The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-02-26
Ncats C3ld Political Items.

Mrs. Jennie Mccullough, a youn g
married woman of Washington county,
committed suicide on Thursday night.
A hurricane swept over Champagne,
in Avoyelles parish La, last week. destroy
ing a church aud fiftyf four buildings and
killing two persons
Miss Way. of UnionvIlle. Chester coun-
ty. found way to put together two quits
inside of two yeaIs, one containing I,2fo
pieces and the other ?, ,17e pieces
"A dog fight in Trenton was the cause
of the muI der of an old man named Thomas
Hineley. by a son of a woman whose dog
had been whipped by Hingley's dog.
The commerce of France is passing
beyond any period in history. The exports
and imports of 1874 amounted to over ST.,
500, 600, 000, largely exceeding any former
year.
A burning gas well in Butler county
makes summer weather in its neighbor-
hood. The trees are budding and the
grass growing in the charmed circle of its
influence.
Tive young men of Sugar Run, Clin-
ton county, recently, ran barefoot race
distance of half mile for a half bushel of
apples. They gained their prize without
freezing their feet.
"A veteran of the campaign of Napoleon
in Russia. named Pierre Pachoud. aged SO,
participant in all the horrors of the famous
retreat from Moscow.
Sheridan isn't afraid to stay at New
Orleans and lie, but he declines to swear to
his lies. When the committee proposed to
take his testimony upon oath he had sud
den business at the North.
The Washington, Pa Reporter says
that farmers in that county are hiring
work hands al $25 to $50 per month, where
they board themselves, and from SIS to
S1S per month and boarded.
john T. ". Thorn, eX-treasurer of
Detroit. Michigan, committed suicide at
Wyandotte on Sunday. 1t is rumored that
a deficit of $50, 600 III his Official accounts
WAS the cause of the rash act
The President has approved the joint
resolution authorizing Thomas w. Fitch,
cept wedding present sent to his wife,
Mrs Minnie Sherman Fitch.
The Germania newspaper of Berlin,
for having printed the late letter of Pho
Mono to the bishops of Prussia, has been
confiscated by the German government,
and the proprietors are to be prosecuted.
The petrificd forest in Napa county,
Cal. is is miles from Healdsburg. The
trees, which lie scattered quite thickly
over an extent of so acres, far surpass in
size any that have heretofore been discov,
cred.
A school teacher near Allentown, Pa,
punished nine year old by placing him in
a ''straddled'' posture across two desks,
for nearly two hours, causing such a severe
strain upon his frame that he could hardly
walk home.
The Hawkes. family of North Sougus,
Mass, still occupies the fam owned by his
ancestors in 1910. The house was built in
1868. Adam Hawkes. owned the iron niue
which supplied ore to the first fOundery in
tie country.
DR.. Germer, of Erie, has a book 3S1
years old. 1t is entitled ''The Lives of the
Holy Monks" aud was printed in the I'm
pcrial City of Augsburg, i'll 1893. The
Doctor proposes to place 1t on exhibition
IN the Centennial
At Chicago, on Friday night, was ar
rested Pat'k HasSet, on she terrible charge
of having, three years ago, mcrdered a
man and disposed of the remains by chop
ping them up, putting them in a barrel
and throwing the latter vessel in the river.
y man named Fitzgerald fell into
beer vat in Lafelle's brewery, at Prescott,
Canada, Friday night, while it was filled
with boiling beer. He was literally boiled
to death The skin was peeled off from his
head downwards. He will undoubtedly
die
The Democratic and Republican State
Committees are both called to meet in
Harrisburg on March 4th, to fix the time
for holding their respective State Conven-
tions. The talk is all indicative of choosing
an early day, in May or June, for holding
both.
1t rarely happens that death occurs
at a funeral. Mr.. Symonds of SanCus,
NJ ass, was seized with apoplexy while at
tending the funeral of a friend and died
instantly He had celebrated the fortieth
anniversary oc his wedding the night pIe>
vious.
The Lebanon Meas says that Mr.. Jere-
miah Showers, OF Annville, was the recip-
lent of very large orange by express, last
week. It's appearance caused suspicion;
an examination was made, and a quantity
of arsenic discovered sufficient to poison his
whole family.
"A Missouri gentleman has passed the
last forty four years in the endcavdrto count
two billions before he dies, and is encour-
aged to hope that if it please Providence TO
spare his life for another half century (he
is now only sxty-five) he will be able to
complete his task.
Robert L. Monaghan, esq, of West
Chester, has received the unanimous ems
dorsement of the Democratic committee Of
Chester county for the Democratic nomi-
nation for Governor. MIR. Monaghan is an
honest and eloquent Democrat, and would
make good Governor
Ill lCif, IcuCil plOltSSOi
of natural history placed a frog in a hole
dug in a solid stone, and closed and hers
metically sealed the opening. On the 18th
of last month the stone was opened at the
Museum of Natural History in Paris. The
frog was living, but not lively.
"A large willow tree in Sullivan county,
New York, was completely shattered by
the frost, with a loud report, on Tuesday
of last week. The tree was over twelve
feet in circumference at the roots, and it is
supposed the water penetrated n crack, and
then freezing produced the result.
AT Dexter Park, Chicago, one day
last week, party of sportsmen were shoot
ing snow birds from trap, when, one of
the birds being crippled in the wing, anoth-
er from flock that was passing overhead
swooped down, and seizing him carried
him out of bounds over the fence.
Mr.. Carruth, a Northern Nebraska
man, lives on a farm which is six miles