The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-01-05
News and Political Etems.
ten pins" have been invent

-"Improved ten pins" have been invent
ed that set themselves up by a spring.
j. j. Boyer, accused of burning MS
father, mother, brother and sister to death,
near Markleville, Perry county, will be
tried this week.
The house in which Henry Clay was
born, near, Ashland, Hanover county, Va,
was burned on Friday. 1t was built over
hundred years ago.
"A Hebrew clothier, of Chatham street,
New York, has been imposing himself on
San Francisco as the Catholic Bishop OF
Persia. He raised $40 1000.
The Fenian convicts who wero held n
Portland prison, England. for treason and
sedition, have been discharged. mag
unanimous act of old England.
1t will soon be necessary for the PRESS
dent to provide for a son-in-law. it rumor
in court circles can be relied on. Nelly
Grant is TO be married to a CoVington chap.
The Roman Catholic Bishop Of Newark,
New Jersey, few months ago. bought a
site for his new cathedral for $1,000; he
has sold it for 1856 ,000 and bought another
for $4,000
The Lafayette Und.) Journal says that
of two car loads of hogs shipped from that
city to indianapolis on Friday evening week,
only ten arrived alive, all the rest being
| frozen to death.
Mrs. j. W. Corcoran died at Washing
tor on Tuesday last, ST typhoid fever. She
was daughter Of Representative Beck, OF
Kentucky, and was married on the 7th ut..
to a nephew Of w. W. Corcoran, Of Wash
ingtou.
On the "best authority" the Providence
(R. l. } Journd! says that comet of large
size will suddenly mako it's appearance on the
night of June II, 1871, and, during the
next four weeks the fate Of the world will be
decided'
Chester II. Hull, local editor Of the Os-
wego IN. Y. } AdcertiSer, has recently been
informed Of tho death of an uncle in Eng
land, whose will makes him sole heir to an
estate worth one hundred thousand pounds
sterling. 0, for an English uncle
The tunnel through Mont Gents is eight
miles in lsngth. without a shaft. It's cost
| is rsckoned at about ten millions of dollars
1t is now probable, if no political complica-
tions prevent it, that tho whole will be fin
/ ishGd by July !, of the coming year.
"A spring of natural indeliblo Ink is
among the latest Of California curiosities.-
Near it is a spring so acid. that with little
sugar mixed with the water thereof it makes
delicious lemonade, and as such it is & ven
to the guests at the hot.l as cooling bev-
ersge."
Prussia seizas and sinks English ships
in the Seine, and objects 10 the marriage of
an English Princess to a man outside Of the
purple, and yet John Bull does nothing but
double up his fists When will he shy bis
castor into the ring, and strike out from the
shoulder?
The Louisville Courier Journal says it
is assured that Rainey, the Negro Congress
man, never went to school day in his life.
aud yet he has contrived to educate himself
so we'll that when reading newspaper he
doesn't hold it upside down more than half
the time.
General Prim. who was shot IN Madrid.
Spain, on Wednesday of last week, died on
Saturday morning at one o'clock from the
effects of his wounds. Three persons have
been arrested on suspicion of having been
concerned in the assassination. The great
est excitement prevails.
The Chicago Republican says that Jesse
Grant, father Of the Government, has creased
his brogans, applied a couater-irritant to the
preverse nap of his semi centenarian beaver,
and started for winter campaign with the
Washington lobby. He wants S100, 900 for
new postofice IN Covington.
"A near sighted Iudanapolitan went to
SEQ his girl, and fell on his knees to propose
in due form, A number ten boot awakened
him to consciousness that 1t was the old
man-who had his wife's apron On and was
pseling potatoes-before whom he was kneel-
ing. He doesn't go there any more.
Charles Dell, who shot and killed Chas.
F. Fisher, in Sacramento, two weeks age,
while Fisher was beating him over the head
with heavy cane for paying attentions to
his (Fisher's) daughter, has been discharged
from custody, on the ground that the homo
eide was an act justi6able in selfdefence.
An Indiana man was sent to the peni-
tentiary about year ago, and ais wife got
a decree of divorce. for which she owed the
costs. On Friday tho husband made his
appearance, saw his cx-wife, made up with
her, and went to get marriage license. He
couldn't get it until he paid the costs of the
old divorce.
The duty on tea will, after the 1st of
January, be fifteen cents a pound less than
formerly; on sugar, one and quarter cents;
two cents on coffee and spices, largely on the
free list. The question is, will prices come
down? q? What dealer will first give the pub
lie the benefit Of this reduction in duties
The time is not long 20 wait for an answer.
On the 26th. Napoleon Bowen and
Frank Dean were riding together on saddle
horse, in Platte county, Missouri, when a
quarrel took place between them. which
resulted in Dean stabbing Brown twenty
one times, killing him instantly Brown
was nineteen years old, and son of Judge
Thomas Brown, Of Buchanan county, Mis-
souri,.
Charles Reed, station keeper; James
Lyttle, stage driver, and - Tourney, a
cook, were murdered on Christmas Eve at
the Mission Camp Stage Station, near Tue
son, Arizona aud Miss Reed was shot, but
not killed. by a party of Sonorians. who
plundered the place, murdered tesmster
on the road, and escaped over the border
into Mexico.
Young Roebling. engineer of the East
River bridge, reported that it would cost
about ST 500 to fill the East River bridge
caisson with water-wthout which he could
not sink it--and that it would take him at
least three months to do it. The next day
the caisson caught fro and the fire denart