The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-07-03
NEWS AND OTHER SOTINGS.

sent anywhere where the 2cent rate now
carries haIf-ouncs letters,
Sixty thousand canaries are sold every
year in New York. 4 1000 Goldfnches, 5000
parrots. 1900 cardinals, 1000 mockIne-
birds, 500 birds OF paradise, and Hnnets,
larks. robins, catbirds. etc, making an an
nual trade Of $3.50 900.
The cost OF the stationery to be sup
piled for the use of the Interior Department
during the next fiscal year will be s47. .se1. a
reduction Of over $40 600 as compared with
the expenditure for the same purpose this
year.
-HOratio Seymour has many historical
relics When he wants he can sit in a chair
that belonged to Daniel Webster, look out OF
r window which was once in Faneufl Hail.
and warm his feet at fireplace OF tiles ta-
ken from the house Of John Jay az Albany.
Michael Padden, of Newton township,
LackawanBa county, on Friday last sep
arated George Reed and Michael Finn, who
were fiRhing. Soon sfterward, while Pad
den's back was turned, Reed plunged a
knife into him, inficting injuries which will
prove fatal.
The attempt of the Republican mana
gers in West Virginia to run the Probibi-
tion party ss Republican side show has
failed. The Prohibitionists have resolved TO
carry on the battle in that State ss third
party, and nominate candidates OF their
own.
1t is said the third costliest building in
the world is the New York State Capitol.
Started under a legislative limits tIon OF "a
600, 900, it has already cost nearly SIS, 900, =
fho
ing at Washington. Six OF seven millions
mope will be required to fiuish it.
There are 10000, 900 fowls in Great
Britain and ireland, and 8 OOO. 600 turkeys,
ducks and geese The home supply for con-
sumption is estimated at 5000, 900 chickens
and 100000, 600 eggs, while the importation
OF eggs in 1888 was $40 OOO, 900. making
EnRland's egg DILL alone more than $31,-
600 600.
james Gilman, boy Is years old, em-
ployed at the Hotel Lincoln, Cleveland,
Ohio, was caught in the elevator on Friday
morning and friRhtfuIly mangIed His
| tongue was cut in two, his nose cot off, and
his face and head terribly crushed. Physi.
clans say he cannot recover, as his neck il
dislOcated.
Mr.. LOwelPs asserti0nsthat there is moth.
ing but English blood in his veins has led
John Boyle O'Reilly to investigate the sub
/ ject and it is now announced that "Dr
| Charles Lowell married Harriet Spence, a
native Of Portsmouth, n H, belonging to q
Scotch family, descended perhaps from Sir
/ Patrick Spens, celebrated in the old ballad >
/ The strongest wood In the United States
| Is that Of the nutmeg hickory of the Arkan
/ sss region, and the weakest the Vast Indiar
birch. The most elastic is the tamarsek
the white or sheI5ark hickory standing fai
/ below it in this respect. The highest spe
cific gravity, upon which in general depend:
value as fuel, is attained by the blue wood
/ OF Texas.
/ The experts who have been inyestiga-
ting the affairs OF the Shackamaxon, Phila
delphia, Bank hope to be abe to file state
ment Of its assets and liabilities in the Con.
| mou Pleas Court to-day They have found
| that the amount due depositors Is abou
S62l coo, while the entire assets are opl,
S45S, 600. The sum OF s15s, 600 is not &C
Counted for
AT many places in Texas, where the ne
Rroes celebrated their Emancipation festiva
last week, the whites co-operated with tn
coiored men, and the celebration was .mor
general thar ever before. And this in tn
banner Democratic State of the South, an,
under the first Democratic President sine
slavery ceased to be The race problem
Seems in very fair way for solution.
The situation at the CHEYENNE Indiar
/ Agency looks critical, and the officers, EN-
ployes and traders are liable to De attacke
by the infuriatsd Cbeyennes at any nIomeB,
The Indians are drilling daily in IepuIa
warlike form. The arrival of the troop
under Sumner only seems to have stirred III
the indians, who put out extra spies in a
directions.
AT Ashley, LuZeTne county, school boy
bad dug into a sand bank, leaving an over
hanging ledge ten feet long On Monda
evening five boys we're standing under tn
ledge when it suddenly fell. Three escape
and one was rescued in a few minutes uu
conscious. The other boy, Francis McCor
mick. was under the earth half an hour, an
was dead when dug out
1t pleases the covert eumies of tn
Cleveland Administration to put into circu
lation stories of Cabinet dissersions wbtc
nhu ready credence among persons wh
nave oeen taught to believe i'm Democrat
lncapacity. But the stories are impuden
hetIons. Mr.. Cleveland and lis Cabinet ar
working together with great sInpleDess O
purpose. The Administration is steadp
gaining public confidence.
-Ex-Judge Timothy O'Connor. OF Cir
cin natl, has sued Judge Fitzgerald. OF IN
Police Court for $50, 900 for language use
on the bench censuring O'Connor. A woma,
was on trial for keeping a dsorderly hous
aud Judge Fitzgerald, being Informed tha
Judge O'CoDnOr owned the building oecu
pied by the female, made use OF hard Ian
RuSage regarding owners who rented pror
erty to that class of people
-CoL Snow0en. the retiring superiptend
ent of the Philadelphia Mint. and Daniel \,
Fox ms successor. are engaged In copntin
the treasures stored in the Chestnut stree
establishment. The purpose is to familariz
'he ne" incumbent with the workings an
contents of the institution. The vaults a
the Mint eontein about $50. 900 900 in goJ
bars and $4,000 900 in silver. A week Wi
be occupied in counting them.
Henry G. Bernhard, for number n
years keeper of .. saloon in Baltimore O,
Friday last, had pleasant conversatio,
with his wife at their home in South RaItt
more, and kissed her as she went dow,
stairs to attend to her domestic duties. Sev
eral hours after, seeing nothing of her bus
oaud, she returned 90 her chamber an,
round him hanging by the neck from TN
transom frame over the door he had bee,
respondent caused by inability to rais
money to pay taxes on his nroDa-tr