The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-01-31
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anniversary Of their marriage he. hus-
band Is g and the wife 50 yeals old
In Germany. when the vote of ti1e jury
stands SIX against six, the prisoner is ac-
quilted. 4 vote Of seven against live
leaves the decision to the court, and III
vote Of eight against four the Illconer Is
convicted.
The Postmaster General has decided
that families fms or companies cannot
combine to rent post-otrce boxes conioint-
Iv but that one box rent must be collected
for each firm, family or company enjoying
such facilities.
Major Zeb Crummut il his lecture,
New Tangled Notions,' says-''it re-
quires more brains to run popular local
newspaper Dian is usually carried iu,o the
White House under the hat of the Presi-
dent Of the United States"
A movement Is now on foot at Harris
burg to divide Tioga county. In 1864 this
county contained three hundred ir-habi-
tants. 1t now has thirty-live thousand.
The friends Of the division claim they are
in q majority in The cCuntY and Will press
the project on that basis.
Auditor General Alien made number
of changes in his department some time
ago. and last week appointed the first col
oIed man that has ever held 2 c'e-AshiP
under the state q 1Yorun-e eEt. The apr"iG-
tee is Professor Howard Day, editor Of the
Progress and Lfbrrty,F the organ Of tie col
ored r-en Of this State.
Saturday John 7. johnson. q S~ede.
was seLtercod 20 be hung At Rev Haven.
+ Conn. on April II, 1872 p. he uUlder @!
+ Johanna Hess, Of NeT:Geg. The State ,2w
! does not permit the sentence Of death TO be
executed under year. This IS the first
/ death sentence taat has been pronounce d
in New Haven for twenty-five years.
The smallpox epidemic has reached
T srch height I'm baltimore . 10 have alarm
! Il. s7.g
orally. There were I1g deaths fer the 4.CCll
ending January 90, ard there arc al the
+ present. time ! 500 c2ses. Boston has also
suffered terribly; bat tho diseases there il
reported rs having passed he crisis.
/ A young man named Bear, Of TUsc2ro-
IA township, -afTilll CD;us5y, ATTEMPTED to
cross IusC2rDEa creek, Friday week, with
sled and two horses, but broke through
the ice and both he and the horses were
drowned. ESthjug was known Of the cir
cumstarCc until Saturday morning. when
the bodies Of the man and the horses were
found among lie floating ice
At bennington, England. recently. the
death Of an infant was found To have Ueen
caused by the presence in the stomach Of
. = comPac. and hard BAH Of chccey matter
: nearly the size Df a mans iat. Two med
. ical men gave il as their criHiou that the
ball had been accommodating for some tine,
and was caused - tie miiA havinC become
. changed to cheese IL the stomach.
An cid gentleman in Aluance county.
/ North Carolina, knows scratching about
the blessings of home aud family. lie
has had four wives, eight daughters and
one son, seveEty-three grandchildren, four
hundred roat-g-aDGCh.ld-en, fifty great
. great grandchildren, fifteen great-gveat-
great -C-a Idchi.drC0. and nine great-great-
( great-gl eat-graudCEndven. He thinks Of
/ marrying again.
x horse wss killed IN a singular manner
. at Lexington Ky recently. He was pull
I ing the cart, which contained p load Of coal,
. while the driver. having tied he lines To
, the wood Work of the cart, was walking by
its side. The horse sljpped, and a trace
broke at the time he fell forward. The
lines being fastened securely. drew his
head under his body, and he fell upon it,
breaking his UecS Sud dying almost in
stzntlv.
We learn that Hon. SsmuelJ. Randall
( VIII offer q resolution calling upon the Pres
I dsnt for information concerning he Iar-
don of she Philadelphia repeater, Brown.
This is right decent men want to know
who the ''proInjncut citizens are Who Pc
titioned for the release of this ballot-box
Follutor Was their names forged to the
papers. and IL this the reason the President
and Attorney 9 eneral refuse t. give thsm
to the public? Let us have light.
While the Eorthheet, IN emiErant ship
beuud from London to Hobart Town, v;.s
Thursday midnight. she was run into bY an
unknown steamship and cut down to the
waters edge lie panic which ensUcd
was so dreadful that the captain had to 1Ise
his pistol on the most disoIdeTly. SGd the
vessel sunk SO rapidly that out Of 4I2 souls
on board only IIusJy-seven are reported
saved. the captain being among the lost
The shot with which laura FAIR killed
Critteadeu. almost as suddenly turned
white the hair Of 4 daughter of the dcceas-
ed, it Is said. IEs young lady. who is bat
twenty years Old. is described rs beautiful
and intelligent, but overcast with cloud
. Of melancholy that viii embiiter al her fu-
ture life. Being asked, recently, how her
hair came so white, and She so young, an
sTcTsd, ''SoTTov.' il a voice trembling
with emotion, and Immediately rose and
+ left the room.
--IowaIs are very juOilant over the pros
Pect OF that benighted radical portion Of
Uncle Sans vineyard being Transformed
into little China, where tea shall bloom
and flourish. 'Tis said that the plant has
been so successfully cultivated that il
( Crawford county 700 pourds have been
raised on one acre. Tennessee. says the
Tribune has an excellent sol, on which to
grow tea. Both these sections Of our coun-
try, IN soil and climate, can be proftabIy
( cultivated for tea.
Archbishop Bailey's idea OF stopr,.no
the progress Of intemPerarce is conveyed
IN the following remarks made by him re-
F Gently IA real inspection Of liquors would
f destroy two-thil is of intemperarce. ANY
real good government should enforce such
an inspection or stop the sale altogether
because the object Of the government is to
= protect the lives Of citizens. and while il
enforoes stringent laws againt the sale OF
decayed vegetables tits far more important
1 that it should hinder the sale of drinks
: which poison the bleed and madden the
: BRAIN
: The gossips at Florence. Mass. pro,
duced a regular scare IN that quiet little
5 villageE recently. 4 man whose wife wa,
: absent happened 10 leave for aneighborina
: town ON business the same dag ,hat cir
l set out to work in Connecticut village
= People who understood how TO out tive
and TWO together" could see at once tha