The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-12-22
Ne,cs ana OtneP Nofings.

During an alarm of fiie at Iallowen,
Me, Friday morning, a woman, uaned
Fuller, died of fright.
"A mail carrier was frozen to death in
Erie county near Union Mills during the
terrific cold snap of last week.
Nine hogs, raised aud butchereo by
w. ID. Reese, of w oodbridge, y. j., weigh
ed D, go pounds, and were 1uly ten months
old.
A schoolmaam in Nigo county, Indi-
ana, used the birch too much to suit her
patrons, aud the school house was burned
down in revenge.
George Hoffacker, twelve year old
lad of Perry township, Mercer county,
while wrestling the other day received in
juries that resulted in his death.
John Hall has been reappolnted Uni
ted States Marshal for the western district
Of Penusy lvana. The appointment re-
mains to be confirmed by the Senate.
A barn was burned in Jerseyvile, H.,
on Friday, and two men, named Jas. Mar
tin and VIM. Finnessy, who were sleeping
in the building. persisted in the flames.
-''Gcneral Grant will retire from the
Presidency" says the Courier Journal,
with the proud consciousness of having
done his whole duty-to his own family.
Frank NJ. Baker, Rochester, y. Y,
printer, is charged with polygany. Asyet
only five Of his wives have been heard from,
but the Returning Board has not yet closed
its labors.
Ice formed on post in Chicago i'll the
shape-so the account says--Of "A bust of
Ben Butler, the points of resemblance be-
ing SO close that the likeness was readily
recognized.
--Croniu, the Oregon Democratic cleo
tor, is a lawyer, end is oddly enough
brother OF Brook lyn man who WAS a
candidate for Republican elcctor III New
York State.
The Senate OF last Monday sustained
President Grants veto Of tie bill cutting
down tile Presidential salary from 500, COO
to $25, 900 per annum. This is doing the
clever by Uncle Sam.
On Saturday pight last little daugh-
ter OF Jas. Douglass, of BOlesvillc, Beaver
county, had her hands frozen above the
wrists while she was sleeping by uncOn-
sciously putting them outside the quilts.
"A colored Arkansas preacher, seven
feet high, weighing 400 pounds, and but
twenty six years old, has just bad "a pair
of shoes made at Memphis which HIe l7s
inches long and inches across the sole.
"A member of recent grand jury in
Bloomsburg, Columbia county, was dis
charged on account of intoXicat on, aud
The Court instructed the PIUthOEOtaTy not
to allow him either per diem or mileage.
The motion for Il new trial i'll the case
of Chas. NJ. SteI ling, convicted of murder
in the first degree at Youngstown, o., has
been overruled, and the prisoner was SEN
fenced to be hanged OH tue 2Sth Of March
next.
Nelson's paroquet has just died at the
Jardin des Plantes al the ripe age of I15
years. He was with the great Admiral al
Trafalgar, and after the battle WAS never
able to say anything but bomb, bomb,
bomb"
Governor Iartranft las appointed
Hon. :. Newton Petiis, a Republican poll
tician and formerly member of Congress.
as President Judge in the Crawford Judi
cial district, in place of the la;e Judge
Lowrie.
Julia Deans, whose drunken husbands
cruelty drove her into the streets of New
York 10 beg, was found on Saturday morn
ing with her dead baby in her arms, it hay
lug frozen TO death in her arms during her
wanderings
"A woman in Allegheny county, n. Y,
hasn't used soap in her kitchen for five
years. She heats the water and then puurs
in little milk. This softeIis the water,
gives the dishes fiuc GLOW, aud doesn't
spoil the hands.
When the Republicans are brought
face to face with the cases of Oregon and
Louisiana, both Mt once, they are compell-
ed to exclaim, with the old culcred deacon,
NO system oi theology can stan Slch
questions as DEM
-Glayor-elect Prince. of Boston, tele-
graphed the World on the night of his cleo
tion "Returning Board practices are
driving thousands of Republicans here To
rally with us around the Constitution and
the sovereignty of the people,
Posters have been put up notifying
the colored Democrats of Putnam county
North Carolina, that they have ten days
faty 4
that time they will be compelled to go. No
name is attached to the poster.
The average Democratic ma jority at
the recent municipal election in Ruston
was 6,573. Tildens majority was only
300. The threatened attempt 10 count
Hayes into tie Presidency is evidently not
relished in the Cradle of Liberty.
-Elkanah ingalls, and his wife. occupy
ing house alone il Providence, II. l., were
sutfocated on Sunday morning. They had
LETT a lighted lamp on The bureau going
to bed. The bureau took fire and the old
couple perished before reaching the door.
-Rebecca Butler, colored, supposed to
be 100 years old, froze to death while alone
in her hut in Charleston township, Chester
county. She had plenty of food and fuel,
but arose and tried to build the fire before
dressing, and was overcome witt, cold and
fell.
The remains of man have been found
in Illinois i'll the route of the balloon from
which Donaldson the aeronaut was lost,
As no person has been missed from that
neishboIhood, it is supposed that they are
Donadson's, but there has been no positive
Identification.
The n. Y. Herald is of the opinion
that the Republican party deserves bet
ter fate than to die in ditch hunted down
like an outlaw, but that this is the destiny
which the Chambers, Camerons and Tv-
ners are shaping for it, with Grant to
strike the blow.
The Boston Journal wants the Herald
to give the names of a few Republicans
who think Tiiden has been honestly elect
eo, and the Herald complies, adding that
if the editor Of the Journal has not seen
any such Republicans he keeps very poor
political company"
Col Jup w Ea;rcax II