The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-03
NeaUs and Other NOfings.

northern Vermont Tor another reDian RAID
into Canada.
-Governor Hendricks is much pleased
with Mr.. Tilden's letter, and says those
are his sentiments.
In Middletown, Conn.,, the other day,
a pig was born with the trunk of an ele-
phanG, but it died.
The first Chinese vote cast in the Uni
ted States will be thrown i'm Massachusetts
next Tuesday. Hayes will get it.
E An average Republican majority of
/, 900 seems to be the figure in Colorado
now that Indiana and Ohio are decided.
The Colorado Republicans have elected
Mr.. Belford to both the short and the long
term of Congress by about 200 majority.
The Canadian Catholics are preparing
for large pilgrimage to Rome next spring
on the occasion OF the Popc's Episcopal
jubilee.
Mrs. Jane NJ. Walker, President Polk's
sister, who died at Columbia, Tenn, re-
Gently, left 102 grand and great-grand
children. ii
Charles Van Lew, aged Il, citizen
of Linden, New York, weighs only eleven
pounds and is but sixteen inches high. He
declines all offers to go i'll the show bust
ness.
The car, machine and carpenter shops
of the Deleware, Lackawanna ano Western
Railroad Company, at Great Bend, Pa,
were burned ON Saturday night. Loss
about S12, 600. ....
An exchange says Godlove Orth is
lying back laughing at Ben. Harrison and
coneratulating himself that he was not the
Radical lightning rod in the late thunder
storm in Indiana.
"A Washington girl, Estella Hutton,
carried arsenic in her pocket for month,
with the intention of swallowing it when
she got ready. A few days ago she got
ready, and the dose quickly killed her.
The Continental life insurance com
pany of New York has suspended, but it
is hoped its policy-hOlders will not suffer.
The Penn fire insurance company of Phil
adelphia has been dissolved for insolvency.
In Quebec the other day clergyman
seized bride as security for the non-pay
ment of his fee by the impecnnious bride
groom, and the husband had to give secur-
ity for the 81, ,25 ere he could obtain his
spouse.
The jury in the libel suit of Mckay
against the editor aud publisher of the
Times was discharged Saturday afternoon,
having been locked up for just one week.
They were no nearer an agreement than
when they first retired.
Two murderers named Hill and Fullen
were hung at Mays Landing, n. j., on
Friday last, The scene was shocking, and
was witnessed by women and ch ildren,
The act was concluded by the sheriff selling
the rope at twenty-five cents a foot.
Information received from several inn
portant points in Ohio leads the Pittsburgh
Post to believe that Tilden will carry that
State on next Tuesday, change of three
votes in each election district being all that
is necessary to accomplish that purbose.
All the prominent representatives of
the Kentucky Dem ocracy have caused
letter to be issued endorsing the views of
Governor Tilden with respect to the rebel
claims, and pledging the Southern people
To abide by those views as recently promul-
gated.
"A Brooklyn private watchman named
Mitchell, was murdered in that city on
Thursday night, not long after he had re-
ported at the station house that suspicious
characters were about, and recommended
increased vigilance on the part of the reg
ular police.
Edward S. Stokes, convicted of shoot
ing James Fisk, Jr., was released on Sat
urday morning from the State prison at
Auburn, n. Y, his term of sentence hav-
ing expired. A great crowd was at the
railroad depot to see Stokes, who, with his
friends, started eastward.
"A wagon was driven into Pittsburgh on
Sunday by shockingly bronzed and griz-
zled individual who is on his way To the
centennial. He started from Califoi mia
two years ago and has hunted by the way.
His wagon was loaded with peltry, some
of the skins being quite valua BILE.
MIR. Jerry MOrrett, of New Kingston,
Perry county, has growing in his garden
squash vine which measures 1850 feet in
length, and has borne 203 fine squashes
this season. 1t covers the greater part of
his lot, and is the most "extensive'' vege-
table curiosity ever seen in tha: village.
The whole number of Popes to Plus
TX. is 257. Of those 104 have been Ro-
mans and 103 natives of other parts of
Italy, Is Frenchmen, 9 Greeks, Z Germans,
Asiatics, Africans, 2 Dalmatiaus,
Spaniards, Hebrew, Tbracian, Dutch
man, Portuguese, Candiot, and English
men.
Sixty Northern merchants. residing
aud doing business in Charleston, S. c.,
held meeting on Friday night last and
adopted an address to the people of the
United States, declaring Governor Cham
berlain's proclamation unwarranted by the
real condition of the State, and fully in
dOrsing the recent statement issued by the
clergy and bankers of Charleston
Sometimes liars overdo it so that thew
defeat themselves. The story tha. this
state was to be flooded with bogus tax re.
ceipts printed Upon water lined paper
such as is used in Philadelphia for the bur
pose of making fraud a republican monop-
oily, is lie of this kind. Receipts printed
upon such paper, il circulated in the coun-
try where such paper is not used. would
be detected by the water mark.
Tho fonr minutes past nine train from
Scranton, consisting of seventeen cars. was
run into on Monday evening last by the
Summit coal train, one mile and a half
| north of Goldsboro station, on the Della
ware, Lackawanna s. Western railroad.
One car was burned and two teiescoped.
Five persons were killed and about thirteen
wounded. corpse of surgeons attended
tO the wounded. The full particulars of
the accident cannot be learned at present.
"A man in Solano county, Cal, beat his
wife 80 numerically that she died within
week. When the iiages and hearse
passed through the streets of Knoxville.
he was shaking dice in a saloon. Some
one remarked that il was his wife's funeral
and he went to the door, lifted his hat, and
hurrahed. This greeting seemed to shock
the eansitiya a,uhlic sopti.,aax,4 A.