The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-14
Ne,cs and Other N0tiHOs.

a street car moved by condensed arr
pressure has been successfully tried IN paIls.
There are eleven Pennsylvanians in
the California legislature. Enough to 'le'-
ven the whole lump.
A Reading inventor claims to have
car brake for which he has refused $780,
900, $4,000 Of which were to be paid
down.
Washington Hays, Of Butts county,
Ga, has lost three sons sthrough'gunpowder
accidents. The last of the three was killed
OH Christmas.
The Peaks of Otter, near Lynchburg,
Va, long supposed to be an extinct volca-
no, have recently given unmistakable evil
dences of action.
Plus TX, with other good qualities, is
an excellent musician as a young man he
was a magnificent TENOR aud waB carefully
educaled musically.
In the court house at Sunbury may be
found q desk and eagle quill which dates
back to 17T2. So say the grand jury in
their official report.
"A rich deposit of gold has been struck
in the Centennial Lode, near Laramie City,
Wy, it being claimed that the quartz is
the richest ever found.
The feeling of alarm in Europe at .he
near prospect of war is unabated. Den
mark is fortifying herself aud Holland is
reorganizng her army.
In Bradford county, the other day, a
father aged ninety years boxed his sons
ears severely for abusing his wife. The
boy is about sixty years.
Senator Oglesby, of Illinois, had his
infant son baptized last Saturday in water
which the Senator brought from the River
Jordon twenty years ago.
The story that Babbitt, the New York
soap manufacturer, could have been robbed
of 5000, 600 without missing the money,
IN h-
On Saturday morning George Tate,
aged twelve years, had his foot cut off
while attempting to get on T orning train
at the Union Depot, Pittsburgh.
WIN. Thompson, convicted of an out
rage on the person of girl - years of age
at Baltimore in March last, was sentenced
on Saturday to2l years conhnement III the
peni;entiary.
The Duke of Norfolk, President OF the
Catholic Association of Great Britain, calls
for subscriptions in aid of the prosecuted
German priests. The Duke subscsiles
So, 900 and Cardinal Manning 1880.
The last desce, dant of the famous nav
igator, Anerigo Nespucci, who gave his
name to the New World, has Just died
near Florence. He bore the aame name as
the great sailor OF the fifteenth century
A resident of Ottawa, Can. having p
horse that lie found useless, drove in into
the bush on cold night. chopped the
hoofs off the poor animal in order to get
its shoes and then left it to it's wr-tched
fate.
The sworn statement OF the commits
sioners Of the sinking fund, published ac-
cord;ng to legal requirement, shows a bal
ance in the sinking fund, Dec. 81. 1875. Of
81, 225, 9O5. 65 Where is it deposited !?
Who gets the interest Z?
The Stpefs which flew off TO Florida to
escape he Chilling winds here, dived right
into the snow banks. In the Orange State
the season is unusu"lly severe, snow, frost
aud ice seeming to have followed the fash
ion nf going there to winter.
Timothy Kirby. ad old citizen of Gin
cnnati, died on Monday morning, aged
cighty-one years, leaving All estate esti-
mated at between two aud three millions
Among the few heirs are Don Piatt and
Congressman Fl. b. Banning.
"A train filed with military recruits
ran off the track at Odessa, Russia, on Sat
urday, and plunged down an enbankment
The wrecked cars caught fire before all
the men could be extricated. Many were
burned to death. The total number killed
is sixty eight, and fifty-four injured, sever
al fatally.
Murray, one Of the murderers hanged
at Pittsburgh, on Thursday last died an
intdel, resisting the efforts Of ministers Of
various denominations to the last. His
galiows companion, Myers, became a Cath
olic, and joined in the endeavors to convert
Murray, but he died declaring his disbelje f
in religion.
The body OF laborer named John
White was found in vat at the stock
yards, Chicago, on Tuesday morning. He
was hauling Offal to the watts Monday night
and it is supposed he fell into the boiling
blood. His flesh was almost entirely boiled
from the bones Mt the time of the discovery
of his body.
-,Iesse Spencer, venerable colored
resident IF Shasta. Cal, has been place Il
in communicate with his wife and fani-
ly, from whom he was separated in The old
plantation days, long years before the war
They were discovered comfortably settled
at Quincy. H., by means of a travelling
newspaper item.
>-The Boston Herald has seen a man
who saw two other men who heard it said
by the confidential clerk of a promine mt
politician that Gen. Grant would not allow
his friends to put him i'm nomination for a
third term, and that he favored az his sue
cessor Minister Nashburne, with Conkling
AS his second choice.
AT Osborn, Mo, on the Hannibal and
st. Joseph Railroad, on Thursday night.
burglars broke into n drug store and stole
bottle Of chloroform, with which thew
drugged the whole town. They robbed
! Doth hotelS, All the stores ana many private
residences. They secured several thousand
dollars, aud escaped
"A young lady of Hardin county, Iowa.
who, merely to show her knowledge of
business affairs, drew up and signed a hun
dreG-dollar promissory note at party
several months ago, has just received a
notice from the bank to walk around and
settle it, with interest. She thinks this is
carrying a joke too far.
AT Milwaukee, on SATURDAY.. exnari-
ments were made with s'Iray's Harmonic
System of Multiilex Telegraph" A loon
was arranged to Portage, by way of Hori-
con, and back by way of Water.own. a
distance of 2H0 miles, and over this single
wire, Vt Is said, eight messages were sent
and eight received at the same time.
"A few days ago Mr.. Perkins of Brook.
haven, Miss, playfully measured ]. II.
! Stewart for coffin, and ascertained tina,
an e'ghteen-inch box would do for him.