The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-01-05
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Sir Titus Salt is dead. No relation to
Mrs. Lot.
Leslie COMBS. of Kentucky, has mar
ricd woman S5 years of age.
-"Give me the Returning Boards of n
country and care not who does The voting"
An ingenious North Carolinian. strug-
Cling in the tolls, has married his mother
in-law.
A San Francisco woman won Il wager
by eating thirty quails in as many consecu-
tive days.
The Sheriff Of Tunica county. Ark, is
accused not only Of stealing public money,
but of murder. -
jeremiah S. Black has no fear of the
ultimate result aud says the Democracy
has lots Of spunk.
"A sixty year old woman in Leesburg,
Ohio, dressed herself i'm mans clothes,
and committed "A daring burglary.
The Pennsylvania Legislature organ
lied on Tuesday by the election of the can
didates nominated in Republican caucus.
Mrs Elizabeth Drumm, of Reading, is
0S years of age and still growing older
She seems to be a DrumIn pretty hard to
beat--for age.
A young man, who says he is a son Of
ex. Mayor Havemcyer, of New York, has
managed 80 spend $12,00 in indianapolis
during the last two weeks.
IS-
Gently came of at Allentown, wien the
victor scored twenty-six dumplipgs and
the next highest eighteen.
"A woman. was found in Philadelphia on
Christmas dying of hunger after childbirth
assistance having been refused at the office
OF the Visitors of the Poor.
Gov. Colquit of Georgia is \ jealous
Baptist, aud breaches every Sunday to the
negroes IN his employ. none of whom,
we presume, ever catL quit on him.
"A man named Thomas III. Logan was
found frozen to death in the woods near
Gettysburg on last Saturday. He was a
native of Bedford, and 40 years old.
Oakland and San Jose, California,
must be delightful places Of residence at
this season of the year. Roses, lilies and
geraniums are now in full bloom there.
DR.. Evans, an American dentist in
Paris is now the marquis d'Oyley of the
Holy Roman Empire" the title having
been conferred upon him by his Holiness
Pope Plus TX.
1t now turns out that no minutes of
the secret sessions of the Louisiana Re-
turning Board were kept at ali. The ras-
ality was too infamous to lie reduced to
black and white.
Captain Boyton recently accomplished
the task of swimming down the river Po
from Turin to Ferrara, a distance of eight
out a single stoppage.
"A new industry has sprung mp at War
rem. Swede named 4. Jonassen has in
vented tobacco pipe with a folding stem
which can be carried in the pocket. He
manufactures at that place.
In consequence OF the late defalcations
in the money order department of the
Pittsburgh post office there are rumors of
the impending removal of Postmaster
NPuleV Ex-Sanatnr nd ic aad
as his probable successor.
AT Augusta, KY, on Thursday, seven
young men, all unknown, while on the ice
in the Ohio at that point, were suddenly
drowned by the breaking of gorge.
Three bodies were recovered. They all
belonged to Utopia, Ohio.
Mrs. Mary Cook, venerable lady,
died in Lock Haven, on the Sth inst, at the
remarkable age of 90 years, month and
Is days. She was born in Philadelphia,
| Oct. 23, III, and with her parents re-
| moved to northumberland county In 1871.
The Chicago Times says that the day
OF ich Congress settles the Presidential
| question is st. Valentines Day. The otl-
dess of Liberty isn't going to have a mar
ried man for a valentine. She wants a
gay, young bachelor buck like Samuel J.
"A negro eloped and married a white
| girl in Campbell county, Ky, and officers
two of his pursuers, and tried to shoot his
! wife's father and brother. That night he
| was found dead with six bnllet wounds in
his body.
Our cousin Samuel is proving himself
the right man in the right place. and he is
being duly praised therefor. The New
York Sun says of him ''It is proper al
this crisis TO state that as Speaker of tine
House of Representatives, Sam Randall is
n decided success
The Tuscaloosa Times says that .here
Is on exhibition i'm Marion, Alabama, a
child born of negro parents, whose body is
one-half white and the other half black
The white portions are white as alabaster,
the dark part black as the ace of spades
one-half of the scalp and hair is perfectly
white.
John 4. Child was Superintendent OF
n Methodist Sunday school in Indianapolis
PRESIDENT OF an insurance company. aud a
large owner OF property. These facts are
interesting in connection with the other
fact that he has just deserted his wife tC
elopc with his niece, who is a married
woman.
The Venango Spectator SAYS: The
handsomest Christmas present we have
heard OF in this neighborhood was received
| by young married woman i'm this city.
| Her father, who is the fortunate owner OF a
v.
check for five Thousand dollars, which was
duly received on Monday.
The resignation of Postmaster Negley,
OF pittsburgh, has been received. George
! a. Anderson, formerly State Senator from
| Allegheny, will be nominated when tho
I Senate meets. Negley'ssureties have been
/ found to be insolvent. and it is probab le
! that the government will lose nearly $S, o0C
10y his clerks defalcation.
| ON New Naar'S ava fl,aro ,,oo,,
| snow fall in the Gulf States Two feet ol
snow fell at Holly Springs, Mississippi
! fourteen inches at Jackson and Vicksburg
a foot at Shreveport and Monroe, Louisi
ana, and four inches at Oyska, delaying
trains, breaking telegraph wires and in
! terrupting communication.
"A hundred persons killed at Ashtabula
Ten thousand dollars damage for each lf,
/ lost would not be too much, and this i.
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