The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-03-30
News of the week.

Ind, ls said To be worth 500 600.
The citizens Of Eun,Ley, w. Va, are
paying 20 cents a gallon for water
"A gentleman of West6ed n. j., has a
piano that formerly belonged to Aaron Burr
"A plate nearly 400 years old and hat
40 years ulG, are the latest Chester county
relics.
Tho Stack, O'IIara case was fixed fo.
argument in the Supreme Court, f,r Monday
last. at Williamspoit.
Ben Butler. it is stated. was intended
by his parents for a clergyman. What a
narrow escape the church had.
| Tho Dsmocrats of Rhcde I.land have
Nominated Ainsy Arnold for Governor
The election occurs on the Sd of April.
Young Harrisburg beats the world.
Two boys in that city are in prison for bur~
glsry-one aged about eight and the other
| ten yeaIs.
A youug WiIlilmsport boatman re-
Gently received notice that he had fallen
heir to an inhsritance in England amounting
to 5000, 900.
The Senate of Pennsylvania is composed
of % lawyers, tanner. l surveyor, farm>
ers. l physician, gentlemen, piano maker
and puddler.
county. two full bands were in attendance
and Giscoursel elegant music at intervals
during the day.
-Mddlestx. Mercer county. elected NJ.
A. Stewart colored barber, member of
the town council, by vote Of 2l2 to 1872
for W bite man.
An explosion Cf sulphur occurred in the
toltz coll!ery, near Ashland. Pa. on Tue sGay
evening, by which ten men were burued-
some of them. it is thought. fatally.
Mr.. Grant, prosperous farmer Of Bing>
hamton, is unaccountab!y trying to starve
himself. and refuses all presents Of t, otbsome
food. etc. No relative Of the President
The PenEsS lvauia oil region CONTAINS
1000 squire miles. Ot this space ouly ten
square miA's are actually worked List
years Yell was about 5,600,O 900 barrels of
43 gallons each.
The Rochester Union SAYS that Graut
has done about much toward reducing
the national debt as tie brass uCZz's ON the
cow Catcher of au engine does toward draw
ing train. That's so.
Lynn. Conn. has an infant phenomenon
10 the shape Of little girl, y no has in>
herited uncomfortable desire for opium
It's vocal zatorS are excrucating if it's regu~
lar supply Of the narcotic is not foTthcuming
Every railroad man. including the super
| inientent of the road. and who handled a
shovel hcroically, on the Bangor and Pls>
I
week. was bitten by the frost, some very
badly.
On the night of tie 21st, the hr use +, f
Sandy Clayton. In Lawrence. Kansas. was
burned. aud Clayton and his three sons, aged
respectively fourteen. eight aad fur years
perished. Mrs. Claytun and her ufant
were seriously burned, and the mother will
probably die.
VOLTS brewery. saloon. and two dwell
ing-houseS In Saltwater, MINI. were burned
On Monday night last, and two nien-lhe
book *. eper III the saloon. aud a laborer in
the bre~sry-pershed in the ii ,mss Thsir
names are not given. Two other men barely
escaped with their lives. The loss If uIo.
petty is about $40 600.
"A dispatch from Richmond, Va, re-
ports that six msmbcrs of tue Virginia
Legislature-three Senators and three Rep
resentatives-have BEEN Notified by the
UuitUc States Attorney that lac will pruse~
cute them for violation of the Fifteenth
Amendment by acting as members Of the
Gensral Assembly while unLer political di.~
ability.
1t will be comfort TO the peeple to
kusw that Grants San ID mingo job has
thus far cost them ouly $3.50 G20 What it
would have been but for the sturdy opposi>
tion to it. 10 Ole can of course tsIl. but that
1t would have reached millions theIe can be
doubt. 1t is we'll that such men as
Sumner have tn. manliness and moral
cou age to resist these Innovations upon the
public treasury.
On Monday morning. negro, named
David Jones, robbed the house of faImer,
named Murray, near Nashville, Tenn, aud
whom the latter uffe, ed resistance, the negro
shot him dead. The murderer was arrested
and lodged in Jail. but at O'clock Tuesday
night an iniurated mob broke open the
prison and took him out and sho; and hung
him. but the police rescued him. lie is
moitally wounded.
TIE PIiucetou Republic states that an
unknown peddler. while crossing Green
Lake, near Dar,foTd, Wis, was set on by
dogs aud killed. A man and three boys say
the dogs worrying him but could not get to
him III time to save his life The most re-
voting part of the story is that the man and
boys lheu, to save trouble, pushed the body
of the peGdlcr through the hole in the ice
where they were fishing.
An a~fcl acciient happened in the
wire-mill at Trenton, n. J.. GU Monday last,
to an employee named Bernard Mclaughlin.
who was doing duty round the watts, and,
being lame i'll one foot. stumbled and fell
into one of the watts of boiling copperas.
The whole of the body was covered with
the himing poison. lie was conveyed to
his home and attended by a physician, who
pronounced the case hopeless. The skin
Of the illstarred man was totally peeled off,
and he suffered excruciatng tortures
Important and significant gains were
made by the Democrats at the late local
elections In Lancaster county. West Done-
gal township elected the entire Democratic
ticket, by a handsome m"j'rity. Ehzabeth>
town, where the Republicans had carried
every thing for number Of years, elected
the entire Democratic ticket. excepting
judge. assessor aud-auditor. Martic towns
ship went Democratic for the first time in
many years, the Democrats electing all the
officers excepting the judge Of election and
the constable
Michael Carroll. laborer at the Dodge
shaft, near Scranton, was killed by fall of
top coal on Tuesday last. He leaves wife
and five children. Patrick E,nsrtv o,os