The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-05-21
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The German Government has released
the Catholic priests imprisoned at Posen.
The Jury i'll Father Gericman's case
in Philadelphia could not agree, and were
discharged.
Two members of the Balaklava Light
Brigade-the famous six hundred-now
resides in Augusta. Ga.
A queer kind of tlatching. man
with hair on the roof Of his mouth has
been discovered At Savannah, Georgia.
An odd illustration of whats i'll name.
An English curate just appointed to a Lon
don church, is gazetted as the Rev. Paschal
Lamb.
Capt Paul Boyton will make a second
attempt to cross the English channel in his
life saving dress on the 2Sth Of the present
month.
! The tornado Of Saturday week last
killed seventeen and wounded thirty-fve
persons in Harris and Talbot counties,
Georgia.
AT Rockland. Me-, on Friday uigh..
Alfred Spear, while drunk, shot his wife
twice and then killed himself. His wife
may recover.
! The rules of the Amana Communists
IA curious society located in Iowa allow
the sisters ouly from s25 to $40 each for
clothing for year.
! Jesse ID. Bright, ex- United States
Senator from Indiana, is lying dangerously
I'll at his residence in Baltimore, with rheu-
matsm of the heart.
/ Mrs. Strockmeyer, of Jersey City,
gave birth to four infants on the Sfh inst.
Three were girls and one boy, and all are
/ reported to be doing well.
Duluth is fifteen years old and never
had but one breach of promise suit, and
that was settled by giving the plaintiffs
father pair of cowhide boots with red
tops.
Joseph Porcy, aged ZOE years, died in
Crawford county the other day. He was
Frenchman, had been married twice and
had enjoyed eighty-five years of connubial
bliss.
Pope Plus is to receive grand Mass,
bound in morocco at a cost of $500, and
forwarded bv its composer, John VI. Loretz
jr., of Brooklyn, n. y, present to his
/ Holiness.
/ A dispatch from London says one
huDdred ana fifty bodies of the victims of
the Schiller disaster have been recovered.
. This leaves about one hundred and thirty
still missing.
New South Wales has been heard
from. The parliament of this distant Eng
! lish colony has appropriated g, 900 for the
expenses of proper representation at Phila-
delphia in 1876.
A mastodon skeleton weighing /. 800
! pounds, the largest ever found, has been
sent to Yale College from Ottsville in
Orange county, y. y, where ii was dug
up two years ago.
/ Twenty three carloads of oysters ar
rived i'll San Francisco, the other day,
from the East. The bivalves are to be
/ planted in San Francisco Bay, to supply
. the citizens with the luxury.
/ The FunfttHa, a ministerial organ.
published in Rome, authoriiatively states
that the Pope has resolved to convoke the
/ atIcan Council again at an early date. to
( discuss ecclesiastical reforms.
jefferson Davis in an address TO the
] Texan veterans of the Mexican war en-
treats Them to be as loyal now to the stars
and stripes as they were jealous and brave
. in the defense of their first flag.
Secretary Delano has gone to Ohio TO
enjoy the fresh May breezes. He probably
! left " ashin2ton at this particular iuncturc
for fear that Red Cloud would investigate
as to the number of bis pockets.
! AT Shamokin Sunday night a strange
man entering the house of Eli Hoas in a
mistake, HOas discharged two shots at him.
the last taking effect near the heart. The
man is in critical condition and cannot
recover.
The Louisville Courier-JourraL. in re-
ply to the pathetic question of a woman,
| 'How shall keep my husband at home i'm
the evening"" says it can be done easily
enough by opening first class beer garden
( in the back yard.
No more centepnials for President
Grant. He wouldn't 60 to Greensburg.
thank you: and has recalled his Bunker
Hill engagement. The abolition of the
dead head business should have been post
poned till after 1876.
, The Sioux delegation are i'm WASH
ington to sell the Black Hills and find ont
''where the lying begins" The first will
no doubt be Of easy accomplishment, but
VIC fear the last will be too much for the
poor untutored savaces.
A child was born in Michigan, about
three weeks ago. with two complete faces
-one in the natural position and the other
| at the back of the head. The faces are
complete in all particulars-two eyes, a
mouth and nose on each face.
/ early Tuesday morning fire broke
out on Centre street, the principal business
portion of Mahoney city, destroying six
business houses, composed of shops and
stores, seven dwellings, and number of
staoles. Loss, s75, 600 mostly insured
The superstitious people of Shelby
county, KY, believe that john Cotton has
been stricken dumb for blasphemy. He
cursed God because frost bad ruined his
crops, and on the same day was attacked
! by paralysis, which bereft him of the power
| of speech.
Edward c. Marshall, SON of Chief
Justice Marshall. seventy years of age, is
clerk in the pension Office n. ST 200 salary
| MIR. Marshall resides in the city of Alex
andria, lost all his property during the
war, is delicate in health, and resembles
his father.
The striking miners in the north of
Wales are suffering for food and clothing,
yet they refuse all offers of settlement of
their employers, by which they could re-
sumo work and support themselves and
families. With them half loaf is worse
/ than no bread.
According to a London Daily Ners
telegram, the Pope, in answer TO petition
from millions of Catholics, lay and clerical.
DEGREES universal prayer for the 10Th of
June. the two hundreth anniversary of the
apparition of the Sacred Heart to St. Mar
garet Alacoque.
The iil-fated Schiller has quite gone