The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-01-15
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The rumor that Spinner will resign
is depressing the ink market.
The only daughter of the Governor of
South Australia has been scalded to death.
John Hogan, a Chicago laborer, was
found frozen to death in that city on Fri
day night.
The wife of Sir William Stirling Max
well, Bart, NJ. p, was recently burned to
death in her own house in England.
In the year 1874 there were construct
ed 1,S44 miles of new railroads, against g.
630 miles in 1878, and 7,1f0 miles in 1872.
Mrs. Alice Cooley, aged 100 years,
died in Brookfield, Mass, on the Sd inst.
on the seventy fifth anniversary of her
wedding.
A grist mill at Niagdo, n. B., was
burned last Friday night, together with
two of the children OF the keeper, named
Boardman.
The cold snap Of Saturday was very
general. Around Chicago and west of it
the mercury ranged from 8 to 80 below
zero. 4 labOriug mao was frozen to death
in Chicago and a school girl died from the
cold at Omaha.
The heirs of David Crockett have late.
" received information with regard to
large donation Of land which was made to
his heirs by the State of Texas. Some of
the lands are worry valuable. A part of
the city Of Austin is said to be situated on
one tract.
A man was recently found lying in
sensible i'll the street 10y the police of Bal
timoIe. He has been claimed by wo-
man, who positively identified him as her
husband, and by young man, n stranger
to the woman, who is uSt as positive that
the man is his father.
king Alfonso entered the capital of
Spain yesterday. 1t is reported that Don
Carlos is determined on a vigorous prose
cution of the war notwithstanding the res>
toration of the monarchy. The govern
ment will accordingly direct the resumption
of active operations against him in a few
days.
Mrs. Miller, of Bathurst, y. b, has
become insane, and in her rawlings disclosed
, the particulars of a tragedy in that city
two years ago, in which a gentleman
named End was murdered and burned in
his Office. She appears to have been in Il
saloon with the muIderers before and after
the deed.
Several new candidates for the RepGb-
lican nomination for Senator have been an
nounced, among whom are John Allison,
of Butler. and Rassell Errett, clerk OF the
Senate The tide seems to be turning in
favor of the last named, the west claiming
that the nomination belongs to that part
of tile State.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says that
''of the fifteen daily newspapers and seven
Sunday journals published in that city Only
two have attempted to bolster up the Lou
isiana outrage, and they have done it in
, such Sir Forcible- Feeble way as rather
to make their advocacy Of it the strongest
condemnation
u: is perhaps not generally known that
tho Governor Of Pennsylvania receives 4
higher salary than the executive OF any
other State in the union. Kellogg comes
next drawing SIS, 600 from the impOveri>h-
ed treasury of Louisiana, while Mr. Tiiden
accepts 81. 600 as sufficient remuneration
for administering the gubernatoTal duties
Of great State like New FORK;
-G,a.sb0nDo.-S are now Matching out III
GREAT uumbeTs in the Greenwood settle
inent in Manitoba. This remark may pos
sibiy bc Iegal ded with suspicion. but the
thing is a fact. A settler built himself q
house. and didn't put any floor in it
Consequently when things got warmed up
the grasshoPperS commenced to hatch out
and things are now pretty lively in that
house.
Illinois romance: "Alphonso Barrett,
of Otterviile. married a second wife, a
handsome lady about twenty-eight Years
of age, year since. and died last July.
leaving, among other assets, a son aged
twenty-five years. This young scion Of the
house of Barrett celebrated New Year s
day by marrying his fathers widow, and
the happy couple are now living at the old
homestead
The city Of Covington. Ky. recently
paid about @l3, 0G0 for removing bodies
from an old graveyard lot. and grading it,
bnt after the money was expended it was
ascertained that the lot was decided to the
city for a graveyard, and could bc used for
no other purpose by the city. So the city
had to leave two or three dead bsdies bur
led in the lot to keep the heirs OF the gran
ter from ICE7r~~iInO
"A wild W W man, nty years of age
named Tv It, d ed at Portland, Ne, on
Christmas morn ng. She had lived alone
! and possessed some means. Almost as
soon as it was known she was dead, the
neighbors rushed in and began to appro-
pirate various articles, under the plea that
/ they had been promised to them. They
( were eventually driven from the house by
moro orderly individuals.
The Democrats of Philadelphia last
Friday night celebrated the anniversary
! of tho battle of New Orleans by r banquet
/ at the Merchants Hotel, over which John
; Ottcrson presided. Speeches were made
/ by Hon. William II. Witte, Gov. Parker,
/ of New Jersey. John O. O'Byrne, Geo. North
rop. G. NJ. Dallas, Richard NauX and
/ others. The remarks were chiefly relative
/ 20 the trouble in Louisiana and President
J Grants action in the premises severely de
nounced.
The franklin R:positsry saws Hugh J.
/ Campbell, tho person who figures as Kel-
logg's lieutenant at New Orleans, is a
Pennsylvania, born in Fayette county,
and that he was fifteen years ago a resident
I Of Chambersburg. The Repository has
done the State no credit in publishing this
information. To Mr.. Campbell was as
signed the Judas task of betraying to the
military the persons Of tho Representatives
whom the soldiers elected from their seats
at New Orleans.
! In the ca OF Father Stack VS.. Bish.
op O'Hara, long in controversy, the
Master in Chancery has decided that the
action of Bishop O. Hara in removing Faith
er Stack from the Church of the Annunci
alton of WilIiamsport was in full accord Will
the recognized law and discipline of the
Catholic Cburcb and f.