The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-01-27
General News Itenas.

Seh6Ea1 NEWS Atek1Ss
Ten old women, widows all. are keep
ing hunse together at Pallnyra, n. Y.
"Imperisbaole paper coffins." the latest
device Of Yankee genius, are made al Nadi-
SOD, Conn.
Last week man named Ephrsim
Shearer as killed at the Beliefonte depot
by the cars running over him.
A New Haven Republican is said to have
refused to let his child be vacc!nated with
virus from democratic baby.
Five prisoners escaped from the Union
town Jail on Sunday evening last-am ng
them one charged with the crime Of murder
Alderman Lynch. of Pittsburgh. has
been sentenced to ten months in the pnbtc
workhouse for receiving bril- es while III
Office. Grants turn comes ntxr.
A bin is to be presented to the Senate.
making it ptnal offence OH the part Of any
Government official 10 receive q present Of
any kind. We hope it Will become n law.
The wife aud two clildIen of farmer
named Dowd, near Yernli'lon City .DAcotah,
perished during violent Storm Saturday
night while ehdeavoriEg to reach q neigLbor
ing farm. houte.
a false alarm of fire was raised In ST.
JOseph's chapel. Liverpool England, on
the doors, during which fifteen persons were
.ranipled to death.
The Bedford Gasetfe speaks of severe
storm passing over that place on Monday
week. Whole lines If fences were carried
away and barns entirely destroyed by the
fury nf the element.
1t is stated that the New York Tamma-
nyiteS have negotiated with james Gordon
Bennett for the pure hase of the Herald for
three million dollars. tho transfer to take
place Immediately after his death.
"A little daug ghter of George Ewing. of
Hendersonville Mercer county. WAS lately
burned to death by her clothes taking FIRE.
i'll the absence of her mother. Her clothes
were entirely burnt off, and her flesh burned
to criap.
"A letter from Mackinac. dated January
8, says that the bodies of six men. supposed
to be from the ill-fated brig Robert Burns.
foated ashore near the Sheboygan, Michigan
Light house. They were Gccom posed beyond
recognition.
General O'Neiil President Of the Fenian
Brotherhood, has called a Congress of that
organ ;zation, to meet at New York. on A pril
18th, to make final preparations for active
hostilities." The Savage wing is included
in the Invitation.
Some puctical genius has represented
the siivery moon reposing on the inky bo-
som of midnight. Pooh! We can beat that
all to smash by representing the colored Sen
ator from Mississippi an ebony breastpin
stuck IN the dirty Sbirt-bOsom of the nation
"A family which was residing in Lynn,
Mass, at last accounts. has. during the past
sixteen years, lived in sixteen different towns
and cities, and has occupied twenty eight diff
terent houses. During this moving period
the wife became the mother of eleven chill
dren.
"A young matron of Bridgeport. aged 10
years, recently made an addition to the cen
sus, with the assistance of her mother, aged
80, her grandmother, aged 6l. and her great
grandmother, aged 78, thus COMPRISING
five generations into the smallest com pass on
record
1t has been announced by telegraph that
a black Reve is one of the United States Sen
ators elect from the State Of Mississippi 1t
Is quite probable that in transcribing the
telegram. al. error was made in substituting
an for d. and the not being dotted
was mistaken for an e.
During an affray between Henry Doran
and Jefferson Lowe, at Uniontown, Pa, on
Saturday last, the former knocked the latter
down and kicked him on the head and
Stob PON uPOb linl' pIOiuCluB IL lUTies tn6t
caused his death in three quarters of sn
hour. Lowe is in custody.
Mr.. John Powell. a laboring man living
near Weisport in Carbon county, has fallen
heir to an immense estate, consisting of dwell
ing houses in Philadelphia. valuable coal
land and money amounting to seven millions
of dollars. Mr. Powell heretofore worked at
odd jobs. digging cellars, etc.
The Greenvile ArguS reports that a lii
tie girl, daughter of Mr. Thomas Young. of
Clarksvilie. was drowned in attempting 70
cross stream formed by the Overlooking of
Shenango river. A Miss Mcclure Witnessed
the sad occurrence, and nearly perished in
an attempt to save the little girl.
Two daughters of thrifty farmer in
Princeton, ILL.,, ,1b and II years old. comrle>
ted on Monday evening the task of walking
eighty miles within twenty cosecutive hours.
for prize of 500. They began ct O'Clock
in the morning. and finished at 8 2s in the
evening, having one hour and thirty y-seven
minutes to spare.
"A Pittsburg jury has brought in a yer.
dict of murder in the second degree'' apains,
Campbell, who recently, In cold blood NM.
dered his wife with dogged ferocity thar
the annals of crime never surpassed The
spectators Kissed the Jury and verdict and tbe
prosecuting attorney refused to take mn an
otner murder case set down for tria! at this
tenn. '"'S