The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-11-20
Nc,os ana EotstseaI Isea,s.

I'm the precinct of Fulton, KY, no
election was held, no one in tho vicinity
seeming to be aware of the event.
A petrified butterfly was found IN
Dubuque quarry the ether day, and FL
the delicate outlines ere as perfect as In
life.
A Vermont legislator, aged go, made
his first railroad journey few days ago,
while on bis way to take his seat for the
present session.
An old sea captain of Lewis county,
Mass, whose age is ninety-6ve, is just
about leading 10 the altar a sprightly dam
sci of ninety-six.
Artificial butter ia becoming quite az
important article in trade. Large factor
les are in operation in Hamilton, Canada,
and other places.
The estate of the late Thaddeus Stew
ems at Lancaster is worth from 800, coo to
$3.50, 600, which goes to founding an Or
phan asylum in that city.
The meanest man has Just been dis
covered in Washington county, Iowa. lie
has applied for divorce on the ground
that his wife is an invalid.
A man at East Lyme, Conn, has been
in bed for six years. Hc was rejected by
his sweetheart. and has consoIed himself
ever since by lying in bed.
Mrs. Porter, of Idaho City, has fallen
heir to property in st. Louis valued at 81
600, 600. Such a woman, If single, could
marry who she pleased, as any man would
be glad to supporter.
"A Montgomery va paper relates that
a colored boy in its vicinity displays a pas
sionate craving for kerosene, which he
drinks in large quantities and which pro-
duces wild intoxication.
The London Duly Telegraph states
that a Socialist conspiracy has been dis
covered in Russia, and adds that 8, coo per-
sons, including many ladies and several
persons of high rank, have been arrested.
--Advices from New Orleans Tuesday
noon states that the steamer Empire, run
ming to the lower coast, overloaded with
sugar sank at the foot OF Conte street.
Thirty to forty lives were lost.
Tho Pittsburgh Commercial shows
| that the overwhelming defeat of the Re-
! publicans in Pennsylvania was due mainly
| to stay att home members of that party.
| 1t fails to tell, however, why they stayed
! at homo.
Eleven of the original thirteen State.
! have repudiated Grant rule. Rhode Is
| land, where poor men ara not allowed to
vote, and South Carolina, which is con-
| trolled by negroes, are the only ones that
| sustain him.
! "A Madison county Gn.) girl only thir.
| teen years old recently killed rattlesnakc c.
which measured five feet two inches in
| length and nine inches in circumference
at the largest part. His rattles numbered
twenty seven.
! -Udderzook was hung at West Chester
Pa, on Thursday last. He died without
| making a confession. On the sans day
O'Mara and Irwin were hung at Montrose
! this State, for the murder Of O'Nara':
| mother and sister.
| The Vermont Senate has unanimous
ly voted to send Senator Morrill's bacl
pay-which he placed to the credit of thu
State to the Treasury of the United States
where it belongs, and the House will doubt
less concur in this action.
! Particulars of sho typhoon in China
| during the last week in September show
that the loss OF life in and about Hong
| Kong and Macao amounted to 30, coo souls.
and the destruction of property is estimated
| at not less than $50, coo, 600.
The troubles in the Wilkesbarre Goa
regions are growing worse. a perfect
reign of terror prevails. Four men were
murdered on Saturday and Sunday and foul
| brutally assaulted and terribly maltreated
| No arrests have been made.
| Louise Kellogg fastens her garter.
| with $500 diamond clasps. Anna Dickin
son snaps pair of amethysts round hel
| little calves, and the widow of Captain
Jack ties up her Ole army socks with g
| pair of Shacknasty Jim's old suspenders
| Sherman is Freenason, the Boston Pho
| says it has the very best authority for say.
| ing that the General is not and never was
| connected with any secret society, and
the great probability is that he never will be
| Harry White, the fortunate victim
| of Rebel prisons" held two offices last
| year-State Senator and member of the
| constitutional Convention; now he don
| hold any, the people having reduced him
| TO the ranks "UnfoTtunate victim" would
now be more appropriate.
VIM. Guynan, a drunkard, Of Spring.
| field, Mass, tried TO reform until he be-
| came convinced that bis appetite was
stronger than his will Then he bought a
| quart of poor whiskey, drank it all with
| the avowed intention of diving intoxicated
and was dead within an hour.
| The second arrest of Count Won Ar
MIN has caused painful impression in
| Berlin. The moderate newspapers insist
| upon an explanation by the Governments
1t is thought that the Count was arrested
| the second time because he gave several
! OF the missing documents TO his counsel
There can be no change in the politi
| cal complexion of the United States Senate
before March 3, 1879, except by the inter
ventlon of death or resignation. The Re.
| publicans. therefore, will maintain theil
| ascendancy in that branch of cur nationa
| iegislature until that time, unless in case
of some unforeseen contingency.
| At Salisbury, n. c., Friday, two color
ed men went to the house of an old citi
zen, supposed to have large sum of mon
ey on hand, and demanded his cash. Be
| ing refused, one of them fired at the gen
| tieman, and slightly wounded him in the
face. The Ole mans wife. who is over IL.
| ty years of age, then struck the assailant
on the head with a spade and killed him on
| the spot.
! The political revolution in Massaehu.
setts has accomplished perhaps rs much in
the way of tranquilizing the south as any
| thing that has occurred since the war. In
the grand procession in New Orleans in
honor of the conservative victory in that
state the other day there was carried q
transparency with the following motto
MassachuseCts-S55,O 600 to the sufferers
Ia Louisiana God bless her p