The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-01-23
Ne.cs and PoI.t5cas Items.

A Nashville editor says the ''dip-theory
is a Baptist disease"
1t cost the State 81 ,9T4 10 to inaug-
urate Governor Hartrauft, and 81, 3O6, Al
to bury Ex-Governor.
A despatch from Madrid says: The
railway viaduct at Quella fell on Saturday
ard thirty-five woTkmen were killed.
Hamburg, Berks county, was visited
bv a S15. 600 fire on Saturday a grist mill
with its contents having been destroyed.
Several hundred men have been thrown
out of employment by the suspension OF
the Reading rolling mill and steam forge.
The diamonds and point lace worn by
Mrs. Ben. Wood at the Roman Catholic
Orphan Asylum ball were valued at Sl4O,-
600.
The DobIinski IN. " paper mill was
burned on Sunday night. Loss $50, 600.
, The proprietor perished in the flames, and
( several workInen were badly burned.
| Susan b. Anthony proposed the name
of Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the PresI-
dent. for the Chief Justiceship. The Pres
, ident agreed to mention the matter to the
i Cabinet.
"A Dubuque man hired policeman at
/ three dollars per night to watch ms wlie,
and she was at the same time paying the
same man four dollars per night to watch
her husband.
Out on the prairies, near Chicago, is
an unfinished monument, cut off ut half Its
height as was the man it intended to hon
or-Stephen A. DOuslas-in the midst OF
his greatness.
"A balkv horse in double team may
always be started by tying his tail TO the
/ whiffletree and starting the other horse. 90
said George NJ. Pullman, of palace car no
toriety, some twenty years ago.
If some of Simon Cameron letters,
written in the early days of the Rebellion,
should now be published, Caleb Gushing
would not be the only man placed Hnder a
cloud-Boston Traveller tRep.)
-'Get thee to q nunnery go! exclalms
the Archbishop of California to Hiss Col
Inns, who pretended that the stigmata had
appeared on her body, but who is now
branded as an unmitigated fraud.
1t has been discovered that Judge
Waite, Just nominated by Grant for Su-
pre,ne Judge, voted for General McClel-
land for President in 1864, and loyal
howl is going up against his confirmation.
Governor Allen, of Ohio, has been
obliged, owing TO the palsied condition ol
his hands, to ask the Legislature to pass a
, law allowing him to use Il stamp instead oi
writing his signature upon official docu-
ments.
"A party of men from Mannheim will
commence digging for gold this week on :
: farm near Milway station on the Reading
: and Lancaster railroad. According to the
} views of some old California miners the
| appearances Indicate gold
George Washington, at last tired oi
life. committed suicide in Wheeling OF
l Friday last. George was eolored, and did
: the rash act with a razor, because Mrs. u,
W could not live in harmony with him,
5 and in order to mend matters, he sought
peace beyond the grave.
l A prominent Congressman gives it al
} his earnest belief that there are now III the
employ of the Government at least twenty
= five per cent. more people than there Il
4 any need for And yet the most exhaust
D ing work of Congressman is IN trying tc
provide for his constituents.
S At Cincinnati, on Saturday evening, 2
= Young man went into Duhouet * Co.:
t ieweiry store and bought ring. While
e the proprietor was getting box TO pui
the ring in, his customer ran off with {
tray containing forty eight diamond rings
: valued at $1,000. The robber escaped
+ capture.
/ "A young Lady of Lyons, Iowa, recent
i iy said ''Some men are always talking
+ about patroniZing their own town-alway!
: harping on that duty-and yet they gC
/ abroad to get married, while here we al
! stand waiting! l do hope that some o
!, these men who marry Eastern women viii
e get cheated ~
t 1t is reported that in England laCel!
Il 4 public official was accused of dishonesty
d So sensitive was he over the charge tina
/, he Jumped out of window, resulting II
: his death. A New York paper says if
e similar seusitiveneSs prevailed in New
1t York it wouldn't be safe for foot passsn
1t gers around the City Hall.
e Mr. La Pierre, of South Bend, ha
a achieved the distinction of writing tn
d whole of the Sermon on the Mount-cor
II tanning 1876 words-on a postal card, in
/ neat legible hand and if anybody beat
IS this isrsady to go about 700 words better.
e A subscriber of the Inter Ocean, at Wat
1t seka, H., has more than doubled the mum
N ber.
r A dispatch from Grand Rapids, Mich
l. igan, says there is a report there tina
IS while a party of young people were skat
g ing on the river atIBurr Oak, on the Mich
IF gan Southern Railroad, one of the part
n broke through and the rest of the party
y some twenty seven or twenty-eight, goln
lie to the rescue, broke through and wei
T. drowned.
TT Lawrence Schilp. a German, age
- about 81 years, committed suicide in Ha
es risburg on Saturday evening last. II
1t placed the muxzle of n heavily loaded mu
m ket in his mouth, and operated the trig
i'll ger with a lath Nearly his whole hea
was blown off. The deceased was to hav
been tried next court for theft. and that
lie the supposed cause for the terrible act.
Of A man was in Allentown the OthC
he day who told the story that n man livin
s. on Sugar creek, Monroe county killed
b duck last week and found in the fowl
# crop sixteen grains of gold of about I'll
It, average size of buckwheat kernel.
IS. search discovered quantity of geld c
a the banks of the creek. and quite an e.
wi citement has been created over The matte
,ir Captain Packard, of the America
ne bark Mary NJ. Bird, reports collisio
he with an unknown ship which occurred {
ee his late voyage from Marseilles to Ne
lie York, on November Sd, in 36 degrees
mt minutes latitude north. and 8 degrees
all minutes longitude, at a. IN. He hove t
he and remained in the vicinity of the COLI
W, ion until day-break, but saw nothing
n the ship and supposed she went dow
he with all on board.
ad Gov. Kemper, of Virginia, propos
lat to show good example to other Cover