The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-04-20
News Of the Week.

TIfin Ohio. on Saturday.
"A Chattanooga negro showed the depth
of his affection by 5urying his wife alive.
Isaac Poe, of Cape Girardsau, aged IS
years. has just been made a happy father.
The amount paid unsuccessful contes-
tants of seats in last Congress was $ll3, 900.
-'Boston" Corbstt. who shot Wilkes
Booth. died day or two ago in Troy,
where he resided.
-Hartranft is briefly described az the man
who borrowed seven thousand dollars from
George w. EvaEs''
"A blind woman. entirely alone. Is slowly
feeling her way to California. She passed
through Kansas CITY last week.
The bar of ST. Louis, Mo-. have resolved
to wear gowns. This will facilitate the ad
mission Of ladies to practice at that bar.
Three men aud two women are in
Williansport Jail. charged with robbing the
Muncy Insurance Company. two weeks ago.
-Thirty>fCnr horses were burned up in
Phi adelphia on the 4rh inst, in a stable
belonging to the knicksrbocksr Ice Cum-
Pany.
Lawrence county has bonded debt
of three hundred and thirtv-thrse thousand
dollars ($333 .O0O). and gives / 200 Radical
majority.
A father and SOD. living in the same
house, at Branford, Conn, each brought
home new wife one day last week. neither
OF them being aware Of tho others inten-
tions.
"A Paris shopkeeper lately fixed over
his door notice that as his daughter had
''nade splendid MATCH" no would sell
goods at a reduction of 25 per cent for a
week.
"A tree has been cut down In Warren
county which measured eighteen feet in cir
cum!erence five feet from the stump. The
:roe is believed to be the largest in the
State.
The most stupendous canal in the " orld
is one in China, which passes over two
thousand miles. and to forty-two cities; it
century.
-In an Illinois village the colored Bap>
lists and Meth, dsts recently INDUCED in a
baptizing match for ths championship-
The former flock produced the largest mum
Der of converts. but tho Methodist fell back
| on some Of the old members, and came out
ahead.
"A lady Of Boston, seeing among the re
lgious notices that a certain clergyman
would preach ID. "" raid at once that she
would so ana hear him, presuminE. as she
did. that the subject Of the discourse was
dolly Vardsns."
"A negro pauper of Warrington county
known as Old Jake aged ITO years. died
recently. Deceased had been slave of enc
Crawford. who was hung in 1923 for the
murder of his son.
The Philadelphia Evening Herald says,
''it is understood that Hon. Chas. K. Buck
! alsw favors the nomination Of General George
w. Cass for Governor" That ID a mistake.
Mr.. Buckslew does no such thing.
Que day last week lady residing on
Law alley, above Linden street, Allentown.
! gave birth to child having hand entirely
| Engsrless. Otherwise the baby, a boy, is
perfectly formed. stout and healthy.
The New York Sun thinks that while
the Administration is bossting Of making
payments on the public debs. it might im,
prove on the matter and tell about paying
some Of the CLAIM two or three times.
Charles Blake, James Callahan and
Z iward Carney, were terribly crushed while
unloading cargo of sand from a vessel at
Charleston. Mass. by a car load upsetting
upon them. Callahan will probably die.
Edward Scuil. placed on the list of dee
gates to the Philadelphia Convention BY the
Cameron Ring" faction, will nst accept the
position Scull is a wise man. He does no,
wish to be buried beneath the dirty ruins.
The boiler on the Steamer Oceanus sx-
ploded on the Mississippi river. about thirty
miles above Cairo, ILL.,. on the afternoon
| of the 18th, killing and drowning about
eighty out Of one hundred passengers on
board.
The Bloomsbury Columbian says that 9
son of Mai IT Andrew Creveling recently cut
down an oak tree on his property. just above
Bloom, which was 333 years old. having that
number Of coucentric rings, denotiug annual
growth.
DR.. VIM. Hewer, an English missr. ag.G
81 years. was found dead in bis room OF
Dupont street. San Francisco. on Sunday
last. His room had not been swept for four.
teen years. and in it were found eI2. 900 in
English money.
On tho 14th at Red Bluffs, California
one Pearse shot through the window of
house Of il-iams and killed Nellis Brook.
and wounded man with her named Per,
kins. who in turn shot Psarse dead. Per
! L kina arrSstsd.
An Iowa woman lost her thimble las
| November, and on Palm Sunday found il
in her stocking. She would not have found
it then had she not mistaken the day, and
under the impression it was Easter made
her annual change of hose.
AT the ruins of the Malt House in tbs
Chicago burned district, the workneD came
| upoa some smouldering material which burst
into flames on coming into contact with the
air. Such occurrences are fir, quen:, showing
the existence Of frs among tho ruins for over
six months.
The Bucks County Intelligencsr says
DR.. A. M. Dckis. of Dysrstown. reports
that his flock of twenty two white Lsghorn
hens, during the three months ending on the
lst of April, laid 1898 eggs. They wsrs
all Matched late in the season. some Of them
in the month Of August.
The late Sara c. Lewis, spiDster, ot
Braiutree. Mass. by her will gives to one
Elizabeth j. Joseiyn the use OF house and
land as long as she loves, honors and cher
ishes the cats said spinster left. On the
death of. not Miss Josayn. but the cats, the
property goes to the Universalst Society
The mansion in which the famous
Nathan murder occurred at New York re>
mains to this day just as it was or the night
of that event. The bloOd-stained carpet has
beeu taken up but the deem stains which