The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-25
Ne,cs and Other NCtings.
Governor Davis. Of Mis-

and only one German, Gustave Schleicher,
OF Texas.
BY job ! Germany proposes to send
Herr Diles to eur Centennial, with the
Berlin Imperial Baud.
BY an explosion of the boiler of a por-
table saw mill at Pennington, Mass, Feb.
18th. three of the four men employed were
killed.
Shakespeare said, There is tide in
the affairs of men," but it appears 10 he
pretty much all tied back III the affairs of
women.
In Lehigh county there is a hog which
is expected to weigh 1000 pounds by the
time the centennial opens. 1t weighs 500
now and is not fat
The inventor OF fine cut chewing to-
bacco is said TO have been lady of New
Yoik, named Mrs. Miller, who fourishcd
about half century ago.
William Freeman of Cherryfield, Me-,
niuety-three years old, has just published
a volume ot poems, most of which he
wrote Within the past year.
A California inventor has patented p
contrivance for driving sewing mn chimes,
which does away with the tIeade. 1t is
driven 10y and runs like clockwork.
A New York lady has Il punch bowl
that belonged to Mithridates, the Great
King of Pontus, who has been dead these
eighteen hundred years and more.
L v
II. c., where Jackson studied law has been
purchased by a Mr.. Wells, of Petersburg.
Va, who will exhibit it at the Centennial
"A four-year-o old child, named Cochran,
whose parents reside in Pittsburgh, fell
into kettle Of hot wash water OH Thurs
day evening, and was SO badly scaldcd that
it died on Friday afternoon.
Charlotte CUshman, the actress, died
last Friday, at the Parker House, Boston.
of pneumonia. She was a lady Of very ex-
tended and excellent reputation, and an
actress of very high order of ability.
"A report published, in Philadplphia to
the effect that the Pennsylvania, Railroad
Company had joined the anthracite coal
combination, organized to keep up prices,
is enphatical!y denied by Col. TlIos. y.
Scott.
Michael CaI.iIl, Of Shamokin. has lost
within one week two SONS aged eight years
and one year aud six months, respectively,
and two daughters, one six years old and
tho other baby. The scourge was diph-
liberia.
Last week the bodies of six negroes.
tied with ropes aud with their throats cut.
were found on Watts's Island, in the
chesapeake river, but no clue to the Ier-
petrators Of the deed or its motive has been
discovered.
Charles Ganawere, OF Allentown. aged
81 years, fell dead in "A shoenaker's shop
in that city ON election day. He had lust
voted, aud,was CONVEX sing at the time. Mo-
al-steer clear of shoemaker shops after
you have voted.
-Gerrit Mink, of Fond du Lac, Wis,
called recently upon the District Attorney
and had himself sent to jail to stand his
trial for perjury. His crimo had been un-
discovered, but conscience Lad made a
coward of him after all.
What patriotism The Light Guard
of Green Bay, Wisconsin, will march. yes
sir, actually foot it, The entire distance to
the Centennial, a rambe of 1,O33 miles
Farmers along the route are some - hat
anxious about their poultry.
Mrs. Capital of Rhode Island, is n
widow, and is worth %, COO, coo. Here is n
capital catch for some cutcrprising Young
man; but no doubt Mrs. Capital will not
enter into life partnership with any man
who has no capital Of his own.
A story comes from Salisbury to the
effect that youth named Reddick Nc
DoUell, son of Joseph Mcdowell, was mir
acniousiy cured of deafness Of eleven years
standing, while listening (?) TO Rev. Dr.
Dung preach powerful sermon, on
Thursday evening a week.
Father Chiniquy, The French Protest
ant evangelist at Montreal, is to he prose
cuted for libel in including in his published
sons who Indignantly declare that the al
legation that they had enjoyed q change of
heart Is a malicious falsehood.
samuel l.. Avery, of Louisville, won
Slo,oo0 on the election, but the law pro
vIdes that the State can recover money
won in this manner and divide il betyeel
the State Treasury mud the School Fund.
so that Mr.. Avery will not be SO far ahead
when the Attorney General gets through
with him.
The unusual torture of freezing and
burning To death was the lot of "A negro
girl i'll Cumming, Wis. Her clothing caught
fire. burning her fatally and then she ran
out OF the house, almost naked, and the
extreme cold helped to kill her before she
could reach neighbor's house fur which
she ha0 started.
The engineer of train OF cars an
preaching Alfred, Me, several DAYS ago.
saw newfoundland dog on the track and
tried to frighton him off by sounding his
whistle. As the dog did not move. he
stopped :he train, and then found that Just
around the curve close by was an OK team
fast to the track.
"A wedding occurred at Boston
church the other evening, and at the con-
cluslon of the ceremony the bridegroom's
grown-up daughters saluted their new
step mother by making a charge in full
''-~N, "''' HNit piiiN prevented from tear
ing all the clothes off her back by the inter
ference of a policeman.
The tickets used in the election in
Texas last week were unusually long. in
Guiding State officers, judges of two State
courts and the District courts. Senators
Representatives, county officers. justices,
conStables, &c, That used in Younp conn.
ty contained sixty two names and was 2
feet . inches in length.
The Lcwistown Gazette, says: We have
half centennial here-a Fourth of .Iulv
boy, who will be fifty years old next Fourth.
and has had thirteen children. the number
of original States. His name is Samuel
Nightsinger, aud the Centennial Commis-
sioners ought to give him free pass to and
from the Exhibition next Fourth.
The Welsh co!onists i'm Pataoopi, oro
almost In starving condition. The COLONY
is on the river Chupat, and the land, like
that of Egypt, depends for its fertility on
the rising of the river. The past season
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