The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-05-15
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Three newspapers in Iowa are edited
by ladies, and are as full of pufls as their
dinner dresses.
"A Missouri judge has decided that a
woman is not an ''old maid until she is
thirty-fi years old.
AT Manchester, Iowa, recently, n man,
four days after his marriage, ran away
with an old sweetheart.
The steamship Siberia, plying between
Liverpool and Madeira, is supposed to be
lost, with all her crew and passengers.
1t may be interesting to ladies to
know that Lawrenceville, Pa, furnishes
all the knitting needles for the United
States.
Charles Larribee, tried a. Franklin
for the murder of Lew Williams. in We
mango county, has been found guilty of
murder in the first degree.
There is a woman in Halifax. Nova
Scotia, who believes herself dead. She
remains motionless in bed most of the
time, but comes to life sufficiently to eat
occasionally.
Scott county, Minnesota. contains an
extensive Limburger cheese factory. The
cheese is declared to be ripe when
piece the size of bean will drive dog out
of tan yard.
A relic Of the Inflated steamship At
lantic, in the shape of passengers ticket
printed in German and English, has been
taken from the stomach of a preserved
salmon at st. John, \. b.
In Baltimore, Oh Saturday, Charles
Rose was found guilty of rape, and sen
fenced to twenty-one years Imprisonment.
Charles II. Jones, colored, found guilty of
murder, was sentenced TO be hanged.
Sophia II. Hutson, of Wilkes Barre, Is
years old, can neither see, hear nor speak,
yet she has learned an alphabet by the
touch Of the fiRger by which she can east
ly be made to understand her friends.
The last smart old man lives i'll Au-
gusta c unity, Virginia. He is ninety
nine years Of age, and made his own cof-
fin the other day. He will probably live
to 100, and attend his own cremation.
In East FreCtown, Massachusetts,. on
Friday last, four children at play in Gideon
Reynolds barn set the building on fire,
and his daughter aged four, and a daugl-
ter Of William Reynolds, aged two wears.
were burned to death.
An aged woman, named Meyers, WAS
killed at Stafford Meadow Brook, Luzerne
county, by passing train striking her and
pTecipItating her from a bridge into the
water fall Of twenty feet. She was ia
ken out alive but died in 4 few minutes.
"A fire at Ridgeway, Iowa, on Satur-
day evening, destroyed the entire village.
with the exception Of one brick building
Between thirty and forty families are
homeless. The fire originated by two
boys lighting cigars in an unOccupIcd mill
The total loss Is nearly 800, coo.
There is a strike or miners at Nelson
Vile, Athens county, Ohio, which has 70
suited ii serious disorders between strikers
and those who desired to work On Fri
day night the contendiag parties inter
changed shots. Three men were MORALLY
wonnoed, one of whom has since died
In the Perry county Court last week
Judge Junkin sentenced a fieud incarnate
named John Baker, who was convicted Of
committing rape ~ on the person ofa little
girl named Alice Robinson. aged olzven
years, to ten years solitary coatinement at
hard labor in the Eas tern peniteutiary
People who like to do things on the
spur Of the moment should enligrate To
Harding county, Iowa. A couple there
were recently married, and after the cere-
mony the bride was obliged to ask her
husband what her new name was. The
parties had only been acquainted a few
hours.
By he explosion of p blast in the tun-
mel of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Port
Perry, on Thursday evening, one man
named Barney Mckiernan was killed, and
six others named John Wilson, ST., Alfred
Reushaw, Edward Burns, Reese Reese.
John Flennikeu and John McGiIl, were Sc
verely injured.
A gentleman in Lafayette being asked
''tO take drink declined. but said. if no
objections were made, be would take
loaf of bread for his. The party went to
q bakery, the treater bought 4 ten-cent
loaf of bread, had it done up and his friend
took it home. The loaf was afterward sent
to needy family.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
gentleman connected with the press Of
that city celebrated on the I'd of May his
birthday, his wife's birthday, and his wed
ding day. 1t was the twentieth auuivrr-
sary. When married the joint ages of his
wife and himself were fifty years. On the
last 2d Of Nay the Joint ages OF his chill
dron were fifty years.
This is how they look Brooks is about
sixty years of age, six feet two inches in
height, iron framed, of splendid intellect.
one of the uglieSt men ever seen but when
aroused is as determined and plucky as
any man you over met. Baxter Is about
ffty-two years old, very fine-lookinC. with
a blank, eXpressionless kind OF character
and very smooth featured.
In Yarmouth, Maine there was a
sign over tavern many years ago, which
read, Byrom and Drinkwater. P.ssars
By amused themselves by dividing the
syllah!CS. About the same time F1S1Q
might have been seen a notice in a Ieadinn
paper, Of 4 new cupartuer-
snip IN the dry goods business, signed
William Shot and jonathan Fell.
About three weeks ago Miss Maggie
Jane Watson, respectable young Iadv Of
Oquawka, Ill, suddenly and mysterionslv
disappeared. Her body was found floating
in the river on Saturday. From anpeaT'
4nces she was murdered and thrown into
Lhe river near where her body was found.
Her head shows that she was struck twice .
with heavy instrument
AT Great Darlington, Mass, the other /.
lay, some few frogs, thinking spring had (
,ome, emerged from their winter retreat .
md began TO make sonorous music. \ cold .
map came on in the night, and great NAM
,ers OF them got wedgcd fast in the ice,
heir eir heads just sticking above it; then a /
parcel of !awlcss hens went and picked
heir heads off one by one
"A fiend in human shape criminailv
abused little white child four years old,
n Mobile, on Sunday last. On Monday.
.oout l clack, an outraged community
marched eU 2aUsse to the comfy isiI whore (