The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-01-16
Wears an& Postttcas Items.

- here are Seventy-fOur oranges OF Ine
Patrons in Pennsylvania.
Ten thousand school states are manu-
factured daily at Slatington.
"A man in Tioga county claims to have
a stone that Washington threw at a wood
peeiler on his fathers cherry tree.
= Gen. Fitz john Porter's appeal that
his case be reopened is again endorsed by
many of the leading journals of the coun-
try.
State have a thorough knowledge of read
( ing, writing, arithmetic, geography, and
gTammev.
"A rumor comes from Philadelphia that
/ Asa Packers to succeedJ. Edgar Thomson
/ as President of the Pennsylvania Railroad
/ Company.
/ Tom Morton, a young man of nusound
mind, is in jail at Sunbury, charged with
having fired the buildings recently burned
in that place.
"A West Buffalo, Union county, man
/ named James Taylor recently shot two
wild turkeys at one shot. That was kill
/ ing two birds with one stone
The Columbia Steel and Iron Gem
pany's works at Columbia were closed on
! last Saturdayby the Sheriff, at the instance
of Maitland, Audenried & Co., of Fhila-
delphia.
About Christmas time the rector of
the American College in Rome handed the
sum of e5, 600 to the Pope, which had been
sent by the Catholics of the Philadelphia
diocese.
Sister Mary Margaret, of Dubuque,
Iowa, Mother Superior in charge of st, 10
seph's Academy, who went 10 Iowa i'll 1S43,
and was 4 pioneer Sister Of Charity, died
/ recently.
The public will be pleased to learn
that the Thakore of Raycote and the heir
presumptive OF the Jarn of Nowanngger,
have started with an immense rctlnue on
a tour through India.
Under the fish Law a man ramedWm.S.
Snyder was arrested at Sunbury, recently,
for catching salmon, contrary to law. He
was fined $40 and costs. He says he don I
like salmon for his breakfast.
In Colorado n. H., two unnatural
parents tied a child in bed and left it there
to disturb the neghbors with its hideOus
screaming, while they went to church.
Very properly they have been arrested.
There are eighteen windows glass fac
tories idle in fittsburg, employing, when
III operation, over one thousand men. The
cause Of the idleness of the work is be-
cause the men refuse to work at reduced
wages.
"A little Sunday School boy, while
reading q chapter in Genesis. asked his
teacher whether the boys of olden times
used to do their sums the ground. 1t
was discovered that he had been reading
the passage, ''Aud the sons of men multi
piled upon the face of the earth
The committeeof locomotive engineers
who recently waited on J. Edgar Thomp-
son, President of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, were accorded 4 kind reception, and
received assurances that 50 soon as the
business OF the road justified, the full rates
of compensation would be restored.
-ThcIe is trouble brewing between OPP
orators and miners III the Pottsville coal re
gions. Fortunately, what between q mild
! winter, aud the fact of dealers being fairly
supplied in all parts of the country, the
possibility of 4 suspension of work may
be regarded with more eomplacency than
| usual
-Remarking upon the fact that quite a
| number of State Legislatures are now in
session, the Chicago Times pleasantly says
That it is pity that so many able-b bodied
men, who could do good service chopping
/ cord-wood, should be compelled to waste
their valuable time in lOREng about the
State capitals.
On Wednesday of last week the Gov
e!nor issued pToclamations declaring the
adoption Of the New Constitution, and the
payment, cancellation, eXtinguiShmentau and
final discharge of one million five hundred
and four thousand six hundred and seven
ty-two dollars and seventy cents of the
principal Of the public debt or this com
mOnwe5ith.
Mrs Marshal Bazaine is beautiful
Mexican woman, only twenty-eight wears
Of age, and with bright Intelligent features.
She Is said to favor Adalina Patti, and to
love her husband devotedly. They have
two children q boy and girl, the first
i've years old. No wonder the old man be
came SO excited when lis sentence was
pronounced.
The Rev. J. II. Drake and wife. of
Lima, Ohio, have just did from poisoning.
hgNr ,r..,
their house, and in tearing down the Old
! paper, which was of deep green color Z
dust was created which was inhaled by
them, and they were poisoned by it. They
died within a short time of eacn other, and
were buried on the same day.
"A fearful accident occurred at the new
county Jail, in Dayton, Saturday While
three men were at work mailing slate or
the root, the seafOldmg gave way, and
they fell on the stone floor 4 distance oi
20 feet below. Frederick Riedner was in.
stantly killed. Patrick Hopkins had hi,
back broken, aud received other fatal in
{ lures, and John II. Smith was slightly
bruised.
a fire on Tuesday morning sburnef
the residence Of Jacob Steiner. on Sixtietl
street, New \ Ork Loss twelve to fifteer
thousand dollars. Steiner was instantly
Killed By jumping from window Mrs
Steiner and the daughter, Tabitha, were
I0nhd IN one OF the upper rooms sEffocated
Mary AcGuiYe, a servant, had her tbiol
fractured IN attempting TO escape The
fire was caused by a defective fius.
! The st. Paul Pioneer saws that eleven
, poor Swedts, who had settled upon tho
PfaSles some two hundred miles from St
fani, were recently dragged FROM thcil
MONIES on a charge Of cutting brush on pub
M i,c fGos, which they Lad done to keer
their families from perishing with colo. :
On examination they were discharged anG
turned penniless into the streets, to make
tLelt way home as best as they could.
, - he Boston Adrertissr thinks thai
fltz John Porter's request to have hi,
! 2S c"SS leoPened Is reasonable, saying "A
ought not to be permitted to suffer undeI
an lheXorable condemnation, if there !,
= PFopaoie cause for believing the new evi