The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-09-18
NetCS ord Political Items.


firing. England. is the hoiIe of wo-
man one hundred and eleven years old who
works in the harvest field
"A mother in New York, sends to n
oTug store for paregorc. Infant dies;
Clerk held in 5000 bail Right
"A Terre lIaute Qnd) girl makes nine
feet at a standing jump. She is to iump
for wager 1T the next State fair.
-Danville, n. j., is proud of the iiabol-
lcal profession of a young lady Who mira
culously 'turns milk blood red
Now then, let the democracy of Penn
sylvania go into the pending canvass to
win. An open field and a fair fight is the
watch word.
Such is the faith of Plymouth Church
in the virtue of MIR. Beecher that it is pro-
posed to raise his salary to $4,000 as a
compensation for his trials.
Heightened. swarm of bees have
established themselves on the top OF the
highest church steeple in Cincinnati and
! seem tc be very much at home.
The bankruptcy statement of Geo O.
Evans is published. but it does not contain
! the promised expose of his operations and
! the patriots who shared his plunder.
Amy girl may raise mustache by
shaving her upper lip every day for about
. a month. A St. Louis girl has demonstrat-
ed this fact, and now wishes she hadn't
The State of Mississippi which did not
owe dollar in 1867 is now saddled with a
debt of three millions and a half and,
what is worse, has nothing to show for it.
L. Ii. Collum, while attempting to
cross the track between the depot and his
stove factory, in Butler, Pa, on Monday
was caught between two cars. He lived
about fonr hours after the accident.
"A young farmer in Madison county,
| n. Y, raised fifty eight pounds of potatoes
this season from single seed potato weigh
| ing three-fourths of a pound, which was
cut up and planted in twelve hills.
Six years ago a Portland Me- girl
was married in 81, 900 dress She is now
a resident of St. Clair county, ILL.,. and at
last accounts gained living for her three
children and drunken husband by digging
potatoes.
An Iowa centenarian, 102 years old.
recently made the overland trip to Califor-
mia, where lie went to see brother five
years younger than himself The father
OF these men livea to be 100 years and 5
months old.
The old defenders of Baltimore celc-
brated the sixtieth anniversary of the bat
tie of North Point ON Saturday by march
ing around the battle monument. The
venerable men, "a in number, attracted
quite crowd.
"A rogue, in his alphabet, who could
neither read nor write, got away with seven
/ thousand dollars, after having been elected
county treasurer in Alabama. What will
he do when he gets the ordinary carpet
bagger education ?
"A large vein of cor1ndum has been
foune near Unioutille, in Chester county.
| Pa. This mineral serves the purpose of
emery. 1t has hitherto been found in lin
tied quantities, but now the supply Of it is
said to be immense.
Tho employees ofthe Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company have been put
| on halt-tlme, working two weeks out of
the month, at eight hours per day. a gen
eral stagnation Of trade and business is tho
| alleged reason for the stoppace
| II rauciS Huber. u merchant of Pine
| Grove, Schuylkill county, who has been
missing since the 4th inst, was found i'm
the mountains hanging to a tree, with his
| face much disfgured. 1t is supposed that
financial difficulties led to suicide
"A woman forty-five years old died in
an insane asylum i'm Edinburg after having
been confined to her bed for five years
! Alter her death 1T was found that her bones
had become soft and light, and had in fact
almost disappeared. She suffered no pain
--Seventeen Methodist preachers. be
| longing to one family-two great grand
children, two grand children. and five chill
dren of the late Luthern Peek of Syracuse
arc to have gathering at tho residence of
Mrs Bishop Peck, in that city, on the Odd
| of October.
| Julius MendelsSohn convicted on Fri
day of forgery, killed himself on Saturday
by poison, in the Toombs at New York.
His claim of being n son of the great com
poser was generally looked upon as ficti-
tons. His right name was thought TO be
Julius Lesser
Says the Bedford Pa Gazette: There
are in Pennsylvania 80 postlnistresses. 1t
has been common for many years to ap-
point women TO that position, and they are
always efficient officers. We believe no
one has ever proved a defaulter to the
| Government
Miss keeler, young and promising
daughter of Mr.. William Keeler. of New
Hanover township, near Fegleysville, Mont
gomery county, was severely bitten on the
back of her hand by huge black snake
| several days since, that will no doubt re-
suit in her death
Now that Colorado has for the first
time since its organization as a territory
chosen democratic delegate TO congress,
! nothing more will be heard of the propoSi-
ton for its admission into the Union as n
| state. Colorado has not population enough
| for democratic state.
"A new style of steamboat is projected
IN New Orleans. 1t is to be built of iron.
three hundred feet long, of six thousand
| tons capacity, and is expected to run
! twelve miles an hour either way. with n
consumption of less than one hun dred tons
| OF coal in a round trip from St Louis
j. c. Whitman, German. about
forty years of age, committed suicide on
Saturday afternoon at his room in No. 8
| ROBINSON place, Worcester, Mass. by
shooting himself through the heart lie
was engaged to be married on Monday to
a young lady. and it is said he had a wife
and two children living in New York.
Another railroad disaster has occurred
In England, on the Great Eastern Railroad,
by which twenty persons were killed and
lIfty wounded. The rate of speed at which
| English trains are run makes collisions
more destructive than they are in America,
! and they seem to be more frequent now in
Great Britain than at any previous time.
-General Sherman is not at all favora-
Die to the movement of sending the troops
| into the South and taking military posses