The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-28

At Virginia City few days since
Laura Cbrystie, an inmate of Rose Benia-
minis dance house, died, and the econorni-
cal mistress exhibited the corpse at n omar
ter head, the proceeds, together with the
profits derived from the extra sale of Ii
quors and cigars, being applied towards
the funeral expenses.
j. M. Hutchings, of Yosemite. has
discovered in the head waters of Kern riv-
er; 10,500 feet above the sea. a new and
beautiful fish, which he named the '.golden
trout Its color is like that of the gold
fish, but richer, and dotted with black
spots a quarter of inch in diameter. and
with black band along It's sides.
The Treasury Department decides
that the sale of plug tobacco for retail pur-
poses in any but the original stamped pack
age is unlawful. To comply with this
manufacturers will be compelled to put ND
large quantities of the weed in three, five
and ten pound boxes, or lose the custom of
the multitude of small dealers who cannot
invest in caddy.
1t is remarked that the present winter
closely resembles that Of l7s6--one hundred
years ago. The military operations Of
Washington and others depended on the
condition of the weather. and hence the
character of the winter referred To is clear
ly mentioned i'm the history of those times
The Junuary Of 1776 was mild aud pleas
ant, as it is this year.
Elk Gov. Charles Jackson who died in
Providence last week. aged scventy-nine
was, 1T is believed, the oldest manufacturer
of textile fabrics in the United States He
was noted for severe treatment of mill
operatives. His factory at Jacksonville
was kept running fourteen hours a day.
and his employees, many of them girls,
were poorly compensated.
"A MIR. Pemberton. of Jackson. Mich
proposes to exhibit at the Centennial two
o,,o ;e
section of hickory tree which springs
from two separate roots and mites in one
trunk above. The other is a section of a
water beech, from which a branch springs
and after growing some three or four feet
again unites with the trunk.
"A horrible murder occurred near Tor
onto, Canada, on Saturday afternoon
Samuel Hopkins, contractor for bridge,
was noticed by the workmen to be bleed
ing from cut in the neck. They repaired
to the house, where they found his wife
| lying on the floor stabbed with q butcher
knife and her skull crushed in with a hoe
Hopkins was Immediately arrested.
Mrs. Hannah Slower, Of BowdoiI,am.
Me-, has right to be regarded as a hero
inc OF the Centennial year. She was born
on the Fourth of July, 1776, at nearly the
| same hour when the great bell was ringing
out the news of the Declaration from the
old hall in Philadelphia. She is i'm good
hnDdIP6fh
anniversary of the nation's birthday in
July next.
The Tribune remarks that ''there are
many indicationssthat MIR. Blaine is rallv-
ing from the bad efforts of his amnesty
speeches." He doesn't ''rally'' so much
as he falls back" on his sectarian reserve.
1 But the Tribune candidate will never raj
ly from the political misfortune of having
had pious Catholic mother and one or two
4 feminine relatives in a convent The X
Ms will have no such candidate for Presi-
dent.
Alvin and Charity Haywood, husband
and wife, lived together i'm extreme poverty
IN San francisco for many years. Mining
! speculation has enriched them to the ex
tent of ten millions and now, when both
are over sixty years old, they have decided
that they will be happier apart The euor-
nous estate is to be divided evenly between
them by mutual agreement and he is to
allow her to get divorce on the ground of
! desertion.
AT the bottom of a mound cut tbrougb
by railroad ditchers near Alton, IN, last
week, lnclosed in a hard cement, perfectly
water-tght, were found large quantities OF
beads, shells, necklaces, stone implements
and weapons, including a spear about two
feet long, made of clear white flint, with a
handle wrapped with copper wire. 1t is
thought the spear was present to the
mound builders from Father Marquette OF
La Sale two hundred years ago.
"A curious old bell is to be hung i'm the
beifry OF the main building of the Connec-
ticut Screw Company at TariffviIle. 1,
bears an inscription, only par. of which
can be deciphered, showing it to have been
cast at Rouen, France, in 1887. From
that place it was brought to Newgate, the
Old Simsbury copper mine prison, where i,
1 did service till the prison WAS discontinued
The bell has n aconsiderabl BILE amount of sill.
yer in 1t, and has Also fine tone.