The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-02-10
Eeys Of the week.

1t costs GresuviNe (Nich } lawyers t25
to call the court Id fool.
Iron has gone up one dollar a ton. The
best quality now sells at 53S.
The negroes are still turbulent aud
threatening in Chicot county, Arkansas.
Three distinct shocks Cf earthquake
were felt at Wjuona. Michigan, on the 9Th.
-Thos. A. Scott's salaries from the vari-
Gus railroads with which he is connected
amount to $3.50 600 annually.
Buffalo Bill has received a magnificent
diamond brcastpin f-om Alexis. and at last
accounts was negotiating FIR shirt.
"A widow lady in Louisville has buried
five husbands, tie last # whom, previous to
his death, had buried the same number Of
wives.
The PENNSYLVANIA State debt IS about
$4,000 OGO. The amount paid eff jurfng
the last five years has averaged $l.l44.s88
yearly.
An old woman, aged 81. arrived at st.
Adams. VI, last Friday. from LELAND. hay
ing travelled "alI the way alone" to ia her
daughter.
Hon. Garrett Davis. senator from Ken
lucky, is lying dangerously i'll at Wnshing~
ton. The physicians have but slight hopes
Of his recovery.
"A gentleman in the East has sent $50
note to the wife of every Presbyterian mis-
sionary west of the Mississippi whose address
he could obtain.
The Pennsylvania Certra K tiIroad Com
pany has secured a lease Of the Nemphis and
Charleston Railroad. This is an important
link in the chain Of Sonfhern connections.
1t is reported that large portion Of
Helena, Arkansas. was destroyed by fire on
the 9TH. The telegraph lines are prostrated
by the storm and nothing definite is known
An explosion of fire damp took place on
Tuesday last a the Morton mine. fur miles
below Pitfs'on, Pa. by which three men
were killed and fifteen sufJcated. The lat
ter will recover.
The motion FIR new trial IN the case
Of IIsnry Ward Of T5waull, Pa. found
guilty Of manslauchter in killing Wesley
Strader. il denied. ana sentenced to nine
months imprisonment.
The only survivor of tie United States
Senate of 1887 8. is the Hon. William Allen.
Of Ohio. Clay and Webster were among
the members of that Senate. and added to
its dignity and statesmanshiU.
The Philadelphia 13ye saws: "Uaon in
vestigation it has been discovered that def
ciencies exist in nearly all Departments Of
the Federal Government. the largest item
being in the War Department."
"A Cincinnati woman, whose curiosity
led her to take peep into a smallpox pest
house, caught the disease and was so badly
di>6gurcd by it thai er lever broke rheir en-
gagemeDt and she has since died of grief
The Deputy Sheriff OF Ontario county.
New York, arrested Lewis Junior. negro
in Scranton. on the charge of having mur-
dcred woman in 1868. and also with hav-
iEg attempted to poison bis wife in January
last
-PenUsylvaria has more post offices than
eny other State Of the Union. The number
of post offices in Pennsylvania is 893. and
in New York, 2,69O. The whole army Of
postmasters in the United States amounts to
3O,046.
George Brown, who attempted to kill
his wife at ANegan, recently. has been sent
to the State prison for 80 years The deed
was committed on Saturday. the 18th ult; on
Tuesday ne was captured. held to answer On
Wednesday, and sentenced on Thursday.
-Aclerk in the Boston Post Cffice is said to
be defaulter to the amount of $50 600
His name is Marshall S. P. Low, aged TWEEN
ty six, unmarried, and has been employed
three years in the mailing department on
salary of $4,000 year. He has confessed.
William Thompson, aged eighty, once
the wealthiest banker of New Orleans. and
General Jackson's adiutant. was found by
the police in a small office in Broadway. New
York last Sunday night, '-SicF, destitute and
starvins'' Tie was removed to the hospital.
WIN. Hergcsheimer dropped dead on the
10Th ultimo. while on his way home from
Quakertown, Pa, whittier he had gone to
take out warrant for the arrest Of his wife's
paramour. The latter individual attempted
J to commit suicide by swallowing matches
and saltpetTe.
"A Lowell, Mass. woman fell asleen
during the progress of a prayer meeting last
/ Thursday evening. and when she avoke the
/ meeting and the doors were closed, and she
/ found herself prisoner. She was confined
I in the sauc'H nary till noon the next day. when
/ the gexton arrived Just as she had succeeded
in crawling through one Of the cellar win
dews.
A tender. baggage car, and three pas
seu5er-cars Of the Washington accommodation
train on the Missouri Pacific railroad were
thrown from the track on Monday morning
/ and tumbed down an embankment three
miles west of Merawee, No. Some sixty
passengers were on the train, about half of
/ whom were more or less injured, but none
fatally. The accident was caused by dis
placed rail.
Two Carol! county (Ga.) hoys, aged
respectively Is and II, and who are at pre-
sent living with their grandfather, not far
/ from Carrollton. made, during the past year
! alone, seven bales of cotton, averaging five
hundred pounds five hundred bushels Of
corn. four thousand.bundes OF fodder, besides
cultivating ten acres in oats. making in all
products amounting to about fifteen hundred
dollars at present prices.
-Lavjnia Labire. of Erie, Pa, after being
poor but honest for three-score years and
ten, at the advanced age of three quarters OF
a century enGeavured to ensconce herself iu
the lap of luxury by toying with the hand
writing of rich old gentleman in tae neigh
borheod and signing his name to check for
$4,000. She took his name in vain. how
ever. and a check has been put to further
proceedings of a similar nature.
A Zlnesvile paper tells Of a young cou
pie bent so eagerly on rnatrinony that they
drove twenty three miles in an open wagon
with the thermometer seventeen degrees below
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