The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-12-19
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Z wager.
Pittsburgh claims the youngest coun-
! Gilman in the United States. lie has just
( turned twCnty-One.
Asher Shaver of Luzerue county, re-
+ Gently robbed his father of $500 and ran
= away with a fast female.
/ Senator Sumner refuses to act on any
( of the Senate Committees because he Is
put on the tail erd of them.
David Story, a saloon keeper or the
outskirts of Hazelton, Pa, was murdered
on Saturday night. Eight suspected per
sons have been arrested.
An engraver in Springfield, Mass, has
cut the Lords Prayer into piece of cop
/ per less than one-fourth the size of a silver
! three-cent piece, and there Is room IN the
circle for fifteen or twenty words more.
/ There is woman in Iowa who, al
Z though possessed of the usual organ OF
speech, has not spoken for five years.
| Under state of religious infatuatlon she
made an oath that she never would speak
more, and has so far kept her word
Salt Lake witnessed q horrible specta-
Gle on Saturday-the downfall of 4 French
/ tight-rope walker who was attempting to
, cross from the top of theatre to private
building on the opposite side of the street.
He received injuries that are presumed to
be fatal
The La Crosse CWis.) Democrat says
that curiosity, in the form of an Indian
woman eighty-ffve yelrs old and thirty-six
inches high, is on exhibition in that olty.
She belongs to the Chippewa tribe, and
lives about fifteen miles from Ashland,
( Lake Superior.
The Bender family, charged with Il
number of murders in Kansas were arrest
ed in Biningsville, Spartanburg county, ).
c., few days ago. The father and moth
Ell are i'll custody, and the son and daugh-
ter, living in North Carolina, are being
sought after. The family name is Webb.
AT Carbondale, H., on Saturday, John
NJ. Brush, an old and esteemed army tele-
grapher while registering his name at the
Planters Hotel, accidentally spilled some
ink on the register. This provoked the
anger of the clerk and the proprietor, re-
sulting in the latter instantly killing Brush.
u "A woman with a baby, on the Lacka-
wanna and Bloomsbury train on Tuesday,
finding that the car she was in had left
the track, and fearing a general smash-up,
threw the child out of the window. The
child struck upon its head and died soon
after. The train was stopped before any
damage was done.
A dispatch from Sheffield, Eng, says
the city was visited on Tuesday last by a
terrible storm. A large number of build
ings and chimneys were blown down, and
many persons killed. One immense chin
ney crushed a building and boiler house
wOunding several persons.
The Albany Journal warns lovers of
buckwheat cakes that there is an injurious
syrup in the market called the golden
drip made from common starch, sulphU-
ric acid, etc. Its impure character can
be detected by pouring a small quantity
into little strong tea. which it immedi-
atcly turns as black as ink.
The ship Arabia, from Calcutta for
Boston, has f0undered at sea. No date is
given, but it occurred IN latitude 2S North,
longitude SO West. Part of the crew have
been landed at Gravesend, England, from
the bark Tropic, from Kingston, Jamaica,
which vessel rescued them. The remain
der Of the crew, thirteen in number, were
drowned while bailing.
The albany Journal says: General
W. a. G. Ryan, who met his death at the
massacre in Cuba by the Spanish a short
time since, was engaged to be married to
Miss Gebhard, daughter Of a prominent
citizen Of ScbOhGTie county, and q very
amiabie aud accomplished young lady.
The nuptisls were to have been celebrated
on Thanksgiving day"
Near Knoxville, Tenn, 1t is said there
is a mule which has been but one time out
side of its stable III twenty years, and then
it was taken out by the soldiers during the
war. and as they could not use the animal,
it was Immediately replaced. 1t is said
that its hoofs have grown to the length of
about II inches, turning up at the ends,
while its name reaches to the ground.
A fire in Modoc city, Pa, in the cen
tire of the Butler oil district, Friday morn
ing last, destroyed about ene-fourth of the
town Elsasser in whose store the fire or
iginated, was mobbed by crowd of des-
perate men with a rope, and escaped hang
ing only by his tears and protests of inuo-
cenCe. There is the greatest excitement
IN the town, and ElSaSser has hid himself.
Marshal BazajTe was married IN the
city of Mexico June 2S 1885, when he
was united to Senorita Doua Josefa Rena
Azcarate. The civil marriage was per
/, formed by the Intendent of the city, after
) which the Archbishop pronounced bless,
ing on the happy couple. Macmillan and
CarlOtta acting as YadTiH0S The bride
was lady Of great wealth and beauty,
though she was said to be the daughter oi
= a brigand.
An interesting and perhaps bitter con-
troversy Is in prospect between the officers
: of the Vile du HavTe and the Loeb Earn
, III regard to the cowardice ana iucompe-
tency which is alleged by the latter against
the former. Captain SurmOut has pub.
, Hshed in Paris card of indignant denial
IN reply to the statements of the English
captain. The official investigation which
is to be instituted will probably clear up
the question.
. The Irish emigrants in America have
forwarded to Ireland during the past twen-
ty-one years sums OF money aggregating
more than was raised in Ireland by tax foI
r the relief ofthe poor by Ct, $50, 900 sterling:
and yet the Irish aristocrats and squireens
are continually crying out against their
legal liability to support the poor. The
charity of the Irish-American emigrants
should put their nobility to the blush, if il
, is capable of blushing. The fact of the
; amount of the remittances is published in
, English official returns, prepared for the
use of Parliament.
+ The New York Herald says: Salary
F stealing is of piece with the other corrup-
tlons in which Republican rule has been
so fertile, and the Republican party has
not rejected the thieves, even when CAUGHT
and known. 1t accepts them all, and must
| accept it own the odimm of fhnir 80