The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-02-16
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s,,ective ages are los aud 1G5 years.
Two express messengers in Dubuque, /
Ia, have quarrelled over young lady and
propose settling their difficulty by aduel-- I
according to the &. O. ID.
Captain Boyton is among the foreign
ers who have been promised a reception by /
the Pope-indeed, it has probably been az /
corded to him by this time.
Mrs. Nancy Dempsey quarreled with
her SON in-law, John Murray, in Boston.
last Saturday, and during the alteration
dropped dead, Of water on the brain.
There is 70 be great emigration to
Africa by Southern negroes within few
years. So says the Missionary. the organ
of South Carolina negro Methodsts.
Mis-. Gottleib Noegle, thirty five years
of age. was horribly mangled by dogs while
going to her home, near Newport, ky.,
Saturday night. She is not exp. ct'd live.
Among he snow -shovelers at Syracuse,
last week. was Bushnell Forrest, second
son Of :he noted Confederate General, n.
B. Forrest. lie was poor, proud and
plucky.
"A dispatch has been received from Cal
cut:a stating that a gunpowder explosion
had occurred at Adhemahed, by which fif-
ty persons were killed and one thousand
injured.
Walter Bennett, a young Pittsburgher
who was Tilted by his sweetheart, hred tive
shots at himself on Friday night last, but
no doubt accidentally on purpose missed
every time.
Three Governors are among the Sena-
tors whose terms begin the 4tb of
March-Samuel j. kirkwooG, Of Iowa,
Lafayette Grover, of Oregon, aud Richard
Coke of Texas.
Senator Thurman is great sufferer
from neuralgia. During the ten days pre-
ceding last Friday lie had scarcely slept at
night, or been free from pain All hour dur
ing the day time.
1t is said that the widow Oliver, who
has sued Simon Cameron for breach of
promise, has numerous letters from him
that will serve rs model love-ietters for the
rising generation.
The largest gas vein ever strnck i'll the
oil region has been found TN the Gibson
farm. The roaring, it is said. resembles
Niagara and can be heard distinctly d is
tance of nine miles.
"A Washington county, KY, hunter re-
Gently foand four coons and seventy pounds
+ of honey in one .ree. Whether the coons
collected tlie honey or the bees laid the
CO. ms is cuonuuderein.
James L. Johnson formerly member
7 of Congress from Owensbor,. KY, commit
ted suicide ON Monday morning at Evans
: vile, Iud. Mental depression. occasioned
by i'll health, WAS the cause.
, The Lewisluwn Pa Gazette says that
4 a little SON of Joseph Snook, residing in
: Mann's Narrows, Miffin county, five weeks
y ago swallowed a brass watch ond Chain
b, and still retains il in his stomach.
: "A three year old son of Thomas Yang
| han, near Norristown, got hold of matches
L aud set the bedding on fire. Alarmed 10y
the smoke the mother ran up staiIs and
found the little one burned to a crisp.
Samuel Smith, a farmer, was waylaid
and robbed near Franklin. Indiana, Sun
~ dav, by "a young man named John Cochran
" Smiths skull ,vas broken. aud he W III prob
:. ably die. A scouting patty is after Cochran
? Little girls disturbed an old man il
a San Francisco 10y playing on a balloon,
close to his room. which was in fourtl
: story. He ran out, caught one of them
t and threw her over the railing. She wa
J., killed.
o "A girl ut Bayonne got mp in he- sleey
q and went to a skating pond. Her fathe
o. found her seated. comfortably dressed. oI
O the trunk of fallen tree on the pond
+ She,had Just awakened and was be " ildered
a When the centenaiian, Father Boehm
|. died, DR. Lovick Pierce. of Georgia, be
O came the oldest Methodist minister in the
II United States. He is now Dinety-two, ant
n preached for his sou. Bishop George Eos
a ter Pierce, few Sundays ago.
d Two brothers, John and George F
N Kellar, met at Corsicaua last week after
a separation of forty years. Strange to say
\. one of them recognized the other first b.
=, the tones of his voice. although he had no
y heard word from his lips since they part
If ed in 1886.
I. Two well diggers were at work ii
is Bloomington, Ill. and had. after reachin.
10 forty feet. begun to bore deeper with
drill. Suddenly there was an outburst %
gas, which was lighted 10y the flame of
CANDLE aud the explosion killed both o
"a the men.
m AT Rickton, in this State, procession
ST of men aud women armed with tin horn
rs and cans recently Crimmed certain fe
hr male out of town, because she though
h more "f the attentions of other men tha
'e of her husband. They say the job wa
rs well done.
le "A supervisor Of Delaware county Ina
u: recently been fined 5000 for non attendanc
"a To the duties "f his position. Any unlaw
:" full condition of the public highways, caus
er ing delay, injury or loss, may result in rt
III covery of damages, to say nothing of tn
e. imposition of fines.
as During the late deep snow in Tiog
,h county a man constructed, for the amust
te meut of his children, a SNOW house thirt
u feet high and twenty by ren, with appr,
T. pirate furniture. 1t has severat window:
id and has man of snow to represent Dl
" Kane also polar bear.
"A shocking murder was committed a
ne "a hotel i'll Etna borough, eight miles II
u the Allegheny river fiom Pittsburgh, q
10 Saturday evening last. George Seipe
While frenzied with liquor. shot his brotht
Charles, a married man. through the hear
'o Of course killing him instantly.
Is john Stevens ran away from his wi,
g i'm Elmira thiIty-four years ago. Recent
ne she discovered him in California, whei
e. he had accumulated 800, 900 and anoih,
e, wife. She is willing he should retain I'll
IN second wife, but she demands third ,
ct his fortune, aud is likely to gel it.
q The Springfield Republican remark
u: that the decision Of the commission in u
81 Florida case amounts to denial of I'll
al right of Congress to GO behind the return.
'g which is "a historical fact Of great weig
W III our future INSTITUTIONAL tendencie
" 1t is limitation where successive Repul
M lican Congresses have allowed none.''