The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-30
ne,cs cs,tT Political Items.

Wilkes Booth, Is at pfeSeD- nat-iifar>e- ~
a Cleveland mandatory.
-St Josepl1,s Roman Catholic church,
San Jose. Cal, was burned on Friday.
Loss. $50, 600; insurance, $4,000.
Mrs. Mabel Hubbard. of Carthage, y.
Y. saws that she is now 103 years OF age
and the mother Of eighteen children.
"A man in Utica, New York, has a
genuine Welsh harp. ordered by the friDcc
Consort for the Worlds Fair in 1871.
A large number of fish have eeen
frozen to death in the canal, two miles east
of New London. Oneida county, New York.
-Winneshiek county, Iowa, has never
known such a smell as that caused by the
recent burning of its only Limburger cheese
factory.
A hurclarin North Carolina was found,
upon being shot by farmer into whose
house he had broken, to be woman IL
mans dress
"A Republican jury in Carlisle acquitted
two negroes Of the theft of watch after
having confessed their guilt both outside
and in open court.
They had a Welsh spelling match in
Utica last week, and here are some of the
words they spelled Ddimal, goch, cywfan,
nwfus. huddygl, amryliw, cyfiafareddiad-
The police authorities of Posen nave
notified all the Ursuline Sisters In that ms
trict who are not natives of Germany that
IneS muot lHO SoNaA1is
months
An account of the snowfall in inches
in Clinton county since the year 1896
ranges from 305 in 1862 to 102 in 1865 and
1O7 in 1873, with two more SHOWS to hear
from this year.
j. II. Keen of California has sold to G.
w Kellogg, the San Francisco millionaire,
the trotting stallion Sam Purdy for 500. 600.
This is the highest figure ever paid for a
;rotting stallion.
"A desperate fight occurred on Thurs
day last between band of rading Cheyen-
mes and two companies of the Sixth Unlteu
States Cavalry, in which twenty seven In
dians were killed.
A printer in Philadelphia is father to
twenty-six children, ranging from antique
daughters TO full-face bourgeois boys, and
nonlareil babies in small caps. lie ought
to start family paper.
"A curious incident happened at Hart
ford last Wednesday night. Rats invaded
the warerooms of a commission merchant
and devoured forty canaries out OF a stock
received on consignment.
A train OF one hundred wagons, with
six hundred persons, herd of mich COWS
and the usual assortment Of babies and
yellow dogs. bound for California, left
Kansas City few days ago.
A loving Berks county young man.
healthy, strong and well-to-do an a worldly
way, turned his mother, woman seventy
eight years out of doors, the other day,
with - warning not to return.
The champion string Of kittens is re-
ported from the famiOus stock growing
region Of Kentucky. It consisted Of six.
united by a liCament like the Siamese
twins. bourbon county has :hc honor
brooklyn has been "utd"ne. The Clin-
ton DcHfoCrat gives an accou-.t Of = trial in
which one of the plaintiffs IL nov On the
witness stand. II being his Seventeenth day.
with an average Of seven hours each day.
-BTiglianr 1oung has been summoned
before Chicf-JustiSe Lowe fer contempt OF
Court for not paving Ann Liza some
50 500 aimOnv. The case has been APP
pealed to the United States Supreme Court.
Six and half feet or a bride stood be-
fore the altar in a Paris church the other
day and promised TO love, cherish and
obey three feet and a quarter of bride
groom and that IL tie long and short of
it.
Mary E. Boyer, n sixteen year old Ciil
living with her parents near Plymouth,
Ashta bula county. Ohio, recently commit
ted suicide Sy taking corrosive sublimate.
Impedimeut in her speech Was The supposed
cause.
Last Saturday a heart masher from
Mansfield Ohio. went to Tiffin to wed 4
young woman with whom he had been
corresponding but. much tn his disgust,
he found that his supposed lady correspond
ent was man
the refusal Of State Treasurer Mackey
to allow a legislative committee to examine
his books causes great excitement in Phil
atielphia. 1t is thought that Mr.. Mackey's
action will iniure the republicans in the
approaching State election.
-Pennsylvania. I'm 1874. produced TWEEN
tv-one million six hundred and sixty-seYen
-, -....~
all this digging made hole in her coal de-
posits no more appreciable than bucket
of water taken out OF lake
There is negro in GuilfOTd, Conn,
who has predicted all the bad weather the
past winter. He says there viii be another
snow storm next Tuesday. but some of the
people down there say that if it comes they
will have that nigger's head.
A mob of respectable ladies'" in
Wilton, Iowa, tarred and feathered a young
girl because they suspected her of not be-
ing respectable Why send missionaries
to the caunibals, Hottentots, any such
folk. when we have Wilton among us?
The Detroit Free Press libels Penn
sylvania when 1t says ''Pennsylvania has
81. 60 in the state treasury, and the ques-
ton is who shall grab it, That balance
is S1.76 1t is such reckless disregard of
the odd cents that has brought us so low.
The experiment of transfusin9 blood
has just been applied to General Frank
Blair, who has for some time been prostrat-
ed with paralysis at his home in St Louis.
Six ounces of blood were injected into his
veins, and the result is said to be favorable.
-Artorney-General Williams has ten
tlered his resignation, to take effect on the
18th of May. This is regarded in Wash
ington as prelude to a general breakup
of the Cabinet, and Secretaries Belknap
and Robeson are expected to resign shortly.
Colonel Blanton Duncan has CONS
menced suit in the United States Court
against the Louisville lottery. The suit
seems wholly n matter of private philan-
thropy, but there viii be many unto,tun-
ate ticket holders ready to rise up and call
him blessed.
"A Newfoundland dog, gcing to one of
the wharves in Portland, Me, and perceiv-
ing that a vessel he expected to find there
had sailed, jumped overheard and swan