The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-12-16
EaMs Of the Wesk.

Apples weighing one pound and ten
ounces were grown in South Bend township,
Lebanon county,
Thomas Durgan pounded" his wife to
death, near Rondout, n. Y, on Saturday
night. He was drunk at the time.
Tho Roman Catholic church in McCut-
chin,ville, Wyandot county. o. was de-
stroyed by frs lately. Incendiarifm is the
supposed cause.
new Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsyi>
vauia, has selected Reading as The seat OF
the new diocese.
-Ex Congressman Bowen. recently con-
victsd Of bigamy. has been elected and adj
mitted member Of the South Carolina Leg
islature, from Charleston county.
The tedious routine Of filtration. intro
duction, couTtsbip. engagement and mar
riase was successfully gone through with by
a Meadvills couple in thirty-si1 minutes.
A man in Victoria, Vancouvers' leland.
who had the first news of the loss Of the
Arctic whaling 6set. bought up ali the oil
in the market, some &C. 90 gallous, and real
lied largely.
For the first time in sixteen wears. there
10 not a Wash burn in Congress. Mr.. WASH
burn, Governor elect Of Massachusetts. hAy-
ing sent in his resignation as member on
the 4th inst.
The explosion Of a coal lamp caused
Gre Sunday night in dwelling on Fourth
street, above Parish. Philadslphia, in which
thu body of 4 man who died from smallpox
was consumed.
Spain is greatly excited over that por>
tion Of President Grants message which re-
lates to Cuba, and heavy army and navy
reinforcsments will be immediately des~
patched to that unfortunate island.
Geo. Bolts. who was sentenced to he
hanged at Newark. n. j, on the 2l.t inst.
for the u1urder of Pet lalsted has been re-
prisved by the Governor, ard his execution
pos poned till Friday, the 26th of January.
No more new States are to be admitted
until after the Presidential election. The
Territories that now claim admission cannot
be counted surely for Grant, which fully &C
counts for the presence Of the lac,eal huid
in the c0cos.
"A Harrisburg man was accused by his
wife Of infidsiity to his marriage VOWS, when
he replied that he hoped God would para
lyze his tongue if he was guilty" He had
scarcely finished the sentence when his tongue
refused to perform lis natural functions.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has proposed
to lease the Memphis and Charie1toA Rail-
road for forty five years, guaranteeing three
per cent. annual interest for the frst five
years, and then six per csnt. The question
Of the leass is to be submitted 10 The stock
holders.
The programme Of thu Radicals in Con-
gress indicates that there is to be no smnea>
~ before ths holidays. Anything for the
negro, nothing for the white man. How
much more magnanimOus and patriotic it
would be to give the country a full amnesty
bill as Christmas present.
AT Portsmouth. y. H, recently, lamp
left burning in private residence was over
turned late at night. and would have de-
stroyed the house had not fGvorito parrot.
noticing what had happened, cried out, FIRE,
Ere, fire." 80 lustily that tbs family was
areurcd aud ex;inguished the famss
William CASTOR was reelected Mayor
of Boston. on Monday last. by nearly 800
majority. The vote stood Fer CASTOR
Democratic and Citizens candidate) 9 500;
for Newton Talbot (RepublicauJ. G,l57.-
Party ljnea were generally ignored in the
election. both as regards the Mayor and both
branches Of City Council.
George Anderson and John D. Pa:t.r-
son, charged with the murder of Edward
Cremmings. laat wsek. at Eoon, Ohio. we're
arrested at Osborn on Monday. WhilO pass.
ing Enon the citzeps Of thst place ATTEMPT
ed to lynch them, but were prevented by the
officers in charge. The affair creates great
excitement in that vicinity.
The locomotive attached to The water
train Of the Illinois Central railroad explod-
ed her boiler or Monday night, nssr Csntra-
liza, Ill. instantly killing Houck. engineer,
Brevington. fireman. snd Keen, brakeman.
The force Of the explosion is reported as
being terrific, totally demoIishing the engine
and blowing onsTof the bodies tistsucs Of
two hundred feet.
ell =. '
ulaton Of :hc United States. Just compiled
and contained in the report Of the SupeTn-
tendent Of the Census :-Aggregate, States
and Territories. SO 923 go. White. 38,-
$50 S57; colored 4866. .337; Chinese. 68 :
254 Indians. 383 .723; Indians out of tribal
relations. 25,731; Indians on reservations
and at agencies, 9G3.G62.
A wealthy young farmer in an aGioin-
ing county, says the Zanesviie (O) Courier,
made VOW at the time Of his marriage that
he would plant forty peach or apple trees for
each child born during the fret ten wears of
his welded life He has been married seven
years ana has out three hundrd and twenty
trees. BE talks Of going back on his VOW.
ue basu't the land TO spare.
There ia great excitement at Seattle.
Washington Territory, over the location Of
the terminus of the Northern Pacific Rails
road. Captain Msxwell's party has COM
pleted the survey of Puoquolanne Pass and
its Eastern approach. and have commenced
rnnning a line from Lake Chitneau Eastward
to the Pass OF Conr de Lion. which will
complete the survey across the Continent.
The large rolling mill of Mcknight &
CO.. Birming CHAM. Allegheny county, was
destroyed by fire on Friday morning last.
with some adjoining property. The total
loss is estimated at S195,000. upon which
there was an insurance of $4,000. The
FIRE was occasioueG by the watchman light,
ing an oil lamp at the gas jet. from which a
fragment of burning matter fell into a barrel
of uncovered oil.
An ounce OF prevention ia worth
pound of euro. It is asserted that the small
pox, which is now slowly departing from
London. after Staying 1--WE thousand persons.