The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-10-25
NeaCs and Political Items.

An Indian Summer that will extend
into the middle of November is predicted.
The Catholics of the State are organ
izing a powerful temperance movement
within the church.
"A. Z. Chamberlin, of Towanda, has
just received breech-loading double bar
relied gun from England, that cost S400.
"A Baltimore dispatch says that the
second trial of Mrs. Wharton for poison
ing viii come off in November or Decem-
ber.
The Presidential Electoral Ticket, for
Greeley and Brown, has been completed
by nominating Edward Nickleson for the
9th district.
The damage by fire to the monastery
at Escurial, Spain, will not exceed $40, 600.
King Amadeus insists on paying for the
repairs out of his private purse.
"A Grant and Wilson flag at East Sagi-
nav, Mich, Is supported at either end by
a coffin factory, SO whichever side it is
taken IN 1t is sure of a decent funeral.
-Durlng the past week the wife of Hor-
ace Greeley has been lying at the point of
death, and can survive but few days.
Greeley constantly remains at her side
An English couple were lately regis
tered at d Chicago hotel. The husband
stands eight feet high and weighs 4S5
pounds and his wife is two inches shorter.
"A California doctor laid a new born
1nng business, on n stove to warm and for
got 1t. The child was Overdone and the
doctor is in jail.
The highest office within the gift of
the Government is the Superintendent of
the weather signal station on Pixies Peak,
which is fourteen thousand feet above the
sea level
over 700 live in Canada. Sambo knows
his rights, and knowing. dare maintain.
lie can both colonize and register beyond
all example.
They are still discussing the question
IN PIttSburg whether to admit coIored
children to the public schools And vet
the colored troops fought nobly to give
Hartanft nine thousand majority in that
county at the late election.
Mrs Sophronia Adams, of Portland
Mich, an old lady of II years, has wove
olO yards of carpeting on an ordinary hand
loom since January last, besides her usual
household duties. VIII the coming grand
mothers be equal to the going ones?
1t is understood that two hundred
families from Alsace and Lorraine are pre-
pairing to settle in the neighborhood Of
Alexandria, Va. Since the first of Janu-
ary last between six and seven thousand Of
the Alsacians have reached this country.
The Republican maiorities in the State
foot up as follows: Hartranft, 81. 627; AL
ti,
Albright, HOP Scofield. AZ. 999 Major
Ity for Constitutional Convention delegates
AZ, 0SS. Chase, Temp. reed ] ,259 votes
"A correspondent writes from Stamford
Conn, that mare belonging to Mr..
Frank Sanders Weston, of Strawberry
Hill, has dropped two colts at a birth One
of them has six legs while the other is
minus tail and ears. The colts are living
- Caroline King, colored, living near
Harrlsonberg, Va, gave birth to two chill
dren, April 3, 1871 on December g, 1871,
gave birth TO two more and on September
8, 1872, gave birth to three children-mak-
ing seven children in little over seven
teen months. They were all bows.
"A terrible accident occurred at circus
performance in Sheffield, Eng, on Monday
night. A gallery crowded with people
fell with its living fIeight upon the heads
of those below, and it is reported that
seventy persons were injured by the acci-
dent and the panic which followed
"A false impression prevails among a
certain class of inventors that the@govern-
ment has offered prize of 81, 600, 600 for
the invention of perpetual motion. This
Is mistake, but the radical adninistra-
ton Is paying out a much larger amount
OF tho government funds in the effort to Sc
cure perpetual seat in the Treasury.
Emanuel Shaffner, sentenced to thir-
ty-six years in the Eastern Penitentiary
lot the InulueT OF MS TWO wives. and John
Sharlock. was taken there on Friday morn
ing. large crowd followed him TO the
depot IN Harrisburg, and he bade them
good bye IN somewhat cheerful way
stating that they would never see him
again.
"A rather peculiar accident occurred at
Erie, on last Friday. 4 little boy. named .
Osgood, went into a switch shauty to
warm himself. The switch tender came
in and sat down on the bows shoulders.
The little fellow screamed out, and when
the man got up it was found that the boys
breast bone had been broken. His recoy
cry is thought very doubtful.
Such was the excitement caused in
Prussia by the expulsion of the Jesuits.
that the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne
had instituted against him hatred and
contempt suit by the Government for dar-
ing to write a letter on the subject. In
Holland some mobiles had offered shelter
TO eX1led German Jesuits, but the Har1le
Government prohibited them doing so.
AT an executive session of the Broth
erhood OF Locomotive Engineers, in St.
LOUIS on saturday, resolutions were adopt
ed iaVorlng the abolishment of all Sunday
trains. A committee was appointed to
confer with railroad officials throughout
the country on the subject A cIanse to
be inserted in the act of incorporation T,oI
viding for the expulsion of any engineer
addicted to the use of intoxicating li0uors
was also adopted 0'''''
light Rev. James Gibbons was INSTALL
eo as the Roman Catholic Bishop of Rich
mond, Va, on Sunday last. with the c1,s-
tonnaTy solemnities of the Catholic Church
Archbishop Bayley, of Baltimore, and
BISHOP Becker, of Wilmington. Del, were
present, as were also all the clergy of the
dlocese and number of church diSnitarieS
from other sections. The church was
thronged and crowds outside were unable
to gain admission 'io
A lame girl, who had not for four+oo,,
years, once left the third-story back room
IN which she lived, was among those Who
participated in the late children's excnrl
sions IN Philadelphia. When carried 70
the Park she asked what the grass and
trees were, and had to be told the names