The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-12-03
NeaCs Of the " eeE.

Governor CarUn, OF Quebec, the u ranu
Cross Of the Order of ST. Gregory the Great.
The editor of the Paducah SeHtisel
saw them again last week. They assumed
the forms Of fish falling from heaven in
showers.
"A bear killed in Douglass county, Ore
gon, a few days ago, weighed six hundred
pounds, and furnished seventy-hye pounds
of clear oil.
The planning mill of Jacob Sheath, at
Columbia, Pa, was taeo 10y AID incendiary
Thursday night aud totally destroyed.
Loss about $4,000.
A man named Kressly has been ar
rested for the murder of Mis-. Joseph
Schneck, of Lehigh county, which occurred
about ten days ago.
AT Allentown three cannon balls were
dug up from depth of three feet. They
;ae supposed to-have been cast during the
American revolution.
Hon. NJ. G.. Kerr married his wife in
Erie, this State, when he was but eighteen
yoars old. She was a school teacher and
his senior few years.
In an alteration between two women
at Fallsburg, n. Y, a few days since, one
raised an iron poker and killed child in
the arms of the other.
Paul Morphy is not insane after all,
but is engaged assiduously in the practice
of the law, and may be seen daily upon the
streets Ot New Orleans.
AT Snithlaud, i'm Kentucky, a divorce
was granted on Thu s,iay, Nov. II, at Q
O'Clock in the morning, and the plaintiff
was married the same evening.
The Toronto Roman Catholic, have
subscribed $500 to be presented to the
police for their action on the occasion OF
the late pilgrimage riots.
AT ia county fair, recently held at Waco,
Texas, farmer rode sixty miles i'll two
hours and forty-nine minutes, eleven min
utes less than the stipulated time.
"A millionaire living at Terre Haute,
Indiana, has, during the last twenty five
years, given away nearly 81, 600, 600 for
charitable and educational purposes.
AT Pittsburgh there will be n meeting
on the 7th of December to celebrate the
centennial of the establishment of the Pres
byterian Church in Western Pennsylvania.
The commissioners Of Lchigh county
offer $500 reward for the murderer of Mrs.
Schneck, who was killed near Schnecks-
vile, few days since. The husband Of
fers 81 900 reward.
"A water spout at Harkcr's Island, n.
c., struck the dwelling of Mrs. Gaskill, a
widow, totally destroyed it, killed four of
her children, wounded another, and swept
the sixth---a baby-a way.
"A large aerolite fell into the river a..
Ottawa, very near the Suspension Bridge,
last week. Its appearance was that of n
large globe of fire, and the spray caused by
its fall was distinctly visible.
An English clergyman who has ecent-
ly visited Salt Lake has given currency to
the idea that the Mormons are maturing q
project to purchase the Holy Land, and
set themselves mp in Jerusalem.
"A man of Mt. Vernon, Ill, on getting
out of bed one morning. not long ince,
stepped upon the body of his daughter,
who sleeping the floor, crushin 2
her chest, and killing her Instantly.
John Scanned, who was tried in New
York last week for the murder of Thomas
Donahue, has been declared not guilty, on
the ground of insanity. THE judge ex-
pressed dissatisfaction with the verdict and
remanded Scanned.
1t is n curiuus satire on the course of
human events that Seward, Chase, Sumner,
Greeley and now Wilson have died oufcasts
from the party they founded, and that
Grant. Butler, Morton and Logan are in
stalled as it's leaders.
A woman in Virginia City, Nevada,
who had been bedriddsn for months, had
to be carried out of the bonse during the
late fire, and within half an hour from til n
her great fright. had effected complete
cure of her inlirmity.
Mrs. Livermore saws girls are not par
ticular enough about the men they marry.
Mrs. Stone, of Omaha, is so particular
about the man she married that she takes
her sewing to his Office and sits there al
day, till he is ready to go home.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 26tl
/ uitimO says that the schooner Sunshine
hence for Coos Bay, is ashore bottom uI
at mouth of the Columbia River. She i.
reported to have had thirty passengers
besides a crew of ten. All are supposed tC
| be lost
DR.. Davis and wife, sentenced to be
hanged at Ottawa, Canada, for causing the
! death, by malpractice, of Jane Vaughn
| Gilmore. gave information hich led to The
arrest of the seducer, aud their sentence
was thereupon committed to Imprisonment
| for life.
Moses Dickson, aged 64, farmer o.
! Amherst, Mass, WAS found murdered il
his house on Saturday night, his head be
! ing smashed i'll with an axe. The murderer
! was doubtless tramp whom he hired two
weeks before, and the murder was done
! for money.
John Frederick Gunter went from
! Chicago penniless to Australia. twenty
three years ago. He now advertises in the
! Chicago newspapers that he is able anC
| willing 20 help his relatives, and invite:
! them To write to him. And won't lie heal
| from them?
The Warren Ledger says that there
| will he but few sheriff's sales in that coun
! ty this winter, for the reason that proper
! ty will sell for nothing, and plaintiffs have
no money to Pay costs. The Brook will,
! Jefersonidn advertises ono hundred ant
! eleven sberiff-s sales.
Coal Oil Johnny" instead of working
! as labor;ng man on Il railroad, is at pres
ent buildiug a fence around a 20O-acr
/ farm which he lately purchased in Califer
MIA. He saved SIS, 900 out Of the genera
! wreck, and "Johuny' has become a gran
! ger and is doing well.
In the reconstruction of the Hotel dt
Vile, Paris, machine is used for cutting
| stone which does in one day tho work o.
ID men. 1t is composed of two revslvine
! cylinders furnished with marble hammers
by means of which the stone is separated
with great rapiaity and precision.
! Billings. a farmer of Wapello county
] La. has walked from Keith shnrr to NJ,