The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-12-25

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street, Philadelphia, whittier it had been
! taken, it is alleged, by the police from the
Women's Hospital on North Twelfth
street. The remains had been packed in
a trunk, the legs being pinioned behind.
/ Dr. Perpente, alias Dubois, said to be the
keeper of the Women's Hospital, has beer
arrested.
One of the most terrible mariue disas-
ters of the year now drawing to a close,
/ was the burning on Thursday last of the
| Pacific Mail steamship Japan, near Hong
! Kong, China. The particulars of the loss
! Of life have not yet been received, but il Is
feared that several hundred Chinese per-
| ished, as well as q number of Americans
and Europeans. The mails were entirely
destroyed.
The London Medical Record notices
the death of young man whe wagered
| that he would smoke twelve cigars within
two hours. At the end of the ninth he
grew dizzy. the symptoms becoming more
decided until the twelve were smoked.
He was then attacked with vomiting, which
continued until he died. An attack of
heart disease may have helped on .he fatal
consequences.
The Saginaw Mich Courier Of re-
cent date says: yesterday a woman was
observed bringing load OF wood into the
city-doing the drivers work, and unload
ing the sled. We have learned that the
children. She not only delivers the wood
but she chops and saws it, toc and thus
becomes .he support and reliance OF tho
whole family"
In Olean, N. Y, the peopie we're
gathered to witness the wedding of a young
lady of the village to a suitor from Cortland.
The appointed time passed, and, an hour
late, the bridegroom made his Appearance
in . shocking state of intoxicstion. Tho
ceremony was not performed, and that
night the offender was taken from the
hotel, tarred and feathered and carried out
of Olean on a rail-
A New York horticulturist sells Bald
win apples at $40 barrel Here is the
secret: Take a slip Of paper and cut chill
dren's names; then place the papers around
the apples when they begin to color, AND
in week or two Mamie, Jamie, Johnnie,
or Susie appears On the apples in large red
letters. These picked and barreled by
themselves, bring fancy prices for the New
York Christmas market.
The persecution of the Roman Catholic
converts in Tong King, China, has been
more disastrous than heretofore reported.
About 20, 600 persons have been killed or
driven to the mountains 300 churches
have been destroyed 300 villages contain
ing IA, 900 families, and ten convents of
Annamite nuns have been pillaged and
burned. The losses to the missions and
people are estimated at five millions Of dol
lars.
About 1 ZOO persons assembled at Car
son City, New, on Friday last, to witness
the execution of John Murphy, the muir
derer. All preparations were made, and
the doomed man was brought to the scat
fold by tho Sheriff, when, at I o'clock, a
reprieve postponing the execution until the
cath was received from Governor Bradley.
The reprieve WAS read to the crowd from
the scaffold, and received with prolonged
cheers.
A Fitchburg (Mass) conductor stop
pod his train, the other morning, FOR a wo-
man tho was rushing wildly afterlt. She
thanked him warmly, casually remarked
that she had forgotten to kiss her husband.
made good the omission, and then strolled
home again. The conductor sarcastically
asked the happy husband if the train should
wait till he had sent for and kissed his
mother-in- law, but receiving a mild mega
tive, jerked his little bell.
Tho little folk who witnessed the Con
gress of Nations at Barnum's will regret
to hear that the tiny girl who sat jauntily
on the prov of the hliputian in that
magnificent oavalcade is dead. Her name
was Minnie Hogle, and she was only four
years cid, Minnie was the pet OF the COM
pany, and in October last when the Hip
podrome was in Cincinnati, Mr.. Don naldson
took her in his balloon to the clouds, where
she enjoyed herself Immensely.
Commenting on the readiness mani
tested by Congress already to cut down the
next Presidents salary, the Chicago IRIS
bune is un9racious enough to suggest that
members might hasten the work of re-
trerchment a few years, and bring it near
er home, by cutting off the feature of for>
ward pay in their own salaries Under
the present patch-up Of the salary grab. n
member elect may draw pay from March
to Decenber-nlne .onths-before he puts
in a single days work.
Twenty thousand persons, in Kansas
alone, are in peril of starvation, in conse-
quence of the ravages of the grasshoppers,
| and that portion of the population who es-
! capped damage from the insects declare
their inability to extend TO them the needed
relief. What, in such emergency, is ia be
done? Shall these people perish for want
| of food2 God forbid Surely, those in the
East, who have abundance will not permit
it, and yet there appears to be no help for
it, unless more liberal contributions are
made te the fund now being raised.
Father Boehm, the oldest Methodist
preacher in the world, is having published
his memoirs OF the past centuary. In few
months he will be hundred years old
yet ''his general health is good, his mind
clear and wonderfully discriminating, his
memory remarkably accurate, and his
power of OK preston excellent" He is able
to shave himself three times a week, and
is altogether remarkably well-preserved
old man. He is ten years older than the
Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he
began the life of an itinerant preacher in
1899.
There had beer a lynching near Pa
dacah, KY, and little boy named Arthur
Holmes had been one of the spectators.
For days afterward the event was upper
most in his mind. Taking his younger
sister off into the woods, he suddenly whips
ped out a rope, adjusted a moose around
her neck, put the limo over the limb of a
tree, and pulled her off her feet. After
suspending her few seconds he let her
down about half choked to death, and was
solsmnly adjuring her to confess to steal
ing horses whom the father appeared.
sound spanking closed the scene.
-One of tho Ohio State Senators z,