The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-07
news and Political items.

Terra Haute boasts of a ten-acre field
of cucumbeTs on its outskirts.
A colored Democrat in Kentucky lost
his situation because he challenged another
negro's vote.
"A labor reform convention, represent
ing Schuykill county, met at PUttsvile, Pa,
on Monday, and made nominations for the
fail campaign.
BY typhoon on the japanese coast a
whole district was laid waste, several vessels
were wrecked, and about 400 persons were
crushed 10 death by falling buildings.
The horn Of Patagonian OK has been
forwarded to Baltimore. 1t is sixty five in
ches long, seventeen inches in circumference
at the base. and will hold sever quarts.
The fellow who got au Cffice in tho rev.
enue service in Illinois, under the supPosi-
ton that his name was Dent, when it was
Bent. has been removed as an imposter.
The families of the Websters and the
BonaPsrtes are to be united by the marriage
at Newport, on the lIth of this month, oi
Jerome Bonaparte, ,of Baltimore, and grand
daughter of Daniel Webster.
In Richmond, Va, many birds are said
to be going blind and every day dead birds
are picked up in the streets, having been
killed in their fight by striking against
buildings or other distinctions.
AT wedding at Oshkosh, where chew
ing gum is the only amusement. the bride
and groom. to show their implicit faith in
each other. put their arms around each 9TH
ers' waist, and swapped cuds of gum. Nc
carGs.
In Shamburg, Pa. on Monday last, two
men were applying bei zine to the ceiling oi
a house. to kill bed-bugs, when an explosion
occurred from gas generated by benziue
burning the men and burning Mrs. SchnideI
to death.
The fight between two factions Of the
Republican party in Louisiana gains addi-
tional interest from the fact that the mean.
est things either party can say of the other
are true, and even then the subject is by nc
means exhausted.
The September number of the National
Medical Journal of New York. gives qui-
etus to the speculation in cundurango. All
the experiments made by reliable medical
men with cundurango, in the navy. in pri>
yate practice, and now In the New York
Hospital. prove to be worthless.
Two more of the Grant farciIy have
been brought out. VIM. Grant, the Presi-
dents own cousin, clerk in the Custom.
house, New York, DIR. Ed Grant, clerk in
the Internal Revenue Department, New
York. The latter is the Presidents grand
fathers brothers. great grandson.
An Illinois farmer has told his rat story
He was going out to Lis corn crib the other
morning. be says, when he saw a large rat
with head erect, carrying full-sized ear oi
corn in his mouth. while at the same time
his tail wrapped around another large ear
which he was dragging behind him.
The highest farm in the world is said
to be situated four miles from Sherman Sta.
tion on the Union Pacific Railroad 1t ha.
an elevation eight thousand feet above The
sea-levei. Vegetables and grain thrive wei
on this farm, and two hundred young apple
trees have been set out as an experiment.
"A negro tied a white boy. thirteen year,
old, to tree in the woods in Chesterfield
Va, on Wednesday afternoon of last week
and left him there until Friday noon, wher
he returned and released him. alive, threat,
ening him with death if he exposed him. A
violent storm ragged portion of the time.
Two negroes and white man have beer
hanged by mob at CaseyviIle KY, for out
raging the person of white woman in that
vicinity. Five men were concerned in the
outrage. which was of horrible character
The others had been executed in the same
manner soon after the commission of the of
fense.
"A large number of Democratic county
conventions in this State have already de.
clared for Gen. Hancock for the Presidenc,
nearly all that elected delegates. Ther,
are so many that it is quite unnecessary tt
| continue to name them. The gallant Gen
eral is evidently the nearly unanimous choic,
of the Democracy of this State.
Mr.. Edward Richardson, Vernonter
after residing sixteen years on the island O
Hawaii, owns an estate of 400 900 acres o
land plentiful " in tersperse1 with Law, g.,
the volcano of Mauna Loa. He went to IN,
Sandwich islands poor man to earn a live
lihood as carpenter. Among his othe
| possessions are 500 head of cattle.