The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-23
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ported, of 110 years
One of the bridesmaids at a recent
Covington kentucky wedding was the
grandmother of the bride.
Baltimore has n woman resident sew
enty years old. who made balloon ascen-
sion from that city in 1887.
~ female clerk in a Western postoffice :
was discharged because she spent the most
OF her time in reading postal CARTS.
Her name is Bridget. The address is
Burlington. Vermont, and the sum men
toned is 81 SOC. GOO Aunt deceased.
A stage containing four men wept
overheard at the Astoria Ferry, New York,
Thursday evening. The men and horses
were drowned.
"A man seventy years old, who has not
only never ridden in a railroad car. but
never in Carriage. is one Of the natural
cnriosities of Potter county.
"A girl named Jane Clark aged about
fourteen years, residing near Washington,
recently committed suicide by drowning,
1t is supposed to hide her pending SHAME.
In New Orleans, on Monday. Francis
Auifiay, colored. stabbed his wits TO death
with ii gimlet-knife, and then killed hinl-
self with the same instrument. Cause
Jealousy.
Paris had a marriage the other day of
the Tom Thumb aud Minnie Warren class,
but with more drollery in it. The husband
is a dwarf, forty inches in height, and the
wife giantess of six feet six.
-Ex-Presdent Johnson has upon his
place at Grcenville, Tennessee, two large
weeping willows that have grown from
spriss taken by traveller from the tree
that formerly oversha0owed the grave Of
Napoleon at St. Helena.
Jonas Stetler, of Frederick township,
Montgomery county, bled to death on Wed
nHsday last. He was driving a waCon-luad
of pumpkins through the bars when his
leg was caught and pierced by "a rail, which
severed the main artery.
In the congressional district composed
of the counties of Indiana, Armstrong,
Clarion jefferson and Forest, with re-
publican majority of about 1900, the
friends of Harry White are talking Of the
possibilities of his eiection.
MIR. @. b. Lamar, the well-known Mis-
slssippi Secessionist, has demonstrated that
he had heart 10 care for those whose en-
slavement he favored, by leaving hun
dred thousand dollars for the establishment
Of an asylum for INDECENT negroes.
Three hundred Of the inmates OF the
Soldiers Home at Dayton, Ohio, ed for
the Democratic candidate for Congress-, be
cause the Republican candidate, whs IA
vored the Civil Rights bin. wanted t. de
grade them to the level Of the negro"
The Ross case has almost reached its
distressing climax in the insanity Of Mr..
Ross, and now We hear Of another kidnap-
ping affair in New Jersey, which is equally
painful The abductors. however. are
known, and the recovery of the child is
not improbable.
Among those from a distance who
were at the titch-Snerinan wedding was
Miss Fannie Meiggs, Of Lima. who, on ac-
count Of the great wealth of her father.
Henry Meiggs. Is not Unfrequent!y called
the ''heiTess of Peru" She will inherit
only fourteen millions.
Miss Matte Woodson, nineteen years
of age. of VicSSburg. las this wear planted
and made good crop of cotton, auO has
already picked and sold bale at good
price, while three lazy ''mekcs" on the
same place have not ginned bale. That's
the sort of girl to fHarIy.
-LoId Ripon finds followers in high
society. Lady Victoria Kirwan, a sister OF
the late Marquis of Hastings. has also gone
over to Rome. This lady was formerly
maid of honor. and rs a gill was a great
favnrite of the Queen, VIII" had held her
an infant at the haptiSmal font.
Tie Southern Outrage business didn't
pay very well in Ohio and IEdisna. did it?
1t begins to look as if the demagogues and
dead hcst politicians who have been liy-
ing en the hatred engeudered by a wsr
which was ended nearly ten wears ago, had
at last reached the eud If their rope.
Miss Martha Hampstead has just died
at Cohan1ie, in Waterford. Coma, aged
nearly 81. She was a daughter of Mary
Z Bill of Grafton, whom every school boy
knows as the revolutionary heroine who
said TO her husband OF bis way to the war:
john do Uot get shot in the back -
"A few persons. 0no seemed to think
that a frtlrdernus threat if emitted by a
Sioux Indian, means nothing, have tried
1t, and found that the most agreeable thing
in the world to = Sioux is to take a scalp.
Expeditions to the Black Hills. it is not
necessary - say. ars rather dangerous.
Hon. William p. Sclell was nominated
by the Democratic conferees of the district
in this State composed of the countics of
/ Bedford, Somerset, and Fulton, for State
Senator ON Tuesday. Colonel Schell was
the Labor Reform candidate for Governor
two years ago, and will make d popular
candidate.
The Ring organs contend that aith Ough
the expenses Of the State Government have
more than doubled since the Republican
party has had control, ihat the taxes have
been reduced as we'll as the State debt.
Perhaps the proceeds of the sale of the
public works might have something to do
W th the credit side.
"A special dispatch from Dubuque,
Iowa, to tiie New York World announces
the election of L. L. Ainsworth, i'll the
Third district, hy Il majority of nineteen.
This IS the first democrat elected to Goa
gress from Iowa in twenty-five years.
There will he more rejoicing over this VIC
tory than over greater successes elsewhere.
In Vest Virginia the democratic ma
inrity is about s. 600 on the congressional
+ vote. The majority of Charles J. Faulkner
uf the Second district is estimated at =, coo
Al three congressional districts are carried
by the democrats. gain of one mer Be. of
whom they we're defraudsd in tho present
congress. Fwo years ago. Grant maior-
ty in West Virginia was ?, 146.
In Terre Iiaute, Ind. on Saturday
evening at half past s o clock, Jerry Picard,
I a well-kuown citizen, was walking with
his wife on North Sixth street. when two
men rushed upon them. One held Mrs
Picard while the other shot her husband
through the head. the ball entering the
rio ht ear. The Tl,rf'a,nrs tbop ,,,, ~