The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-11
.Ne,cs a,soE ofher Notimgs.

eighty-one cousins.
Congressman Piper, of California, is
said to own over 200 acres within the city
limits of San Francisco.
A woman of forty applied to the Chi
cago County Clerk for a license to marry
a boy of sixteen. and didn't get it.
1t is feared that some 100 lives were
lost by the recent explosion of fire damp
! in the Jabin coal mines, Belgium.
Within a week Henry Herr, of Mount
joy. Lancaster county, has lost an adopted
daughter his only little son and a brother.
| Henry Bausman. of Lancaster county,
/ sold tobacco raised last year OH eight acres
of ground to a California buyer for over
! $4,000.
The explosion of the coilcry at Jabin,
! Belgium, is almost an exact counterpart of
the explosion some years ago at Carbordale,
in this State.
Alfred Martin, of Wilmington, n. c.,
| has POI trait of George Washington, paint
ed by the order of Lafayette, said to be an
unusually good one.
"A Rochester, n. H., woman the other
J day picked ont of her knee the needle that
/ she sat down twenty-five years ago.
She was not so badly stuck after all.
Eleven persons were trampled to death
and many injured in stampede caused by
false alarm of fire in UobnSon's Opera
House, at Cincinnati, on Saturday last.
! The jury in the case OF Patrick Quig-
| ley, Of Philadelphia, charged with killing
his wife, ON Monday night rendered YER
diet of guilty of murder in the first degree.
The fires in the old Baltimore mines,
near Scranton, Pa, Oh which the steam
from forty boilers has been forced for two
years past, have been at last extinguished.
John Hamlin, n Lnzcrne county black
smith, performed the big feat of sharpen
ing and shoeing all around sixteen horses
in thirteen hours. He made every shoe 1y
-Tbprp is family in
Mass, occupying a house so situated that
when dining at the same table the father
eats III one town and the mother in an
other.
"A very young couple going to n Dunk
ard preacher, in Plane, Perry county, to be
married, were refused. with the remark
that there are enough people in the poor
house now.
More gold has been discovered in the
Black Hills. This is good time of the
year TO make the discovery. Spring will
will soon open, ana it will be a favorable
time for emigration.
The aerial lady who bcstrode the broom
! stick in VI. G.. melody has a rival in a
Pittsffeld, Mass, woman, who, during the
recent gale, took, an involuntary ride across
! the street on dry goods box.
1t was rumored at Antwerp ON Satur-
! day that seven packages of guupOwder
/ had been discovered among Goals on board
+ the Antwerp steamer, which had one hun
! dred and fifty persons on board.
1t is said that one important coal pro-
/ ducing corporation, the PENNSYLVANIA rail
road company, win not enter the ombina-
/ ton for the purpose OF suSpeuding work
at the mines or fixing schedule of prices
| The jury in the case of T.andis, Of
/ Bridgeport, Conn, on trial for the murder
/ of CarTuth in Vinelaud some time ago
rendered the following verdict We find
the defendant not guilty on the ground of
! insanity.
Both branches of Philadelphia Coun
| ellis have Joined IN 4 cordial vote of thanks
/ to Hon. Thomas \ Scott for the faithful
| and efficient manner in which he fulfilled
/ his contract for the construction Of the
I Market Street bridge.
Avery Skinner, Postmaster of Union
I Square, Oswego county, was appointed by
John Quincy Adams III 1924 and still holds
the office. He has been twice in the AS
scmbly and twice IN the State Senate and
is now eighty years old.
a singular accident is reported from
MaIinette, Wis. One Jacob Vcsteen
stopped to drink from the river between
two blocks OF ice, when the blocks came
suddenly together and cholled him. They
had to chop the body out.
Michael McFaddcn and Michael Burns
of Fall River, quarrelled in the presence of
McFaddcn's dog the dog may not have
understood the affair, yet the next time he
met Burns he attacked him savagely, in
flIcting dangerous wounds.
The Archbishop of Paris has received
from the Archbishop of Beyrout - large
planks of cedar cut from a tree on Mount
Lebanon that had recently blown down
n few trees yet remain, supposed to be rs
( old as the time when Solomon built the
Temple.
The dwelling Of Gco. Heindle, near
]
day night, and Mr.. Hcindle. his wife and
. two children perished in the flames. a
daughter, eighteen years of age, narrowly
escaped by jumping from a second story
window.
John Do]an, convicted in New York of
tho murder Of Mr.. Noe, has been sentenced
10 be executed. The 24th Of March was
fixed as the date of the execution, i'll order
to give Doldn's counsel time to prepare the
points for argu olent before the Court OF
Appeals.
Tho Constitution Of Pennsylvania,
adopted in 1916, had this laudable provis-
lou ''Whcnever an office, through in
crease of fees or otherwise, becomes so
profitable as to occasion many to apply for
it, the profits ought TO be lesscned by the
Legislature.
Z The centennial year commences bad
for mothers-in-law. At st. John, n. b.
Feb. Sd, John O'Neil killed his mother in
} law and dangerously, if not fatally, stabbed
his father-in-law. They had opposed his
marriage to their daughter and persuaded
her to leave him.
} The family of Lewis Neides, of Read
ing, is unlucky. The daughter fell of a
chair and broke her arm in two places.
Soon after Neides himself fell and frac.
, tured his ribs, and before lie had recovered
his son aged ten years, fell and broke his
T arm at the elbow.
The latest intelligence as to the health
of Hon. Alexander Ii. Stephens indicate
, that he is slowly dying of consumption
He has no expectation eff regaininr his
health and has written to a member of the
Georgia delegation to attend to his unfin-
, ishcd business at Washington.
"A most remarkable illustration has
Just been furnished Of the overmasterino