The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-06-01
News OF the Week.

gath of May.
AN Illinois farmer is planting 1.1oO
acres in corn.
Mrs. TYLER. widow of the late President
Tyler. has Joined the Roman Catholic Church.
"A German resident Of Scranton. n. j.,
drank 1873 glasses of beer within twenty-four
hours.
"A lazy Mu-freesboro woman. who en-
joys coed health, has not been outside her
house for eight years.
"A boy in Salem recently dug up pine
tree shilling. dated, 1862. while at work on
the Winter Island Road.
The latest style at fashionable funerals
in New York is for the pall>bearers 10 wear
full-dress suits and white kid gloves.
"A man 10 Oregon sues his father>in>law
for S5 900 because his wife has been sick
| ever since their marriage. She had been
"werranted" well and strong.
AT Providence, r. l., on Saturday, Miss
Julia E. Valette. aged twenty-five. recovered
| $4,000 damages for breach of promise, from
! Thomas Grace. aged sixty>nine.
| "A fact in connection with Hartranft's
| repayment of the seven thousand dollar loan
to George o. Evans. is his failure to lift his
due bill in the hands of the latter.
"A drunken man got aboard a freight
| train in Ohio. "straddled'' the coupling be-
| tween two cars, and fell into placid slum-
Der. and rode safely for several miles until
| discovered
The Emperor of China. though rot yet
sixteen years Of age. is about to be married.
lie signalized the anniversary of his ascension
to the throne by liberatirg all but the first
criminals of the empire.
Shocking uewsis reported from Antioch,
the scene OF the recent earthquake. The
earth still tIembles, and people dare not ap-
! proach the ruins of the city to remove the
! large number of dead who lie unburied.
! Dir. Moore. aged 68. and Mrs. Abbie
Rosa, aged 73, were married at PIainfeld,
Mich, recently, Each of the parties had
been married three times before, and the
! happy groom is the father Of fourteen chill
dren-
John Glashban. a German. fifty years
old. arrived at Erie. Pa. on Monday, from
| Germany, and not readily finding married
sister, who resides IN the neighborhood. he
drowned himself in a stream only nine
| inches deep. within half mile from his
sisters house.
1t is reported that nine Greek criminals
OF the worst class have been released on con-
dition Of emigrating TO the United States.
and are now on their way to Now Orleans,
via Falmouth, England in the Italian bark
Agamemmon. The gang includes some of
the Marathon murderers.
1t is now authoritively stated that ths
notorious Casey. Collector of New Orleans.
has neither resigned nor has any order for
his removal been made. Was Gen. Grant
ever known to remove a relative from cffice,
no matter of what he had been guilty? Casey
! will stick like a tick to dog.
Mr.. Pierre Bernard, of Upper Provi>
dence, Delaware comfy, has farm of thir>
! ty-six acres, on which he has one of the finest
! pear orchards 10 the country. It contains
2.200 trees. of all varieties. Mr. Bernard
has little vineyard of young vines. which
he expects to yield during the present season
1000 pounds Of grapes.
The Clarksburgh (W. Va } Sun comes
to US with letter from Colonel Moshy. and
| the letter of acceptance of Horace Greeley.
But through some joke or accident, the sigma
lures have been transposed. aud it is Colonel
! Mosby W ho accepts the Cincinnati nomina-
tion and Horace Greeley who expresses his
! preference for Grant ,-Phna Aqe
The Doylestown Democrat introduces
| cats IN ar agricultural way as follows This
| month Is the best time to plant cats The
cat should be prepared with a boot jack
revolver, or some other utensil, and then
| planted under the plum tree plant any,
where. Plant all you can. and plant deep
This branch Of agriculture is too much ne
! elected.
"A dentist named Hinson and his wife
have been arrested in Memphis and held to
answer in the sum of Sc 900 each, for whip-
| ping with a cowhioe an orphan child only
| eight years old, entrusted to their caIe.s The
| chlld's back is covered with scars from the
! barbarous treatment she has received, and
one of her ears has been literally wIeuched
from its place.
"A composition, now in the office of the
Newark IN. j } AdrertiSer, once asked Mr..
Greeley's ihttueuce to procure Government
cerkship i'll Washington. "Can you saw
wood?' queried the philosopher. Yes. SIR"
ialteriugly replied the applicant. Then
stay away from Washington" ;" was the only
further remark vouchsafed. The compositor
now tenders the same advice to Mr. Greeley.
mo matter whether he can saw wood or uot."
The Secretary of War has received the
authority of Congress to sell such portions of
clSthing 10 2 Iartermasters' stores as be may
deem advisable. There are now in store
$l3 900 900 worth of clothing, the care of
which cost $50 900 per year. There are
rubber blankets enough on hand to supply
all prospective demands for one hundred
and thirty years 10 come /; rubber ponchos
aud artillery jackets for eighty years, and
b!ouscs for forty years.
The Centennial Commission has fixed
upon the time for the opening of the exhibit
tion on the 10Th of April and for the close
on the 10Th of October, 1876, all articles
for the Exposition to arrive by the lIth of
January to secure proper position and CLASH
hcation. An invitation will be issued TO
every nation to participate. and the accep>
tance OF the Invitation is requested by March
4th. 1874. aud the same date has been fixed
on for receiving applications for space.
"A terrible explosion occurred on Mon
day in the Penn Finishing. Dyeing and
Bleaching establishment of Messrs. Troth,
Gordon & Byron, on Grease street, above
Glrard avenue. Philadelphia. Ore of Phil
oger's patent nou-exposive boilers, which
was being tried only the second time, ex-
pioded, killing the engineer and seriously in
juring one of the workmen and salesman.
besides fatally injuring girl named Angus
ia Schaffer, aged sixteen. The building is a