The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-12-26
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will be held in Harrisburg January 2Stb.
Mr. Frederick w. Schneider, Of the
Troy Press. set and distributed from Dec.
II. 1872, to Dec. y, 1878, 1924, sos ems.
This amount divided among 3l2 working
days, gives 10 5G6 ems per day, averaging
in round numbers 10, 600 per day, with a
little margin Of ia, 1872. The highest num-
her set in any one day was l1.4s5. For
3S days AIT. Schneider set 1900 ems pSr
day, and for five weeks averaged 10000
per week. For 81 weeks he set 90, 600
ems. The matter was Of a general nature,
and outside of any department..
ON Friday last a terrible crime, fol-
lowed by swift retribution, was briefly re-
ported by telegraph. A farmer living
near Cambridge, Mo, was on the mcrn-
ing of that day, while returning home
from the town, murdered by five men,
who killed him and then robbed his per-
son of 81 ,000 & traveller passing by dis
covered the body, quietly raised a posse Of
neighbOrs, and captured three OF the muir
derers, whom they aC once hung to tree,
and then started in pursuit of the remain
ing two. 1t is not yet known whether
the latter have been captured.
The Attorney General has decided,
upon examination into the facts of the
case, that the Virginius had no right to
carry the American flag. This was appar-
ent from the first to all who understood
the managemcntOf of that vessel. However,
the Attorney Generals decision will serve
to still further show the idiOcy of those
who, few short weeks ago, were clamor-
ing for immediate war with Spain, on the
score of the seizure Of the Nirginius.
There was great rejoicing at Madrid when
news of the Attorney Generals decision
reached that city.
Lucy Carney, cOlOrod woman. has
been interviewed at Battle Greek, Mich.
She is 112 years old, recollects the battle
of Monmouth, in which she saw a party of
British dragons chasing a squad of Con
tinentals. She lived 1T Monmouth. When
peace was declared, she remembers they
had a grand celebration and roasted an OK.
She was slave, and her master a patriot,
was captured by the British and kept III
New York until the close of the war. She
was taken to Ohio later in life and was
given her liberty. She drinks great deal
of tea, and has always used tobacco.
Two young men of Detroit, anxious to
exhibit their nerve. laid a wager with
third person, which resulted in some rifle
shooting extraordinary. 4 dozed apples
were procured and one gentleman stood
forty feet distant from the other, who shot
with a rifle each of the dozen apples in sue
cession from his friends head, after the
manner of the late William Tell Not
satisfied with that the apple-holder pro
duced common pasteboard match box
cover and held it close to his head, between
his finger and thumb, and in that position
permitted his friend to fire three shots AT
it, each going plumb centre.
-George Wagonseller, one of the three
Democratic members of the Legislature of
Pennsylvania who, in 1857, voted for ST.
mon Cameron for United States Senator
died at Sunbury, Pa, on Monday last
He was born in Chester county in 1911. but
l. =
early life, and was elected 4 member of
the House of Representatives from that
county. The Legislature was Democratic (
but failed to elect a Democratic Senator.
on account of the detection of Mr. Wagon /
seller and two other members of the par
ty Messrs. LebO and Meuear. Mr.. Wagon T.
seller was never again elected to public of .
fee.
In view of the Vile du Havre disaster.
the New York Chamber of Commerce has !
passed memorial, to be presented to
Congress, asking that body to take mea-
Sures for the appointment of an Interna-
tional Commission to be composed of del
egates from the maritime nations of Eu-
rope and America, who sc duty it shall be
to draw up a map upon which the path
ways Of inward and outward bound Ships
and steamers shall be marked out SO clear
ly that there shall be no possibility Of a
collision. The memorial stated that the
managers of n single line had already laid
down the tracks which their steamers
should follow.
A law suit was brous Int to Il close this .
year, says correspondent of the New
York Times, under the decision of Judge .
Van Bruut, which was commenced when
the Judge was child. 1t grew out of the F.
will of John Mason, 4 name now almost
forgotten. John Mason died in 1910 For
twenty years previously he had been the
heaviest dry goods dealer IN the United
States. As soon as he was dead his great
property gave rise to litigation, and one .
suit ran into another so that although the
first parties died others kept IL up. Thirty
three years of legal warfare We're required
to bring the case TO a successful issue. The .
first plaintiff WAS dead, and so was the de- 1
fendant.
Not few members of Congress are /
said to regret the votes they cast for Hurl- I.
butts salary bill. 1t adds $500 to their D
pay, and enables each one to keep the .
amount he has drawn under the deserved 1
" unpopular bill of last session but Con- 1
gressmeB have already found out that this .
viii not satisfy their constituents. They
cannot conceal the fact, that this bin
takes nearly 4 quarter of million of dol /
lars out of the treasury in excess of the .
old rate, while it leaves untouched a half
million of dollars in the increased salaries
of the President, departmental officials
and congressional employees Such 4 re-
cord as this, is one which even men who
voted for Hurlbut's bill, feel that they can
not afford to make.
An old woman in the county of Dur
ham, England, eighty-one years of age,
Of the name of Brigham, thinks and has
so informed 4 correspondent of the Amer
can press, that Brigham Young is her hus-
band, who deserted her and her children
and disappeared from England forty years
ago It appears that her husband Brig
lam was the natural son of a man named T.
YOung and a woman named Brigham
hat he was adopted by man named AL
en-; that after his marriage he proved to
DC anything but a devoted head of the
amily; that he worked for some time in
London as 4 cooper under the name of