The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10
News and Political z,en.s.

thread seven miles long at the Madison. { To-
wooden mills the other day.
The colored people of Albany. Georgia,
have nominated a municipal ticket, COM
posed entirely of white Democrats.
Not on squeezing terms any more, is
the way Prairie Gu Chen young lady des
scribes the relations between herself and her
late lover.
Some Indiana boys. hungering after
eggs, conceived the idea of frying them IN
the nest. Their father is negotiating for
new barn.
More than a million pounds of willow
leaf were made up at Shanghai. last season,
and palmed off as green tea. How is that
for Shanghai?
At Long Branch, James Fisk, Jr., rides
in a large chariot drawn by eigh: horses in
gold-tipped harness and attended by four
negro groome.
"A poodle dog belonging to Patrick Far
rell, of Derby township, Dauphin county,
hatched out nine ducks this year and eleven
chickens last year.
"A New York girl in the interior of the
State has prairie rose bush trailed over the
sides of her roorc. and last week it had one
thousand roses upon it. a bower of roses,
truly
As goes Pennsylvania so goes the Pres-
Dental election. Don't forget that fact,
Democrats Keep it freshly alive in your
memories. and as election day approaches
put forth your best energies for the defeat of
the Radicals,
A Chicago man presented his wife with
a block Of wood in token of his admiration.
She received it on the forehead, and was so
overcome by gratitude that she tainted away.
The generous husband has also given S25 to
the police justice.
Mrs Colt, the pistol-rnaker at Hartford 4,
having built 5000, 900 church in memory OF
her husband and in behalf of her workmen,
is building 100000 school house on her
armory grounds for the children Of her en-
poyes. She is a thoroughbred.
Phoebe Cary, the younger of the we'll
known Cary sisters. died at Newport on
Friday. She was AZ years old. Alice Cary
died last February, and it is believed that
her sister. who bad been her companion for
forty years, never recovered from the shock.
The Rev Richard wilkins, in a recent
sermon in the Church of st. Michael, Swan
more, stated his belief that there would be
twelve women to one man who would enter
Heaven. This, he stated, was calculation
of his own, and was based on sacramental
confession.
Wilson, the convicted murderer in Con-
nectcut, complains that the prison authors
ties compel him from cheating the galIows
by suicide. He appeals to the people to save
tie expense of food. by letting him starve
to death. 1t Is seldom that criminals are so
considerate.
The town of Point-a- Pitre, or st. Louis,
the largest in the Guadaloupe Island, has
been almost entirely destroyed by fire. The
dispatches say that 100000 people are
Il l. Il I,l--
as there are but 1000 inhabitants, accord
ing to the census
1t Is stated that, by a recent decision in
the law courts, the Marquis of Butte comes
into an additional income of 5000 900, and
arrears to the amount of $500 900. 1t is
further reported that the Marquis trustees
are about to run a line of steamers from
Cardiff, South Wales, to New York.
"A Lowell man, who had taken ont a
marriage certificate one day last week, was
so disconsolate at finding the bride dead
drunk when he called at her house. that he
at once proposed to another woman, ten
years younger, was accepted, got new GER
tificate and was married all on the same
day.
The Hon. H. L. Goodwin, of Connects
cut, is phenomenon of legislative honesty,
whose example is too refreshing to pass un-
noticed. He was elected to the Connect
cut legislature but did not take his seat un-
til late, and when payday came he refused
to take compensation for the time he was
absent.
in Philadelphia on Saturday. Joseph
Severely, aged twenty-three, In attempting
to take bale of cotton from shaft, was
caught in the machinery, and before he
could be extricated both legs were crushed
Io,,l oT L. al.
horribly multilated. He dieG in a few
seconds.
"A fool, whom 70 New York they cali
Captain Smith, is about to make voyage
across the Atlantic. accom- panied by a boy,
on raft some dozen feet square. The raft
it is claimed, will carry all that can crowd
on it, is foated by rubber cylinders. and
when they are uninfated can be slowed in a
small space.
The newest wonder, it is said, at the
west, is soda lake near Rawlings, on the
Union Pacific Railroad, several miles in cir
cumference, and capable of supplying sixty
five thousand tons of soda a year. This
body of water is fed from countless springs
bubbling from species of granite rocks,
which includes in its composition a soda
feldspar.
"A negro entered the residence of a Ger
man named Lazler, at Burlington, Iowa, on
Friday morning last, 4th inst, evidently for
the purpose of stealing, but seeing a young
girl lying on bed, attempted darker
crime. The father, aroused by the girls
screams, fastened to her room, and on enter
ing was shot through the heart by the negro,
who escaped.
Mrs. Mary Wilson owns a farm of $50
acres near Reeds Corners, Ontario county,
n. Y, and although seventy-two years of
age, has gathered in all her grain without
help. She was found by an interviewer
pitching off load of wheat, and a day or
two ago had been moving. She swings
scythe and handles pitchfork with the ease
of a man in his prime
An Englishman of means has arrived
at Suspension Bridge with no baggage ex>
cept an opera glass and small satchel.
He wishes to see the country as it is, and
proposes to do it on foot By the time that