The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-03-04
News and Political Items.

birthday, aud will end on the anniversary
Of Lees surrender.
Objects seventy-two feet long can be
distinctly seen on the surface of the moon
by the great telescope of the Earl of Rose.
The largest valley in the world is the
Mississippi. 1t contains 500, 600 square
miles, and is one Of the most fertile regions
of the globe.
Henry D. Cucke the we'll known banker
of Washington City, has been nominated
Governor OF the District of Columbia by
President Giant.
The son of John Y. Mason, of Virginia,
was sub lieutenant in the army of France.
In recent battles he was wounded four times,
and is now captain.
"A Iarmer at West Union Iowa, left his
team under tree while he cut it down. He
would have enjoyed the walk home better,
had it not been 50 muddy.
In the Republican county convention
held in West Chester last week, one Of the
delegates from the south precinct OF West
Chester, Daniel Young, was negro
-Four married women Of Podbizka, IN
Bohemia, were convicted in December last.
of having poisoned their husbands n. party
which one of them had given for that pur-
pose They were sentenced 10 penal servi~
tude for life.
-Iu jackson county, West Virginia.
there is spring strongly impregnated with
arsenic. For some years past its owner has
been compelled to keep fence around it to
prevent his cattle from drinking the water,
and thereby poisoning Themselves.
The 'thirty-fT day OF December, 1870.
was tie last day of the week, the last day
of the year. and the last DAY OF the decen-
NAL. y welI-informed gentleman says that
this same crm5luation occurred in lI40, aud
will again occur in 1910, and in 1860.
Mount Car bon. Schuylkii! county, has
a ghost sensation. Every night at the hour
when, "G,aveyards yawn and graves give
up their dead" headiess female with her
Uranium under neT arm, parades the boarded
walk between that place au6 PuttSville.
Col James d. Ramsey. an active aud
Influential member of the democratic party,
died in Peach Bottom township, York coun~
ty. on Saturday at the aye of forty five
Col Ramsey served in the Kansas Legislature
with distinction and credit for two years.
"A calf with .'no tail at alp has been
born i'll North Coventry township, Chester
county The owner of the young animal
(Mr. Hauberger) ought to raise it, aud let
it get big, but he declines to do lie
thinks it would have an endless time Of it
In fiy-tma.
"A man in Kentucky, near Louisville,
seventy nine years Cd, committed suicide
the other day by lOaiing pistol with water
Instead Of bullet, by placing the muzz!e in
his mouth, and pulling the trigger. The
whole head above the mouth was literally
blown into atoms.
A young couple were married at Catta-
raugus lately. The brides shoes hurt her
feet 50 badly that she had to sit down while
the minister performed the ceremony. She
said she wouldn't postpone the wedding, but
would get married that night if she had to
go to bed to DO il.
--The'bitter bark from which quinne is
made is now admitted duJy free. As there
is about half million Of ounces Of quniue
consumed annually in this country. it is
reasonable to expect slight reduction in
our doctor bills. now that tbs 20 per cen;.
Gd ra2oren is taken off.
An exchange is responsible for the as
sertiou that eighty-siX thousand, six bun
dred negroes were the recipients Of public
charity in the District of Cnlumb last year
These negroes were formerly self-su3p"rtiug
but New England phiIanthropsts have play
ed sad havoc with the poor creatures.
OF forty-eight sisters Of charity tending
the smallpox paseuts In the Bicetre hospi-
tai Of Paris. eleven died of the hideous MAJ
ady. Volunteers from the siotarhOod were
called upon 10 fill their places and thirty
three instantly responded. What is the
heLpism Of the battle field when compared
with this
The right Of railroad companies to ad-
vance freight on coal at pleasure is to bs
made the subject of legislation, a resolution
calling upon the Governor to procure from
the Attorney General an opinion upon the
power Of these companies to impose exorbi-
Mt at Of nd airrbt In, -
the Legislature.
Mrs. Stiles. the Windsor. Vt. woman
who tried to take the lives of twelve persons
by mailing TO them boxes of candy mixed
with arsenic, is tall, fair looking woman,
about fprty years old. with large black eyes.
( No one would take her to be a criminal
She tells many conflicting stories to those
who visit her IN Jail.
The Hub is fast falling into Indifference
on the religious question. Too much radi-
calism has verify killed BostUn's love for
theology. According to the story Of we'll
/ informed CORES pondent few rich men sup
/ port all the churches in 8oston-and there
many OF them-while the preachers speak
/ to arc empty benches.
John Boussum, who died at Scuylkill
/ Haven on Thursday. the 10th ult., and was
buried on the following Sunday, weighed
four hundred and sixty pounds al the time
of his death. 1t was as much as eight men
could do to carry the corpse. At the re-
! quest of the deceased his body was hauled
to the grave on a truck wagon drawn by
| four white mules.
"A curious lawsuit has Just been COM
4 menced against the Belleville and Southern
/ Illinois railroad A lady, who was shortly
expecting an addition to her family, was
travelling on it, and was so jostled and
/ troubled by the roughuess Of the road that
the event occurred much sooner than had
been expected. In the suit which she has
brought against the company she lays the
damages az $40 900.
Facts show that Samana is worthless as
naval coaling station that it is bad har-
Dor. and cannot be made good one, and
that it now costs rs cts. per ton to coal
ships there above the price which it costs at