The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-02-05
NelCs and Political Items.

J. CafnOncS MADE a pilgrimage TO LOurdeS.
The lock>out in the coal mines of South
Wales has begun and thousands of men are
idle.
A nephew of Stonewall jackson mar
ried a n7eee of George B. Mcclellan at
Denver the other day.
Archbishop Manning has just issued a
pamphlet in reply to Mr.. Gladstone's work
on the Vatican DEGREES.
There are estimated to be in the United
States at the present time about 700, 900
white men who can neither read nor write.
Each Of three sisters living in Yadkin
county, North Carolina, gave birth to twin
female infants within period Of a few
months.
The expulsion of the Sisters of Charity
from Mexico closes forty three charitable
establishments, and sends out of the coun-
try 410 sisters.
DIR Glenn said to be the largest farm
er i'm California, has just sold his last years
crop of grain for neatly half a million dol
lars, gold coin.
A bicycle race over 106 miles has re-
Gently been run in England. The distance
was covered by the winner in 81 seconds
less than hours.
A Syracuse man, who has thirteen
daughters, says he has paid for enough wire
in the form of hair pins to equip respect
able telegraph line.
The noble red man of the frontier is
gazing with a broad grin of contentment
at New Orleans, and wondering how they
like Philip down there.
1t has been discovered that officers Of
the New York custom house and a ring of
foreign smugglers have been defrau6Ing
The government for years.
Two Toledo girls recently fought n
duel with harpins, and one of the combat
ants will have to find her way through the
world with the help of only one eye here
after.
L. w. Langdon, of Florence, Mass,
the inventor of the sewing machine, died
Tuesday at Jacksonville, Fla, whittier he
had gone in search of health, at the age of
forty.
-"Brick'' Pomeroy is lying dangerously
i'll at his residence in New York. Fears
are entertained thathe cannot recover. He
has been suffering in health for several
years.
Governor Chamberlain, of Sonth Caro-
lima, has issued proclamation disarming
the colored militia of Edgefield county and
disbanding all the military organizations of
the county.
An advertisement for dry goods clerk
reads "Wanted, young man to be part
ly out door and partly behind the counter"
1t doesn't specify what part of the young
man is TO be outdoor.
There are but eight Republican men,
bers Of the Legislature of Tennessee, every
one of whom voted for ex- President John
son for Senator. He defeated his oppo-
nents by a majority of six.
"A marriage took place recently, at Jas
per, Tenn, in which the bridegroom was in
his seventy sixth year, and the bride girl
of thirteen. The aged husband gave his
wife s3, COO as marriage gift.
-Ex- Senator Nye's insanity takes a
strange form. He imagines himself dead
and waiting for his coffin. He has sympa-
thetic friends in Butler, Chandler and
others. who can understand the feeling to
a nicely.
There is a man in Chicago hospital,
a victim of a railroad accident, whose head
is alive, but his entire body seems to be
dead Knives have been stuck into his
body, put they produce no effect upon him
A good frnt year is predicted by the
Oldest fruit growers of the peninsula on ac-
count of the abundance of ice upon the
trees. They say it effectuaily retards the
swelling of the fruit buds until the danger
from frost is over.
james Kennedy, of Connecticut, and
VIM. II. Barker, of Philadelphia, wrestled
on Thursday for $500 side. Kennedy
won the first fab in al minutes and the
third in % minutes Barker won the sec
ond in 10 minutes.
An expedition urder Colonel Bradley
Will le2Ne L OF Laramie apoub tlle <OtH oi
April. for the Black Hills, nominally to
make thorough reconnaissance of the
country, but really 20 occupy in to the ex-
cusion of the miners.
In Higginsville, n. Y, they have
boy who is Il clairvoyant. He has already
located seveIa al mines at West Hurley, and
recently described the death of brother
which was actually taking place at the
time thirty miles distant.
Five masked and armed men bOs1DN
and gagged the watchman in the American
Express Company Office in Utica, n. Y,
on Saturday morning. and then carried off
a bag containing the night train packages.
The loss is believed to be small.
AT the golden wedding of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Baird, of Green Village, Mor-
ris county, n. j., the fact was acknowl.
edged by the aged couple that never in
their lives, during their courtship and mar
riage, had they kissed each other.
The next election for Governor will be
in November of the present year, and his
term will be three years. In 1873 the GOV
ernor will be elected for four years, which
will be the term thereafter, according 70
the provisions of the new constitution.
The people of New Orleans won'teven
shoot now at the robbers of their hen
roosts, for fear of making mistake inju-
rious to the whole State. This thing of
shooting Louisiana official in the dark
has got to be mighty serious business
-Crazed by hopeless love, Lottie White,
Of Denver, last week put herself beyond
the influence of all earthly passions. She
dressed herself in pure white, oecked her
head and bosom with flowers. took poison.
and then, lying upon her bed, awaited
death, which soon came.
| The ''laughing horse" at Newark,
recognized by little Walter Ross as the
horse that took his little brother Charley
! hoe o1a hv for l,c,
was having the animal kept at Newark,
/ and who proved that Walter was entirely
mistaken in the animal. So that supposed
/ clue is lost.
| Persons who can live at all in Brazil
! live great while. They have a man who
dances on his knee his grandchildren
I grandchildren. At Ceara, in that country,
| there is a woman in prison who was SEN
! fenced for life, November 6, 1915. She
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