The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-03-20
Ne,cs ana Fottt5caE Items.


The Archbishop of San Francisco ad-
vises Catholics not to join the Patrons of
Husbandry.
A girl of fourteen in Brooklyn, Ia,
has sued boy of sixteen for breach Of
promise of marriage.
-Thore is an inebriate in Chicago who
has signed the pledge eighty-seven times.
Try again. old fellow.
A wedding ceremony was a few days
. ago performed at Boone, Iowa, on the cars
during a change Of engines at that place.
An odd scene was observed in Dayton,
Ohio, on Tuesday. A band Of women sang
fervently..' Come to JesusH' in front of
Jews saloon.
Freeman. who killed his mother. was
convicted of manslaughter in Jersey City,
on Saturday, and sentenced TO ten years
imprisonment.
That is smart boy baby in Oak Har-
Dor, Ohio. He can walk, and talk, speak
French and English, whistle and sing, and
all at the tender age of thirteen months.
Within 4 circuit of four miles of Bern
vile, Herlss county, live four landlords.
weighing respectively 327, 235, 227 and POS
pounds-total 904; and the returns are not
all III.
At Larrenceburg. Ind, cH the 10tE,
little Flora Boothold, after skipping rope
three hundred and fifty-one times fell to
the ground, and the angels skipped away
with her.
"a Colquitt (Ga) minister is the faith
er of thiTty-two children" How neatly
could he preach sermon from that olive
branch text, with illustrations in al! the
front pevs
DR.. PaufSchoePpe IS in Baltimore, and
denies the report charging him with forg-
ing checks and swindljlg German Relief
and Aid Society, and passing under the
M Of { mt Sol,
The meanest man has turned ND in
the vicinity of Mendon. lie wants his
Wife step-fatheT to pay him $50 for his
wife's attendance on the old gontlemau's
wife-heT mother-dufing her last Illness.
Henry Mass and Barney Moleneanys
neighbors and bro,hers-in-Iaw, living in
Lewis county, Ky, quaue!Cd. Mass went
home, got pistol and shot Molenanys'
wife, iniiicting fatal wounds and then slew
out lis brains.
-Fitz John Porter's old army corps is
interested In having him retired. The
point on which this is urCeG is, that evil
denco is now accessible, from Confederate
Generals, that will free him from the
charges on which he was convicted.
In Brooklyn. on Sunday morning.
watchman named Delaney, without any
quarrel whatever, attacked his wife with
Ratchet and beat her head into a shape
less mass. Delaney then cat his throat,
almost seyeriug the head from the body.
The steamship LacOnia, from Alexan-
drla for higiers, with 2lS pilgrims return
ing from Mecca, encountered terrible
gale in the Mediterranean Sea. One huge
wave washed overheard one hundred and
seventeen Of the pilgrims, al of whom
were drowned.
The Greenwich (3iercer county, Arg7ls
reports ihe case Of one William CottIe, liv-
ing ~ Sugar Grove township, who has been
recently arrested ON the charge of bjgamy,
having two wives in New York State. one
IN Ohio and one in Pennsylvania. The
latter lady is dissatisfied and brings su:r.
The head Of female apparently TWEEN
ty years old, with dark hair and regular.
handsome features. wa found on the bank
Of Sac0 river, near Biddeford. Ne. on Sun.
Cay last, with cord tied around the fore
head, with q brick attached The head
had been chopped from the body cloae to
the chin.
A circular has been Issued In behalf of
the Catholic Total Abstinerco Union Of
America, explaining plan Of q lcrrerout
ana effective organization Of the total fJ-
stlneacc forces, and calling uusn the .oci-
cites IN All quarters TO connect themselves
with this Union. i is proposed to retain
the temperance societies under the super
vision OF the heads Of the Church.
a special to the CEroHtc1s from 'EoI1c
City states that early or Tuesday morning
q Ire was discovered issuing from the oil
kGcEange hotel. The flames srread 1a,.fd-
y, reaching the Beteman house on the or
posIte side Of the street. About thirtv-ffye
buildings were destroyed. The loss can
not be definitely ascortaiued, but is esti
mated at SIUp, GOO; partially insured.
"A man by the name of Van Horn and
his son, living near Newtonvile. Clernout
county, Ohio, while on their way home
on Friday night, were stopped and robbed.
After they had delivered their money. Sc.
to the robbers, the elder Van Horn diod
which must have been caused bv the
shock, as careful investigation showed
no marks Of yiolence that would cause
death
Fulton county, Indiana, has remark
able woman in the person of Ruth Young.
who was born in Virginia, remeu5 5ers per
fectly the canu"uadiug at Yorktown in
l'ol, and IS 100 years old. She Is six feet
tall, and wears 4 broad, No. 12 shoe. She
mas done blowing, choppiug, harvesting.
and everything else in the farming line, in
which she Is the best posted person in the
county.
More than one thousand men were
employed in the navy yard at Portsmouth.
y. H.-many of them lately BROUGHT in
and emplcyed to carry lumber from one +
point IN the yard to another and then car
iy 1t back again. This sort of work has
SN' ~ ~ uJ Hii4Ce 81 JtlludlN, dDL paid for
oy the people, 50 the laborers could vote
the h2dical ticket. But it didn't save
'cm.-HartfOrd Times.
-itralHed birthstone at and around Her
nandez, Mississippi, last Tuesday DioIf .
ne substance was submitted to careful
analysis, and found to be pure birthstone,
The editor Of the local paper there saws
what puzzles him is, that it came from
ABOVE instead of below. lie is now wild ON .
his geOgra Dhy aud dnaer'+ lyyr--, .,,,.4r:
about where the place is located that he Las
Oeeh so kindly hidden to 90 to 50 often.
During the year 1878 the production Of
iron and steel rails in the United States
was " CO., coo tons, and the imUortations were
100, a02 tons, making total supply of II
uo3' 'u5 TONS which is much less than tb. f.
preceding year, when the railroad move
tneht was more active. Itis thought if mi .
ceS OF IRON can be kept within reasonable .
limits that our market would take i'm 1874 {
Ior consumption two million tons of rails.
The barn Of Mr.. James s. AIexanaar