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

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the administration intends offering him.
The large sugar refinery of Bartol &
Baker, at Marcus Hook, Pa, was entirely
destroyed by Ere on Sunday morning. Loss,
! Sl50.000.
Count de Larsndau, whose father was
killed in 1850 by the fall of a chimney~pot
upon his head. recently lost his life in pre-
! cisey the same manner, at Paris.
"A cheerful givsr put the following note
in pair of pantaloons sent to the Michigan
! sufferers: There, take 'sm, d you last
pair Pvs got don't get burned out again"
The competition among Masous through
out the United States for the Masonic scarf
belonging to George Washington, which was
to have bsen decided on tbs 22I of February,
is extended to the lst of May.
The House of Representatives has ap-
pointed a committee to investigate the sale
| of arms matter. in advance Of the action Of
the Senate. This is merely shaking red
! flag in order to prevent the bull from ptrsa-
ing the right parties.
The Chicago Tribune publishes list of
/ upward of a hundred news paper editors who
hold federal offices and strongly advocate the
renominatioH of Grant. 1t pity Forney's
example hasn't struck into these chaps and
induced them to SO and do likewise but it
hasn't.
| The house of Henry Spinney, in Argyle.
| Yarmouth county, Nova Scotia, was burned
! on the 7th instant. aud his FIVE children per-
! iShed in the flames. Mr. and Mrs Spinnev
were absent on a visit. and the only adult
/ person left to protect the children was their
/ grandmother, who IS insane.
The Louisville Courier~Jou7naL truly
remarks that the Republican members Of
/ Congress who insist on ferreting ou5 and cx-
| posing official villainies, are charged bv
/ Grants friends with acting in the interests
! of the Democratic party. No higher COM
/ pliHent could be paid to the Democracy.
in three years. Gove:no. Hc ffman. of
! New York, has vetoed thres hundred and
ninetysne bills. and every veto. with one
exception, has been sustained by the Legis,
lature. That exception was lately, where a
/ law had been passed increasing the salary
of the Recorder of Utica from ST 500 to So
| 500.
The Pittsburgh Pvst authoritively an
nounces that General George w. Cass will
not decline the Democratic nomination for
Governor. General Cass is a man of ability
and Of the strictest integrity. He is we'll
known to the people of Pennsylvania by
reputation, and is strongly urged by the
western Democrats.
The New Haven (Conn.) Palladium re-
ports that young man in that city. former
| ly pie cart driver far III. H. 0lds, and
more recently horse-car Griver, received a
letter on Thursday last from foreign real
estate agent announcing that an uncle in
/ China had recently died and left him $780,
I O0O-90, 900 pounds sterling.
At General McIntosh's camp, on the ST.
Joseph and Denver railroad, near Fairburg,
! Kan. two or three days ago, a desperate
called Kentucky jack killed two men.
one McIntosh's clerk, and the other his cook.
/ The inmates of the camp tied the murderer
to stake, aud were about burning him
alive, when he was rescued by the authors
ties.
A maiden lady of Gulford. n Y, of
/ good character, liberal education. and rare
accomplishments, is laboriug under most
singular hallucination. Imagining she is
/ engaged to be married. though she has never
seen her intended she makes extended isur-
neys to see or meet her betrothed. Failing
once, nothing discouraged, shs starts off
agaiR.
The Boston journal says that a new safe
I has becn invsnted, which makes things very
unpleasant for burglars. The walls a. filed
with sunpowder in such q manner that the
I blows Of a sledgs, or the cutting Of a chissl,
in the attempt to rob the safe. will ignite
the powder, blow eff the outer crust. annihi-
late the burglar. and leave the contents Of
| the safe uuiuJured.
There were married on Wednesday. the
l2th ut. on horseback. in front of the tav-
rn-houss Of VIM. j. AcGlaushIin, in Poca-
hoItas county, Va, when the thermometer
stood eight degrees below zero. bv the Rev.
G. L. Brown. Daniel McCarty Esq. a pen
sioner for service in the war Of 1912, aged
rs years, to Miss Ann G4bert, aged 2S years,
all of Pocchontas county.
Very ReveTand Henry Benedict Corkev,
Vicar General and Administrator of the
Archdiocese of Baltimore. died on Tuesday
evening last of pneumons, after an illness Of
several weeks. Deceased was a native of
Frederick couaty. Maryland, and has been
Vicar. General of this Archdiocese since 1919.
In 1854 he declined the appointments of Bishop
| of Portland Maine. by the Pope.
Il -Leet. the notorious head Of the thieving
General Order system in the New York Gus
tom House, has been in consultation with
President Grant in relation to matters ir
t New York. What man to erjoy the conf.
dence and mould the opinions of the Presi~
dent Of tho United States A! The doors of the
White House shut upon Senators Sumner
and Trumbull. and opened to Leet
"A Mrs. Watts, wife of Justice Watts
living near Fort Smith. Ark. discovered a
trespasser in the barnyard in the shape Of a
full grown black bear. who was making it
lively for pet hog. She took her husbands
fovling- piece. went near enough to bo sure
of her aim, and discharged both barrels -
The fusilade was efTectual. The carcass oi
the beast when dressed weighed 2S7 pounds
One of the most recent triumps Of inge-
: nuity recorded at the Patent Office is de-
: vice for opening in tho morning and closing
at night the gates of beehives. the object being
, to exclude the beo moth. The gate. srs SO
connected with poultry roost that when
the fowls are on their perches the additional
weight closes the beehive gates. which open
again when the fowls depart in the morning
"A Cleveland inventor has just brought
out an automaton side door car to afford a
means Of escape TO passengers in case of ac-
cidents which throw the car from the track
aud overturn it. The arrangement is such