The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-10
Ne1cs and Of1.cr Notings.

The Centennial buildings are. to be
sold at auction on December 1st.
"A salmon was recently caught in the
Susquehanrrn, near Harrisburg, weighing
ten and half pounds.
Two negroes, named Hayes and
Wheeler, had a fight in Charlotte, n. C.,
Friday. Hayes got licked.
-Pompey Graham, oolored, of Walden,
Orange county, New York, is 167 years old
as nearly as can be calculated.
"A young man of Northumberla
county, named Lesher, recently husked
100 bushels of corn in ten hours.
John Barr, of Wellsville, Allegheny
county, recently struck his sister in a fit of
anger, and in Iemorse shot himself.
"A young man named Daniel Weidlcr
has been arrested in Lancaster county for
setting fire to four barns in one night.
---Monsigaor-N.-Na -Nannutli,- Under Secre
tary of State, has been appointed successor
ad iatertna-of the late Cardinal Antoneli.
This is good season for bears. Six
were recently killed in Tioga county, one
of them weighing over five hundred pounds.
VIII Heilman, promising young man
of Little Rock, Ark, on Friday fell sixty
feet from pecan tree and was instantly
killed..
All marriages of Catholics in the do
cese Of Baltimore, according to the decision
of Archbishop Bayley, must take phce in
day light - - ----z-.-.l
There is Franciscan convent and a
monastery of the same order, composed
entirely of Indian converts, at Cross Valley,
Michigan.
The ceal-minipg towncf Sugar Notch,
near Whkesbarre. was nearly destroyed by
fire on Saturday night, the work of in
cendiaries.- -'~
Rev. Mr.. Murphy, a Baptist preacher
at Meriden, Conn, has become Roman
Catholic, and i'll soon be ordained to the
priesthood.
Bishop Purcell. of Cincinnati, was re-
Gently presented with n magnificent OIL
painting of himself, by few Of his person
al friends.
"A boa constructor eight feet long was
captured fortnight ago in the hold of
ship that arrived Mt Greenock, Scotland,
from the West Indies.
The number of postal cards issued dur
ing October was %, 116, 600, the largest for
any month since the introduction Of the
CARDS. three years ago.
Mrs. Richard Smith and two sons Of
119 Congress street, Brooklyn, have been
arrested, charged with an attempt TO poison
the husband and father.
Jacob Donaldson, Of Washington coun-
ty, while gathering nuts n few days ago e
from tree, distance of forty feet, aud
escaped with only trifiing injury.
Charles Stafford. of Meadville. for
ou:raging a girl has been sentenced to the
penitentiary in Allegheny for fifteen years
and to pay 81, 900 fine-the full exr enf.
The goveInmenthas cost since its foun-
dation trifie over fifteen thousand million
dollars. That is il started without con
tinental, and now is n billionaire.
Mr.. Isanc Ray, the father nf negro
minstrelsy, died in Kentucky last Wednes-
day. in the seventy-second year of HIS sge
lie lived long enough to be ashamed of his
offspring.
L. T.. Jefforis, a young man aged
about twenty years, book. keeper for Me-
Omber & Taber, of Parker. was suddenly
stricken blind while posting his books
Friday afternoon.
Forty years ago the entire Catholic
population of St. Louis, No, heard mass
in single chapel now, it is said. there
are $50, 600 Catholics i'm St. Louis and about
sixty churches and chapels.
"A party of negroes broke into the res
ideuce of Mr.. Hausman, near Aiken. ;. G.
Friday night, and murdered Mr.. II. and
his nephew. After robbing the premises
the murderers fired the dwelling.
The farmers of iWyandoitc county
Kansas having been for several months
annoyed by horse thieves, appointed an ex-
termination day, hanged two of the cul
pri:s, and drove the rest out of the region
The Hengle Honse, second rate
German boarding house III Little Rock,
Ark, was destroyed by fire on Sunday.
Two men-Patrick Shea and John Cooney-
persisted in the flames. They were both
stone cutters. Cd. ...
A confused dog at Wallincfar Conn.
last Thursday, leaped in through a large
pane of glass in the folding doors of the
postoffice, and almost Immediately ieaprd
back through the pane of The other door
and ran away.
Henry Harley was istely, arrested at
ON City, charged with fraud and conspirn-
cy. The arrest grew out of the Pennsyl-
vania Transportati ion Con- pany fairs now
under investigation by committee of the
associated pipe lines.
Mrs. Bridget Fay. a female pauper in
mate Of Lougford Workhouse, England.
climbed up the face of the Workhouse ike
a cat and rang bell at height of thirty
or forty feet for three hours, in defiance of
the Workhouse Master.
--A passenger train going west on the
ONO and Mississip ippi railroad on Saturday
afternoon, collided with freight train.
near SHOALS lndiaua. An engineer and
fireman weie killed and several passengers
sustained slight injuries.
A Christian Convention is called tC,
meet IN Chicago this month, to which rep
leSentatiVes of the various evangelical de-
nominations are invited. 1t will be con-
Quoted under the direction of Mr. Moody
ana the pastors of that city.
There seems to be an opinion now
that the Centennial Exhibition will be kept
open for a considerable time after the 10Th
instant. Such course would be of great
profit TO the numberless trinket sellers, en-
abling them to unload" to good aSvan-
tage. i.-s-sr a
The bones of a skeleton in a sitting
position were recently exbumed by work
men near Salem, Massachusetts. The
sknii was oil immense proportions. The
relics were delivered over TO professors.
and now probably they are puzzling them
wise old heads over them
Nine cars and a locomotive we're PIC
cipitated thrcugba a bridge a distance Of
thirty feet on the baltimore and Ohio road
two miles east of Moundsville. o.. FRIDAY