The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-06-20
Nescs and PoiiticaI Items.


day last at 116.
The whole number of Modocs taken
prisoners is 156.
"A grain elevator and 80, 600 bushels of
wheat were burned al Cresco, Iowa, on the
18th.
"A Worcester county man owns a pair
of horses forty years old. He calls them
40's.
Six soldiers and twenty-six horses were
recently lost by flood in the valley of
Blackwood, Omaha.
Henry Clay's court dress worn at the
Treaty of Ghent, has been presented to the
Ashland Ky Museum.
by a single letter a gentleman in TerTe
Haute, Ind, learned, a few days ago, of
the death of four of his brothers
A lady ninety six years old, in New
Hampshire, is suffering from whooping
cough and teething at the same time.
The dead body of Rev. Father Guir, a
Catholic priest, was found floating in the
Eastern Branch at Washington, Friday.
General Davis has sent party of men
to hunt for and arrest the persons guilty
of the massacre of the Modoc prisoners.
Ten persons in a family of eleven per-
sons died within a week in Dallas county,
Texas, recently. The survivor was baby
Corsica, Jefferson county, was almost
totally destroyed by fire week before last.
Nineteen families were rendered homeless.
Loss, 1925, 900.
Nine thousand immigrants arrived
during the past week at the port of New
York, making 141, $50 since the 1st of Jan
uary.
No fizZle about this. Five baskets of
champagne were exploded by the heat in
Georgia, the other day, and extinguished
the flames in burning building.
-Thos. Jef1erson's family carriage, i'm
ported from Europe by him, has been sent
co. -ax-f,g
where it is owned, to be repaired.
Rome, Ga, has Judge who picks the
banjo, fiourishes PAINT brush, sings ethi-
opian ditties, balances the scales of Justice
and makes Rome howl. He is = colored
man.
"A Peoria (nl.) man has a nice-looking
| library, made up entirely of patent Office
reports, with the backs neatly labelled with
the names of the great authors and their
works.
"A woman at Union Hill, New Jersey,
has been arrested for haLitually pouring
boiling water on the sidewalks for the pur-
pose of scalding the feet of barefooted
children.
1t will be a severe blow to Christianity
just as 1t has secured toleration in Japan.
to have sucha specimen as Bingham appear
on the scene, as a representative OF the
United States.
An orphan, under age, married his fe
male guardian in Illinois the other dav
and was compelled to get her written con
sent 70 ms marriage before the wedding
could take place.
A curious double Wedding ba. hao,
contaminated in Reading A vOunp white
man married colored girl and Young
colored man married white girl, all i'm
the same families.
A whole hOmily would not contain
more than this home spun farm aphorism:
III You want yOur boy to stay at home.
don bear too hard on the grindstone when
he turns the crank
An insane man, attending a circus at
henderson, KY, killed baby, with a
large club, and injured a number of per-
sons, some of them badly, in their efforts to
arrest him. The police shot him three
times. He is now in chains.
The Greenfield Gazette tells of 4 man
well known there, who borrowed money
of his wife to go to Indiana and look for
business, but who, instead procured a di-
vorce, married again, and then came back
to borrow more of his former wife.
"A large meeting of the farmers and la
boring men was held at Shelbyyille, Ind,
on Saturday. Several addresses were made
ana resolutions condemning salary grab
berS, Railroad monopolies and monied ar
lstocTacy, were unanimously adopted
The Age calls attention to the fact
that not single paper III that city except
the Fress, has word to say in regard to
the charges of the leading administration
paper, the New York Times, concerning
the Radical thieves that rule and rob Phil
adelphia.
"A dispatch from Jacksonville. OREGON.
says that Gen. Ross, of the Oregon voiun
teers, just arrived, denies that the massa-
ere of Modoc prisoners was committed by
the oregon volunteers, and saws that they
had other and better chances for the muir
der OF the prisoners, if they desired.
he tomato plants in some localities
are being assailed by 4 new enemy in the
shape OF short, thick and striped bug.
bearing some resemblance to potato bug.
but differing from it in being shorter. and
larger in diameter. They eat not only the
leaves but also the branches and stalks
-Ihe chief clerk and his assistants of
the Con. Con. have had their salaries fixed
at S2,T5o each; the transcribing clerks, ten
IN number 81, 600 each; Sergeant-at-Arms.
S2,VOU Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, ST.
ooO DoorkeeperS, two, S1,SO0 each, and
Postmaster and Assistant Postmaster. 81
500 each. ~
"A man at Portsmouth, n. H.. has inst
been relieved of bullet which he has car
red Tor nearly nine years. He was wound-
ed at the battle of Fair Oaks, the bullet
scllkng him on the left temple and lod0iu,,
nearthe angle of the jaw. he has been de,
Priteu Oh Ihe use OF his jaws, and has lived
entirely on liquid food.
While number of persons were ON a
raft, composed of two boats and some
plankS. in pond in, Calais, twelve miles
from Montpelier,iV VT, on Monday last. one
Oh the boats filled and the whole party were
thrown into the water. Five of them were
drowned, and about the same number wero
were restored.
On Friday evening DIR. Lewis, pbv-
sIcian of GAINESVILLE Ohio, learned fh3t
thomas Smith, a married man. baving
three children, had taken a daughter Of
his in buggy and left town. The doctor
followed, overlook them and shot Smitb
through the lung, besides beating him Sc
Yere!y lie is not expected to recover
Lewis was arrested.
SAYS the Savannah 0Genroi.N H.