The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-05-14
Neys cnd FOtttlcaJ Items.

Father Thomas Burke is reported to
be seriously ILL.,
"A fallen tree recently found in Victoria
measured 4S0 feet in height.
"A man is just now astonishing Parls
by catching a heavy ball fired from a can
non.
The Prince Bishop of Breslau has been
deposed for violating the German ecclesi-
astical law.
Miss Sarah J. Lewis has been elected
county superintendent OF common schools
in Tioga county.
i. IS said that the sapphire ring alone,
Pope, costs $500.
Another Theodore Tilton has turned
MP. He was drawn as Common Pleas
juror i'll Pittsburgh few days ago
Colonel Isaac Rosecrans, brother OF
the General, was married in Denver, re-
Gently, to Miss Jennie E. Downing.
MIR. John Sheridan, father of Lieut..
Gen. Sheridan, died at his residence in
Somerset Ohio, on Thursday, of dropsy.
Mrs. Gaskins, of Carteret county, y.
c., s'weighs go pounds, and one of her
stockings holds bushel Of shelled eorn.'
The steamship Cadiz was lost near
Brest while on her trip from Lisbon to
London and sixteen persons were drowned.
-Lewistown has hen which laid a sort
OF nearly the usual size, with smaller one
attached to it.
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Company and its dependent lines have sub
scribed half a million of dollars to the Cen
tennial celebration
The New York Herald, of Sunday,
printed the particulars OF the loss of the
steamer Schiller in both German and Eng
lish, on the same sheet.
flIa 1t IL Tgr
the murder Of Mrs. Hannah, at his hotel
in that city, bas been found guilty Of muir
der in the second degree.
A GenoCse MAJ chioness has recently
made the Pope a donation of $50, 600 a
year, to be paid as long as the present
troubles Of the church last.
The Nilcsburg foundry, machine shops,
grist mill and wagon shops at Milesburg,
IN Centre county, Pa, were burned one
day last week. Loss $40. 600.
Henry Fisher, of Phnnixville. Pa.
within thrre months buried his father, his
child, ais wife. and on Wednesday last
+ died himself, leaving boy Of four and a
gill of eight years.
Daniel +. Davis, OF Reading. is 70
years OF age, IS inches in height, weighs
81 pounds is C"od locking and unmarried,
and has never been in the show business.
he is attending commercial college.
Maggie Conucl! has sued John Blue,
oFPittsburgh, for breach of promise. Last
July lie engaged himself to Maggie, and
last week he married another maid. He
wasn't true Blue, and she wants 50, 000
damages.
Frank Mason and Miss Candies Clifford,
of Owen, Ky, clipped on horseback. Their
steeds dropped dead with fatigue before
they could reach the parsons house, and
they finished tleir flight on foot. But
they succeeded.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says that OF
the eighteen mCu who have occupied the
Presidential chair, twelve have been law
NerS. five soldiers and one a statesman.
The honor Of being the last named is given
to james Madison.
"A Cleveland woman recently married
q Chinese laundryman and i'll three days
thereafter the unhappy celestial appeared
AT barber's shop ard ordered his pigtail
cut Oft saying IN explanation Too
muchec dam yank.'
A pair or boots that once belonged to
George Washington are now i'm the pos
session of Philadelphia gentleman. Their
size very plainly indicates why nobody
ever ventured to give the father of his
country any sass
Princess Gall;tzin, of Russia, has ins
vented a new bridal veil. which fits on to
the shoulders and looks like mosquito
wings. Under the hallucination Of love
wearcr more angelic than ever.
This is from the pen of the wicked
Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier
Journal at is said that Secretary Robe
son seriously thinks of burning the half
dozen or so old tubs that are left, and of
adopting Paul Boyton as the United States
navy
"A Reading fellow, reduced to idiocv
by the balloon fever, announces his inten-
tion to make an ascension during the COM
ing summer. and when two miles above
the earth, jump from the balloon aud de
pend upon a parachute 20 bring him safely
to solid ground.
"A dispatch from Hornellsville, y. y.
says that the Portage bridge, on the Erie
railroad, said to be the largest wooden
bridge in the world, and which spanned
the Genesse river and falls, va, burned last
Thursday night There will be no inter
Tuption of trains.
"A team or horses belonging to Patrick
Kearins ran away in Mauch Chunk. and
two children in the carriage would have
been killed had not a young man on the
street quickly picked mp a stone and hurled
it at the team. crushing in the skull of one
of the horses, which fell dead in the harness.
AT Chiffon, Wis, on Saturday, a one
armed soldier named George Miller shot
John Namis, proprietor of the new Holstein
Hotel. and Henry Knehls. hostler. and
then proceeded TO the cemetery and shot
himself. OF the three, only Knehls can
recover. The cause was a quarrel about n
board bill.
Miss Braddon is about to write novel
in which the hero and heroine elope across
the English channel in Captain Boyton' S
1 life dresses, while the enraged papa follow
ing behind with pair of cork floats be-
comes exhausted, and is taken on board
by the happy pair whom he then and there
forgiyes and blesSes.
"A pastoral from Cardinal Manning
was read in all the Roman Catholic
churches of England on Sunday last. II
protests against the persecution of the
/ Church in Germany and Switzerland, and
accuses Prince Bismarck of seeking 10
raise the arimosity of the powers against
/ the freedom of the next conclave.
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