The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-09-24


New Garden townships Chester county
He has lost eight of his nine children by
scarlet fever, four having died within one
week some time ago, and four more having
died week before last
--Suubury had u kitten with two heads
The heads grew on the same neck and
were foined together where the ears should
be- each head having separate tongue
an up,,er jaw, one eye and ono ear. Only
one lower jaw was attached to the double
head This complicated animal lived but
a short time after its birth.
The Oxford University Press has pub
lshed the smallest Bible ever produced.
1t is printed on rough, unbleached India
paper, OF extreme th,uress and opacity; rs
four and a half inches high by two and
three. quarters inches broad and half an
inch in thickness, and weighs, bound i'm
limp morocco leather, less than three and a
half ounces.
Miss Neubicgiu, of Canada, is trying
to live economically, and has thus far, ac
cording to her veracious friends, sIIbsisted
without food fUr five months. Should she
succeed in dispensing with sustenance for
a year or two, she viii bave made plain the
matrimonial problem which our young
people are still wrestling with, --how to
live comfortably on nothing.
"A proposition TO bury the bodies of
Presidents Jackson, Polk and Johnson III
the Capitol grounds at Nashville, Tenn,
and to have the State erect over them Il
costly monument, has been frustrated al
its outset by the discovery of clause III
the will of President Polk ordering that
his body, with that of his wife, shall re
main in their graves on the Polk home
stead.
Says correspondent of the Uniontown
Genius of Liberty We presume that it is
no: very generally known that nails were
first cut west of the mountains at Mounts
Creek, near Conellsville. Fayeite county.
Pa. ut the Mounts Greek Rolling Mill, by
oxen on a tread wheel. This mill VAS i'm
operation at a very early day, and supplied
the then limited demand of the West
with cut nails.
-Corceding that the Erie platform is
not entirely satisfactory on the currency
question, it is better even for the hard
money Ucn than the Republican, for,
while the former demands that 1.-The vol
ume of money be made and kept equal TO
the wants of trade the Radical platform
declares for "a uniform Bntion1i currency
adjusted to- the gr07ring ,CdRtS of the busi>
ness interests of the country
The terrible storm, that so fearfuiiS
devastated the Texas coast, developed
phase of equinoctial terTors that could not
be proPhesied by the weather burelu. Tie
effects Of the storm were not confined tn
Galveston, but included the entire Texas
coast. The winds drove in the sea upon
the land till :he island of Galveston and
other points were entirely submerged.
The loss of property is very great, aud that
Of life is very considerable.
When Cleveland husband tires of
his wife, he kills her. This saves the
trouble and expense of going To Indiana
for a divorce. a Mr.. Mctiilan. of that
city. took the former method of divorcing
himself a few days ago, but concealed the
body So bunglinsly that 1t was discovered
on Monday, and he was cruclly incarceratcd
i'm the common jail. And now the Cleve-
landcrs are talking about breaking up the
custom by hanging Mr.. MCCLELLAN.
-kearney, Neb., has again been the
scene of Il bTut al muIder at the hands of 4
band cf Texas herders. \ party of these
deSperados came in with a drove of cattle
Thursday night, ana camped on the Platte
River. at the edge Of town. and left their
horses gu into corn field. Collins. the
owner. drove out the horses. The herderS
Friday mcIning went tn town, got drunk.
and returned to- their camp and attacked
Collins, shooting him five times and killing
him instantly. The citizens organized and
started in pursuit Of the Texans.
Hell Gate, a rocky obstruction i'm the
channel of East River, New York, is tn be
exploded next summer. Tho work Of cx-
mains only to drill the holes FOR the nitro
glycerine, and then pack them ir the cold
weather. and fire them when the warm
weather comes. The engineers are very
confident that this oceanic Hell Gate viii
be heard Of no more. Blu. the BROOKLYN
ArgNs says those who undermine the
Theological structure of the same name i'm
that city have not been SO successful.
The damage zone by the storm at
n Iva
all. In some of the streets houses were
tioated from their foundations cellars were
illed and the goods, &c. in them DESTROYED:
bridge was washed away, railroad tracks
were tom up and telegraph poles pros
stated, bnt at no time was the city in dan
ger of destruction. The disaster was bad
enough of course, bnt in view of the sensa
tional telegraphic reports with which tine
press has been filed for several DAYS. the
actual damage sustained is insignificant.
-Nm. I'll. Westervelt, ON trial in Phila-
delphia for completely in the abduction of
little Charley Ross, was on Monday found
guilty on the last three counts of the in
dictment. 4 motion for new tIial was
made. Both the district attorney and the
Ross family deny the sensational story in
the Sunday Press to the effect that Charley
Ross is positively known to be still alive.
and that there is a strong probability of
his being shortly recovered. that the prose
cution in the Westervelt case have with
held some important evidence i'm further
ance of plan which promises to restore
the lost boy to his parents, and that Wes-
tervelt is to have long sentence au6 To
be pardoned on the restoration OF the boy.
The Pope on Friday conferred ul,on
the first American Cardinal the titular in
risdiction over particular Roman ChuTch
which always accompanies that exalted
rank. The Archbishop of New York is
now Cardinal of the Church of Santa Maria
Sopra Minerva, one of the most interesting
and since IFS recent restoration by Pins TV
one of the most beautiful of the countless
churches of the Eternal City. 1t occupies
the site of an ancient temple of Minerva.
and has been closely connected i'm more
modern days with the history of literature
through the noble Casatensensian Library
which is housed in the adjoining cn,,,nrt