The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-08-10
Tye9ce amt other NOfiUUs.


The next Agricultural State Fair will
be held at Erie from the 24th to the 2sth
of September, inclusive.
Three of the cars which passed through
the fires of the Pittsburgh riot contained
silver bullion and not lead, as was generally
supposed
AN odd kind of expori is small section
of brick wall, Just sent by New Haven
builders to Constantinopie, as a sample, i'll
response to an order.
1t is said that the quality OF new wheat
coming forward is so excellent that Di1lers
do not require old wheat to mix with it,
which is unusual occurrence.
1t is expected that the new depot at
Pittsburgh will he completed in a day or
two more. The pay roll OF the workmen
engaged upon it is Sc, 600 per day.
Frank Walworrh, convicted some years
ago of killing his father, Mansfield Tracy
Walwoitb, in New York city, was pardon
ed by the Governor on the lst inst.
Francis Carries, of Sullivan, Ind, pnts
! in his claims for the gallows by kicking to
death a four year old child of his Cousins
widow, with whom he has been living re-
Gently.
Harry Gridley young man aged 1S,
living at Patterson, o., committed suicide
Friday night by taking morphine. Dsap-
poiutment in love is the supposed cause Tor
| the act.
men in Ohio was on the banks Of the Mus
kingum, on the 20th of July, 1888, by the
Rev. William Breck, a New Englan man
and a member of the Ohio Company.
Rev. James Murray, Catholic priest,
was buried in Bangor, Me-, few days ago.
Three of his brothers, who are priests, per
formed mass, and the occasion also called
into the sanctuary three cousins, all priests.
Some kind<lfear ed New Workers took
1900 sewing girls ON excursion and
gave them free chowder aud lemonade. 1t
was grand treat and a happy occasion
for the projectors of the affair as well
the girls.
"A pearl white lobster was taken With
Others in trap at Salem, Massachusetts,
last Saturday. and it is TO be sent to the
| Essex Institute. Such Holsters are very
rare. When boiled it is said TO remain
clear white.
"A wandering old portrait palmer nam
ed Cooper, always seen with a rusty satchel
! unoer his arm, was found dead near Mar
tinsville, Ky, and the bundle when opened
was found to contain S65, 900 in Govern
ment bonds.
Rev. .. III. Ashenfeter, of Carlisle, is
to be tried tor heresy by the Reformed
Church. He is charged with denying the
inspiration of the Old Testament and .he
eternal punishment Of those who live and
die impenitent.
Mr.. Anson Lord was a remarkable
Democrat who died in Montgomery county
at the age of ninety-two. From the time
of his majority to that of his death, he
| never failed TO cast a ballot at every town,
State and national election.
The New York Sun and Philadelphia
! Commonwealth want to see Mr.. Randall
! speaker because of his unswerving Demo
cratic opposition to subsidies. The Mem
/ phis Appeal thinks that no other selection
! would be satisfactory OF prudent
! Sunday morning about three O'Clock
| James East, a boarder at the st. James
| Hotel, Dauville. Illinois, fell from third
story window to the ground, distance of
! forty feet, receiving severe injuries, though
! not fatal. He was walking in his sleep at
! the time.
"A carrier pigeon, carrying a message
to the French Ambassador in London, won
! a race against a train going sixty miles an
hour. The bird was libcrafed as soon as
! the steamer reached Dover, whence it flew
to its dovecote in LONDON, seventy miles in
sixty minutes.
Whilst farmer cutting grain near
| Port Royal, Juniata county, the reaper
passed over nest OF young partridges,
! killing the morher. A turkey hen took
! charge of the young birds and now tender
ly cares for them, taking them to the barn
! every evening to roost.
An aged couple living near Bowers
| station on the East Pennsylvania Railroad,
named James and Elizabeth Bower, aged
eigbty-one and seventy-one respectively,
recently superInrended the digging of their
own graves, in DeLong churchyard. They
are lined with stone, and cost 5000.
"A ve.y startling report comes from
| Texas to the effect that Captain Nicholas
| Nolan, of the Tenth cavalry, and twenty
seven men of his company are probably
lost on the Staked Plains. While suffering
! for want of water. they became separated,
and it is feared that all may perish.
Louisville. KY, has novel sensation
! In the shape of paper edited by negroes
supporting Democrats for tile Legislature.
| it fires red hot shot into the Republican
| ranks, and is getting an immense circnla-
ton. Elder Bill Gray, who recently pock-
eted church, is the fighting editor.
! An elderly woman in Watertowu at
tempted to pull apart partially split stick
of firewood the other day, but failed and
the stick closed painfully upon her fingers.
She called young girl to her relief, and
| the latter also was caught. They were
compelled to apply to a chance passei by
| for release.
While the First Division, P. n. G.,
were passing the Colonade hotel, Philadel-
phia. Monday morning, on their return
from Scranton, n little daughter of the
/ proprietor Of the hotel was viewing the
soldiers from fifth story window. In lean
( ing out of the window she lost her balance
and Tell TO the pavement and was instantly
| killed.
"A greenback labor party was organized
at Pittsburgh on Saturday. Among the
/ resolutions adopted was one making it
! incumbent upon corporations to paylabor-
ers not less than $3.50 day Another
resolution provides that prison labor con-
tract or otherwise, be abandoned The
! new party intends to put county ticket i'm
the field
! The Poorhouse on the Industrial Farm
of the county of Norfolk, one mile from
Simcoe, Ontario, was discovered to be on
fire at ii o'clock Saturday night, and the
building being Of wood, it was quickly re-
duced to ashes Notwithstanding the ex-
ertions of the few PEOPLE who reached the