The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-04-13
News Of the Week.

cream oil society IN Dover, Tennessee.
! "A two>years-old son OF Wm. Jones, OF
! Kennett Square, swallowed q shawl pin two
! inches long. two weeks ago, and was none
/ the worse Of it.
The South Carolina colored Republicans
in convention demand that a colored man
must be put in the Cabinet by the Rcpubli-
cans Samoa continues TO loom up.
The Montgomery county poor house
( was recently destroyed 10y fire. and three
of the inmates we're burned to death, while
another had his leg broken by jumping off
the roof.
The office of the I.ycornng Mutual In
! sursnce Company. at Muncy. was entered by
burglars On the night of the 9Th. and the safe
drilled and bursted by powder. and S32 900
worth OF bonds stolen
A bill allowing women to practice law
medicine. theology. and anything else, ex
cept soldering. has been passed by the
/ Illinois Legislature. and signed by the Gov
ernor. 1t will go into operation in July.
J. A man in New York recently bled to
death after having FIVE teeth extracted.-
! Every effort was made to stop the bleeding
Of the gums. but proved fruitless. and the
patient gradually died from exhaustion.
-On April lst the Democrats of Chester
elected the mayor-the first time since Chess
ter became city. The city usually gives
about 400 Republican majrrity- but they
"dlHn,t come out, and const qnently Dem
ocrat "wert in"
The Leader says, J,hn Ross. of Kan
nett Square, had"a wonderful hen. She
laid FIVE eggs in one dav the fifth cog heing
double. She then rested six days and went
to work again. laying few more eggs and
hen died We hope she was buried with
honor.
1t is now thought that Congress will
adjourn some time in May. as it viii rot take
more taan a month l.nger 70 dispose Of tie
general appropriation bill. How many
millions of the peoples money will be dis
posed OF during that month, it is not easy
| to guess.
The Democrats cleaned that Radical
/ bot fei, Cincinnati, last week. by nearly
2 900 majority. That citv has been over-
whelmingly Know Nothing and Radical ever
since 1854. Grantism is causing the scales
to fall off the eyes of the tax payers in IL e
Q isen citv.
The Village Record says. the first coll
ored applicant for the position of teacher in
Chester county. is Susie Goodwin. Of Ken
nett Square. She was examined by the
Comfy Superintendent at Toughkenam"n
on Thursday last. and passed a very relita-
BILE examiD ton
Near Brownston Crawfi.rd county. Ind.
! ''I iiio u'Sht Ot til6 1oili, MIS- JUnn SnlID
and her infant were burned TO death Mrs
Smith was sui ject to fits. and. while bearing
her child in her arms, fell forward into an
open fire place. There was no one else in
the house at the time.
Two men having arranged to fight a
duel in Rhode Island the Governor issued \
proclamation forbiddiug if. whereupon one
Of the parties sent him a note saying that
one of them would stand in Connecticnt and
the other in Massachusetts, and sht ct over his
miserable little State
Peter Nelson, Pennington. MINI, has
gotten up corner on lager. All the licen-
ses in the town run out in May. but his
holds good till December. SO be became a
convert to the temperance cause. Put through
a no>license vote. and now has built an ad-
di:ion to his hall 35 by 40
The Pope has refused to receive the SIM
| II money which was offered him hy the
Italian government. His Holiness. in de-
clining the gift. declares that when it be-
comes necessary for him tn accept aims as
means of obtaining subsistence. he wonld
only receive them from the Catholic world.
The grand jury sitting at the Old Bal
ley. London. have found true bill against
Arthur O'COunor, the assaiiant of the Qreen,
charging him with a mis.iemeanor Prince
I Leopold, who was riding with her majesty
I a. fhS litnC WAS diIdCh6N DS " ChnDOr,
viii appear as witness against the prisoner.
Julius y. Summer, Of Akron Ohio, SAYS
he rode on the first passenger car ever dra wn
npon railroad in the United States that
be rode upon the first steamboat that ever
nayi gated Lake Erie, and that he was the
hrst man to build a rolling mill and nail
factory in the State IF Ohio. These are
things to be proud of
jesse James, Jr.. of Bensalem, Bucks
county, beginning with the Ist Of April,
1870. sold. from six cows. fifteen hundred
and thirty pounds OF butter. from which he
realized the sum of $500. He says that
proper attention paid to butter max ing will
pay the farmer better than any other branch
Of his business
On the eve of sailing, says the New
York Star. Miss nellie Grart partook v6-
luminou-y of ham omelctte, which her
father reminded her was very bad for sea
sickness. Miss Nellie pouted and said her
father was always reminding her of disa>
greeable things. The noble President there
upon said not word more, but walked out
and smoked.
A special from Westminister. Carroll
county, Maryland, says a terrible murder
was committed in that county Friday last
Abraham Lynn, aged twenty seven, was
mmdere at Stoner's Mill and his BODY
robbed of eight hundred dollars. Lvnn was
running the mill, and his body was found in
the sink of the mill with the skull frightfully
fractured with crowbar.
Every day brings something new.
Razors are to be laid aside aud shaving. in
the proper sense of the term abolished. and
henceforth the hirsute growth on the lip.
chin and cheeks is to be removed, not with
soap. brush, lather, hot water aud keen
edged blade, but by simply rubbing piece
OF pumice stone over the bearded parts. We
have not tried it, but the Scientific Americqn
says it will do it,
Mr.. Stephen Reid, of West Chester, has
a hen. which in her ardor to lay an egg, a.
few days ago. took possession of cats nest
in a stable in which there were three kittens.
Mrs. Puss had perhaps left her mewing pro>
genY and gnne a nlnnsinn aeditinx