The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-12
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ter is irving TO starye himself 20 death.
Mrs. Z. r.. Jones. of Grandyiew, Ia,
Wbitelaw Reid 5 cousin, is a Notary Publ G
Thousands of prairie chickens and
orail have been frozen to death this winter
out West.
Senator Wallace i. is understood viii
make a speech On the Pinchback question
now before the Senate.
Ella Cramer. aged twenty, has mystic
riousIy disappeared from Tiffin. o, and is
supposed 10 have been murdered.
AT indianapolis. last Monday night.
brute named Lewis Bishop cut his wife 5
throat because she refused to live with him
any longer.
1T has been colder in Sweden this win
ter than in any other civilized country.
In Furudal the thermometer marked sixty
degrees below zero
A terrible tale Of starvation comes
from Asia Minor. where twenty thousand
in one district nave died since the begin
ming Of the fsnline.
-Four men killed themselves or were
murdered 10y their frenzied companions IN
drunken orgies over the wreck OF the Dark
Giovanni on Cape Cod.
AT the funeral of a lady at Windsor,
Conn, a few days ago, her husband aud
two sons Oficiated as pall-bearers, by her
request. no others assisting them
"A daughter was born TO the japanese
Minister Yoshida, at Washington, on
Thursday She is the first child Of Japan
csc parents born in the United States
Quite a margin. 4 tax collector last
week seized thousand dollars worth of
freight on the O..wego Midland railroad,
to settle a picayune debt of fifty cents
"A hound chased fox seventy miles,
in Adams and Perks counties. the other
day, captured and killed it. and vas found
exhausted by the side "f the dead bpdy.
An old Colorado miner claims to have
discovered a silver mine that promises as
well as the Newburvport mine in Massa-
chusettS. not ten miles from Portland, Me.
AT Sunbury. Pa. on Friday night, the
dwelling house of Mr. @. Schry was burned
to the ground Two children Perished in
the flames. Mrs Schry is probably fatally
burned.
The man who predicted a mild and
open winter. because the hair on squirrel
tails was not as thick as usual. had his
ears frozen four inches deep the other
morning.
Three Georgia sisters whom the war
reduced from great wealth to extr eme
poverty went into the sheep-Taising bUsl-
ness three years ago and are now making
money rapidly.
About the fifteenth of the month
party. including Senators Cameron, Den
MS, Goldon. Morton. Ransom and others,
will make a trip 10y way of New Orleans to
the City of Mexico.
Our new United States Seatnr. Hon.
VIM. 4. Wallace. has been placed on the
following standing committees: ApprO>
priations, Manufactures, and Revision of
the Laws Of the United States.
A family named Mark, Of Gray town
ship. Centre county, was poisoned one day
last week by eating ''wurst' from an earth
EN- crock. The glazing of the vessel had
become mixed with the ''wurst."
-Gladstone appears again in answer
to DR.. Newman and Archbishop Manning
on the DEGREES of the Vatican Council.
The y. Y. Tribune f Saturday publishes
several columns from advanced sheets.
At keeUe's Station. y. Y. a man fei
dead 1,i,on hearing of the failure uf bank
where he had deposited $500. and his wife
also did within week. from the same
cause combined with the loss Of her hus-
band.
Governor Moses. Of South Caro-
lima. has filed a petition in bankruptcy.
placing his liabilities at $92, 4ji.j0, and
his assets at $1,000 in personal property
and some very misty POSSESSIONS IN real
estate.
Brown. y no Is t. be hanged at Potts
vile on the oath inst, for the murder of
an old couple named Kramer, on Thus
day made a confession of his guilt. aud
stated that he had no accomplice in tie
crime.
1t is said that the Pore viii create four
new archiepiscoPal provinces in North
America at Easter, and that he will make
Archbishop Manning a cardinal in Eng>
land. This news is confirmed in a dispatch
from Rome.
And now the buffalo Courier has gone
into the couuuirum business. This is the
latest. unaTsw werable enc : erred Grant
and his wife are about to return to Chi
cago. BY the way, what does that young
man do for living?"
Tie latest turtle story: 4 terrapin
was recently found in field in Robertson
county. Ky, with the following names in
scribed on it's shell: "E. Aslcrsft. 1922
y. ~ BTattc:, 1855; William Wood, 1853
and H. a. Wood. 1864.
The Thames river at Norwich. Conn.
is frozen solid to the bottom 4 trotting
horse fell dead on the lie there the other
day, and The owner cut grave eight feet
deep in the ice without coming to water,
and buried the horse in it.
There was a male child born few
days ago to married couple in Gloucester
City. \. J.. the father being in his eight
ieth year and the mother in her SEVENTEEN.
They had been married twenty-five years,
and this is their first child.
Joshua Bailey of Cohoes Falls, y. Y,
promised the bulk of his fortune to which
ever of his nephews raised the largest
family of boys. W. ". Bailey Of Waver-
ley, Iowa, raised five boys, aud got 50, 000,-
600 at the death of his uncle.
There is a man of genius in Massa-
chusetts who processes to have traded
horses thirty seven times, and to have
cheated the other man every time and
yet, when his wife died the other day, he
promised to meet her in heaven.
"A contemporary thinks the. best way
to enjoy things is to use them, and sees
very little sense in having a gorgeously
furnished parlor and allowing it to remain
in darkness. while the family occupy
dingy sitting room in the back building.
The contractors who have undertaken
to furnish 240. 600 headstones for the
national cemeteries cut the names in their
works at Rutland, Vt, by means of the
sand blast. This cuts name in four min
utes, and they complete 500 stones daily.