The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-05-02
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Netcs and Political Items.


-Thirty-two snow storms and five
months of winter should satisfy any Green
lander.
Large brown butterflies in immense
swarms are passing through Douglas eoun-
ty, Kan.
-The,State Treasury bill has been signed
by the Governor. The amount of the bond
is $500, 900.
MI. Pension, Philadelphia, has just
drawn a $4OO, 900 prize in a Havana lot
:ery. Lucky man.
r. J. Carey, OF salisbury twp CIa"
ford county, has made over 5000 pounds OF
maple sugar and fifty gallons of syrup this
Spring.
There has been found, in Eldred town
ship. SchuylliIl county, an immense bed of
the finest American umber. 1t IS IN the
Mahantongo valley, about ten miles from
Ashland.
Twas the Venango Spectator said this:
Gas il the smirching of his Credit Mobiller
transaction was not enough, Congressman
Scofield has taken partner by the name
Of Hooker"
A rough named George Drake, while
in the custody of the sheriff of Armstrong
county, Pa, jumped from the Brady 5
. Bend accommodation train, Thursday al
ternoon, and was instantly killed.
"A Rio JaneirO letter of the 9TH instant
states that owing to the late rains land
slide occurred which threw down the mas
sive stone wall of a building in the Navy
Yard, instantly killing twenty women and
wounding fifty others.
/ Sullivan county has the patriarch RATS
man in the person of Judge Moses Tyler
/ of Damascus. He is eighty-four years OF
age. and has steered one or more RATS
every Spring since lie was sixteen. Last
/ Spring he took down three.
A special from Lafayette, Indiana,
says that house situated some two miles
south Of the town Of Otis was burned on
Saturday night, and a man named Skles,
/ seventy years old, with his daughter and
five other children, perished IN the flames.
There is capital chance for an enter
prising young man, who has a taste for
farming, up at ClymeT, Ohio. 4 maiden
lady living there, OF an uncertain age. has
recently fallen heir to seven thousand acres
of land, and has mo one to love, no one to
caress.''
Ex-senator Caldwell made good thing
out of army transportation in 1866. He
has just been allowed a claim for such SER
vices amounting to S3O6, ,Sj4. That VIII
salve over his being compelled TO retire
from the Senate, or, if he chooses, buy his
way back.
A Washington special says the result
of the consultation between General Sher-
man and Secretary Robeson has been to
order the transfer of large numbers of troops
from east OF the Rocky Mountains to the
Pacific coast, and determined effort to
extermnate the Modocs viii be made.
Professor Donaldson made another sue
cessful balloon ascension from Centre
Square, Allentown, Pa, Monday afternoon,
landing near Philipsburg, y. J. As usual
he went up on 4 trapeZe bar attached to
his balloon, and while ascending performed
some daring and wonderful gymuastic feats.
-Chicago's big fire is not all out yet.
Smoke was seen issuing from the ruins Of
a building in the burnt district, the other
day, and, on investigation with apick-aXc,
n bed of live Goals was found. The dis
coverers roasted some potatoes therein,
and ate thom in commemOratiOn of the
event.
Robert L. Groendyke. an Iowa boy of
? nine years, has recently passed an examin-
alton emitting him to Il certificate as teach
I ell of the second grade if he cares to take
1t out. There will be Il paragraph in the
Iowa papers some of these dSys conclud-
ing with Dearest Bobby, thou hast left
u.s." &c.
At Springfield, Massachusetts,. on Sat
urday last, Albert W. Smith was convicted
of murder in the first degree. Mr.. Smith
met Miss Jennie Bates walking home. with
} Charles d. Sachett. This was a sufficient
provOcation for Smith to shoot Sachett
dead, and inflict three serious wounds on
Miss Bates.
Michael Kane, aged about seventv-five
years, died in Buena Vista, Clayton county,
: Iowa, recently, apparently i'll the most
: squalid poverty. Some neigh bors attempt
5 ed to remove the half decayed straw tick
5 on which the body lay when large number
: of American and foreign gold jingled mer-
/, rily on the floos.
AT Portland, Maine, on Saturday last,
} John Warren, aged fifty-six, killed Michael
Sullivan, aged sixty, III fist fight. And
i 1 n n
old FreuChman once said woman was at
the bottom of every quarrel True, in
this case. Yet the combatants had each a
! wife of his own it was about third wO-
man that these old fellows quarreled.
A most remarkable escape from death
by lightning occurred near Meadvile late
ly. A Mr.. Cyrus Coulter was watering
: his horse from bucket. when the light
} ming passed down between him and the
4 horse knocking them both DOWN and
! into and through the bucket. Neither
,. mar nor horse was seriously injured. We
! think this the most remarkable instance on
l record.
A dispatch from Portland, Oregon.
say that fourteen hundred Indian warriors
= are camped at White Bluff, Yakima river,
: above Walia- Walla, putting up breast
t works. The settlers are greatly alarmed.
\ Indians are travelling about painted, and
+ warn the whites to leave the country. The
Spokane Indians are threatening and also
warning the settlers to leave. Massacres
2 like those by the ModOcs, are feared.
+ The fact that New York murderer
4 npon being arraigned for trial, has actu
T ally pleaded guilty, my be regarded as one
D of the extraordinary events of the time
t Robert p. Bleckloy, who killed his niece
MAUD Merrill, upon being called fol
e trial, told the Court that he wanted tc
y plead guilty of murder in the first degree
e that he had killed his niece not in
= sane, and was willing to suffer the conse
Y quences.
: From Madison county, Illinois, come.
d the report that a negro named George
: Burk, living on the farm of Henry Nair
+ about three miles west of Collinsville, wen