The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-01-12

last, by the premature explosion of a dualin
cartridge.
The York Gazette speaks highly of
Messrs. Hendricks, Thurman and Hancock
in regard to the next Presidency but prefers
the Hon. Michael c. Kerr, of Indiana, as the
next Democratic candidate.
Mrs. Crosby, a Texan matron. is
model dreamist. She dreamed the other
night that if she should buy lottery ticket
she would win prize. She accordingly
purchased the last ticket that was for sale,
and drew S400.
Miss Edmcnia Lewis, the young scnlp-
tress has returned to ROME. She takes with
her commission 10 chisel lifesized statue
of John Brown for the Union League Ciub,
New York. 1t is thus that ''loyalty" seeks
to perpetuate the memory of a fanatic who
sought to have Southern women and child
rem butchered.
Buckingham Smith, State Senator OF
Florida was found insensible in the streets
of New York on Thursday, and died in Bell
vue Hospital yesterday. The cause of his
death was consumption. Deceased studied
law in Maine, and was subsequently Judge
of Florida court, and Secretary of the
Spanish Legation.
An unknown and very fatal disease has
appeared in Oregon, entire families been
sometimes stricken at the same time. The
physicians term it smallpox. but micro
scopic examination Of the pustules obtained
from the worst cases have failed to detect
the first smallpox globue. 1t is still
spreading. and battles all medical skill.
"A curious freak of nature is said to
have occurred recently at Cape Cod. Massa-
chusetts. 1t is no less phenomenon than
a male child three months oid-more snak e
than human. The cause of such an abnor
NAL growth seems to have been Gas usual in
such cases) that the mother during preg
nancy had a monomania for killing snakes.
The celebrated case of Fredrick Riehl,
| a girl Of 21 years, against Robert Barnes of
| Evansville. 2 years old, worth half mil
lion dollars, for breach of promise aad Sc
duction. damages laid at $50 900. was con-
cluded on Wednesday night at Princeton,
| Iud., the jury rendering verdict for the
defendant. The trial lasted for FIVE days,
and was OF most sensational character.
"A correspondent writing from Saltillo,
Indiana. gives account Of remarkable twins
born in that town. They were Joined to-
gcther from their shoulders to the lower por-
tion of their bodies. There was but one
body in fact, yet three arms and hands, two
heads, two sets OF bowels, and two legs. The
twins died a short time after birth, one
head dying ten minutes before the other
The curiosity is il possession Of DR.. Stanley,
at SatiliO.
An extraordinary case is on trial before
a United States Commissioner at Rochester
1t is alleged that the defendent and about
thirty others entered into formal written
agreement, before the election, to sell their
votes to whoever would pay the most, and
that one Of the bylaws of their association
! provided that twenty lashes should be in
ficted on any member who voted contrary
TO tho direction Of their President.
What shall be done with Asa Kittle,
the blind boy who murdered his father and
mother. is earnestly discussed in Troy and
It's neighborhood. It has been proposed to
appoint a commission 10 settle the question
of his sanity, and the Troy Times says the
District Attorney will probably oppose this
very strenuously, and many persons believe
that to send the boy to an asylum Whold be
the best disI ositiou that could be made Of
him.
Minnesota papers tell sad story Of
little girl and boy who wandered away from
the house OF their father in Morrison county
/ in that State, and were subsequently, found
dead by the Indians. The boy lay on his
! back, having apparently died without much
suffering. The girl had taken her rings
! from Eer ears, and wrapped them, with a
lock OF her hair, III a small piece of cloth,
had put the little parcel in her pocket, and
then laid down and died from cold, hunger
and exposure.
The census returns from more than a
thousand counties in the Southern States
sho" what needed no showing. that with
negroes freedom is synonymous with death
When slavery existed the negroes in the
South increased ten fold in fifty years, but
within the last ten years their multiplication
has -, J.
comes very probable what legal slavery
! increased illegal slavery has diminished
Ouce the masters were men now they are
want. distress. and carpet-baggers.
--Ihe following are Mercer county
items: Samuel Wolf. pauper, last We'd
nesday WAS found beside a shock of corn
dead. He is supposed to have been lying
there for several days. On the Sunday sue
ceeding Jerry Potts, while in an intoxicated
condition. was frozen TO death in his own
house. On Saturday last week George
I Siddall, aged eighty three years, died in
Fairview township. The deceased was en-
, ployed in the British navy in his early
days and was on board the vessel of Lord
Nelson when be was killed in the battle of
Trafalgar.
Among the sufferers by tho awful ca
lamity in Richmond, on Christmas morning,
was young man, Samuel Hines, whose
name deserves to be mentioned with that
homage which genuine heroism ever inspires
Twice. at the eminent peril Of his life, he
rushed through the fire and smoke, and
! safely emerged again, dragging with him
some unfortunate whom terror had de uriyed
of self-exertion. He was seen to dash into
the burning mass third time. but an in
slant after the forked flames shot up in all
directions, shutting him from the view of
the enthralled spectators, and the gallant
man came back no more
| A Chicago journal calls attention to the
revival in the Western Athens of "lost
art" known TO the Romans when they
manufactured asphalt pavement. There is
on exhibition in that city an ''impershable
! asphalt pavement" which is said TO be i'm .