The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-12-06
Ncrs and Political Items.

A man in Lynn, Mass, owns the boots
that President Lincoln wore when asslna-
ted.
-Thirty-two persons are buried in the
of Newtown, Kan, only one ot
whom died a natural death.
"A bronze group, costing sl1,00o, has
been placed over the grave OF child IN
Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa
A man ut Decatur, H., has had the
SMALLPOX five times, ard ROW feels rather
lost if he goes through the year without 1t.
A man at Seneca Falls, \. Y, offers to
paw 81 for every cat thatis sent HIN. The
Tai!rays leading thither are raising their
prices.
Another terrapin is said to have been
discovered in Owen county, Kentucky, with
the name of Daniel Boone and the date 40
cut into its back.
Henry Porter Tension, an alleged lin
cal descendent of the Archbishop Of Can
terbury, was indicted for biganly i'll Pough-
keepsie, y. Y. on Saturday.
-Arbucke's spice mills in Brooklyn
were burned on Saturday morning. The
loss on the building, machinery and stock
is sixty-iive thousand dollars.
The statue of Chief Justice Taney was
raised upon the pedestal at Annapolis No
vcmber 21st. 1t is of bronze, and repre-
sents Mr.. fancy in sitting posture.
Two prisoners have escaped from the
Western PenitentiaIy, in Allegheny City,
by tunneling under their cell and outer
wall TO the street, distance of forty feet
A man recently died in New Jersey, at
the age Of 90, who never owned or wore
pair of boots in his life, and never rode in
a railroad car. He made his Will forty
years ago, but the man who wrote it. all
the witnesses, and the heir died some time
before him.
"A shanty on the south bank Of lie Mis-
souri, river, opposite st. Charles, twenty
miles from St. Louis, il which negro
woman, her daughter, about fourteen years
of age. ard a negro man had a drunken ca
roUsal last day night was burned
to the ground and all its inmates persisted
in tie flames.
The Pittsburgh Gazesie says '1he cleo
tion Of Grant was a test Of the intelligence
OF the American people" \ majority of
the white people voted for Greeley: ergo,
the negroes are more intelligent than the
white voters. 1t is pleasant for white Re
pubhcans to know iUst what estimate their
friends put upon thcm.-Eris OJserrer.
he oldest printer in the country is
said to be Andrew c. Huston, now living
at northumberland, PENNSYLVANIA, in his
Seth year. lie learned his Iade with Zach
ariah Poulscn. and conducted the Argus in
Northumberland as far back as the year
1903, which was the only paper printed III
that part of Pennsylvania.
On Sunday morning cottage near
Louisville, occupied by a family named
Ashton, consisting of the mother and a
grown son and daughter, caught fiIe while
the family were in drunken siumLer from
carousal over night, and burned down.
The daughter was burned to death in bed.
and the mother was so badly burned that
she is not expected to live
The Post says: Not = solitary Rerub-
lean paTer has yet had the courage - ad-
yoCatc the admission Of colOrod children
into the public schools. They were exceed
irg,y kind to them before the election and
prolific with praise, but now they are dark
les and must not ask for Office. nor dare to
put one of their black noses inside Of pub
lie schools alongside of white Children
Considerable curiosity exists in New
orlS as to the authorship Of the Beecher-
1iIton libel. Mrs. Wo"dhulI, her sister
and ''ColoueI' Blood each swore before the
Court that neither Of them wrote the arti-
Gle. 1t Is now said that the authorship has
been traced to a most unexpected source,
and that positive proof viii be brought ont
as To the writer of the libel in few days.
A coaI-oiI explosion took place in New
Orleans on Saturday. and twenty houses
were destroyed. COaIoil is the most eEec-
tual destroyer Of life and property yet dis
covered. 1t cost hicago two hundred and
fifty millions, and how many millions more
have been destroyed through its agency. it
would be hard to compute. As 10 the
lives sacrificed and the human beings in
juTed the number is legion.
buchanan county, Virginia, enjoys the
proud distinction of being the only county
in the United States from which no returns
whatever of the recent election have been
received. By its position it is isolated from
the rest of the world, and is quite terra
iRcognitH. The Richmond Inquirer SAYS
the vote Of the county viii probably never
bc asccTtaIned until the Secretary of the
Commonwealth sends special messenger
thithcr for that purpose.
There was great deal Of sympathy
wasted on Mr.. Peay, of Louisville, Ky.
who had gone on to New York to transact
some business for a friend, and who rnys-
teriously disappeared Al. sorts Of coniec-
lures were made and conclusions formed as
to how Mr. Peay had been made away
+ WITH; but now the romance is spoiled 10y
! the uEml-takable evidence that the only
thing made away with was the money en-
trusted to the keeping of Dir. Pear
king, who murdered O'Neiil in New
York, married his wife against the wishes
of her parents in Honolulu. where he was
a clerk and succeeded in getting hold of
his employers property. \ few months
after his marriage be shot his f.thef-in-Iayy.
Subsequently he made more money bv
swindiing merchants in san Francisco, and
aherwaTd tlCurished in Newport and New
orR, being \ CTone of Fisk and Gould.
Sympathy Is already ymanufactured for him
10y the alleged finding Of his wife's portrait
III the pocket of his dead victim.
Mrs. Gen. SaTderSon, of Worthinrtou.
O., has III her possession box said to have
been brought to this country by Cortez AZ
the time of the conquest of Mexico. and
was at one time il the possession OF Gen.
santa Anna 1t was captured at the time
the American troops took the city of Mex
leo, and 1t is thought to be about four bnn-
dred years old. 1t is inlaid with ivory in
the 'oSt elaborate manner. The box was
probably brought home by her husband.
General Winslow F. SandeTson. formerly a
merchant of Columbus, and who was com