The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27
Ne,rs and Fos.tscat Itenss.

AT Richmond, on Saturday, Washing
toms birthday was celebrated by militar
parade.
130 years old, which was in service at Lex
ington in 1775.
John Uline, of Troy, y. Y, died o
grief having been compelled to pay 1
note which he had foolishly endorsed.
A man in Leavenworth, Kansas, wht
married and buried three sisters in success
sion, is about to begin on another family
/ A lady IL Bradford county has jus
added boy aud two girls to the popula
tion of the county. Three years ago she
had twins.
The new Chief-Justice starts ont well
He desires to be installed with as little
ceremony as possible and declines to be
honoTed with anv public dinners.
a boy of fourteen is a leader Of great
religious revival in DeKalb county, Iii
nois. He is fluent exhorter, and his ef-
forts are successful in winning converts.
The POp0IO H0ndHO says Cardina
AHtonelli has sent a circular letter to al
the Bishops asking them to come to Rome,
as the Pope wishes to see them before he
dies.
There is Mrs. Peale in California
who owns and manages farm of 73, O0C
acres. She goes and does it without hold
ing any conventions or organizing any
oranges.
An industrious Ssamstress of Chester
county made 142 pairs of pants. 10 vests,
CO shirts, % ladies' suits, IS coats and a
number of smaller articles on q sewing ma
chine last year
An amendment to the Constitution
providing for the election of Senators bv
the people, is being agitated. We see no
good reason why the people shoald not
elect their Senators as well as their Repre-
sentatives.
In Santa Cruz county, California, on
Saturday night, Mr.. F. Gilkey and DIR.
G. Z. Cleveland fired at each other and
both fell dead. There had been feud
between them, and both were drunk at
the time of the tragedy.
In Cleburne county, Alabama. on the
Sd inst, an immense eagle endeavored to
carry Oft girl named Elizabeth Moore.
aged IA, and weighing about eighty pounds
She was borne along for some distance at
about four feet from the ground, when the
bird dropped her.
Mrs. Norris of Maryville, Iowa, plan
ned an elopcment with travelling photo
Erapher named Hamilton. Her husband
learned of the fact. He at once hitched
up horse, got into the wagon with his
frightened wife, drove five miles to the
trysting place, and delivered her to Ham
ilton.
They have hermit out about PauId-
ing Centre, Ohio, who entered one hun
dred and sixty acres of government land
three years ego and has lived in a bark
hut IN the woods, eating parched corn and
small game, and without changing his
clothes, or washing his face or cleaning his
person.
There is a Durham calf in Tuokerton.
BeTks county, about three weeks old, the
most curious freak of nature that has ever
been seen in that part of the country. 1t
has no hair on the back part of the limbs,
and the tail Is clean shaved as pigs
tail after the butchers knife has passed
over it.
Steve Lowry, the last survivor Of
notorious band, of Robeson county, North
carolina, was instantly killed in the upper
part of that county by three citizens. He
was tuning hi; banjo, preparatory to play
ing for some wagOners, when three shots
we're fired at him, taking effect in his head.
killing him instantly.
At p. II. Monday last an engine ran
Of the track at UniOndale, on tho Jeffer-
'on Branch, between Susquehanua and
-arbondalc. II fell down an embankment
# seventy-tive feet, instantly killing the
conductor, John r. Harding, engineer
Jramer, fireman Daniel Cramer, and brake
nan Thomas Raftor.
Ex-senator Louis T. Wigfan died at !
Galveston, Texas last week Before the +
var he was Senator from the Lone Star /
state, and was one of the leading minds in /
he Senate. For several years he has been /
raVeling i'll foreign countries. and latterIv /
esided III Baltimore, where he followed /
lis profession-the law
A son Of hir. Jesse Glass, three miles /
rom Morgautown, Butler county. Nv. /
hough seven years cid, has never walked /
kept with the assistance of his hands
ie uses them in locomotion like quad
uped. No effort on the part of his fami- (
= has succeeded III teaching him TO walk
5 ordinary human beings.
At O'Clock Sunday evening, Albert
lcCuiloch, boy, aged thirteen, threw
inset over the railing of the bridge over
he Genesee river, at Rochester, n. !.
ie was intoxicated, and broke away from
wo lads OF his own age, who were irving
take him home. The river was at
ood height, and he WAS carried oyer the
ais
All the talk so far in Congress about
adHcing the public expenditures has
mounted to nothing. The indications
re that instead OF reduction there will
G an increase in the public expenditures.
congress does not go about retrenchiDc I
expenses III the proper way. Until tile
loney grabbers are turned out, it is folly
expect economy.
"A few days ago, says the Pottstcwn
edgsr, the remains of Daniel K. Trayer. 4
soldier who died in 1861, of wounds re-
eived in front Of Petersburg. was taken
p from the church-yard of the Old Brick
hurch, IN Pottstown, and removed to the
:" MT zion Cemetery. In doing this II
as found that the body was completely
etnned-turned to stone-and the fea-
'res had assumed the appearance of plas-
II of paris. Las
The official count Of the returns or
le fhlladelPhia election has reduced the
aJority Tor Stokley nearly one-half-
ne virtues of the new constitution mani
st themselves slowly but with certainty
tioer the old instrument StokIey's ma
lty would have been counted mn tn TIC I
eighborhood of thirty thousand. As If is
3 escapes with barely six thousand. and
Is extremely doubtful il he can hold anv
"lonty at all on contest !
me Pioneer Club lcoloredl in Ale,-,-- ,
-la' va, being lately about to give bau
lhonnced on the programme that the an 7
/, rtainment would be ''strictly moral ~,
- o'clock. - This odd announcement I