The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-12-21
Ncscs ami Other Nottags.


The decision in the case OF the Huron
is that bad seamcnship was the cause of
the wreck, the ship being stanch and soun6.
A daughter of VIM. SwaItz, of Lewis
town, had her foot poisoned by wearing
red stockings, the coloring ingredient Of
which was poisonous.
Calvin Fisher, aged fourteen years,
was tried in Mercer county for the murder
of his father. The jury acquitted him
without leaving the oox.
"A sauer kraut sociable for Christmas
eve is proposed by Pittsburgh journalist.
The profits will be devoted 20 the benefit
of the fraternity of that city.
Abraham Buckwalter, who died re-
! Gently near kimberton, Pa, in his eighty
first year, left six of family, whose ages
aie respectively So, 81, SO, 10, n, 75.
The Congregational church of Walcott,
Mass, has decided that the use of wine at
the communion table tends to promote in
temperance. Water is hereafter to be used.
B. .. Keons, ex-member of .he Legis
lature, has been convicted of embeZZling
s., 200 from The Odd Fellows Lodge at
Wikesbarre Koons has applied for n
new trial.
A woman City whine years old, with her
son, arrived in. La Grange, Oregon, recently,
having walked thither from her home III
Indiana. She carried a pack weighing
seventy five pounds.
James Ryer and wife, of Fayette coun-
ty, were imprisoned in the penitentiaTy
on Friday. They had robbed a Methodist
church, for which they were sentenced for
sixteen months each.
Samuel Penn, aged 50 ; Mrs. Anna
Penn. aged n /; Mrs. Rachel Cooper, aged
SO and Mrs. Lydia Garrison, aged 50
years, live in one house on South Laurel
street, Bridgeton, II. J.
Daniel Mitchell, who is serving a SIX
year sentence in the western penitentiary,
was tried a few days ago in Armstrong
county and sentenced TO eighteen months
additional impI isonment,
The Brazilian Parliament has voted a
yearly subsidy of 800. 900 during ten
years for a line of steamers to the United
States. This is one Cf the first fruits Of
Dom PedIo's Centennial visit.
EARLY Saturday morning a mob sur
/ rounded the county Jail at Denver. Col,
and, forcing the key from the iailor, took
Shumne, the notorious outlaw and muir
derer, from Jail aud hung him.
"A brother and sister, each Of whom
supposed the other dead, met by accident
in Char iotte. n. c., a few da, ago after a
separation of thirty-seven years only to
finG they had been living in tie same
ncighborhood all the time.
Mrs. Shadlc, Of Guthrie, Ia has been
+! in trance for six months past, only awak-
| ing once in October to speak to her family.
She is regularly fed, but gives no signs of
knowing or appreciating what it is she is
eating.
More than $50 600 boxes of clothes
! pins are annually shipped from this country
! To England, and great quantities to New
Zealand, the Sandwich Islands and Aus
tralia. That's the kind Of a clothes-pin
we are.
/ There appears on the registry list of
J Stanislaus county, Cal, the following re-
markabe entry john l.. Crawford
voting number, 393 register number, sos;
age %; country of nativity, England oc
cupation, hog thief
/ State Treasurer elect Moves has ap-
pointed john Miller. Chester county, cash
ier, and AiessIs. Fleming, Lock Haven,
and 5. j. McMullen, WilliamspoIt, clerks,
leaving q vacancy of one clerk, one mes-
senger ard night watchman.
john Young. James Casey. William
( Rivers GeoIge Kent, William Davis and
/ William Masters, convicted of horse steal
1 ing and other offeuses in the Allegheny
county court, have each been sentenced to
! six years and nine months i'll the peni,en-
tiary.
Tom Thumb never used to hang up
his stockings on Christmas eve. He would
tie string around the bottom of each
Pantalorn leg, and hang them up aud
then he would growl next morning be
cause his little brothers stockings held
the most.
| Mrs. Feldran, of Lower Bank, N J..
complained of not feeling well. and while
Mr.tN. was absent a few minutes to secure
the assistance of IA neighbor she died. AS
soon it was discovered that she was
dead, the husband sank down and almost
instantly expired.
! Mrs. MutheIsbough, of Lewistown,
last week made a mountain ash cake
I which measured A feet in circumference
81 inches i'll height, and weighed so lbs
| 1t contained 20 pounds OF sugar, ponnds
of butter, 4 quarts of milk, and go eggs, in
addition 10 -four, etc.
Colonel john Morgan, OF Fayette
county, who was born August 6, 1890, and
J who sat in the Legislature when the MEM
bers wore red wopases and ate their cheese
on the Capitol steps, rides from his home
to Uniontown, a distance of twelve miles,
before breakfast frequently, TO attend to
business.
Master Conway, of the Huron was re-
| buked Tor appearing before the Court of
Inquiry without uniform, when he had
lost every garment he had and was washed
ashore naked. As he did not appear be.
fore the dignified tribunal in that condition
the rebuke seems rather severe, not to say
uncalled for.
AT st. Louis Mrs. Louisa Weber. wife
OF Oscar Weber, cut the throat of her in
FAINT thirteen months old, and then cut her
own :hroa., in fit of insanity, OH Sunday
morning. The infant will die, but the
mother, although she has three terrible
gashes on her neck, made by a razor, will
probably recover.
1t is said that within the coming week
Mr., and Mrs, Hayes will celebrate their
silver wedding, and they speak Of inviting
all those now living who witnessed their
marriage twenty five years ago to be pres
ent The advocates of silver in congress
VIII each send dollar of the daddies as
an appropriate present.
! In Snsquehanna county, Edwin Bran
dow, who was hunting with two compan-
ions, lost mis- life recently under the follow
ing circumstances Coming TO an apple
, tree he raised his gun and used it to knock
on an apple. The hammer caught on a