The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-05-06
Political and News Etems.

gold was hTet discovered IN CailIorDl2, mas
located in Ltiz, Lancaster county.
Out in Carroll;on, Iowa, there Is little
girl who was born minus tho right hand and
the stub Of the arm is a perfectly formed
cats head and ears.
Charles Givler, near Boilers Mills.
Cumberland county, recently caught trout
Is inches in length. s inches In breadth, and
weighing three and half pounds.
During his sermon last Sunday morn
ing at Plymouth Church, on the ages to
Come" Henry Ward Beecher Indignantly
secuted the theory of the resurrection Of the
body.
-Corydon has a physician 60 years old
who never eat meal in hotel or Travelled
on a railroad or steamboat. If he continues
this course of abstinence he may live anoth-
or 60 years.
BIC Young, printer In the Enterprise
newspaper office at Holden, Mo-. killed his
wife and then committed suicide on Satur-
day evening. He is said to have been drunk
at the time.
"A youth, about fourteen years of age,
had one cf his eyes knocked out by gravel
thrown from the hoof of one of the horses
during the Performance Of the circus in Har-
risonburg Va. on Thursday.
Old Toukery, OF DutchesS county, n.
Y, is dead He lived in wild, remote
ravine a hermit's life. Fear of witches was
his strong suit and as he believed all black
eyed women to be witches he would not
allow Que on his premises.
"A party of young srd loyal amend
ments, at Indianapolis, pounded Caucasian
to death when be was drunk and helpless,
because they thought be might be Ku-
Kiux. Grant has been there since, bit
hasn't seat fer any troops.
Ia.
co years. Of Hyde Hark. Luzerue county,
died suddenly at the breakfast table on Sun
day morning With all his gold be never
would allow light in his house after sum
set but the mser has gone, leaving behind
all his treasure.
The Sultan of Turkey has presented
the United States Government WITH mag
nifcent carpet for the Esst Room of the
White House. It was woven at the lmpe
rial factory, occupied year in its manulac>
ture, weighs fifteen hundred pounds, and is
said to be worth $4,000.
Fort Pillow, at Memphis, has wholly
disappeared under the abradng forces OF the
Mississippi The appeal says that the navy
yard there was once murtgagcd and adds ::
The mortgage sUbsists but the property
has been disposed of by a power against
which chancery may issue its thunder In
vain !"
The dead bodies of John Donovan, his
wifs and child, aged eleven years. were found
on the 29th in room at No. 26 Bassett ST.,
Albany. lying beside stove. An investi-
CATION showed that they had been suffocatsd
hy coal gas. A little girl was found in an
adjacent room gssping for breath bat was
resusctated.
New Orleans magistrates have e way Of
giving the fines imposed for drunkenness to
the family of the offender the result of which
proceeding Is that wives who want new bon
nets have very materially altered their views
on the temperance question, husband ju-
dciously encouraged in inebriety being "a
steady source of pin-monsy.
The most revolving crime that has
probably ever heen committed in America
is now under investigation in the Litchheld
(Conn. courts. A father, named Joel w.
Parkins, who appears to have been toierably
well educated, has been making his five
daughters the victims of his incestueus de-
sires for fifteen years. and deliberately mur'
dering several Of the unnatural ofsprings of
his lust.
In Schuylkill county there are some
thing over two hundred collieries. with an
invested capital of about $l2 900 900. The
average loss to each colliery, uhils lying
idle. is at least $1,000 per mouth. maxim g
| in all over 5000 900 month, and % 400
! 600 year dead loss. This, with the loss
| to railroad companies during the suspension,
| will aggregate a grand total of $500, 900 q
month. or Sc 500. 900 year. This Is with
out regard to the sufferings of miners.
"A most wonderful case of stigmata has
lately occurred in Belgium, and been de-
scribed with great minutsness by DIR. Day
| in MdcmiHan's Magazine. The stigma. ii
L ~ Al
for the blood effusion with which Christ wal
afflicted before his cruci6xion. This girl. it
seems, though of healthy parentage and OF
previously good health. was affl icted with a
similar effusion. accompanied by ecstatic
fits. The case is one of the most remark
able on record.
About two years ago a vein of coal al
Yatesville, near Pttston, Pa. was accident
ally or designedly set on fire. and has been
burning ever since. Last week the fire
seemed to be increasing in extent and in;ensi
| ty the volume of smoke being extremely large
and heavy. During the past winter Snow
was melted upon the spot as fast as it fell
and bare space Of about an acre in extent
has offered a strange contrast to the sur
rounding mantle of white. The ultimate
result Of the subterranean fires it is impossl-
BILE to predict.
"A young gentleman, elghteen months
of age. residing in Pawtucket, r. l., re-
mained quiet the other day for such uh-
wonted period that his mother, suspeeting
that all was not right, went in search OF
him. She found him sitting on the floor
by an open bureau drawer with loaded
and capped self cooking revolver in his hand
and he was amusing himself by rammipg the
muzzle of the piece down his throat, work
ing at the trigger and hammering it on the
floor. As soon as the mother recovered
from her fright, she took the weapon from
the child, without any unpleasant result.
In 1866, when the Feuians set about
releasing Ireland from the British rule by
attempting to capture Canada, they left
twenty of their number in the hands of the
Canadian authorities. These prisoners. were
| subsequently, tried in the Canadian courts.
and were sentenced te be hanged Their