The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-14

"a musket is on exhibition at Lancas-
ter which was carried at Valley Forge and
in the battles of Bunker Hill and Lexing-
ton /; was present at the surrender of Lord
CORVALLIS at Yorktown and with Wash
ington when he crossed the Deleware. 1t
served TIN ough much of the late rebellion
and was captC red by the rebels. At Get
tysburg 1t recaptured.
1t is stated that during the Landis-
Carruth murder trial, now in progress
Mrs Lands, who has been legally separ-
ate6 from her husband, and would have
been divorced f.om bim but for the law of
the Roman Catholic church, of which she
is a devout member, interdicting it, and
Hrs. Carruth, at present in Vineland, will
both figure cDnspicuously in the trial.
Since Bishop Haven declared in favor
of another course OF Grant, the small
critics are sticking pins into him at all
points. One of the latest of the terrible
things they have discovered about the
Bishop is that not long ago he delivered
lecture on behalf Of Kalamazoo Mich
church, and took $50 for his services.
though the house did not pay expenses.
Some time since it was re ported that
the stamp tax on bank checks would Ger
tertaInly be removed at the present session
OF Congress. Now it is asserted that il
will be retained, as will also the tax on
matches. The Secretary Of the Treasury
says the government can not afford to dis
pense with these taxes, and The Committee
on Ways aud Means will not recommend
any change.
At Orleans. n. Y, one day last week.
shopkeeper hearing p rattling and sGueal-
ing in his cellar went down and discovered
large rat which in running over a pile of
clans bad been caught by the tail by one
Of tue shell-fish. The animal had dragged
the bivaive to its hole, but was unable to
pull 1t through on account of its size, and
was in this situation when il was captured
and killed.
"A novel clock has recently been placed
in the tower Of the Albany IN. Y Savings
Bank BY an ingenious arrangement the
dial is illuminated by 4 gas burner lighted
automatically at early evening twilight.
aud extinguished at daylight. This is ac
complished by means of the mechanism it
self, without the attention of any person .
and what IS still more wonderful, although
the time of daylight varies very greatly
from month to mouth, the clock lights the
gas at precisely the proper time from day
to day.
"A student in the institution at La Sal
lie, Canada, has reason to bless the mirac
ulous powers of the water of Iourdes if
what is said of its effect upon him be truc
1t arrested the hemOrrhaRe CONSEQUENT
upon the extraction of a tooth after it had
days and reduced him to a condition of
anemia similar to that recorded of the
sainted sister of Sir Perceval, through
whom the moon shone and the liph.est
west wind blew as through halo or an
aureole.
The Rev. Bernard keenan,, of s..
Mary Catholic church, Lancaster, Pa. is
now the Oldest clergyman i'll the United
States. He was born in Tyrone, Ireland.
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country IN November, 1920, with DR. Con-
well. who had just been consecrated Rishon
OF Philadelphia in London. Three wears
later he went TO Lancaster, and has bee,;
pastor of st. Mary's without Information
Tor nearly iity-four years, winning tie es-
teem and confidence of the entire com.
munity, irrespective of religious opinion.
"A lady at Bradford, n. H., has had a
narrow escape from being buried .alive.
She had been sick for some time. and had
apparently died. Preparations for the
funeral were made on the third day after
the supposed death, when il was ohserved
! as she was placed in her coffin, that one o.
the eyes was partly open. Nothing was.
! however, Thought of this, as il was thouch,
20 oe muscular contraction after death.
put when all the arrangements for the
'uherai were complete, she astonished the
"oe''uants oy sudden request to be placed
on one side. Her recovery is expected.
1t rs proposed to erect i'm Fairmount
4 fark, Philadelphia. near the Centennial
oniidings, monument one hundred feet
high, commemorative of a century's pro,
gress OF our country. The oesign is a sue
cession OF gradually diminishing star
SNAPPED stages corresponding with thu
number OF States in the Union the oriyi
hai thirteen forming the base or pedestal
Oh 'he rest. From the thirteenth State
aud at five different intervals thereafter
tne stages will be increased in height. On
these designs the statues of tho President,
W.li appear in their regular order. frou
"ashin gton to Gfsnt,