The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-02
NeaCs and Political Items.

"A colsred musical prodigy. who. it is
re ported, rivals blind Tom, has been dis
at Scranton, Pa.
Col. Andrew Stewart-acclamation-
Republican for Congress-We Westmoreland /
Fayette and Greene district.
Two young ladies of Cory ran foot |
race last week for a wager of ten dollars. J
An exchange says: "Tbc one with the I,
blue earters came out!ahsad"
Henry Dietrich, Of Hazleton. was SEN
fenced, on Saturday, in the Wilkesbsrrs
ceurt, to seventeen years in the pepitenti-
ary for arson, robbery and larceny.
"A child was born in the suburbs of
Hamilton, Ont, recently, having four
thumbs, two palates, three hands and
several other extraordinary malformations.
The Bellefonte Republican states that
on Judge Orvis' farm there is a grape vine
from one root, on which four thousand
punches OF grapes have been counted this
summer.
Sarah Shell. aged seventeen wears,
committed suicide at Modoc CITY not long
since by taking poison. She had loved
unwisely, and welcomed death rather than
face the shame with which she vas threat
eucd.
"A lady sixty-seven years old. the moth
er of twelve children, fell in love with =
young man in Santa Rosa, California 4
few weeks age, finding that she could not
marry him, she took dose of bedbug
poison and died.
Mr.. Geo. Bucher. Of Columbia county.
accompanied by his two little sons, vas
driving home with a load Of cider. when
the traces broke and the wagon ran hack
wards. One Of the little boys was killed
10y a barrel OF cider falling on him.
\ pipe is now being laid for the con-
veyance Of petroleum from the oil wells of
Ohio Railroad, y distance Of 40 miles
The pipe is three inches in diameter, and
its capacity 4, GOO barrels per day.
A little girl at Long Branch. having
been kissed by Gen. Grant remarked 20 her
mother immediately afterwards: 81 don't
like that man TO kiss me. He smells lust
like Cncle Frank when he goes to the
closet and drinks something out of a bot
7 slo''
Patrick Donahue.' proprietor of the
! Boston Pftof, says that grand daughter
of his has recently been mraculously cured
of a white swelling on one of her knees,
that had banled all medical skill by the
waters of the fountain of Lourdes, in
: France.
! The reward Of 800. 600 in the Ross case
/ is still in force, and Allen Pinkerton an
/ nounces that the same will be reliquish sd
/ by him and his force to parties who shall
! give information which shall lead TO the
recovery of the child and capture of the
! abducters.
On the 10th inst. the wife of Sam
! Henry. a colored resident of Salisbury,
! Nd, became the mother Of four children
/ When informed of the fact Sam began to
make preparations for journey. II amt
! gwipe to live in dis heah SALISBURY no
longer" said Sam.
Mrs. Helen Dunbar Of Buffalo has
been sentenced to imprisonment at hard
labor in the Erie county penitsntiary for
kidnapping her own child. The woman
had become dissolute and the custody of
the child had been given to its grandmoth-
er, from whom it was stolen
At Pottsville Friday evening Thomas
/ Farrell, on trial for the murder Of Edward
/ Bradley, near Minersville, in January last
was convicted of murder in the second de
! gree; after the jury had been out TWEEN
ty-seven hours. Farrell first shot Bradley.
! then cut his body in two. and threw it
down the shaft of a mine.
They have found in ITolcomb Valley,
/ California. anlnerslogical marvel, noun
! tain of gold, bearing quartz. 1t is twelve
miles from Bear Lake, above which 1t rises
300 feet. The crown Of tho mountain is
said to be mass of gold bearing rock, 35
( feet high, 100 feet wide, and about two
miles IN length. The assays have yielded
$40 a ton.
The private letters of Gen Bstlsr cap
. trred by Penn, when he took possession of
the Executive Chamber in New Orleans.
! reveals the reason why old lgimlet eye
| wants to get back to Congress He can
there assist his friends in the South for a
fee. These letters ought TO open the eve.
| of the Administration as to the character
of tie corruption practiced towards Lou
/ isana.
! A destructive fire occurred in Pitts
| burgh aboCt halEpast twelve O'Clock Mon
| day morning. The fire originated in a
large brick building at the corner of Penn
| and Twenty-sixth streets, occupied by a
number of manufacturing firms. among
them the following Bogan's planning mill.
HflPs planning mill, loves sash factory.
! and J. !. Young show case factory. The
loss is about s25, 900.
The Pennsylvania society for the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals is sending in.
| structions to its representatives i'm the yaTi
Gus counties to give friendly notice 20 al
drovers, dealers and others to abstain from
the practice of muzzlng calves. or other
wise preventing them from obtaining prop
er nourishment and If this caution is dis
! regarded, to promptly prosecute any one
coming under their notice.
On Thursday last. in Franklin town
ship, Wright county, MINI, the boiler Of
steam thresher exploded, killing Dir.
Grant, of Watertown, Carver county Mrs.
! Burnett, and young lady whose name is
unknown, and scalding to death a Young
man, name unknown. A man narsed
Champln had an arm torn from its socket.
another was badly scaldod. and several
others were more or less injured
An explosion Of gas occurred Sunday
night at the residence of James Coates. in
Patterson, n. j., which partially destroy
ed the house and burned Patrick Sheehan,
carpenter, and Walter Patterson, Mr.
Coates butler, So badly that both died
next day. Workmen had been repairing
the gas fixtures and left one of the pipes
unplugged. Sheehan and Patterson had
entered tho room with a lighted candle
when the explosion took place.
-Barnum took about forty dogs to Bal
timore, to be used in the Hippodrome stag
hunt and kept them shut Up over night