The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-07-31
Neios ana Pol,ticaI Itenas.

York, bit family of seven persons few
days ago.
"A little daughter of James Barnett, Of
Fayette county, was killed on Thursday
last by an open window falling down on
her, breaking her neck
An automatic ten-pin alley, which sets
up its own ten-pinS, Ieturus the balls 10
the players, and dispenses with the usual
African small boys, Is creating a furore.
The body of Miss Marietta \. BAH. a
school teacher, was found in the woods
near Rutland Vt, on Sunday and an cut
rage had been committed before her muir
der.
At the election in Harrisburg. on Fri
day, the Democrats elected a majority of
the membets of select Council. One branch .
is now Democratic and the other Bepubli-
can.
-Elibu Spears killed Charles Davis in
West Suffield, Conn, last Thursday night.
Spears afterwards cut his own throat
Spears was beating his wife and Davis in
teTfered.
"A farmer in England hung up n coat
to frighten the birds away from his fruit
trees, and few weeks after found that a
whole brood had been hatched in one Of
the pockets.
While workmon were digging a well
at New Haven, Indiana, on Friday, they
struck oil at a depth of S feet. The petrO-
leum thus discovered IS said to be of the
( best quality.
In Woolford county, KY, ON Friday
night, Mr.. Munday and wife, MT. Black,
/ wife and daughter, and a ColOred man liv-
/ ing in the same house, were killed by the
! same stroke of lightning.
/ The Philadelphia police have arrested
! two men and two women, alleged English
criminals, through whom it is believed a
/ clue can be obtained relative to the abduc-
/ tiou Of the boy Charlie Ross.
7 Major Ormsby, of Hickory township,
! Mercer county, threshcd one day last week,
200 bushels of wheat, as measured from the
+ thrcsher, which all present agreed would
/ weigh ont 2l0 bUshelS-the product Of six
' acres Of land.
While Mrs. Porter, Of St. Adams. Vt.
/ and her two children were gathering bcr-
Ties, on Friday, one ofthe children fen into
/ a creek. The mother Immediately jumped
in to rescue the child, followed 10y the other
/ child, and all three were drowned.
Some superstitiOus people viii say that
, comets bring innumerablc calamitics in
/ their train. This year we have had fires.
fUgs and floods. murders. suicides. child
kidnapping. Indian butcheries and host
OfOther troublesome and unpleasant things.
The New Bedford Mercury saws =
''What the Republican party has accom-
/ plishcd' lis a sentence placed cOnSpicuouSlv
at the head Of the Republican address to
the people of the United States But this
/ kind of uolasses will not now attract 4 sin
gle fly.
Mrs. Tilton is of medium hight. per
fectly aud voluPtuously developed, modest.
not very viyacious, with beautiful ewes and
a soft, charming voice. She is in the prime
Of life, enjoys good health lat least looks
as though she did, and her manners are
/ most winning.
( "A terrible land Slip occurred at Alarra
in the province of Navarro. Spain. The
overhauEing rocks fell upon and utterly
l. , l.. IL
. sudden that few OF the inhabitants es-
capped. Two hundred corpses have already
/ been recovered.
The san Francisco Bulletin saws that
while two years ago there were nearly two
/ thousand houses to rent in that city there
/ Is now a demand greater than the supply.
/ San Francisco never had any but q specie
! currency, never demanded imitation, and
( Is steadily prosperous.
The grasshOppcTs have proved very
/ destructive in Nebraska. In Dawson coun-
/ ty there will hardly be corn enough for
! seed. The corn, bean and potato crops Of
The Pawnee Indians are totally destroyed
J Without additional help from the govern
ment they must suffer severely.
/ We have the old story of Damon and
/ PythiaS from Ohio. Hugh DOughertv was
/ sentenced to be hanged at Lancaster on
( the 3Ist. Patrick Lynch, of CirclevilIe,
wanted to act as 4 substitute for DOuCher-
/ ty. He submitted his offer to Gov Allen.
! who compromised by committing Dough-
erty' sentence 20 Imprisonment for life.
! A shock of an earthquake was felt at
( Vienna, Austria, on Sunday last. 4 vio-
! lent storm Of rain and hail was reported on
/ the border Of MOravia. Several lives were
( lost, and a large number of cattle drowned.
FItty houses were destroyed and many
vineyards flooded and ruined at Asamara.
/ where It is rumored only fourteen of the
/ inhabitants escaped.
Mr. and Mrs. Brice Hayes, of Della
/ ware county, Ohio, are the proud parents
/ Of boy who, though but fourteen years
! OF age, weighs 400 pOurds-a strong. well
proPortloned and unusually intelligent lad
They do not, however always have the
same luck, for one Of their children i sin
gu'arly constructed, his feet pointing in the
( opposite direction from his face
Two small children, George and Mary
Atwood, aged respect ivelv four and five
years, have been carried away from near
Iunkhannock. A band of English gypsias
was recently encamped near by where the
Httle ones were stolen, and il IS thought
that they are the transorcssors. Parties
are on then track, bat 50 far have gained
no clue rs TO their whereabouts
Andrew *. Nckahan, of WavncSl.urr
had Just finished building a hay stack. FIJI .
Gay Iast' ana IN climbing down 10y a rope
or chain with a fork i'm his hand he tLa
fork fall, and then slide down ON the end
OF the handle, which entered under the
scrotum, and passing through it entered
the abdomen few inches above. inficfinO
terrible wound, which may prove fatal.
"A dispatch from Seneca. Kansas. saws.
CHARLES Cook, merchant of Bull Citv. Os-
born county, who has been deraDred for
some time past, thrust the blade of his
knite through the brain of his infant child.
last week, and then beat his own head with
hatchet, breaking his skull and infIict-
ing mortal injury. Pecuniarv trouble is
sald to have been the cause of his insanity.
hey tell of a landlord in Newport. II.
l. who lately, wishing to get ride of a sick
tenant, threw several pals of water upon
lne ~ moor oI room above, and allowed it to