The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-05-18

sas three Witnesses swuTe that Senator Cad-
we'll subsidized the Bulletin, in the contest
between the North western Railroad and
Leavenworth city, by the payment OF two
thousand dollars. Senator Caldwell stands
ready to purchase anything, from pair Of
mules to a seat in the Senate. He is sup>
porter Of General Grant.
Mrs Peter Gronda, of Mackinac county.
Mich, has twcnty-three children. most of
whom are not only alive and married, but
have families their mothers scale Of fe-
cuhdity. One Of her sous has fifteen chill
dIen. one daughter thirteen. another Gaugh~
ter twelve, and on. She is great grand
mother. bnt frt tquently walks twenty miles
in one day.
On Saturday morning last. while party
of engineers were examining disused gang
way in the Pine Ridge Colliery. two miles
from Wilkesbarre. Pa. an explosion Of ire
damp took place. ard Thomas Morgan. Da-
v;d Morgan and Evan Davis were killed. aud
another badly hurt, but will recover. The
explosion did not extend beysud the gang
way in which it occurred, ard no others
were injured.
"A young. handsome and we'll dressed
lady appeared on Monday at the Hamilton,
o.. county jlil with license and Justice Of
the Peace, and insisted on being married to
notorious hotel thief there incarcers
Awaiting trial, which will undoubtedly re-
| sut in sentence of fSe years to the peni-
! tentary. The woman is said to belong 10 q
wealthy and respectable family. The cers~
mony over. tho :hief was returned to his cell.
The woods in Lehigh, nineteen miles
| from Scranton, were one sheet of flames a
week ago and the FIRE was spreading in all
| directions, sweeping everything before it,
Trees, ieuces, barns. and, in SOME instances,
! dWBllDOS were DESTROYED Il fs r.6
unless heavy rains were soon had in that Sec
tlon. the destruction Of timber by the seve>
| lal hres would be immense. All the woods
tAOd was dry, and nothing could save it un-
less the rains set in.
The following gentlemen are named in
/ connection With the Democratic candidacy
for Governor Of this State: General G W.
Cass, Of Pittsburgh Hon. c. r Buckalew.
| of Columbia General William McClelland,
OF Lawrence Hon. d. II F, Y. Of Phiiadel-
| phia Hon. A. B. McCa lmout, Of Venango
| Hon. A G. Noyes, of Clinton and Hon NJ
G. Trout. of Mercer. Good material from
which to select a standard bearer for the
somming struggle.
-DArke county, Ohio, is in q terrible
state Of excitement over the liquor law
I Nine suits for sums ranging from 81 coo to
/ $40 600 EACH have been entered against
( saloon keepers aud the owusfs of property
occupied by them, the plaintiffs being the
wives of Incorporate husbands. Oue NO.
man. whose husband was ki led in a drunk
/ en- brawl. has brought suit for $40 600
while the wif1 Of the man who per petrated
the homicide has sued for S. 900. Ali the
| saloous are closed.
Mrs. VIM c. Rhodes wife Of the agent
at Clinton Prison. n. Y, says q c. rrespoud
ent writing from Plattsburgh to the n. Y
L. 1 -
! on "Wednesday of last week which weighed
! twenty-five pounds and ounce. Mrs
Rhodes was two hours struggling with the
/ fish before it was landed, aud even then only
succeeded in securing the prize by tie aid OF
two men Whe jumped into the water and
caught it by the fns. The monster was
cleaned. packed in ice and sent to Gov Hoff-
/ man as present.
MIR. Bonner's colt Startle. saws the n.
! Sun, would probably sell for more money
| to-day than any other horse in the world.
His time on Friday-tacO nineteen and three
QuGrtcrS-is the fastest trotting ever made
10y stallion. and he is not yet quite Fl We
years Old. Startle was sired by old Hamble-
tonian. and his dam was Star mare, the
blood which has crossed best with the Ham
b.etonian. He is remarkably gentle in dis
position. and honest and square in his trut>
cheap to-day at one hundred thousand doll
! lars.
The destruction of the two newspapers
of Somerset. the Herald and Wing and the
Democrat. accounts for the fact that no CON-
p!ete account of the coufagration in that
town has been given 10 the public The
| loss Of these newspapers is estimated at ff-
teen thousand dollars. We learn, says the
! Harrisburg Patriot. that Mr.. Hoffman. the
editor OF the Democrat. has made srrau ge>
ments for the issue OF his paper this week
using press and type at Salisbury. in Som
erset county. The unfortunate editors will
have the sympathy Of their brethren of the
press.
Extensive fires have been raging and
are still in progress in the forests of Eastern
! New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
| thousands OF acres have heen burned over
| liz ths night time the mouOtains along the
| Hudson river, as seen from the stea mers and
cars. present the appearance of great masses
cf flames miles in extent. In the woods of
| Minnesota and Michigan fires are also rag
ing. While in New England, where there
has been scarcely aIy rain for a year. the
country Is literally drying Up. in other re,
! gions 1t is beginning to burn UT. The need
Of rain is generally felt all over the country.
There is now liviug at Reading. Penn>
sYlvahla, man named Jacob Hartman.
who has attained the age of ninety wears.
during eighty seven Of which he has been
totally blind. He lost his sight when
child three years old by his brother thrust
! ing shoemaker's awl into his eyes. He
/ kept tavern for forty>fivs years. taking
the active management Of it, was his own
bar-keeper. and was expert in the hand>
| ling OF money that any attempt to cheat
him was futile. He is also a mechanic
having repeatedly taksu his clock apart and
put it together. and toned and repaired rlu-
sical Instruments.
FATHER MCMAHoN, the Irish Catholic