The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-17

ting 1ot w fSiflBltn OF ffuatns, eHueu per-
baps on last Tuesday by voting for Hayes
or Tilien. Particular mention is cue TO
Capt. Chester Bugbee of WrenthanI, Mass,
who, being 80 years Of age, in spite uf the
peltings of the pitiless storm, walked five
miles to the polls to vote for Hayes aud
Wheeler. 1t is not necessary to say that
there is no doubt about the returns from
Wrentham.
The champion mean man lives in
Montgomery county. He has been mar
ried four times. When his second wife
died he split his first wire's tombstone aud
laid the two bodies side 10y side, each with
half slab; when his last two wives depart
ed, he placed them IN graves head to head
with the first two, that tie split tomb
stone would do for all four. He will not
marry again for fear he cannot utilize that
stone again in case there is another death
in the family.
Neither Gov. Hendricks nor Gov.
Hayes has reason to be especially delight
ed with the vote liis own State has given
him. Gov. Hendricks's majority in lndi-
ana is now put down as $500, which is
only few hundred greater than the plur-
ality for Williams in October. Gov. Hayes
majority in Ohio is little if any larger than
that of Mr.. Barnes in October. The cause
was undoubtedly the same in both States,
an acquescence in the verdict of October
without further effort.
In Chicago, Sandy Richardson, a
colOred waiter at the Palmer House, was
killed last Thursday night by Mike Scan
Ian, also n waiter. 1t seems that Richard
son and Scanlan quarreled on account of
republican sentiments which the former
expressed, when Scanlan terminated the
disagreement by dealing Richardson ter
rife blow on the head with an ice hatchet.
The wounded man crawled away to the
stable, where lie found dead next
morning. Scanlan was arrested.
"A dlSpatch from Calcutta saws ii is re-
ported that 10000 persons perished in the
cyclone of October 81, and some estimates
place the loss of lives as high as 40. 900.
In the town Of Burrisbol. capital of the
BaclIergunge district, 1900 houses were
leveled with the .arih. Letters from sur
vivors report that a great wave nine feet
deep swelt over ihe large island of Oak
hin, Shahabazpore. The whole Of East
ern Bengal appears to have suffeId Sc
verely from the cyclone, and Calcutta
narrowly esca ped.
AS the boat commanded by Captain
Joseph Brown, Of Schuylk Haven, re-
Gently nearcd Brower's Lock. ON the
Schuyikill canal, Below Pottstown. lie sig
nailed the lock k-tender. Receiving no an
swer, aud the lock gates being closed. he
accused Frank Reed, the lock-tenter. of
neg iectiug his duty. Reed called him a
liar, and the Captain choked him, and as
he walked away Reed entered his office,
procured shot sun-and fired at him. the
contents entering his back, causing a hor-
rible and fatal wound
Over four hundred lodges of hostile
Indians surrendered to General Miles ON
the Yellowstone on ;ho 9Th instant. Sit
ting Bull, with his small band of three
hundred lodges, escaped. Gen. Miles is in
pursuit. Crook and Mckenzie have gone
after Crazy Horse and the hostile Cheyeu
mes, and Gen. Sheridan thinks the Sioux
war aid all other Indian wars in tn is conn
try Will soon be oTer. Gen, Sherman, i'm n
congratulatury dispatch, says he hopes
Gen. Miles will crown his success by can
turing or killing Sitting Bull.
Pa Is is admiring a new clock formed
of horizontal bar, With two brass balls Of
equal weight attached to the ends and
worked upon a wheel placed hcrizou,aIlv
The hands are over yard long and there
are SIX faces 10 the clock, on one of which
are marked the hnurs, on another the min
utes aud on the thiId the seconds The re
manning three Indicate the years. tnon,hs
and days. 1t requires winding uD but
once every fourteen months. ard is said to
have every quality of the best time-piece
Invented up 20 the present day.
john Welsh, vino was burned at the
Hickory Shaft. in Schuylkil county. last
week, died ON Friday evening. after iinger-
ing in great pain. Mathew Dnrn,,dy If
VIII be remembered, died last week.
Peter Kelly. the third man Of the party. is
IN very critical condition. Reilly is only
ABOUT twenty years of ago, and though
terribly burned 10y the explosion. he carried
"eiSh overa mlic, cropping his way i'm the
dark Ills sutferiugs must have been ter
r'bie, and his brave endurance for the sake
pi ms stricken comrade is worthy of the
a. lfanr
On Friday, November 3. a man named
Alex Drake was engaged IN choppinr wood
along the roadside near Shade Can. Iunt
lngdon county. An old companion named
'ohn Smith came along, when the two men
got To foollng in some manner with n or,,
vi course the usual result followed. DT,,la
was shot, the ball passing through hoIb
inngs, and entirely through the BODY.
ihe unfortunate man straightened bi,,,
self up, said, John, you've shot me. ;, ana
feii to the earth dead. Smith is almost
w'ld with borror at the thought OF the mur.
der that stains his hands.
a very unique case was Sroupht he
fore Waterford, Conn. Justi,e las.
week. 1t seems that n woman of that vi
lage expected The death of one of her cI,ii
orec, ana borrowed a dress of n neiphbor
To wear at the funeral. The child recoy
cred, which caused its mother so nuch
happiness that she went to n topic haa,
party. wearing her neighbor's dress and
spilled some of the beer on II. The ov,,,a,.
OF the dress demanded compensation. wbic,,
was refused, whereupon she appealed to
the law. BY the advice of the Justice The
affair was settled without trial.
On Thursday last three aristocrat;c
young ladies entered a Brookly horse-car
and TWO OF them began conversation 10.
ia''hg to the Presidential election. Soft
words soon grew into loud ,p,, ,o,.;.,,, -
controversy, IN the heat of which one ,f
the dIsputants, drawing off her gold watch
aud chain, offered to bet them against $50
that Hayes was elected. Tho money w.s
at once produced by the other. and Tho
third young lady pocketed the property as
stakeholder. Then the car was stonped
and the thiee beauties, two with highly
h"shed faces, tripped gracefully away.
MIR. Nathan Rartolette jiv;,,
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