The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-04-03
oc,cs ana FotsticaE Items.

--MarcelIus B. Stearns who becomes
governor Of Florida by the death OF Gov
q. B. Hart, brought his carpet-oag from
Maine when the cruel war was over.
Mrs Nancy Davenport, OF Summer
hill, Crawford county, eighty years Old,
does all her own hOusework, milks three
COWS and looks after matters generally.
"A Butler county man sent fifty cents
to q city swiudler to learn how to prevent
:. shot gun from scattering and received a
card with these words printed ON 1t: Put
in but one shot"
murder of his wife some days ago at La
COMA n. H., and was sentenced to thirty
years Imprisonment, committed suicide
on Saturday morning IN prison.
At Poughkeepsie, y. Y, a wagon
containing Martin McCue, his wife and
babe, backed of he ferry boat INTO the
river, on Sunday. Mrs McCue and babo
were drowned, md Mr.. McCue badly in
jured.
The Cincinnati Times says Nebuchad-
nezzar was not the first Granger" Eve
made quite a reputation in the apple busl-
ness, and broke up Adam monopoly, and
Was also the very Grst to Patronize hus-
bandry.
} The Michigan Legislature has agreed
TO submit the question Of woman suffrage
4 to the people. AS this will afford the first
opportunity of a direct popular vote on the
7 subject, the result will be looked forward
+ to with interest.
"A Lafayette, Indiana, druggist has on
( hand curiosity, being full grown mouse
/ III a four ounce vial. The vial was found
in box of straw, and it is supposed that
the mouse crawled into it when quite small
( and could not get out.
"A little daughter Of J. T. Goldsbury,
/ of Kokomo, Indiana. has solicited and re-
! cCIved from the people three hundred dol
laas 10 save her father from prosecution for
forgery. He was = sewing machine agent,
and had confessed the crime.
DR.. ShOppe, the notorious criminal,
was on Friday removed TO the Chicago Jail.
He admits having forged a check for $50
OD the German National Bank but saws
he got no money for it. lie denies that
the ola Lutheran Clergyman at Napiersville
is his father.
A man in a mill III PluTnes, California,
felt a tug at his cOat-tai. He looked
around and saw that it was being drawn
i'll 10y cog wheels. lie grabbed a post and
held on with all his might, while the coat
was slowly torn from him. The struggle
was 4 hard one, but the man won.
Under the operations of the peace pol
icy, it appears there is n deficiency of ST.
COO, 600 for the Apaches and other tribes in
Arzonia and New Mexico. 1t is stated in
Washington that unless food and blankets
are not soon forthcoming, they will take up
their little hatchct and set up for them
selves.
Nearly all the distinguished men, says
the Cincinnati Ep0WiTsr, who took part in
the violent political contest OF 1S5O-51,
twenty-three years ago are now dead
They were Clay, Webster, Calhoun, CaSS
Seward, Chase, SIMMER, Clayton, Corwiu.
Bell, Everett, and Dickinson.
On the oath ult., John Hilbert of
Lycoming county. was leaving his bed he
stumbled in such 4 way as to strike his
neck upon the chimney Of lamp standing
upon a table near. The iugular vein was
severed and he bled to death in very few
minutes and before his wife could call in
any assistance.
1t is now proposed to distribute the
colored troops among the whites IN the
army upon footing of equality, breaking
up the heretofore separate organizations
This IS piece of mosaic statesmanship
that viii not bear the strain Of adoption.
Such meddliug viii work injury to both
black and white soldiers.
in the domestic annals OF the White
House is one marriage, that OF a daughter
Of President Monroe in 1890. Two Presi-
dents have died, Taylor and Harrison, and
a third lay in state after his death. Sew
eral children have died and one baby vas
born, James Madison Randolph, 4 grand
son of Thomas jefferson.
The greatest bell in the world, the
Cologue Cathedral, has just been finished.
1t weighs about 10000 pounds, is eighteen
feet high and fourteen feet wide. The first
moulding Of the bell proved a failure and
considerable difficulty has yet to be over
come IN transporting the immense mass
from FTankenthal, where it was cast, TO
the top of the tower of the Cologne Cathe-
dral.
On Saturday lasta wonder in the shape
Of double headed calf was born on the
premises OF Daniel Espcnshade, Strasburg
borough, Lancaster county. From the
shoulders forward two perfect heads, were
developed, with two mouths and for ewes
On the back is hump similar to a cam
els hump, while the middle joints of the
hind legs surn inward instead of naturally
outward. The animal only lived a short
time after birth.
This is the way they do it in Trenton,
\. j. In Willow street, one day this week,
a curious scene occurred. The relationship
between man and woman, who were
living together as husband and wife. were
not legal, inasmuch as she has a husband
living. The couple removed from the
street named and the neighbors, in honor
of the occasion, hung out flags, and had a
TIN horn concert. to show how glad they
were the couple were seeking new quarters.
William Robinson of San Jose. Califor-
ma, although eighty years old, could not
wait de went to bed with can of gun
powder, lighted fuse, covered his head
with quilt, and-was only slightly scorch-
ed by the explosion. Those who heard it
ran in and found him sitting up with blood
running down his clothes. He asked wheth-
er he was in Heaven, and was sad when
, told that be was alive yet. Religious ex-
| element had crazed him.
The telegraph informs us that Mr.
Joseph May. the State Treasurer of Vir
glnla, who is reported to be So, 600 short
IN his accounts, is insane. Defalcations are
very common in these degenerate days.
and three thousand dollars is an amount
winch sinks into insignificance besides the
ordinary figures. For State Treasurer
to become defaulter in so small sum