The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-09
Nos. 1l3 and ll5 Clinton St, Johnstown.

NOS LIS ana liD clinton St. J JDhBStGwn.
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Jenkins says that Prince Arthur seat
Miss Minnie Sherman "a superb locllet of
Etrnscan gold" inscribed, by letter. ''to
the young lady who, of All 0tierS in Amer
ca, he admired most And this young
man is the son of the Queen whose Eng
lish'' we ''in America" are accused of de-
fling. No wonder that the initiative
Jenkins soon after refers to Lieutenant
Fitch "a man of fine pcrsoHJael.'
Rev. Mr.. Prettyman, the postmaster
at Marietta, Georgia, whose recent defal-
cation has been discovered, visited Phila-
delphia some months ago, and denounced
the Southern people in the harsbest and
most severe terms, representing them as
cruel TO the negro, and claiming that his
mission was TO reform the sinful whites
and rescue the blacks from oppression.
Should the criminal law be executed, a
brief residence in the penitentiary will in
terfeIe with the fulfilnent of Nr. Pretty
man mission.
-BiSmark sent four policemen and two
foreign off;ce functionaries on Sunday last
to Count Won Arnim, at Nassenheid. to get
q number of letters he had written to the
Count while ambassador to France. Won
Arnim would not deliver the letters ner tell
where they were. Then the functionaries
searched his house, and the police took
cIldiE OF His person ana iiuSIsStl nun OIL ln
jail. The letters were about the counts
private affairs aud were to be used in a suit
instituted against him. oh, yes, Prussia is
a well governed country!
Further eXa miuation has discovered
the fact that nearly evory polling list in the
city of Philadelphia contains Illegal names
of persons either non-residcnts or having
no existence. Unless these lists can be
purged before the third of November,
tl.o,la l,a r
peaters and FOUNDERS from voting on these
spurious names. 1t is already ascertained
that there are eleven thousand names on
the assessors lists that should not be there.
Under the new constitution the courts
have power to wipe out this fraud. Will
they do it?
This is a strange story. not to be used
in Sunday school. An Albany man, out
of work and nearly starving. tarned for
comfort in his extremity to his sainted
mothers Bible, for the first time since her
death in 1867. To his surprise and de
light he found a ten-jollar bin between
the leaves and Immediately fell on his
knees for the first time since 1910. With
light heart and glitteripg ewes he prayer
fully started for the bakers shop to obtain
loaf of bread. There he found that the
bill was counterfeit. when he swoTe bit
terly for the first time i'm three hours.
CSbeti iNii'-- a idu Ilit years VI aye.
living in Burlington n. J., few davs ago
took his fathers loaded gun from the
house, and going into the field, where a
boy named Christopher Willets. eight
years old. was husking corn, playfully pre-
. tended to shoot at him. The gun was
discharged. and young Willets was in
stantly killed. The stepfather OF King
was so enraged at what his son had done
thaC he kicked him until his life was en-
d or,I lz
river TO save his life. The coroner who
Investigated the matter reported the shoot
ing purely accidental.
The Reading (Pa.) Times prints this
personal paragraph: AT the foot Of the
Chestnut Hills, in North Coventry. Chester
county, reside two eccentric bachelors.
Messrs. John and Frederick Hamilton.
VINO are now between sixty and seventy
years Of age. They live happily together,
have no woman abont to give them a cur
tain lecture when they are ont o. nights.
nor TO tenderiy care for them in their hours
OF sickness. They keep separate tables. do
their own washing and cooking. make their
own beds. and do all necessary work that
is to be done about well regulated house
bold. Besides being good housekeepers,
these old gentlemen are of an inventive turn
of mind. They recently invented a thresh-
ing machine, which is worked with crank.
Five hundred sheaves of wheat and fifty
bushels of oats were theshed out by it in
ole day.
One day two men in Xenia, Ohio. were
engaged in discussion as TO Beecher's
guilt or innocence. From this our debaters
branched off upon the subject of human
nature in general, its foibles, weaknesses,
and instability under crucial tests and,
growing earnest, one Offered to bet that
there were not dozen men in that city who
wou!G stand a certain test which he speci-
fed. The wager was accepted, twelve
representative male citizens designated.
and to each dainty note, written in n
feminine hand, couched in seductive vet
polished terms, was sent as coming from a
lady. The missive stated that the writer
had seen the gentleman addressed, been
impressed by his bearing aud appearance,
and was most anxious, ETC., according to
the usual style. The writer would be hap
py to meet Mr.. Vanity at such and such a
point at such a time. The notes were duIy
sent, and the conspirators anxiouslv await
ed the result of the affair. Mach to the
chagrin of the gentleman who accepted the
wager and the triumph of the other. eyery
one of the men to whom the notes were sent,
married and single, old and young. appear
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