The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-01-29
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A colored lady of Pitt county, n. c.,
lately became the happy mother of a white
baby, a muatto, and black one, all at a
birth.
A hundred years ago the united popu-
/ lation of Philadelphia, New York, Albany,
Newport and Savannah was not more than
10000.
Flora Sqnier, wife of the district attor-
ney of Luzene county, Pa, committed
suicide by hanging, at Carbondale, on Sat
urtiay,
--Laudenburger's Hosiery Mills at Frank
fort, Pa, are closed, rhe firm having failed,
and over one thousand men are thus thrown
out of employment.
Mary Reynolds, of Hamilton, Mass,
and female accomplice were arsested in
/ Boston, on Friday, on the charge of having
poisoned five infants.
About sixty employees have beer dis
charged fiom the Philadelphia custom
house. The pay of messengers has been
! reduced Sl5 per month.
Captain III. A. White, leader of the
! Connecticut Colony in Russell county, Ks,
! froze to death near his home during the re-
| cent severe cold spell on the plains.
Chandler of Michigan and Thayer of
| Nebraska. two Senators who voted for An
drew Johnson's impeachment, step down
ont of the Senate and Andrew walks in
/ Next
I
was born April 21st. 1856, and acceded 20
/ the throne August 22d, 1861. His success
! sor is only five years of age. No disorders
/ have occurred.
! Says Wisconsin editor "A young
/ poctess sends in contribution entitled,
/ Let us Love- We will do our best. but
/ we Lave been married over four wears now,
/ and are a little out of practice
1t is mentioned that although Mr..
| Beecher is sixty-one years old, he can read.
| without glasses, very fine print. However
! that may be, he has occaSioned other peo-
! pie to read vast deal of very coarse print
/ lately.
The fastest railroad time on record is
! said to have been made not long since on
the New York Central Railroad 10y a spe-
/ cial train, which carried party Of officials
from Rochester to Syracuse, 81 miles, in 81
minutes.
BY the failure OF Henry Clews & Co.
| n. Y, VIM. Maher, of BlairsviIle, is out
! $1,000 Richard Arthurs, of Brookville.
! $1,000 Clarion Depo~is Bank, So, 600
st. Peterburg Bank, SS, 800. This last item
Is secured to a certain extent.
! The Clarion Democrat says that less
/ lumber is being taken out along the Clar-
! ion river this year than usual, consequent
! ly there is little employment for laborers.
! Good hands are working in the woods for
! one dollar year and board.
| There are 500 paper mills in tie United
States, with an in, ested capital of $40, ,0OO,-
| coo, and total production of $40, COO 600
! per annnm. These mills give employment
! to 20,000 people, whose earnings are esti-
mated at so, 600. 900 annually.
st. Patrick's church, i'm Hartford
| Conn, was burned on Sunday morning.
| 1t was valued at $4,000 insured for
| $50 The walls are standing, but will
! probably have to be taken down. The
| building is to be replaced at once.
In gentleman's house in Hartford,
Ct, there is now lying very sick, an old
servant woman, 60 years of age, who has
| worked all her life for 81 a week and her
| board and her savings, put into the bank,
amount now to between Sc. 600 and g.. 600.
| According to the official report of the
! Mayor of Providence, II. J., under the
operation of the new prohibtorv law just
| put in force in that city, there are more
| places where liquor is sold than ever before
! and rowdyism and disorder are on the in
crease.
! Already predictions are made of dis
| agreement in the Beecher- Tilton case
| Mrs Woodruff is talked of as a witness on
| the pastors side, to prove that Tilton and
| Moulfon furnished her with the reports
upon which she based her publication of
| the scandal.
| The defeat of Chandler in Michigan
moves the Cincinnati Commercial to a
rythmical summary of his virtues viz that
he twas the loudest and longest, the stiff
est and the strongest, the gayest and most
festive, the most rampant and most res
tive. of the whole crowd
On Thursday evening, saws the Erie
Dispatch, the wife of JohnSberidan. living
on the Lake road mile, or so east of that
city, gave birth to four female children.
three of whom were alive at last accounts
Pdter famiLias is absent, having gone West
last fall and has not returned.
TIa Ill,
Lizzie Little, widow employed at the
Exchange Hotel went crazy last week and
was sent to her home in Cranberry town
ship. Religious excitement is supposed to
be the cause of her insanity. She had been
attending religious meetings.
"A number of the residents of Cory
have formed colony to locate in Califor-
MIA. They were to leave about the 25th of
January, and had procured special rates
for passage and freight, which will enable
them to reach their future home for a COM
paratively small sum of money.
Thursday man living near Fullerton,
Clarion county, undertook to kindle a fire
with oil, when the can containing it explo-
ded, completely covering him with the bla-
zing fluid, burning his flesh to crisp. He
was alive at last accounts. but there are
no hopes that he can possibly recover.
Mr.. Sam. Burns, of Portland, Maine,
is so years old. and has smoked and chew
ed ever since he was years of age. He
is hale and hearty, one of the lamp-light-
ers, and goes bis nightly rounds. He new
er had a doctor, every tooth i'm his head is
sound-and he has cut a new tooth recently.
While the bells in a New Orleans
Catholic church were ringing for vespers
last Sunday evening, the iron castings fell
from the 5elfiy and struck and killed
little boy underneath. The child was
watching the sexton pull the rope when the
hugh weight dropped on his head, crush>
ing tn skull.
The engine and baggage car of the
night express on the Michigan and Lake
Shore Railroad was thrown from the track
by a broken rail, near Grand Ra pids Sat
uir,ay morning. The engineer, John w.
Anderson, was killed, and the fireman,
Walfer G nm rlinnS iriured ipteInanv Ii