The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-04-22
Political AND News Etenis.

United States.
The bill providing for geological; sur
yev of the State was killed in the House on
Thursday week.
Jennie Foster.-a servant girl in ALE
ghenv CITY. Pa. has gone to England to get
a fortune of Sl65 900 in gold.
One or two applications Of huttermIlk
will destroy lice on cattle, and 1t Is sale
remedy to drive off the verrnin.
The cost Of artillery. gunpowder, etc. {,
consumed in defending Paris during the late
siege is estimated at Sl2 600 900.
Defiance. Ohio, has family containing
five doctors, father and his four sons, each
of the i've being over six feet high.
"A simple and very effectual remedy for
sore backs i'll horses, is a plaster made OF
the yolk Of an egg and aSpOOnful OF turpen-
tine.
The Democrats now have more mem
bers iD Congress than at any time since the
35th Congress, the first during President
Buchanan 5 term.
The Egyptian Monks" is the name of
a new secret society iD Illinois. The lodge
room furniture consists of one chair and
fifty-three spIttons.
The eagan in the Royal Albert Hall,
London. will be the largest and most pow
erful in the world, having 5000 pipes and
I2O stops. inflated by two steam engines.
"A man named William Hoar, was kill
ed on Saturday. the 8th inst, in North
Union township, Fayette county. by another
named George Cassidy, during fist fight.
The President has sent in the names of
eleven rerscns 10 compose the Legislative
Council Of the District Of Columbia. Three
Of these arc black, F red. Doug lass being one
of them.
Wonders will never csass. fancy
soap mine has been discovered near Iowa
City. It is in the form Of a mineral, per
forms all the dnties of soap, and has an aro-
matte odoT.
"A great breach Of promise case-Jenuie
M'Bride, of Belefonte, rs ]. |. WagneI-has
been decided at Franklin, Vensngo county.
in favor Of Miss M'Bride, the jury awarding
her $8 500.
Mr.. II. J. Iombaert. one of the able
and experienced Vice Presidents of the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad. has been
chosen President OF the Philadelphia Steam
ship Company.
An eccentric citizen cf st. Louis died
recently aud left in his will 81 1000 to the
man who. ten years before. had run away
with his Wits. One Of the last things he
said was that be never forgot favor.
Connecticut boasts tiIirty-three widows
Of original Revolutionary soldiers. Sup
posing the youngest of them to have mar
ried at the age of 1G. at the beginning Of
the war, she must now be III years Cd.
A 'spoonfish." ;" so named from its spoon
ike snout, was recently caught in the Ohio
river. near Wellsburg. West Va. 1t weigh
ed % pounds. 1t was forwarded To Ben.
Butler bv few Of his Wellsbnrg admirers.
In Reading, gypsy woman, belonging
to a party encamped near that place, was
caught IN the act of stealing baby out Of -
cradle in house which she had entered
while the mother was momentarily mp stairs.
"A pupil in the High School At Pittsfsld.
Mass, who lost both Of his arms by a rail
road accident when very email boy. man
ages his book, usos his slate, and writes egi-
by with his mouth. lis can also write With
his toes.
-There was an incendiary fire in New
burg on the 10th inst. which destroyed six
stables ac,l partially destroyed four dwelling
houses. Loss $4,000. partly insured. On
the Saturday night previous several stables
in Orratown were fired.
-"SUlifed beer is The latest thing. II
is lager concentrated the way they do milk
so that the amount you can hold on the
point of a knife, will make you drunk clean
through. A man can carry enough in his
vest pocket to ruin temperance society.
Strawberries are selling in Charleston.
South Carolina, at thirty five and forty cents
a quart aud fresh shaa at twenty five and
thirty cents apiece. Green peas retail at
the low figure OF ten cents per quart. Other
vegetables are plenty, and almost equally
cheap.
Tho sad story Of The two little children
Of Bonaparte Brunell. Of Wick ford, Rhode
Island. who were buried alive by the falling
in Of the wall of cave. has sad sequel
Mrs. Brunel, who was i'll. died from the
shock, and Mr. Brun ell, the father, has be-
come insane.
"A thorough organization Of the consoli
dated lines under the control of the Penn
sylvania Railroad has been made. Mr.. Thos
A. Scott being elected President. VIM. Shaw
Vice President and j. NJ. Mccullough Gen
eral Manager. a circular will be issued in
few days giving notice of the change to
the employees of the road.
The ways of justice in lyn at
present appear to be past finding out. Two
men were the other day found guilty. before
Justice Lynch, of beating their wives. One
was a poor man, and he was sent to the
pesitentiary for six months the other was
an accomplished scoundrel, and in view Of
that fact. he was fined SIS for his crime.
David Williams. of Peach Bottom, Ian
caster county, after heating an augur one
day last week, plunged it into keg con-
tanning powder. supposing it water, when
an explosion took place. which blew up
blacksmith shop and terribly burned (per-
haps fatality Mr.. Williams. Edward Lloyd
and John Owens. who were in the building
at the time. also suffered considerably.
John P. Nolan. aged twenty-five, and
printer by profession, having been absent
from his home. in Bellefonte. near two years.
and nothing having been heard from him
by his mother during that time. has caused
her great uneasiness. Last heard from him
he was in Cory. Any information coucern-
ing him addressed to T. B. Nolan, Washing
ton D. c., Will be thankfully received
There is singular lawsuit IN G0odhue
county, MINI. 1t seems that two religious
societies quarreled as to which should bury
the dead body of man who had belonge