The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-01-10
Ne,cs and Political Items.

III hChJuChS OuCc lOC6Itd 10y IOdIOll DIuDCn
Prof. Wise is building another mani
moth balloon with which lie hopes to cross
the ocean in the Spring.
p. I. BaTnum was robbed of a thous-
and dollar diamond pin while riding IN the
cars IN New York city on the 1st inst.
"A baby was born in Cincinnati sorce
time ago whose mother was sixty-nine
years Old and its father seventy four.
Joseph Heidenberg, glazier, living in
Henry street, New York, was snow-balled
to death by boys on New Years Day.
A barn and twenty horses and sleighs
belonging to dancing party, at Louisville,
Washington county, burned up Christmas
night.
The editor of the Examiner at Ell,
Falls, Kansas, hung himself lately, and left
a note for his foreman telling him to go and
chop wood if he would be happy.
AT Milton, Mass, recently, a couple
were married at the death bed of the brides
mother at her request. The bride caught
cold at the funeral and died within week
of pneumonia.
Henry Williams, employed by the
| Thomaston Colliery, at Pottsville, while
/ cutting ice on Sunday, slipped and ''fell
600 feet down the slope.'' He was instantly
killed his body being terribly mangled.
After life of peculiar vicissitudes,
commenced as circus rider and culminat-
ing as princess, the Princess Salm-Salm
closes her romantic career as a nun in a
convent at bleak Innsbruck in the Tyrol.
The Watsontown Record says its edi-
tor had conversation with "a liquor dealer
of Williamsport who declared that $780,
O0O had already reached Harrisburg to eff
feet the repeal Of the local option law this
winter.
-JO5n H2gan, Esq, Democratic mem
| ber-eiect from Greene county, died on the
Gath ult., of pneumonia, aged about 90
/ years. This leaves a vacancy in the House
of Representatives to be filed by special
election.
/ -Lecky the historian, and Tyndall
/ scientist, are both Irishmen, but they have
/ done well in the world, and are called
/ Englishmen. If they had turned rogues
/ they would never have been anything but
/ lrishmen.
If it be true all the anthracite coal
! mines in the State are about to become the
| property of certain railroad COMPANIES, The
! people will realize the power of corpora
[ tlons, IN another shape, before the close OF
! the present year.
A pumpkin pie, ten feet in diameter
and four feet deep, was the chief feature
of California dinner, recently. The en-
! Joyment Of the guests was marred some
/ what by a child falling into the pie and
drowning before their ewes.
/ At Springfield. O., on Tuesday night a
. woman named Nancy Harrington, aged
! forty, was murdered by her husband and
her son terribly mUtilated, his skull being
| crushed with an axe. 1t is supposed that
| the husband was intoxicated
The ice gorges in the Ohio and Missis-
| sippi have proven immensely destructive to
/ property. An immense number of steam
/ boats, bargeS, etc, were destroyed, involv-
ing losses that will amount TO many hun
/ dreds of thousands of dollars.
"A frightful calamity occurred Christ
! mas night at Nilliamsport, in this State
/ he floor Of a Baptist church gave way.
and fourteen persons were crushed TO death.
/ being buried under the falling timbers
/ Several others we're more or less injured.
Samuel Wilson, of Sharon, and a clerk
/ IN the Post-Office at that place, has been
arrested and taken to Pittsburgh, on the
/ charge of opening and robbing letters pass
/ ing through the Office. He is a nephew OF
the Postmaster there, and has heretofore
maintained a good character.
"A man died in indianapolis recently
/ from the effects of the excessive use of ice
water, having swallowed three gallons in
| one day, besides p quantity of half frozen
! milk. He acquired the morbid craving
/ for it through the sudden breaking off Of
/ the habit of chewing tobacco.
"A company of New York and Penn
/ sylvania capitalists have purchased ten
! acres of land at Mckinney's station. ten
miles from Pittsburgh, for the purpose of
! establishing works for the manufacture of
! steel by the Bessemer process. The COM
/ pany has capital of 80, 600. 600.
| For lack of any Hvelier topic the Yer
mont papers are trying to find out who are
/ entitled to the reputation of being the
heaviest couple in the State, the most
! promising pair thus far heard from being
Henry 1inkham and wife, of West Ran
/ dolph, who turn the scales at 270 and 23O
| pounds, respectively.
The operators of the Schuyikiu coal
region made compromise proposition for
| 1873, namely, the basis of 1872. sliding
| down If coal declines as low as 81 25 per
| ton as minimum. This has been pre-
/ sented through the President of the Work
/ lnSmen S Benevolent Association. and un-
/ til 1t Is accepted there will be very few col
| HerieS worked
a touching tribute of affection was that
/ displayed by twenty-five little girls in Allie
/ gheny City who on Christmas morning re-
! pared to the grave of a loved playmate
who died in April last, and placed on the
snowy mound that covered her remains
/ beautiful wreaths and bouquets. Such eyi-
( dences of youthful affection are so rare that
! they deserve more than the mere passing
mention they will receive.
The Harrisburg Patriot saws that n
/ shSht confusion seems to exist among a
| few OF Its exchanges i'll regard to the time
OF the inauguration of Governor elect Har-
! tranft 1t may be proper to state that the
inauguration will take place on the third
Tuesday, 21st day, of January. The two
Houses will meet in joint convention at 12
! o o'clock, Wednesday, January 22d, to elect
Senator of the United States.
"A sailor named Riley suicided in New
\ ork on Friday afternoon by jumping head
foremost from the main yard to the deck
OF the bark, on which he had recently ship
4 pea, while she har =.
East river, bound for Liverpool. The
! spectacle was witnessed by the crowds on
the ferry boats. Riley, who is said to be
from Logansport, Indiana, was picked up
and his body taken to the Morgus.
A shoemaker, named Lewis Koner.
who resided in Bethlehem, Pa, has been
missing since Christmas night. He was
of intemperate habits, and on Christmas
day had been drinking very freely. On
SATURDAY afternoon a man crnssir.. L.