The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-12-17
Nccs Of the jpeeH.

"A Clarion county Ooy recently eioped
with his cousin, only l3 thirteen years old.
Aunt Tabby," aged 104, a culored
woman, was recently burned to death at
Sharpsburg, Md.
john B. Murray, of New York, has
the original Franklin printing press, aud
will exhibit it at the Centennial.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria has de-
cided to send twenty pictures of the ROYAL
collection to the Philadelphia exposition.
"A young man near Niles Michigan,
thought To- make his powder fine 10y grind
ing it i'm coffee mill. The new kitchen is
well under way.
-Ephraim Gable, the first white person
born i'll Ohio, died lately. lie died on the
same farm on which he was born and
where he lived all his life.
An immense ledge Of isinclass has
been found i'll the mountains near Snake
river, Idaho. 1t is thirty feet wide. and
one OF the most valuable discoveries of the
kind ever made.
On Monday Hiram Dichl. of Lime
stone, Northumberland county, slipped
with butcher knife in his hand, and in
stead of cutting the hogs throat cut his
own and died on Tuesday.
Mr.. Singly, a gentleman of one hun
dred and four years, living at Moulton,
Ia, was married last week so Mrs. Nc
Laughlin,. aged eighty. May they never
outlive loves young dream.
An old mans darling was arrested in
Scranton on Tuesday with the young man
whose slave She proposed to be. She had
about q, 600 of the old mans money. She
coscluded to return to her first love
Fred. DeHaven, teamster, of Clarion
county, was recently found dead on the
pike. 1t is supposed that he went to sleep
on his wagon while intoxicated and fell
over the lock bar, his head striking the
spokes of the wheel.
"A startling story comes from Wash
ton that some, if not all the documentary
evidence against General Babcock. which
was turned over TO the clerk of the grand
jury, has been stolen or DESTROYED. Sucb
things have happened.
1t is remarkable fact that the Re
publican Presidential ticket for 1872 might
have read "For President, Hiram i
Grant Tor Vice President, jeremiah Col
bath"-these being the real, birth given
names of the illustrious pair.
Frederick Hunt, of Vermont. ceIe
brated his Thanksgiving by marrying a
girl thirteen years OLD. His own age is
sixty, and the number of his children by
his other two wives exactly comedies with
the number of his brides years.
"A domestic breeze was created in Paint
township, Crawford county, last week, by
a boy OF nineteen, named BiCley taking
away and marrying his cousin named Bish.
a girl not yet thirteen years of age. The
parents of these precocious youths are dis
tressed over the affair.
p. T. Barnum and his wife. being de.
slrous of companionship, recently PROPOSED
to two congenial neighbors that the two
families should draw lots to determine
which should pass the winter under the
other 5 rooi free, each being desious of en-
tertainlng the other. Barnum lost the
choice.
Isaac Duross was convicted at Wilkes
oarre on Thursday of having feloniously as
saulted and attempted to murder Anna
Lewis, aged ten years, in Spring Brook
township, last October. He was sentenced
to imprisonment ir the penitentiary for "a
years and ii months, the full penalty of
the law. Vi
"A laborer in one of the manufacturino
districts of England recently offered his
wife Tor sale to the highest bidder. She
vas SOLD TO young man for the sum of
iourpence, and the matter was duly settled
In written agreement, signed by attest
ing witnesses. The woman, who is 30 wears
Old, persists in carrying out the contract.
According to the Boston Pilot there
were, in 1925, 90 years ago one Ron,an
Catholic priest in Maine one in Nassa
enusetts' ano one i'm New Hampshire, with
eight churches. There are now in Nov
England, according to this authority.
archbishop, bishops AL priests 44a
churches, and a Catholic population of
nearly million
THE will of Georgiana Mary Diamond.
an VINO recently died i'm Philadelphia. gives
$50, 900 in bequests TO different societies Of
the catholic Church; ST, 600 to Archbishon
Nood, and after number of private he
quests 1t is provided that the remainder or
the estate shall go 70 the Society or -
J"Seph ana the st. Johns Orphant ASYLUM.
share and share alike.