The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-10-06

a recent visitor to the Centennial Elk
hibition writes to the London Times that
the Americans are training both men aud
women tn become the most skilled work
men, and are importing the best and new
est machinery, and that the present com
mercial chaos may result in an order that
England may be totally unprepared for.
Judge Henderson, of Lebanon county,
at late session of the Court of Quarter
Sessions, issned order forbidding the
admission of boys into the court room dur
ing the trial Of cases. lie based the order
upon the demoTaizing effects of the MARIA
tion Of crime upon the young. His posi-
tion has been highly commended by the
press in all parts of the State.
John WaldrmIre of Rochester married
after sixty years of single life. He had
rigid ideas of economy, as shown in send
ing his wife with three cents to got meat
for dinner, and five cents for wine. All
tho time his bank account WAS large. Mrs.
Walemire bore with his penuriouSness for
,hree months, and then parted with him
whereupon he hanged himself.
la the case of John Washington
charged before the Luzerne county court
with the crime of rape, ON oath of Catharine
Ruch. on Thursday last. the prisoner plead
ed guilty aud was sentenced to ll8y a fine
of one thousand dollars aud costs and i'm
prisonmeut in the eastern penifeutiary tif-
teeE years, The circumstances of the case
were of quite aggravated nature.
-Four clergymen have already fallen
victims To their devotion in attending the
fever stricken people of Savannah Three
of them were Catholic priests aud one a
very well known Methodist clergyman.
Rev. Edw. II. Myers. u. u. One of the
little band of Sisters Of Charity who were
semitic Savannah Immediately nu the break
ing out of the scOurge, died on Monday of
last week.
Th.,,. I.,s- y II
official discussion in Pittsburgh with refer
! eTIce to the projected excursion uf tire
school children of that city to the Centeu-
NAL and at last the 10Th of October has
been fixed upon for il to take place. The
pIice nameo Tor the entire trip is $40. 50
each. which includes two days at the fair
and two on the road, lnnches and admission
To the grounds.
"A special to the Cincinnati Times dated
Sept. Goth, says: Francis Ept. who was
convicted IN May last for numbering Ahrl
ham Wertheimer, was hung to day The
fall did not break his neck or even cause
stranguiatinn, the poor man utterinr the
most pIteons cries and gr"ans. Tie trap
was readjusted as speedily rs pussible and
sprung n second time. dislocating his neck
and causing death without a struggle.
"A Cunber land county farmer saws
that Few days ago he started for market
III spring wagon. On his arrival at the
market ho observed two bantam hens
quietly roosting on the front axle of his
wagon. The fowls had occcuuied this
part of the wagon during the whole dis
tance-four miles-and singular as it may
seem, were not distui bed 10y the gathering
noise and Jolts of the wagon during the
trip.
On Saturday night the court house at
Chattanooga, Tenn, was set on fire in the
Office of the register of deeds The fire was
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books, two books were missing eutirelv
On Monday DIR. j 5. Burns was arrested
WITH the missing books in his possession
lie had recently bought abstracts of titles
covering all but these two books and would
have made large amount of money had
he not been found ont
Rev. j. B. NJ Genin. n Catholic nriest
who has for ten years been missionary
with the Sioux, writes to the Boston Pilot
about Sitting Buil, whom he represents as
"a quiet, sober. kind man, but courageous
and always ready To sacrifice his life for
the sake of his tribe and family" Father
tenn defied anybody to prove that Sitting
Bun ever did any mischief to man or beast,
and declares that the killing OF Custer was
not a massacre, but ALI incident of houora-
BILE warfare
Capt. Bates and his wife, formerly
Miss Anna Swan, the q giants, whose mar
rage in London attracted much attention
several years ago, have retired from show
NE, and built n fitting residence near
Rochester. n. Y. lie is seven and a half
feet, she is an inch taller and each weighs
over four hundred pounds. The rooms of
thelr house are eighteenfeet high and the
doors twelve feet. Their bedstead is ten
feet long aud all the furniture is proper
tionately large.
VIM. Henry Harrison, grandson of
former President of tho United States of
the same name. entered the residence of
John II. Moore. i'm Boone connty, Ky, on
tuesday last. and made proposal of mar
rage 20 Miss Mary Moore. the eklest
daughter, and. upon being rejected. stab
bed the lady nine times in the breast and
lace. 1t is thought she cannot recover
Harrison, who is about forty years of age,
mad lost his wife about n year ago. and of
late had been visiting Miss Moore frequent