The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-04-20
Ne,cs ana other NOfiH0S.

A San Francisco man told his wife
that he was tired of her, and she obligingly
poisoned herself
Mexican county has new curiosity
a gas well that emits immense volumes OF
water and fire alternately.
-Diph;heria at Lionvile, Chester coun-
ty has become almost epidemic: and only
five pupils are left in school.
-Lrasshoppers have begun TO make
their appearance in the vicinity Of Omaha
during the warm weather of the past few
days.
for Nebraska the other day with colany
of three hundred emigrants from kuzerne
county.
BY cave in at the Blue Point Graham
mine in California, on Thursday, seven
men were instantly killed. Six others
were more or less injured.
An old man engaged in hauling coal
in Ashland fell heir to $4,000 some time
ago and OH Saturday last he died, leaving
the fortune to an only son.
The jury in the case of Patrick O'Don-
nell, tried for killing Morgan Powell, at
Mauch Chunk, Pa, has rendered vercict
of murder III the first degree.
The squirrel pest is a source Of TO lit
tie worriment to the California farmers,
who consider the little animals as destruc-
tive to their crops as the grasshoppers.
1t SAYS ''Chamberlain insists that he
leaves South Carolina penniless. Would
it be impertinent to inquire which way he
means that ?'
james Baxter Of Baltimore would be a
good man to send to the Black Hills. y
pistol was fired at him in n recent fight,
and the bail flattened on his forehead with
ont injnring him.
Some Of the organs have a new cause
{ of al Governor D1mntnn
looming up as Presidential candidate in
1880 and he is not the kind of man to be
swindled out of All election.
A Harrisburg dispatch states that it
has been ascertained that Charles Duffy
and John ID. Nell wee were drowned some
weeks ago in the Susquehanna river while
in a boat with stolen property.
"A man named Potter killed his wife
and then committed suicide, in Geneva.
! Ohio, on Friday evening. The couple had
! quarrelled, and she was packing her trunk
! for the purpose of leaving him.
A grey eagle, measuring eight feet
! from tip to tip, was killed about five miles
south of Santa Rosa, California, recently.
He and his mate are believed to have car
| ried off 100 lambs during the last season.
! The Mt. Union Times gives currency
! to a rumor that the Cambria Iron Company
! has leased Matilda Furnace, in Mifflin
/ county, aud will put the same IN blast as
! soon as some necessary repairs are made.
! Old Simon was asked some lime ago
! If he was related to Senator Angus Came
ron, OF Wisconsin. Il have no doubt he
answered, ''that my father aud his were
stealing cattle together on the Scottish bor-
/ DER
The new law for compulsory edueotion
/ in Ohio is said TO have been passed in order
/ to fit her people FOR the responsibilities OF
( all the Federal offices, there being still a
few that are now held by citizens of other
! States.
! Near Harrisburg, on Thursday evenn g
: last, two small children of Jacob Price, liy-
ing below the city, were burned i'll the
absence of their parents by one of them
pouring coal-oil on the stove. One is dea /
, and the other will die.
"A gentleman at Abing don, Va, has a
pet fish. He has kept it IL spring foI
/ five years and can go and call it up at any
time. 1t eats from his hand and shows a
MAJ ked liking for its keeper. 1t is n black
perch twenty inches long.
Lew istown had $40, 900 fire on Tues
day of last week. Messrs. Willis & Shock,
boiler and axle manufacturers, i'll whose es
tabliShmeu. the f.e originated, were the
principal sufferers, their loss being put
down at $50, 900, with no insurance.
A great excitement exists i'll the iron
district of Ohio over the discovery of a
! known ore on the land of Mr.. Clark,
near Straitsville. 1t is said to be .he u eat
est find ever known in that region.
| Gov. Hampton has issued proclama. a.
tion calling an extra session of the South
Carolina Legislature TO meet on the Gath
of April. He will press on it's attention
measures or retrenchment aud reform to
relieve the over-buroened taxpayers Of the
State.
The Miller murder near Shacfferstown,
Lebanon county, is the third one commit
ted in that locality, within radius of
about twelve miles, during the past year.
/ The other two were in Lancaster county,
and the scene OF this one is within two
miles OF the county line.
/ A Williamsport firm, of which Peter
Herdic, the boom bill man, is a partner
/ was lately fleeced by an adventurer from
Springfield, Mass, who represented him
self as man of means, purchased an in
terest III the firm, and at the end of a wee K
skipped with The cash receipts.
An immense African lion escaped from
its cage in a menagerie at Augusta Ca.
into crowd of people few days ago.
The animal made a snap at the leg of a
! man and then attacked a Tartary yak and
| titled it. A rope was thrown about lis
neck and it was led back into the cage.
The Lancaster Express says that Mrs.
William McGingen, aged 63, of George
town, Bart township, Lancaster county, is
the fond and devoted mother to dear little
baby girl only few days old. The neigh
bbrs called and found the mother and ch lid
doing well. The father is an industrious
man, aged 20.
"A small boy died in Bennington, VT,
from swallowing a screw, which, becoming
lodged in his throat, caused his death by
suffocation. The Same boy but a week
/ before his death swallowed two-cent
piece, and the day preceding was caught
in the act of endeavoring to get mai
down his throat.
Louis S. Burkhardt, who died short
time since in Reading, had an eventfu
life. On one occasion, after a shipwreck
he sustained life by eating horseflesh. He
spent eight years in South America and
fought under Bolivar. When a Ynuih hs