The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-10-01
sesos ana Fos,tscas Items.

Almost oDe-half the persons hoiuinsseeu
for Superintei'dents OF INSTRUCTION III Iowa
this year are women.
Mrs Clemson, the last surviving child
of The Hoo John G. Calhoun, died at Pens
dleton, S. c., last week. :.
I "A family of seven members, five OF
whom were hare-lipped, recently passed
through Nashville, Tenn.
A resident of Bloomington ILL.,, mas
cnred himself of the asthma and several
other diseases by an aPpiieattoh Oh elothes-
line to the throat.
Doc. Sweeney, one of the Carbondsle
bank robbers, was sentenced at W likesbar-
re- Friday, to eight years Inpllsonmeht
in the penitentiary.
In Philadelphia the Republicans as
sess tipstaves of the court $40 each Tor
election Expenses Even that will not beat
Pcrshing and Piolett.
The oil springs of Pennsylvania were
known to the whites as early as 1929, but
the full use and value of petroleum were
not known for 200 years afterward.
There have been rated down the Pen
obscot river in Maine, this season, about
%. 600 900 feet of logs, and the Oooms aIe
now clear for the first time in eighteen
years.
Mr.. Wendell Phillips has been pre-
sented by the Irishmen of Boston with the
new editionof the Encyclopedia Britannica
no express their admiration Of his Grafton
on Daniel O'COnuen.
"A dog in Mower county, Mimi, went
to sleep under the tumbling-rod of thresh-
ine-machine and was caught by the tail
and wound up into the machine till the
tail gave way and cfrne ont
An Iowa girl desired to attend Bar
NUNS HippodTome, which exhibited IN
Marshaltown. Iowa, recently, but was dis
appointed and could not go. So she took
her life with a dose of strychnIne.
e hoe inf nod
the Monroe Democrdt that since the ex-
posure by the Bellefonte Watchman those
walnut doors of HartTanft's stable have
been renloved and replaced by others.
"A six-pound cannon ball has been
found twelve feet below the surface Of a
Newport street. 1t is supposed to have
belonged to one Of the British vessels which
visited the place during the Revolution.
Two antique chairs. one formerly in
the possession of Louis XVI. and the other
brought from Venice in the seventh century,
were sold at Boston Wednesday, the for
mer for $3.50 and tie latter for $3.50.
Cardinal Simoni. late the Pope's nun,
clio. whose audacious demand with accom-
pauying threat on Spain was that all other
religions but the Catholic should be sup~
pressed in that country, has been recalled
TO Rome.
Miss Lizzie Marshall, of Butler, niece
of Hon. Thomas Marshall, of Pittsburgh,
and daughter of Mr. William Marshall,
was accidentally shot on Sunday, and re-
ceived injuries which it is feared will cause
her death.
The Pittsburgh Leader says that Nor
ton did shake the bloody shirt in that
CITY after all ''but, as Republican journal
saNs, disgusted his audience by so doing.
The audience was respectful, but not en-
thusiastic."
Daniel Dougberty, Esq, the famous
IL farT1f In
lures last season were among the most
pleasing events, gets 81, POO for weeks
visit to the West. Alexander Ii. Stephens
gets $500 a night.
"A few days ago a committee of former
employees of Waterman " Beaver, Dan
vile, waited on those gentlemen aud ten
dered the services OF those they represented
at any wages that would enable the firm TO
enter the market and secure orders.
-PieTceville, Pa is excited over tile
finding Of five human Skeletons which were
uuearthed 10y party hunting woodchucls.
They are believed to be those of a family
named Searles who started for New York
many years ago, but were never heard
from.
Prof. Marsh has in his possession
fossil bird found in the West, which has
teeth He concludes hat the creature was
an intermediate form between the bird and
the reptile, aud that its discovery supplies
one of the missing links in the Darwinian
theory.
A boy in Kalamazoo. Mich, who runs
an express wagon, found $4,000 ian green
backs, on Saturday, and returned it to the
owner, who is a Detroit man. That after
noon the gentleman purchased horse for
S175 and presented it 20 the boy.- Good on
both sides. N-.H H>.' '...
There is trouble in the Radical camp
in Wyoming county. The Republican or
II y
to support Hartranft, and there is talk of
starting a new paper. The radical county
convention refused to take action against
the Republican.
Tie Norlistown Herald knows of an
old woman in Bridgeport who has pasted
nearly five thousand medical recipes IN
book during the past forty years, but has
never seen a sick day in her life. She is
growing discouraged. Some people are
born to i'll luck, she says. -.--
The giant grape vine at Santa Barbara,
Cal, is supposed to be dying. Its owner
has acceded to numerous requests and in
tends to transport 1T to Philadelphia for
exhibition in the California departments of
the Centennial, if scientific treatment can
keep it alive long enough.
/ Caroline Pells. a young German wo-
man, who attempted to swindle the Nassau
J Bank of New York out of $19. 400. on a
! forged check Of Warden, Mitchell .S Co..
/ Springfield, Ohio, was convicted and SEN
1 fenced to two and a half years imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary
--Nineteen Democratic States are for
4 hard money, and yet the Republicans who
made our paper money and who appointed
4 two Judges of the Supreme Court express
: ly TO decide in favor of paper money are
/ bold enough to say that the Democratic
/ party of the country is for initiation
"A special from Burlington, Iowa, saws
+ an accident is reported to have occurred on
! the Burlington aud Missouri Railroad Mon
/ day evening, by which one person was kill
! ed and thirty injured. Three coaches went
| overan embanknent one mile east of Wood
burn, aud fourteen miles from Burlington.
( No particulars received yet.
--Governor Curtin says that Jutlce
1 Pershinr was one Of the r,nnr, In ..hl,.,. Z