The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-12-20
Ne,cs ard Political Items.

Half the business portion of Chester
vile. S. c., was burned Sunday morning.
Loss $15O,O0O.
Captain Ward, of Ludington, Mich,
owns 20, coo acres of pine lands anda $780,
O00 saw-mill.
"A baby four months old, near Oh City,
weighs fifty pounds, and the Pittsburgh
Leader calls it an infant-ile prodigy.
"A ditch 30 feet deep, on the premises
of the insane asylum, at St. Louis, caved
in on Saturday, killing five workmen.
"A man in New Hampshire bought four
swarms of bees ten years ago, and has now
an income of 81 200 per year from honey.
A fire at Toledo, Ohio, on Sunday, de-
stroyed $125, 900 worth of property. One
fireman was killed and several others were
injured.
The Very Rev. Thomas Mulvey, vicar
general of the Catholic diocese Of Virginia,
died Sunday evening at his residence IN
Petersburg, aged sixty-thTee.
William Wellhouse, who four years
ago, when only years Did, was page tothe
Cleveland city council was so puffed up by
the distinction that he now weighs 1913
pounds.
A young son of George Ehler, Of Lam
caster, fell through n hatchway distance
of sixty feet. He walked to physicians
Office, and afterward complained of being
hungry.
The menagerie in winter quarters in
Girard, has been purchased by DR.. G.. r.
Spaulding and Pat. Ryan. and will next
season do the country under the manage
ment of Col. Dan Rice.
A young woman at TOrquay, England,
was fatally shocked recently by hearing n
door slam in the next room, which she
thought was her husband shooting him
self She died almost instantly.
This paragraph is to say that Agents
may learn something greatly to their ad-
vantage and obtain specimens and full par
ticulars free, by addressing Woods LiterG-
/ RI and Art Society, New burgh, \. 7.
AT Buffalo, on Saturday, John Gaff-
/ ney was sentenced to be hanged the I'd
/ of February, for the murder Of Patrick
/ Foy, the judgment against him having
been confirmed by the Court of Appeals.
At Hartford, Conn, Satu day,
Charles Rlakeslee was found guilty Of at
tempting to wreck the Boston and New
York Express train, near Windsor Locks,
some time ago, and was sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment.
At the intersection Of the Tyrone and
Clearfield and Bald Eagle railroads, recent
ly, some eight or nine cars were thrown
from the track and an employee, Charlie:
Mcdonald, severely, but not fatally, in
jured about the head.
At SharPtown, New Jersey, on the ar
ternoon Of tho 18th, two colored boys,
named Henry ID. Smith and Thomas James
aged respectively eighteen and sixteen
years, while skating mill pond. broke
through the ice and were drowned.
The Clinton Republican SAYS Miss
Jennie Ward, of that county, week before
last, on the promise OF a new tw elye dollar
dress, husked IN standing corn, thirty-tyvc
bushels in eight and half hours, besides
doing up the morning chores in the house.
"A Bedford county boy, who had been
playing with pistol, was recently found
IN n V.411. L
Veyed to his home, where he died in a few
hours. Nobody was about when the acci-
dent occurred. and the boy could be per-
suaded TO give no particulars
Hon. A G. Curtin lectured at Belle
fonte, Pa. on Friday night. to a crowded
house, on Russia. The intricate and ro-
mantic history of that wonderful people
was mt theme for the eloquent ex-minis-
Ter. lhe manner III which he held the
audience for over two hours showed that
he was at home with his subject
! 1t Is generally believed in the inner
Republican circles at Harrisburg, that Col
M. ;. Quay, of Beaver, OF Hon Francis
Jordan, present incumbent, will bo Gov
ernor Hartranft's Secretary of State, and
that the Attorney-Generalship is between
| Hon. William II. Armstrong. of Lyconing,
/ and Judge Ihayer, of Philadelphia.
An Ida Lewis has been developed in a
| fishing hamlet on the southeastern coast
! OF IrelaE,I. This heroine distinguished
! herself by Il cuing, amid a ruthless storm
| and raging sea, tour men who were cling
/ ing after ship> -eck, in the last extremi-
! ty, to the rocks tina, bound the coast.
Mr.. William FinT. of Gresn county,
! KY, is one hundred and seven years old.
/ He has been engaged III the business OF
making wooden bowls for perhaps seventy
! five years, and can turn two bowls per day
now. He was born i'll Virginia, and left
/ that State when seventeen years old.
The Henderson Ky Reporter says
"a child was born in this city last week
| that forms one of the great number Of nat
ural curiosities. 1t had no bones i'll its
neck, which consisted, apparently, of hard
flesh or something like griStle. The mother
and child both died.
The Freeburg Courier says that Mr
j. M. Hoffman, of that place, sold a Ches
ter White hog last week, to d. F. Ker.
Stetter, for S65. For curiosity's sake Sir
Hoffman measured it. Its length was :
feet 9 inches, circumference feet and
around the neck feet inches. It's weight
is supposed to have been 200 pounds
An extraordinary case came before the
Louisville courts recently. the dispute be-
ing over the ownership of baby There
| were two claimants, one a white woman
and the other colored woman. Each
brought witnesses to prove that she was
the mother of the child in question, and
| the court eventually decided in favor of
/ the colored woman
The Hancock County Courier saws ::
/ Billy Hooper has more vim than any mail
| carrier in this country Last Thursdavb he
left pittsburgh with ninety pounds of mail
III wheelbarrow, wheeling it twelve miles
to Beers Postoffice, and carried it on his
back from there to this place, thirty miles.
] Wen bet there isn't another one-armed
man IN America who would try the same
trick Epizootic horses don't bother him. ~
The Crisfeld (Md.) Lead, declares
that Elijah Somers, a colored man Iiyinoy
near that town, is one hundred and fifteen
years old, and that, though he cannot boast
OF having voted for all the Presidents. vet
he can out-swear, out-drink and ont walk
many who have lived to scarcely half his
age. His feet are frost bitten, his ewes
dir. and his mind