The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-09-12
ye,cs ana Pot.ttcat Items.

Matthew Samuel of Luzerpe county,
,o,ad siytv wears, was arrested on Friday
roSr attemnting to commit an outrage on
his own daughter, who is but twelve years
old.
"A Lewisburg Ark editor claims that
his town is the home of lady VINO Is
now seventy-three years old, and VINO has
shed tears at the graves OF ten departed
husbands.
Only four Modocs were killed during
the lava beds war, while the Indians
killed two white soldiers for every man IN
their band. Sufficiently significant of Their
The Missouri Republican has news to
the effect that Miss Miranda Thompson,
of Illinois, shears sheep, mows grass and
binds wheat, and goes TO church on Sun
dav with the biggest hustle In town.
The defalcation of John Harper, in
terDal revenue collector at Springfield,
illinois. amounts to not less thrn $500, 600.
He evidently had kind and considerate
friends in the revenue department at
Washington.
"A tornado passed over portions of
Rutland and Oakham, Massachusetts, for
a distance of about four miles, the 4th,
destroying considerable property. Several
persons had narrow escapes, but mono
were injured.
"A negro member of the Mississippi
Legislature is III Jail for stealing hog.
His friends say he really didn't want the
hog. but felt that, as a Radical leader, he
must steal something, and could find moth
ing else To steal.
MIR. Tate, the Democratic candidate
for State Treasurer in Kentucky was
elected by over ninety-two thousand ma
iority, and yet the Radicals 'are not
happy" They declare the Democratic
marty in Kentucky Is dead.
"A matrou in Indiana has given birth
to an infant having the mark of a minia-
ture horseshoe very distinctly impressed
upon its left arm, near the shoulder.
This, of course, secures for the lucky babe
a prosperous career throughout life.
Twenty light years ago Buffalo man
said to his wife Miranda, I'm going
down to Tins after bed-cord." That
was the last seen of him until the other
day, when he entered the house with a
bed-cord and said he'd fix that bed now.
New York people propose going into
the statute business extensively. Among
some names now proposed to be thus
houored in Central Park are those of
VIM H. Seward, Daniel O'COnnell, Elias
Howe Jr., Robert Burns and kosciusko.
Says the Clarion Democrat: On Fri
day last, after the Court had spent about
two hours in trying a case, it was ascer-
tanned that there were only eleven jurors
in the box. Another juror had to be
called, and the whole case gone over
again.
The body of a child buried eight
years ago was eXhum ed i'll Chester county
the other day and the outside coffin found
in the position it occupied when deposited
IN the grave, while tue inner coffin was
standing at an angle of thirty five degrees.
Singular.
Six of the eight convicts in the West
ern Penitentiary who attempted to escape
Il week OF two ago, are to be tried for
felOnious assault and battory. This is a
novel case and VIII no doubt attract much
attention when it comes before the Grim
inal court.
"A turtle-shell marked ''B. T, 1793,''
has been discovered at the old Trumbun
place in North Haven, Conn. 1t is sup
posed to have been marked by Benjamin
TrumbuI, son of the historian, DR..
Trumbull, and father of ex-senator Ly-
man Trumbull.
A Deputy Collector Of Taxes for the
District of Columbia has been crested on
the charge of receiving taxes, and failing
to render any account for the same. IF
all Radical officials were arrested who fail
to account for public moneys collected by
them, the officers of the law would be kept
busy.
Tower City, Schuylkill county, has
the champion father. lie has eighteen
children, one of whom was born recently.
Seven Of his sons are grown, and none
measure less than six feet in height. The
name of the wonderful man is Alex.
Thompson, and his age is sixty-seyen
years
On Saturday afternoon at half-past two
O'Clock, Nelson e Wade, the brutal muir
derer of the Mcbride family, was sentenced
to be hanged. lie received the sentence
very cooliy and replied Thank you, III
have home when l leave this world of sin
behind me- The time of execution will
be fixed 10y the Governor.
Tile Knoxville Chronicle states that at
Thorn Grove, on August 2S, young man
named CarTigan was in the act of tying an
OK to a tree when the same flash OF light
ming struck both, killing the animal Car
rigan had all the hair scorched off the back
of his head and lay msensible for fifteen
minutes after receiving the shock.
On Wednesday Mr.. John Miller, of
| Warsaw township, Clearfield county,
while riding on n wagon at home on the
farm, fell from the vehicle, one of the
wheels passing over him and fracturing
his skull, death ensuing from his injuries
next morning. Mr.. Miller was an aged
man, and for some time was suffering from
/ an alteration OF the mind.
jacob Jones, the Harrisburg negro
who stabbed Charles Williams to death
some weeks ago, has been found guilty of
murder in the second degree and SEN
fenced 20 imprisonment in the eastern
penitentiary for the term of his natural
life. Previous to sentence he astonished
the court, the jury, and everybody in the
room, by delivering an eloquent and we'll
composed address in his own behalf
"A fire broke out in Titusville, Pa. at
3 O'Clock Sunday morning last, DESTROYING
nearly one square of frame buildings,
known as the Diamond" bounded by
Franklin, Pine and Diamond streets. en-
bracing thirteen in all DESTROYED. The
total loss amounts to $50, 600; insurance,
$50, 600. distributed through various COM
panies. The origin of the fire has been
traced to no natisfactory or definite cause.
AT Sturgeon, Mo, immediately after
the close Of the fair, on Saturday, an alter
cation took place between John W. Hall
and James Wright, in which Hall was in