The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-18
Ne,cs and Other NOti3Igs.


lowed the business of miller for seventy
two years.
The wife of Jules Phillips, of Lock
Haven, gave birth to her eighteenth child
last week.
Louis n. Fyan, an old and prominent
citizen of Bedford, died AT his residence at
eight O'Clock Friday evening.
Young men viii take warning from the
fact tha at at II Newman, Ga, leap year party,
the other night, nine engagements were
made.
"A Uazlctou clockuTaker has constructs
ed Il fac simle OF the great clock at Stras-
bourg one third its size, with all Its AUTO
matte figures.
john NJ. Rice. q Pi.tsburgi, shoemaker,
cut his throat with his shoe knife aud be-
fore dying wrote he word Love on the
wall with his blood.
"A special chair had to he made to ac-
commUdate Representative Schleicher, OF
Texcs. lie is the biggest, if not the great
est man in Congress.
Captain Crewell, of Ludlow, Pa, pro.
poses TO exhibit at the Centennial a live
three year-old brook tront with two per-
fcctly developed heads.
Pond and Winsiow. the great forgers.
were pr, m.ncnt MethOdists, aud the NoTth-
,eestcrr Christfam fdgOc1te says: Let 40
guilty Methodist escape
1t may not appear of any particular
personal interest to any of us, but It IS 4
fact that there will he a total eclipse OF the
sun On the 11tIt of August, 1899.
Stephen Brown. BeIiefonte negro
giant, sent ore Of his children out for
sheet of writing paper the other day, and
Oh its return he was found dead.
Zachary Taylor is another Of the
American Presidents much noted III life and
neglected in death. His grave, unmarked
by single stone, isin the midst of Texan
prairie.
Mrs Kirby, widow residing in CaId-
well county, y. c., lost eight children las;
month by dipthcria four of them in such
quick succession Uh"t they were buried to-
gether.
1t is said that the Princess Beatrice of
England-who is not. previously report
ed, to marry Prince Luuis Of Bali ltenburg-
is deeply in love with the Prince Imperial
of France.
WIN. Pcrot blew his head off viii,
Springfield rifle at Pit ttsburgh on Thursday
evening. He nervod himself for the occa-
sion by drinking nearly quart of whiskey
in an hour.
In Stanislaus, No., the otLer day, a
young woman went into court with two
pats of twins, and proceeded to prove that
"A man, whom She named, should be made
to take care of them.
"A man named Galbraith, who carried
the mail at Lewistown from the depot to
the post Office, was arrested on Friday for
rObbing the mail. The evidence against
him is said to be strong.
"A child year and hal! old died in
Eergennes recently, which weighed at its
birth eight pounds, and never weighed
more than that. For the last year il
weighed only six pounds.
Benjamin Franklin introduced broom
corn into this country. While examining
an imported corn whsk nc found single
seed, which he planted in his garden.
From that seed the corn was propogated.
~ gentleman who lives not more than
a mile from the Beaver court house is the
father of twenty-~even children. He has
been married twice and had tHenty-one
children by his first wife and six by his
present wife.
Eight thousand dollars were raised in
the Secnud Presbyterian church, Williams
port, on Sunday, to pay Off the Sl2. 900 in
debtedness on the editice Hon. William y.
Armstrong and Hon. Samuel Linn each
subscribing 5000.
-Honors are easy. Bowen calls Beecher
an adulterer, n hypocrite aud u periurer,
and 8eecher responds by calling Bowen a
liar, slanderer and a scoundrel. This is
very unhappy way, however, for bretheIn
to dwell together.
MIR. J. p. HaInbeton, clerk Of the WAYS
and means committee in congress, has re-
signed his position, aud his resignation has
been accepted by VI Morrison. This is the
person charged with naming his child a fter
the assassin, Booth.
The Crawford Journal, Rep. had
hoped that the Republicans of tins State
would be represented at Cincinnati by q
delegation of which they need not be
ashamed, but thinks that it looks very much
as II these hopes were TO be disappointed.
"A fire in South Pittsburgh on Friday
~ Spreen, containing large stock of flour
and grain, and the Birmingham depot Of
| the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis
railroad. Total loss, $50, 900; partially in
| sured.
~ Washington special to tho Plilatiel-
phia Times says there is strong combina-
! ton i'll progress to make General W. T.
Sherman the Republican candidate for the
Presidency, and that Ohio viii probably
declare for him i'll preference to Governor
Hayes.
George W. Fletcher, convicted in
Philadelphia Of the murder of VIM Hanley.
was sentenced on Saturday morning to be
hung. The prisoner displayed no emotion
whatever. His wife, who appeared with a
babe in her arms born during the trial
wept bitterly.
Tho North Carolina Conference Of the
Mrtb odiSt Church has refused by vote of
, to 20 concur in the proposed convention
of 1877, Nhich has been called for the pur-
nose of mating the union between
the Methodist Protestant and the Metho-
dist Episcopal churches.
The bridegroom in wedding at Am
sterdam, n. Y, was bashful and awkward
and his sister guided him through the per-
formauce. She stood beside him, prompted
him in his responses, poked his ribs when
he put out the wrong hand, and finally in>
cited him to iSs the bride
The meanest man in America now ap-
pears to be John Stevens, of Logansport.
Ind. lie inherited an estate of = S12, 0G0 two
years since and spent it in riotous living.
and now sues tho trustees for its value, al
| leging that he wasn't of age when the
property was turned over 10 him.
And now farmers can raise their own
explosions. Mrs. Elisha Keene OF Green
Harbor had occasion TO use a frozen pump
kin the other day, and put it i'm the oven to