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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-11
1T is safe to asser. that a lease for 900

1t is safe to assert that lease for 900
years has never run out in this country,
but this has recently occurred in En-
gland. An estate let for that term has
reverted to the original holders, or rather
their representatives. The land is at
Woolwich, and was church property
1000 years ago, but was leased to the
crown for military purposes. Few in.
cidents," an English exchange remarks,
"could speak more eloquently of the
stability OF English institutions and the
law-abiding nature Of Englishmen and
their respect for the rights of property
than that there should be an unbroken
continuity of possession from the time
of Alfred the Great to that OF Queen
Victoria"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-11

Me-, has supported herself and two little
children by digging clans during the
Writer. Her husband in October last
dug q load of clans and set out for Port
land. He sold his load and ordered his
groceries, when he was arrested on al ex.
ecution for debt. He was told he might
ship on board of vessel bound for South
America and give an order for his wages
or he must go to Jail, and he shipped.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-11

WALL PAPER is now said to be in use
in England which will bear washing
with soap and water, and is also damp
proof. These two advantages are suffi-
cient to bring il into universal use pro-
vided 1t can be furnished for reasona-
BILE price.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-11
Cold Winters.

In 401 the Black Sea was entirely
frozen over. In 1853 not only the Black
Sea, but the Straits of Dardanelles, were
frozen over; the snow in some places
rose fifty feet high. In 1929 the great riv-
ers OF Europe, the Danube, the Elbe, etc,
were frozen SO hard as to bear heavy
wagons for month. In $50 the Adriatic
was frozen. In 991 everything was
frozen, the crops totally failed, and fam
inc and pestilence closed the year. In
1867 most Of the travellers in Germany
were frozen to death on the roads. In
1874 the Pc was frozen from Cremona
to the sea; the wine sacks were burst,
and the trees split by the action of the
frost, with immense noise. In 1926 the
Danube was frozen to the bottom, and
remained long In that state. In 1916 the
crops wholly failed in Germany; wheat,
which some years before sold in England
at six shillings the quarter, rose to two
pounds. In 1903 the crops failed in
Scotland, and such a famine ensued that
the poor were reduced to feed on grass,
and many persisted miserably in the fields.
The successive winters of 1924 were
uncommonly Isevere. In 1868 the wine
distributed to the soldiers was cut with
hatchets. In 1858 it was excessively
cold. Most of the hollies were killed
Coaches drove along the Thames, the ice
OF which was eleven inches thick In
100 occurred the cold winter; the frost
penetrated the earth three yards into the
ground In 1716 booths were erected on
the Thames. In 1744 and 1745 the
strongest ale In England, exposed to the
air, was covered in less than fifteen min
utes with ice an eighth of an inch thick.
In 1909, and again in 1912, the winters
were remarkably cold. In 1914 there
was fair on The frozen Thames.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-11

President Grant signed The C1ylI-Klghts Dill
on the LIST.
The bill for the admission Of Colorado as q
State, passed by Congress, provides that the
election for delegates to frame State Con-
stitution is TO be held under proclamation Of
the Territorial Governor TO be issued within
ninety days from the 1st Of September, 1875,
and the Constitution thus framed Is to be
submitted TO the people in July, 1876.
The late Adjt.-Gen. Lorenzo Thomas died
in Washington on the I'd, in the seventy
second year OF his age
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-11

The statement is made in an inter-
esting article in the Iynde Journal that
within the past forty years the gross
weight OF cast-iron articles produced in
America has been diminished fully one
hall. Half century ago the iron frame
of Washington printing press weighed
nearly 1000 pounds, and, although it was
an arch OF metal nine inches wide by
three inches thick, SO poor was its quail
ity that it was often broken by the pull
OF one pressman's arm. The present
smooth, light castings show an actual
elasticity under strain approaching the
service Of wrought iron.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-11

-Paradoxically speaking, mist is never
mist when it Is missed.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-11

San FRANCISCO has a woman who lifts
several hundred pounds with her teeth.
She is a comfortable sort of woman for
somebody not to marry. Think of the
] wing she could do without fatigue.
Ailsoaukse Sentinsl.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-11
Foreign Intelligence.

The steamship Hong Kong. from London
for Japan, recently foundered off the island
ofAbdel Cura, In the Indian Ocean. Twenty
four persona were drowned and nineteen
saved.
Bilbao, Spain, was attacked by seven batal
lions Of Carlists on the 28th, and three forts
were taken and retaken three times. After
desperate fighting the Carlists were finally
repulsed and were subsequently attacked by
the Alphonsists, who were repulsed In turn.
Mons. Buffet has been reelected President
Of the French Assembly by vote Of 479 to
63-an unprecedented majority. A telegram
OF the LIST announces that he would attempt
the formation Of new Cabinet
London dispatches Of the Cd report the
alarming illness Of John Mitchell, the lately
elected memberf from Tipperary.
The European troops had been withdrawn
from Yokohama, according TO late Shanghai
kilograms.
BY a railway accident near Litchfcld,
England, on the I'd, thirty persons were in
jured
The steamer Gothenburg has recently been
wrecked on one OF the Forneaux Islands, In
Bass Strait, between Van Dieman's Land and
Australia She had on board eighty five
passengers and crew OF as many more. OF
these only four are known TO be saved Three
boats filed with passengers and crew were
yet to be heard from at the date OF the dis
patch.
The Goth OF June next has been fixed upon
by the Irish Rifle Association as the date OF
the return match between the American and
Irish rifemen.
A Madrid dispatch OF the I'd announces the
defeat OF the Carlists under Mirel.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-11
The East.

In New York city, on the evening Of the
Oath, while the congregation Of st. Andrews
Church, on Duane street, were assembled in
the building, the unsupported walls OF an adj
joining structure, burned few days before,
were blown down by high winds and fell upon
and crushed through the church roof. falling
upon the east gallery principally, which was
crowded with people. Six persons were
killed and twenty-five seriously injured.
In his opening address to the jury in the
Beecher trial Gen. Tracy arraigns Mr.. Tilton,
Mr.. and Mrs. Moulton and ii. G. Bowen as
conspirators, uniting together to compass the
downfall Of the defendant, though he says
Mr.. Bowen early abandoned the conspiracy,
after having arranged all the details OF the
plot. He claims that the original CON-
plant against Mr.. Bcecher was not as now
charged, but that the letters and converse
tions Of the defendant have been mlsnter-
preted TO mean the greater when lesser sup
posed offense was implied. Mr.. Tracy was
very severe In his remarks upon the charac-
tiers OF both Tlton and Moulton, and secuted
the idea OF Kate Carcy's testimony
being worthy of any credence. He
was very eulogistic IN his COM
ments upon the life, character and services Of
Mr.. Beecher. On the 28th Mr.. Bowen pub.
lished card cmphatically denying the charge
Of conspiracy so far as II related to himself,
pronounclng the accusation malignant
falsiAcation from beginning to end,
destitute Of even particle Of truth,
"as said Tracy" 1--WE quote from
Mr.. Bowen's card) "can learn II he will call
me 10 the witness-stand, In which even the
will find out that do not believe in the
doctrine said to be taught by him that ly-
ing Is justiHable under certain circumstances.
Mr.. Edward j. Ovington, Rufus e. Holmes
and Mrs. Ovington were called as witnesses
for the defense In the Beecher suit on the I'd.
Th6r testimony was designed principally to
rolIect on tho character Of Mr. Tllton.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-11
General News Summary.


A Washington dispatch Of the 18th says
Mr. Zacharie, of the Conservative Com
mittee, had presented to Representative
Wheeler letter Of acceptance Of the Con-
servative caucus OF Louisiana. II was
understood that the whole Congressional
Committee would remain In Washing
ton till after the adjournment Of Congress,
and then canvass the returns, which would
be forwarded to Washington for their inspec-
ton, and determine the result, which will be
carried to New Orleans by Mr.. Wheeler and
put into effect under his personal supervision
at the extra session OF the Louisiana Legis-
lature. The time at which this session will
take place had not yet been determined.
II was announced from Washington on the
26th ult. that the attorney Of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company had left for Minnesota
TO attach the property OF VIM. 8. King, In
order TO recover the amount received by him
in connection with the subsidy.
The statement Of the condition Of the pub
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-07-02
EBENsBURG, PA, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1875

The prison doors were unbolted, and
the news was told to Stephen Boorn.
"Colvin has come, Stephen said the
Rev. Lemuel Haynes.
elias he ?" asked the prisoner "Where
is he?''
.'Here am, Stephen" said his brother
in-law. "What's them on your legs %
''Shackles !' replied Boorn.
"What forp''
Because they said murdered YOU"
''You never htrt me in your life," re-
piled Colvin.
The sequel was soon told. Stephen
Boorn was released from Prison, as was
Jesse also. Russell Colvin returned to
New Jersey. But the Judge who suffered
an innocent man to be convicted OF murder
by the admission of extra-judicial con-
fessions-the members of the jury who
deliberated but one hour before agreeing
upon verdict of guilt upon evidence that
should no: hang a dog-the deacon and
church members who urged confessions
and preached repentance, and the ninety
seven members OF the Legislature, sitting
as a court of appeal, who refused re-hear-
ing of evidence-what became Of them3
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-07-02
NUMBER 81:
DIFFEY's DOG,


/. Almost verybody in town has heard q
Jimmy Difey's dog Duplex. He had a
thousand tricks, but none that were "vain."
Catching ball and all that sort of business
afforded him much pleasure. Make but a
single motion as though throwing some
thing into the air. and Duplex was all
attention.. His nose was aloft in moment.
and his ears were vibrating "six ways for
Sunday" while his tail was extraordinarily
infiexible. When he had fallen into this
attitude the majority Of external things
we're not needed by him Until he became
convinced that he was not going to hear
anything drop. Not only in this but in
many other respects the dog was a study.
Well, poor Duplex is dead now. Last
Sunday afternoon The Chinese residents of
this place rendered their god Gumboots an
ovation, in which fire crackers and bombs
largely predominated.
Jimmy Diffey went down TO Chinatown
to see this blowout, Duplex following al
his heels. Hardly had the Joss house been
reached when Chinese worshiper Of tho
cross-eyed god above mentioned thsew
high into the air one of those wicked spher-
icaB wicker covered bombs, thkag which
no other nation except the Chinese would
ever. have thought of inventing. Poor
Duplex saw tho bail ascend, and rushed
forth from his masters side, confident that
as trained dog he was expected to do his
duty. The ball had not yet done ascend
ing when Duplex was underneath it,
squatted upon his launches, nose in the
air, ears vibrating, and tail laying out
along the ground as stiff as small crowbar.
In vain did Mr. Difey shout and call
'Here, Duplex! You, Duplex Get out Come
here! Ah, you'll" Duplex knew too well what
under similar circumstances had always been
expected of him-knew his duty As the
kissing sphere reached its greatest altitude;
paused the fractional part of a second and
then began its descent, the slightest bit OF
tremor imaginable Twas to be observed in
the extreme point of the tail of the alert
animal; then, as the ball descended nearer
ne was as firm as a rock-he was accurately
measuring his distance. At the exact and
critical moment, Duplex started from the
ground straight as an arrow from the
bow, his rigid, well formed tail pointing
directly to the ground, and his mouth open
to its widest capacity. Down between the
distended jaws of the dog fell the bomb.
Drop it, you rascal! shouted Mr.. Diffey,
drop it, dfo-.:" But Duplex did not drop
it. A heavy dull EXPLOSION was heard-a
sort of thud-and Duplex where was hef
The greater part of him lay where the ex-
plosion occurred, but one of his eyes was sent
across the street through the window Of
Hop Lock, the chinese doctor. the end Of
his nose fell in the boudoif Of Miss 500
Chow, and shower of teeth rained in the
meat market and pig killing establishment
of the fat and easy going All Luck.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-07-02
TWO PICTURES.
BEFORE MARRIAGE

My Maggie my beautiful darling!
Creep into my arms, my sweet
Let me fold you again to my bosom
90 close L can hear your heart beat
Nhat these little fingers been sewing?
One pricked by the needle sect
these hands shall be kept frcm such labor
when once they are given to me,
All mine, little pet, 1 will shield Vor
From trouble and labor and care
Will robe you Lire some fairy princess,
And jewels shall flash In your hairi
Those slippers you gave me are perfect!
That dressing gown fits to T.,
My darling L wonder that Heaven
Should give such 4 treasure to mel
Eight-nine-ten-ele NV precious.
Time flies so when am with Won
ttseeIns but moment I've been here,
And now-must L say it?-Adeu'
AFTER MARRIAGE.
Oh Meg, you are heavy I'm tired
Go sit in the rocker, L pray;
Your weight seems hundred and ninety
When'you plump down in that sort Of way.
1on had better be mending my coatsleeve,
I've spoken about it before
And want to finish this novel
And look over those bills from the store
This dressing gown sets like the deuce
These slippers run down at the heel
Strange anything can never look decent
What's this bill from Morgau's 5? Why, surely
It's not for another new dress?
Look here ! I'll be bankrupt ere New Year
Or your store bill will have to grow less
Eight o'clock Meg, sew on this button
AS soon rs you finish that sleeve.
HeiGh-ho I'm so dreadruiiy sleepy -
I'll pile off to bed, l believe
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-07-02
GBE LAST STATION.
BY N. QUAD.

lie had been sick at one OF the hotels for
three or fou: weeks, and the boys On the
road had dropped in daily to see how he got
along and to learn if they could render him
any kindness. The brakeman was a good
fellow, and one and all encouraged him in
the hope that he would pull through. The
doctor didn't regard the case as dangerous,
bit the other day tie patient began sinking,
and it was seen that he could not live the
night out. A dozen of his friends sat in
the room, when night came, but his mind
wandered, and he did not recognize them.
It was near one of the depots, and after
the great trucks and noisy drays had ceased
rolling by, the bells and short, sharp whis-
ties of the yard engines sounded painfully
loud. The patient had been very Quiet for
half an hour, when he suddenly Enclosed
his eyes and shouted:
stKala-ma-zoo 70
One of the men brushed the hair back
from the cold forehead and the brakeman
closed his eyes and he was quiet for time.
Then the wind wl1irled around the depot
and banged the blinds the windows of
his room and he lifted his hand and cried
out:
Jackson. Passengers going north by
the Saginaw road change cars ~
The men understood. The brakeman
thought he was coming east OH the Michi-
gan Central. The effort seemed to have
greatly exhausted him for he lay like one
dead for the next ten minutes, and a
watcher felt for his pulse to see if life had
gone out. A tug going down tie river
sounded her whistle loud and long, and the
brakeman opened his eyes and cried out :
"Ann Arbor ~
He had been over the road thousand
times but he had made his last trip. Death
was drawing a special train over the old
track, and he was brakeman, engineer
and conductor.
One Of the yard engines uttered shrill
whistle of warning, as if the glare of the
headlight had shown to the engineer some
stranger peril, and the brakeman called
out
Np-slanty-change cars here for the
Eel-river road -
Hes coming in fast,' whispered one OF
the men.
"And the end of his 'lun' will be the
end of his life ~ said second.
The dampness of death began to collect
on the patients forehead, and there was
the ghastly look on the face which death
always brings. The slanming of door
down the hall tied him again, and he
moved his head and family called
"Grand Trunk Junctioh-passenger
going east by the Grand Trunk, change
carsr'
He was so quiet after that that all the
men gathered around the bed, believing
that he was dead. His eyes closed, and
the brakeman lifted his hand, moved bis
head and whispered:
DE-
Not ''Detroit,' but death I! He died
with the half uttered whisper on his lips.
And the headlight on deaths engine
sbone full iii his face, and covered it with
such palor as naught but death can bring
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-07-02
BLACK B4ss IN fBoHIDx.

A correspondent of the Ba,tin, or. Sun
tells this rather hugh fish story -
South from Jacksonville about two miles
is Alachua Lake: Formerly this was q
vast prairie of over twenty thousand acres
Of good grazing land, III the midst Of il
was deep hole or land sink, of which
there are a great MARY in the State, into
which the waters OF McKinstry Lake stu.
ated further north, and the surrounding
country used to flow and find a subterran.
ean outlet to the sea. About four years
ago the otftlet got more or less choked up.
and the surplus water backing soon cover.
ed this vast tract of country, in which
aqueous condition 1t has remained ever
since. increasing and diminishing in area
as the season varies from wet to dry. Thi.
lake is literally alive with fish. 1 have
seen colored Boys with an ordinary pole
cut from the woods, line not over -four
feet long, and q fly, rudely constructed Of
rcd and white fannelj catch eighty pounds
Of blacs bass III a couple of hours: These
fish average from twe to twelve pounds.
An eight pound bass is common.
A short time ago a gentleman re-
siding in GAINESVILLE, caught, and weighed
on Fairbanks scales. in the presence of a
number of Northern visitors here. a black
bsss Weighing nineteen and one-quarte,
pounds. Tradition says that one was
caught here last year that weighed twenty.
three pounds.
All the small streams flowing into this
lake are also full of bass. 1 recently saw
three small boys standing in stream
about three feet wide. and may Be a foo,
deap, each armed with piece of hoop iron
with which they killed, In the half hour |
was present, eight good-sized bass. An.
other boy of the same party, with two
bushel corn bag, made one haul m the
same stream of ten bass.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-07-02
THE MAN WHO SWALLOWED An ALI.
GATOR.

The Lyons Uowa) Advertiser, Of the 18th.
says: We have read Of Jonah being swal-
lowed by the whale, and after ruminating
and feasting i'd that acquatic animal for
three days and nights, was delivered safely
on dry land again, but never before have We
seen a man who could swallow an alligator,
and give him peaceful possession Of his
stomach for three years, until we were in
troduced yesterday TO both the man and
the alligator, at the rooms Of DR.. Cannon,
in Clinton, The victim of this monstrosity
Is colored man by the name Of Thomas
d. Gains, resident Of Clinton for more
than six years, and ganeraily known. Tom
related the facts substantially as follows:
Re- felt something in my stomach for about
three years, which sometimes made me
very sick. l could not endure my clothes
60 be drawn tight upon me. My stomach
became very sore, and at times elected a
green slime. During the last year or more
1 was obliged to get up at midnight and
drink milk to stop the raging in my stom-
ach." This thing, which is about four
inches lohg-yet neither beast, bird, nor
the devil, resembles the alligator, except
the head, which is like that of a frog. Il
has scales upon its entire body and legs.
1t has also long claws, with which Tom
says, it has been scratching the very IN
ternals out of him for three years. The pet
of TOMS which is now corked up in a small
Jar, is minus the end Of its tail. Tom says
he elected the tail after he went home.
These statements are facts supported by
afidavits, which are in our possession, Of .
number who were present when the animal
was elected. -.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-07-02
GOING TO THE bENTIsf.

like to come across a man with the
toothache. There's something so pleas
ant about advising him TO stuff cotton in
it, to use camphor. creosote, peppermint,
and 'Nreiicf,'' that ] always feel better
after giving it. I have been there-had
an aching snag, and 1 know just how it
feels. II used to wake me up at night,
and make me mad at noon, and set me to
swearing early in the morning. didn't
meet man woman but what they ad-
vised fhe. One said that hot Knitting.
needle pushed down on the root vas excel
lent; another said that opium was an ex-
cellent thing; and others said that it must
be dug out by the dentist. II l sat down
to dinner, that old tooth began to growl.
II went to bed, or got up, or went to a
party, or staid ct home, it growled just
the same. It wasn't always a growl.
Sometimes it was jump that made my
hair stand up, and again a sort of cutting
pain that made me make up faces at the
baby, and slam doors and break windows.
l ate cotton, peppermint, camphor and
opium, until I got black in the face, and
of hot ashes to my cheek, applied mustard,
held my head in the oven, took sweat,
and the snag still ached: After the third
week teighbets didn't dare to let their
boys pass my house, and hawkers and
book-canvassers went round another street
L was becoming a menagerie, and at last
decided TO have my tooth out. / decided
~
my mind four times in one afternoon and
at last went. The dentist was glad to
see ME. lie said that if he could not
take that tooth out without hurting me,
be would give ME a million. l got easier
as he talked. and concluded rot to have it
pulled. started downstairs, but a jump
caught me, and J rushed back. He said
he would look ct it; perhaps It did not
need pulling at all, but he could kill the
nerve. By dint of flattery he go. ME in
the chair. Then he softly inserted knife,
and cut away the gums. 1 looked up and
said L would kill him, but he begged fhe
not to-said the cutting was all the pain
there was in it. He finally got me to lie
back and open my mouth, and then he
slipped in his forceps, and closed them
round the tooth. Observation-Disclosures
forsor y 1 cried. But he didn't pay any
attention to it. He drew full breath,
grasped the forceps tightly, snd then he
pulled. Great spoons but didn't it seem
as if my head was going tried to shout,
grappled at him; kicked, and then he held
hp the old snag, and said. ''There, guess
you won't feel any more aching
leaped down ard hugged him. promised
him ten millions; told him to make my
house his home for ever 1 Rugged him
again. I shook hands with every body in
the street. kissed my wife, bought the ba:
by dozen rattle=bo,es in Il heap. and it
seemed to me as if the world was too small
for me, l was 80 happy.