The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-09-03
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NesCs o1,cL PoftticaJ Items.

Boston has a pauper who can solicit
aims in ten different languages.
For fine complexion drink buttermilk
every morning before breakfast.
A NorrisJown girl of ten years is but
two and half feet high, and weighs only
nine pounds.
The Pope has conferred the grand cross
of the order of St. Gregory ON the Lord
Mayor of Dublin.
-Josephus Sooy, State Treasurer of New
jersey, is reported to have embezzled fifty
thousand dollars of State money.
Miss Nellie Thurston is to make bal
loon ascension at the Madison County IN.
y Agricultural Fair next month.
MIR. Sawyer, of Jaffrey, \. H., has the
wedding hat of John Worcester, one of the
original settlers of the State. 1t is 225
years old,
-Titusville has coopershop- with
frontage of one hundred and fifty feet, aud
a capacity for forty thousand barrels. A
stave-ing big concern that.
"A conscientious farmer, in Lewiston,
Me-, wiped the mud from his cart wheels
before permitting his load of hay to go on
to the scales to be weighed.
--Ralston, the California banker, was
not native of this state. He was born in
Wellsvile, Ohio, but he got his business
start in Pittsburgh steamboat clerk.
Col. L. W. Longstreet, prominent
y
himself on the 27th. The firm of which
he was member recently failed for $40, coo.
The murder of one woman by another
is rare event, yet it occurred in Chicago
Saturday night, Mrs. Sachstadter killing
Miss Lizzie George-in self-defense as she
claims.
The Catholic cnre of st. Jean Raptiste
village, Canada, has given notice that he
will refuse sacrament to women of his
church who wear low-necked dresses or
pull back skirts.
Admiral Tom Thumb, in London, is
six inches shorter than our General Tom
Thumb, is thirty-six years old, weighs
twenty-six pounds, is a Hollander and
speaks five languages.
Louis Goner, who tried to commit a
rape upon a child nine years old in Philips
burg, Centre county, in June last, has been
found guilty and sentenced TO seven years
in .he Western Peuitentiary.
"A man in Philadelphia has a postal
card with over 4, 200 words written upon it.
and he expects to write 1000 words more
upon it making 6,70O in ALL 1t is to be
sent to the Centennial Exhibition.
-Monseigneur Dupanloup, who, it is re-
ported, viii soon be made cardinal rises
at clock in tho morning in summer and
winter He is frugal, never INDUCES in
wine and is given to boImdlcss clIari ty.
Thomas Fisk is growing 4 mammoth
sunfiower. The stalk is : feet ? inches
high the largest leaves are 24 inches
wide; il Us II inches across the one bios
som already out, and the stalk contains
seven buds.
"A divorce in Grant County wis was
recently applied for because the young
mother insisted on having a S15 cradle
"A basswood sap trough is good enough
for that little red-faced vagabond," said
the brutal husband
"A flock of $500 sheep at Mission San
Jose, Cal, got frightened recently. and ran
into patch of poison oak. Here they got
tangled and piled one on another in layers
six or eight deeP, and some 200 were
smotheTcd ol chrushed to death.
State Treasurer SOoy, of New Jersey
protests his entire innocence of the charge
alleged against him, and declares that a
full examination of his books will show
every cent intact. He is in Jail, having
been unable to give the bail demanded.
The residence of cX>MayOr Cbas NJ
Reed and Hon. Henry Rawlc, Republican
candidate for State Treasurer, at Erie. were
entered Saturday night, and several hun
dred dollars worth of silverware stolen
from each. There is no trace of the thieves
"A farmer i'll Wayne county. Pa. met
his death the other day in a terrible man
ner. lie was cartiug a load OF quicklime
when his wagon was accidentally overturn-
ed he was buried underneath the lime
and died before assistance could reach him.
In Beaver county are two Postoflices
Holt and BellowSville-about four miles
apart. In sending a letter from the former
to the latter 1t is obliged to travel dis
tance of about sixty mile. The postal ia
cllitles between these points are pretty hard
to beat.
Jesse POmeroy owes his life thus far
to deadlock. The Governor urges com
mutation, but the Council refuses to COM
mute, and the Governor refuses to sign .be
death warrant. So Jesse can neither be
harged or let off till they get new admin
istl alton.
The New Orleans Bulletin is phrophet
lc as well as classical. 1t saws s-After
the great continental reaction and the new
upheaval OF the Democracy, the carpetbag-
gers still found atloat in the South. will he
rev and lar between, rara nantes IN our
ate UHSt0.'
Mrs. Mary Torbert, residing near.Calp.
Chester county, has in her possession n
guinea egg % years old. 1t was colored on
Easter sunday. 1916 1t has the date and
the initials of Phebe Freeman marked ON
1t. She also has a lemon 81 years old if
is quite hard and dry.
1t is said by the New York Star that
Miss Edith O'Gorman has sued the 1rc,-
dtdh for libel, that sharp journal HAVING
stated that she married Gerdemann. and
called her naughty name. She sues for
Soo, 600, and G. G. Moses is her LAWYER.
OGorman, o, Moses
Only few days since an Arizona Posi-
master caused to be published a long and
indignant card wherein he resigned his
Office because the salary did not repay him
for the labor. And now the Government
IS looking for that Postmaster, whose cash
account is So, 200 short.
bob Stickney, of Cincinnati, the famous
circus performer, having challenged Fred
y 5rien to leap with him for the champion
ship OF the United States, the latter has
accepted, and has sent the forfeit money
TO I rank Queen, New \ 1ork. Bob Stickney
has leaped with a double somersault over
twenty-five horses.
Few things amuse children moro than
blowing bubbles. Dissolve Quarter of an
ounce of CASTLE or oil soap. cut up in small