The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-13
ne,rs nnd Iotsttcak items.

Fourteen counties in Indiana, 1t IS sald,
have lost $l2, 600, coo in consequence oil the
flood.
An explosion Friday morning at the
Frankfort (Phi1adeiphia} arsenal killed one
boy and injured twenty others-some Ia
tally. .;-,,;
ton and a half was recently shipped by
New Bedford manufacturer to Iltusyll'e
oil firm.
-Daniel O'Connel. of Pittsburgh, cele-
brated the birthday of his illustrious name
sake 10y bringing suit against another lrish-
man and his wife for slander
The negroes of Montgomery, Ala,
voted in herds against the new Constltu-
ton. having been told bv the Republicans
that it would put them back into slavery.
"A man named John O'Leary, at New
Castle, a few days ago, fell head first from
the pier of bridge eighteen feet to cinder
pile below. He was not seriously injured.
Parker, the ex- Treasurer of South Car
olina, who escaped from Jail last week,
where he was confined awaiting trial Tor
plunderng the treasury while III office, has
been recaptured.
"A dispatch from Gaitineau, Canada,
of the 1th says that three children, while
picking berries in the bush, were killed by
a bear. Only the feet and arms of one
child can be found.
-ibalSar trenf, OF CdtSDuly bpNhShiIr
Crawford county, raked thirty-five dozen
sheaves of wheat on Saturday last. The
fact that Mr.. Gehr is ninety-four years old
makes the feat remarkable.
MIR. Trump and Miss Kapp were re-
Gently married on n railroad train between
SunbuTy and Seliusgrove, in this State.
The bridegroom is a conductor on the Phil
adelphia and Erie Railroad.
Recently two inkstands and pen were
4 ia fg of q
and made almost similar in shape to oar
quill pens so in the writing line the mod
erns are not so far ahead after all.
The American rifle t, am, it appears,
will come home with $500 GOO which they
have earned by the perspration of their
guns. From this it would seem that target
shooting is more profitable sport than
base ball.
An adopted daughter of a Mrs. Brouch-
er, at Deer Park. Long Island, and heiress
to her property of $40 000, has eloped with
Chauncey Brewster, a good looking color
ed man, employed by Mrs. Broucher as
farm hand.
A regular Philadelphia correspondent
of the Tribune thinks the guberuatorial
contest will narrow down to Pershing. Ross
and Biglcr, and finally to the two former,
Of whom one will soon be supported by Sen
ator Wallace.
II sea lion in the Geological Gardens
at Paris has distinguished himself by saw
ing the life of little boy who had tumbled
in. aud cpuldn't get out in consequence of
the high basin. The seal held him up until
help was at hand.
Cholera is committing frightful raw
ages in Syria. being especially tatalin Dam
ascus and Antioch. Physicians and medi-
cines are not to bc had for love or money.
This is bad report to come from the era
die of Christianity.
1t is a remarkable fact that, while not
one eX- Presidents is living. the wives Of five
of them survive-Mrs. Polk. Mrs. Fillmore.
Mrs. Tyler Mrs. Lincoln. and MIS-. John
son. OF these ladies, one is insane and an
other at the point of death.
During the heavy rain at Homer, o,
on Wednesday last. farmer whose crops
had been ruined by the continued wet
weather was struck speechless while bitter
ly cursing the storm. He has since given
no sign of recovering his speech.
A thirteen year old boy of Norwalk
Conn, is. indeed. ''musical prodigy if
it be true as a local chronicle asserts. that
che plays the most difficult music on the
violin aud piano How he can duet with
only two hands is not explained.
"A Norwich VT woman was attracted
to well the other day by the screams Of
her little girl, who had fallen in and
though she pulled her up in the bucket
and was finally drowned before her mothers
eyes.
The Stark County (O.) Democrat says:
''Thcre is n regular stampede from the Re
publican party in the mining districts.
caused hy the policy of Grants administra-
ton. The Republican leaders will hear
something drop when the miners and Gran
gers get through voting
The only living daughter Of Daniel
O'Connell, Mrs. Fitzsimon, the widow of
Christopher FItZsimon. of Glencullen. aged
81 years, was present in the galleries dur
ing the late O COnneli dinner. in Dublin
She received the most fattering marks of
attention from the brilliant audience present
on that occasion.
John ID. Lee, whose trial for participa-
tion in the Mountain Meadows massacre
has excited much interest and who on Sat
uTday last was discharged from custody in
consequence of the jury failing to agree
was formerly a citizen of Randolph coun-
ty, III. He married a Miss Woolsey. at
Kaskaskia, in 1888.
Miss Loveioy. while bathing at South
Hampstead, Long Island, Oh Saturday. was
carried beyond her depth. 4 boy went TO
her assistance. but she seized him and held
him SO tightly he could do nothing. George
w. Fishback, formerly proprietor ofthe St.
Louis Democrat, riding along .he beach
plunged in and saved both lady and boy.
Articles of agreement were signed in
Pittsburgh, on Saturday night, between
Henry Coulter and Evan Morris for a five
mile single-scull race for $500 a side and
the championship of the United States:
the race to be rowed on September 11th,
weather permitting, within twenty miles
of that city, and the course to be chosen
within the present week.
They had Centennial celebration on
their own account at Gloucester, Mass. on
Monday, in commemoratiou of the defeat
by the men of that place of Captain Lind.
say, who. on the 9th Of August, 1775. en-
deavored to cut out two American scboon-
ers which he had driven into the harbor.
but was compelled to retreat after losing
number of men, and having others serious
ly wounded.
-Seventy-five car loads of Delaware
Dnaaj,oc Of