The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-02-03
News of the Week.

A man was recently frozen to death at
Quebec. while driving abont the city in a
sleigh.
-Archbithop McCIosky states that twsn-
~ thousand Mussulmen were converted by
the Catholic Church last year.
George Bolts. the murderer Of "Pet"
Halstead was executed in the hall nf Essex
couatv Jail. New Jersey. on Friday last.
The Radical State Committee have
agreed upon Harrisburg as the place and the
10th of April as the time for holding their
State convention.
Some sixteen or eighteen persons are
passing the winter in the Yosemite Valley.
cut off from the rest Of the world by the
heavy snow drifts that fill the mountain
passes.
A terrible railroad accident occurred on
Thursday week at Nice. France. While the
train was crossing a bridge it gave wav. and
IA persons were killed and quite number
wounded
AT Troy. n. Y. an infant son of Henry
! 7. Clark was killed on Sunday by his broth
er. aged three years. who threw a piece Of
slate at him. The child killed was nine
months oil.
That terrible man. Garrett Davis. Sem
! ator from Kentucky. recentlv introduced n
t-enchment Committee to investigate the ex
ecutive's present accepting record, and at
/ the same time examine the list Of Presidential
relatives now holding office.
! On Monday night last ahout ! l O'Clock
the Erie mail train. bound east was thrown
! from tbs track two miles this side If Lock
Haven. One baggage car. two coaches and
one sleeping car were burned. Several per-
sons were injured. and it is supposed that one
! cannot recover.
A Washinctoniar has been fined S5 for
damning President Grant An exchange
thinks that If similar penalty for the same
offence cnnld he enforced Throughout the
country the national debt might he Iiuuida>
ted in fortv>eieht hours. and an immense SUR
plus revenue accumulated
The cx- Rebel General Richard Sfoddard
Fwell died at hie residence in Maurv county.
Tennessee. on Thursday last Tie succeeded
Stonewall jackson in Nav, 1853 Guring the
/ battle Of Chancrllorsville in command nf
the Second Corps. and PASSED through Cham
h-rshurg with Lees army on the wav to
Gettysburg, where he participated in its bat
tes.
The Legislative committee to in vrstiCa te
the Geo. o Evans fraud consists Of MesSrs
Graham. White and Wallace. Of the Senate,
and Messrs. Hewitt. White. Hancock. M'Cor-
nell and Nnyes. Of the Honse The commit
tee has elected Mr. Hewitt corresponding
secretary. with instructions to obtain docu-
men:arv evidence from Harrisburg and
Washington.
The wife of sick man living in Sagi>
nav county. Michigan. sh0uldpred her hus
bani's axe went into the woods. and mann
factu'ed 300 hoop poles and then drove
seventeen miles to Ovid IN an oren sleigh
with the mercury nine degrees below zero. tr
sell them. The fall fires had burned M their
stock of slaves. and the sickness Of the hus
band had made the family destitute
"A Norwegian. 20 years of age. at White
Bear. Mich, had the most extraordinary
fight with wolf on record, last week The
animal tackled him. and he fought fist with
a club, then with piichfork and finally ht
got a rope round the neck of the beast. and
herewith drew him TO a vice. into which h
= screwed his head. Then he got gun and
f killed him.
Carroll county. Tern . is pluming itselI
| on the usSe>sioD Of the biggest man" His
name is Shaver but he is by no means "a
) little shaver.' He is said to measure around
, the wrist eight aud one>haif. incIes: around
the arm. eighteen inches around the calf %
the leg. nineteen inchps: around the thigh
midway above the knee thirty-thre inches
/ around the chest. five feet. ard around the
: waist. six feet. HIS height is six feet five
: and one half inches.
, Mrs. Isaac Jrnkinson. of Page. Va, or
E Tuesday last had three live girl babies. on,
e weighing only four pounds. the other tw,
= weighing ak pounds each, and stranger still
one of them has six toes on each foot. Al
/ three, together with the mother. are doin:
as well cnuld be expected. The fa,her " b.
g had served term in the penitentiary. ant
a who. within the last three weeks, tried t
tl,or Io,>y1 l. r.
ther bed, has left for parts unknown.