The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-04-10
Ne,Cs anst FOt.ticaI items.

A boy aged nine years Is under arrest
in Philadelphia for stabbing two men.
A sand blast in the western portion Oh
the State threw out twenty-five boat loads
Of stone.
The Young lady who jumped from
+bird story window at MillerStown to es-
cane from the rayages of the fire IS expect
ed to recover
IT is said of the temperance crusaders
that ..they drink not, neither do they sin;
vet Solomon in all hls glory, was not d Ialu
ike one of them"
N-EmanueI Zel!, aged sixty yeaIs, was
found dead in Lancaster county last week.
His end was the TeSultOf hght, IN which
his lungs were injured.
"A Detroit paper noting the fact that
man fell down dead while comOing his hair,
says ''And yet there are people VINO VIII
persist in that dangerous habit.
The greatest Democratic victory IN the
Ohio municipal elections appears to have
beeD won at Cleveland, where majority
of nearly four thousond was obtained.
SOME naughty boys in Harrisburg re-
Gently built a fire i'll sewer, the smoke
from which was carried through pipes into
n number of houses, greatly to the alarm OF
the occupants.
The Ashantee King koffee is a repudia-
tor-he refuses to abide by his agreement
with WUsley. He is safe, in any event,
from further molestation. 1t costs too
much to reach him.
The House Committee on Territories
at Washington has reported bill for the
admission Of New Mexico as a State. The
vote in the Committee in favor Of the re-
port lacked only one Of being unanimous.
Bald Mountain seems to have quieted
down now, says the Courier J0urHdL and
some of the people around there are begin
ming to fear they got religion good while
before there was really any necessity
for 1t.
Boys under xteen years of age are
to be calaboused and fined in Davenport
for attem Pting to get upon moving trans.
"a few such ordinances would Kill 4 local
paper anywhere" says the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
"A lady OF Pottstown, aged seventy
wears, was assaulted by brute named
Stichter, who, in addition to beating her
terribly, outraged her person. The mons
ter. who has been arrested, gloats over his
infamous crime.
Speaking Of the new Louisville lottery,
the Cincinnati Commercial says: II he
enormous size of the new scheme indicates
the general prosperity of the country aud
promising condition of the crops-Lhe crop
of fools in particular
1t was not only Mary Stuart and Marie
Autoinette whose hair turned white in a
single night for the hair of a California
youth named Weston turned from black to
white on seeing Joe Booth fall between the
cars and break his leg.
w aShiugtOn county has tie oldest WO-
man in Western Pennsylvania. She was
born in 119O and is now in the one hundred
and ffJh year If her age. H,r Tamc IL So
phia HickSOn and she lives at Linden,
North Strabaue township.
The story Of Cleuput as pearl has been
surpassed. In Saugatuck, Conn, at sup
per the other night, about 100 pearls were
found in the shell of roasted Oystt I, all
spoiled, large and .ma,l, by the cooking to
which they had been subjected.
The first line of stages in the United
States was established soon after ;he close
/ of the Revolutionary " by Captain Levi
/ Pcase, of Boston, and Mr.. Evans, OF the
/ Indian Queen Hotel in Baltimore, and ex-
tended from Boston to Savannah.
! twenty counties in the state are out of
! debt-Berks. Bedford, Bucks, Columbia
/ Clinton, Centre. Fulton, Greene, Hunting
/ don, Juniata, Lehigh,: NJ Kean, Northum-
/ JeIland, Snyder, Somerset, Sullivan,
/ Union, Warren, Wayne and York.
The Governor of Georgia has leased
/ out the convicis AT about IS, 900 per annum.
/ They are scattered about the State, and
are to be employed in mining, railroadng,
and farming. The Governor received bids
/ for more convicts than he could supply
a boy in Greenfield, New Hampshire,
| told his father that he guessed he could
make that hen quit setting, and his father
/ told him to go ahead. The boys plan was
! TO set fire to the nest, and i'll carrying it out
( lie burned the barn and all its contents.
The time is approaching when the fem
inine dwel!er in the suburbs will say To her
/ little girl: "Susan, go in aud ask Mrs.
Smith if she won't keepa few Of those hens
/ at hone. I've just planted my seeds and
/ l can't have ali those fowls here at once"
A poor family in Denison, Ohio CON
sisting of a husband, a wife, and seven chill
dren, were on the point of starvation.
/ Somebody raised 500 for them, and what
did the wife do with it She boughta silk
dress for $40, and began to take music les
sons.
Bishop Whelan Of West Virginia ad-
vises Roman Catholics to abandon tile use
and sale of liquor. He says that the word
. of God does not really forbid the traffic
! when used with moderation and with rea-
son, but these conditions are seldom com
piled with
THE day is not far distant SAYS a
/ iIaleigh paper ''when the world will begin
/ to look on death a Journey to another
country" The Louisville Courier Jolrnul
aSsents to this, and naively adds that the
/ journey will be one on which we can all 20
| as dead-hea
England has not heard the last of the
Alabama claims. y movement Is on foot tu
make the Government reimburse the Eng
ltSh sufferers by the depredations of that
destructive craft. By paying the claims of
the Americans, it has estopped itself from
denying It's liability.
.-Huckleberry Is the name of Grant
district attorney in Western Arkansas. who
Is charged wish bribery on the affidavit of
man named Nash, who was prosecuted
Tor selling liquor IL Indian territory with
. out Incense, and paid Huckleberry $500 to
enter a 1to5ye prose9ui
a duel was fought near MONTGOMERY
Station, Miss, on Saturday, between Arjs-
tides Birnvenue and T. B. Phillips. with
douDie-6arreied shot guns, loaded with
SINGLE ball, forty PAGES. Birnvenue was
Killed at the first lire, shot through the
I brain. Phillips was not hurt.
,.Diptheria, scarlet fever, measles, and
. kindred diseases, are largely induced by the
poisonous eXhalations which come from, o,,I
uncieaned streets. When a thaw cammen-
ces' the atmosphere is charged with ua-
wholesome vapors, and III general the ten
der children are the chief sufferers.
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