The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-31
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Yercs and Pot.ticat Items.


-Four dogs i'm West Eradford township,
Chester county, killed sixty-folIr sheep IN
three nights.
-There is a vineyard in Alsace twp,
one mile from Reading, containing six
teen tons Of Clinton grapes.
Judge Hanna, of Lock Haven, died
few days ago aged eighty-nine years. de
was the father of fifteen children.
-Jno. c. Heenan, the prize fighter died
on Saturday morning, near Rawlins, L. z.
r. r., while on his way to San Francisco,
of consumption.
Two children of R. w. Corwine, liv-
ing near Carbondale, H., fell into a tub of
boiling water on Wednesday evening One
died and the other cannot recover.
Rats attacked little child of Stephen
Mccormick, of Butler, few days ago,
during the absence of its parents, and
stripped the flesh from one of its hands.
The Scranton Times of Saturday men
tions peculiar throat disease in Luzerne
county, which has proved fatal to upwards
of 60 children within the space Of fort
night.
Prof Lay went up in a balloon at San
Francisco on Saturday together with a jus
tice of the peace and a woman. The lat
ter and the professor were made one above
the clouds.
D. J. Lear was convicted at Cumber-
land, Maryland, on Friday last, of rape on
the little girl Mary Bacon. The penalty
of the crime III Maryland is death or i'm
prisonment for twenty years.
The citizens of Lebanon have deter
mined to assist one another in meeting the
financial crisis by putting money in the
banks rather than drawing II out. They
will also exercise a generous forbearance
towards all debtors.
AT Titusyille, on Saturday morning, a
young man named Newton accidentally
shot his sister, a girl of seventeen. through
the forehead, causing instant death. The
weapon was a shotgun, which he was not
aware was loaded.
-knOther Southern city appeals for aid,
stricken not by fever but by storm. Apa-
/ lachicola, Florida, has lost $3.50, 900 by the
tornado, and Is unable to replace one-tenth
/ part IF it. Half the business portion Of
/ the Town is IN ruins.
| George " olf wealthy farmer resi-
! ding three miles from HopkinSville, Ky,
was assassinated in bis bed last WedueS-
/ day night. Mr.. Wolf was fifty-three years
/ old, aud had recently married a young wife,
/ with when he lived unhappily.
The Brady's Bend iron works. Of Bra
/ dy's Bend, Armstrong county, which gave
employment to GOO men and which works
comprise four blast furnaces cOSl banks,
etc, have succumbed TO the financial pres
sure and have ceased operations.
Since the 18th of June last, two thou
sand four hundred ard seventeen miles of
new railway postal service has been put in
operation, making the total of siXty-fiye
/ thousand six hundred and eighty-six miles
of such service in the United States.
Hannah Mitchell. n Welsh girl. died
from exposure at Mt. Carbon, SchuylkiH
county, on Thursday. As she had led an
abandoned life no cemetery had been found
on Saturday il which she was permitted
to be buried. Humanity, thou art a jewel.
-Horatio Seymour. who was nominated
by the Democrats of Oneida county, New
York, for the Legislature, has declined to
he & candidate. Mr. Seymour seems to
have cast away any intention of future
political preferment, and accepts the quiet
Of his Utica residence rather than the tur-
moil Of Albany.
Geo. Yocum, Esq, aged 36, of the law
firm of Bush & GCcum, BcllefOntC, acci-
dentally shot himself while hunting near
Three Springs. Clearield county, on Mon
day last. After being shot he walked and
rode in a wagan to SinamahOning, about
twelve miles, from whence he was taken TO
/ Lock Haven, where he died on Tuesday
morning.
/ "A dispatch from Forest. Canada, says
a man, woman and child, with tickets from
/ Chicago to Brockville. got off the train
/ there on Friday, alleging that there we're
/ parties on board who wanted to kill them.
! They then went to hotel, and later in
/ the day the three jumped into a deep pool
! Of water. The man and child were drown
| ed, but the woman was saved.
AT a meeting Of the iron nanufactur-
J ers of Sharon held recently, It was deci-
ded to pay their employees in notes. paya-
ble four months from the date of pay day,
bearing interest, some at six, and others at
eight per cent. Owing to the scarcity of
; currency, this action was deemed necessa-
ry, and it Is reported that the measure
gives satisfaction to all concerned.
-Paricide Is regarded as a serious mis-
/ demcanOT in Massachusetts. One Eldridge
/ Wixon, of West Harwick. in that State,
has been found guilty of manslaughter, in
killing his father, and sentenced to ''seven
years in the State prison, one day of which
to be solitary confinement" After such a
severe punishment it is confidently believed
that he viii never kill his father again.
Two little girls named Levan were
drowned at Girardyille, on Monday night.
They were in a carriage returning from a
funeral, with their parents, when owing to
the darkness the carriage was precipitated
over the edge Of the road into the roaring,
swollen creek. The parents saved them
selves with great difficulty, but the little
ones were drowned. Mrs. Levan ha0 an
infant in her arms which was saved.
Last spring family named Shaw of
Washington county. \. y. were taken
suuoehly III, and poison was suspected.
/ The mother and several of the children
died, and one of the latter, who recovered.
/ IS almost an idiot. The evidence was strong
against the husband and father, and he
was arrested. His trial ended on Thurs
day with verdict of murder in the first
degree, and he is to be hanged Nov. 2Sth.
The jury in the Kelsey case have re-
/ turned verdict that the remains found in
/ Oyster Bay were those of Charles G.. Kel-
! sey, and that he came to his death at the
1 hands OF persons unknown. But several
/ persons whose names have been mentioned
! IN connection with his case are declared
/ accessories to the murder. Great excite
ment attended the announcement of the
/ verdict and several of the implicated par
/ ties have fed.
! John Mclaughlin, aged 80, was muir