The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-05-22
Ne.Os and Pot.tscaI Items.


cigar in his mouth.
AT Wilkesbarre, John Fitzpatrick, a
miner, while drunk last Friday night, shot
his son dead. The murderer was arrested.
As an excuse for rejecting a widower,
a fair young damsel informed friend that
'.she did not want warmed over man"
1t is stated that Weston is to undertake
another pedestrian feat in June, having
realized $12, 900 by his walk in the rink
last week.
Great discoveries of quicksilver are re-
ported in Lake and Sonoma counties, Cal
ifornia. 1t il found in rock containing 90
per cent. ofsths real stuff.
&C. s. Jones and Oliver Hill, arrested
on suspicion of numbering Mr. Elliott, were
taken from the Shreveport Jail on Saturday
by body Of citizens and hanged.
Mrs. Seba Spicer, of Upton, Mo-, aged
seventy eight, recently employed a mason
to repair her chimney, and herself carried
all the mortar and brick up ladder.
"A dispatch from San Diego, California,
states that John Averind, wife, and four
children had been found murdered at q
house twelve miles from that city. No
clue to the murdersrs.
The Scranton Republican says fossil
lied horse has been discovered in stone
quarry in that city, sixty feet below the
surface. 1t is thought this horse discover
ed America before Columbus.
Weston brought his proposed five hun
dred mile walk to close on Saturday night
on the four hundred and thirtieth mile, at
11:59:14. The last mile was walked in
ten minutes and tifty-three seconds.
When you drop into prnyer-meeting
among the Chippewa Indians you will have
the pleasure of hearing them sing: Kew
etahuhyee uhyod keche munhe unhgom-
uhwug metah swok ubbs noje yug."
President Grant is now said to favor
the repeal of the legal tender act. This is
the basis of all true currency reform. Take
this mischisyous proposition from tho stat
ute book and it is in every mans power 10
bring his business to specie basis
The Roman Catholic Bishops of Glas-
gov, Scotland, and Hexham and Newcas-
tie, England, have applied to the Prussiar
Government FOR leave to visit the Arch bish-
op of Cologne in prison, but have been re-
fused.
The Roman Catholic priest who has
gone among the lepers of Moloki, in the
Sandwich Islands, and comforted and bap-
tized many of those unhappy outcaSts,
deserves to bear away the palm for true
Christian charity.
The dwelling house and barns belong
ing to Wallace Stevens in Bloomfield, Vt,
were burned on Friday. Two adopted
children of Mr.. Stevens, aged three and
five years, who were asleep in the room
where the fire originated, perished.
"A daughter of Mr.. George Bridge, of
Lewisburg, Union county, recently coughed
up large brass pin which she swallowed
about three years ago. During that time
she suffered from pain in the breast, but
experienced no other inconvenience from
the pin.
There is an elm eighty-four years old
and about six feet in diameter at Frank lin,
VI, and the man near whose house it
stands says that when he WAS a boy he
pulled it up, which made his father so mad
that he walloped him with it and then set
it out again.
The pedestrian Weston, after walking
115 miles on Monday, SO on Tuesday, 90
OH Wednesday, 6S on Thursday, and 81 on
Friday, failed to accomplish the task of
500 miles on Saturday by 70 miles. Thus
is another failure added to the long list al
ready achieved by Edward Paysom
Mr.. L. A. Simcox recently ran a raft
to Marietta, on the Susquehanna river,
which measured three hundred and thirty
three feet in length, and tventy-seveu and
a half feet in width. This excellent pilot,
one of the best, is sixty-eight years old and
stands six feet and five inches in his stock
Jugs.
The Reading Eagle announces that
the general depression of business through
out the country will cause the Wool Hat
Manufacturers Union Of the State to dis
continue all operations by the close of the
present week. Nearly a thousand people
will be thrown out of employment in that
vicinity.
The wife of John Bargland, of Scott
county, Mimi, aged fifteen, and married
but six weeks, died suddenly in Glencoe, it
is supposed from the effects Of poison taken
to produce abortion. She would have be-
come a mother in three months. The hus-
h nd has hna I
legged poisoning.
The town Of North Bridgewater
Mass, is greatly rejoiced at its change of
name, and hereafter is to be called Brock
ton. The first child born in the town
under the new name was to receive q pres
ent OF 500, and one came into the world
the very next day after the matter was
settled to claim the money.
Capt. Waite, who recently died at
Stamford, Conn, was famous man among
mariners III the days of sailing vessels He
was taken to sea when baby, and when
nineteen had command of q ship. He
crossed the Atlantic in sailing vessels more
than l6O times, though he was only sixty
nine years old when he died.
A flag of California silk, which be-
longed to the Senate of the United States
has turned up missing. 1t was loaned by
the Senate to the American commissioners
to the Vienna exhibition, to be returned at
the close of the exhibition. Senator Sar-
gent has offered resolution to ascertain
what has become of the flag and to.securs
its restoration.
Some days ago, at Vineland, n. J.,
Delaware Bay, about twenty miles away.
was plainly mlrrored in the sky, and sail
ing vessels and steamships were distinctly
seen and traced as they glided along. Even
the pulsations of the waves were visible,
the exhibition continuing for about three
quarters of an hour until the sun disap-
peared below the horizon.
ON Saturday the Catholic pilgrims To
the Shrine of our Lady of Lourdss, the
sanctuary at Paray lie Moneal and to Rome
left New York. Before leaving mass was
said at st. Patrick's Cathedral In the
morning Major Riley telegraphed to the
rope for his blessing on the pilgrims, and
shortly before the ship sailed the PapaI
blessing was received by cable.
The Visitation Convent, near Wash
ngton, which received last year Bertha
5erolt, the daughter of the iatsrRussian
to the United States, as one of ito |
protessed sisters, has within it's walls a
laughter of the Emperor Iturbide and a |
laughter of Gen. Scott A few weeks |