The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-03-23
News Of the week.

| Peter to Plus TX.
-Alligators run races with railway trains
on the Panama railway.
| Portland has had seventy days of cons
timed sleighing this season.
"A bed of meerschaum clay has been
discovered near Taylor, Mich.
An old woman, for selling shoestrings
without license, was fined 81 and costs in
| Boston.
"A grip died recently at Portsmouth,
! n. H., who had been in service in one family
! sixty nine years.
"A bill granting Paul Scbeppe' a new
| trial has passed the Senate, and 3een favor>
ably reported from the House committee.
There are said to be eight hundred off
terent washing machines patented at Wa sh-
ington, three quarters being of New England
-origin.
One hundred and fifty million feet Of
lumter will be driven out of Benefits
branch and Trout run, Clinton county, this
season.
-On the 9th inst, cog wheel broke in the
Allentown Rolling Mill, which will cause a
stoppage in the manufacture of rails in that
mill for several weeks.
A man who left OskaIoo L.. recently
for Colorado; paid for the local Herald Of
five years 10 advance There is no other
case Of the kind on record
Goshen. Ind, has a woman who hangs
around the railroad depot. looking for newly
Emarried couples, to whom she endeaYors to
sell patent bed asPring. She is always sue
ceIsful.
Senator Sumner privately Genounces
Grant as ignorant and dishonest" Greeley
IN private conversation never speaks of
Grant except as tho sd, unken tanner from
| GRlena.''
"A Reading carpenter has made bid
Ter lame by carving complete ''tea set''-
plates, cups and saucsrs. knives and forks,
cream mug. sugar bowl, teapot, etc.-out
Of peach stones.
Jacob Bender. residing in swatara
township, Dauphin county, committed sui~
eide by shooting himself in the breast during
Saturday or Sunday night Deceased was
subject to weak mindedness
The election Of State Senator for the
Fifth District on the the 10Th inst, to fu
the vacancy caused by the death Of Senator
Evans, resulted in the return Of Waddell,
Republican, by 200 majority.
-Qleen Victoria has presented her groom
John Brown, with god medal. and has
granted him an annuity of f25 in rscogn-
ton of his promptness in arrssting O'Conpor
whom ne assaulted her Majesty.
"A thoughtful Connecticut widow has
had mourning ring made of the gold Gll>
| ings in her deceased usbaud's teeth, thinks
ing it wastsful to Let the precious metal be
worn out in post msItem guashiug.
The Dixon (Ill.) Telegraph says that
German family, consisting of father,
mother, and two children, have all died in
Reynolds township, Lee county, Of hiciinGe
SpiraiS. They were in the habit of eating
raw pork.
The Democracy of Armstrong county
have chosen E. S Golden, to represent them
in tho Reading Convention, and Grier G.
Orr, Esq Clarion, Forrest and j. sffersou cor>
curing, as the Senatorial Delegate; no in
| stTuctions. -
Mr.. Wm. S. Black. editor Of the Ga
zette and Democrat New Castle. Pa. was
elected Mayor of that city on Friday laet by
l39 majority over Carpenter, Republican.
This is a healthy sign for the Democracy
in the strong Radical county of Lawrsnce.
The small pox at present in Philadsl-
phia is said to be the most general. fatal
and long continued epidemic that has ever
visited the Quaker city. More than two
hundred deaths per week have filled the
bills of mortality, and the cry is, still thew
gs.
Senator Morton, chief spokesman for
Grants administration, has introduced an
amnesty bill in the United States Senate.
! Morton knows that Summers Civil Rights
amendment will be tackled on to the bill and
that the measure will thus be killed. Liberal
Morton
We learn, says the Lynchburg News.
that w. w. .Corcoran. Esq., of Washington,
has purchased the Howard library'' of
thirty-six hundred volumes, and presented
it to the Washington and Lee Univerity.
1t is the most valuable classical collection in
the State of Virginia.
The Valley Echo states that "Mrs.
Samuel Kuhn. of Antrim township, gave
birth to a male child, few weeks since. that
weighed three and Aree-quarters pounds
| only. The child is perfectly formed and in
the best of health. Commodore Foote will
have to look cut for bis laurels'
Seth Wilbur Paine, the editor of little
newspaper published in Utica, called tie
Bee, has bcen sentenced to four months' inns
prlsonment at hard labor in the ALBANY
Penitentiary for libel on Judg. Dsoiitte, in
connection with the recent sheeting of
man by a woman in street car in that citv
| The Jail at Palmyra, Missouri. was
broken open on Tuesday night, and all the
prisoners escaped but one who refused to
leave. Among those who escaped is AM
brose Coe. who, last summer, murdered Miss
Abbie Summers. formerly Of Quincy. IN
1t is believed Goes friends were Instrumental
in the escape.
Mr.. Sumner must exert himself in be-
half of the man and brother. A preiu>
diced Democratic officer at Shelby, Ohio,
recently arrested two colored citizens aud
hustled them off to jril. And thsy had
done nothing. absolutely nothing, except
smash the skull and cut the throat of an
/ old man, named James M'Neale
Long Island has lusuS naturae In the
shape of child with an alligator's head.
The mother of the moBstrosty, Florida
lady, is dead. and tho iufant is uot likely ts
survive her long. The time when the mother
left the everglades of Florida and the par
ticuars of the -child's paternity have not
been communicated TO tbs press.
The New York Tribune does not think
that the result of the New Hampshire
election was such great Republican victory
? attsr all. that it should be crowed over. It
thinks that State which has gone Repub>