The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-09
Nescs and Political Items.

-Four persons were burned to death
last Sunday night during fire in Paisley,
Scotland.
The only church in this country where
sermons are preached in Irish, it is sai0, 10 [
at Elmira, Illinois.
"A Philadelphia officer the other day /
got up jury of twelve cross-eysd men, |
and even the Jadge laughed.
The water of an artesian well in Terre (
Haute has been found excellent for f1eas
on dogs and cholera in chickens.
In the middle of dense forest near
Fort Madison, Iowa, is a large number of
apple trees planted in 1875 by Indians.
Twelve suits at law have grown out of
the Beecher- Tilton controversy and there
are flattering prospects of twelve more.
The National Rife Association have
formally accepted the challenge Of the
Irishmen for a return match in Ireland in
1875.
1t is reported that Mr. Disracli will on
his approaching visit to Ireland recommend
that a general amnesty be granted to polit-
ical prisoners.
"A baby was born in Columbia, Lam
caster county, recently, which has but one
arm and one leg, the only foot being shaped
like trowel.
Benz. Rush Bradford will not object to
preside over the Senate as Lieutenant Gov
erner on behalf of the Prohibition party of
this commonwealth.
"A young man named Leets, residing
at Harmony, Butler county, was on Tues
day caught in the machinery of -four
mill and literally torn to pieces.
Theodore TiitoR and Frank d. Moulton
were indicted for libel by the Kings coun-
ty (N. " Grand Jury on Saturday on
complaint Of Henry Ward Bsecher
Philip Blum, at Prague, has poisoned
his wife, daughter aged sixteen, a son
fourteen and another He is a brother of
| the Blum whom Windischgratz shot
Three young ladies walked from VIII
Transport to Lock Haven last week. a
stretch of twenty-eight miles. 1t took two
days, however, to ompiisk the feat
Pennsylvania has 1875 blast furnaces
| 100 rolling mills, l6 rail mills, IS steel works
and 81 bloomaries. All the other States put
! together do not contain near so many
The Grand Hotel at Saratoga New
| York, was destroyed by fire on Thursday
morning last. Loss $3.50. eco, insurance
| $1,000 Supposed TO have been set on
! fire.
Tho London Daily TeyeGraph learns
! from Catholic dignity that the Duke ano
/ Duchess of Northumberland are about to
become converted to the Roman Catholic
/ faith.
| Among the list OF wedding presents
/ Miss SiInsie Sherman received was a gold
watch, with face cover inland with dia-
/ thobHs ant pearls, from PRESIDENT Grant
! and wife.
The highest inhabited spot in the
| world is said to be the Buddhist cloister.
| at Harle, in Thibet. where twenty-one
/ priests live, at an altitude of 5000 feet
| above the sea.
The longest name probably every in
! tiictcd upon child in Massachusetts was
! ''Aldcbarontiphoscc osccfornia''-twenty three
| iettersr The girl afterwards became the
| wife of Boston merchant.
-G"yernor Dix, ef New York, is entitled
! to the belt as the champion office holder
/ lie has either held or been an applicant
for Office in State and Federal affairs for
sixtytwo of the seventy-si years of his
/ life.
| Sixteen Roman Catholic priests are
| now in confinement at Cobientz, on the
| Rhine. for offences against the Prussias
| ecclesiastical laws, several of them being
| under sentence of ten months imprison-
| ment.
The Rochester Uaaon propounds a
| conundrum. 1t says that Mr.. Poland tried
to stop printing press by putting his
! finger IN ccgwheel. The press, very sin
gularly. went right on, and where is Mr.
| Poland now?
There died in Allegheny, Pa, last week
an old man named John W Wiliam Leskar.
who once headed a revolutionary move
msnt in Saxony, which, had it been sue
! cessful, would have placed him on the
throne. He died barber.
"A rain cloud burs: on the Humboldt
| Division of the Central Pacific Railroad
on Thursday night. The track was washed
out, an emigrant train, drawn by two To-
! co'notives- went into a chasm. Both eupi-
| neerS were instantly killed.
AT negro meeting held in Washington
! few evenings since, ''Prof.' john NJ
Langston, negro, delivered an address. in
TRh Hr It.lvyN l,.,
Rights BIZ This is a blow at Mr.. Summers $
fame which his admirers will hardly relish
| There are four State tickets in New
| 1erk. The Democrats. headed by Samuel
j. Tilden the Grant Republican Third
Iermites. headed by John A. Dix; the
Temperance men, headed by William J.
| Groo, and the Prohibitionists, headed by
| Myron II. Clark.
"A number of Texan steers which ar
rived in New York on Sunday eveujr O..
while passing through the lower part of
! the city, became iufuIiated at the noise
| and eight of them broke from the drovers
rushing i'll various directions Before the
steers were shot some fifty people were in
Jured, some seriously.
An earthquake at Antigua, Guate-
| maia, September 3, DESTROYED thirtv-two
lives. 1t came without warning. ana ap-
Peared to move the ground in waves. MANY
houses were destroyed, and the shock was
slightly felt at the capital city AS Anti
qua is in the neighborhood of a volcanic
mountain the earthquake is attributed to
volcanic action.
| "A child four years old, of Joseph Fai-
gle, "f Mitineague, Mass. elected frog
hve inches long, Wednesday morning
froggy endured the operation for while.
but soon expired. The child has been
slckly for two years past, and the doctors
have been Unable to afford relief for rea-
sons which are now OBVIOUS 1t is sup
posed that the frog was swallowed by the
child while drinking brook water.
The Harrisburg Potyiot says With
IN the last two weeks the stump of the
! mulberry tree to which John Harris was
tied by the Indians on the river front has
been carefully filed up with mortar and
cement, and the top, which is about three
/ fect In dIameler- cnvered 4.