The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-05-04
News ef the Week.

mouse painted olRcK.
"A Western burglar wants patent on
an improved jimmy.
The Treasury uses s64 900 pens . year.
and yet bungles its accounts.
There are over 600 Anzora goats now
In a single county in California
A Detroit baby swallowed q watch. and
is having = hard "time" with it.
The Labor Reformers hold their State
Convention at WilismEport on the 7th
instant.
"A few words tells it all-Barres--Col>
Iector Revenue. Omaha-gone a visiting
to"k along 81, 400 to meet cmergencies-not
expected back.
Don't speak all at once. There lives
blooming lass at ZInesvelle. O., who will
give $ss 900 to auy man who will marry
her.
An eccentric Connecticut gentleman. re-
Gently deceased, left to religious institutions
S76,O00. to his cook $3.50, 900. and to each
Of his five children t4OO apiece.
An entire family Of the name OF Csck
were recently murdered near O4kdals. on
the Northern Pacific railroad. Their house
was burned and with it the bodies of the
victims.
Justice T. Temple, of Green county.
and Jacob Zsigler, Of Bntler county. are
for Auditor Gensral at Reading, on the both
IF tLis month.
An inssDs woman. in Davenport, Ia.
drowned herself and baby. tho latter in
barrel Of water, on Friday. The husband
was overcome with grief at the horrible af>
fair. and Is in a dangerous condition.
George Yost. convicted at Titusvile.
Pa. If perjury, has been sentenced to fine
of $4,000. Casts of prosecution and confine-
ment for two years at hard labor. His
perjury consisted in false affidavits in
patent suit.
"A man belonging in Council Bluffs. To-.
one dark night missed his way and fell head
foremost into deep hole. He cuald not ex-
tricste himself. and yet lived until morning.
standing on his head for nine hours. He died
shortly after being found.
Two woman from Paducah hired bug
gy at Metropolis, ILL.,, on Saturday night. to
drive to the country. The hsrse ran away.
The women were thrown out. and one. named
Mcmahon. had her neck broken. The other
was not seriously injured.
A 'Tsbel' exchange says: Grant ought
to be willing not only to pardon the men
who fired the first shot on Sumpter, but to
give them good office TO boot, fGr il was q
lucky shot far him. But for il he would still
be tanning leather at G.Iesa.
Here Is California earthquake incident:
An uuruly colt had broken loose from his
sether. and the owner was chasing him about
.he lot when the shock came. The colt dis
appeared. but the farmer has a first-class
drain across bis forty acre farm.
A Ms Anu Eliza Mess.ralI, If RAN
doiph township. Crawford county. on April
lat. gave birth to three little girls, weighing
respectively At 8. and pounds. We learn
that mother and babies are doing we'll. We
suspect somebody va. fooled that day.
Tho New York Nation wants to know
what ''servce the carpet-baggers have rem
dsred the country that Weshould grant them
the monopoly # robbipg the rehels2' We
really can't say unless it is in showing the
total derravity Of Grants Administration.
In all the Middle and Western States,
SO far As can be learned from the press, the
wheat never locked better at this season uf
the year. ln Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
wheat has almest entirely ercaped damage,
and much larger yield than last year is an
ticipated.
The Empress of Austria is called. and
generally acknowledged to he, the most
beautiful woman in Europe. She is tall. has
golden hair. and remarkable blue eyes. Her
tollettes are marvels of elegance and taste,
and her manners soft aad pleasant, like those
of a girl ef sixteen.
Tho toothpick factory in Canton, Me-,
furnishes more work than all other business
IN the town. Over one hundred cords of
poplar was hanIed for its use this season.
and converted into tooth picks Each Of the
machines nsed will, it is said, make five
thousand tooth>picks a minute.
The showers of ashes from Vesuvius
have given place to showers of sand. and
fearful electric phenomena are noticed, light
nlns darting constantly from the summit
Burning cinders fall constantly in the town
OF Massa di Somma. which has been COM
pletsly deserted in consequence
The Cass county outlaws are still tri-
umphant Ia obedience to their orders the
railroad managers have discharged all their
employees who were present on the train on
which the late murders were committed.
The railroad officials are fleeing the county
10 escape the vengeance of the desperadoes.
-Mr Norris Jackson. of. Chester county.
claims the trapPcr's belt. lie says he caught
between the lst Of Decembsr and tho lO:h
Of March 2 hawks, 20 muskrats. 24s skuuks,
60 opossums. 8 ground hogs. 1S seaseis, II
crowr, coons. IL red squirrels, red skunk,
80 rabbits and house cats-to cay nothing
of Two or three colds.
A Mr.. Patrick Halpin, of Elyria. Ohio,
has been for twelve years troubled with
something moving about in his stomach and
canal. He supposed it to be
tape worm. Tho other day he visited DR..
Costello. of Sandusky. and was relieved of
the nuisance. which proved to he genuine
striped lizard four inches in length.
"A remarkably fieshy woman. Mrs. Danr
6o'lch. died in East Brunswick township.
ocnuS lk,li county. on the l6sh inst. In life
and health Mrs. Bolich weighed abou, four
hundred and fifteen pounds. Notwithstand-
ing the TACT she was sick for some time, and
toll away considerably, C, flu eight feet in
circumference Was required to contain her
body.
Particulars of the late earthouaks in
Syria have been received. The fatalities. it
appears, are heavier in the country than in
the city OF Antioch. as was first reported.
Four of the American community iu the lat
ter city we're killed and their church badly
damaged. Three hundred persons were kill.
Ell In Antioch ard i'm the anrronnd;rr o,,,,.,-