The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12
Ne,cs and rot,ticat Items.

The Pope was wei enough 10 receive ,
the American pilgrims on Thursday.
An Indian tribe, in Michigan, is said
to consist of an old horse, a chief, and 4
demijohn of whisky.
-Shanlesville, Berks county, has hog
weighing 10 pounds. that has eight dis
tinCt feet, two on each leg.
AT a fire in Rutland, VT, on Tuesday,
tie body of a woman, covered with stab
wounds, was dragged from the flames.
An explosion of boiler on Saturday
morning in the Ashton New York. Salt
Mills killed two men and wounded two
others.
Macon. Miss, is willing 20 make afTi-
davIt that an African bride within its lin
its is nursing her first-born babe at the age
of sixty.
At East Worcester, \. Y, on Mon I
day morning, several houses and barns .
were carried off by the giving way of
dams. No lives we're lost.
/ "A Pennsylvania lady has shown her
natIering preference for her husband 10y
returning to his bosom for the sixth time
after elOping with other gentlemen
The Earl of Granard has been nomi-
mated Knight of the Grand Cross of St.
( Gregory the Great by Pope Plus Y. Lord
. Grauard is n convert to the Catholic re-
ligion.
"A pious old gentleman in Georgia ''has
never sworn an oath" and has thirteen
grown-up and unmarried daughters. Nor
~: Even profanity may possibly have
advantages.
"A carload of prairie hay was recently
sent from Chicago to Liverpool, via Phila-
delphia. 1t is the intention of the English
importers to test the possibility of using
this material for paPermaking.
John i. Hays, Esq, of Mt. Jackson
Lawrence county, duIing three days last
week killed S27 potato bugs, which he
found on seventeen vines. The largest
haul made at one time was 153.
Governor Hartranft issued death war
rants on Tuesday last for the execution of
the two negroes Lewis Rosenstine and
John Moody, in Harrisburg, July 9Th, for
the murder of Abraham Behm, near Mid
detown, last November.
A body was disinterTed ut Rutland
Vt. recently, which was found TO be petri-
fed. The deceased was buried in 1872,
: and then weighed about $50 pounds. The
body, it is said, now weighs upwards of
one thousand pounds.
, For marrying Miss Rogers, who is
; thirteen years old, Thomas Reedy, of
ROwey Mass, has been sent to the State
prison for four years. Technically, it was
q case of abduction and Reedy had al
: ready three wives living.
The farmers of ten counties of Iowa
and Minnesota are fleeing from the grass
; hoppers. 1t is feared that the destructive
insects will extend their ravaGes this year
l throughout a much larger district than
, they occupied last summer.
, A resident of Wilkes-Barre is building
: house without frame, weather boards, or
plasteriug. 1t is made simply of by /
, inch scantiing, planed and grooved for a
. separate tongue anu these placed on the
: edge and nailed down securely.
= 1t was reported Saturday, that twenty
: / persons were drowned while sailing and
: fishing on Oneida Lake, and seven persons
-, in OnOndaga Lake. One of the most ter
= rifle thunder storms ever known prevailed
= in that vicinity that afternoon and evening.
= An ancient rifle was found imbedded
= in the bank of a creek in Greene county.
= recently, and on examination it was found
= to have belonged to the celebrated Indian
: hunter, Lewis Wetzel. The relic is in the
:, possession of Thomas Bradley, of Waynes-
= burg.
Five members Of the volunteer fire de
- partment Of Williamsport, arrested on sus-
l. piCion of being incendiaries, have confess
:. ed to burning nearly all the property,
: amounting TO over a million dollars, de
. stroyed there since the great fire Of Au-
. gust, 1871.
i The Earl of Marlborough disappeared
mysteriously from the House of Lords last
3 week and has not been heard of since
= When Chandler and Carpenter fail to re-
= spond to the yeas and nays in the Senate
a nobody thinks Of calling 1t a mysterious
Il disappearance.
u Miss SaIana Nen, daughter of Mr..
10 Joel Neff, of Slatintgon, Lehigh county. a
y young miss Of near u years of age, weighs
- 1S0 pounds. She stands feet 10 inches
- in height, and measures 4 feet / inches
= around the shoulders, and 3 foet around
= the waist.
20 Gen. Fitzhugh Lee writes to the Rich
! mOnd Enquirer IN contradiction of some OF
- its statements that Gen. Buffers treat
- ment OF him, while n prisoner in his hands.
- ''waS as humane and considerate as the
a. circumstances under which he was held
? woul0 admit of
:, The New York Herald, commenting
Il on President Grants memorandum on the
- currency, praises its bOldness and wisdom
4 and thinks Congress at its next session
- will be constrained to accept the financia
~ policy of General Grant as the only means
-, of saving the Republican party
- "A steamer from Europe. which recent
! ly arrived in Boston, had among the steer
# age passengers a family of Italians, aged
- as follows Father A, mother 43 with
- fifteen children, aged as follows %. 22
Il 20, 10, II, 16, 10, 13, II, II, 10, Q, s, :, g.
" Twelve we're boys and three girls.
. Senator BrUwnlow, of Tennessee, has
II written a second letter on the civil rights
, bill. in which he reterates the objection:
y to it which he mentioned in his former LET
! ter to the COlored Mems Convention. He
;, calls the section providing for mixed
e schools 'an oppressive ana abominable
uSllI pdA ION.
" They tell of a hen which floated down
! the raging tide at Mill River, for some dis
tance, in the barrel where she was labor.
lously covering nineteen eggs. She at
4 tended strictly to business during the flood,
finally brought UP in a friendly harbor.
a and has since left her barrel with nineteen
= chickens at her heels.
o A lady died recently in Penobscot
t county, Maine, who had long feared her
; body would be exhumed and dissected bv
IS the doctors, and she left $50 to pay a man
!. Tor watching her grave every night for a
4 month after she was buried. The provi-
| sions of her bequest were carried out, and
a every night the watchman is at his post
/ civil service reform has turned up in
# an unexpected quarter. Collector Sim
"a mons has, by stroke of his pen. combined
= the functions of weighers, gaugers and
II measurers, so that now one man can do the
is work of three and discharged twenty-fou
!, custom-house clerks, to the disgust and
fsTG Of IL. H..