The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-13
Neics a1,d POEtticdE items.
Three mon were f,ozen TO death dun

is but ninety dollars year, has delivered
an inaugural address twelve coium MS
long.
William Good, of Conestoga township,
Lancaster county, slaughtered n hog a
few days ago which weighed, when dress
ed, 1909 pounds.
"A prominent physician Of Chambers
burg was detected, in company with 9TH
eIs, in cemetery of that place in theact Of
digging up a child.
"A New York firm have in their store
piece oflace five yards longworth 200 a
yard, which a man could crow0 into his
watch-fob or pOcket-bOok.
MIR. Oney Gar aged about fifty years,
eclipsed a number OF more youthful swaius
and ran away with n miss of fifteen, the
daughter Of the tolIkeeper, neal Abingdon,
Luzerne county.
John G. Henry shief clerl, III the
UEited States Revenue Office at Lynch
burg, Va, has abscunded with 4 large
amount of money, said to be one hundred
thousand dollars.
John Hemingway, middle aged man,
was instantly killed at Sewickley, near
Pittsburg, on Saturday night, 10y jumping
from freight train upon which he had
taken free passage from the city.
Tho Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has decided that distiller in county
where the issuing of license is prohibited
by the local option law, has no right 20
sell the liquor manufactured by him.
-Benoni Howard, the millionaire match
manufacturer Of New York, convicted of
having countcrfeited United States Inter
nal Revenue stamps, was on Saturday SEN
fenced to five years Imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
john Quincy Adams, on Saturday in
the Massachusetts, house of representatives.
made speech against the PHILADELPHIA
centennial, ard resolution, instructing
their congressman to favor it, was tabled
by 76 TO "a.
William II MCotter who killed his
father-in-law, Robert Insley. and Joseph
w. Davis, who killed his employer, Abra-
ham Lynn. were hanged in Maryland on
Friday last, the former at Cambridge and
the latter AT Westminster.
The oldest place of public worship in
PENNSYLVANIA is in Montgomery county.
near ManayuDk. The old edifice, which
still stands in its original simplicity, was
erected in 1895, as appears from date on
a,tablet, and was founded by the early
Friends from Wales.
Mr.. Montgomery Blair has written a
letter in which he declares that the char
Ges an which Fitz John Porter were CON
victed were not only not proved by the tcs-
timOny, but that new testimony, chiefly
from rebel sources, shows that they had
no foundation whatever in fact.
Mrs. Catherine Waller Waite who is
being tried f"r bigamy, ut Portland, Ne,
denies ever having seen Waller, W ho claims
to be her husband asserts she never knew
the children who claim her as a mother
and maintains the most profound cOnIpo-
sure In the face of overwhelming evidence
Mr.. and Mrs. Weiland were found on
Monday morning in their room in Phila-
lei, ~,f ;, l., e
appareutl Y dead. \ doctor was called,
who found the room filled with gas from
tho stove. He succeeded in resuscitaiup
Mr.. WeiIand, but his wife was beyond re-
covery.
The cable brings a report of the death
of David FREDERICK Strauss. who is known
chiefly by his Life of Christ a work
published as long ago as 1885, and intend
ed 20 divest the character of Jesus of
Of the attributes of divinity with
which it was invested by the Christian
Church.
A Washington county man threatens
to bring suit against young farmer who
persists in sitting up with his daughter
Sunday nights till clock in the morn
ing. The stern parent claims, first. that
the following day being washday, his gal
amt of no account; second, that if they
would only use two chairs, the one they
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Tile West Chester Republican makes
some damaging statements III regard to
the Pennsylvania farm school, based on
given by trustee before the
West Grove farmers club. Notwiths.aud-
ing the institution has n clear net income
of nearly $4,000 a year from .he sale of
land scrip appropriated to it by the nation
al government, it is running in debt every
year to the amount of $4,000.
he Of
member of the firm of Roths-
child & Co. is announced. He was born
in 1913. He was deputy lieutenant of
hire and member of parlia-
ment for Hyde. The late baron's two
remaining brothers are Baron Lionel \.
Itothschild, late member of parliament for
London, and Sir Anthony Rothschild, the
Austrian consul general a. London.
Nearly !, 900 coke ovens III the vicini-
ty OF ConnellSville have suspended, owing
To the inability to obtain satisfactory freight
rates, on account of the war between the
Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio rail
road companies. If matters are not adj
justed nearly 5000 men will be thrown out
of employment, Occasioning great distress.
A delegation of coke men were in Pitts
burgh on Friday last to interview the rail
road authorities upon the subject
A four-year-old lad of Boston is of an
inquiring turn of mind. A few days ago
he was possessed by desire to know
whether his younger sisters head would
go IN the family bean-pot. 1t did go in
but it would not come out again.
and surgical operation was performed
upon the pot, fromSvhich it will never re-
cover, the instrument used being ham
mer. The marvellous infant now wishes
TO try another experiment with a larger
he"n-pot' but strict guard is kept over
that utensil.
AS the committees of Congress con-
tlnue their search for ways and means %
reduce the expenditures of the government.
new jobs are discovered almost hourly 1t
now now turns out that an appropriation Of
foou' V.o for new clothing FOR the army
crept into the appronriotio;,
olll last year. The money was not need
ed Tor any legitimate purpose, but has
oeeh appropriated by some member of the
army ring who had an itching palm. The
amount am allowed for the purpose this year is
only $50 OD0 80 -