The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-07

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Cardinal Manning speaks and writes
six l,neuiges; the Prince of Wales fonr.
Six men were drowned off Halifax on
Friday 10y the capsizing of fishing
schooner.
A half million bricks were used i'm the
construction of the new Union depot at
Pittsburgh.
There is said to be a negro woman in
Jackson county, Miss, who has given
birth to seventy-two ch ildren.
"A Washington county farmer named
McNey is said to have threshed Gle bushels
of oats from 40 dozen sheayes.
"A negro woman died in Providence,
recently, after much suffering, from the ef-
feet of spiders bite upon her lip.
"A secret society of horse thieves has
been discovered in Western Ohio, whose
members go by numbers instead of names.
Mrs. William Cochran. of Liberty,
KY, two weeks ago gave birth 20 four
boys. all of whom are alive and seemingly
healthy.
Alvin Adams, founder of Adams Ex-
press Company, died at bis residence at
Watertown, Massachusetts,, on Saturday,
aged 73.
The house i'm Philadelphia in which
Benedict Arnold was married to Miss Ship
pen has been turned into a hotel and res
tauraut.
Thirty years ago Gen. ID. K. Jackman
went to Lock Haven poor man. Recent
ly he died in New Hampshire worth about
81, 000, 900. His. life was insured for S5O,-
600.
-John s. Mason, of Washington county.
aged si2ty-five years, was sentenced on
Tuesday tn five years in the penitentiary.
He had been convicted of rape on oath Of
his niece.
Gov. Young, of Ohio. so resembles his
brother who lives in Pennsylvania that
they could be distinguished mt a pic mic
party the other day only 10y wearing differ
eIit culored hats.
--In a pigeon flying match between
Reading aud Philadelphia, on Saturday,
the successful bird made the trip III one
hour and forty-two minutes, a distance of
fifty-eight miles.
ID. W. Rhodes is his name. He is an
/ Ohio man, of course, and the office given
Linn is general superintsu9sl,t of the blank
agency, pUst-office department. Salary.
S3, 500 per annum.
"A woman in Baltimore wears purple
clothing only, her undergarmen;s even be
ing of that culcr She believes that she is
a pI incess, and must wear royal purple. In
other respects she is sane.
Edward Hawthorne, aged 2S. has been
committed t" jail, i'm Pittsburg, on charge
OF having three wives more than the law
allpws. This young man had better be
elected to succeed Brigham Young.
The Governor has rcpIieved Allen c.
!-aroS. of Northampton county, a poisouer
sentenced to be hanged on Monday next
The reprieve is fur thirty days, to allow an
| examination into the prisoners sanity.
-PatIick Mcbride, married man over
sixty years of age, committed rape Sunday
, Oh Mary Duffy, aged eleven years, at W A.
mingtOn, Del. He enticed the girl into his
room. Ripe il IA capital felony in Dela
ware.
Robert, James and Samuel Goodrich,
and James Simmons were taken from jail
and hung by mob on Monday night at
| New Castle, KY. They were charged with
numbering number Of persons in Owen
and Henry counties.
"A Junlata county youth named Benia-
min LeidcrS, aged years, asked ms sister
for sonnet hing To eat. She failed to attend
10 his wants Immediately, 50 he lodged a
load of shot IN her neck, making an ugly
and dangerous wound.
The New York MAJ says that Tweed :
daughter, who married Magiunis in 1870,
and whose wedding presents cost SG9, ,OuO,
Is now living in absolute pover.y, the bii-
DIAL presents and fiueIy having all been
sent 10 the pawnShopS.
The most remarkable game of base
ball played this season was that between
tue Allegheny Club and the St Louis
Browns, at Pittsburgh. on Saturday last
Tor The former, and nothing for the latter
Two men who died last week have
cost each in his way two countries a good
deal of money. Brigham Young eutailed
! on the United States the cost of a Mormon
war, and Capt. Raphael Semmes cost
Great Britain fifteen millions of indemnify
for the ravages of the Alabama
"A terrible accident happened in Leba-
non county by which Israel Daub, "A well
known former i'm, -,
machine. horribly mangled and almost in
stanily killed. lie was working near the
power when the revolving cylinder caught
him, whirled him around aud killed him.
The eNpoItati III of wheat from Balti-
more last Tuesday was unpIecedentedly
large, amounting Ia nearly two hundred
thousand bushels. This is the largest eX-
porta'ion of this cereal in one dav in the
history of that port. 1t was cleared in
seven vessels, all bound for ports north of
Gibraltar.
"A steam threshiug machine exploded
her boiler ON SATURDAY in Westminster
township Canada, making a complete
wreck of the machine and all surroundings.
FIVE men were badly scalded and rDutiIated
Johh M"oden died soon after the accident
wo Others cannot live. The safety valve
had been lied
-SiIppery Joe" Porter, of Atlanta Ga,
VINO escaped year ago from the Peuiten-
t'ary Coal mines, has written from London
20 friends in that city to say that he has
obtained a commission in the Russian ar
my, has lots of money and easy times. and
intends writing his memoirs when the cru
ell war is over.
-George Walch, a young married man
oi syracuse, went out with his wife on
l nesday and asked her to sit down on the
oank OF the canal while he went in for a
SWIM. tie crossed the wafer, and had
returned about halfway, when suddenly
ne threw up his arms, cried Nellie,
save me - and sank.
Isaac Leonard Hess, of Edenburg, Pa.
man OF Thirty, being aggrieved because
ms h!S ia' her called him lunalic, shot and
killed the old man, and carried the bndv
INTO his house and sat down by il sin au
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