The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-04-24
Neses a,.a I,ot,tEcat Ifenns.

Miss Eirgie Wells, of WapeHo, Iowa,
has passed examination rs school teacher.
She is twelve years old.
-Forty-three buildings were destroyed
by fire in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, on
Sunday morning. Loss $50, 600.
! San Bernardino county, Cal, boasts of
mushroom four feet in circumference, !
fourteen inches high, and weighing twenty
/ pounds.
/ The Scranton Republican says that
! colony Of one hundred Catholic families are
making preparations to move westward
( from that vicinity.
Why Is Governor Baxter like David
fighting the Philistines ? Because lie pro- /
. poses to take Little Roctc from the Brooks
! N. T. Com. Ady.
! The whole country from Monroe to the
mouth of the Red river is under water and
ten thousand people in that district viii
/ soon be on the verge of starvation.
1t turns out to be true that the French
steamship i 'Amerique. after her abandon
Iaent by her officers and crew, was picked
up and safely towcd to port by the Spray.
An Iowa Granger thinks that there is
too much lawyer in our politics, and that IS
nation We have gradually given mp to the
lawyer nearly every place of honor and trust.
James Snyder, aged eighty-four, and
Mary Hes.op, aged sixty-seven, were Ie-
/ Gently married in Turner, Ohio. The we'd
ding was at the residence Of the brides
grandson.
People who purchased oil well shares
ten years ago willuow look up their papers
An Indiana man, who had abandoned his
claim, has found that he is entitled to a
dividend of 81, 600.
The champion young mother eleven
years of age, of Otego has lost her baby
seven weeks and one day old 1t departed
this life, after brief but severe illness, of
congestion of the lungs.
A systematic gentleman OF HoIvoke
Mass, was united in wedlock on Sunday
last to a young lady whom he had been
training for the position of his wife ever
since she Was two years cd.
The statement is published that the
Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Society of
Brooklyn IS On the verge of bankruptoy-
The liabilities are over $4,000. with no
perceptIDle means of payment
Two sons of Henry d. Langworthy,
living III Stoningtou, Ct, were attacked in
their house on Sunday while the parents
were at church. One was killed and the
other probably fatally wounded.
"A cat at New Bedford, Mass. which
had doubtless been reading the report of
) the autopsy of the Siamese Twins at PlliIa-
dolphie, brought forth four kittens the
/ otherday, all joined together with hyphens
The GubernatOrial contest III ArEau-
sas still continues, but the difficulty Is to
be settled by the Courts. The rival pal
ties have about equal strength, as regards
troops, but Brooks holds a well fortified
position.
Hon. Alex P. Callow, Mayor of Allie
gheny city, died on Saturday morning last.
He was old printer, ard for number
of years was alse preSsmauSin the Comuie~-
ctdl office, Pittsburgh. He was agcI forty
two years.
"A Kennebunk Me- man who assault
ed his wife with intent To kill was fined sic.
And yet If he bad failed TO marry her after
having promised 10 do so, she would prob
ably have collected several thousand dol
lars damages.
An old lady hearing some one reading
about Congressman at large, rushed in
the kitchen door, shouting Sarah Jane.
Sarah Jane don't leave the clothes out all
DiGht, mind tell you, for there's a Con
gresham at large"
The Supreme Court Of PENNSYLVANIA
has ruled that demand for payment of a
note must be made at a reasonable time Of
day If at a private residence. not Mt an
hour when It may be presumed that the
family is IL bed /; and if at a place of bust
ness, within business hours.
"A destructive fire occurred in Ishpen-
ing, Michigan, on Sunday night, destroy
ing an en- ire block. Thirty families are
rendered homeless, and twenty-five b1si-
ness places burned. The loss will not fall
short Of $50 600; insurance $50. O0O
While DR.. j. ?. Barnum, a chemist
OF Louisville, was making ether on Mon
day afternoon, the retort exploded. utterly
demollshIng the building. Banum was
standing in the doorway and was badly
burned by thestire which Immediately en-
sued.
The only vote for initiation in the SEN
ate of the United States north Of the POto-
mac and east OF Indiana. was cast by Seua-
tor Cameron, of Pennsylvania. The only
member of the House in the New England
delegation who voted for the bill was Gen.
3. +. Butler.
The volcanic disturbances in North
Carolina are reported to yet prevail. though
no accounts reach us of accessions to the
daily prayer-offeTiugs which are said to
have characterized the earlier stages of the
eruption. They have got used to that sort
Of thing, you know.
"A clam with gold finger ring on its
snout, the said ring having several initials
engraved on it, was dug up at New Bed
ford, Mass, the other day, in a locality
where 1t Is customary to baptize converts.
The ring probably slipped from the finger
Of some immersed sister.
An alarming disease is prevailing in
some parts of jefferson Co.. New York
among the dairy cows In appearance it
resembles what is known as the Iung
plague. The jefferson County Farmers
Club has appointed a committee of five 70
investigate the disease and rerort The
animals die within three or four days after
the attack
In Cory, the other day. a Mrs Cow
den was found dead in a miserable hoveI.
with her young children nearly naked and
almost starved, huddled around her An
investigation showed that she had starved
to death. Her husband, worthless fellow.
was fully able TO provide for his family, but
he spent all his earnings for liquor.
a school teacher in Dewitt county.
Illinois, has introduced a new method Of
punishment into his school. When one of
the girls misses a word, the lad who spells
1t has permission to kiss her. The Clinton
Public says ''The result is that the girls
are fast forgetting all they ever knew about
/ spelling, while the boys are improving with
wonderful rapidity."
A modest young husband in New York
sent the following message over the wires
to friends in the city the other day: see
ninth chapter of Isaiah, sixth verse; The
dusty old Bible was hauled down in an in
slant, and the above chapter and verse
were hunted ont and found to explain all.