The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-03-02
Netcs and OfTie3. NOfin0s.

- ne whiteS and blacks IN New Iberia
parish, Louisiana, have had a conflict and
great excitement prevails
An unsuccessful attempt was made
few nights ago to assassinate the Arch
bishop of Mexico The would be assassin
was arrested.
BY fire in tenement house on Woos-
ter street. New York, Saturday morning,
two little children of Mrs. Brown were lit
orally roasted alive.
A Kentuekian married a girl without
previously telling her that one of his legs
was F"Od, and she was SO angry on finding
iG out that she left him.
There were thirteen bodies of children
in Tamaqua on The 18th awaiting burial,
death having occurred from whoopng
cough and scarlet fever.
AT n late sale of timber lands in Clin-
ton county, by the Sheriff, 300 acres were
sold at 81, 200. The timber tracts had
been cleared of pine trees.
-Fox's New Ameiican theatre, Chest
nut street, Philadelphia, was burned to the
ground on Sunday morning, the fire break
ing out about one o'clock.
"A malignant type Of scarlet fever is
raging at Peru. Illinois, Children who
have been attacked with it have died be-
fore physician could reach them
james Campbell died on Monday in
New York OF injuries inflicted by his wife
ana another woman III quarrel February
L. The two women were arrested.
"A two year old child of George Gilbert
o! Lebanon, while eating peanuts had one
lodge i'll her throat. She died of strang,.-
lation despite the efforts of the doctor
1t is said that the clause of the electo-
raj bill bearing on the right of an appeal
from the commission's verdict to the courts
was inserted at the express solicitation of
Mr.. Tilden
The New Orleans Picayune fran.ically
asks the man with the scythe to turn back
ward in his flight and restore to the country
the purity and the unselfish patriotism of
its infancy.
Hester, McIIugh and Tully, the Molie
Maguires on trial at Bloomsbury for the
murder of Alexander w. Rea in 1869. we're
ON Saturday found guilty Of murder in the
first degree.
-Garfeld has sued the Cleveland Plain
dealer for libel. 1r called him rem egade
priest, and asserted that he attended the
quadroon ball in New Orleans with Pig
Iron Kelley.
Mrs. Mary Lace was shot in the right
breast at Brady's Bend, on Friday, by her
father while examining a revolver. Tie
lady is the mother of a babe only eight
months old.
Mrs. Hiram Young killed her two chill
dren, n boy and girl, at Newark, VT, on
Saturday, horribly mangling them with an
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Is supposed to have become insane over her
I troubles.
-keokuk has an Ethiop of frty or
whereabouts who is in fair way to change
his skin, as during the past three years his
cheeks, chin, ears, hands and part of his
neck have become white, the skin peeIing
off in flakes.
Sunday morning the deaf and dumb
/ institution near Council Bluffs, Iowa, was
destroyed by fire. No lives we're lost. and
the one hundred and fifty three pupils es.
capped without serious injury. Total loss
| estimated Si00 900, 40 insurance
AT the late election in Washington
borough, Daniel Waltz walized up and
! down the streets ringing bell, and Invi-
ting all 70 turn out and vote the Repubh-
! can ticket, George MeCollum soon turned
! out and prOcla lined for the Democrats.
The awful sensation of being caught
last ny the foot in the frog of a railroad
switch. OF seeing train approach, of
/ struggling IN vain to get free, and of be-
! ing crushad to de1th, were recently endur-
ed by Edward Hammond, in Cincinnati
! Grant has just issued an order which
shows that he has no intention of remain
/ ing IN the White House aud of erecting an
imperial dynasty upon the ruins Of the re.
public. He has instructed his brother TO
! have all those old bottles taken ont of the
cellar.
| The celebrated Pat Donan. formerly
of the Lexington Caucasian. has written :,
letter of advice to Hayes, and that luckless
letter-writer, Lee, declares that the Gov
ernori is 'much gratified," and that Donan's
suggestions shall have due consideration ,,
The mission to Liberia has nothing To do
with the new alliance.
MIR John F. Hackett, proprietor of
the Central Hotel, at Butler, Pa, received
news the other day that an aged and
/ wealthy grandmother, who for MANY wears
has been making her home in New Orleans.
departed this life. bequeathing to him her
whole fortune, consisting of $500, 600 wort n
of real estate and $50. 600 in money.
1t is due Mr.. Tiden to saw that he
never personally had Faith in the Electoral
Commission. He did not encourage it's
creation, as has been alleged. He wanted
his case to rest with the House of Repre-
sentatlves IN contest with the Senate.
but it was not becoming in him TO attempt
to lnfioence the action of Congress, and he
did not do so.
The Radicals are roosting lower TO car
ry out their thievery. The idea that their
prominent leaders should telegraph f,om
Columbus to Washington, apolopiziup tn
the Southerners for an article in the Ohio
! state Journal claiming Packard's election.
SHOWS an amount OF officiating wonderful
to behold. If Packard was not elected
how about Returning Board Hayes?
- he great pear tree on the premises of
Mrs. Julia Fits, four and a half miles from
Calhoon, on the Owensboro road, saws the
Mclean (ky.) Progress. was planted by
Mrs. Fits in 1S1l-sixty six years ago.
The tree has reached the huge dimensions
of eight feet in circumference. and i'm tho
sixty years in which it has been bearing.
there have probably been from 700 to 500
bushels of fruit gathered from its branches.
The New York Freeman's Journal
has information that the Rev. John Moore
ID. d., of Charleston, s. G.. has been
uamed by the Pope as Bishop of ST. Au-
gnstlne, Fla, vacant by the death of Bisb-
op Nerot. in June, 1876. Also that the
fev. tincent Vinges, Prior of the Domin-
Ican Convent at Benicia, California. has
been named by the Pope as Bishop, and