The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-12-13
Nercs end Political Items.

ems, and Chicago has one named Ell.
w hitelaw Reid is the choice of the
stockholders of the Tribune for editor.
w alter Scott, of Michigan, is on trial
forshootipg his father-in- law, Oliver Cronn-
The Washington Chronicle says: Geo.
Washington's nurses are dying off like
sheep"
-Ex-Governor Curtin waited on Gen.
Grant on Saturday. What has Cameron
to say about 1T
tionarv pensioners alive yet in the country.
Matrimony must have been catching in '76.
Over fifty thousand citizens of New
York viewed the remains of Horace Gree
ley, as the body lay in state at the City
Hall.
Joseph Pratt is the name of an Iowa
young man who run needle INTO his wrist
ffteen years ago, and has just extracted it
from his heel.
! "A dispatch from Columbus, Indiana,
saws club of ten persons III that town hold
ticket number 645O. which drew $I5, Geo
in Louisville on Saturday.
"A remorseful man in Troy, y. Y,
! lately left. while on his death-bed, $10,-
coo to a woman whom he had jilted a
number of years before. Tilted women en-
brace hope.
/ David Moore, who murdered his wife
| ut Dover, New Jersey, last week, was
rested at Phillipsburg, n. j., on Sunday
night. He was taken to horristoWn and
/ placed in jail.
/ The feeling of respect for the memory
( of Horace Greeley was SC general that even
in London when his death was announced
/ public meetings were held for the purpose
. of expressing regret and sympathy.
/ An old gentleman and his wife went TO
/ Chicago the other day, in search of two
missing daughters, and stepping into
/ theatre for an evenings relaxation, found
/ their offspring dancing in the ballet.
! 1t is proposed to create new county
( in this State, to be constructed out of parts
! of Montgomery, Chester and Berks coun-
| ties. with Pottstown as the county seat.
The name suggested for the new county is
! Grant.
Prof. West, in Dover. Del, hires ne
groes, whom he kills and cofins then mys-
teriously disappears to enable his wife TO
/ collect his life Insurance.. It didn't pay
the first time, but the business is yet in its
infancy.
A seventeen-year-old widow married a
gentleman of 90 in Greenup, O., the other
day, but the local justice wouldn' perform
the. ceremony, as he said out Of twelve
couples that had been married by him
eleven had been divorced.
"A man at keOl1uk has started an Office
furnished with pair of blacksmith's bel
lows for the initiating of rubber bustles,
.
fashionable ladies' go there once day TO
/ get blown up
A candy-Tuu occurred in Peru. III,
. lately, and the two-gallon potfuIl of blaz-
ing liquid was put out in the back yard TO
cool, while the joIlity went on inside. The
/ cats corpse was removed, and the candy
given TO the poor.
-Lerdo De Tcjada, the new Mexican
executive, has been inaugurated. Among
/ the first callers at the ''H hite House." to
congratulate him, was the late insurgent
/ leader, PoTfrio Diaz. The country rej0ices
in universal tranquility.
Judge Merrimon, late Democratic can
/ didate for Governor Of North Carolina, for
which position he was defeated by the most
/ outrageous and unblushing frauds, has been
elected to the United States Senate by the
/ Legislature OF that State.
1t is now given out that coloTed peo-
! pie will be admitted to the Inauguration
I ball, but will the President waltz with a
/ colored lady, and Hiss Nellie take . man
and brother for partner in one or more of
| the dances, is the question?
/ A noble panbury boy earned a dollar,
| Monday, which instead of spending for
trash, as many other boys would have
done, he gave 1t to his toiling mother, and
in the evening she hired a fiddler. and a
/ pleasant dance was the result.
1t will be well for those who arc in the
habit Of trafflcking in gold coin to keep
. sharp lookout for bogus tventy-dollar gold
! pieces as there are very large number of
them in circulation which are said 10 be
excellent limitations of the genuine.
! Mr.. Greeley's possessions is estimated
to be in the neighboThoOd of two hundred
thousand dollars. His stock in the Tribune.
ten shares, Is valued at $4,000 per share;
! the homesteadat at Chappaqua $50, 900; farm
IN Virginia SO, 900 and incidentals $15,-
/ 000.
! An old Palmyra, Indiana, farmer lately
/ predicted that deer would be as plenty As
sheep in that vicinity this winter. This
! gave an impetus to the ammunition trade.
until some searcher after mutton ascer-
tanned there were only two sheep in the
county.
At Uniontown, on Saturday morning
at nine o'clock, the jury rendered verdict
! of murder in the first degree against Jacob
/ Staup, for the shooting of Alpheus Glover,
! last July, in Henry Clay township. The
verdict gives general satisfaction. A mo
tion for new trial will be made.
A number of ladies in Nashville have
/ signed an agreement to abstain from all
I outward adornment on Sundays, wearing
only the plalnest sort OF apparel. Ruin is
thus threatened to the millinery business
there being no place left in which to dis
play the last sweet thing in bonnets.
"A young man named Edward Mills, at
Pikeyille, Ohio, on Thursday last, after
eating his dinner, took his gun down and
was blowing in it to see if it was loaded,
and having his foot the lock of the gun,
his foot slipped, and the gun went Oft
shooting hnn through the head. He died
shortly after.
The corpses of a white man and a ne
gro went over Michigan railroad, the
other day, md got mixed in unloading
At the consequent cross funerals few old
ladies were able to tell the mourners chow
natural the body looked, but most of the
sympathizing friends thought there was a
mistake somewhere.
The World says that several prominent
business men have just sent by the steam
er Tybee the money for the purchase of
Samana, San Domingo, they having be-
come satisfied that the purchase which Con
gress rejected would be profitable one,
and have renewed the bargain with Baez