The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-05-25

Monday the 18th, Pope Plus *. entered
upon the eighty first year of his age. and in
FIVE weeks he will celebrate the twenty y-sik th
anniversary Of his Pontificate. No Pope has
reigned so many years consecutively, nor tra-
versed so many political and social changes
aud revolutions.
A frail young woman in Lebanon ludi-
ana finding herself enciente. prepal ed a con-
siderable number of affidavits in bastardy
against prominent men of that town, and
then called around on her victims. Almost
all of them. altogether innocent Of any ille>
gitimate acquaintance with the young lady,
paid her a sum of money rather than have a
scandal. She has found the game so remu-
nerative that she will continue to prosecute
it.
The escaped nun" found nun to love in
St. Louis. She had hired hall and adver~
tised to lecture in that city, but the proprie-
tors of her about>to-be forum hearing lad
stories of her from St. Paul and Mnneap-
oils, changed their minds, and Edith'S reci~
tai oil her convent experience was nipped in
the bud. She. however. and her husband :.
Professor Autfry. have sued the bold, bad
men in question in IS 600 damages.
The parade of the Cath olc societies at
Dayton. g.. on Sunday last. in the celebra>
ton Of Pentecost. was one of the most inn
| posing and magnificent pageants evey wit
messed there. The Catholic churches were
decorated with evergreens, and the papal
and United States flags waved from their
domes. The opera>house and many stores,
hotels and private residences were beautifully
| festooned with evergreens and flags. The e
we're more strangers than were ever before in
! that city.
! -Benjtmin w Healy, of the Rhode
Island Locomotive Works. was recently
! presented with a miniature locomotive
length twenty inches. otherwise properly
| proportional. male entirely IF GOLD aud
silver, weighing one hundred and seventy
six ounces. and worth $500. Every part,
in the smalles: detail. is perfect, even to the
! engineer and fireman, cast in silver 1t is
! placed on a large music box, and when the
music box. is put in motion the machinery
/ also goes into action.
During the terrific rain storm which
! passed over Northwestern Iowa and Dakota
on the night of the 18th. a huge water spout
| descended to the earth. striking a few mics
! from White Swan, Dakota, and covering the
/ ground for great distance around with
water to the depth of eight to thirty feet
! Fortunately, it did not strike in the Yituitv
! OF any settlement, and nobody was injured
/ but considerable stock was lost, and the
/ Mississippi telegraph line vas demolished
| for great distance and covered with earth
and uprooteG trees.
"A fire broke out on Sunday night last
in the six-story building on d ,ck stree,
near Third. Philadelphia. built by DR..
Jayne. and adjoining his building recently
! burned. The building WAS occupied by
Leisenring's large printing establishment. a
number Of book binders. ETC.. and was totally
/ destroyed. The five story brown stone build
/ ing ali dj'iniug, occupied by the Commercial
LiSi newspaper. was crushed by falling
wall and entirely destroyed. Jayue's build
! ing " as for several years used as the Phila-
delphia Postoffice, and for some years for
/ exhibitions of the franklin Institute 1t
was one of the haadSomcst granite buildings
in the city.