The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-08-21
NeaCS and Political Items.

I'm a Welsh court recently eleven of the
Jurors were named Jones.
I "A National SpOrtSmen'S Convention Is
called for at Niagara Falls, Sept. 9th, 1874.
There is a man in Lawrence, Mass,
who can shoulder a piece of water pipe
weighing 422 pounds.
Delaware county, Pa, has venerable
! cat twenty-five years old, and sheep over
( whose wool twenty winters have passed.
A very generous donation is that of /
J the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company to the /
sufferers by the Allegheny flood-S5, ,OOO.
Three little triplets in Missouri. all
girls have been named respectfully Mary
Louisiana, Martha Indiana and Stella Ala /
bama.
/, Robert Shacken, who had been mar
I ried only one day, drowned himself at Bel !.
videre, Ill. He had been engaged to anoth- /
er lady.
A Placerville, Cal, clergyman insists
that he really saw red and black snake
forty feet long and as big around as bar
rel of whiskey.
Cincinnati enthuses itself over the per-
formances of an armless violinist who is
sufficiently bow-legged to play the lnstru-
ment with his toes.
The Brooklyn argus says the Illinois
editor who refused to publish word about
the great scandal of the age, was sold out
at Sheriff7s sale a week ago.
-Moulton's business firm, it is now said,
! thre atens to oust him out of the partner
ship unless he clears hmselffrom Beecher's
allegations that he helped TO blackmail him.
-Ex-GOv. Curtain, who openly proclalms
; his preference for the Democratic party,
! will it is reported, take an active personal
, interest in the approaching political con-
test.
, 1t is reported that the Pope will soon
recognize Serrano as President OF SPAN.
t The recognition of the republic by Eng
3 land, France, and Austria Is oincialiy pro
mulgated.
: Henry Boetger and his son John have
: beer arrested on suspicion OF numbering
S the wife of the elder Boetger, on the Browns
: vile turnpike, above Pittsburgh, about two
weeks ago.
A frightful famine prevails in portions
q of Asia Minor. Five thousand persons
: have died in single district of starvation.
: The horrors of the scene are said 70 be in
. descrbable.
: Goldsmith Maid, it may be well to
f state, is seventeen years of age, and Is
% owned by Henry n. Smith, of New \ ork,
p who saws he wouldn't sell her for one hun
q dred thousand dollars.
A New York policeman named Nc
&? Grath, and young lady named Mcclure,
It were drowned while bathing at Coney Is
/ land, on Saturday. He lost his life while
trying to save hers.
A cat belonging to Mr.. Delos Perry,
of Union township, Tioga county, a few
. days ago caught common barn or cave
y swallow, in which were found eighteC/
y large potato bugs.
j Col. Fisher. who was drowned i'm the
u SusQuehanna river rs noticed elsewhere,
> was Commissioner of Patents in Grant:
10 first cabinet. and one of the ablcst patent
l. LAWYERS i'll this country.
. Boston Corbett, the cstimable patriot
e who snapped his cap at Wilkes Booth, is
now dealing in hats in Philadelphia. We
believe 1t was mentioned at the time that
l. he was as mad rs a halter
d. The Hon. !. Proctor Knott, who sang
of the praises of the Northern Pacific Railroad
,. COMPANY on the occasion Of the birth Oi
10 that monopoly. is coming to the next con-
81 grcss to preach its funeral Grafton.
MIR. y Il. Hill, Grants Postmaster at
.r Galveston, Texas, turns out TO be a default
I er in his late capacity as Sheriff to the tune
a of 800. 600. How much he las gobbled
RS from the government has not traDSpired rs
ri yet.
n Mrs. Borden and her little sister. about
II nine years old, daughters Of Orlo Rose oi
,c Wellsville, Pa, were struck 10y lightning
y, and both instantly killed. They had lcf
10 the house with a tin pail to go to the wei
- for water. ...
k 1T is good thing to have a brother.in
rs law after all. Marshal BaZaine says thai
s, his brother-in-Ia aided in his escape from
ne ST. Marguerite. Perhaps Grant has beer
Il unjustiy blamed i'll fixing the value o
10 brotheTS-in- law.
y The Detroit Tribune has just moved
= into bran new stone Office, aud prints
e. picture of it with man going up stairs
to two steps at time to whip the editor, anC
e. woman coming down street with a piece
IL of poetry for him to print.
I'll Mary +. Pomeroy, the alleged victim
he Of Rev. John s. Glendenniug, pastor of
:. Presbyterian church in Jersey City, diet
oe on Tuesday morning. In her ante nOrtcH
Of atp lao cha I
~ u, being the father of her child.
as The presence of two colored men a
r delegates i'll the Republican county con
er vention of Randolph county, H., last week
ld caused the instant secession of certai,
k white delegates, who declared ''They coul,
Vt not swallow this bitter pill
4 The grasshoppers on their way soutl
G IT. stopped n railroad train. and got copies O
av the st. Paul papers. When they read tha
of only small portion of the crop had bee,
H. destroyed, they started lack to finish th
IS job. So says the Milwaukee Sentinel.
v. -Trimble county. Tennessee, cast 1. or
democratic votes and but five republican
votes at the recent election. ''Schoc
Am houses badly needed here" innoceiftly re
a. marks the local journal. Where does tha
IS. spirited local republican organ get its read
X, ers?
er John Cooley. ST.. the oldest printer /,
of the State of New York, died in Utica, Aug
I'm ust B. at the age of "A. He was appren
IN ticed in Cork, Ireland, in 1918, came t.
n n Utica in 1851. and has worked a the cas-
,% ! almost continually more than sixtv-on
, years.
he "A ghostly 'Woman in White ha
IN lately been troubling the people of Omaha
he She frequents the cemetery, hits the sextol
x- on his back, asks where her children are
l. and sinks into grave. She has been twic
PIT tired at without effect, and the sexton talk
'e, of resigning.
~ :" -Mr. Moulton is wealthy merchant
;, probably about thirty eight years old. III
he " ieu nair ana hght SKIN, muStache
n and a bold, prompt way of speech lie i
a Tie PHYSICAL dntlDOdeS of Iitpn hn ic