The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-06-29
News OF the Week.

"A new style Of fan has vinaigrvtts in
the hacde.
"A Detroit woman STRUCK by lightning |
shouted for the police.
1T cost the New York Herald x1o 600 |
to 6ud Dr.. Livingstone.
-Schayicr CoiGaA Smith ianeuishes in an |
Indiana Jail for horse stealing.
"A Mount Washington party had some
snow balIing day or two since.
-fsafs over mile long are ira aveliuc dos
the Mississippi from Minnesota to New Or.
leans.
Ulysses. the Presidents second son.
sailed from New York on Saturday last for
Eufops.
Fur tnen escaped from the tycoming
county jsi! on Thursday night week. A re-
ward Of 5000 is offered for their apprehe ns;on.
Negotiations With Gernahy fot the grad.
! uaI evacuation Of France as the inst ailments
Of the indemnity ais paid. ate proceeding
satisfactorily.
The New Hampshire Houss of Repfeseu.
tatives has elected B Wadleigh. u. 8. Sena.
tor He received 2O4 votes to l86 for Bing-
ham and for Patterson.
| -Ex- President johnson has received A
600. the amount o. income tax on his SALARY.
which has been refunded under a recent Judi,
cial decision in the case Of President Grant.
| The eieht-hour strike is growing for>
midabls n Philadelphia IS we'll as New York,
though actual success hsA not yet crowned
the movemeut in either city to any very
great extent.
"A democratic newspaper OF Missot1ri
suggests that the Hon. VIM. A. Wallace be
| selected as chairman Of the national demo>
cratic executive cOmHittse in the room Of
August Belmont.
| "A COW and German woman in Niuns-
AOR0 ndAR h. L
| ths day drag after the ssedsr run by the
wousH's husband with q span of horses.-
The COW Was completely exhausted.
"A Virginia toll keeper Sas lately brought
before magistrate for inhumanly beating his
daughter because abe never ..tslled her love"
when she bad charge Of the gate. but peri nit
ted him to drive through free of charge.
The best game Of bluff iu San Francisco
Is played by young girl OF eighteen. She
| has been known to ''raise'' her epponsAt
10000 on single pair. and is worth a
quarter of million. the proceeds Of her
''Poksr" performances.
The steam boiler in the yard of the CO.
lumbus. Ohio. Penitsutiary, exploded on
Friday last. killing a number of the coz victs
and seriously injuring nearly one hundred.
besides doing great injury to the buildings
aud surrounding property.
Miss TeDnie e. Cla6u has been elected
lolone. If the Eighty fifth Regiment, New
fo'k State Militia (colored). rscs living 1876
votes 10 90 IN opposition. Che bad offered
herself to the Ninth, but the members being
white msn, she was defeated.
We have only escaped the threatened
danger OF being Knocked out of time by some
eccentric comet to DO mrnaced by another
squa' y ditquieting. Sir Charles Lysll says
she whole of North America will be washed
into the ocean 500 900 years hence.
The Liberal Republican State Commit
tee are now ftting up rooms at the northeast
corner OF Broad and Chestnut streets. Phila-
os'phia. The committs has Hon. A. X. Nc
| Ciure Tor chairman and Robert Morris, If
Philadelphia. and e. Il. Rauch, of Lancaster,
secretaries.
"A franklin farmer while plo ing the
other Gay. discovered o number of potato
bugs at the bottom of the Eurrow. They
were apparently frozon st:f but on being eI
posed to the SUI they revived and immediate
inquired the way to the nearest potato
patch.
And now We find recorded 10 the papers
an account Of another venerable celored man
who has fallen victim to the poisonous in
nusncs OF tobacco. He smoked aad chsw.d
himself into decline in the short space OF
ils years. aud was cut off (fne-cut) in his
prime at ll8.
!, a gentleman, residing in a neighboring
CITY. recently became very i'll, and told .
neighoor that he felt the need Of preparation
for the ns1 world, and would like to see
some proper person in regard to it, where
upon the sympathizing friend sent for fire
insurance agent.
The editor of the Indian polls Evening
Journal has been fi,hing, and moralizes thus:
The biggest fsh is always the one that got
away. As regards fish. all men are liars.
Men who adhere to the truth with rigid ex>
actness. 10 other particulars lie outrageous
ly in the matter of fish.
-Ons of the most horrid railroad accidents
that has hsppeoed 10 this country, occurred
near BslleVille. Canada, on last Saturday
night. 1t appears the engine jumped the
srask. together With a number of cars, which
teisscoPed on the locomotive, scalding and
killing from 60 to 20 persons.
-H'Ees SpsIt. once a strong Grant or
gan, now says of him: "He was taken on
faith-a political Promissory note with q
forged indorsement-and 80 he might now ;
but the people have the advantage of know
Ing nlta thoroughly, bis tyranny, his fathlsss-
nes>. and his Unsuitable ambition stand dis
closed"
The Rev Mr.. Thompson. of the NJ. E.
Chureh. Leaveuworth. in bidding his friends
good>oye, attempted to kiss young lady,
"nereuPon her sweetheart. named Brown,
VINO was present. ran out and got hatchet
and cut Thompson in the head and shoulder,
lnhicting wound from which he cannot
posi- bly, recover.
"A locomotive on the Pittsburgh, Ciucin-
hati and st. Louis Railroad ran over two un>
known mon. who were lying across the track
near Steubenville. Ohio. on Monday. and sew
cred their heads and feet from their bodies
On one of the men was found a revolver and
= pass-boek, with the name of William
Lloyd VT itten 10 it.
AN attendant at Mount Vernon not long
ago observed . lady weeping most bitterly.
her handkerchief to her eyes. Going up to
her be said. "Are you 10 trouble, madame2'
mo. sir" she sobbed. 81 saw you weep
Ing" "Ah," she said show Can one help
weeping at the grave of the father of his