The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-16
NetCs and Political items,


publication of the scandal literature.
-Twenty-one girls Of Kenosha, Wis, |
have ''resolved that if the young men won't |
come and see us, we will 60 and see them
Two of the persons injured by the |
STAN pede of the Texan steers in New York, |
a few days since, have died of their inju
ries.
According to an English photographer |
common white cotton cloth becomes water |
proof by being dipped for an instant in !
dilute sulphuric acid.
The deepest coal shaft in England, and
probably in the world, is the Dunkenficld,
2060 feet, and reaches a seam of coal only
feet 81 inches thick.
"A Teutonic resident in this State, aged
seventy-three, has recently had presented
TO him by his wife the thirtieth pledge of
their mutual affection.
Mary Kelly hung herself to the bars OF
her cell in the lookup at Pittsburgh on
Thursday. She was hard driLker, and
about thirty years old.
There are only three Republican coun-
ties in Georgia. 1t is expected that the
entire Georgia delegation in the next Con-
greSs will be Democratic.
Senator Morton. whose physical infirm-
tiles will not permit of his standing, ia de-
scribed as ''tbe statesman who wears his
pants out when he speaks
An old lady from the country, with
six unmarried daughters, went to Augusta,
Ga. the other day. hunting for the Patrons
of Husbandry. She meant business.
Probably the lorgest rope in the world
is one lately made in England, which mea-
sures 1O, OG0 fathoms without q splice ; il is
of three strands and two inches in diameter.
"A man having a bill against a distant
merchant sent letter of inquiry to bank
er in that locality. The reply was ''He
is dead but he pays now as well as he
ever did"
MIR. 5. s. Jackson, a Boston auctionecr
has III his possession an umbrella seventy
two years old. 1t is of English manufac-
ture, and till seven years since was in con-
stant use.
The Republicans in the Norfolk (Va.)
district have issued a circular, assessing
the laborers employed in the Portsmouth
Navy fard at SO much a head for campaign
purposes.
1t is said that the dycstuff known as
saffranine, if mixed with strong sulphuric
acid, develops fine blue tint, which be-
comes emerald green by the addition of a
little water.
Gen. William M'Candless. the Demo
cratic candidate for State Secretary of In
ternal Affairs worked in the Erie shops at
Susquehanna depot, about the year 1855,
a machinist.
Several citizens of Columbus, Missis-
sippi. among them the Postmaster, applied
FOR admission to a negro ball room several
nights since, bat were refused on the
ground that they were white.
A county treasurer in Alabama can't
read or write, but he has put 81, 900 where
! no one but himself can find it, This shows
that a collegiate education isn't essential
! to the requirement of wealth.
| The Georgia election indicates the
breakup at the South. Tie Democratic
I majority is G0,00O. Alabama and Louis
/ lana can only be pinned fast 20 the Republi-
/ can faith with bayonets and bogus returns.
/ Davis, the colored Governor pro tenn.
of Mississippi. has taken advantage of the
absence of Ames to pardon fourteen con-
victs in one week. Davis is ambitious, and
lie knows where the strength of his party
/ lies.
Another Washburn has got into office.
His front name is Elmer. and he is the new
( chief of the secret-service bureau. The re-
. commendations of Gen. Butler, Col White
/ ly and Allen Pinkerton nearly lost him the
/ place.
Some unknown man committed suicide
In hotel III Pittsburgh on Saturday last,
! by shooting himself through the head
/ There was nothing about his person that
/ would furnish clue of who he was or
where be came from.
! "A Texas paper contains an obituary
notice of a Confederate war horse, which
served throughout the whole conflict. At
the end OF the war he was the only survi-
! vor of sixty equine comrades who were
! mustered into the same troop.
bishop Quinlin, of Mobile, has receiv.
ed a dispatch from Pensacola. announcing
-hat three of the Sisters of St Joseph, who
had been nursing the yellow fa yer patients
at the Navy-yard, were themselves strick
en- with the disease. apd died of it,
Hon. Jas. Black, of Lancaster, has
4 been uiacod nppNinot In
ton candidate for Judge of the Supreme
Court, in place of Simeon 3. Chase. of Sus-
quehauna county. Mr.. Black was the Pro.
hibition candidate for President in 1872.
At confirmation lately held by Bish
OPP Walsh, in the township of Stephen
Canada, he caused all the boys confirmed
to take a pledge of total abstinence from
all Intoxicating drinks during twenty one
years, and the girls that thev would abstain
from excess in dress.
The Catholic temperance societies ot
Boston and vicinity made grand parade
on Saturday in bonor of the anniversary o
the birthday of Father Mathew Cover
nor Talbot reviewed the procession. The
day was honored by aiades in other citie,
and towns in New England
The New Orleans Republican records
the presence there ef three or four thons
and regular United States troops with eight
ship. of war, and says that two battalion,
OF cavalry are on their way thither. All
this is to restore usurpation which car
only be kept alive by such means.
Gov. Hartranft has issued death war
rants IN the cases of Daniel O'Mara ane
Patrick Irwin, for the murder of the moth
er and sister of the former in Susquchanne
county, and VIM. E. Udderzook, for .h,
murder of Winfield S, Goss in Chester
county, and fixed the date of execution fo,
Thursday, November 18th.
Thomas Ballard, alias John Dawes
one of the most expert counterfeiters in til,
country. his wife, Elizabeth Ballard, anc
a Ann Adams, were arrested on Friday, il
, Buffalo by United States detectives. Ter
thousand dollars in counterfeit money
with press, dies. plates and other article,
used in counterfeiting were found in theiI
possession.
"A special from Knoxville to the Nash
vile papers states that the Rev. George