The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-07-13
Po.s,icaI and News items.

-BellefOnte has n veteran OF 1872 who
served eight months as private in the late
war, when be was seventy-four years of age.
"A man in Danvlle has kept one hotel
for forty years. and has an old bachelor
boarder, who has been with him for thirty
five years. :.
"A Panorama of the st. Lawrence" !"
which originally cost twenty thousand dol
lars, was recently sold in Boston 'un>
claimed eoods,'' for five hundred dollars.
One of the Samese twins is lying at the
point Of death. The other is in good health.
II anticipation of death. arrangements are
made for the immediate separation of the
living from the dead brother.
A correspondent of the London Times.
writing from India. tells Of recent whirl-
wind that carried houses, trees and herds
high into the air, and dashiDg them to the
ground a mile or SO away, killed everything
that possessed life.
"A child was born at Manchester, Vt,
on Tuesday, which weighed only two ounces,
but was perfectly formed. and hopes are
entertained of its living. Its face can be al
most covered with an old fashioned cent, and
lady's finger ring can be slipped ON the arm.
"A negro named Pncbback ("Senatah
Pinchba OBJ Loozyanner") has brought
suit at New Orleans against the jackson
Railroad for refusing to allow him a couch
in the white sleeping car. This valuable
'moke allows be has thereby been damaged
to the extent of So 900.
We are heartily glad, says the Dayton
Herald, to record the fact that Mrs. Vallar-
dgham is now in hopeful way of recovery.
She is able to sit up during portion of the
day. Her many devoted friends are minis
tering every care and attention requisite
to sustain her in the recent terrible shock
which she has suffered.
At the Columbus. Ohio, celebration of
the Fourth. Miss Maggie Sights made a bal
loon ascension, but was captured by tree
and held thirty feet above the ground for
two hours before she could be released
She was in imminent peril all the time, but
faced the music in good order, and fainted as
soon as she was on the ground where she
could do it safety.
AT Edinburgh a Jet of water is seen
gushing from an old elm tree on the Mall.
near DR.. Mohr's statue, the water, which is
frothy and tasteless, bubbling through a
crack in the bark about FIVE feet from the
ground. Various theories are broached TO
to account for this singular freak, one of
which is that the tree is hollow, and that
the water issues from spring in the vicinity.
Since the first day of June President
and for that immense amount of service be
has drawn from the Treasury of the United
States 2,0S3, SO, or nearly 500 for each
day that he attended to the duties of his
office. Tho balance of the time he has spent
with Tom Murphy, and other coRgenisl and
convivial spirits, at Long Branch and else
where.
Love and loyalty have triumphed.
Bowen and bigamy are in the ascendant.-
The President. melting under the fact that
Bowen had rendered good service 10 Sthe
cause Of the Union during the rebellion, for
got he had more than one wife, and opened
his prison doors. After the appointment of
a son of Brigham Young to West Point over
the child of brave officer Of the Union
army, this course was expected.
The lion and lamb have no excuse for
not laying down together any more. At
WooBsocket, the other morning, a cat,
domcled in store. was found carefully
nursing three kittens anG a young -at, The
kittens through the day were removed, but
the cat continued her motherly Offices to the
rat, and when the foundling was able to
walk led it out with her own progeny, show
Ing no partiality, as becomes a proper
parent.
BY having his wits about him and
plentiful supply of eggs, Mr.. Joseph Hale
succeeded 10 saving the life of his wife last
week. in Portland, who, in a fit of abstrac-
ton, had swallowed a dose of corrosive
sublimate, thinking it was laudanum.-
Given over by the frightened neighbors for
as good as dead. her husband at once ad-
mipistered to the terrified victim the whites
of Is eggs, which completely neutralized
the effects of the poison.
Day ton. Ohio, July "a furious storm
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an Church was demolished and four persons
killed and twenty injured. The bridge
over the Miami River was destroyed and two
boys we're killed. The Southern Ohio Luna
tic Asylum was unroofed and two female
patients were wounded. The school house
of the Church of the United Brethren was
blown down, and st. Mary's Catholic Church
and the Miami Railroad depot were unroof,
ed. Loss over $50 900.
General Hancock is reported to be op>
posed to his own nomination for President
for the following reason: He thinks that by
the time the American people get through
with Grant they will not want another Sol
dier President for generation. The differ
ence in this case, however, is that Hancock
has shown the highest capacity for civil ad-
ninistration, and the utmost regard for the
constitution of his country, while Grants
career evinces the utmost ignorance of the
constitution, and total disregard for the
rights and liberties Of his fellow citizens.
The sos train from New York and the
..35 train from New York, on the New York
and Newark railroad. met on an open switch.
at Boyles' station. on Saturday last and
both engines were demolished, and the first
and second cars of each train were telescoped.
Both the trains were throws from the track.
the ears caught fire from the locomotives,
and two of them were entirely consumed
Four persons were killed and nine wounded.
Various other persons were slightly bruised.
A later dispatch says that it is supposed.
there are many other bodies in the ruins.
The noble conduct of those two railroad
engineers on the New Jersey road. who.
when they saw their two trains. by a switch
mans fault, rushing at each other with
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