The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25
Netes and Political Items.

Chicago had its first drove of hogs:in
1925.
There is a Scotchman named James
M'CIairn living in the city of Erie who is
104 years old.
WIN Rice, of Waterford, Erie county,
made eleven hundred barrels of cider du-
ring the past season.
Three children, named Vrieland, were
drowned in the Morris canal, near Patter>
sou, n. j., on Saturday, by the breaking of
the ice.
Miss Clarissa Johnston, a sister of the
late Confederate General Albert Sydney
Johnston, is a recipient of public aims in
Paducah, Ky.
A Philadelphia family. born within
sight Of Georges Hill, consists of seven
living brothers and sisters, whose average
age is eighty one years.
Two pupils of Monticello (Ill. Semina-
ry bet all their clothing OH the recent State
election, and the loser was obliged to send
to her father for an entire new wardrobe.
Moore county, Tenn, is taking caudle
over a baby with double tongue, twenty
personal attractions of Psychological chars
acter
They talk about tho reckless extrava-
gance Of the American people, and yet a
Bangor man worked all day TO clean a
three cent stamp SO that he could use it
again.
The George Arthur Throckmorton Of
the Brazil diamond wedding is the hero of
a disreputable affair with lady Of Louis
vile which caused so much talk year or
two since.
Miss Anthony will be Mortified to learn
that $50 double bedsteads were recently
imported into St. Paul. Mimi, in one lot,
the original St. Paul to the contrary, not
wi.hstanding.
Miss Julia Stockton, daughter of the
Senator, wore at the Centennial tea party,
at the Capital, a dress hat adorned her
great> grandmother,w when Washington pass
ed through Trenton.
When Albert Brown, .he negro mur-
derer, IN Bradford county, stood up for
sentence, and was asked the usual aues-
tions he said he desired to be hung Angus
% at 1870 a. m. sharp.
-Silas Oliver, one of the negroes arrested
for murder at the time of the attack on
Vicksburg, declares that he murdered
negro named James Gray, by order Of an
officer of the Black League whom he dared
not disobey.
At Kalamazoo, Michigan, recently
triple wedding occurred. Mrs. Teedeyk,
aged 80, captured Mr.. 8. Smith, aged so
her son we'd Miss Susan Plow, and her
daughter G. DENIAL. The Holland minis
ter did the whole job at once.
The daughter of United States Judge
Lowell, aged twelve years, while returning
home in Boston from skating Saturday was
brutally assaulted and mutilated by q ne>
gro. The child is thonght to be fatally in
jured. The negro was arrested.
The roof of the new Catholic church in
course of construction at Sedalia, Mo-,
gave way on Saturday morning, precipita-
ing three carpenters a distance Of thirty
feet to the ground. Henry Myers was in
stantly~klled and VIM. Hughey and John
Gallavin fatally injured.
In Worcester recently, husband and
wife appeared as rival candidates for mem
bers of the School Committee. The hus-
band was nominated on the ''Citizens,"
and the wife ran Oh the 'Indepepdent'
ticket. The lady proved to be the favorite,
and received nearly twice as many votes as
her husband.
In the next Congress, Philip Frank
Thomas, Ex-Governor of Maryland, will be
the father of the house, having served his
first torn in 1894. Then comes Fernan-
do Wood, 1s41 Alex. II. Stephens, 1S43 :;
VIM. Pitt Lynde, 1S4S John Robbins,
1S49 Charles J. Faulkner, 1851; and y.
p. Banks. 1868.
Tho Haynes Graves murder case, in
Potter county, in which Mrs. Graves and
hor paramour poisoned her husband is se.-
tied as 10 Haynes. He has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree. Mrs.
Graves has not yet been tried, her trial hav-
iRg been postponed in consequence of her
delicate situation.
The late George Labar, whose death
at stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was men,
toned a few days since, left behind him
s16 descendants. His father, who Gied
aged one hundred and eleven years, seven
months and five days, married second
wife thirty-two years old when he was in
his ninety fifth year, and he outlived her.
Chicago has a sad case of crippled
soldier. His wound is such that he is COM
PEELED to lie on his face. and in this con-
dition he has been, with no hope of re-
covery, for a number of years. Though
in this painful and unfortunate state, he
utters no complaint, but is as cheerful as
though such great Affections were not upon
him.
Weston, the pedestrian, has at last ac-
com plished the feat of walking five hundred
miles in six days. At II 40 p. IN. on Sats
urday night, at Newark, New Jersey, he
finished the undertaking, with twenty min
utes to spare. His last mile was made in
a little less than twelve minutes, and he did
not rest during the last fifty eight miles Of
his journey.
while exeavating a street at Helena,
Arkansas, day or two since, the work
men struck huge iron lid or cover eight
feet below the street surface. Or raising
it, an immense cavern was discovered,
the dimensions of which were very large.
The chamber is believed to be the work of
a former civilization. 1t is now partly fill
ed with water.
"A Kansas City dispatch says; The
dead bodies of two young men were found
on the track of the Mopac railroad, five
miles east of this city. The Corener's jury
found verdict that they had been murder
ed and placed on the track. 1t is believed
they were two Of Pinkerton's detectives,
who have been in that section since the
railroad robbery at Muncie.
In the matter of cold weather there is
always lively competition for the cham>
pionship. Canada put in strong claims for
Monday night, but Lancaster, N. H., a
town that has made a beautiful mercurial
record OF late years, went down to her sub
cellar deposit and scored thirty degrees be-
low zero, distancing all rivals beyond any
possible excuse for controversy.