The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-14
Ne,cs ond Political Items.

"A resolution mas passed the rouse, ab
agreeing to adjourn on Thurs
lay, the 27th of March.
Jas. Henry Hogg was married to Miss
llinor Bean in New York last Sunday
Pork and Beans are in order of course.
"A Welsh company is about to be or
ganized at Scranton to purchase land IN
Alabama for the purpose of settlement.
Hon. ). s. Woods, of Lewistown, at
one time President Judge of the Mifiiin,
Snyder and Union district, died on the 9Th.
Glass barrels are to be used for the
Of petroleum in order 10 save
the heavy loss from evaporation in ordina-
ry packages.
Brigham Young it is said ordered a car
load of scabs shipped by express from Bos-
ton to Salt Lake City. he is going to vac
ciuate his family
A Montreal dentist has recovered 800
in suit for breach Of promise of marriage,
against the fair aud false daughter Of
weL-to-dO farmer.
A wealthy Illinois farmer cut his throat
the other day, and his nervous heirs began
to think he would recover, because it took
him ten hours to bleed to death.
"A lawyer of repute, named Godfrey,
Of Great Bend, Kan, has lost both feet,
his right arm and part of his left hand from
frost bite during the recent intense cold.
-Virtuous Caldwell declines to be put
under oath touching the charge against
himself. He thinks his word is as good as
his oath, and the country agrees with him.
On the 9th inst, the wife of John Finn,
of Catawissa, gave birth to triplets two
girls and one boy. The boy weighed elev-
en- pounds, and the two girls thirteen
pounds.
The President was so much pleased
with the car catures of Mr.. Greeley, exc
cuted by Mast during the campaign, that
he is taking an active part in a pecuniaTy
testimonial to that artist.
John c. Breckinridge, of the late
Southern Confederacy. has been invited to
deliver the Grafton before the literary so
cieties of the Princeton College at the an
nual commencement in June next.
Eight barrels of wLiskey have beeu on
trial in the Des Moines courts for three
years, and tie supreme court, although p
temperance body, has lately tried it and
pronounced it worth new trial in the
court.
-Titusyille claims the champion pretzel-
eater. lie consumed thirty pretzels with
one glass Of whisky, one glass of beer, four
glasses OF water and a fourth OF pound of
butter, in 294 minutes, just after a hearty
breakfast.
A terrible collision took place Saturday
mo- ming on The North British Railway.
near Dunbar, about twenty-five miles from
Edinburgh, by which nine persons were
instantly killed and several severely in
jured, some of them fatally
-lhe old wall of the Ferguson House,
a. Kansas City, Mo, fell on Sunday. crush
ing frame house adjoining, and killing
MRS. Donahue and her daughter and Miss
hucy, and fatally in5uring another daugh-
ter. a child, years old, escaped injury.
-1he doctors are not quite sure wheth-
Ell young lady of Indianapolis Is dead or
not and the family, instead of keeping her
at nome, have put her in an open coffin in
a nice cool place in the receiving vault Of
the cemetery, where they go II SEE her ev-
cry day.
"A new phase of the epizootic has made
its appearance, only those horses being at
tackled who had the disease before. The
symptoms are like those Of paralysis or
apoplexy, the horses attacked falling dead
III their harness. Two cases are reported
form Cory.
"A dispatch from Ironton, Ohio, states
that on Saturday night, the Sth, the tow
boat Petrol struck log near Hostelyille,
stream. Captain McIlhauc swan ashore,
but was So thorougly chilled that he died
shortly afterwards. Three OF her crew
were drowned.
The Pomeroy Investigating Committee
met at Topeka, Kansas. on Friday last
and the drift of the testimony was decided
ly against the accused. Representatiy,
York corroborated his former testimony
and made additional disclosures. Report
ers were excluded from the hearing at thi,
stage of the proceedings.
The boiler OF the agricultural works OI
Yates Brothers, near Havana, Illinois, ex
plOded on Saturday afternoon, the Sth, de
molishing the building in which it stood
; and some others adjoining. One of tho
propriCtors was forced through the blank
partition and terribly mangled, and hi,
brother was badly scalded by the steam
Neither are expected to recover.
Unexpectedly 10 the public, and his re
latives, too, for that matter, the post-mor.
TEN examination of the remains OF ex-Gov-
eTnor Geary discloses the fact that the sud
den death of the late State Executive wa
not caused by heart disease, nor the affec
tiOn of any other vital organ. Nervous
prostration, say the physicians, suddenly
snapped asuuder the thread of life.
Children suffer terribly from ear-ache
when there is a simple and generally cer
tain remedy. Take a piece Of fat. sal
pork, and make plug half an inch long
in such a shape that one end will fit in the
ear like a cork, the other end large enough
to keep it from slipping in. 1t gives relic
in few moments. If the piece is hkcl,
to drop out, tie handkerchief over til,
ears.
The bill abolishing the frankinr priv.
lege has passed both houses of Congress
Nothing IN the law viii interfere with tn,
free transmission of papers in the COW '
in which theysare printed but they must
be printed entirely in the county where
published to retain this privilege. ll..A il
discrimination against newspapers tl,aI
have one side printed in the cities and tn,
other at home.
The genuine Salem article of witch
craft has been revived at Sullivan. Ne.
where father, mother, and four chiIdreI
have been frantic for some four weeks owe
the supposition that their house is infested
by witches, whom they declare to be som,
of their neighbors. To exercise ~
spirits, they have broken up nearly all TN,
furniture and dishes, and vary theexercis.
by shooting at imagined devils in the Al,
pie trees near the house.
An old bog swamp at Embden, Me.