The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-11-07
ne,cs and PotsttcaJ Items.

There is hen in WllllamSport whlch
has lust distinguished herself by bringing
forth a family of thirty-two chicks:
An incendiary fire, the third that has
oceurrcd in two weeks, took place In the [
village of Scotia, New York, on the 3D. I.
DESTROYING S1AO worth Of property.
Tie .Juniata Republican says Dead
eeIs are floating with the current IN both
the canal and river OF the likes of such
an epidemic. old fishermen have no knowl-
edge -, ,,,,...,.,,,,,,o.,
tbirteen- pairs of twins within as many
weeks. and many prudent swains have
broke off their engagements III conse-
quence.
York. arrived at st. Johns, New Bruins
wick. on the 1st, with his wife. The next
dav he shot her dead in the street, and
afterwards shot and killed himself Jeal-
ousy was the supposed cause: ...
In Wareham, Mass, on Sunday last, q
LARGE wagon conveying seventeen persons
from that town to the Catholic church at
fremont village, wasupset. John y Hara,
Michael Printable and Thomas Reilly were
seriously injured, and several others were
badly bruised.
Reports from Belmont, Nevada, say
there IS intense excitement at that place
over the discovery of a mine ledge. 1t is
ten feet wide and 1t already has. been
traced two hundred and seventy-five feet
/ The ore yields from one thousand to three
thousand dollars per ton.
/ Henry Walters, of Mount Joy town
! ship, Lancaster county, hung himself on
the 9th in the woods near his home. He
/ was in the habit of wearing n belt around
1 his waist which habit his wife disliked :;
so she hid the belt from him. He then
threatened to kill himself and he did it.
One of the jailors at the Iombs IS said
1v,rl o.
the Stokes verdict. ':Why, before now
exclaimed the wrathy official, 81 have seen
n man taken from this place and sentenced
to five years imprisonment for stealing
money enough to keep his family from
starving.
Mr.. John Murphy drove Joe Elliott, the
renowned trotter owned by Mr.. Robert
Bonner over Prospect Park last week, a
quarter in thirty nine seconds, making the
half mile in 1:O6. He then drove a full
mile at his ease in 2:1Sk. On the same
day he logged POc3hOntas at an exercising z
gait at 2:193.
Griffith Thomas, a mining engineer,
met a horrible death in Luzerne county
on Thursday. While in mine his lamp
went ont, and while groping around a lot
of loaded cars approached him. lie stocd
on one side Of the track, but there being
not sufficient room between the wall and
the track he was crushed by the cars.
George Kirk, young peddler made
an indecent assault upon the person of a
young German girl, Susan Welden by
name, at TamaGUa, on the oath inst, while
she was lying at the point of death from
fever The girl died, and on the inquest
her attending physicians testified that her
death had been fastened by the violence
OF Kirk. The miscreant escaped.
A white oak tree was cut down n short
time ago in Lebanon county which yielded
of MI Ir1iu ~ fivfa
dollars, and ten cords Of wood of the value
of twenty dollars. The logs were five and
half feet in diameter. About thirty-iivo
years ago the tree was trimmed by AIr.
Heilman and about three cords Of wood
cut from the limbs.
At n recent election in iowa nearly
. every County Treasurer was defeated for
reelection, and many Of them seem to be
terribly alarmed at the general overhaul
ing of books that must follow. A local
journal saws: The Jackson County Treas
urer takes time by the foreIock, and an
nouEccs that $2G, geo of the funds ia his
keeping WAS stolen the ether night 10y
burglars The burglars are inside Of the
Radical money repositories, not out.
The fact is mentioned by the Pitts
burgh Post that '-in California, where 4
dead set was made against greenbacks
from the word go where the currency Is
composed of gold AID silver coin, and of
paper redeemable on demand, we hear of
no panic-no stoppage of business Of any
kind-not even the most triiiing ripple
upon the business surface of the State. 1t
would seem as if California money was
something of She right sort, after all is
said and done - .-rr. er .. ..rr-
Mr.. Dill, the Democratic candidate
for State Senate, has been elected by q
majority of % votes over Wagonseller, in
the district composed of Union. Snyder.
n -
one year ago these counties gave Grant =
majority exceeding 8, 100votes. Mr. Wag-
onseller was once a Democratic member
of the lower House. and was one of n ia
nous triumviIate who permitted them
selves to be overcome by CameTon's bland
ishments. Verify he has his reward.
A Washington dispatch has the fol-
lowing: 1T has tTanspired that the house
of Jay Cooke i Co., which borrowed from
the First National Bank of this city $500.
COO, through the Influence of Henry d.
Cooke, President of the bank. has since
their failure withdrawn $500, 600 in Cen
trail Pacific bonds, and deposited them
with the Secretary of the Treasury as Sc
cuIity for 5000, COO advanced them by the
Secretary Il few days before their failure.
| Creditors of Jay Cooke & Co. are to inves-
tigate the above proceeding
-Ehe Sprague firm IL Rhode Island,
wealthy cotton spinners, claim to be worth
$13, AGO. 600. They control the little State
in both business and politics but they
send to New York to borrow LOCO. coo
more This is the class built up by an in
Hated paper currency-two men having
been enabled, beneath the shadow of green
backs, to accumulate enough to make two
hundred and sixty eight men worth $50
ooo each Talk as you may about it. such
condition of affairs is unhealthy. and the
| legislation which produces it is anti-Re-
publican and should be utterly DESTROYED.
Three small colored children were
burned to death on Saturday near the
Virginia end of the Washington Aqueduct
bridge. The father of the children was ~
work at the coal wharves in Georgetown.
and their mother, having made fire in
the stove, started with her husbands din
] ner, looking the children in the hnusn IL