The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21
NeaUs and Political Items.
The majority for license in Reading

The majority for license in Reading is
1,715.
In some districts of Elk county the ma
iority for license is almost unanimous.
Pennsylvania has an area of $4,000
square miles; population of 3, 521, 791; an
assessed valuation of 81, ,319, 235, 042 num-
Der of miles of railroad, 5, 113.
"A Lancaster county cat roOsts with the
chickens every night, balancing herself on
a perch among the fowls, and seemingly
quite eontented with her resting place.
A reverend gentleman in Tennessee
named Acton Young has returned to the
pulpit after an interregnum of thirty years,
spent in keeping nearly fifty different ho-
tells.
Mrs Nancy Kyle, of Connecticut, has !
been married twenty three years, and has /
sued her husband for wages house |
keeper, claiming $15 month for the twen- |
ty-three years.
George 4. Clark, the senior proprietor
of the Clark Thread Works, of Newark,
New Jersey, died very suddenly on Thurs
day, of heart disease. He left an estate
valued at from 50, 900, 600 to So, 100000
"A colored woman, named Lettie Terrie,
aged 116 years, died recently in Columbus,
Ca. About six years ago she cut her third
set of teeth. She has daughter of "a,
and grand child nearly go, still living.
"A Lancaster woman forged her moth
er's name to note of $500, which proves
women can do some things as well as men;
but whom the act was discovered she died
Of fright, which proves they can do some
things better.
Robert Emmett. son Of Thomas Ad-
dis Emmett, the Irish patriot, and ne
phew of the celebrated Robert Emmett,
died at New Rochelle, New Y YorL on Sat
urday. Deceased was long an eminent
lawyer in New York city.
An oak saw log was lately got out of
I "a of vii thr1T11
| berland county, which contained PAL cubic
fset-making ,, S92 feet, board measure
and weighing eight tons. 1t was entitled
the king of the Woods
One of the Ohio representatives rose up
the other day and moved for law to pre-
vent any more babies from being named
John Smith, but the thirteen John Smiths
around him threw so many inkstands at
him that he had to sit down.
Mrs. Mary Ann Reichert, living at
Ashland, Pa, is 30 years old, and weighs
little over 500 pounds. She is feet in
height, measures % inches round the arm,
and feet inches round tie waist. She
is native of Schuyllcill county.
"A Newfoundland-dog not long since,
placed himself between his masters child
and the open CRATE toward which it was
crawling in Nashua, n. H, and remained
there, though scorched and blistered, until
persons came into the room and rescued
the child.
An organized system of swinClling has
been discovered among the officials on the
Panhandle Railroad, between Pittsburg and
Cincinnati, by which six conductors and
eleven outsiders are implicated in having de-
frauded the Company of $40, 900 in the last
two years.
"A cable dispatch from Rome announ-
! ces the appointment of Very Rev. DR.. NJ.
A. Corrigan as Bishop of Newark, Y. J..
and of Rev. Wm. II. Gross, Redemptorist
missionary, as Bishop of Savannah. The
nominations were confirmed by the Pope
/ on February ..
"A little girl named Bessie Cole was
found on the doorstep Of school house at
! Peekskill, \. Y, last week, with her arms
and legs frozen. The poor child on reach
ing school was too benumbed with cold to
open the door or to make her presence
known to those within.
Joel 4. Matteson, Ex-Governor of Hi
nois who died last week owned at Spring
field the finest family residence in the State,
costing $500, 600 originally, and stored with
valuable paintings and works OF art, and
its destruction by fire, a few days before, is
thought to have fastened his death.
On Friday afternoon of last week, the
| youngest child, two years old, of Mr.. Enoch
Engles, of Industry township, Beaver coun-
! ty, being missed from the house, short
/ time, was discovered by the other children
of the family in the spring near the house,
/ dead. The child had fallen in the water,
/ and was drowned.
Thousand of acres of land in Michigan
are covered with growth Of sweet fern,
/ which has hitherto been supposed to be
/ worthless, but it has been found that for
/ tanning purposes it Is unequallsd, and that
/ 1t yields forty per cent. extract, while
/ hemlock yields but fourteen. 1t promises
! to be very valuable.
Two elder sisters of the would-be bride
! broke up a wedding ceremony in Onslow
/ county, North Carolina, by rushing into
/ the room and attacking the bridegroom
and the officiating Clergyman with broom
sticks. All this, Notwithstanding the faith
or of the bride was present and ioyfully
/ cOnsenting 90 the marriage of his dauqbter
Hon. Chas. r. Buckalew writes to the
Philadelphia Press that the announcement
/ that he had been appointed attorney for
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company at a
! liberal salary, is without the slightest foun-
dation in truth Amt it most time for
Radical journals to cease lying in regard to
/ this gentleman? He is not candidate now.
Twelve men were killed and drowned.
on the 18th, at Richmond, Va. by the fall
ing of the fifteenth span of a brfdre which
is being erected across the James river at
that city. There being flood in the river
the trestlework had been moved xxb;cI,
was the cause of the falling Of the span.
precipitating workmen and timbers 10 feet
into the river.
A pleasing little instance of Iuxurious
pauPerism is furnished by family in Nor
walk, Conn. 1t consists of five persons.
who together spend $3.50 per week for
opium, and apply to the town authorities
for coal and bread and butter! The most
economical way would be for the town to
vote this beautiful family opium enough to
Kill off the whole interesting circle.
The last act in the drama Of the Nc
Farland- Richardson shooting case was en-
acted few days agoin indianapolis. The
Supreme Court of that State then decided
that the divorce granted Abby Sage Nc
Farland, was legal, affirming the Judgment
OF the court below. So now we are snnN
posed TO believe that the Mrs was the IaR
ful welded wife of the dead Richardson
The n. Y EoeRiRg Post saws in refer
ence to the Union Pacific "a th,,nI