The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-07-18
Nems ana Foi.ticcI Heps.

Jeff Davis was in Baltimore the other
6av. What do you propose TO do about 1t? .
There is n promise of cardinals hats
for Archbishop Manning, of England, and
for two American Archbishops.
A couple were married while sitting
in a buggy in front of a parsonage, IN the +
lower end of Clarion county. recently.
Hon. Asa Packer has donated to the .
Lehigh University fifty-siX acres OF land, +,
and one million dollars to build and endow
it.
John F. ConneH is in Jail in Titus I
vile. under charge of having committed
brutal outrage upon little six year old
1T is reported that Prince Fred Grant
is about to we'd Miss Dunlavy, whose pa
is an Ohio Judge, and is said to be distress
ingly wealthy.
Imitation meerschaum pipes are now
made out of potatoes soaked in diluted sui
phuric acid, and afterward dried under
great pressure.
Rev. E. o. Forney, pastor Of Church
of the Ascension, Norristown, has, In world
ly parlance, ''gone ouer to Rome me'-joined
the Catholic Church.
Mrs. Eliza Colbron, of Elmira, has
given birth to twenty-one children in che
last eighteen years. She might be called
literally fertile Lizer.
Last Sunday, at Shiloh church, near
Hopkinsville, KY, Mrs. Emily Owen drop
ped dead at the altar, while in the act of
partaking of communion.
Frank Walworth, who was sentenced
to Imprisonment for life. is now employed
in the private Office of the clerk of the sEoe
department in Sing Sing prison.
William Turner. Of Julian Furnace,
Centre county. a farmer, hung himself in
the barn, last Thursday. No cause known.
He was we'll to do and highly respected.
One Of the farmers girl, Of the period,
Miss /. McCTory, Of Frauklin, Fayette CO.,
has cut her fathers entire crop Of wheat
with a team of horses and buckeye reaper.
A robust elderly gentleman of North
Newbury. Ne, has had a handsome mon
ument erected to the memory Of himself
and his still living wife, leaving the dates
of death blank.
George r. Roberts, Second Vice Pres
ident Of the Pennsylvania Railroad, VIII
be in executive charge during the absence
OF President Thomson and Vice President
Scott i'll Europe.
This striking obituary notice is said
TO have been published on the death OF q
/ Western Congressman ''IIe returned his
( back pay to the Treasury, and met his God
with clear conscieUce.'
A rat guawed off the fingers of sleep
ing cLiid, III Washington township, BeIks
county, one night last week, and it was
only after desperate effort that it could
be driven from the room.
"A daughter Of Owen Giulley, of Scran-
ton, was bitten by a Tattlesnake on We'd
nesday While picking berries. The girl
died the same night from the poison in
Oculated into her system.
-Wm. f. Udderzook. charged with the
murder of strange mIu near JennervIlIe,
/ Chester county, Ea., was arrested in Bal
timOre on Tuesday morning last and taken
back to Chester county for trial.
In digging we'll in White Plains. Ne
Vada, recently. stream Of water of boiling
heat was reached at 4 depth of eighty-two
feet This Is probably the first artificial
well of boiling water ever made.
An exchange says: ~ St. Louis
beauty, just twenty-five, was married TO
her fifth husband on Tuesday. An of the
gentlemen survive. The first four are doing
WE'LL Better, probably, than number five.
Brigham Young's land of promise for
the MOrmonS, Arizona, has proved a mock
cry, detuSIon and snare. They are
hOmeward bound to salt Lake, wiser and
sadder men and women than when they
left there.
An English newspaper mentions that
a husband and wife recently set sail from
Derby for Glasgow, Scotland, on the way
TO Edinburgh. the wife having on her knee
her thirty third baby. .Twenry-four of the
. thiTty-thIee are syill living.
There were no disturbances ON Satur-
day last on account Of the celebration Of
the battle of the Boyue. The professions
which occurred in a number OF cities iu
this country and Ireland, were unmolested,
and the observance passed OF quietly.
Chester county furnishes a mysterious
murder as its quota To the sensational cur
rent literature OF the day. y young mau
from Baltimore, travelling agent for mer-
camille house there. but name unknown.
was the victim, and it Is supposed he was
murdered for pluuder.
The trial Of the Nod1cs is over. and
/ the only item Of information elected more
than was known before the capture Of
I Jack and his companions Is, that the mas
/ sacre was planned the night before IL oc-
CURED. That the four Indians on trial
will be condemned is entirely certain.
I "A special from keOkuk S.lys a terrible
& murder was committed there on Saturday
night. Dennis HAYS and his wife Got into
a quarrel, when the latter assisted bv her
son, boy of sixteen by a former husband.
set upon Hayes, and with a club beat him
over the head. factuTiug his skull in seve-
. raj places and killing him.
/ "A most singular occurrence took place
a few weeks ago IN Beaver township. Clar-
. ION county. W hen the oil well on the
! heiser farm struck a heavy vein of water
/ on the second sand rock. the varer wells
al the residence Of John c. NendeubaU
and j. +. kribbs, Esqs., at Edenburo-
/ half a mile dlstaRt-buth went drv.
The Hon. John Bigelow. recently 70
turned from Europe, secured while ihere
the original manuscript autobiography of
Franklin, written by the philosoD6er's
own hand, together with a portrait Of the
distinguished man. The manuscript and
picture were in the hands of descendants
OF the DupieSsIs family. and cost s., 900.
The citizens of GAINESVILLE. Wis. ac-
cording to local paper, We're recently as
tonished by observing the frogs of the vicin-
lty leaving their cool retreats amonc, the
marshes and swamps, and start across the
/ country III northwesteIly direction. head
ed by band, evidently chosen on account
OF the strength of their lungs. One ..relia-
Die eye witness estimated the frogs at ten
thousand to the acre.