The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-06
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salem, Mass, during Tue past SieESH year ;.
The population of Steubop county, y.
" is now 74,54S, an increase of 8, f44 IN
five years.
1t is said that Donaldson. the aeronaut,
received $50, 600 a season for his balloon
aScenslOns.
The Juniata D6mocrGt ard Register
says Hon. c. l.. Pershing seems to be the
corning man for the nomination for COVER
nor by the Erie convention.
William NJ. Grouse, near tritZtown,
Berks county, has clock of the year 100,
made in Stuttgart, and also a deed OF the
year 1850, also from Europe.
The New York Post says Wendell
Phillips has accepted the invitation to de-
liver the Grafton at the O'Connell Centen~
nial celebration in Boston to-day.
Vice President Wilson thinks the
republican party had better throw on
their ''bloody shirts and go to work if
they want to win next year. Henry, it is
no use.
At Brunswick, Me-, on Thursday,
man named Miller beat his wife severely
The son interfered, when Miller discharged
a gun loaded with bucl1shot, fatally wound
ing him.
The steamship Indiana, Of the Ameri-
can line, recently made the "trip across the
ocean in the remarkably short time of
eight days, nineteen hours, and thirty
eight minutes.
. "A man living on Licking River, In
Kentucky. estimates that he has seen at
least ten thousand bushels of wheat pass
down that stream, having been swept
by the terrible freshets.
"A mother and daughter named Derr
were drowned in the canal in Perry county.
They attempted to cross in an old sRif,
when it upturned. The daughter was
about fifteen years of age.
-Ex- President johnson is hardly cold
in the embrace of death until his successor
i'm the United States Senate is spoken of.
1t is belived that General Bates his strong
opponent, will succeed him.
The Irishmen of st. Paul, Minnesota,
have extended an invitation 20 the negroes
of that section to participate In the . Con-
nell Centennial celebration, and the colored
people, through representative, have ac-
cepted.
"A few days since, well TO do farmer,
near Myerstown Lebanon county, had
tIial of reRpers putting full set of hands
after each machine, and the result was
that in the evening 30 acres of grain had
been cut.
Thomas Donohue was drowned in
ccsspool at Caroudelet, Mo, on Friday
afternoon. Chas. Prunty, James Henry
and Jos. SchHchtig successively descended
into the vault to recover his body and per-
ished from the foul air
-Monsiguor Roncetti, the Ablegate, and
Rev. DIR. Ubalde, Secretary of the Papal
Legation, sailed for Europe from New
York on Saturday. They were escorted
down the bay by a steamer containing dis
tinguished clergy and laity.
An English country paper records the
following fact : A COW on the farm of
Mr.. Wilson, Barrowdale. Cumberland, re-
Gently broke her leg. 1t was amputated
and a wooden leg supplied, and she is now
stumping about and doing well.
Another Nashville dispatch reports an
other brutal outrage, on Thursday, by ne
gro, of the person of a white lady, Mrs.
Icons, near Nahmoose Spring. Thursday
night, seventy five men broke into the jail,
took the negro out and hanged him.
Bernard Bowe, of Kingsbridge, \. Y,
publishes a challenge TO swim either john
son or Coyle a distance of ten or fifteen
miles for 50, 600. The purse to be made
up and the match to take place within
three weeks after signing the articles.
In Ancona, an old woman of seventy
five summers, named Maria Pignocchi is
exciting some public curiosity at the very
near prospect of her giving birth to her
fourteenth child. Her present and third
husband is fifty-ive, and treads the air
with delight.
The sun was so hot in Jacksonville,
Florida, last Wednesday, that people
amused themselves cooking eggs in the
sand. One person buried two for six
minutes and when taken out they were as
hard as though they had been boiled for
half an hour.
In Kansas recently, two young ladies
having retired early, were awakened with All
urgent request to attend a social gathering
of friends, and in just fourteen minutes
they appeared before their escorts COM
plctely arrayed in fashionable attire. This
is the best time on record.
In 1920 resident of MontOwese, then
eighteen years old, found a turtle in the
meadow, and cut upon its shell his initials
and the year. For fifty five years he has
moved the same meadow and has usually
seen the same turtle, which now bears the
dates of 1920. 1912. 1851 and 1873.
Father Tom Burke, the great Domini-
can preacher, continues to improve in
health at his home in ireland. From the
nature of his malady his convalescence is
necessarily slow, but he enjoys the best Of
spirits. His venerable mother, sister and
nieces are in constant attendance upon him.
A boiling lake is said to have been
discovered in the Island of Dominica.
1t is situated in the fo-est-covered noun
tain behind the town of Roseau, at the
height of twenty five hundred feet above
the ea-level 1t is two miles in circum-
ference, and .he margin is lined with beds
of sulphur.
On Friday last arrangements were
consummated for another swimming match
between johnson and Coyle, from Chester
to Gloucester, the same course as before.
The contest will take place between the
18th and 24th of August, for a purse of
So, 600. The conditions will be the same
as in the previous match. Both men went
into training at Gloucester.
Judge Pearson, of Harrisburg, is de-
termined to enforce the fish laws wherever
his attention is called to violation of the
same. On Monday last he fined several
fishermen who we're discovered in the
Swatara creek, near Middletown, dragging
with a seine. They were reported to the
Judge, and being arrested were brought
before him. when he fined them 800 each
for the offenSe.
In Il small and narrow valley above
Lenhartsville, Berks county, there is a
we'll built house. containing two beds and