The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-04
NescS d3.sI Political Items.

AT Fairview, Butler County, water
soils at fifty cents n barrel, and oil at fol ty
cents.
Last week an apple tree on the farm
of John Young, in Morris township, Greene
county, was in full bloom.
Tho enrolling clerk Of the house and
the doorkeeper OF the senate, in the demo-
cratic legislature of Arkansas, arc colored
men.
-LdZerne county claims the shortest
will on record. This is the document :;
Emily r. Miner is my heir. Sarah X.
Miner"
John Hover, 1O1 years old, and the
Oldest msn i'd Tioga county, walked from
his bone near Flemingvlls to Hover Hill,
distance Of five and ons-half miles, few
weeks since.
Hon. W.sP. Schell, Democratic can
diaate for State Senator in the Thirty
sixth District, will contest the seat claim
ed by Mr.. Youtzy.
On Friday night Of last week young
German girl, named Fidel 6chwsub, Of
Rochester, Beaver county, committed sui
eide by drowning. She was worth from
Sc, 600 to s.. 900 in cash.
The Cleveland Leader says of Col. Nc
Clure of Philadelphia that mo membe of
the Legislature ever holds better hand at
poker. If his opponent gets the aces,
Aleck inevitibly holds flush"
"A Lowell mill girl the other day said
to director who wished her consent to a
reduction of wages Before I'd do it,
I'd see you and your whole grsspin' set in
o-phi-et, pumpin' thunder at three cents
n clap"
The proper person to personato tho
Goddess Of Liberty at tho Centenn:al Ex-
position has been found in Crawford ooun-
| ty, in the person of Mrs Cook, who will be
just one hundred years old on the 4th day
of July, 1876.
Gen. Sheridan officially states that
there are no miners in the Black Hills, all
reports to the contrary no.withsta ndng
The new gold diggings are two hundred
miles southwest of the Black Hills on the
Union Pacific Railroad.
| According to the Albany or Demo-
crat a little boy who rode race horses in
California for year OF two past has turn.
! ed out to be a girl in disguise. She has
now put on her proper attire, and dom,
ride clothes pin fashion any more.
"A terrible riot occurred Saturday nj ght
and lasted nearly all day Sunday, at Arm
I Railroad, in Westmoreland and Allegheny
counties. Three miners, Italians, were
killed, and five dangerously wounded.
/ "A Conneaut, Ohio, merchant, paid ou,
an average of 81 900 day during last wesl
for potatoes, and has shipped thus far dur
| ing the present season more than 90, 00(
bushels, mostly 10 Pittsburgh, Louisville
Indianapolis, Columbus and AlIeghen,
/ City.
| A storm of great violence prevailed
| Sunday on the east coast of Scotland anC
/ England. The bark Veteran was driver
ashore off Frazeburgh and became a tota
| wreck. Eleven of her crew were drowned
! Many other casualties are reported, Will
! heavy loss of life. ..
| The past year has been q remarkabl,
| economical one iE Grants administration
Postmaster Jewell reports only IS, 900, OOt
deficiency in his department. This il
about as much as it used to cost to run th,
| entire Postoffice Department under Demo
| cratic Administrations.
| DR.. West. or Dover, Dol, who was
| acquitted of the murder Of a negro two
wears ago, but convicted Of arson and sen
| fenced to the penitentiary, will be pardon
ed on condition that he will leave the State
and not come back again to make it hi
| permanent residence.
The family of the late Captain Fry, o
the Virginius, who was shot by the Span
! iards, are said to be at New Orleans com
pletely destitute and in danger Of starving
In the meantime our energetic govern
ment proposes to "arbitrate'' oxr claim.
! for indemnity with Spain.
| Tho wife of the murdered m.E Poulin
now under sentence Of death at Bathurst
| N. B., gave birth TO male child on Thurs
day in Jail. Galligan before his execution
confessed to the paternity Of tho child
| Mrs. Poulin has been sentenced to be hang
| ed on the 5th of January.
| The people Of Mill Village, Mercer
county, offer bonus OF 81, 900 to any one
who will build q Touring mill, tannery
| woolen factory, or paper mill in that vii
lage They also offer $40, 600 to help star
| any sort OF manufacturing business that
| will give employ ment to so mon.
! What is said to be the largest triI
hammer in the United States has recently
been completed at Nassua, N. H., at Al
expense Of $50, 600. The weight Of iron IL
| this mammoth machine is about two hun
| dred tons. The ram weighs twelve tons
its striking force is about one hundred tons
| John Baptiste Hortiz is The oldss
white in habitant of ST. Louis, havin ng;beer
born in that city, of Spanish parents g
years ago. This gentleman imported tb,
| first hearse in St. Louis. the first game
| cock saw the first steamboat land at tn,
| wharf, and has raised nineteen orphan
children.
Another shocking case of maternal in
humanity comes from New York, where
drunken mother, Isabella Gaynsh, a few
days ago set her little girl, four years old
on the red hot stove. When the fathe
came homo she was only able to say, ''Oh
papa, mamma burned mo-" She has sine,
died and the mother has been committed.
30 many reports OF the finding of Char
lie Ross have been published and after
| ward found to be false, that but little ere
dence Is now placed on such reports. Th,
latest one, the boy in The family of W. E
Peyton, at Barboursville, West Virginia
supposed to have been the abducted child
| was found upou investigation ia have eS
eaped from a neighboring poor house.
| Three tramps recently attacked an oil,
man, boy about eighteen years of age
and young lady, at a farm house nea
| Donegal, Luzerne county, and desperate
encounter ensued, in which lat-irons
pokers, etc., were freely used. The thieve
were compelled to flee, however, befor
getting any booty. the lady alarming tn
neighbors by blowing tin horn and shrek