The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-12-10
Ne,Us of the Week.


men. two of them fatally.
TWINS boy and girl-born in Read
ing, a few days ago, weighed fifteen and
fourteen aud three quarter pounds. Good
beer, ell?
"A black bear boldly walked through
street of Milford, Pa, and after leisurely
enjoying the town sights, walked away no
citizen disturbing him.
"A severe earthquake shock was expert
enced in Grass Valley, Cal, on Saturday.
The vibrations lasted ten seconds, aud ex-
tended north and south.
Charles Avery, aged 100 years, died IN
Cincinnati recently. He started the first
pottery in Ohio and owned property which
is now worth So, 10000
-Philadelphia common council his ae-
cepted the proposition Of the Pennsylvania
railroad company to erect a temporary
bridge over the Schuylkill at Market street,
Love induced a Portland girl to steal
her fathers best boots and overcoat and
give them to her lover, thus enabling that
impecuniOus youth to go on hunt tor en-
ployment.
Charles D. Wetmore, OF Berlin, Wayne
county, has been arrested on a charge of
assault and battery and rape committed oD
his own daughter, Olive J. Wetmore, sew
enteen years of age.
A lamp containing gasoline fell from
wall in Frederick KaffmanTs beer saloon,
1 n
Kaufman and her daughter were burned SO
badly that they died next day.
Hon. John G.. Smith, of Ohio, one of
the Force Bin members of the Forty-third
| Congress- takes the place of the other Smith
as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. There
| rs no doubt that he viii stick.
Fifty years ago Mr.. and two Misses
Keith, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts,, mar
ried Miss and two Messrs. Robinson. The
six are still living and the last of their
! golden weddings came off recently.
! Within tie last two years Mrs. Martha
Jobson, of Middletown township, Della
| ware county, 81 years OF age, has pleced
togethe: lS quilts, some of them quite
novel in pattern and the work 6ne.
! The Democratic Triumph III Mssis-
| sippi involves the cutting down OF the state
printing bill from 800, 600 a year to S16,-
900, and Republican newspapers in the in
/ terror very generally suspending.
! j. W. Freeman, editor of the Pittston
| (Pa.) Comet, convicted of libel upon Jules
Henri. has been sentenced by Judge Hard
ing to pay fine of $50 and undergo seven
m onths' imprisonment in the county Jail.
of the 26s members who met in the
two Houses of Congress on Monday, 1870
have had previous service, while 116 are
without Congressional experience, and are
absolutely unknown to the country at
large.
The skeleton of the horse that carried
General Sheridan on his historic twenty
mile ride to Winchester, Virginia, during
the war, is owned by Rochester New
York; man, and is to be exhibited at the
Centennial.
There is said to be man at Harper S
: Ferry whose name is Samuel T. S. j. b. V.
NJ. B. Case. 1t is strange that a fellow
will mutilate the alphabet in that way
: when nobody hiuders him from taking the
whole of it.
I'll Sill
county only one year ago weighed eighty
| pounds two days before his death. The
; other day his body was exhumed ard found
to weigh four hundTcd and seventy-seven
pounds. A case of petrfaction.
, "A Reading woman who was ''given
f up" by tie doctors is trying to cure the
consumption by eating dogs flesh and
drinking oil made from dog fat. She has
got to relish this diet, and says she will be
2 walking around and be well soon.
MIR. f. S. Corbett, of Clarion township,
Clarion county, found calf on Thursday
l morning last, on his premises, with two
? perfert heads The hide of the curious
] animal has been stuffed by Mr.. Corbett
J and can be seen by all desiring to examine
. it.
3 Paul Boyton is coming home soon to
e display an invention to preserve the lives
L of skaters. Any one who has ever tried tc
:. break up all the ice in mill pond at one
Il
e dim idea of the spot where this invention
is fastened.
Samuel Love, of Butler county, has
1 spent thirty eight years of his life in carry
= ing the United States mails. During that
time he travelled, on the average, twenty
eight miles daily, and in the aggregate
y two hundred and eighty three thousand
eight hundred and two miles.
9 There is at Winston. Ala, an aged
). couple Buckner Walker and his wife
0 Seliva, the former being 104 and the latter
o 103 years old. The man runs flour mill
u and the wife does her own cooking. They
l have 102 living descendants; 12ichildren, 62
e grand children, and % great-grand-chi
!. dren.
u "A few years ago there resided at Ro
y chester, Perry county, Emma johnson, q
). beautiful girl. She became acquainted
y with young man. who ruined her. After
;, ward, deserted by him, she became an out
!, cast Last week she placed herself in
front of an approaching train and was
IS killed.
q Two children Of John B. Hicks, o
's Liberty, Va, while playing on the bank o
n Staunton river, fell into a pit sixteen fee
VI long, twelve wide and six high, and at tn,
% bottom discovered the remains of an IndiaI
warrior, well preserved, and surrounded
> with bows, arrows, ears of corn, and speci
mems of pottery,
20 Edward J. Backenstose, a justice o
y the peace of East Hanover township, il
Lebanon county, the owner of a farm, ant
: extensively engaged in the shipping o
Z cattle to the Eastern markets, appointe,
u, u an assignee last week. He has since con
II fessed to the forgery of notes amounting t
le between $40, 600 and S15, 900 and has fle,
l. to parts unknown. His liabilities are re
Is ported to amount to SO, 600.
70 1t appears to the Louisville Courier
T. journal that Governor Hartranft ''stil
clings to the antique fallacy' that ga
D, Pennsylvania goes so goes the Union," an,
d. it remarks: 'Pennsylvania may go fo
m Hartrauft but if she does she will just the
r experience that appalling sense of solitud
rs which the traveller would feel in the hear
IN of the Great African Desert, with not