The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-07-06

Mrs. General Sherman is to receive the
Golden Rose from the Pore. This is
considered high honor, az only thIee per
sons have received it during the thirty
years of the reign Of the present pontiT,
namely Maria Teresa, Queen IF Naples.
the En- press Eugene. of France. aud the
Empress Elizabeth, of Austria.
u. s. Marshal Douglas, Of South Caro-
lira, son of tie lac stephen A. Douglas is
being investigated for crookedhess. Doc
umentlry evidence has been introduced ID
show that fraudulent pay-vouchers were
common in Douglas Office. and that vari-
Gus sorts of frauds were resOrted 10 for tie
purpose Of robbing the government.
"A queer case Of action on contract has
been instituted at Catlaraugus. y. Y. 4
young woman, the plaintiff, sets forth that
her father, the defendant, promised her
$500 commission If she would procure him
"a wife. She did il, aud hc married ;he Nn-
man, but now refuses to pay up, declaring
Indignantly that he did his own counting.
"A Jesuit missionary, who had just Te-
turned from among the Indians in Oregon.
told a Cincinnati Commercial reporter that
for ten years OF bis life among the Savages
he did not see a white man or \ newspaper.
During three months he lived on horse
flesh. Bread was unknown by the .ribeS
in which he labored, and their chief food
was root called camas.
-DeaNei hunters III 1alifDfl1a live III
aIks or floating houses. in which they
move from place 10 place on the streams
and ponds. The one small room on each
craft contains benches for several men,
cooking utensils, hunting articles, and a
stock Of provisions. The hunt e5s : are lazy.
card-playing and careless lot but live com
fortably and make the business pay.
A London manager, Felix Rogers. has
beaten Cleopatra with her legendary
10 E,- r. i
sailing in tub drawn by four geese bar
messed to the pole, from Battersea to West
minister Bridge, the time occupied being
one hour and twenty minutes He was
dressed i'll naval captains uniform. and
received salute of four guns, one for
each goose.
"Wednesday morning four men. named
Marks Covert Webster Fe,ter, Cyrus Dun
kleberg aud EicheIber. fishing from boat
fastened to the dam in the Susquehanna
river at Clark's Ferry, were upset over the
dam on account of The stake which held
the boat giving way, and all were drowned
except Eichelber. The bodies We're recov-
cred. Covert, Fetter aud Dunlelberg
were telegraph rerairmeu from Sunbury.
"A special from Meadsville, Pa, to the
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette saws that
railroad engineers and other train men
from the east Friday night and Saturday
morning, report snow storm at Kennedy,
y. u, about nine miles northeast of James
town, on the 4. & G. w Railroad The
snow was eight inches deep on a level, and
covered belt about one mile wide. The
cold wave was felt for many miles this side
of the storms path. The pota' oes, includ-
ing the bugs. and the fields of grain are
entirely destroyed.
There was intense excitement at Kel-
ly's Island, Ohio, on Friday, over the rnys-
terious disappearance of Mrs Selfe.
widow, who has resided for a number of
years on the island. 1t was at first sup
posed she had lef: home while laboring
under temporary alteration of mind. There
is now very little doubt that she was
wayiaid, outraged, mul dered perhaps aud
thrown into the lake. Some clothes were
found on the beach. The peoule of the is
ianu are out en- maSse searching for her.
suspicion attaches to a certain man. who
has been arrested.
The Pittsburgh Commercial Gdzette
says that pigeon lit on the minute hand
of the clock in the tower of Trinity church,
at quarter before eleven O'Clock. FRIDAY
forenoon and seemed so delighted with its
perch, and the little hoist it got at every
Ick, that 1t kept its place until its body
was securely fastened between the two
hands. When it attempted to fly it could
not stretch its wings, and in a few seconds
was squeezed to death. The ponderous
machinery was stopped by the sexton, BUT
the dead bird could not be taken out until
the hands were unshipped.
Albert Day, of Belleville, Mo, quar-
relied with his wife and son. and became
so incensed against them that he devised
novel method of revenge, which was to
blow them up with gunpowder. One night
Mrs. Day and her son sat in a second-Story
room, afraid to go 10 bed, because Day had
made vague threats of killing them. A
terrific explosion below shattered the house,
and set it on fire, but they were not harmed.
The explosion injured only the man who
had caused it, for he used short fuse. and
the powder was ignited before he could get
away. lie was very Seriously burned.