The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-05-25
News of the Week.

for house fronts, and OF any color.
-Geary and Grant had a pow4wow
together in Washington on Tuesday
South Bend. Ind., has a triune cat
three heads, three breasts, and three sets Of
forelegs.
George Washington was arrested at
Kansas City, Mo, last week, for beating his
wife, Martha Washington.
"A French colony in franklin, Kan,
has established velvet manufactory at that
place which is said to be the first one iD the
United States.
AT Cincinnati on Tuesday an unknown
German sucided by jumping from the
Suspension bridge into the river. distance
of nearly one handIed feet.
There will be delegation of 500 per-
sons in Reading from Philadelphia. accom<
panied by three bands. to attend the Demo-
cratic Convention on the 3Oth inst.
"A wedding took place at La Crosse, Wis,
a few days ago. at which, according to local
journal, "the bride was given away by the
| city. and the city was very glad to get rid Of
| her."
About two thousand acres of forest be-
! tween Binghamton. N. Y, and the Pennsy-
vania State line, were burned over on Sat-
urday The rain of Saturday night was
Timely.
Mr.. Arnold and Miss Powell, of Car
| rollton, Miss. who were shortly to be mar
ried. died recently upon the same day and
Of the same disease. In death they were
not divided.
William Webb. alias Buck ;" confined
in the Eastern Penitentiary. at Philadelphia.
killed his room mate. Michael Trimbur,
Tuesday last. by striking him on the head
! with an iron plate.
Near Florence, Alabama, the other day
bolt of lightning killed a steer without
breaking bone in its body. Another steer,
yOked with the one killed, and staEding Just
by its side, uuEdrt
"A GAINESVILLE lady wanted To name her
fa7orite kitten Dolly Warden. hut couldn't,
and So she called him Thomas Warden. She
was bound to be in style as near as ciIeUm-
stances would permit.
-Four children, at ages varying from
to 10 years, were horribly burned in Mem
phis ou Saturday night by the eldest kind
ling Ere with coal oil. They all died
within twenty ~four hours Of the occurrence.
AT a recent wedding IN Pittsfeld, Mass,
the parents Of the bride charged the invited
guests ninety cents per plate for the supper,
and the money thus obtained was used by the
new married couple to meet the expenses of
their wedding tour.
AT Patterson, n. j., last Saturday.
Libbe Garrabrant, convicted of the murder
of r. F. Burroughs, was sentenced to be
hanged on July 10Th. She tainted on hear
| ing the sentence, and was removed to her
cell in an insensible condition.
National shame and humiliation, un-
paralleled corruption, military tyranny. b.
bing. nepotism and prostration of business
these are some Of the fruits of Grants ad-
mnistration, and yet there are those bud
and foolish enough to desire his reelection.
The drought and forest fires in Southern
New York and Eastern Pennsylvania have
been very destructive. Dwellings. mills,
lumber. agricultural implements, and farm
truck Of every description have been de-
stroyed to the amount of over a million
dollars.
Mrs. Roberts went from Massachusetts,,
twelve ears ago, to Mobile. where her hus-
band died. he, like herself. was white, but
| Mrs. Roberts has since married and buried
four husbands. all black mourning
husbands, as it were, III honor of the late Mr..
Roberts.
-An ex-proof reader on the New York
Tribune says that if Horace Greeley had
| written the inscription on the wall in Baby
Ion, Be.shazzar would have been good bit
woIs scared than he was. and that Daniel
would have required the patience of Job to
interpret 1t.
"A Mr.. Fernald. Of Madbury, n. H..
has oxhumed. while pIowing. a petIified
body II an Indian seven feet seven inches in
length. The arm was three feet long. aud
the haud twelve inches through. A foot Of
an old tree was growing across the body in
several places.
-Gturge Robinson, who died in New
York Saturday, had $40 900 insurance
on his life, which sum his wife receives. -
The same woman drew $50 900 on a policy
held by her first husband. Mrs. Robinson
will doubtless contiC ue on in the same prefit-
able business.
Congress has voted to adjourn on the
Sd of June next. All leaves of absence
were revoked on Monday last and no more
will he granted. 1t is hardly worth while
to buckle the harness on so tightly for few
days for the purpose of doing something
after five aud one half months of time has
been FILTERED away.
"A New Brunswick woman recently
rushed i2to a court at Houlton, Me-, and in
accents wild proclaimed her desire to re-
nounce her allegiance to Q leen Victoria and
become citizen of the United States. The
oath was promptly administered, although
the case is without precedent.
"A gentleman, recently married in Chi
cago. presented his bride at the wedding
with the original transcript of one of the
first dispatches ever sent over the first
teeg graph line. FROM Baltimore to Washing-
ton. 1t was the announcement to the lady's
grandmother of her birth, and read, Only a
! girl"
A man named \. Kells was discovered
in an intoxicated coudition afoat on a cake
of lee in the river opposite Bay City. the
other day He was arrested and fined for
! being vagrant. BE said they might call
him a vagrant. or Radical. or anything
else that was mean, SO they took him off that
piece of ice.
II. Buchanan Read. the poet, died at
tie Astor House in New Yolk city, on Sat
urday week. Deceased was a native of
West Chester, this State, and had acqui ed
brilliant reputation as poet. His most
brilliant effort in the poetica lre being the
production of This Wild Wagner Of the
| AlIeghenies