The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-05-01
Ne,cs and PoItttcaG Items.
William Brunt and his two SO

w lli1am Brunt ana ms two sons aged
! u and years respectively, were drowned
near Halifax, n. s., on Saturday.
! A colored woman named Rigby, OF
I Long Narrows, Juniata county, fell in =
/ fire, while in fit, the other day, and was
burned to death.
! When a co!ored boy shoots his father
! IN Georgia, as was the case near Marietta a
a lew days ago, the local paper calls it dis
franchisement.
the sensation of three-inch snowfall, with
thunder and lightning, while the sun was
shining brightly.
George Murkland, printer, committed
, suicide in Boston on Thursday night Sy
taking laudanurn. His wife recently drown
ed herself in a well.
Gen. Richard Coulter, Of Westmore-
land county. well known as Fighting
Dick" is among those mentioned as tho
Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor.
The sailors of the rescued ship Ameri-
que claim $500, 600 compensation, which is
half the value Of The ship and cargo. The
case will be tried in the British admiralty
courts.
Two girls are confined in the Sunbury
jail to appear as witnesses against their
father, who will be tried at the August
term of court for shooting John Keating,
in Coal township
"A Pittsburg young boy thrust his hand
into lions cage at Robinson's show
When the lion got done munching it, the
little boy was taken to 4 doctor, who cut
the remnants off.
Jesse POmeroy, the supposed murder
er of the boy Horace II. Muller, at Dor
chester, Mass, was arraigned in the High
lands municipal court on Saturday, aud
was fully committed without bail
A lady student of the Millersville nor
NAL school attempted to commit suicide
last week, by cutting her throat With
penknlfe, and afterward running pair of
scissors into the wound. She was home
sick.
A lady in Dover, New Hampshire. fell
Gown on the sidewalk recently, aHd IN do
ing SO broke the steel in her corset. The
shaIp END OF one piece WAS driven into her
oody. lnill citing dangerous wound. from
which 1t IS feared she may not recover.
In the Chicago Criminal Court, on
Monday morning. Judge Gary sentenced
Or. Paul Sch9ppe, convicted of forgery, to
three years in tho Penitentiarv. His conn
sci declare their intention Of taking the
case to the Supreme Court on writ of error.
The death of the distinguished Metho-
dist clergyman, Rev. Henry Slcer. d. y.
at his residence in Baltimore, on FRIDAY
last, will be learned with wide spread re-
gret by his hosts of friends in this State.
He was in his seventy-four year. His
death was as peaceful as his life
"A man in Wisconsin fouud recentIv
hat the flames of burning kerosene can be
extinguished by throwing on -four" Hired
female help who are undecided on the Gre
NATION question when they kindle fires will
IN future take the kerosene can in one hand
and the flour barrel in the other.
he Democratic majority in Connecti- /
cut over all for Governor is /, 500 Govern |
IT,ry .ag,ll' ,,,1,, ~
and his majority over Harrison and Smith
2, O34. The increase in the Democratic
vote this year is l, 496 in the Republican,
vote 5l6, and in the Temperance vote 241g, /
a Mrs. Alling, Of SaukvIlIe, has in her
possession old Continental scrip having a
race value OF S224. 1t was paid to her
for cattle delivered To General
=" ashlngton S army at White Plains. She
IS also the posSessor of a pair of snufers
used by Washington at his headQuarters
there.
of the one hundred and sixteen West
ern papers that have reached the offica nf
the Chicago Tribune since the President
vetoed the imitation bill, sixty-one sustain
me veto, torty-two condemn it and thir-
zen express No opinion, and vet we have
been told the West is solid for more rae
Miss Lear, the young lady student at
HlAeIsvllIe normal school, whose attempt
% commit suicide we published on Satur-
lay morning, says the Lancaster Ifornia7(
H60tetc, died short time after our paper
vas printed. Her death did not result from
ne trlflIng wound she had inflicted, but
rom inflammation of the bowels.
"A Keokuk paper tells a story of how
clergyman at keokuk married two Young
people IN Bonaparte on last Thursday bV
elegraPh. The parties assem- bled in the
elegraPh offices, the questions and respon-
es, service and benediction were licked | ,
apidiy of, and the happy pair left the Of
ice, one flesh, welded by lightning.
An old man named Lyton White sixtv-
wo years of age, has been arrested in
,ieveiand for enticing little children into
is candy ana trInket shop, near a public 5
chool, and instrueting them in every yul- !
afIty OF speech and practice. He was SEN {
7hceu; TO one year III the work-house and
ned three hundred dollars and costs. His ,
lctlms, he said, he counted by scores. q
"A young married woman named Rein
ART, residing at Shamrock Station on the 81
'ast Fennsy ylyania Railroad, committed c
iiclde on W ednesday morning by hanging
efseif from rafter in the garIet of beI.
ouse. For several days she had been suf-
llhg from an attack of melancholy. in
Icea oy intense religious feeling. She
aveS a husband aud two little children,
The Hartford Courant saws s.Tba F
me 1eeIInS of dissatisfaction which has =
ST the Republican party the states of New :
ampsElre and Connecticut is seen in the !
Wn elections in New York state. where
e democrats have gained 173 towns over 81
e elections of last year, and 3S7 over {
ose of 1872. The voice of warning is be. !
ming SO emphatic that it cannot be TO- :,
RED OF mlsinterprcted.'
Every State should have one. But it
opens to be town IN Kentucky that at X
Is writing claims 20 be honore6 by the
.lzenship of a lady who makes it her boast
at she has had but ono new bonnet in 81!
rty years, has mado but two calls on
Ishoors IN eighteen years, and has taken
I one meal away from home in all that 81
ne and yet she has health, wealth and IS
physical disability of any sort. 81,
i here IS a woman living in Pencader kr
inbred, New Castle county saws the Ep
Ton Del: Gazette, who has been
Irrled twenty-four years, and who last
elk gave birth to her twenty-third child,
lch makes her record one child per wear