The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-05-28
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| eleven daughters. No wonder be withers.
! "A religious procession vas attacked
by a mob in the streets of Bru ssels on sun
day last.
The conservation of Rev. J. J. Kahn as
Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of
Wheeling took place on Sunday morning.
-Fifty-two thousand pounds to the acre
; on twelve-acre field is the story they tell
/ of a sweet potato crop in Kern county,
California.
-Car.,inal McCloskey has been presented
; with diamond cross, worth S2o, 600, by
the lady pupils Of st. Vincent Institute,
! New York.
! A land patent was recently issued
/ from the Marysville (Cal office to George
Washington Christopher Columbus Schil-
lenbere annapzi.
! At Wiliamsport, OF Saturday, 1925
were contributed for the destitute PEOPLE
Of Osceola, and arrangements made for
/ forwarding a car load of provisions.
/ The death of General Breckiaridge
/ leaves but four elected vice presidents.
! They aIe Hannibal Hamln. Andrew John
4 son, Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson.
Recently fifty>nine colored adults were
confirmed in ST. Benedict's Catholic
/ Church, Savannah, Ga. Six colored women
received the white veil at the same time
Has anybody remarked the curious
coincidence that the Schiller was lost on the
anniversary of the day. May 9, on which,
. in 1905, the poet whose name she bore died.
The Hon. p. Gray Meek, who is
candidate for the Democratic nomination
for Senator in the Clearfield district. has
generously contributed $500 to the Osceola
sufferers.
"A special to the St Louis Globe Demo
crdt, from Sedalia, says three members of
n family named Finley. living in Cooper
county, thirteen miles from Sedalia, died
Of starvation last week.
The Pennsylvania Editorial Associa-
ton will hold a summer meeting at Bedford
Springs, June %, %, and "a, and a
large atter dance of the editor ial fraterni V
of Pennsylvania is expected.
-Mattrass, a Chippewa chief. was put in
his little bed in the St. Croix Valley. Min
nesota. last week. He was 101 years old,
and might have been older if he had not
smoked tobacco and drank fire water.
The couple who were married in a
balloon to advertise Barnums show didn't
live together three weeks. He boxed her
ears and she broke his nose, and the theory
of the eastern current is still unsolvcd.
Jesse James, the outlaw and murderer
woed his bride in the disguise of a sewing
machine agent. Imagine her delight, after
their marriage, in discovering that he
was not quite as bad as he had led her to
suppose.
"A petrified rattlesnake. measuring ten
feet, with twenty five Iattles, has just been
found in a coal mine thirty feet below the
surface in Alton, III. The formation is
said to be perfect, and represents a snake
in the act of creeping.
jacob Young, living in the suburbs of
Brooklyn, murdered his second wife on
Friday night by chopping her head open
with an axe. and then went to the ceme-
terry, where he blew out his brains on the
grave of his first wife.
-Dan nO'Leary finished his walk OF five
hundred miles, in Chicago. at one o'clock,
thirty two minutes, and fifty seconds Sun
day morning. completing the distance in
ten hours, twenty-eight minutes and ten
seconds less than the time allotted-156
hours.
General Beckiuridge leaves one son
who bears his name, and another who,
c,riousy enough, christencd ''Owen
County, in honor of the county which
secured the election of his father to Con-
gress in 1858, in the contes. with Governor
LetcEer.
Hon. George Vail, Of Morristown, \.
j., died on Sunday evening, aged -. He
was twice in Congress, and after wards
consul at Glasgow under President Buchan-
an. He was concerned with his father,
his brother Alfred and Prof. Morse in per-
fccting the telegraph.
There is nothing new under the sun.
The latest Pompeiian discovery is wooden
factory, in which were found pieces of
WOODEN cloth, quite carbonzed. aud many
instruments for lding and weaving SINH
lar to those used in some factories of the
kind ut the present day.
The action of the Belgian Tribunal at
Licge in dismissing the charges against
Dnchesne of plotting to assassinate Prince
Bismarck causes a sensation at Berlin.
1t is generally believed that the finding of
the tribunal will not be regarded by Ger
many as a settlement Of the matter.
While three carpenters we're being
hoisted ont of the Shafton shaft near
Wilkesbarre, on Saturday, the carria ge
got loose. and falling a distance of one
hundred feet, the men were killed. In the
Boston mine. at Plymouth, two men were
killed, and at Pine Ridge shaft boy was
killed.
There is horrible picturcsqueness in
the reported discovery Of the body of John
Black ford, the American actor, who lost
his life three years ago in attempting the
ascent of Mount Blanc. 1t was found in a
huge block of ice which lately fell from the
mountain, perfectly preserved, like fly in
amber.
"A pair of boots with gold-t tipped toes
and heels of the same metal, and valued at
500, have been made at Idaho City. to be
worn by the high sheriff next Fourth of
July when there is to be festival cele-
bration there. They will afterwards be
sent to the Centennial Exhibition in Phila-
delphia.
An adventurous little boy undertook
to cross the path of huge elephant which
was walking in a circus procession through
Detroit the other day, when the animal
seized him in it's trunk, held him long
enough to frighten him well, and then set
him down about three yards from the
starting point.
When Secretary OF State Fish. who
has been president general Of the Society
of the Cincinnati for over twenty one years,
presided at the meeting of the order the
other night, he wore the badge of his
Office, which was medal studded with
diamonds, presented to Washington by
sailors of the French navy.
The miners at Summit Hill are re-
ported as going to work next Monday. By