The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-10-22
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trees and overturned buildings.
The Buddhist POntiff, whose authority
was recOe enized 10y over 400, 600, 900 of
Asiatics, has just died in Thibet.
The skeleton Of a mastodon has Just
been umearthed in BrOome county, y. Y,
the tusks of which are ten feet in length.
Miss Ida Demorest, whom the Grand
Duke Alexis considered the handsOmest
woman i'm the United States, has married
Nebraska doctor.
"A man in Philadelphia has a postal
card with over /. 700 words written upon
it, and he expects to write 1900 words
more upon it, making 6, zoo IN all. 1t is to
be sent to the Centennial Exhibition.
"A druggist in Bethel, Maine, after
closing his store, the other night, was at
tending home by a large bear, which made
no threatening demonstrations, but only
left him when he got inside his house.
"A young man at Caimi, White county,
Illinois, will come into the possession next
fall of n fortune of $1,000, 600, left by an
eccentric English physician to the first born
son Of the fourth generation Of his family.
M. Boutie. who saved the lives of fifty
persons at Toulouse, France. duTir z The
late foundations, was recently drowned
himself in the Seine by the upsettng of a
pleasure boat. lie was an accomplished
swimmer.
The alarm Of the radicals i'm reea1d 4
to Pennsylvania is evidently greater than
were their apprehensions concerning Ohio.
The New York Times says that Scburz and
Woodford must come into this State If it
is TO be saved.
During county fair at Greenfield.
Ohio, on Thursday last, the seats around
the race track broke down precpitating
about 1000 persons to the ground. 4
large number of men, women and children
were severely injured.
T -, fn \ I,.,a l.,
traded horses nine times an one day, and at
night he had the same horse he started
with in the morning, S45 in money. a watch
worth $50, a double -barrelled shot gun,
and four bushels of potatoes.
The Union League of Philadelphia.
Saturday night, by vote Of GA yeas to 451
nays sustained the action of the Commit
tee Of Siyty-Two in refusing to indurse
four Republican candidates for city Offices.
The ballotiug lasted two days.
John H. McCallah. of Parker city, fell
from the top of derrick, near St. Joe. a
distance of seventy-iive feet. to the ground:
The body was fearfully chrushed and Ia
ceratcd by the fall and one arm and leg
were broken. Death resulted very shortly
after the accident.
The Allentown Chronicle says 'Fbe
moral condition of Monroe county is sub
ject foI the initiative contemplation of al
people of other counties in Pennsy ylvauia...
The county seat has bat one drinking sa-
loon and The Jail has no inmates. Further,
Monroe is a Democratic banner county.
News reached New York on Saturday
that on the 9th inst, an entire family con-
SiSting ot an aged man. millionaire. named
Francois de Iascale, his son in law. Cal-
tier, and his wife, two sons and daughter
and one Folquet, the Keeper Of their villa.
were murdered and their house robbed
Captain john Perry, Of Petersburg.
Clarion county. the only remaining one of
Commodore PeT1y's sailors who fought on
Lake Erie, promises to be at the centennial
next year. He is eighty -four years old. aud
has gold medal awarded to him by con-
gress in 1860 for his services I'm that battle
The Democrats made gains in 81 coln-
ties in Ohio, the Republicans i'm 81. This
fact strongly supports the allegations of
fraud made by the friends Of Governor
Allen. The great Republican gains were
made in localities where colonization and
repeating could be most safely ventured
upon.
-Hartranft and Rawle reflect the wish
of the present leaders of the Republican
parry to preserve the existing order of
things under which industry lauCuisIes.
capital is unemployed, an irredcemable
currency curses the land and defalcatinn
and 7peculation plunder government and
people.
The Indians surprised and attacked a
party of caucho ga;hereTs on the Chacun
que, in Darien, and killed over fifty per
sons and dispersed the entire camp, con
tanning 500 persons. This viii be heavy
blow to the rubber trade Of Panama. as it,
cuts of the supply generally obtained from
.he Isthmus.
"A crazy colOred man armed with n
revolver, who claimed President Grant as
his father, wanted 10 interview him the
J
old man did not divide fairly. 1t is said
that great numbers ofluna,ics are constant
ly besiegiug the White House Nor is il
much wonder. either.
Last year the democracy of Western
Pennsylvania gave the State ticket a vote
80 remarkable that it gave us the victory.
This year the eastern connties will show
large democratic gairs over last years vote.
If the democracy of the western counties
will do as well as they did year ago,
Pershiug and Piollet will be elected by Is
600 majority. Mark that
The trial of Arthur Davis and his
wife, for the murder of Miss q ilmour. was
brought to a close at Toronto, Ontario on
Saturday last. The jury. after an absence
of one hour and forty minutes. returned a
verdict of guilty against both. The prison.
ers were then sentenced TO be hanged on
Wednesday, the 9Th of December. The
court, in passing sentence, held out no
hope of mercy.
dickens. in his "American Notes -
published thirty years ago, described a
prisoner in the Eastern Peniteniiary at
Philadelphia. whose solitary confinement
the great novelist lamented This person.
Charles Landhimer. still lives. at the age>,f
70. He has just been sent back to his old
quarters tor the sixth time, for the offense
OF stealing-a passion which has kept him
in jail for more than half his life.
"A delegation of Iroquois Indians, from
canada, called upon Indian Commissioners
Smith, at Washington, on Thursday last.
ihey bore letter from their people to the
chief of the Cherokee nation, expressing a
desire to settle in the Indian territory. and
hoping he would ask the Cherokee couucil
to give them permission. Commissioner
Smith will forward their communication TO
the Cherokee chief Tho -. -.