The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-01-30
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Chicago by the commonest solt Vi soou-
for-nOthings.
"A school-housei in Chester county, Pa,
is salubriously situated in an abandoned
graveyard.
One thousand men have been discharg-
cd from the Brooklyn Navy Yard during
the past week.
Griffin, Ca, lately received cards for
the wedding of a lady of sixty anda blush
ing bridegroom of twenty-one.
-Waynesboro, Pa, boasts a haunted
distillery which is just the place where
one would naturally look for spirits.
The City of Middletown opens the Con
necticut campaign by giving PIP majority
for Democratic Mayor, the first of that
stripe elected in fourteen years.
The reader is at liberty to believe it
or not, as he pleases, that peach tree IN
Missouri, being transplanted to new soil,
has taken to producing white plums.
Oxford, Mass, is spoken OF as the par
adise of old folks. In that quiet hamlet
there are 13O persons over 20 years old,
and 50 of these live within one mile of The
post office.
1T is claimed for Staurt Mace, young
man of Noulton, Iowa, that he is con-
structing the smallest steam engine i'll the
worl6 It's cylinder is to be the size of a
grain of wheat.
"A locomotive on the Grsenville rail
road exploded its boiler on SaturdaynIght,
sixty miles above Columbia, killing The en-
gneer, John Lane, and mortally wouuding
the colored fireman.
1t is better to be burned after one is
dead than burned to death. In Milwaukee,
lately the corpse of a woman named Mar
tells was burned to cinder, the candles
surrounding it being tOppled over.
John Foreman and Mrs. Snyder, the
Butler comfy Poisoners, were sentenced on
Saturday last-Foreman to four years and
eight months, and Mrs. Snyder to two
years and six months imprisonment.
1t has been ascertained almost to
certainty, that the man found drowned at
Harrisburg on the 18th insts was Patrick
Gallagher, peddle who disappeared from
Ridgway, Elk county, month or more
ago.
"A thousand men it is stated are out of
employment at Brady's Bend in conSe-
quence Of the failure Of the Brady's Bend
Iron Works. 4 great deal of suffering is
experienced by the families Of working
men.
A case of linked law long drawn out
is reported from Greenboro', Vt, where a
writ six feet in length by actual measure
ment was served the other day. 1t is not
mentioned how many officers it took to
serve it.
Three boys wero drowned in pond
at South Brooklyn on Saturday. \ sheet
of water was frozen over, and the lads
We're dsporting themselves on the ice,
when the latter broke and tho boys were
prccipitated into the water.
W lille a passenger train from Edin-
burgh for Glasgow, Scotland, was running
at a great speed, on Monday morning last,
it came in collision with another express
train. Sixteen persons were killed znd a
number severely injured, and several cars
demolished.
The two negroes who were accused of
the crime of numbering an old farmer
named Behm, near Middletown, in No
vcmber last, were yesterday found guilty
of murder in the first degree. Their trial
had been progressing for several days past
at Harrisburg.
Hon. Asa Packer narrowly escaped
serious injury last Monday evening at the
Bethlehem depot Of the North Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad. As he was stepping from =
car the repr rOf another train was backed
against it. lie was thrown down. but was
fortunately seized by a bystauder and
drawn out OF danger.
Miss Nellie Grants nuptial engage
meut is one of the leading topics of Wash
ingtOn society. 1t is reported that she
will marry in the spring a young Mr.. Sar-
tons, son of sister Of Fanny Kem0le. -
At the same time Col. Fred Grant will
At Box Hall, near Sittingbourne, in
England. some laborers while digging re-
Gently found Roman coffin, containing
few bones, a beautifully twisted wire gold
ring. and some wooden square headed nails.
The coffin was in tolerablv good condition.
The field in which it WAS found was at one
time Roman cemetery.
In PittstCn, Pa, a miner as he was
returning from work, was shot dead in the
l., l,,J
been waiting for him. Some half dozen
persons witnessed the cold blouded murder.
The assassin, revolver in hand, threatened
to shoot any one who interfered with him.
and made good his escape.
Two men named John Gallagher and
Thomas Jeffres met with a horrible death
on Thursday last, at No. s Colliery, near
Summit Hill, Pottsville. They were en-
gagged at the time in driving a gangway,
when at least twenty car loads of coal fell
upon them. They remained under the de-
bTis for several hours.
In Galveston, Texas, on Saturday. j.
Is. Helm was placed on trial for the mur-
der of John Ferguson. Owing to the alb
sence of important witnesses the proceed
ings were stayed, when sOn of the mur-
dered man approached the prisoner and
shot him through the head, killing him
Young Ferguson was taken
into custody
A sensation has been produced in
PIttston by marriage that recently took
place in a cemetery of thar place. The
parties are said 10 have come from New
l ork, and were married with their hands
joined across grave. 1t was rather sin
guiar matrimonial taste, but the parties of
course had a right to do it that way if they
wanted to, and nobody need object.
"A New York millionaire, by the name
OF James Costello laS HieI 1 La .
Slxty-t"ur without ever having learned to
read OF write. He could not sign his name
to his will, and had TO make his Y mark.
IL" was day laboTer at the start. He
leaves $2.5O0 to buy a burial lot. build A
vault and eIec: a monument to his mem
DRY. All the lest of his estate he leaves to
his wife.
Friday morning last three men went
ont npon the Niagara river, duck shooting.
helr boat was capsized by a sudden squall,
ana the men were thrown out. but gained
a tootlng on the ice, floating down the