The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-06-22
News OF the week.

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A sheriff named Hale Storms sweeps
off the evil>doefs from White county, H.,
like a tempest.
"A half>mile of petition in behalf of Lib
bic G4rrabrant Is about to be sent to the
Court of PardoDs.
AN Indian woman has been granted
divorce because her husband would not assist
her on washing days.
in Newark, n. J., lately the lightning
struck we'll, and not only expelled the
water, but filed the we'll with sand.
Samuel YeEgey. Of Doug lass township.
Berks county, keeps himself warm by
wood stove built in 1910, at the Colebrook-
dale furnace.
After John Pagan had been hanged in
Kentucky, last week. it was discovered
that he was innocent of the crime charged
against him.
Romeo was self>made elephant. He
/, came to this country without dollar in his
trunk, took Greeley's advice, went west, aud
died worth $4,000.
AT Anderson, S. G., an old man aged
go, and his wife aged 81, died within an
horr of each other, last week, after mar
ricd life of 10 years.
Justice McNamara and his wife fell fr ON
the roof of four>story house, in New York,
where they had been sleeping, Saturday
night, and were Killed.
"A farmer near Grattau, Mich. recently
attem pied to smoke out rabbit, and burned
up half mile Of fence and his apple orchard
He caught the rabbit.
| The President of Costa Rica and the
President of the United States will meet at
! Washington next August, the tirst instance
of an interchange of PresideE tial visits.
| d .niel O'Connell, son Of the late John
| O'Connell and grandson of the Irish political
| leader. was recently drowned by the sinking
Of his acht while sailing near Kingston.
! There is gr! in Minnesota, only sigh-
teen years of age, who by herself and two
! boys ru0s farm Of over hundred acres
She put $500 in St. Paul bank last year.
| There is a wine cask in the cellars Of the
KelIy's Island [Ohio) Wine Company that
contains 900 gallons OF wine. 1t was car
| ried to the island from SandDsky in sections
Mrs. Griffin. of Montgomery county -,
To-. who Whipped her twelve year-old daugh>
ter to death recently with a blacksnake whip.
has been convicted Of murder in the first de
gree.
A daughter Of Howes Mayo, of Frank~
ford, Ne, went to sleep on the goth Of a pril,
and continued her nap until Sunday. May
%, last. She woke up in usual health and
spirits.
IF Mr. Wilson is elected Vice President.
| in behalf of his old Native American friends
Henry was rampant in Know Nothing
| times.
"A war in modern times is m expensive
national luxury. The expenses Of the
Franco German war-now that all the bills
are in-havs been found to aggregate $3l7.-
OSO, 900.
Radical j urnals inform the world that
Grant has accepted the nomination of the
Philadelphia Convention. Had he refused
it would have been the first thing he ever
did refuse.
The Tablet, one of the ablest Roman
Catholic journals in the country. is sorry that
BeuHett, who was member o: the Church
has not left behind him a worthier monu,
ment than Newspaper great in every thing
but principle"
The Harrisburg Patriot says three Car
Isle bricklayers put down 1000 bricks in
FIVE hours and ten minutes at Piince's
furnace the other day. and asks "who can
match them Z"
} The Syracuse Standard. an independ-
ent Republican jJurnal, rejects the Phila-
delphia platform and ticker. 1t says: We
repudiate the action Of the Convention and
decline to support its nominees.
The young man who sent to New York
for one hundred dollars of fac siBaile OF
United States currency. and received pack
age of sawdust and scrap-irou, lives in
Womelsdorf. Berks county, nov
Senator Wilson is from New Hamp-
shire. His real name is Jeremiah Goliath.
On going to Massachusetts he changed it
to Henry Wilson" His nomination is a
cold bath to the Grant Republicans.
II. J. Wilson, who ''lost'' SO 900 of
Government money while serving in the
Baltimore Custom House and was sentenced
to three years imprisonment. has been par
doned ont after only four months service
There is now in Paris French painter,
born at Bordeaux. named G. Washington
His signature is said to closely resemble that
of his great namesake, but there is a painful
silence regarding his early reputation for
veracty.
"A contemporary. mentioning that the
emperor Of Russia had conferred 1.-THE order
of White Eagle" on General Sheridan, adds
that it is not so valuable the general orr
ders" that President Grant gave to Leet and
Stocking.
Settle, the unknown. who was made
president OF the Grant convention at Phila>
delphs at Grants dictation, was a ca ptain
in the Confederate States army, but after
the war Joined Holden and became ferocious-
ly "loyal"
"A Chinaman. who assumed the name Of
| Usa II Forester. was naturalized at Ian,
sing, Mich, last week. He has teen ir the
United States ten years. speaks excellent
English. and is regular attendant at the
| Methodist Church.
The Lafayette lind } Courier says a gem
tleman Of that city makes his wife present
of one tmousand-dollar bond ev ry time
she prese1ts him with a son or daughter
| This little freak Of paternal regard costs him
| about thousand year.
An unmarried woman, a relative of
Molly Stark. has recently died in New
Hampshire, leaving property work $50 900
to friends, with the restriction that no part
of it shall be invested in railroad stocks or
manufacturing corporations.
Day by day Buckalew grows stronger
with the people. Those who are given to
reflection have come to the conclusion that