The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-09-24
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Next eleetions-Oblo and Iowa, oc'o-
Der 10.
woman who has been maid for a long time
Theodore Tilton is drawn as juror to
SCI We in the Brooklyn City Court next
week.
A baby witheut spine las ventured
into the world by way of East Haven,
Connecticut.
The greatest depth of the Pacific
Ocean, as found by the British ship Chal-
lenge, was about five miles.
The Catholic church at fremont III
SchuyIkill county, was destroyed on Friday
evening by all inceudiary fire.
The Postmaster General bias officially
thanked President Scott for placing fast
mail trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
A mine of honey has been discoverefs
at Cajon Pass, Call. 1t is a quarter of
mile long, and contains ZOO tons of the
sweet.
There are said to be more than 2, ,000,-
900 Williams in the United States, to say
nothing of several hundred thousand spuri-
ous Bills.
"A st. Louis woman enumerates among
her friends twenty-t two women who have
become bald from wearing heavy masses of
false hair.
"A political change in Pennsylvania
prOpOrtionate to that in Maine, viii give
Persl.ing and Piolett majority of fifty
Thousand. All the signs are propitious.
AT Jefferson, Florida, a Judge of Afri-
can extraction has condemned his wife to
three months imprisonment for stealing
one of his shirts. Roman justice outdone.
MIR. Samuel Murdock, who has made
thorough study of the mound builders,
will try to construct fac-similes of the
most remarkable works Oh tie Centennial
grounds.
"A man seventy years old is to he
hanged at Cleburne, Tex, on the first
Friday in October. He has asked for three
hours in which 20 deliver a speech OH the
gallows.
I'm 1872 the Republican majority for
Grant in the State of California was Il, 302.
In 1875 the Democratic majority over the
Republican candidate for governor i'll that
state is 30, COB.
-Wethersiicld, Conn, sometimes called
Onionstown, derived it's nickname from the
fact that church bell hung in 1715 was
paid for 10y contributions of onions from
the parishioners.
Last year the Democrats carried one
county out of sixteen, i'll Maine. This
year they carry six and the Republicans
ten, with the news getting better and bet
ter. All hail, Maine /.
There is a pond near Watch Hill,
Rhode Island, the bottom of which the
longest sounding lines have never succeed
ed i'll finding, and which is popularity sup
posed to be fathomltSs.
The most fearful report from Texas is
that of the submerging of the town of In-
dianola, under the influence of flIe equi~
noctial gales, and the loss, as "a result, of
one hundred and fifty lives
1t will be great cause for regret if the
rascal Westeryelt, who is clearly shown to
have been implicated in the abduction of
Charley Ross. escapes prison through any
arrangement to restore the lost child.
A human skull Of peculiar shape was
washed ashore at Newcastle, Me. the
other day, and preserved by resident of
Portsmouth, n. H., who thinks it has been
in the water more than one hundred years.
There was cast at the Tre6ecar Iron
Works, Richmond, recently a bed plate for
a cotton compress weighing 42, 600 pounds
The calculations of weight were SO accurate
that the molten metal exactly filed the
mould.
"A council of Catholic Bishops and
Archbishops concluded its deliberations at
MaynoOth, Ireland, on Monday last. 1t is
remarkable for the factthat it is the second
that has been held in that county for seven
centuries.
Mantle, Conn, has an embryo ChaIIcy
Ross sensation. \ note was left at the
house of the Episcopal clergyman of that
town, threatening TO abduct his child if
Z
certain date.
The Pope has appointed Cardinal Nc
| Cfoskey member OF Congregations on In
tlex, Sacred Rites and Bishops and Regu-
lars. Another eonsistory was TO have been
held yesterday, when twelve additional
Bishops were to be appointed.
There is TO be but one more total
eclipse Of the sun during the nine
teenth century, visible in the United
States, and that will occur in 1878 The
total eclispe of Radicalism will OCCUR two
years before that date, in 1876.
-Barnum chariot girl, who was TO
have married the unfortunate Donaldson.
has entered n convent somewhere in Can
ada. She is said TO be very pretty and
very intellectual. An intellectual girl i'm a
chariot is something of a novelty
A small yellow-spotted lizard. about
four inches long, was found inside wafer
melon at Dallas, Texas. Apparently life
less when taken out, it was soon reSusci-
tated, but lived only few moments. 1t
is to go IN spirits to the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition.
For week or two the independent
movement in Maryland had an appearance
of incipient strength but the moment it
assumed the malignant form of Know
Nothingism it suffered a collapse That
devils invention must be tried on uew
gronnd.
In the territory of New Mexico the
Democrats, according to partial returns
received, have made a gain of 9, 300, fifteen
per cent, as compared with the election
for delegate to congress in 1878. This is
high ground, but the tidal wave has
reached il.
"A number of the friends of Miss Eliza
Ann Lewis, whom n man named Duross
violated, near Scranton few days since
have been making attempts to intimidate
Warden Lifts, of the Luzerne prison, in
order to get Duross ont of Jail for the pur
pose of lynching him.
"A man in Michigan cut a large piece
out of his leg the other day, under the i'm
preston that he had been bitten by rat
tlesnake, and then discovered that he had
merely been stung by bee. meaner-
feeling man, on making the discovery. was
probably never raised in that State.