The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-01-20
News Of the Week.

| Tho Wiliamsport Free Press says Har-
| rjsburg is the banner town for vagrar:s,
net counting The Legislature.
! Mrs Martin, widow of q man who died
of trchina at Lotisvile, few days since,
has died of the same disease.
| Chief Justice Chase is buying up Rhode
Island He has already purchased FIVE acres.
and ia keeping :harp eye on the other ht~
Mr.. Fitzpatrick. of New Orleans. Was
arrested for bathing his wife's forehsati with
saw. He probably thought she was
block head.
The Franciscan runs who were driven
out of Paris, and who established an acad>
envy at Council Bluffs, have gone on to China
to establish a missen.
The man who is too poor to take his
county paper has purchased a double barreed
gun aud keeps four dogs. He takes his bug
juice three times day.
The democracy of Bedford county have
nominated j. NJ. Reynolds, Ed. for Assem-
| bly,, to Fill the vacancy occasionsd by the
death of j. w. Dckerson.
Two neglected relatives Of the President
have been found in Jersey City. utterly void
of Office. Inquiry has established the fac.
that they did not vote for Grant.
Two Germans in Bius Earth county,
bi!D0, SHappSu .nlFes hsii
| nsishbors interfered, and the parties a:e
awaiting their fate In the county Jail.
John Bsuer, who has been separated
from his wife for year, went to her hou'e
at st. Paul, Minnesota, on Saturday Dight,
ana murdered her, literally eating her head
to pieces.
Love in the Indian language Is "schim-
lsndsmoT moTitchewagan Our Paul says he
weuld sit aud wink at squaw for a month
before he would attempt to tell her that he
loved her.
"A negro 10 Canaan who by unswerying
attention to business and frugaity in living
has in fsw months savsd 2 600 of his neigh
bors' hoop poles. was taken to Litchfisld jail
| one day last week.
Alexis shot the first buffalo seen by the
hunting party got up for his special benefit.
and we presume that when he saw the Indi-
ans he got his first glimpse of real unadnl-
terated Amencanism.
= Fbere is young gil in Virginia who
wears four bullets made into the form OF q
Maltese cross, which were extracted from the
bodies Of her father and brother who were.
killed ia the siege of Richmond.
"A woman died Of smallpox near Doyle
town the other day. having brought the di.
sease upon ner through a seuseless dread OF
it. It is the easiest thing in the world TO
| friehten ones self into disease and doath.
Postmaster Henry Saith, Of St. James.
Long Island. get trap-gun on Wednesday
| night, the 10th, for. burglars. but forgetting
| the gun, went to the officO 70 obtain pack
/ age and was shot, dying the next morning.
! John fIcyt, csrk in the axe factory
! Of VIM. Hanu & Co., at Mlroy, Mifflin
county, was instantly killed, on Tuesday Of
| last weak, while attempting to cross the
/ track OF the n fila and Centre County Rail-
road.
"A Kangas city man named Tupman
| went out rleigh-riding the other day with a
pretty widow. He was pursued by Mrs
Iupman in hack, Uvertaken, and horse
whipped soundly by his irste and unaPpre
ciated better half.
-Rughoonathad&s Madhoodas, the WELL
known Bombay merchant. was recently mar
ried. at Ch;nchpoogly, to Miss Dhuncoorha,
daughter Of Shet Gudhurdas Mohundas, rel
! let Of the late lamented" Luchmichand
| Dhurmusey. No cards.
| The boiler of freight engine No. SOL
| exploded her boiler nsar Mddletown on the
| 18th. killing Cocklsy Doudall, of Mantua,
the engineer, and seriously injuriag the FIRE
man James Wilson Of Paoli. and the ecnduc-
| tor Joseph Lswis of Douniugton.
The reported destruction of the city OF
! Oran. in the Argentine Republic, by esrth>
quake, is confirmed Not house was left
standing. Only one life was lost. The Town
of Humshuaca was also damaged, and vol
| cano developed in its nsghborhood.
The Louisville Ledger states that party
of Indiana thsvss. few nights ago, near
Shoals, in Martin county, stole whole steam
saw -mill-machinery boilers. engine. and
| all-and carried it of. by rail, to Illinois.
This is the heaviest robbery ever hssrd Of be-
FORE
A phenomenon has occurred in Indian
apols. 4 well, ths water in which has been
of remarkable coldncEs, has been growing
warmer. and is now almost hot. The infer
ence is that the city is rapidly growing worse
and worse. and consequently the internal re-
gions are approaching.
Asa w. Clark, a workman in the fuTni-
turs manufactory of VIM. 0, Haskell & Son,
at East Lebanon. N. H.. was probably fatal
ly injured few days sgo. a knife in
sticking machine whish be was tending few
and struck him on the throat, severing an
artery and cutting the windpipe about half
off.
TO prevent cattle from jumping fences,
clip of the syslashes of the under lids with
pair of scissors. This ability or disposition
to jump is SAID to be as sffsctualIy destroyed
by this means as was SaBson's power by the
loss of his locks. The animal will not at
tempt fence until the lashss are grown
again.
David R. Dickey, of Randolph, Upton
county, Tenn, came 10 an end on Monday.
He made bet that he could eat four bottles
of brandy peaches, and drink all the liquor,
together with two tumblers of raw whiskey
He drank the whiskey, and finished all the
peaches, dropping dead while holding the
last peach in his mouth.
The storm which prevailed in California
last month was unprecedented even in the
history of the Pacific slope. Many instances
are given by exchanges from that region
where whole towns were almost entirely sub
merged. The editor of the Jilroy Advocate,
as he worked in his Office on the 18th ult.,
sat with his legs in two feet of water
"A woman named Case, living at Dccas
tur, Ind, murdered her boy few DAYS since