The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-09-19
,e,cs ana Political items.

with her family of thirteen chill
dren, among whom were four pairs of
twins.
The Oakyille Enterprise says man in
Bendersviile. Adams county, sold 2,26o .
quarts of hucllleberries in the Carlisle
market this season.
Jos. Campbell jumped from the Ohio
river bridge at Louisville on Saturday
night, and landing on rock, 50 feet be
low, was instantly killed.
The walls of a building in the town Of
Stonehouse, Deyonshire, Eng, which had
been recently burned, fell Monday morn
ing, killing eight persons and mJur1ng
several others.
A Mrs. Minnie W Benton has been
arrested in New York and sent 10 the
House of Detention, who Is said to have
seen Stokes throw away the pistol with
which he shot Fisk.
At the recent Fat Mans Clam Bake
at G,regoIy's Point, Conn, 143 members
attended, whose average weight were over
23O pounds. The heaviest fat man weighed
300 pounds, and none weighed less than
goo pounds.
Hail stones three inches in diameter
fell in ShawanO county, Wis, recently,
and did considerable damage to the crops,
knocked man off load Of hay, killed
hundreds of chickens, and demolished any
number Of umbrellas and spring bOnnets
at a camp meeting.
The yellow fever has made its appear
ance in Memphis and is spreading rapidly.
Many citizens have already left the city,
and if the disease does not abate regular
stampede will be made. The disease is
still raging with all its yiTulence in Shreve-
port, and loud calls are made for aid.
The Philadelphia EEeHiRg Herald has
completed an arrangement with Geo. ID.
Coleman for balloon voyage in a new
!. IL. i
lutiOnize existing methods, and make
aerial navigation of practical value as
means Of cheap and rapid transit.
Glass bonnets have appeared. They
are formed Of a tissue woven by fine glass
threads, and may be said to be the glass Of
fashion fitted to the mould of form. La
. dies who wear them must deny themselves
the pleasure of criticising their neighbors,
on the principle that it is dangerous for
those who live in glass houses to throw
stones.
Here is the classification of babies
premiums at the Fair of the New Hamp-
shire Agricultural Society: For the finest
baby under six months old, a gold neck
lace: for do, between the ages of = and
20 months, golden cup; for the Ioveliest
twins, two golden mugs; for the child with
the reddest hair, regardless of temper, $40
in gold.
"A billiard tournament, at which prizes
to the amount of three thousand dollars
will be awarded, has been arranged to
come off in Chicago during the first part
OF November next under the management
of Tom. Foley. The first prize will be one
thousand dollUrs, the second six hundred
and fifty dollars, and the third five hun
dred dollars.
We learn from the New YOrI, papers
that at a meeting Of the Graphic Balloon
Company orders were given for the manu-
facture Of a silk bag or globe, the same to
be ready for initiation within three weeks
time. at the expiration Of which time it is
proposed to make another effort to reach
the easteTjy current. of which there has
been 50 much talk of late.
The Newport Nc1rS claims that Esquire
Morrison, Of New Germantown, Perry
county, Is the champion apiarist in the
State. He has in his apiary 90 hives of
bees, both Italian and common, in hives
made of every kind of material usually
used for such purposes. aud the industry Of
these little workers during the last season
amounted to about 1000 pounds Of honey.
Shreveport, which is so severely af-
ficted with yellow fever, is situated on
the west bank IF the Red river IN the
northern part OF Louisiana, about three
hundred miles by land northwest of Baton
/ Rouge, and about thirty miles below the
Great Raft, which Is the limit of navi-
/ CATION for large steamboats,. The popula-
/ ton is about SCOT. Of which 2.I39 are
white and ,, 1GS colored.
On the 1lth inst. a dog brought the
head, an arm and part of the breast of an
infant into the house OF widow Foley, in
/ Coal Castle, SChuylkiN county. Search
was instituted and other parts of the child
were found in a Slted close TO the house.
partially eaten by dogs. An inquest was
held and the coroner's jury gave as their
decision that the child came to its death
from an unknown cause.
/ Here IS a 'back-pay'' item which i
rather pleasant reading: A Mr.. Gilmore is
one of the ''old school subscribers of the
/ Kingston journal. He was thirty-one
years in arrears for his paper. Last week
he called upon the editors of the Journal
and paid up like a man, and, remarlliup
that he might not be around again very
soon, he paid his subscription ten wears
ahead, aud another for his mother for
twelve years ahead.
w ell, this Is very extraordinary. In
Whitehall. it is said, whenever the baby
of the family is put to sleep a large rat
comes out and kindly Whisks the flies with
his tail from the slumbering cherub's face
The experiment has been tried several
times, and the rat always comes out and
always drives the flies away as aforesaid
Evidently the snake stories are to be sue
ceeded by series on the sagacity and use-
fulness of that intolerable nuisance.
The Lancaster Examiner saws that .,
new disease has broken out amoDo tla
COWS IN different parts of that county. tba
symptoms of which correspond with those
exhibited by the horses last winter. while
they were suffering from epizootic. Mr..
Rhine, milkman, residing on the Harris
burg pike, on McGOyern's farm. near I'm
caster, lost four of his best mixers. 4
daIryman living near Litiz lost every COW
: he owned by the same disease a few d.
since.
-EX-Presideut Johnson considers tbe
late letters of Mr.. Holt in relation To Mrs
Surratt of sufficient Importance to visit
/ Washington. Perhaps the public NAV
/ get true version of this cold-blooded and
deliberate murder in the course of time
Mr.. johnson assures his friends that ba