The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-04
Ne,cs and PoGiticat Items.
Alabama corn is up.

been filed in the Office of the Recorder of
Belks county, Pa.
Mrs. James Gordon Bennett, wife of
the founder of the Herald, died in SaXony,
Europe, on Monday.
A marriage took place in Butler coun-
ty last week and the following morning the
BRIDEGROOM WAS found dead in bed.
The same man has swept the sidewalk
in front of the White House for twenty
seven years without raising his salary.
-Pennsylvania's s coal mines represent
more than onc-half of the capital invested
in the coal business in the United States.
Gen Geo. W. Cass has been elected
President Of the Northern Pacific railroad.
He ought to be Governor of Pennsylvania
-Sunbury las a boy thirteen years Of
age who has constructed stationary en-
CINE, said to be a masterpiece of workman
Ship.
The next House at Washington viii
contain four Smiths, four Wilson's, three
Williamses, three Clarks, and three Har-
rises.
Dan Rice will do the clowning for
Spalding & Ryan's circus the coming sea-
son. This is the veteran Daniels sixteenth
farewell tour.
The Illinois Legislature is considering
a bill providing that all persons convicted
of whipping their wives shall be them
selves whipped in public.
john Staup, who murdered AlPhcuS
Glover in Fayette county last July. has
been found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree and sentenced to be hung.
"A little girl was killed in New Hamp-
shire year ago by a kick from horse
which had been frightened by a dog, and
her father has just recovered 81, 40 dam
ages from the owner of the dog.
The Fairbanks, scale manufacturers,
borrowed five dollars to make their first
scale, and are now worth $4,000, 600. Go
and borrow five dollars, young man
Richard jenkins, an old and wealthy
citizen of Carbondalc, is among the mys-
teriously disappeared. 1t is supposed that
he was fOUlly dealt with for his money.
The New Castle Journal says: Re
ports come to us from all sections Of the
county that the peach and cherry fruit
buds were all killed during the past winter.
-Chas. Il. BaTas, the author of the
''Black Crook jumped from an express
train at Hartford. Conn. Monday night,
and was frightfully injured. lie died ear
y next morning.
-Meadville has an octogenarian who
AaSnt tasted water for sixty years. and vet
he is in the saloon business. lie voted for
local option" rs lie was anxious to know
how wafer tasted.
Wisconsin has fOrlorn damsel. plain
tiff in breach Of promise case, who writes
III one Of her letters produced At the trial.
that She has ''shcd tears enough over it 10
run small sized grist-mill,' -
An Allentown man has an Arabian
horse which is living museum. On the
left side Of his neck is a perfectly y-fomed
1, on the left hip dogs head, and on the
right side we'll formed swan.
One Jean Manau Is on trial at Bor-
deauX, France, charged with the murder
Of his fatheT-in-law. mOtheT-iH-aw. wife,
and his two daughters. One of his sons
has given evidence against him.
-TwOyoung la0ies in Minnesota town
volunteered to nurse the family of neigh
ease, and both We're taken i'll, died, and
were buried in a common grave.
Senator John Scott of this State voted
against the extra compensation and did
noo take the money. Senator Cameron
voted for it, and Immediately pocl,etod the
extra, although he is worth millions and
Scott Is comparatively poor.
The Valparaiso Ind.) Messenger has
ascertained that it viii take 30. 600 bushels
of oats. at current prices. to pay the an
nual salary of one Congressman and that
it would require the labor of Is men and
10 teams to raise such a crop.
The Alpena lAfich.) Pioneer says
There IS in this city a child aged six
months whose grand parents, named Ger
Aie'N, StlC ilOi llllb 81 years oltl. W e nave
thIS from the parents themselves, and we
defy this state or the next to beat it.
The juror who hunted up a litigaut
and deliberately proposed to secure him a
verdict for S19O III money has been found
IN Indiana, and it is asserted that there is
no law TO punish sucE an Outrag geous ohcnse.
| h" offender is reported to be a well-to-dO
farmer and worth $50 0G0.
The great tornado, that passed over the
of
been much worse than at first reported
Dwellings were lifted from their founda-
uons and utterly wrecked, and a large
amount of properly entirely Destroyed
The loss will prove to be very heavy.
Two men fell into the railroad cut a
short distance above Troy, in Clarion cOun-
ty, on Saturday night week. They were
found on Sunday morning. One was found
dead, and the other so badly injured that
his life is despaired of. The cut is between
fifty and sixty feet deep where they fell in,
and the bottom is solid rock.
Two years siuce n girl IL years of age
was sent to the Royal Berkshire Hospital
In England, on account of a spinal disor-
der. She was dismissed shortly after as
incurable, and returned home, where she
fell into state of insensibility. Since
then she has had no nourisllment. and the
only signs of life about her have been
breathing and pulsation.
Dayton, Ohio, keeps a weather pro
phet, and he predicts that there will be no
settled warm weather this year until June
lie says also that between now aud then
there Will be four more SHOWS. The mil
liners and drapers of Dayton who have
brought out the spring styles propose to
hold an indignation meeting, and ask Phil
lips, the prophet, to leave the town.
The Dresden (Tenn.) Democrat tells
a story of Weakley county man who stole
$500 from his mother-in-law and brother
lh-law, was found out, executed his note
for the amount, and carried his secret four
years. The other day he confessed it TO
his wife, and she Immediately drove him
from his home and children. The last seen
OF him he took the cars for Arkansas.
Bell, the colored man who ran for CON
stable IN the Third ward, says the Cham
bersburg Valley Spirit, was defeated. tho
the ward is strongly Republican. The
men who profess to be snch crreat frierHs