The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-03-28
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Ne,cs AMI Political items.

Nj. Bvar. Democrat, was elected Bur
cess of Pottsville on Friday last, over Isaac
IIoycr. Republican, by 1O3 majority
Democratic gain over last spring election
of 23S.
A new remedy for toothache consists
in the employment Of injections introduced
into the gum near the diseased tooth.
MOrphia was first used, out chloIoloII III Is
now used exclusively.
Even the tobacconists' signs in Chica-
90 have caught the murderous infection;
On Thursday last Eastwood sachem ieli
upou the three year old son of Jacob Cohn,
killing the child instantly.
Amos HallecB and TWO children, living
on the prairie near Pomeroy station, iowa,
were burned to death on Saturday evening
by the hay roof of their home taking hre
and falling on them while asleep; ,;o,
Henry Wright, fireman at the IndIah
Ridge shaft, near Shenandoah, fell from
forty feet above the top of the shaft to the
bottom. a distance Of three hundred and
fifty feet. OF course, he was killed IN
stantIy.
In 1856 Oscar Hewitt, of Knoxville,
H.. agreed not to shave or cut his haIr TIL
John c. Fremont was elected President.
An interviewer describes him as having
more hair than Esau in all his journalistic
experience.
IGodfrey Ueck, quite a wealthy citizen
of Tuscarawas county, Ohio, who. while
drunk, some eighteen months ago, nuT-
dered a man named Fred Stetfens, at Lock
No. Il. in that county, has been sentenced
to one year in the Ohio Penitentiary.
An inventor has attached to pair OF
barber's shears an elastic hollow ball, which
is compressed by the operation of cutting,
and a current of air, forced ont from the
ball, is directed along the edges of the
blades, and blows away the fragments of
hair as fast as they are cut
The bark JenS Lassen, from London
for Philadelphia, went ashore at lndlan
River Inlet March q, at 6 A NJ. The Cap
tain's wife and daughter and first and sec
Ond mates and two Seamen were lost IN at
tempting to land. The vessel IS on the
northern point Of the inlet and is full of
water.
The recruiting officers in the west are
now forbidden IL enlist dUunkards, as 1t Is
not intended that the military service shall
be a receptacle for all the worthless charac-
tiers in the country who can obtain no other
employment" 1t is therefore probable
that the army, like Virginia, is no longer
to lie the mother Of Presidents
The recent murder of Mr.. Goodrich,
respectable and wealthy citizen of Brook
lyn. continues mystery. The circum-
stances are so hidden that they rivet the
morbid attention Of the masses in fully as
strong degree as the Nathan murder, two
wears ago. Indications point to proba-
bility that Goodrich was killed by woman.
Silver and copper have been u earthed
on the farm of George w. Noodle, in North
Codorous township, York county, on the
Northern Central railroad. Mr.. y. dug a
shaft n few weeks since, and found several
pieces of silver the size of a marble, and
few Jumps of copper about the size CT
walnut The specimens have been pro
nounced good.
When You meet with 4 sprain, wet the
injured part with a flannel dipped IN hot
water if the sprain be very painful, wet
the flannel with laudanum and cover the
whole with a dry cloth. Then, with the
arm in sling. if it be the wrist that Is
sprained. oI the leg in horizontal portion
if it be the ankle. wait and see if it be ne
cessary to send for the doctor
During the past month ll3 fires have
occurred in the Cuited states and canada,
involving a loss of 81. 913.OOo- There was
one in which the loss exceeded 500, ,GJO.
four where it exceeded 5000, 900. seven be
tween 800. 600 and $20o. 600. eighteen be
tween so, 900 and 500. 900 and nineteen
in which no statement of loss is given BY
them 26 persons lost their lives.
James Bowker \ prominent repubf-
can politician and ex-member of the city
council from the Twenty y-first ward, Phila-
last by hanging himself in the
basement of his place of business on Main
street. Financial difficulties, it is said,
prompted the act. The verdict Of the jury
was rendered in accordance with the facts.
-Uriah Teagarden, who lives on the
New Lisbon road, some five miles south of
Salem. Ohio, is the owner of 4 COW which
was delivered of a calf, the first of last
week. which in its formation presented an
unusual and extraordinary appearance.
When born the entrails were located on
the ridge of the back, in a perfect state of
development and grown fast as though
natural and perfect in their place.
Will President Grant allow himself to
he outdone in honesty by Gen. Butler?
The latter individual has offered to each
taxpayer applying for it the three cents
pluEdered from such taxpayer by Butler in
voting himself an increase of salary. At
Buffers computation President Grants in
crease of salary will amount to fifteen cents
from each taxpayer. 1t is small amount.
but it would pay for many poor citizens
breakfast.
The Philadelphia Press says: ''The
Of the salary of its members by
the FOrty-seCOnd Congress was denounced
as the most infamous act ever perpetrated
by Legislative bOdy-as crime, robbery.
Precisely such bill is about to be passed
by the Legislature of Pennsylvania. The
lower house of that body has actually con-
it, its members like their Con-
gressional prototypes, having voted them
selves an increase of pay, extending over a
term now nearly ended
A breeding SOW, belonging to Geo. W. /
Teel, of Sulphur Springs, Crawford coun-
ty, Ohio, was on the 18th day of December, /
1872, buried under a straw-stack made on
that day, on the occasion of threshing out /
the grain. The animal was missed at once
and supposed to have been covered up, but /.
no effort was made to find her, as no hope /
was entertained of her under existing cir /
On the 11th ult. the missing
sow resurrected herself from the remain /
ing base Of the stack, after being buried a /
period of 81 days.
Father Burke when he landed from
the steamer City of Paris at Queenstown 4
on the 18th inst, was welcomed with up !