The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-05-07
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The husband of Ida Greeley has been
a widower since 1869.
None OF the fifteen prisoners who es-
capped from the Allegheny work ho1se,
lately burned. have been recaptured.
The consecration ana invcstiture of
Archbishop Williams took place in the new
Catholic cathedral in Boston on Sunday
last.
Cardinal McCloskey must be deriving
a pleasant little income from marriage fees.
About one day is the number Pity the
poor priests
A man in Weld county, Colorado, re-
Gently paid 5000 for his wife, giving
81, COO I'm cash, and the deed Of a farm
worth $4,000.
w. f. Doughrrty. Of Harrisburg, Is
warmly urged by several Democratic jour
mails fer the Democratic nomination for
State Treasurer
Early Tuesday morning Wesley Van
Dusen, a wealthy and eccentric farmer az
Hudson. y. Y, shot his mother dead and
then killed himself.
At a spelling match in Gambia. y. II.
a few evenings age, Desc III Ezekiel Lane,
So years old. spelled down all the young
folks and took the first Prize.
The library OF the great naturalist
Audubon was burned with the residence
of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lucy Bakewell,
at Shelbyvile, Ky, few days ago.
An Indiana Judge has decided that
jf woman will shorten pie-crust with but
ter at thirty eight cents a pound, her hus-
band has good cause for divorce.
Three fishing boats were lost on Lake
Michigan during the gale of Thursday
night. Their crews numbered IL men.
\ barge with four men on board is also re-
ported lost.
Water froze to n thickness OF fully
half an inch at Omaha ON Saturday night.
! light snow, mingled with rain. fell all
Sunday afternoon, bat did not lay on the
ground long.
1t Is related that man died recently
at san Rafael, Cal, who had lived there
for eleven years ard no one knew his
name, his tongue Jeing paIalyzed and he
unable to write.
Emperor William has signed the bill
aboishing all mouastcries in Germany
This action is due to the influence OF Bis
marck, who threatened &c resign unless the
bill became law.
The jury in the case of Daniel Dough-
erty. charged with tile murder of George
Major, chief burgess &C Mahony City. on
the night Of the 31sf Of October, 1874 req
dered a verdict Of not guilty.
-IiodeTicil Mutt. father of Commodore
Mutt died in Manchester. y. H.. last
week. ''Gonc," as the Philadelphia LsT>
ger would say. 'EJut Mutt forgotten
Gone to await the crack of doom.
The breaker at Douts & Blumcard-
ner's collierr, rear Shamakin. Pa. was
burned Tuesday night by an iuceniiarv.
Loss $l6o, 00o. Two hundred men and boys
arc thrown ont Of employment by this fire
1t seems that the unrepentant rebels
of New Orleans are never going 10 cease
perso cHting the gentle caTpct>baggers
The last act of outrage was indictiug five
of them for trying to briJe The Legislature.
They propose to move the sarcophagus
containing the bones Of Washington to
Philadelphia, for exhibition at the Centen-
nial. This is the worst yet. lie could not
lie while living and now they won't let
him lie.
The Washington Star is sassy. 1t
says: Between the women of New ! ork
who run after handsome ae.erS. and the
women Of Brooklyn who ran after popular
preachers, it is hard to say which lot are
the biggest idiots.
John Steele or ''coai-o;l Johnnv.'' as
be Is sometimes called. iS how living on a
farm three miles from Pittsburgh. and like
an honest man attends 10 his own business
and lets every body else alone. lie be-
longs TO the granccrs.
y yaung widow grioved herself to
death in u month. in Lackawaxen. Pa.
over he demise Of her husband. The in
consderate wife lost sight of the mother,
and left TO the cold charity Of the world
two children, one aged two years and the
other nine weeks.
Rose Sewen. wLitc. the wife of a
colored man of Boston. was found dead in
her room on Saturday morning, and her
body badly burned. Several colored men
were arrested who are supposed to have
killed the woman and then burned the body
to hide the crime.
There is living in East Machias a Child
who has two parents, two grandfathe-s
two grandmothcrs, two great grandfathers,
two great -grandmothers, aud one great
great-gTandmother, all living within the
limits of the town, the latter being but
seyenty-two years old.
There is great excitement at Exeter
y. H., and vicinity over the discovery of
rich silver and lead deposits on the farm of
Asa Brown at Raymond. a party at Ports
mouth has bought paIt of the farm, and is
working it, and negotiations arc pending
for the sale of the rest.
The EceniHg Post says that the steam
er City of Hartford, when passing through
the East River Monday morning ian into
and capsiZed Il scow on which were Cap
tain Costa, his wife asd four children. the
eldest OF whom was seventeen years. The
four children were drowned.
LAST week a gentleman living near
Va. lost several sheep killed
by dogs. lie then took one Of the sheep
'Iiu p'it oNi thHIuS III ist St ltidlltltIcS upon
Ii, and the next morning there were 81
dead dogs in the lield, the farthest one OF
not being 100 yards from the body of the
dead sheep.
"A Milwaukee girl was seen staggering
along with bundle of unfinished shirts ON
her shoulder, and, struck by her beauty. a
Green Bay banker proposed for her hand .
and made her his bride. Milwaukee girls .
now offer TO make shirts for twenty-five
cents per dozen and wait six months for
their pay.-Detroit Free Prese.
The town of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was
almost totally destroyed by fire on the 9th
ult. The burnt district is one and half
miles long and half mile wide. Nearly
all the business houses were burned, includ- !
ing the banks and the principal hotels. .
The loss will not be less than 81, 600, 600, /
The fire originated in the saw-mill of Nor +