The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-08-14
Nescs ara I'ostttcoE Etcans.

1t Is easier Tor a camel to skip through
the eye of a needle than for ''ncst-hider''
to walk into heaven.
An enterprising Yankee proposes to
boil down the Beecher scandal, and bottle
il for bcd-bug poison.
"A premium of silver pitcher, worth
$50, will be given to the best lady eques-
trienne at the Cumberland county fair, in
October.
The Pottsville Standard was sold at
Sherih's sale the other day, for 50, 100;
Democratic weekly paper has been started
on its ruins.
"A colored man was hanged by n mob
at Wauensburg, Missouri, on Friday night.
for committing a gross outrage on a white
child six years of age.
A wealthy English widow, whose pas
sion is sp'all feet offers to mary the man
who is over five feet tall and can wear her
shoes, number three's.
The Right Rev. Henry J. Whitehouse,
Episcopal Bishop of the diocese of Illinois,
died at his residence in Chicago at nine o.
clock Monday morning.
Susie Liberty, of La Crosse Wis, has
thirteen lovers. and every one of them cx-
claims, Give me Liberty or give the deathr
Aud she's red headed girl at that.
Mr.. Reecher's statement was to have
been made public on Wednesday evening.
Monitors has been presented to the COM
mittee, but has not as yet been published
A man travels around in England, ex-
hibitIng himself at fairs, who, with his
hands tied behind him, kills n certain num-
Der of rats within a given time with his
teeth.
The most destructive fire known in
Montreal. Canada, for years. broke ont on
Sunday morning. The fire lasted five hours,
and about %25U. GO0 worth Of property was
destroyed. One life was lost
The painter NcCollough, who was res
cucd from Niagara Falls by Conroy, the
guide, a few months ago, is turning his
peril 90 good account by selling To tourists
photographs of himself clinging to the
rocks in the rapids.
London papers received on Tuesday
contain an account of the explosion Of fire
works in Il house in Northampton, whereby
seven ont of eight occupants of the pre-
misses were killed the eighth was believed
to be fatally injured.
On Sunday, during service at a Meth
odist church in EdinbOrO, Pa. Miss Sally
Goodwin was observed to faint. She was
carried into the vestibulc, where she i'm
mediately expired. So far as known she
was in good health up to the moment of
death.
Nine additional bodies of victims of
the disaster to The steamer Pat Rodgers
were lying at Rising Sun, Indiana, on sat
Urday. The number Of bodies recovered
is now stated at 49, making the loss of life
more than double that at first reported.
Three others are missing.
The Prince Of Wales has reached a
crisis in his fortune, his debts having at
tanned a magnitude that has utterly broken
his credit, and ncccsstatcd some general
movement TO pay them to save the credit
Of tie Royal house. What a delightful in
stitutiou a Royal family is?
-Mauch Chunk has new attraction
an ice cave. The cave Is within few hum
dIrd feet of a burning mine. Tourists can
poach eggs at tie mine, the ground is SO
hot, and freeze ice cream at the cave. the
alT Is 50 irlgid. What more could by asked
III the way of temperature?
"A. family named White. consisting of
husband. wife and six children. have been
discovered living near IOpc's Park. East
New FORK, in a complete state of nudity.
having nothing to cover themselves with
save few pieces ofold carpet. They have
been sent to the Almshouse.
"A boy found at Bennington. w.. sup
posed to 6e Charlie Ross, turns ont TO be
an adopted child, whose name IS Charlie
Gross, and whom his adopted parents are
trying to learn him to call himself Angus
tus Hamilton. There was a gleam of hope
in this story but it is gone
An Illinois paper reports that q roman
tic Macoupin county girl thought to Maud
Mullcrizc and rake the meadows sweet
with hay She stood over yellow Jack
ic's nest as She swung her little rake. First
jump from the score, eleven feet. Distance
to the house, half mile. Time two min
utes.
The girl, Ida Hutchinson, of James
town, \. Y, who accuses her father of her
child, publishes horribly disgusting story
ofthe crime. The father forced his daugh-
ter to consent to his hcllish designs, and
threatened her life If she revealed the in
t!macy. Hutchinson has not been seen
since his escape after being arrested.
-ASonrding to the newspaper biogra-
pllIes OF him, Theodore 'filt"n was born in
twelve places in Massachusetts, seven places
III Connecticut. two places in New JERSEY,
and all over New York. He was more born
than to be borne with yet withal. to Judge
from ''the great catalysis,'' = it would do him
no hurt in the world to be born again
i he steamer Henry Ames, from St
Louis for New Orleans, was sunk by a suax
on Friday night. \ German woman and
her two children and French woman are
known to he lost, and it is feared other
deck passengers pcrisEed. The vessel had
a cargo of 800 tons of merchandise. and
the value Of the boat and cargo Is estimated
ut &130 600.
Among the documents forwarded to
" ashIngton from Mississippi in order to
induce the Government to send Federal
troops to Nicksburg for tho purpose of in
iluencinG The municipal election in that
city, was resolution from political club
Ill jackson, the members of which solemn
ly pledged themselves TO support Grant for
third term.
The Ga.eftc of Lexington, Ky. tells a
story of the Rev. Nelson Grayson, a negro
minister in that town thirty years ago. who
was accused Of great mproprieties. The
investigating committee reported that as
hrother Grayson had kept entirely within
his own church and had not gone out to
follow after strangers, he should be honor
ably acquitted
The Philadelphia Chief of Police has
issued proclamation 70 the police to fore
go any claim to the whole or anv part of
the S2O, 900 reward offered by the Mayor
iof any information that will lead to the
arrest and conviction of the abductors of
Charley Ross. The Chief invites cofnn,u-