The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-02-24
News Of the week.

Miss Ellen L. Fletcher, of Char!estown.
n. H.. having learned the jewelers. trade,
has opened shop in that town.
"A Soantea. Eng. lady recently eloped
notwithstapdin she is the mother Of thirteen
children, and over sixty years Of age.
The Democracy Of Jefferson county are
for Scott for President and Cass for Governor
and have SO instructed their delegates.
The cannon>baIl manipulation of Van
Amburgh's show went off like a shot with
an clipping lass of Columbus, Ohio. the other
day.
Mr.. Damn, of New Orleans. inexcusa~
bly, lost his will jrst before he died, and his
heirs are now using his name in an emphatic
manner.
A Democratic editor says: Miss Nsttie
Grant is not coming out til! next season.
when we hope she will be accompanied by
her father.
They have girl in Wiliamsport, Only
eleven summers high, who can chew gum in
eleven different languages with her eyes shut.
Fact by gum.
-Corundrum by the Washington Capital:
If the Presidents relatives were net created
to fill offices. what in the Old Scratch were
they made for 2"
At Newark. New Jersey, on Sunday, an
unmarried mother cut the throat of her ba be
shortly after its birth. The murdered infant
has been secreted
,-Ot the once proud and mighty Corn
planter tribe Of Indians. there remains scarce
~ en- hundred souls. now living on a reserva-
tion in Warren county, Pa.
The race between the Biglin brothers
oi New York city. and Coulter and Cabot ef
Pittsburgh, has been arranged to take nIacs
on the Schuylkill. Distance, miles: stakes.
$4,000. ''"A Co.
desperate young man. named George
Clark. living at Bowerstown. Ohio. shot his
sister, on Sunday. inflicting serious wounds
because she threw snow at him. Clark was
arrested.
Mrs. Horace Greeley has nearly recov-
cred her health on the Isle of Wight. and
Will soon return to this country. She was
supposed to be ihcarably i'll with tulmou-
ary affection.
1t is rumored that Archbishop McCloskev
will succeed to the primateship vacated by
the death Of DR.. Spalding. and that Bi.hop
Lynch. Of South Carolina, will be archbishop
of New York.
The first woman voter ef Wyomipg was
an old ladv seventy years of age, who voted
on her way to the bakers. and went to the
polls with yeast pitcher in one hand and
the ballot in the other.
"A terrible storm prevailed on the coast
Of Ireland on the 9Th and 9th insts. MANY
marine disasters and the loss Of manv lives
are reported. Three veFsels foundered near
together, and their crews perishsd.
Charles Atwater. Of New Haven. a
wealthy R"man Catholic and a woman suf-
fraaist OF the most pronounced type. has been
nominated as the democratic candidate for
lieutenant governor Of Connecticut.
The fund for the Greedy monument has
reached nearly fifty thousand dollars. 1t
is observed that the monopolists. for whom
Mr.. Greeley has toiled so unselfshIy for so
many years. arc not among the contributors.
"A private letter from Fort Benton.
Montana. states that during the latter part
81 December the thermometer marked fifty-
nine degrees below zero; that buffalo, ante
tope AID cattle we're frczen in large numbers
"A man in Robertson county, Texas. has
forty living children Sixteen Of them
served in tee same company in Confederate
regiment during the war. Ho is now living
~ith his eighth wife, and is sixty FIVE years
old.
A resident Of Davenport. Ind. named
Wheeler. lost two of his seven children bv
scarlet fever. during the week before last
Last week the fever attacked the othsr chill
dreu. and on Saturday three of them died in
the same hour
Mrs. Woods. of MiIlersburg. Holmes
county. Ohio, is driving good business with
the aid of the lquor law She has rec0v,
sred S16 600 from dealers who have sold IL
quor to her husband. and the old man still
sticks to the saloons.
"A brother nf the "Cardiff Giant" has
been quarrisd in Nebraska. This one meas
ures. eighteen feet in length. and seven feet
across the shoulders. It ia about time to
hear the last Of such huge hes, but the fools
are not all dead. they saw.
John Drumming. Of Prairie Cree1. went
to Dubuque Tie other dav to see If hi. ins,7r-
ance policy was all right. While there he
discovered that it was worthless. When no
reached home he found that his house bad
been burned to the ground.
Tho Pl oe7ixville Messenger office iustlv
boasts of having the biggest devil of anv Of
ti's in Chester county. His weight is 200
nonnds avnirdupnis his hair is cut a Ia Jem
Mace. and he exercises with twenty pound
dumb hslls-think of that.
Three persons were on Saturday. fnund
gnilty of the murder of several d ,ninicon
friars in the town of Augusil. France. and
wsre condemned to death. Nine others wara
Of completely in the crime and
were sentenced to imprisonment.
Nearly four million dollars worth Of
steamers are imperilled by the existing ice
gorgas along the Mississippi IF the gorgcs
break up slowly by thawing, little DAMAGE
will be done, but If the river current forces
them apart the result will he serious.
AT Brownsville, Pa. on Sunday last,
fl DESTROYED Wlgus' shoe and hat store.
Devsrs & Co.'S clothing store and building.
Storey's saloon and barber shop; also Gum
merits building, which was occupied by
Duncan as furniture rooms. Less S225, 900.
CHARLES Roth, of Beaver Dam, Wiscon- d.
sin, attempted TO commit suicide by taking
opium on Thursday, on account of bis being
reduced from opulence to poverty through
tbs swindlng of his brother. He was com
mitted to the care of the Charity Commits
sioners.
"A singular and not entirely probable
rumor comes from Europe to the effect that
the Pope is arranging for the recovering
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