The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-03-07
Ne,cs and Political Items.

Father Burke promises another visit
to America next summer.
Snow to the depth of sixteen feet on
the level is reported in the vicinity of Bear /
Lake, Utah.
At Muscatine the ice is thicker than
ever before kuOwn--thirty-two inches. In .
1913 it was two inches less.
--Sam'l Jones and Parmelia Sanders, of
Michigan started III married life last week .
at the combined age of LAT.
"A second hand dress and two skeins of
warn were recently exchanged for forty /
acres of land in Texas county, No.
-Marysville, Ky, comes proudly to the
front with a family six members OF which
are running through the divorce mill.
John Conrad, of Luzerne county, cut
his throat the other day because his father
refused him permission to attend ball.
After being buried under snow-bauk
for twenty-five days, an independence,
Iowa) hog displayed very fair appetite.
Miss Sarah Covert, of Chardon, Ohio,
recently assumed the legal status Of a f,me
eorert hv matrimony at the age of twelve.
On the third day Of the marriage OF
the Emperor of China, he and his young
bride appeared in dresses valued at $780,
600.
Miss Jennie Brown, of Wisconsin, has
received fifty yards Of watered silk as
reward for saving three men from watery
grave.
a steer passed over the Southwestern
railroad last week, from Arkansas. that
was - hands high and weighed g. goo
pounds.
On Friday last, Armstrong county vo-
ted against license by about seven hun
dred majority. Elk county gives a ma jor-
ity for license.
Alexander II. Stephens was elected to
Congress, Thursday, III the Eighth District
of Georgia. The vote WAS small there be
ing no opposition.
Another amendment to the Constitu-
tion is rendered necessary by the refusal Of
the colored BARRIERS in Cincinnati TO shave
persons Of their own race.
"A fire damp explosion took place at
the Oxford mines, Scranton, on Sunday
last, by which six small boys were terri
bly burned, three probably fatally.
A black walnut tree was found in
vein Of coal in Illinois, the other day, five
hundred feet below the surface and two
hundred and fifty from the mouth OF the
drift.
ON Tuesday last, Michael Murray, a
carpenter, fell down Pyne Shaft, back Of
Hyde Park, near Scranton, a distance Of
two hundred feet and was instantly killed.
There is sixty feet Of water in the shaft
Gerry l.. Taylor q lawyer OF Trenton,
New jersey. was convicted last week of
taking illegal pension fees from soidicr's
hard labor in the state prison.
twenty Thousand dollars worth Of lace
silk and Sorsted goods, which 4 passenger
on the steamship S!esia was trying to
snuggle ashore, were seized by the customs
officers at New York. on Thursday.
a Democrat has been elected to the
Alah3ma Senate. at the special election in
Sun.-cr county, to ill the vacancy occa-
sionta by the death Of a Republican Sena-
Tor. li:rls giving the Democrats control Cf
that body.
It has been discovered that Mr Schuy-
Ter Co!faX, while holding the position Of
Ce-'Tesident, was the attorney Of Geo. +.
Neshut, of stamped envelope fame. and &C
tualiy filed an argument in favor of his eli
emt's scheme.
The trial OF George O. Evans for the al
legged embezzlement of State funds, WAS
commenced i'll the Dauphin County Court
on Tuesday morning. Some interesting
developments Will likely be made during
the progress of this trial.
An amendment Was offered in the
Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention
giving the Governor the power to veto any
section Of bill. The object Of this is 10
strike out any bad feature Of an appropIi-
alton bin without defeating the bill itself.
The ship Chacubuco, from San Fran
CISCO for Liverpool collided, March Sd. with
the steamboat Torch in the Irish channel.
The former sank in few moments and
twenty four of her crew were drowncd.-
The Torch also went down, but all on board
were saved.
Unemployed boys are accommodating OIL
our hands, and the question what shall
we do with them ?-is pronounced at every
turn. Stores and Offices are filed to repie-
tion with them every place, in point of
fact, save where they most needed, in
the workshops and factories as indentured
apprentices.
The honor Of this paragraph is accord
ed to a smart woman, Mrs. Jerry Blai sdel!,
of East Denmark, Me, who recently spun
lot Of wool rolls, dyed and wove them
'ntO stout cloth, and sscut out and made
from the same a pair of trowsers for her
fortunate husband, all within the space Of
tElrty-SIX hours
A fire in New Orleans, on Friday, tie
stroyed nearly six squares, bounded by
Claude, Dauphine and MandcvilIc streets
. i.,''.,~, .o-~Iy tTvcIiiI.srS.
The De Soto sclool-house was also con-
Sumsd. The loss is estimated at $3.50, 600.
Over 200 families are left homeless
-Master Edward Pindar Of Duxbury,
Mass, coloTcd youth about nine years of
age, by the death of an Ut Gle. has lust
fallen heir to some thirty thousand dollars
Master Plndar Is said to be a remarkably
bright youth, attending a private school
Iatronized by the elite of Duxbury, and
ranks among the very first scholars there.
The Constitutional Convention, by
vote of 53 to -, reported a section p?ovid-
ing that every election ticket shall be num-
bered To correspond with a record fur
n'shed the election boards, and further
more, that each elcctor shall endorse his
name on his ticket and attest it by the sig
nature of another voter in his district be-
fore voting.
-O'Neal, a man sentenced to be hanged
for murder in Jonesboro, Ga. and whose
sentence was committed to imprisonment
for life, was shot dead few days ago while
attempting TO escape. The Atlanta Herald
says that the case is one of the saddest it
ever knew, for O'Neal was not badly in
fault for his crime, and was really the vic
tim of circumstances.
-The Jury in the AIlingham murder