The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-12-24
-NesCS Of the WeeE.

BY the suspension Of 1S0 coIIieries on
Saturday about %, 600 persons were thrown
out of employment.
! -Tilslen for President and Kerr for
Vice President, is the ticket now talked Of
by enthusiastic New Workers..
Through n shaft near Wilkesbarre, on
Thursday, George Davis fell a distance of
800 feet and wHs instantly killed.
The Chicago Times, speaking of Bish-
op Haven, says ''thcre seems to be q good
deal Of madness in his Methodisn.''
Wyoming seems to have tired of wo-
man suffrage, and the prospects are that
the bill will be repealed before long.
For the murder Of Frank Doud, in
scranton, a short time since, Walter Writ
taker has been sentenced to an imprison-
! ment OF eleven years and ten months.
Hon. jefferson Walker colored, repre-
sentative from Monroe county, Mississippi,
has just been imprisoned for hog stealing.
The Emperor of Brazil will embark at
Rio Janeiro on the 26th of March for New
York. to begin his tour of Nor til America
and Europe.
Jacob Donahouer, who committed sui
eide in Reading OH Friday, is said to have
passed SOC, 600 in counterfeit money, and
yet he died poor.
"A Wilkesbarrc woman had a man
arrested for saying, ''Billywilly
BOOM" She swore before Justice that he
meant to murder her.
Bishop McNierny (Catholic). of AL
bany, has ordered all the priests of his dio-
cese to refuse absolutiOn to- any members
OF their congregations who participate IN
''round'' dances.
Jeremiah 8. Colbeath, uncle of Henry
Wilson, denies the story which has been
going the rounds that the late Vice Presi-
dent was descendant of gypsy and was
born IN gypsy camp.
The Pennsylvania Legislature of 1174
was very particular, and accordingly "Ite-
solved that hereafter no member shall
come into the chamber barefooted nor eat
bread and cheese on the steps Of the capi-
tol''
"A female near Pot.stown made a mar
row escape from death recently, by acci-
dentally closing the damper in the stove,
thus throwing all the gas in the room A
damper should not be made to close all the
draft.
William Rochester, aged seventy-three,
was found dead in the Pittsburgh Lookup
on Saturday. When his situation was dis
covered he was sitting in an upright po-
sltion. He died from intcmperancc and ex-
pOsure.
George L. Rufin, Esq, well known
colored lawyer, has been elected member
of the Boston Common Council. He is the
first citizen of African descent who has
ever been elected to a municipal office in
that city.
Levi Hartstine, OF Pottstown, hung
his watch on a nail in his bed room the
other evening, and all night long the ticker
continued to oscillate like a clock pendu-
lum. 1t is thought the house is bewitched
by evil spirits.
james Carr, eighteen years of age,
was found frozen to death On the Merri-
mack river, at Lowell, Mass, on Satul day
night. woodchopper named Mullen was
found frozen to death near Tremour, n.
II. He had been drinking.
The President is credited with an OBJ
servation somewhat too lively for his wits
| When he heard of Blaine's blank refusal
! to vote on the third term question: he said !:
: blaine needn't be so damn careful. He
| don't stand in nybody's way"
William b. Astor smoked dollars
! worth OF cigars a day, aud yet, see how
! rich he got to be. But parents, in spite of
such facts, keep on lecturing their sons
! about extravagant habits if they happen to
! catch 'em smoking five cent cheroot.
| "A nice point for casuists has Just been
raised in Montreal. Two men were quar-
relling on st. Francis Xavier street and A
knocked B down, whereupon a horse,
alarmed at the struggle, kicked B on the
head and killed him. What is A guilty
| Of?
An Iowa woman the other day gave
birth 10 perfectly formed female child,
which weighed less than eight ounces. 1t
is doing we'll Its father weighs 175 pounds;
its mother is of medium size. A previous
child of the same parents weighed eleven
pounds.
"A. a meeting of the principal business
men of Pittsburgh, held on Friday, resolu-
tions were adopted condemning the present
bankrupt law as tending to unsettle trade
| and mercantile confidence by opening a
path for fraud, and asking Congress for
tlier modification.
The steamship Saler, which took the
place of the steamship Mosel from Bremen
| haven, arrived at Southampton on Sunday
and started for New York, taking sixty Of
the passengers of the wrecked Deutschland.
She was thoroughly examined, and no ex-
plosives were found.
Grandpa Grant didn't forget Nellie
and tho baby in his message, but invited
the attention of Congress to some law reg
ulating the status of our giIls who marry
foreigners and our boys who happen to be
born abroad. Grant amt going to forget
the family, you know.
Martin Ritter, living at Flabush, near
RondOut, n. Y, fractured his wife's > skull
with hammer, and then committed sui
cioe by cutting his throat. 1t was thought
on Friday that the woman would recover.
The couple had lived unhappily on ac-
count Of difference Of religion.
I'm Virginia, Mr.. Allen Hannah has
married Miss Hannah Allen, and now Miss
Hannah Allen is Mrs. Hannah Hannah,
and is, perhaps, the only woman in the
world whose whole name can be spelled
backward the same as forward. That's
what's the matter with Hannah.
Peter Hammond, who was born in
Newtown, Massachusetts,, i'm April, 1776,
is now living in Henry county, Illinois
His father was one of the men who threw
the tea from the English vessel into Boston
haIbor. He is still hale and healthy, with
, the prospect of many years before him.
Jacob Schriver who has been missing
, from Minersville, Pa, for some weeks, wa,
, on Friday last found dead in an old stone
i house in horrible condition, covered Will
vermin and his face was partly eaten away
by rats, and portions of his arms were bar,
! to the bone. He had been drinking hare
lately