The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-08-08
Ne,cs ana Pos,tscot items.

-Twentv-three thousand six hundred y
Immigrants arrived at the port of New
York last week.
The Jesuits. recently expelled from
Germany. have found harbors in England
and the North of Wales.
Bedford papers deny that the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company are negotiating Tor
the purchase of the Bedford Springs prop
erty.
An old chap at Oil City, likely to die
soon, has burned up sixteen thousand dol
lars so that there may be no quarrchng over
his will.
Mr.. I. S. Grant, a citizen well-known
at Long Branch and the prominent pleas
llre resorts, is now visiting at Washington
for a brief interval.
James Cochran is the ''big boy of
Big Beaver township, Lawrence county.
lie is sixteen years Old six feet high, and
weighs three hundred pounds.
"A thirty year old Newcastle damsel,
love stricken and foTlorn, tried to shuttle
off etc, on Monday last. by taking cold
cold poison. She didn't die her plot was
frustrated by physician.
Baltimore has another murder Scarce
had the double execution of Nicholson and
Hollohan been consummated than Swe-
dish sailor killed a saloOn-keePer in that
city. Liquor was the cause of this latest
crime.
Reports from all parts of the West rep
resent the harvest as above the average.
Good crops of almost every kind Of grain
and vegetables are the rule. The excep-
ton applies only 10 apples and peaches,
/ which were seriously injured by the long,
severe winter.
! One Of the workmen i'm the Portsmouth
/ Navy Yard in going from his work lately
dropped his dinner basket and spilled
/ quantity of Government copper. An order
Il, r1,sa
/ yard, it was discovered that not less than
six tons were missing.
! George. Elijah, Ezra and Eben Marsh,
John and Edward Bycraft, and Walter and
/ Gregory Metz, upon being ordered by the
owner to quit a whortleberry marsh near
! Lynden, Mich, on Monday last fell upon
him and literally kicked him to death. He
/ leaves wife and twelve children.
| "A terrible collision occurred on Sunday
night last on the Lancashire and Yorkshire
railroad, England. Two passenger trains,
while running between the towns of Leeds
! and Manchester, collided with great force,
throwing both trains from the track.
Twenty of the passengers were killed or
seriously injured.
-Nolle Jones and her brother living
on a. farm near Shipman, H.. worked po-
tatO patch together but fell out on the
question of a division Of the proceeds. a
stand-up fight was agreed upon to settle
the matter, and with the father of the fam
! ily as referee and the mother as bOttle-h hold
er, Molie polished off her brother until he
/ couldn't tell potato from pumpkin.
Extensive pine lands have been discOv-
( cred in the northern part of Nebraska
/ which has heretofore been believed to be
barren. With the gold fields recently dis
covered in Alaska, and large deposits of
/ various minerals in other parts of the West
/ the resources OF this country are gradually
. becoming better known. but undoubtedly
untold treasures have yet to be discovered
/ Mrs. s. :. Evans, Of Tomah, Wiscon-
sin, died very Suddenly, under peculiar
I circumstances. 4 few evenings since. She
! was seated with her two daughters when
an unknown man entered the room. at
sight of whom the ladyawcnt into convul-
/ SlOnS. The stranger Immediately went
away, and Mrs. Evans died in a few min
utes. Soon after death black spots ap-
peared on her back.
Brigham YOuug's divorce case does
| look as though it might give rise to embar-
| RAISING complications if the suit of Ann
| Eliza, the wife who wants separation and
/ alimOny, be admitted. For, an admission
| of such suit would be equivalent to rccog-
milton of pOlygamy by the Courts. If Ann
/ Eliza be held a wife notwithstanding the
| existence Of sixteen other Mrs. YOunrs
| whose claims are exactly on a par with
! hers ii will virtually be an acknowledgement
] marriages.
Daisy Breeze killed his brother Dan
iel near Hazlewood. Alexander cuunty..Ill.,
| last Thursday night. Both were notorious
| characters. 1t is SAID they had stolen some
! horses, and We're going to the hOuse-of Os-
car GTanler Ito kin him in pursuance of a
! previous plan, when thep quarTelled in con-
/ sequence of Daniel wishing to 'sback out -
! The body of Daniel was found with the
neck broken, and marks of heavy blows in
the head. Officers have left Cairo in pilr-
| suit of the murderer
| An East Hartford toad was discovered.
| some time ago, near a beehive, actually at
| work catching and eating bees. The owner
OF the bees, with, characteristic kindness of
! heart, tenderly picked up the creature and
carried him half a mile away. The next
| morning the identical toad was back again
at the old stand, actively at work as before
| lie again took him up, carried him a long
mile away, and dropped him. But in twen1
ty-tour hours he was back again. reducing
( 1ne number OF bees as successfully as ever
The toad was marked.
"A kentucky paper has discovered an
other OF those fearful family complications
and tells the story thus: s'John w. Daniels
! married the daughter of Mrs. Sarah r. Bra
ward afterwards B. S. Daniels, the father
otJohn, married the old lady, and still later
James W. Daniels, the nephew of John
married sister to Johns wife 1t is very
/ easy to see that John is son and son-in Ia W
OF the old man, and brother-ip-law and
nephew of John, etc, and John now desires
! TO know, through the columns of the local
/ newspapers, what relation the children of
! these three sets of parents are toeach other.
a terrible fire occurred at Portland,
oregon, on saturday morning last where
/ by twenty-five blocks of BUILDINGS in the
/ very heart Of the city were laid in ashes.
Among the losses are two engine-houses.
! two sash factories, two foundriss. four mills
J i've hotels, one hundred stores and two
! hundred and fifty dwellings. One hundred
and fifty families are homeless and encamp-
/ ed IN the public parks. Estimated loss
/ Sl,500, GOO; insurance 5000, 600. Foreign
/ companies lose heavily. Everythingis con
fusion. The police are guarding the burnt