The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-05
Eefcs cf,d Potstscag Renas.

The New York Sun expresses the opn-
ion that whatever the verdict may be,
, Plymouth Church will continue to adhere
/ to Beecher.
The Pittsburg Post says Grant will. re-
quire another increase OF salary if Congress
persists in raising the tax on whIskey TO
ninety cents gallon.
Little Ralph Tiiton, about whose pas
ternity doubt was raised in the state
ments and testimony in the great scandal
case, is reported dying.
-Anthcny Martin, employed at the Dia-
mond shaft near Nilkesbarre, jumped on
a cog-wile,l in motion, Friday morning,
and was instantly torn to pieces.
An Ohio man has been snatched frcm
n drurk kard's grave eighty-n nine times
Since the election he's been going on as if
he wanted to be stiatched some more
At the funeral of John Barnes, who
died at Bristol, England, few days ago,
aged 10G, the coffin was followed by his
graz as'n, who is himself grandfather.
In England, recently. a tin-of beef,
VII c had been prepared for the soldiers
in the Crimea in 1855, was recently opened,
and its contents found pea lfectly sound and
wholesome.
There is one case on the court calender
in New York City against William VI.
Tweed to recover S11, 900, 600 alleged to
have been stolen by him or persons con-
nected with him.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has agreed to make a reduction of % per
cent. on pine and 80 per cent. on hcnIlock
lumber freight, from the Cltariield lumber
region eastward.
Daniel Martin, of Scattleooro, Ala,
aged seventy-six years, vas recently mar
ried to a little girl of thirteen years, resi-
dent of Jasper, Tenn. The cold snap was
too much for him.
l,
West. An Iowa paper says ''It's only
twenty-one years since The first house was
erected in Burlington, and now It contains
20, 100 Inhabitants
All of those injured by tie disast + at
S.. Andrews church, in New York. on
Thursday night, are reported 10 be doing
well except Patrick Laviiie, who was fatally
injured in the spine.
"A wonderful exhibition has been open
ed at Brussels. 1t is collection of about
100 Landscapes of great merit painted by
boy named Fritz kcrchove Of Bruges, who
died an idiot at eleven years of age.
The Texas Legislature proposes 70
make it a penal offence fra person to walk
on railroad If Legislatures 20 on in this
m amer there vii soon be no way in which
man can legally make fool of himself
An Omaha woman lifted a barrel of
flour from tie ground into wagon on a
Tuesday, gave birth to twins on tie day
following and Saturday Of the same
week split wood enough to last over Suns
day.
A lady of Easton, Talbot county, it is
said, has in l,er Possession valentine which
was sent to her grandmother in 1916, and
as it viii be just hundred years old at the
right time. il is proposed to exhibit it at
the centennial next year.
The hunting for Indians skulls and
thigh bones on the Plains is re port ed to he
n very profitable business. The skulls are
worth $1.35 for combs and the thigh of
the red man makes knife handles that are
equal to ivory in appearance.
There is Il young gin in Dubuque who
whistles SD sweetly that people come from
long distances to hear her. She has been
offered 800 Il week AID expenses to travel
aud perform in public, but her parents are
well off and re fuse their consent.
1t is simply absurd to talk about a w-o-
man being qualified TO 81! every position in
life that man fills. For instance. what
woman could lounge around the stove in a
country grocery store, and lie about the
number of fishes she caught last summer?
Senator Nye, Of Nevada, used to he
famous for his jovial spirits He was a
fellow of infinite jest, and was wont to set
the Senate in roar, aud now he has been
found wandering in the street Of Richmond
in attire IF tie night. helpless aud dazed
- .!it ~ ti4G btl-f III tipi 10 lfiSntiO SIlCl
things. says the CoUrieT>,Iourna1, but it's
hard to keep from thinking how different
the history of this country might have been
if Ulysses ). Grant, Benjamin f. Butler
and Henry Ward Beccher had been born
girls.
OF all he women named in connection
with the Beecher ease, Mrs. Moulton was
the only one who seemed animated by a
downright spirit of honesty, and who gave
the pastor really brave counsel f; and tIpon
her, therefore, is likely to fall the fury of
resentment.
Mrs. Timothy Gibson, an Iiish woman
about fifty years of age, was found frozen
to death in the street at Springfield, Mass.
on Sunday morning. She was out with
her husband on Saturday night. partially
intoxicated, and wandered away from him
and lost her way.
The Dominion Parliament is consider
ing bill which imposes a fioe of 50, 900
upon any railroad company that employs a
man who is found intoxicated when on
duty. The principle has been tried on the
Grand Trunk Railway, and has been found
to work admirably.
The Legislature has passed aud Gov
TIartranft has approved an act imposing
$4,000 fine and twenty-five years impris-
onment upon any person or persons who
may conceal or know of the coneealment
of, an abducted child, with special es post
.fdctO reference to the Charlie Ross case
When the item in the sundry appropli-
alton bill giving so, coo for Miss Ransom's
portrait of Gen. Thomas at Chickamauga,
and $50, 600 for Carpenters emancipation
picture, was reached Friday, the House re-
fused to consider either. Hester Clymer,
of this State, is credited with defeating the
appropriations.
An Indianapolis mother, whose daugh-
ter was soon to marry, told that female
that she might select from lot of furni-
ture stored in the garret such articles as
she desired for housekeeping. The old
family cradle found in the centre of
the pile, and set aside in accordance with
this permission.
In order that Grant may keep paid
army at the South the people are asked to
pay SS, 900. 900 in the form of increased tax
on sugar 81. 000 900 on tobacco and S.