed.
In November last, a planter named
John A. Crafts, living in Heard county
Georgia. was shot and killed in a field. Two
days afterward Thomas TeahI, living in the
nelghoorhood. sold his property and left for
parts unknown with Paschal Crafts and
Mrs Susan Knowles, son and daughter of
the murdered man. Teahl being married
the circumstance of his leaving with another
mans wife excited suspicion that he was
concerned in the murder, and search was
made for him and young Crafts without
avall until few days since. when they were
found In lizard county, Arkansas, and ar
rested.
The denial of the Persian famine is not
supported by after facts. To be sure. some
OF the more gross and terrible details of the
event have not been substantiated, but enough
H proven TO wiring the hearts of those whose
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