The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-05-09
Ne,cs and Political Items.

Arch DlS0Op balieJ Is lying luiIS III dI
the Episcopal residence, Newark, New
Jersey.
Daniel Howe was the first man killed
in the war of .he rebellion. He was killed
at Fort Sumter, in 1851.
Stokes has been refused a new trial by
the Supreme Court of New York, and with
that refusal goes his last hope for life.
Albert n. Smith, convicted of the
murder of Charles n. Sackett, at West
field, Mass, has been sentenced to be hang
ed.
"A runaway team in Scranton, on Tues
day. ran over three little girls, injuring one
of them fatally, and the other two quite
seriously.
A Louisville woman who has lived
with a man for twelve years and presented
him with five children now sues him for
breach of promise.
Henry Ossian FIipper Ph9bus has
been appointed to a cadetship at West
Point from Georgia. He is an American
citizen of African descent
Speaking of the movements against
the MOdocs the Herald says a: In other
words, a nation of forty millions is absO-
lutely powerless in the face of fifty or sixty
scalawag Indian desperadoes.
A young girl was married in San Fran
cisco, recently, and at the conclusion of
the ceremony turned to her husband with
the words, Kiss me, George, / am dying
The next moment she fell dead at the
altar.
A boy twelve years of age, named
Isaac Hummel, who resided in Schuylkill
county, hung himself to the limb of an ap-
pie tree in his step fathers orchard few
days ago. Alleged i'll treatment is said to
have been the cause.
Captain p. NJ. Henry, grandson of
Patrick Henry, died in Washington on
Sunday. He had been a man of means,
but was reduced by the war, and at the
time of his death was watGhman in the
Treasury Department.
Lucy King, of Fond du Lac, became
engaged to six young farmers, and on
| certain day called them all together and
told them to fight for her hand. She mar
ried the remnant of man who was left
standing at the conclusion of the contest
| -TTplets recently born in RiPon, Mis-
/ souri,, weighed altogether six pounds
/ The nurse can make ring of her thumb
and fOrefingeT and slip 1t over the body of
either of them. They are too small to be
/ dressed, and are kept wrapped up in cotton.
! One of the oldest churches in Western
! Pennsylvania is located near Brady Bend.
1t IS small log structure, was built by
I the Catholics in 1908. and is still used for
| religious services. the new church having
/ been burnt down soon after being com
| pleteG.
Thirty years ago man living near
La Crosse sold pair of boots for a gun.
traded the gun for pony, sold the pony
for thirty acres of swamp land. and now
owns siXty-six city lots worth 800 each
Be sure to sell \ pair of boots for gun
thirty years ago.
How strange the coincidence. that one
disaster is apt to be followed by another Of
a similar nature. The breaking down of
the bridge at Dixon is followed by a simi-
lar disaster ut Sedalia, Missouri. Both
are terrible in their suddenness, and III the
number of lives that were lost.
-Oakes Ames was attacked with para
lysis at four o'clock Monday evening, at
physicians have but slight hopes OF his re-
cOvery- His system has been weakened
by q kidney trouble of five years existence,
which threatens to terminate in BTight's
disease. Ames is sixty-nine years of age.
A hundred armed policemen with
piece of artillery recently left New Orleans
| TO install Kellogg officers In one of the par
ishes Of Louisiana. No question is made
rs to the legality of the election of these
men. They are TO be forced into place Isy
rifles and cannon. That is the Kellogg
| programme, and President Grant uphoIds
| Kellogg.
Henry N. Smith. the wealthy New
| York banker, is building 4 new steam
! yacht, which viii have accommodations
for twenty passengers and a full crew. and
! is expected, next summer, to make voy-
| age across the Atlantic and up the Nedi-
terranean. 1t is to cost S35O. 1000 and a
81, 200 piano IS being constructed for the
grand saloon.
On Saturday evening last. n little son
of Mr.. Christian Buterbagh, of AYR town.
ship, Fulton county met with an accident
which resulted in his death. He was in q
| field where his fathers sheep were grazing.
and one of them, vicious buck. attacked
| the lad, butting him in the breast several
times. He suffered inteIsely until the
next day, when he died.
A great calamity has fallen on the
town of Pisc0bamha, South America,
caused by land slide from the neigh boring
mountain. Forty-four houses were des-
troyed, and thirty-six persons perished.-
The great mass which destroyed the town
also damned up the river and the destruc-
tive effects of ansinundation were expected
to be added to the other misfortunes.
On Saturday afternoon a week Sena-
tors Davis, Graham and Rutan, commits
slonerS to the Vienna exposition, embarked
on the steamship Parthia for Europe, and
on Saturday last, according to telegram
received by Mrs Senator Davis from her
husband, they arrived at Liverpool, making
the voyage in the unprecedentedly rapid
time Of seven days. The nearest approach
to this feat was the speed made By steam
ship several months ago-crossing the At
lantic IN seven days and about seventeen
hours.
A Pittsburgh firm-Messrs. Rogers &
Burchtield, d,-claims to have discovered
process by which they can make the famous
Russlans sheet iron. The latter is made
IN Siberia by a secret process which no
other nation has hitherto been able to oh
tain. The British Government has offered
500, 600 for its discovery, but even the
stimulus of that large sum has failed to
achieve the result. American enterprise
and ingenuity have accomplished it, and
Pittsburgh, it is said, can now furnish all
common markets with Russian sheet iron
at even lower prices than the Russians
themselves. The process has been patent
ed.