The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-09-25
NesCs and Political Items.

"A pON DtdNeQ with n bull
and came off the little end of tile horn,
gored.
HAS the Republican party finished its
work?'' Possibly not. But its work has
finished it.
In Plymouth, Luzerne county, the
people are compelled to pay one dollar per
barrel for water.
Mrs. Lovejoy, aged sixty resid-
ing near Baldwin City. Kan, gave birth
to boy a few days since.
here are five hundred and ninety-six
producing wells in Butler county, which
squirt 10, 434 barrels daily.
-lhe Catholics of " NheelinC, Va. are
TO erect monument chapel over the late
Bishop Whelan, of that diocese.
-Chambers6urg has musical prod;pv
IN little girl only four years old, who
plays the piano with wonderful skill
"A terrible storm swept over Davenport
and Dubuque, Iowa, on Friday night, A
large amount of property was destroyed.
1t is somewhat appalling TO learn that
there is possibility that the Schleswig-
Holstein question will be re-open.d.
Tho Dodge gold mine, at Lisbon. Y.
H.. is yielding $40 from ton Of ore. A
block of gold. weighing s40O, was taken
out a few days ago.
The wheat crop this year is two per
cent lower in condition and seven per cent.
higher in acreage planted, than it was in
September last year.
A reward of 800 is offered for the ar
rest of Anthony or Andrew Lenahan. who
Killed Capt. John Riley at Wilkesbarre, on
Tuesday evening of last week.
Lieutenant Boyne, fthe Thrrtv-eirhth
British Regiment. recently walked from
Aidershot to London and back in seventeen
hours. The distance was seventy miles.
Amos Speakman, of Chester county.
Pa, lost his watch while coon hunting
CT " x-a.ar
this season, the Identical timepiece was
found.
The celebrated horse Nessenger-Ba-
shaw, owned in Bourbon county. XIV. was
recently gored to death by a bull The
owner had refused $4,000 for hi,a not
long before.
Carbon comfy, Pa, claims the cham
plon daddy of the state. He is a Ger
man, 10 years old, and is the father of
thirty children, the youngest Of whom j,
four months old
About one hundred and ninetv-three
politicians are sitting on the ragged edge
of despair III mortal dread lest the new
Legislature curtail some of their oppoI1u-
mites of stealing.
"A negro. named Steve Anderson. was
arrested in Memphis last Sunday evening
while in the act of committing Tape ON 2
"hite woman. lie was cent to Jail in de-
fault of $4,000 bail
"A piece OF landsituate on Broadway.
Sixth avenue and I'hirtv-second street.
New York, which in 1913 was sold for
5000, in 1868 for $45, coo, changed hands
last Friday for 1915, 0O0.
There was z mouluful sort of wed
ding up In the north western part of the
State last week. Mr.. Melon married Miss.
Colly. In short it was Melon Colly af-
fair. Copy right secured
-Abner e Harding, a native of Perry
county, this State, died on the 18th rIt.
at Monmouth, Warren county Illinois.
leaving an estate estimated at 50, 900, coo.
He emigrated to Illinois in 1881.
Miss Honore, of Chicago who is said
to be engaged to Colonel Fred Grant. is a
Roman Catholic and was educated at the
Georgetown Convent. She is fine looking
and has highly cultivated voice
"A number Of English Catholics. led by
Archbishop Manning, Monsignor Patter-
son, and Lord Edmund Howard, have gone
on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Ed
mund Of Canterbury at Pontignv.
The Portland Argus states that it has
been discovered that, owing to blunders in
the legislature, there is not at present, nor
has there been for two years, any Maine
Liquor law or any law against selling IL
quor.
The conversion Of the Marquis Of Ri
pom to Roman Catholicism has created no
little stir in England. The Times is very
indignant at what it terms ''tle fatal obli
quity of temperament which has led Lord
Ripen TO this act
About two months ago six young men
were drowned near Niagara by the capsiz-
ing of the yacht Foam Mr. Anderson
the father of two of them, afterwards pur-
chased the vessel, and on Thursday night
destroyed it by fire.
&C. h. Ross (Charley's father has ex
pressed his Intention of prosecuting tho
authors Of the libel that ne was not living
with his wife. and irsiruating .hat the
boys mother had taksn him from the home
from which she had been driven.
"A Juvenile base bali nine recently walk
ed from Port Jervis to Milford. eight
miles, TO play game, and when thew got
there the other club wouldn't play, and the
boys had to walk home again. Sixtsen
miles without game Too bad
w eston, who begun at two minutes
past twelve on Sunday night. the 18th inst.
his walk of five hundred miles in six con.
secutive days, stopped on Saturday night
at twenty minutes TO twelve. He walked
three hundred and tweuty-six miles.
-Gov Lewis, of Alabama. with a view
to pleasing the negroes, ha. appointed to
the Office OF Judge Of Dallas county ne
gro named oscar Hunter, who cannot write.
and who signs his name to the minutes of
the Court by a cross mark.-Mo5ile Regis
ter.
WIN. ii. kemble's (of addition. di-
VISION and silence" fame) Peoples Bank, (
OF Philadelphia, is moving into building
for which it pays $50, 900 rent annually
Ibis institution keeps on deposit about
one,thlrd OF the states money. Enough
said.
1t Is reported as singular fact that
three grand-daugh5ers of Charles Carroll.
OF Carreiiton, one of the signers of the
declaration of independence, married into
the British peerage The last surviving
sister was the Duchess of Leeds. who died
some months ago.
AT recent christening in Northum-
oeriand, Pa, the parents of the little one
baptized requested that it might be per-
mltted to drink the water used in the cere-
mouy, giving as a reason that if it should
drink the water so used sickness would