The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-09
Ne,Us and Political Items.

An Indiana postmaster, whose salary is
only eighty dollars, had to give five per .
cent. to the Grant club.
The charred bodies of five victims of ,
the great forest fires in Michigan last fall .
have Just been discovered in Huron county. /
-Itis anotable fact that there are living .
two widows of revolutionary soldiers under I
forty years of age, while the oldest surviv- /
ing widow is 113 years old.
The MechanicsbuTg Journal CRadicaD /
announces its intention to continue its op-
position to Hartranft until convinced of
its error by more tangible proof"
"A child in Franklin county, Ga, has
sixteen toes and thirteen fingers. He is,
however, open to proposals for an exchange
of some of his supertluous digits for pair
of eyes.
The Louisville Courier-Jour7,aJ poet
ically remarks: SIN Montgomery, Ala, the
other day, four negroes got on a spree; one
took out his little jackknife, and now there
amt but three"
The machine shop of the Harrisburg
company's new car-wOrks, just rebuilt, was
burnt Monday night. Loss $4,000. -Four
men were badly hurt by the falling build
ing. Insurance $45, 900.
An honest State administration is what
is wanted. THERE'S but one way to secure
it. That way is to overthrow the Cam
eron faction, through its representatives and
tools, Hartranft and Allen.
Iowa news: "A woman in Camanche,
who worked in the harvest field all Satur-
day, was delivered of kicking and squaIling
triplets Saturday night, and was sitting up
to her regular meals Sunday"
A Kentucky farmer has radish thirty
three feet in circumference and eight feet
long, which he is going to encourage in
growing until it gets large enough to par
! tition OFF, when he win move in.
"A few days since little child IN Lea
! rptfh 20, .+-I Ioo l,rG Gol1
ing and striking its chin upon the doorstep,
the teeth penetrating the tongue. 1t was
soon after seized with spaSmS and died.
There will be enough wild grapes in
! Texas this year to make more wine than
was ever manufactured in France in one
/ year What pity that by far the greater
! portion of these crops will not be utilized.
| A Craven county (Ga.) SOW had four
| pigs; one was like horse, one like an
/ opOssum, the third like a dog, and the fourth
pig. The owner of the SOW believed this
to be witchcraft, and had all of them burn
! ed to death.
The Columbus (Ga) !Gun tells us of a
wel-dressed negro who jumped from a
/ train moving eighteen miles an hour to get
his Hew hat, which had blown off. Heover-
/ took the train at the next station, mile
/ and a half further on.
The keeper of the Duxbury Mass
/ lighthouse sweeps mp from the deck every
morning two or throe quarts of gnats, flies,
and mosquitoes, attracted by the light of
/ the lantern during the night and killed by
| the heat of the flame.
| Wilkinson, who killed his wife with a
7 cleaver in Baltimore, on the 1st of May,
/ has been struck with paralysis on the left
/ side, which is slowly affecting the right.
! And people giving to moralizing look at it
as judgment of Heaven.
The Iowa elevator owned by Hugh
! Maher, and containing about $50, 900 bush
els of grain, mostly corn, was burned in
| Chicago Monday morning. The gram was
worth about so, 600 and the building $685.
/ 600. Insurance unknown.
A set of paper car wheels on one of the
| Pullman cars running to Jersey City have
run over 10000 miles of track, and wore
! out entirely one set of steel tires, which have
been replac' d. The ordinary wheels, it is
said, will only run sixty thousand miles.
In the new oil field of Turkey run,
near St. Petersburg, in the oil region, a
new well was struck on Tuesday morning
| last which accidentally took fire, burning
three men fatally and so seriously burning
two others that their recovery is doubtful.
"A very fine specimen of the horned
/ frog was recently sent through the post by
lady living at San Diego, Southern Cali
fornia, to relation in London. The frog.
after month journey, arrived safely, and
is now exhibited at the Geological Society's
Gardens.
Why didn't Hartranft, when on the
witness stand in the Evans swindle, tell all
he knew? The mere fact that seven thou
sand dollars of the money went into Har-
tranft's pocket and was only repaid NTH
out interest after public exposure was made
is not sufficient. The people desire the
whole facts.
-Haters of tobacco viii be sorry to hear
that DR.. John Murray, distinguished Eng
lish physician, has announced his belief
that snuH Will, In many cases, arrest the
progress of pulmonary consumption. Con-
trary to generalrule in political economy,
an increase III the production of the article
Will, in this instance, lessen the consump-
ton.
The Marquis of Butte has already of
| fered for exhibition at Philadelphia, in
! 1876, a complete assortment of metals and
minerals and ores from Wales, from the
| county of Durham and the entire basin of
South Water, including Monmouthshire.
| Also a collection of the manufactures of
the South Basin, including Monmouthshire,
and an exact model of the great 'sBute
Docks at Cardiff.
A woman named Smith, living in Will
braham, Mass, drowned her child, only a
year old, then herself, about mile from
Collins Depot, on Monday. Her husband
was killed on the Boston and Albany Rail
| road, some time ago, and this loss, with
some attacks upon her character, her child
! declared to be illegitimate, produced de-
preston of spirits which probably led her
to the deed.
"A terrible tornado and hailstorm about
mile wide visited Harrisburg on Monday
night between ten and eleven O'clock
The roofs of the State Capital Hotel and
Brant's Hall and many private buildings
we've carried off. The gable end of the
German Reformed Church and many other
buildings were similarly injured Hundreds
OF trees were blown down and thousands of
panes of glass broken throughout the city.
Ielegraphic communication in almost every
direction was cut off, but was restored
Tuesday morning.
"A singular accident occurred recently
upon White Mountain Notch road, n. H..
little above the Crawford House. A
stage-cOach on its WAY from AmmnnnnS,,n