The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-09-11
Ne,cs and POTsticUL items.

which still bear fruit.
Mr.. Sartoris, the son-in-law of Presi-
dent Grant, won the chief prize for yachts
at the Ilamble regatta.
dublin has collected $1,000 for the
Pope this year, and His Holiness won't
mind it if it goes on Dublin every year
The Vermont Democrats have elected
ffty-six members to the House at least,
against twenty-five in the last Legislature.
The official report of the escape of
Marshal Bazaine duplicates the jailers and
acquits the garrison of completely in the
affair.
Ipswich. Mass, last week got up a
pleasant little picnic party of thirty-four .
persons whose total age was twenty-eight .
centuries.
1t is doc btful whether Senator Patter- /
son can be persuaded TO 60 back to South f.
Carolina until fox hunting is prohibited
by statue.
The Buffalo Courier says that as an
honest mans the ueblest work of God, so
an honest negro is the crowning triumph
of reconstruction.
One of the fashionable matrimonial
engagements reported from Saratoga is be
tween blooming dame of sixty summers
and her widowed son-in-law, aged thirty.
I An Iowa clergyman is getting hand
some notices in the Western newspapers
; chiefly on account of the fact that his
father is ninety four years old and lives in
} the county poor-house.
Albert Brown, the negro murderer, has
confessed that he cut the throat of the
little girl at Alba, Bradford county. The
razor with which the crime was committed
was found under the bed.
Grant will 90 into winter quarters at
I Washington Oct. 1st. COnldn't some one
give him winter cottage in Florida?
, Poor man, even a winter in Washington Is
/ too much for his reputation.
-Emigrants can't go W est any more by
paying the ''cost of axle grease The
com petition between the trunk lines is over
and the fare from New York to Chicago,
which was 50 a few days ago, is now FlS.
-Conver. of the Forest Press, says that
the Radical candidates for Office in Forest
county are "men who would twist their
last inch of shirt tail into a torch in Jan
nary to make a light to guide tlem to
place and power
-Ex-Governor Bigler who has been
quite i'll at the Con mental Hotel, Phlia-
dclphia, for some time past, Is recovering
quite rapidly. and will soon be able to at
tend to lis business in connection with the
Centennial Commission.
The Pennsylvania Railroad time tables
have now grown into a volume of fifty-six
pages, which the company issues monthly,
and which is literally an invaluable Cade
1accum for any one travelling or doing bust
, ness in Pennsylvania or New York.
Ono day recently Chester county
, SOW owned by Mr.. Horace Heilmau. far
, mer, in South Whitehall. gave birth to a
litter of twenty pigs. They were all alive
and healthy, but six Of the number have
, since fteFisifea faF want nf sllStenancn-
, 1t is probable that the virtue and
strength Of Sheridan'S proclamation. pro
hibiting any but Indians to enter the Black
Hills is soon to bc tested. An expedition
is about to start from Sioux City. and hopes
to reach the Hills by circuitous route.
There has been very large fire in
: Meiningen, Germany, and half of the place
was burned. The loss on the buildings
, alone is estimated at three million th1lerS.
] Upward of seven hundred families have
; been made homeless, and there is great dis
t tTeSS.
, The whole Of the upper Missouri re-
: gion is swarminG with war parties of the
Crow and Sioux Indians, VINO are at war
: with each other. General Custer is now in
, command of the middle district of the De
partment of Dakota, with headquarters at
Fort Lincoln.
The strongest man in Cincinnati is a
physician, who can hold a man Of his own
weight mp from the ground, at arm :
length in each hand. aud twist a tenpcnny
nail into screw with his fingers. He
must be near relative of a man we have
read about somewhere.
A curious fact in connection with Gen.
~
, ed Black Hills country is, that prior to set
! ting out he ordered dinner to be served for
him at his headquarters on the 31St of Au-
gust, on his return. He actually got back
twenty-four hours before he agreed to.
, Henry Eure and his mother-in-law,
= Mrs. Wood. who recently gained notoriCty
, by running off together from Portsmouth,
Virginia, having got clear of the Courts.
have eloped a second time. The husband
of Mrs. Wood will not interfere with her
; inclinations again, and will seek relief in a
! decree of divorce.
A new method Of navigation was sue
cessfuIly tried on Long Island Sound on
, Tuesday last. 4 boat was drawn by kite
: twenty-tw miles in three hours and a
quarter, no other motive power being used.
kiting over the water of the Sound or the
. Hudson River may now be considered the
correct thing in navigation.
During the last five years houses and
> farms 10y the score have been abandoned
in Windham and other counties in Yer
mont. They are located in sections re-
mote from railroad communication. The
+ town of Halifax has thirty three abandoned
farm houses !; Wilmington, twenty-five
Nhittinghom, thirty, and so on.
r A special dispatch from Baltimore says
that the business portion of Frostburg, Al
leEany county, Maryland, was DESTROYED bv
: fire on E.tuI day. The supply of water
was small, and the flames burned until
they reached the outskirts of the town.
The total loss will reach one hundred and
forty y-fiye thousand dollars. Total insur-
] ance $50, 900.
The London Times says: The Marquis
of Ripon has become Roman Catholic.
The announcement few days ago that he
had resigned the grand mastership of Free
Masons, and would be succeeded Temporal
rily by the Prince of Wales. caused much
, excitement, which is heightened by the
, news that the Marquis has entered the
Church of Rome.
Serious disturbances occurred in
: France, September 4. the anniversary Of
the proclamation Of the republic at Paris
in 1870. At Meze. in the Department of