The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-11
Ne,es ana Political Items.

Colorado by white man. o
EThree sea lions, costing 500, 900, were
received by Barnum on Monday.
A wind storm in Kansas blew plank
pavement and woman on 1t INTO the street
A vouno woman in Indiana has mar
ried the husband of her dead grandmother.
A Cincinnati girl attempted TO commit
suicide eleven times without snufing her
self ont.
A father is under arrest in Worcester,
Mass, for whipping a one year old child
for an hour and dislocating its thigh.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de
cided that man can no longer be held
responsible for a SANDER uttered by ms
wife.
Ex-senator Caldwell has forever with /
drawn from politics. He enters private .
life again with resignation If not with /
Christian fortitude.
Five men were killed and many more ,
injured OH Saturday last by fire damp /
explosion in a coal-mine near Abertnlery, 7
Monmouthshire, England.
In the case of the murder OF an Old
lady in Tennessee, who was found hung /
to a hog pole, suspicion has attached to
her own son, and he and his wife have been
arrested upon the charge of committing the
crime.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company
contemI,lates laying two additional tracks
coming summer and winter and intends
TO expend $4,000. OOO in improving their
property i'll this State during the present
year.
a woman in Spain gave birth to a con-
SOlidated twin with two heads and four
legs proceeding from a single trunk. One
of the heads was still born. but the other
lived two hours. 1t has now joined the
collection of spirits in the anatomical mu-
scum at Madrid.
Old naval officers, who are familiar
with the scene of the disaster to steamship
Atlantic, hold to the opinion that the
wreck could not have occurred as 1t did
without gross mismanagement on the part
of officers. The matter viii be investiga-
ed-we hope thoroughly.
Panama papers received per Ocean
Queen, report that the steamship IrOplc
picked up at sea a boat with two men and
a woman, sole survivors of the ship J. W.
/ Elwen, from Liverpool for Valparaiso,
which took fire and blew up. These par
ties had been seventy-five days in the open
/ boat.
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati,
has laid down n rule especially aimed at
/ tTades-unions, that no Roman Catholic can
, unite with any association requiring an
oath as 4 condition of membership and
I the sacrament of communion is refused
/ throughout his diocese to CFispins and all
such.
The Belfast Journal says that there is
a girl in Searsport, Me, thirteen years and
six months old, weighs 22O pounds ) feet
> inches high that measures around the
breast AZ inches around the waist 42
. inches around the arms, above the elbow,
/ 16 inches. She is in good health and still
growing.
AT the Borden mines, near Frost
/ burg Allegany county, Maryland, John
! Langley. an employe, while being lowered
/ down with a horse and cart, the horse be
I coming restive, kicked the coupling loose,
and all were precipitated to the bottom, 1G5
/ feet. Langley was instantly killed, being
! horribly crushed.
The Countess Guiccioli, one of Lord
/ Byrou's loves unlawful, died the otherday
/ amid the scenes of her early life. She
( was a remarkable woman retaining her
J vivacity anG beauty TO the last. she was
I seventy-twO when she died, and notwith-
/ standing her free life, she never lost her
/ place i'll society which is not saying much
/ for society.
"A citizen of Boston last November
! placed 81, O0O III the hands of the Chief of
/ the Police, to be loaned to working girls
/ having persons dependent upon them for
( support The sums loaned are to be kept
/ twenty years without interest, and no Sc
/ curitv but the word of the borrower is re
! quired. About fifty girls have thus far
! been aided III this way from the fund.
A terrible wind, rain and hail hurri-
! cane at Burlington, Iowa, on Saturday
/ afternoon, caused widespread desoldtion
/ throughout the town. During its preva-
/ lence, two adjoining houses were blown
down and twenty-five persons buried be
meath the wreck, seven Of whom were
/ taken out dead. The remainder narrowly
/ escaped with their lives, but suffered Sc
we're injuries.
A calculation has been made by Cap
tain Williams showing that the loss of
life by the late terrible disaster. though
/ immense, was not so large as had been re-
/ ported. The atlantic had on board SO
cabin passengers, 800 steerage passengers,
/ and crew, officers included, Of 143 men.
/ Total, 9I6 souls, leaving the number lost,
! $40. This may not be precisely correct,
but is nearly so.
A substitute for coal is promised at
Sheffield, England, and one, too, of which
there is an unlimited supply. Mr.. Wright's
/ invention for warming and lighting is al
ready patented. In passing through a
charged battery atmospheric air is corbOn-
lied, and thus combustible gas is produced
| which burns brighter than coal gas, and
when mixed with air has heating power
which can melt copper wire.
Only Vice President NOW Senator)
Hamlin, Chief-Justice Chase, Senator Cam
erOn. Frank =. Blair, sr, and Gideon
! Welles remained of the associates of Mr..
Lincoln in the administration in 1S61.-
Messrs. Sumner, Cameron, Anthony, Ham
lin and Chandler are the only Senators
who were in the Thirty-sixth Congress,
and, excepting Vice President Wilson,
the only members of that Senate now in
! public life.
Pope Plus IX, who is reported sick, is
now in his 81st year, so that there cannot
be much hope entertained of his recovery
[ if his illness be as serious as was indicated
| in Tuesdays cable dispatches. His full
name is Giovanni Maria Mastai FerreCti.-
He was born at Sinagalia, Italy, in 1892.
In 1903 he visited Chill. South America,
and engaged in clerical labors there for
I two years. He was created Archbishop
of SpOletO in 1927 in 1916 Pope-so that
the term of his pOntificate up to the pre-
/ Spnt date is 81 wears