The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-10-12
NetrS ana Ctjter NOttUgS.

Schuylkill county, recently at IA to 1S
cents per bushel.
Rev Hubbard Miuter eloped from Mel
son, KY, with fourteen year old girl, de-
serting his aged wife.
A dispatch says the Buenos Ayres
floods drowned 10000, GOO sheep. We
doub. wether it's true though. don't eve
AT Houston, Texas, n white man was
fined 81 and cost for saying to a passing
mulatto girl that he would like to kiss her.
Mrs. Delarmel and sister, while driving
across the railroad track At Coclichuate.
Mass. on Friday, were struck 10y d locomo
tive and killed.
The incendiary fire at Napticoke, a
mining town near Wilkesbarre. Friday,
burned fourteen buildings. Loss S25, 900;
mostly insured.
"A building has been erected near
Brigham Young's grave for the shelter Of
a party of men who keep a continual guard
over it, day and night.
Frank Welton, young man Of thirty
years of age was shot and killed in Gamer
on county by burglar while he was at
tempting to capture him.
Two boys in Cincinnati ba.hed the leg
of another boy, from the knee TO the big
toe. with gasoline aud then set fire to it.
The victim still lives, but may die.
MIR. Charles O'Conor, Of New York, is
Cha irman of the American Society Of the
Red Cross, organized for the succor Of the
sick and wounded Russian soldiers.
Miss Nellie Thurston, of Utica, y. Y,
made balloon ascension few days since,
at Baldwinsyille, and landed in MEG ran
vile, go miles distant, in 30 minutes.
w. Gale the Cardiff pedestrian, who
began to walk 1,50O miles in 1000 hours
in London, on Sunday, August 26, success
fully finished his feat on last Saturday.
"A mussel was recently taken from the
| Tennessee river, near Chattanooga, con-
tanning five genuine pearls. They arc of
good quality. quite lustrous, and valuable
"A negro clergyman was arrested in his
pulpit III Houston, Ga. on a charge of
murder. He had whipped his little daugh-
ter to death and hidden the body III the
woods.
AT Erie, Pa, Monday night, Sterrett's
Inning stable was burned, together with
thirteen horses. But little of the contents
of the building were saved. The loss is
unknown.
-Eighty-s seven years ago, Mt the birth of
kimbali Laverin, the first apple pie made
in Springfield, Y. H., was cooked, the
mess of twenty spples being the first raised
IN The town.
AT landau, Y. H., is the grave of q
Mrs. Bronson, who lived in three Centuries
she having been born in 699, and died in
1901. II is said that there are but three
such cases on record.
John Burt Of Grown Point. y. y, by an
explosion in mine. lie had been deaf
and dumb since his birth. He is now
slowly learning to talk.
The Pdftsmdu's Journal is authority
for the statement that there are between
10, 900, coo and 90 600. 900 feet of logs be
tween Clearfield and Lock Haven, which
food would put into market.
HI nTy Shaw, wife murderer. and
tTuS Johnson of ie most TOrprioi1S
murderers in Georgia, both under sentence
OF death burrowed out or the Jail at Atlanta
on.Friday night and escaped.
The State Department has received
plaster cast Of a remarkable treaty OF the
! Greeks of 400 B. c., containing mention OF
the first political acts of Alcibades. 1t
was discovered in Greece in April last, and
presented by General Meredith Read.
"A social sensation has been developed
IN baltimore by the arrest of William &.
! Schley, wealthy member of the bar, on
the charge of having forcibly outraged
Miss Nellie Fitzgerald, employed AS
seamstress at his residence while his family
were absent.
Professor Ambrose Lehman. Of the
geological survey, pronounces Chimney
Rock, III Franklin county, to he the high
est point in the state east Of the Allegbenies,
From its top there is a good view OF four
counties, viz : Franklin, Adams, Cumber-
/ land ana Ork.
The wife and sisters of Gilman. the
New ork forger, offer to give UP a large
portion of their private fortunes, amount
ing IN the aggregate to $4,000, in case
the creditors agree no: to prosecute him
criminally. 1t is thought their proposition
will be accepted.
The Louisville Courier Journal recalls
that Cassius NJ. Clay killed a young man
named Turner nearly twenty wears ago.
Sla+ e., H.,
Legislature. and in political discussion
forced the tight on Clay-a thing that was
never hard to do
"A terrible accident occurred to rail-
way convoy of sever. wagons. which was
crossing the river Don. The train con
tanned large number of Abchasian pris-
| oners, who were chained together and
! were being transported % Siberia Four
| hundred of them were lost
"A terrible disappointment has befallen
! the ScientistS. An exaIri rina.ion of the fos-
sill recently exhumed at Hazleton, Pa. by
| Professor Leidy, of Philadelphia. has dis
closed the fact that instead of being the
| skeleton of a mammoth extinct animal il
| is nothing more nor less than a concretIon
! of iron ore.
| Hon. Robert Smalls, colored Con-
! gresham representing .he Fifth South
! Carolina district, has been arrested at
! Beaufort on charge of bribery and ad-
mitted to bail i'll the sum of $5, O00 He is
charged with receiving $1,000 for voting
| for rascally printing appropriation while
| IN the State Senate. The scoundrel who
| paid him the money is the witness against
/ him.
"A Republican victim of Passmore's
''reserve endowment" scheme says: "When
] found out what kind of policy had, 7
| went 20 Passmore and talked plain to him.
l told him | considered it downright rob-
| berry. He commenced with his oh, now
brother Wren,' and / told him not to
| brother me, l considered had been swim
died and / spoke my mind about it.r
! The holder lost 5000.
Michael Hurley can keep a secret, He
has served thirteen years of a sentence of
twenty-six years anG nine months impris-
onment in the pepitentiary for burglary.