The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-01-26
-NesCs and Otter NOttngs.

die of h is speech.
An old man named Wooliver was bur
led alive in a well forty feet deep, while
cleaning it, near Mohawk, Herkiner coun-
| ty, New York, on Saturday.
-Governors Hayes and TIlden refuse to
express an opinion on the proposed electo
raj count bill. Mr.. Wheeler is also silent,
bnt Mr.. Hendricks approves it.
There died in Middlebury, Vermont,
few days ago, cabinet maker named Ma
hum Parker, in whose shop stephen A.
Douglas served an apprent iceship.
"A movement is on foot i'll New Orleans
to have the ladies OF that city furnish mid
night lunches for the resolute men who
garrison the court buildings of the Nichols
government.
"A young woman in Rochester, y. Y,
has sued for damages man who kissed
her. a man who can't kiss a woman with
out damaging her, ought to pay for his
/ awkwarduess.
The Protestant Episcopal Church in
the United States consists of 50 bishops 2
bishops-elect, 3, III priests and deacons,
26S, 53f comniunicants, and 26, 429 Sunday
/ school scholars.
The Connellsville Monitor says Mr. J.
F. Connolly, of that place, has invented
method of stretching boiIer tubes which is
of the greatest service in repairing the
( fues of boilers.
tartar dissolved in pint of water, drank
at intervals when cold, is a certain, never
failing cure for small-pox and will cure the
worst case in three days.
A wonderful Temperance revival i'm
Pittsburgh and that ueighborhood has
( made 10000 converts, and the excitement
is growing. Ten churches are crowded
nightly by enthusiastic meetings.
The Pottsville Standard remarks in
connection with the attempt to put the
militia of this State upon a war footing,
that 1t is ''about time the people of Penn
! sylvania sat down on Senator Cameron and
/ fiattened him oUt''
The Catholic,Church in Englandiowes
/ much to the Vaughan family, from whom
! have come seven priests, three of them
/ being in the episcopate-;he Bishops of
Stafford, Plymouth, and the Coadiutor of
Sydney, New South Wales.
The work of extinguisIing the fire in
! the Lykens coal mine is progressing rapid
/ ly. and it is expected mining operations
/ will be re-commencedss at an early dav
! The loss 10y the fire will not be nearly SO
! heavy was at first supposed.
1t is more interesting than important
/ to know That Henry Ward Beccher does
not approve Of the electoral bill prepared
/ by the joint committee. He thinks the
president of the senate ought to do the
counting, 1t is much tho simpler plan.
! --SeCT6IaIy cameron, Is gong 10 marry
! Mrs. Skunk, the widowed daughter of
Judge Jeremiah 5. Black. She is forty
years old, handsome, clever and accom-
] plished. Her fiIst Husband was the son of
/ the old Dutch Governor of Pennsylvania.
The German Protestant orphan asy-
lum. situated ten miles from St. Louis, was
burned on Thursday night. AL the chill
dren were safely taken from the building
/ excepting Eugene Lang, six years old, who
perished in the flames. Loss not ascertain
ed.
Tho Centre Hall Reporter says. Mr.
John Myers, of HublerSburg, is seventy
l two years old and the father of thirty chill
dren. He has been twice married. His
first wife bore him fourteen children aud
his second sixteen. Eighteen of the eli H.
dren are living.
-.Jno. b. Evans stole ride on a coal
train on Thursday. When at Walkers
Mills, near Pittsburgh. the train parted
and he fell upon the track and was instant
ly killed. The deceased was SO years old
and leaves a wife ard four children in des-
titute circumstances.
CHARLES Snyder was tried in Meadviile
last week, and the jury brought in ver-
diet of murder in the second degree. The
! crimes charged against him were almost
/ beyond belief, being, among other things
the murder of his iliegtimate child, of
which his own daughter was the mother.
There are fifty hot springs at the town
/ OF Hot Springs. Arkansas. about sixty
miles from Little Rock; temperature from
no degrees to $50 degrees Fahrenheit.
, They break forth from the west side of a
mountain. and flow into creek, which
empties into the Waslita river, six miles
distant.
On Saturday morning Frederick Grae-
/ bel, convicted of murt;er in the second de
gree for the killing of Edward Finch, in
Z tlac g., !, ,,fN l,of
the passage of the Radical procession, was
( sentenced by Judge Stowe to nine years
and six months Imprisonment in the PEN
itentiary.
"A brute living on Elizabeth street.
/ New \ ork, attempted to throw his wife
! from the fourth story window of the tene-
ment where they lived, on Wednesday
night, but she hung to the coping till a
! party of men ran up from the street below,
! secured the man and lifted the woman in,
I when she Immediately tainted.
DC Sunday morning large barn, two
/ miles and half from Worcester. Mass,
owned by William +. Brown. was burned
In the barn were nineteen head of CATTLE a
horse and three pigs all of which perished
complete outfit of farming tools, twenty
tons of hay, carriages, wagons and a large
/ amount of grain were also burned.
"A woman at West Pittston, named
/ Parrish. assisted by her servant girl.
Bridget Martin, was guilty Of the horrible
cruelty of putting the bare body of child,
four years old, upon red hot stove in pun
! ishmeut for some trivial fault. The two
british creatures have been arrested and
Will be tried and punished for their mon
/ strous crime.
"A Trappist monastery is to be estab-
iished about three miles from Buffalo
There are already two houses of this sever
est Of all orders in this country-one at
New Mellary, Ia, and one in the vicinity
of Baltimore. The brethren eschew ami
NAL food, converse by signs, dig their own
graves aud worship at most unheavenly-
that is to say. unearthly-hours.
A dispatch from Chicago announces
the arrest in that city of $. g. Claremont.
alias ROLAND, the bank robber who escap
! ed from iail at Chamhelsbnrp while await