The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-01-01
Neses essSG Political Efe,cs.

-Barnum hao a present on Christmas
day of a span of horses worth : 2, 800.
Blk sheep owned in Cuoperstown, Pa,
have taken premiums at county fairs this
year amounting to $4,000.
1t was sorry Christmas for the four
hundred female employees discharged from
the government printing Office.
,-hichard Barnum, his wife and two
children were burned to death at Shannon,
Mississippi, on Saturday night.
-Helen Josephine Mansfield has recoy
cred over S25, ,000 from the widow of James
Fiske, jr., on notes which she held.
Another boy, named McAIister il
missing from his home in Philadelphia.
Fears are entertained for his safety.
An explosion occurred in Bagnall Hall
Colliery, North Staffordshire, England, on
Thursday, by which twenty miners were
killed.
The Irish citizens of Omaha have ap
pointed 8 committee to assist General o.
Neil, of Feniau fame. to locate 100 Irish
colonies west OF Missouri
Jefferson Davis is on a visit to Nicks-
burg, Mississippi, and instead Of being
ssilously Ill, as reported, he is in the en-
joyment of excellent health.
An important meeting of tanners will
be held at Wilcox, Pa, on the 18th Jan,
TO take action in regard to railroad freights
and other matters affecting the trade in
leather.
In order to inspire the people of Lou
isiana With proper degrcs OF dread and
alarm it is annoapced in radical circles 10
Washington that General sheridan is to
be sent among them.
A cry beautiful young woman visits
the Auburn State Prison regularly once q
month, and wanders about comforting the
prisoners. Nobody knows from whence
she comes or whittier she goes.
-Pinchheck announces that he is will
ing to be bought off Price.-ths honor
OF the name of United States Senator for
one hour, and $4,000 in cash We do
not presume the price will be paid.
Miss Lies, of San Francisco, had the
honor OF being the frat young lady to take
King kalakaua by the hand in the United
States. He will meet plenty more of the
came family during his sojourn here.
"A Ieaven.orth man told lie AND
then said ''I hope to be struck dead if
have not spoken the truth - He had
scarcely ceased speaking whom he fell to
the fioor-a man having knocked him down
On Monday afternoon last coal oil
lamp exploded at No. "a North Twenty
second street, Philadelphia. Ann Craw-
ford. her wo daughters, and Philip and
Margaret Sheridan were severely burned
On Wednesday evening 500 working
men parsded on Pennsylvania avenue, ia
Washington, with transparencies BEARING
such notices as lizard Money ard Hard
Times, "De1n with the Senate Finance
bill"
Ben Butler has been eslled good
nany hard names in the course Of his
career, but it was reserved for Y Drych,
the Telsh paper, to apply to him the willis
ing epithet of mddnnzosoddy Cad
Butler"
"A horrible abortion has been discover
ed at Hampton, Franklin county, Iowa,
the victim being Mrs. Cloes. She died a
few days ago. her husband and doctor
were bound over to answer at the next
term Of court.
Abiding to tho fact that Vice Presi-
dent Wilson vacated tho Presidency Of the
Senate on Tuesday and Matt Carpenter
vas chosen pro tsmpors, the Newark Jour
1El says: Vice and immortality then met
and kissed sach other"
As far rs heard from there will bs
twenty-five contested seats in the next
ileuss OF Representatives,. Thirteen of
the contestants are Democrats, and nine
sTe Republicans. The Committee on Flee
tious will havs its hands full of business.
A train on the St. Louis and Kansas
City Railroad ran over and killed a boy
| who had been tied to the track 1t is
! supposed that his playfello~2 had bound
him in sport, and that the coming of tho
| cars bad frightened them away but they
| strenunusly deny it.
| Jonathan Gushing, of PridCewater
| Mass, who is now So yesrs old, boasts of
! having ridden to school In 1902 with Relief
Jacobs, who afterward became the wife of
! Sheriff Sumner and the mother of Charles
| Sumner. Miss Jacobs drove and he sat be-
| hind her on tie saddle.
! From Alexandria comes the romantic
! story of q love-sIck maiden who, because
her father ''forbid the banns," pns all her
ie~ar's letters into bushel basket, set fire
| 80 thern. aud tncn sat down in the ga smes
! with suicidal intentions. She was badly
burned, but IS likely to recover
The Pacific Hotel, Chicago, probably
the finest in the entire country, was sold
out, Saturday, under the foreclosure of a
| mortgage. 1t has been really successful
from the start, but the financial troubles
of David 4. Gage are what Involved it,
! It cost over million Of dollars, and sold
for 1925, ,0G0
AN armless painter may DO seen daily
busily engaged in copying some Of the old
masters in the South Kensington Museum
in London. He is Mr. y. G. Feler ot
Antwerp, and the facility with which b,
manages his brush with his right foot
while holding his palette with the left, i,
said % be II aTvellous.
-Weston's claim to havs walked fve
hundred miles in six days is disputed y,
the Newark Courier. and it is charged by
the Spirit Of tbe Times that the distanc,
actually made was not mere than four hun
dred. Whereupon the Rochester Demo
crGt says, 'TIe reduces his miles so tbs
a couple Of feet will make them"
There has been blast by Beecher il
his paper the Christian Union and Til
ton has responded with counter blast
Meantime it is very evident that Mr. Beech
er or his attorneys are responsible for tn,
delays attending the trial. Mr. Beeche
has instituted libel suit against Tilton
which he controls, yet it is unaccountabl-
delayed.
Col. Jerome Bonaparte and wife ar
about to return to Baltimore, after tv,
years residence in Europe. Nine. Bona
parte was Miss Appleton, of Boston. AMI
at the time of her marriage TO Col. Bonr
parte was Mrs. Newbold Edgar She is
a granddaughter of Daniel Webster. a1d
| her husband Il snn aF Drinan N,