The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-03-25
News and Political Items.

Grant has named John w. Forney for
Collector at the Port of Philadelphia.
At Oswego q Democrat was elected
Mayor by $50 majority-Republican ma
jority last year 168.
William +. Packer, son OF the late e1-
Governor Packer, died at St. Paul. Mime
sofa, last week. His remains will be inter
red at Williamsport.
The Lynn, Mass. shoemakers have
yacht, the hull of which is composed entere-
ly of old shoe boxes, the stays are made of
shoe bindings, and the sails of split leather.
-Ex-C Con gresham Cake, of Schuylkill
county. was in his seat six days during the
last session of the Forty first Congress for
which he received 5000. or $3.50 per day.
AT Troy, N. Y. Thomas B. Carroll,
Democrat. was elected Mayor of that city,
on the 18th inst,. by over 1000 majority
showing Democratic gain of over 1000
votes.
"A quarrel between two men in an iron
foundry in Lowell, Mass. was ended by one
throwing the contents Of dippsr of molten
iron upon the other. The iron in some
places burnt to the very bone.
Ono hundred and twelve persons is
given as the number that have been hung
in Pennsylvania during the past hundred
years The number that deserved hanging
in the same period is not stated.
Since the New Hampshire election
Graut has refused to receive visitors. The
Chicago Times thinks if something would
happen to make him refuse bribes. 1t would
be blessed thing for the country.
Napoleon is in England, with few to do
him reverence Paris in the hands of the
National Guard, and German rule prevails
in Alsace and Lorraine. What changes i'll
the next turn of the wheel produce
The earth is said to be growing sm aller.
In ten thousand millions of years it will be
as small as Rhode Island, where they are
unable to shoot woodcock with the finest of
bird shot for fear of shooting into some other
State.
The life of Maine engineer was recent
" saved by Testament in his vest pocket
a stray bullet entered his cab, and but for
the book would have entered his lungs
Moral: Never take your Testament out Of
your vest pocket
"A married woman, residing in St. Law
renee county, a few days ago became the
mother of four Chidren-two boys and two
girls, at one birth. Her name is Risley, and
she and her family are doing well, and bio
fair to live long and prosper.
A law suit for the settlement Of the es-
ate of deceased citizen of Troy, which has
been in the courts for two years, was ended
on Saturday by the discovery Of his will in
the false bottom of bureau. which had
been sent to a cabinet maker for repairs.
A man in Southampton, Copn the
other day put $3.50 in greenbacks in a
drawer with some matches and whetstone.
The whetStone became warm, the matches
| iguited and the $3.50 worth of greenbacks
were in ashes when the man came to look
for them.
A Washington special says there are
three hundred and twenty-six Gefaulting
internal revenue collectors in the United
States, the total amount Of whose indebted
ness foots up over twenty millions of dollars
six twentieths Of which is due from ten
individuals.
At the beginning of the Franco German
war two BARRIERS in Temesvar, Hungary
agreed to commit suicide if the French
should be conquered by the Prussians. At
the news of the surrender of Paris both blew
their brains out, leaving letter which end
ed with 'Vire la France ~
Daniel Ellis and his wife were murdered
on Saturday morning, in their house near
Ypsilanti. Michigan. The brutal deed is
supposed to have been perpetrated with an
axe in the hands of franklin Ellis. a son of
the deceased. He was arrested in the even
ing Wnlle attempting 10 escape.
"A convict. recently pardoned out OF the
Ohio Penitentiary by Governor Hayes. last
week, named Henry Yons. in Belmont coun-
tv. shot and mortally wounded one Moses
Kline, and then shot and killed himself
He was sentenced to the peDitentiary year
ago for shooting a man named Ferreil.
A man in Hartford obtained coff:n the
other day from the selectmen of the town for
deceased daughter" Shortly afterward
he was soen trying to psddle it off at half its
value; and then it transpired that his
daughter was no nearer the grave than he
was. and not half so near the county Jail.
A bill has been introduced into the Leg
islature making it the duty of persons en-
powerered 10 tie up the puptial knot to
require of the parties presenting themselves
for marriage license issued by the Clerk of
the Orphans Court in the county where the
ceremony is performed. The fee for the
license is to be one dollar.
-..Thirty-three Republicans who last
week removed Mr. Sumner from his pest,
elected Democratic President for 1872 p
| This is the language of Mr.. WeEdeli Phil
lips in the National Standard A Demo
cratic President would have been chosen in
1872 without this occurrence. But the
Sumner ,D,broglio turns a defeat into an
utter rout.
Tho three newly elected Democratic
Congressman from New Hampshire. having
received their certificates, will proceed to
Washington forthwith and take their seats.
The appearance of an unbroken Democratic
delegation from the Granite State upon the
floor of Congress will be an event well wor-
thy of special note. and will doubtless create
a sensation in administration circles.
The inquiries of passengers to the
Next station" has always been the bane of
the existence of railroad conductors, and
now a plan out in Connecticut has nven ted
something to obviate the difficulty. TIE
words "next station" are lettered on a box
above glass through which are seen, as
wheel revolves, the names of the stations, a
new one appearing when station is passed
"A correspondent writes that sight of