The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-07-16
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Iaahly mentioned as the DemocratIe candl-
date for State Treasurer.
-Jchh and Elialxim Wright, brothers,
after a separation of forty-iive years, found
each other in Homer, y. \.
"A three-legged baby was born in Shell
burn. Indiana, the other day-or, perhaps,
to be precise, the other night.
Prince Arthur, the Duke of Con-
naught. has purchased Buckingham castle
at Bovle. county Sligo, Ireland, and intends
to make it his residence in the future.
A millionaire Of Granville, Wis, has
recently made a WILL in which he leaves
$50, 600 to any incorporated town or village
in Wisconsin that will not tolerate a brass
band.
The Pope has sent 10 the Shah of
Persia, by tho archbishop of Heracla, a
Florentine mosaic table and a bronze model
of the triumpbal arch of Septimus Seyorus
Of Rome.
Under the ruins Of an old castle in
Germany was recently found n hens nest
full of eggs. They had been there twelve
hundred years hidden from the light and
the air and the changes of temperature.
George II. Price, the express rhessen-
ger. who killed the rob5er in his car on the
Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne railroad, has
been voted 81, 600 in gold by the board of
T IN
-Evarts is building barn with the
925, 600 he got out Of the Becchcr business.
The neirhboring farmers who have seen it
pronounce the true inwardness of that barn
to be something fearful in agricultural ar
chtecture.
In Romney, Hampshire county. w.
Va, negro woman named Florence
Hardy left her twin infants, few months
old, in bed and in her absence the rats ate
two fingers and laid an arm bare TO the
bone as far as the elbow"
Mrs. Gen. sherman has taken up her
pen to defend bcr husband from the charge
of personally experimenting the hm ming
of cotton factory in Georgia and con-
vent in South Carolina. She says also
that Gen. Sherman doesn't swear.
Tho Beechcr case has been a big bo-
nanza for the lawyers. Mr.. Evarts re-
ccived $4,000, Mr.. Tracy $40 000. Mr..
! Hill 81. 900. Mr.. Beach s., 600. Mr.. Fuller
ton 50. 500, Mr. Morris 50, 500 and MIR.
| Pryor 50. 500. Mr.. Shearman refused to
accept money for his services
"A series of interesting experiments
have inst been made at Toulon. France,
on board an iron clad. for the purpose of
working the rudder by steam power. BY
means Of this invention one man can do in
/ ten seconds what it required eight men to
perform in n minute and a half nnder the
/ former system.
| The remains of ex-C Chief Justice Wood
ward, who died recently a. Rome, reached
Wi1kesbarrc on Thursday night, having
been brought to New York direct from
Ierhorn A committee Of TIE bar of Lu-
! zerne received the remains at New York
and escorted them to WiKesbare, where
the funeral took place Saturday.
"A handsome testimonial has been pri-
vatelv presented to Cardinal Manning on
! behalf Of the lay Catholics, chiefly peers,
/ 4s-.r .l,a -.
recently bestowed upon him by the Pope.
The testimonial took the form of a sum OF
money amounting to nearly G.500, yclun-
tary coDtl ibuted, toward which the Duke
OF Norfolk subscribed 81, 000
Miss Lena Hebb. aged nineteen, and
Miss Cecilia keibert, aged seventeen, were
killed by lightning. on Wednesday of last
week, in St. Mary's county. Md. The
Young ladies were seated near the door of
the residence OF Walter Hebb, when tree
about ten feet distant was struck. and they
were instantly killed. Miss Kcihcrt was
fiom Baltimore on visit to Miss Hebb.
"A man of about fifty and woman of
about forty-fivc years of ago were found
drowned in the lake at Waukcgon, Ills,
on Sunday afternoon. They had been lott
eIing about the place on Saturday. They
We're entirely unknown in the vicinity, and
it is supposed they deliberately committed
suicide by walking into the water. Tho
Cononer's jury rendered verdict of found
drowned.
-Thos. Malone, who was employed in
Flieschman's yeast factory at Blissvile,
Long Island, met with n terrible death
last week The foreman of the factory
being absent, Malone approached large
tank of boiling yeast and was in the act Of
stirring it when, losing his balance, he fell
into the liquid and was literally boiled to
death, the skin being completely stripped
from his body.
In Delaware county there is cat that
has distinguished herself. An eagle picked
up pussy recently. and flew skywards.
| The cat inserted its claws in the breast of
the bird, and a few we'll directed scratches
caused n rapid descent-the eagle and its
prey landing in bog, when ohe former let
go and the cat swan ashore. AS the bird
scared away it seemed glad to be rid of SO
ugly a customer.
ERev. Dir. p. F. Moriarty's death on
Saturday last, remarks the Phla. Times,
will open another gap in the long line of
Catholic clergymen who have distinguished
themselves for piety, learning, and deeds of
prowess in the service of the Church. His
life as an Augustinian father and mission
ary has been an eventful one, and made
itself conspicuously felt in the fruitful
fields of Ireland, Italy, India and America.
"A young mother at Conway, Mass,
leaving her child in a shady place while
she picked ackberries, called to it
while after, and receiving no reply, re-
turned to find the little one completely
charmed by a brown snake, and unable to
speak or move. With a scream she caught
her child in her arms, but it quivered and
cried for an hour, and it was several days
before It passed out of the influence of the
baneful spell.
Plus TX, says Roman correspondent,
is ono Of the readiest, one of the most
fluent speakers of the day. Give him
text and, with greater promptitude than
the improvisatori can string verses together,
he can pour forth on the moment flood of
eloquence. He is born preacher, and,
had his mission been to follow in the steps
of Paul rather than those of Peter, he
would rank among the first pulpit orators
of the day