The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-12-12

The Investigation by the Finance Com
mittee of the City Council of Pittsburgh,
during last week, relative to half million
dollars worth of bonds, placed bythe sec
retary of the " ateI Board IN the Natlonai
Trust Company, which suspended, 1esult-
ed on Saturday night in a charge of con
spiracy to defraud the city being brought
aoainst some of the officers and directors
of the bank and the Secretary of the Water
Commission. A charge of embezzlement
was also made against the Secretary OF the
Water Commission. The parties all gave
hail. except the cashier of the bank, who
has been missing since the suspension.
The first patent issued by the United
States was granted to Samuel hopkins on
July 80, 1870, for the manufacture OF pot
and pearl ashes The third was to Oliver
Evans, of Philadelphia. SO famous for his
Inventions in high pressure engines, OF
whose invention President jefferson re-
marked that sit was too valuable to be
covered by patent, and there should be
no patent for thing no one could aftoro
to do without after it was known This
was in December of the same year lnWhlch
Hopkins obtained his patent. For many
wears after this date the patent Office was
but clerkship in the State Department.
Hon. John NJ Read, not having been
afforded an opportunity TO express from
the Supreme Bench his antipathy to the
new Constitution. has ayailed himself OF
the columns of sympathetic newspaper
for that purpose. We trust, says the
Pittsburgh Dispatch, that the late Chief
Justice feels better now. This matter has
evidently been troubling him n long time.
1t agitated him so much while he was yet
Judge, that, regardless of the dignity of
his DO ion, he was unable TO refrain from
giving vent to his views. Hon. Read will
not, however, we fancy. make many votes
for the little clique 10 which he seems so
ardently attached.
-Abner McIlrath, the Euclid giant and
fox-h hunter, the father of a race of atall
BOYS and girls, had reunion of his fami-
ly at the old homestead in East Cleveland
/ formerly Euclid) on Thanksgiving. From
The Cleveland Voice we learn that there
were assembled father and mother, seven
sons and four daughters, thirteen in all.
The height of the old gentleman, who il
now sixty-one years of age, is six feet six
and half inches, The height of tho wife
is FIVE feet nine inches. OF the seven sons.
four are each six feet and five and hall
! inches, and three six feet two inches in
height, while the four daughters are each
/ five feet eleven inches i'll height, and the
/ height of all com Oincd is eighty feet three
and half inches. The oldest son is Chief
of Police at st. Paul, and another son is =
father in his day has lifted LOO pounds
Of iron.
Ono of the most destructive confagra-
tions that has ever visited New Bloemfield,
the county seat of Perry county, occurred
on Friday night last, destroying property
to the amount of about twenty thousand
dollars. The flames were first discovered
issuing from the stable attached to Grier's
| Hotel, on Carlisle street, shortly after eight
o'clock. The structure being built Of pine
| lumber and filledwith inflammablemateIia
/ burned very rapidly. The flames soon
] communicated with adjoining buildings il
/ either direction, and as the town is sadly
| deficient in fire apparatus it was found i'm
! possible to check the onward march of The
/ red demon until the stable and hotel build
/ ing, two private residences, the Adc0catt
/ printing office, large frame building used
as marble shop law Office and several
minor structures had been converted into
/ heaps of blazing embers. There was nc
! insurance on any Of the property destroy
, ed, save the sum Of one thousand five hun
/ dred dollars on the -ddgocats printing Office
+ in a Lebanon company. William Grier
Esq, the proprietor of Grier's Hotel, is the
heaviest sufferer by the confagration.