The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-12-26
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-Fifty-eight counties record maiorities
for and eight against the constitution.
Judge Gordon has invented telescope
doubtless with view OF discovering the
opposition TO the new constitution.
1t is reported that Minister Sicllles has
determined to tender his resignation.
Why don't he carry his determination into
ehect?
The Rothschilds twelve in number,
are worth about one thousand millions of
dollars, firm, including their individu-
al fortunes.
in Sunbury on Saturday evening, four
dwelling houses and four stables were des-
troyed by insendiary fire. The loss is es-
timated at IS, 600.
Cornish, Mass, is we'll provided with
flags, an eccentric citizen having left ST.
I 900, the interest of which is annually to be
expended in bunting.
"A miner named John Carroll was bru-
! tally murdered near Monongahela City on
! Saturday last. Two men with whom he
had been on n protracted spree were the
/ perpetrators of the crime.
a young man was struck by lightning
near Trenton, n. j., recently, and when
the neighbors began to flock to the spot TO
view the body they found man standing
beside it trying to sell lightning rods.
/ "A curiosity in the form of an Indian
woman IS years old and thirty-six inches
/ high, is oE exhibition at La Crosse, Wis
She belongs to the Chippewa tribe, and
/ lives about fifteen miles from Ashland
/ Lake Superior
/ A workman at n planning mill at Rock
Island, H., was recently explaining 20 a
visitor the way III which his son had an
arm taken off in q planning machine last
summer, when his own arm was caught
and taken off in the same manner.
The wool growers of Washington
county gave a majority of 3,9SS for the
new constitution out of total vote of l.
G29. There WAS much cry and little wool
i'll that story of the Pittsburgh Comnler-
/ ci0l about :he revival of the sheep tax
Peter Van Dyke, an old chap who
died in New Hampshire, the other day
worth $40, 1000 in cash, requested in his
will that no one ''shOuld shuttle and sh ed
/ crocodile tears ut his funeral, but cover
him over and then hurry home to fight
over his money"
/ The constitution of ofPennsylvapia form
ed i'll 1870 was put into operation by the
convention without submitting it TO a vote
OF the people. The present constitution
was framed by convention in 1888, and
after an exciting campaign, was adopted
by barely 200 majority.
Tho rumor is current that the English
Government VIII demand and enforce the
trial of Burriel the Santiago butcher
The rumor lacks confirmation at this writ
ing; but it has been intimated before this
that if our Government did not enforce
this point, the English would
Herman Kuhn, OF Schuylkill county
has document to which is attached the
genuine signature of Napoleon |. who
styles himself emperor of the French, king
OF Italy and protector of the confederation
of the Rhine, etc. The names of other
high officers are attached to the paper.
If john I. Irviug's object in pretend
ing to know so much about the Nathan
murder was to secure board and lodging at
the States expense he succeeded admra-
bly,. He has been sent to prison for seven
and half years for the ole burglary bust
ness. and we are Just wise about the
Nathan murder as we were before.
a ridiculous report comes from Mad
rid that the CASTELAR, Cabinet has decided
to demand from the United States govern
ment the return Of the Virginius and her
surviving passengers and crew. President
CASTELAR, would not be party to such a
demand, which would cover both Spain
and his administration with disgrace
The generous hearted little girls Of
Madison Square, New York, have written
to Mr. Brace, of the Childreu's Aid Socic-
ty, and Informed him Of their intention of
giving up their Christmas presents this
year, and stating their determination of
sending their money instead to be distIib-
ubS'i bg l4tH dI4IOlS tie SICK allCs poor.
jacob Drummer, of BeTks county. had
his fortune told by an old hag in Reading
recently. He was informed that his first
prize would be a coffin and in four weeks
from that time he would die and that
meantime both he and his father would be
robbed. He believed the old woman's
story, and the man is now raving maniac.
The little sum of S2rS. 513.6 is III
that the Secretary of War calls upon the
sanity General Howard to account for.
When it is understood that this pious fraud
runs several churches, the Young Mems
Christian Association of Washington. and
a horde of small-fry newspapers, it seems
cruel to annoy the great man about such a
tri1ting peculation.
Henry w. Genet. one of the New York
ring, who was convicted Of fraud last Fri
day, escaped on Sunday night. Genet was
allowed to remain at his own house in Gus
tody of deputy sheriff, and he got off while
the latter was enjoying a short nap The
Sheriff of New York offers So, 600 reward
for Genet's apprehension within ten DAYS,
and expects to have him in custody and
ready for sentence by Monday next
"A woman living near Salamanca, N
Y, recently insisted upon her little step
daughter, about six years old, going one
evening recently to look for shawl which
had been lost on the mountains The
child went, and lost it's way in the dark
ness, and three days after was found bv
some neighbors nearly starved to death.
and her hands, feet and ears badly frozen.
The woman and her husband are under
arrest for cruel treatment of the child.
"A lady survivor of the steamer Vile !
du Havre, writing to the St. Louis Demo- I
crGt makes the following extraordinary
statement 81 scuttled the ship in half a |
dozen places with hair-pins and paper |
cutters. l tell the unexaggerated truth !
when | say that, lying on the sofa in state /
room No. 90, dug into the punky wood, !.
two or three inches away from the port /
hole, with a paper knife, till | struck the /
glazing of iron that formed its outer coat /
Miss Sarah Smith Spafford. of Trenton.
New Jersey, the only daughter of Lieuten
ant James Bayard Spaflord, who was with /
John Paul Jones Oh the Bon Homme Rich
ara III the famous fight with Serapis. Sen