The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-06-25
Kate NEWS ETE8Es

Mrs. Manton Marble, wife of the ed
itor Of the New York Worl3, is dead.
William Peters, a carpenter Of Allies
oheny, fell from cherry tree recently
and broke his neck.
/ Three bankers, two merchants and
one preacher were captured the other
/ night III ''bagni0'' in Allegheny city.
james Bolan and boy named
! Charles Waters, were drowned at the
mouth OF Sandy creek, in the Allegheny
river, on Monday week.
The largest raft ever known passed
down the Delaware, the other day, loaded
with 5000 railroad ties It was sixty
feet wide a1d 200 feet long.
"A girl named Jane Roberts, residing
in Allegheny city, committed suicide on
Sunday evening week, by hanging herself
in her fathers cellar. No cause assigned.
The blood stained planks taken from
the spot III Ottawa where d 'Arcy Mc&ee
fell, have been burnt, and the ashes sent
to Montreal to be deposited in his grave.
On Wednesday night, the heaviest
thunder storm ever known there, visited
Cincinnati and vicinity. Several houses
were struck by lightning, and eiehtysix
coal barges swept away.
There is growing upon the property
of Mr. Daniel East, in Colebrookdale
township, Berks county, veteran chest
nut tree, measuring, few feet above the
ground, seventeen feet in circumference.
An old man, named Seaborn Jones,
brutally assailed his step daughter, at
III 1nf ol nd off T1C
murdered an infant child of his own A
few days ago his body was found hanging
10 the same tree which served as the gal
lows for the murderer, Walker.
"A young man, twenty-five years Of
age, residing in Wilbraham, Massachu-
setts, boasts that he never drank a cup Of
tea or coffee IN his life, never smoked or
chewed, never tasted drop of liquor or
used a profane word, and says if he ever
told lie he never got caught in one.
On Wednesday evening a whisky
barrel, which had been standing in the
sun all day, in Cincinnati, exploded with
a loud report, and blew the head forty or
fifty feet into the air. 1t is supposed
that gasses generated in the barrel by the
action Of the sun caused the explosion.
Pope Plus y entered on his seventy
seventh year on The 25th ultimo. His
father died at eighty-four his mother,
the Countess Catharine. at eighty-two
his paternaE ancestor. Count Hercules, at
nirety-six his brother Gabrie. at eighty
seven his second brother at eighty-three
On Monday night week the wife of
the Rev. z. w Ish, of Springfield, Ohio,
dreamed that her brother had been killed
in saw mill at Northeast, Pa. She re-
lated her dream IN the morning and be-
fore night received a telegram informing
her Of his death in the manner described.
Near Lafayette, Indiana, a few days
since, during a violent storm OF rain and
wind, Mrs May and her two daughters
were passing through piece Of woodland,
when IA tree was blown down on them,
killing the mother and younger child i'm
mediaiely, and seriously injuring the other
one
valentine Steilcr and his wife, while
riding to New Albany, Indiana, to attend
market, on Tuesday morning, fell asleep,
and their blind horse fell over precipice
of sixty or eighty feet, taking with him
the wagon and It's sleeping freight. The
man and woman both recei terrible in
juries, their recorc~y from w!licn is doub
ful.
"A wonderfully formed child, born
near Pulaski. Tenn, is now on exhibition
in Nashville. Nature has furnished it
with four legs, four feet, twenty-one toes,
and but one body, being one child healthy
and symmetrical, down TO the hips, thence
down it is two distinct, well-deveIoped
muscle that belong to two persons.
The walking match of one hundred
miles for 81 900 and the championship Of
New England, between McEuerick and
L. 4. Scott, commenced on the 10th inst.
at Mystic Park, Boston, and resulted in
McEtterick's winning in 2l hours, min
utes, and A seconds, Scott gave out in
the 9Sth mile, having been 2 hours, 10
minutes, and 3 seconds in completing that
number of miles.
The PaPal Zouaves are to be recruits
ed in the United States because it is sup
posed Americans are acquainted with
Indian warfare, and will therefore be
more expert in tracking out and extermi~
mating the brigands that infest the domin~
ions Of the Pope, even in the vicinity Of
Rome, and defy all the troops that can
be sent out against them. Gen. Tevis,
we'll known Phiiadelphian, is to be the
colonel of the regiment raised IN this
country.
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