The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-23
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The newly created Cardinal Manning
is reported seriously i'll.
The State exports S27, ,0o0, ,o00 worth
OF petroleum annually.
Pittsburgh (south sidel has champion
dog eater, wEo has dined cu dog flesh fcr
two yeaTs.
The scarlet fever, Of malignant type,
prevails among large number Of children
IL Washington county
-Carrutb, the Nineland editor, is still
in a precarious condition, and Lands re-
mains in the BTidgeton jail.
A child was born in Granville, Lick
ing county, o, on March 18th, with two
well developed feet on each leg
Michael Meylert, editor of the Sullivan
county Democrat weighs SO pounds That
paper certainly has some weight.
"A man in Lancaster, New Hampshire,
has trout in his cisJern that is 50 tame
that ii will eat from a persons hand
-Thomas Mullaney aud Thomas Clipper
were instantly killed in Springfield Mass,
Friday. by the explosion OF a bombsfell.
TO hang OF not to hang Pomeroy, the
oy-muIderer, is the QUESTION which now
agitates Mass lchusetts papers and people.
In Butler county there are fifteen
Democrats and nineteen Republicans an
nounced as candidates for the office CT
sheriff.
The Cuban insurgent Colonel Pepillo
Gonzalez has died from lock- jaw resulting
from wounds received in an action with
the Spanish troops.
Mrs Polk, the widow Of the RI. Rev.
Leouidas Polk, Bishop OF Louisiana aud
Confederate general, died al New Orleans
on Saturday mig ut.
There Is a man in the I,eDitentiaTy At
Michigan City who was sent there for
black-niailing John G. New, the new Treas
urer of The United States.
On Saturday last jeremiah Barto, after
saving the lives OF two men ii log jam on
Cook run near WiiliamspOrt, was himself
caught Ia the jam ana drowned.
The most curious freak Of one OF the
recent cy clones il Georgia was the diving
Of hickory tree about two feet IN dame
ter about four feet into the ground.
The pastors refusal 10 kiss the good
book may have been in fulillment 81 an
earnest resolve and promise To his wife to
stop this kissing business somewhere
DIR. Glenn, of California. has Just sold
lis last years wheat for $500. 90. He
isn't 4 ''bicated aTistocrat,' either. but
simply plain. honest UillcT Of the soil.
A brolize arm, used by the Danes acaT-
ly two centuries ago for holding the ashes
of burned bodies. has been presented 10
the Academy Of Sciences, Of Chicago.
Rev. Francis Suang, of We>tleld, Ti>
oga county. father of Hon. b. b. S:rang.
died last week. lie had preached for forty
years in the community where be died.
The bin Withdrawing the State grants
from the Catholic Bishops has passed it,
second reading in the Prussian Chamber Of
Peers, and been signed by the Emperor.
William L. Brattau. drummer for
Mentzer & Co. grOcers Of Philadelphia,
was arrested in Carlisle on "Wednesday,
for the commission Of a rape on . young
Lady of ChambeTsburC.
The LumjermcH'5 Gazette does not
take hopeful view of the lumber trade
this spring, and predicts great falling of
in the amount produced without any cor
responding increase in prices.
The Adventists Of Chicago assembled
Monday night in private way, and waited
until nearly morning with their white
robes in readiness for the expected coming
Of Christ. They finally dispersed quietly.
The Nauch Chunk Gazette denies the
truth Of the report that the friends Of
Hon Asa Packer viii present his name to
the Democratic State Nominating Conven-
tion as a candidate for Governor of Penn
sylvania.
-QuadTuplets have proved fortune 10
a young couple in Brattlebore, Vt. The
babies are all girls, and the rush to see
them 50 great that an admission fee
was charged, and money rolled in briskly
for weeks.
The remains of Colonel 4. Hall. buried
two years ago at Fort Wayne. Ind, were
taken mp a few days ago, when 1t was
found that the process Of petriiicatinn had
transformed the body into almost solid
limestone, with fun rounded form from
head to foot, and of full size.
-Strasburg Cathedral is now beaten.
Ii no longer has the highest spire in fu-
rope. The now Church of st. Nicholas.
Hamburg, has just been finished. and the
great cross was placed on the summit a
short time since The total height is 412
feet. This is six feet higher than Stras-
burg.
Anton Linburg, while drunk. fatally
stabbed Andre johnson in his sick-ToOm at
Coilinsviile, Conn, last Friday night.
John FELTON,. who entered the room on
hearing the disturbance, was stabbed four
times, and died instantly. Fclton's wife
was dangerously stabbed. Linburg then
killed himself.
The lanterns were hung out in the
tower of the old North Church in Ba4tUa
on Sunday night, 10y Robert Newman. son
. Of the sexton OF the church who performed
the same duty hundred years ago, when
: the British took up their line Of march.
The grandson and great grandson OF Paul
Revere were also present.
Five cans of gunpoSder were left in
the vestibule of St. Francis Navier'S Cath
olc church at Cincinnati, on Saturday
night, aud material outside the basket
jFSu. 1t WAS ulSCONeItu ana lufONn IN
tie street. 1t is supposed that it was put
there to destroy the machinery of the con-
tractor who is completing tue tower.
The welcome news comes from the
northwest that the grain crop will be fully
an average one this year. The area planted
is large, and the heavy SHOWS protected
the wheat from the Injurious influences of
the frost. so that very little WAS killed.
Accounts from other sectious of the coun-
try are equally hopeful and promising.
About two thousand people TN :his
country, calling themselves the Second ADJ
ventists, prepared for the second coming
of the Messiah on Monday night last at
II O'clock, by the washing of their feet and
partaking of the Lords Supper. They
confidently predicted the coming of Christ
at a certain place about sixty miles below
Richmond, Va.
Mrc L; l. l.