The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-03-14
Netcs and Political Items.

A Virginia convict recently died leav-
ing a fortune of $50, coo.
Pennsylvania exported Z, 4S7, ,344 bar
rels of petroleum last year.
Six young ladies of Hartford are pre-
pairing To 20 into convent.
"A Missouri mother has given birth to
seven children in three years.
A man without feet performs the feat
of walking ti.ht-rope before Georgia
spectators.
years old, light the street-lamps in Des
Moines, Iowa.
Florida boasts of hen that laws eggs
shaped like powder gourds, ifapy one knows
what they are.
"A man in Jonesborough, Tenn. has
married three wives and buI led two within
twelve months
persons have been legalizeG by the Rhode
Island Legislature.
Vermont has upwards OF 10, 00G drunk
ards, though, as in Massachusetts, no IL
quor is sold there.
"a California father is under arrest for
selling his first-born to an organ-grinder
for tamborine girl
hair to the managers of religious fair for
- cents. The money goes to the heathens.
An old-fashioned New England vii
/ lage produces a woman who has made one
/ paper of pins serve her purposes for nine
years.
Kate Grey, Of Kansas City, married
/ her lover half an hour before he left for
/ the Penitentiary to serve out a long SEN
tcuce.
A poor old blind horse wandered into
the canal at Attica. Ind, and was found
standing upright, dead as mackerel, and
frozen stiff.
At West Levant. Ne. tunnel more
. than sixty feet long has been cut through
a mountainous SNOW drift which obstructed
the post road.
Two adjoining townships in Connecti-
cut have spent 1880 in litigation to de-
eide which of them is responsible for the
SUPP OFT of pau! e..
-Twenty-se counties in this State
have voted uI the Local Option question,
and the resu,t is majority OF eight thous-
and against license.
- al :ornla IS preparing a rich treat for
Baraurn IN the shape of hoy only fifteen
years old, who has already been raised to
The height of { feet 3.
-New buryport supplements its juvenile
ghost story with tale Of petTiied cat
discovered in the helf;y of church long
suspected Of pUSsyisr1.
? a Tennessee mother-in-iaw rode a dis
ta"ce Of 200 miles on h"r-eback to visit
her daughter in Indiana. last week. when
the thermometer was below zero.
FOR the past five yeS"s. an Indiana
woman has lad three husbands residing
within five miles of each other aud no
body found her ont 1IrtiI last v-eel-
A batch Of BAPTIST 2roseIytcs at Rrcd-
head, Wis, entered the church few
days ago through a hole cut in two feet Of
ice, with the Thermometer at ten degrees
heiow zero.
a child was born at NcTeauSf;rlrcr.
Schuyl.ziil county. few days since. which
m sis Ill
t2rmed and perfect in every way. 1t was
sui ilVlhg at last accounts
"A young man named Calvin Boyer. 4
resident of Rebeisburg, Centre county,
i,a.I hs'd 4 sno oN-oaihng match with s''me COM
'''-iIi,S, "e'il i!'i,'e; are nearly ai.iher'
~ 10y G'"i - COT anu ALMOST instantly eA-
IT. r..,
"e l,'SN,i remains "l some Tcn'arEapie
~, Tli It" leP,i!TS nave oeen i"uil" III NlhSts--
They are thought To furnish a clue to the
come c'lhg Ilnk between p!rds ard beasts.
5 5ii't 10 support Tie D"i"iIiah theory OF
"eSce.'I
c.'k jrec was recently put up at
auctoh at SchieIiheIin, Switzerland, ihe
trunk OF winch was % feet IN length ard
had a mean diameter Of 2sA feet. 1t was
<oo years oid and covered eight square
Pe't','S ot GfouhH;
"A Coie man Mich. shingle-nal5erfa fail
so 10 pay MS hahHS, wheieuPon they drew
nun i't'h upon the snow at midnight ard
i'iV MN ~ ms factory, half mile from
home, with his shirt on-simply that and
nothing more.
-Anarchy IN Louisiana has At last
found It's natural result in hlonGsled.-
DulrcIl 5 Infamous decree, ard the haSty.
partisan action of the federal adinili>tra-
tioH IN supporting ard enforcing it, have
ooihe lheir normal fruits.
! y !''I"Hei {" a fccen6 Harilase IN \ew
/ Jersey Is reported from Waterloo. Jackson
county, Mich where man Of eighty
married a young woman of twenty-five,
ana gave her 81 $50 before The ceremony,
as compensation for the disparity in ages.
Miss Mary A KEYS. the va,1nr ladv
through whose efforts nearly all the GIRLS
. ! pr~1r,1,-spI flo -.