The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-05-18
News OF tyle week.

ested for having two white wives.
A California writer has found race of
Indians who live without sleeping.
There were $50 ,000 words telegraphed
from Cincinnati to the newspapers.
In 1871. s8, COL Germans ard 65 500
Irish emigrants arrived at New YoIk
--Pittsburg dak keys favor Grant and OPP
pose the celebration Of the Fourth of July.
A South Carolina negro harnesses him.
self to plow, and bis wife persuaGes him
with a goad.
"A dIupken wrman at East Saginaw.
Mich, thrust her head through a pane OF
glass ard cut her noss eff.
Wisconsin boasts of a horned frog which
can turn double back somersault and catch
a brick in his teeth at ten Faces
"A colorcd woman Of Allegheny is re-
ported to have died last we,k from the
effects of painting with white cad
"A negro in Jail at Carthage, Tenn,
: charged with rape on white lady. was
taken out by five men and hanged TO a tree
on Sunday last.
"A young girl went into house in Fort
Wayne the other day in pursuit Of labor. Il
! is believed she found it, for she gave birth
| tc twins before she left the house
Several large manufactures at HamiI,
ton, Canada. have locked out their employees,
about ore thousand in ber, rather than
| yield tn the nine hour movement.
The Somerset sufferers have already
turned up in Congress as applicants for
national relief. So much for having an
energetic representative at Washington.
"A Connecticut matron, past 60 years Of
age. is defendant ia divorce suit brought by
! her liege lord en the ground Of encouraging
improper attentions iron gay gallant of 20
"A California luhatic fancies that he is
the original Abraham. Recently he carried
IA sheep to one Of the highest hills near San
Francisco and sacrificed it on an altar Of
stones and earth.
The enterprisiug Individual who is or
gan'zing brass band of twenty women in
| Cincinnati. says if they learn half as MANY
airs as they put on the experiment canuot
! fail OF being a success.
The political wash-day of the Repubii-
can party is rapidly approaching. Grants
/ ttlends propose to make au exposition Of DR..
| Greeley's linen all along the line during the
pleasant days of summer.
-Thomreon, Of Logansport. Ind, killed
| seventy nve pigeons at one discharge Of his
double barreied gun the other day. Ga the
next day Bliss went out aud shot seventy
five times. killing two pigeons.
1t is stated that there are in the United
States G6l soldiers who lost both eyes, ll8
who lost both legs, l who lost both feet. s
who lost both hands. 35 who lost both arms,
aid l6 who lost au arm aud leg.
Aubrey Hoffman, of Uwchlan. Chester
county. has short>hUrned cow which has
made twenty >oue pounds Of butter il one
week. lie Is said to possess sume Uf the
choicest II This stock in the country.
The boiler of the freight steamer Ro>
tary exploded in Currituck Sound, on FIJI
day, killing the engineer, William Walker.
aud his wife. child and sister-iu~law, besides
severely lnIurlng several of the crew
The mOOsic Mountain, uear Scranton. in
this State, Is all abazs. 10 come q leuce Of
an explosion of powder mill The woods
for miles are on f:s. aud great fears are ex-
pressed that much damage viii result
A New York paper says: Three
huudred murders last } year. and but one man
suffering the extreme penalty Of the law
| lie. p or Jack Reynolds. half witteti, with
ont money or friends, was hung as an awful
example,
-Ol Friday morning three boilers ex~
| ploded IN the iron mill of James Wood
Sons & Co.. at Saw Mil Run, Pittsburgh,
killing a fireman. named Chas. Marchant
The boilers were nearly new, aud had not
been used the day before.
-Judge David Davis states to his friends
ln Washington that be will not authorize
the use OF his name by the democratic or
any other convention. nor Consent, under
any circumstances, to be the candidate of
any party for the Presidency.
More astonishing zoologyI nio at
Piattsville. Wisconsin. the property Of Mr..
Jenkins, is the proud possessor of eight
legs, Tour ears, one eye socket with three
eyeballs in it. and trunk like an elephant
Comment would be supGr fluous
hing Amadeus has pardOned the Ha-
Vana boy students charged with Violating the
grave OF CaEtanOn, aud sentenced to the
chain gang. Bat he cansot bring to life the
boys murdered for the same alleged offeDse
to aPpeaSe the Blind fury of the Volunteers,
Chester county is always producing
wonders. In tie line of chickens it is a
success. Now We have one of four legs in
good health, and which uses its two extra
pedal extremities in a lively manner. One
such as this can take care OF single bed in
| garden without aid.
Richard keefe. Dennis Shea. Georoa
Riggs, and Thos. Franklin, capsized in a
sal. boat of Erie on Sunday night. Frank,
lin got an oar and padded the boat ashore
with one OF the others in it, who died soon
after. Ihe others drifted off, and their
bodies have not been recovered
Mrs. Putnam and Mrs. Sturtevaut. two
sisters OF Worcester. Mass. aged "a and s6
years respectively. died within a few bours
OF each other, Cf the same disease during
last week Both were WIDOWS, and died in
the same house. on the Grafton road. where
they had resided for long time.
The treasury department has decided
that after the lst of July next tea and cof
lee shall be sab ject to no tax whatever
whether imported directly from the country
OF Its production or whether grown beysud
the Cape OF Good Hope and imported into
the United States from places this side of
the cape.
-Jrdge Brnkerhofr, of Ohio, leader of
The RadIcal party, announces in a letter that
II the Presidential contest is narrowed down
to Grant aud Greeley. he shall support Gree
ley as the least of two evils. The Democrats
Will open road ir which the judge can
travel without hitting his toes against any