The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-12-27
NearS and Political IteraS.


"A lawsuit is s-in progress in Georgia be-
tween the Robinson and Barnum circuses-
-Four tons of fish rewai ded three draws
Of the seine in the Arkansas river, the
other day.
-Mr. George c. Steiger, of MERGERS
burg, is feeding hog which weighs 934
pounds, gross.
the baptismal font in Dubuque, 10. A girl
and SIS for boy.
"A man in Wayne county, Ind, has
been married five times, ard is now living
with his third wife.
Three thousand English babies are an
nuat!y smotherGd to death by their mothers
sleeping upon them.
- Some live pigs were recently found in
a hollow tree in Kentucky without any ap-
parent opening whereby they could have
made an entrance. That beats the toads
blasted out OF solid rocks ''all hollow
George Francis Train and Wesley
Nichols were arrested in New York, Mon
day evening, on the charge Of publishing an
obscene paper. Fifteen hundred copies
Of the paper were seized on the way to the
poct-cffice.
Five hundred miners, employed in
the. mines at and around Springfield, Hi
nois, struck on Thursday for an advance
in wages of % per cent. The mine own
X
the demand.
Mr.. Guidon w. Spicer, one Of the
early settlers of Spring township, Crawford
county, died Oh the 9th instant, aged 79
years. he never rode on a railroad car III
his life, and WAS never further away from
home than Erie.
1t is now said that the poor servant
girls 7ho perished SO horribly in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, the other day, had been
nnlT Ta1 in ha Al,o&
could be the better controlled by tho hotel
proprletoFs, and that they might not get
into disorderly company. Is this the usu-
Al way Of treating hotel servants?
A New York CoroneT's jury can do
about as good whitewashing as one would
wish to see. In the Fifth Avenue Hotel
fire investigation the jury failed 10 find that
any one particularly Wac to blame and yet
everyone who knows anything about it
knows hat the building was simply q death
trap, and that IL proper effort had been
made the poor girls lives would have been
saved.
DR.. William Fields has invented a
mode whereby telegraphiIg can BE done
without the use of posts, glass and wires,
which are subject to be destroyed on blown
down by storms, and will De entirely inde-
pendent Of any railroads, and!will not need
any repairs perhaps for many years. The
Doctor is now in correspondence with the
Postmaster General and the Committee
appointed by Congress on Telegraphs.-
Wilmington RepubLicOn.
Terrible storms have recently occur
red in England and France. dispatch
from Liverpool states thSt four hundred
and thirty nine persons perished by ship
wreck in ten Gays on the coast of England
while inland great destruction of property
has taken place from wind and water In
France, most Of the rivers ovcIleaped their
banks, inundated the country and carried
away property of all kinds. The loss of
lie has also been considerable.
The severity Of the season is shown in
the fact that between Huntingdon and
Peru, Indiana, sixty locomotives were fro
zen up for nearly forty-five hours. Hogs.
cattle and sheep were frozen to death, and
many persons travelling through the coun-
try were frost-bitten, notwithstanding their
buffalo robes. On Sunday morning the
thermometer stood at 25 degrees below
zero at Wabash, which WAS about as cold
as people generally can stand who have to
move about in the open air
"A rather remarkable case OF the in
termarriage Of two families exists in Amity
township, Berks county. Two brothers,
William and Samuel Sheirer each had ten
children, and four of the children of one
brother are married to four of the children
Of the other brother. Two sons of William
Sheirer are married to two daughters of
Samuel Sheirer. William Sheirer, one of
the brothers, is dead-all the other mem
bers of the family arc living. The young
folks seem to be rather shy about marry
ing anybody but Sheirer.
For the third time in P. T. Barnuul's
checkered experience. he has met with an
immense loss from that terribly distruet-
i've element, fire. On Tuesday morning
last his mammoth circus and menagerie in
New York was burned to the ground, and
every animal in his costly collection but
three. it is stated, periShed in the flames.
The loss is estimated at $500, 900, on which
there is less than 500, 900 insurance Grace
church, adjoining, and several other build
ings were also destroyed. The entire loss
is put down at $1,000, 600.