The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-01-24
-Ners tss,. Political Items.

"A Peoria hermit lives in packing box
Even rs far Gown rs Mississippi negro
woman froze to death on Christmas night.
joel Havis, Of Palmyra, To-, lately
walked fifty miles to pay note due on that
day.
Twenty or tiiry persons were injured
IL a railroad smash-up near Portland, Maine,
Thursday.
A Texas boy, 10 years old. is six feet
high, and weighs over 300 pounds. Thele
are giants in these days.
John F. Donaldson, the ProthOnOtary
of Tioga county, Pa, has retired after hold
| ing the office for thirty-three years
John r. Johnson. the alleged murderer
cf Joanna Hess, in Connecticut, claims to
be member of the Russian nobility.
Two old bachelors (brothers) at Pitts
field. H., froze to death in their log cabin,
the other night. They were worth S12, 600.
A Paterson y. j. boy poured scald-
ing water in the ear Of his seven-year-old
sister just for fun. The joke affected her
f, fatally.
A man in Vintop, Ia, recently sued
sixty-one of his neigllhors in single day,
and thinks his time will be pleasantly oc-
( cupied through the winter.
John Early his stwo children and span
! of horses were drowned in the river in JEFF
I fersot county, Wis, 10y the breaking of the
/ ice on which the horses ran, last week.
-''RleediHg' Kansas has been well call
! ed. Caldwell has Lied her severely. 1t
4 only cost him $50 c0o but then, that is
! nothing to pupil of Simon CEmeron's.
The President Of the Macon & Nest-
ern railroad has dismissed every person,
! from conductor to brakeman. who was en-
! ployed on the train which caused a recent
I accident ON the road
! A telegram from Rome says that the
! Pope told some visitors that he believed the
bodies of the Apostles Phillip and James
! were discovered on " ednesday last in the
( Church Of the Apostles.
! -Chisclhurst, famous as the spot where
| Louis Napoleon found 'rofu2e after his
/ downfall, and where lie died, is a parish in
the county of Kent. eleven miles southeast
/ from London. William Camden. the IA
! nous British antiquarian, died within its
! boundaries.
/ Governor Hartranft has appointed
! Col. Al. 5. Quay, of Beaver county Score
| tary of the Commonwealth Hon Samuel
+. Dinlmick, Of Wayne county. Attorney
General, and Hon. Thomas ]. Righam, Of
1 Pittsburgh, Commissioner of the Bureau OF
( Labor Statistics, rice Thos. A Mcdowell,
/ removed.
W hlstling is not usually reckoned
among female accomplishments. There is
a young lady in Lehigh ward, Easton, how
+ ever. who has cultivated it as others do
singing. and her whsrling to a piano ac-
I compartment is said, by those who have
! heard it, to be as sweet audfull as the tones
/ OF flute.
/ Among the articles given 10y the State
( OF south Carolina to the members of the
/ General Assembly is mucilage in bottles.
. one OF the eolored members was heard to
/ declare, the other day, that this were de
greatest legislator he had ever seed. De
/ state not oni y gin fellah bottled har
{ grease, but brush to rub it in Wild
3 A chain "a L ri, =
! mechanical novelties of Erie The paten-
; tee Is MIR. benjamin Hershey, a gentleman
/ who has invented several valuable ma
; chimes. 1t is claimed that with this ma
/ chine two mon can do the work Of oipht in
manufacturing chains. If this is so it will
. work 4 revolution i'll that branch of manu-
facture-
/ Willie Clark. the lad who rocentlv
came near throwing n train Off the Boston
ala Albany railroad at Chester Mass
died the other day ut his fathers residence
IN West Springfield, where he had been
since bailed ont of Jail on suspension Of
sentence. His arrest, trial and imprson-
ment shatterd his nervous system. and for
the past three weeks he had been wildly
| insane.
A Fort Wayne, Indiana, special saws
Catholic priest of that city has Just re-
ceiVed as a present from the ex-Emperor
Louis Napoleon magnificent gold and sill
/ yer chalice, to be used in the Catholic
| church of that city. 1t is engraved in four
coioTs, and the autograph of the ex-Empe-
ror accompanies it. The priest was per
sonal friend OF the Emperor in early days
1t did not arrive till after the Emperor's
ieath.
The CniontOwn Standard saws an az
traordinary case Of a child being very near
iy buried alive has lately come under our
notice. Here is the mothers story When
tho child was young hc was veTy sickly. and
continued so for some time. During this
sickness they supposed the child dead.
three different times, and. according to
custom, had his grave dug three times
Livery time the child came to, and now is
hearty looking lad
In London patent for making gas of
AIR only, without the Intervention or use of
coal has been taken ont, and is said to be
perfect success. The validity of the pat
cnt Is now undergoing a test of a law suit
he new gas Is much cheaper than that
manufactured from coal. and hcsides being
an admirable lllumlnator. it is claimed can
be used as heating medium and motive
power, so as to supersede the steam engine.
The particulars Of the discovery arc not
gwen, though lis Importance is beyond cues
tion.
"A. Nj. Thomas, of Council Bluffs. To-
has succeeded in making both sugar and
syrup from the sap of black walnut trees
specimen OF the latter would readily rass
Tor fne quality of maple molasses. IT Is |
about as thick ordinary store syrup. but
its flavor is vastly superior Mr.. Thomas
obtained two gallons of sap in ten hours
from walnut tree that is only one foot in
diameter and about forty feet high. He
thinks the walnut trees will yield as much |
sap as naples, while theirtiuid is one-third !
richer. |
MIR. John. Mcintosh, of WASHINGTON
township, Jefferson county, closed a most
eventfnl life on Saturday December 2Stb
1872, IN his 18th year. He was the FIRST
settler IN the Beechwoods district. navipg
carried his provisions and ortfis to.his pres.
ent property from Luthersburg over an un-
broken path upon his back, sleeping apon
lhe snow untii his first rnde shanty was