The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-10-08
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Ne,Cs conG POEsficUE Items.

"A dispatch from Rome says that Car
dinal McCloskey will leave for the United
States about the 10th instant.
! The Sisters of Charity have built an
academy at Salt Lake City. Children of
all religious denominations will be received.
AT York, Me-, an apple tree has just
/ been cut down which was brought from
/ England in a tab in 1929, and has borne
/ fruit every year since.
AT the recent fair in Norwich, Conn,
/ a Roman coin of the era of Marc Antony
was exhibited as a gentle hint Of the dura-
BILE value of hard money.
john LuttreIl, a hay-cutter, was killed,
! scalped. and his ears and nose cut of. bv
Indians, twenty-five miles west of Fort
! Laramie, on the 29th ult.
In Iowa the corn crop last year
/ 100, 600, 600 this year it is estimated that
The yield will be 130, 900, 900 bushels, which
viii he worth $40 000. 600.
Marshal MacMahon's income as Presi-
dent of France is $500 900 per annum, be-
sides which he IS allowed S7S, 600 foI house
hold and reception expenses.
"A negro, aged one hundred and eleven
( years, was burned to death at Little Rock,
Ark, few days ago, and there is great
grief i'm that place over his untimely TAX
/ ing Oft.
! Perhaps the most effective inducement
/ the radicals could offer if they desire Judge
J Pershing to resign would be to get Gov
ernor Iartranft to challenge him to stump
} the State.
/ The Hartford Times says that the Rev
! Father Gallery, Of Pennsylvania, who has
1 twice declined the office of Bishop of Hart
| ford, has been commanded by the Pope to
/ accept it.
Mr.. Anthony Rouse, of Nesquehoning,
! Pa, who has been trying to invent an APP
/ paratuS for separating slate from coal, has
/ completed his arduous undertaking after
/ three years labor.
/ There is a regular witch case at Boyer
/ town, Penn. The ''bewitched'' is Il nine
/ year old boy. The antics which he cuts up
are queer. The witch, of course, is "a
! certain old woman
In Caruarvon township, Berks county.
! the other day, q wicked woman scared oft
a constable who had gone to arrest her by
stripping off all her clothing and daring the
| officer to lay hand Oh her.
| Good by, Governor CASTOR. Light
/ ming never strikes twice in the same place.
/ dorchester Democrat. Governor CASTOR
wasn't elected by lightning. lie was
/ elected, by thunder ,-B0Sf0H Post
Among the curious things that viii
| happen on the 2ud of November will be
/ the following: Foctor Pioliet viii become
! Piollet victor; and the Radicals in losing
the Treasury will lose their 'awle.
This time he halls from California, his
name is Pinney. and he has succeeded in
I '.
( And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe;
and then from hour to hour we rot and ro'.
The Swedish steamer T.. 5. Bager.
running between Luhrek and Copenhagen,
/ vas burned in TIE Baltic. Twenty four
passengers and eleven Of the crew periShed.
The steamer was built in 1853 at Gutten-
/ burg.
Mary Jones, of Easton, has just vom-
tied up a tin whistle which had been In her
I-Fy,
all been eaten OFF the iron body Of the toy,
which itself presented an appearance OF
having been subjected to the action of an
acid.
"A dog in the town Of Bethel. New Jer-
sey, has contracted a curious habit of
| travelling regularly three times a week be
/ tween two farms, five miles distant, and is
now used for the purpose of conveying
messages between the families, who are on
intimate terms.
A mammoth steer. owned by George
Miller, farmer on Lost River, near Kla-
math Lake, Oregon, has arrived at Salem,
and will be sent to the Centennial. 1t
stands nineteen hands, or six feet four in
ches. measures twenty feet from tip to tip,
and weighs 5000 pounds.
/ Judge Pcrshiug' record on the bench.
says the Miners journal (rep..) where
/ politics have not been allowed a seat, has
been most excellent. This eXtorted praise
than any amonnt of the friendly criticism
of friends or the unflicndly criticism of OPP
ponents.
BY the swamping of batteau in Lake
St Peter, Canada, last Thursday night.
Capt. Hamil, the owner, his wife and thIee
children were drowned. When Mrs. Uamil
observed that the boat was sinking she
said to her husband. 1--WE may as well
say good bye for ever and Jumped over
board and sank
1t is said that a Missouri clergyman
has left the pulpit and become a clown in a
circus. He gives as reason shat ''three
square meals day and $50 week are
better than 800 per aBnum, payable in
dried apples, hay. and old clothes" Per-
hapS there is lesson for some chul ches
in this little paragraph.
-General Sherman and Sheridan, VIII q
are of the Catholic faith, must feel highly
complmented at the twist the Radicals are
giving Grant Iowa speech. If the Chica-
go Tribune, Pittsburgh Gazette. and the
Radical organs generally are to be believed.
says the Pittsburgh Post, it means that a
religious war is to be inaugurated
Mrs. Annie Curran was dragged into
the shop No. 166 Cambridge street, Boston.
on Saturday night, and outraged by John
McManus, a barber employed there Nc
Manus was arrested next day and was ar
raigned in the Municipal Court on Tuesday.
Mrs. Curran's husband attempt to kill
the scoundrel, but he was protected by the
police.
o. Baldwin, the pugilist, was the third
man connected with the late swimming
matches between Coyle and Johnson. in
the Delaware between Chester and Gleu-
cester, who has died a sudden or violent
death. Rutter, the pilot for Coyle, i'm the
first match, died after very brief illness.
F and Payne, one of the judges in the second
match, was killed by a train of cars.
AT Baltimore, on Sunday. Albert s.
League approached tho sacristy of St.
, Patrick's church while services were going
on, and drawing a pistol, attem pied tC
shoot tho pastor, Father Gaitley, on ac.
,, count, as League alleges, of Father Gaitley