The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24
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mill in Slatersville, II. L., there are -four
pairs of twins.
MIR. Franklin Steltz, of Pottstown, ias
a double barreled fowling piece wbish has
been in his family for 1l0 years.
In Trenton, n. J., is a stallion named
Wild American. sixteen bands high, whose
name is so long that it touches the ground
when he holds his head well up.
The Thunder Bay Sentinel, Lake Su-
perior, announces the drowning of a young
man named O'Neil from breaking through
the ice on the 18th of October last.
In the case of Makowski, tried at
Potssville last week for killing his wife,
the Jury on Saturday brought in verdict
of guilty of murder in the second degree,
{ -Seventy-six years ago last Friday the
( Capitol of these United States was remov-
! cd from Philadelphia aud Washington
made the scat of the national government.
"A passenger train was thrown from the
/ track on the Iron Mountain railroad, near
/ Malvern, Mo. on Friday. by broken rail
| Twenty-eight persons were injured, but
none killed.
Eight of the original thirteen States
cast their votes for Samuel ]. Til6en-Con-
recticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland,
New Jersey, New York, North Carolina
and Virginia.
An Austin New wife says she knows
of five husbands in that town who have
been made drunkards hy the excitement of
the late political campaign, her own hus
band being one of the number.
Samuel McMurnen and ID. Holerin
were killed on the railroad near the Pan
handle Road house, in the eastern part OF
Columbus, Ohio, on Friday night, by be-
ing run over by freight train.
Charleston has seventeen representa-
tives in the lower House of tho General
Assembly. OF the seventeen nominated by
the Re epublicans. fifteen are negroes, and
of the fifteen only twelve can read and
write.
Sunday evening, as Mr.. J. B. Reese. of
Minersville. SchuylkiI county. member
of the Welsh Congregational church of
that place, was addressing the congrega-
ton he fell dead. He was about 60 years
of age.
The oldest Catholic priests in the Uni
ted States are Father Keenan,. of Lancaster
Pa; Father McElrcy, the Jesuit, who was
Chaplain in the Uuied States Army dur
ing the war; and Father Dominick Young,
the Dominican.
Senator James s. Rutan, of Bca yer,
Secretary Quay's right bower, has been
appointed collector Of customs at Pittsburg
in place Of Steel, resigned. Rutan, backed
by Mackey. Errett aud Don Cameron, had
a easy victory.
William Rank, who has sat upon the
benc'' of Lebanon county as Associate
Judge Cor more than thirty years, was re-
elected on the 9TH by a complimentary
vote Judre Rank is the oldest official of
his class i'll i've state.
The particulars Of the recent hurricane
in the West Ind1rs show the storm to have
been of unprecedented violence. The de
struction Of property or lard and sea WAS
very great. No less than f2Tty-five vessels
where wholly or partially wrecked.
AT Nelson, Louisiana. q few gays ago
a snake appeared before a house, md the
inmates ran to kill it, but tue reptil" crspt
off 10 a hole. In digging up the dirt
around the hole in order to find the snake.
= jar was found containing S400 in gold and
silver.
1t is related that during a recent pub
lie welcome given to General Butler at
Bangor, Maine, there was stretched ACROSS
a street flag bearing the motto: /: ''Wcl-
come to General Butler, the Hero OF Five
Forks and God knows how many
spoOns.'
Two men, named Mullen and Hughes,
the former a saloon keeper, the latter
counterfeiter have been arrested in Chica-
go, on the charge of attempting to steal
the remains of President Lincoln from his
tomb, in Springfield, on the night of the
9TH inst.
Governor Hartrauft has issued a var
rant for the execution, on the 18th day of
January, 1877, of Allen G. Laros, convicted
in Northampton county, on the 30th day
of August last, of the murder of Martin
Laros, and sentenced Oct. 80, 1876, to be
hanged.
The grangers' encampment bnilding,
located ut Elm station, near Philadelphia
on the Pennsylvania Railroad was totally
destroyed by fire on Friday evening. The
building and contents were valued at $780,
GOO, upon which there is an insurance of
$50, 600.
While Lord Du1erin was travelling i'm
Egypt a servant came to the door of his
tent, and said in iolorous voice. eff you
please, my lord, the corpse has come
aboard BY this depressing tile he was
pleased to designate mummy discovered
in a rock temple.
Hon. John Kelly, chief of the Tam
many Society. was married in New York
at O'Clock Tuesday morning to Miss The
resa Mullen, niece of Cardinal McCloskev.
who performed the ceremony. The we'd
ding was private one, none but relatives
of the contracting parties being present.
Whoever is our next President will
get an odd chair to sit III. 1t is made of
the skins and claws of grizzly hears. with
a ferocious head cuuningly concealed un-
der the seat, which snaps viciousiv when
touched by spring in the rear. Seth
klnman, an old hunter and.trapper, is the
maker.
The body of n daughter of p Lynch.
( fourteen years of age, was found on Mon
day night last, near Brady's Landing, Neb..
bearing marks of having Been outraged.
! Suspicion points to a tramp who was seen
near the premises the day previous and
VINO is now under arrest waiting further
developments.
The Reading Eagle says that while
Harvey, four year old son of Adam Shoe
ner, living in Marion township, was play
ing in the barnyard with seven grown per
sons and within talking distance. he fell
dead. He had several bruises on his body
and his arm was fractured. No one knows
the cause of his death.
"A Reuter- telegram from Calcutta
states that later accounts say that one
hundred and twenty thousand persons per
lshed during the cyclone which passed
| through Eastern Bengal on the 31st of
October. The Government is taking ac.