The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-10-26
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ported near Clarion. 1hls IS an entirely
new territory.
The majority for West, republican, in
Cleveland was SO. Last year Hayes had
$500 more votes than Tilden.
A woman. 65 yearsold, in Manchester,
y. H., jumped into well and was not
found uutil five days afterward.
"A man has arrived in Pittsburgh who
walked from the Black Hills. He is a res
ident of Forest county, this State.
"A mother and daughter clipped with
their lovers from Leesburg, o., leaving
their husband aud father disconsolate.
A ten ton heat was made at the Bald
win Steel Works on Wednesday. This is
the largest ever known in the United States.
George Spangie, aged Il, of Bridge
port, Cumberland county, committed sui
eide on Wednesday. He was i'll with ty-
phoid fever.
Five sisters, who are nuns in Cana
dian convent, have turned into the conven.
treasury their combined fortunes, amount
ing 20 $500,0 600.
Robert Harris. living near Nesburg,
Henry county, Virginia. beat bis wife to
death while drunk. He escaped. They
ha6 six children.
An English lady, with two maids,
man servant and a lady companion, has
just paid hotel bill of $3.50 for nine and a
half DAYS entertainment in Chicago.
The wife of William G. Gilman, the
New York forger. has become insane, and IS
TO be sent to lunatic asylum. The Unfor-
tunate lady is niece of III. Ward Beecher.
Mrs, Nancy Hawkins, aged sixty seven
years, of Lexington, Ky, wove from Janu-
ary 90 TO September 20. one thousand
three hundred and seventy-six yards of
rag carpet.
-Four little girls, the children of Mr..
Jacob Mu:sel wh hite, of Robeson county, y.
C., died lately of diphtheria so near to-
gether that they we're all buried last week
at .he same time.
Mr. Thomas McDonough, a Pennsyl-
vania oil operator, thinks the field is zap q
ly becoming exhausted, and that in ten
years or less there will be very little OIL
found in the Stats.
"A woman died In Fall River recently
from excessive joy. On meeting with
her daughter, after a separation or many
years, she uttered an exclamation of de-
light. and fell dead.
The apple crop of Chautaqua county,
y. Y, this season. is the largest ever
known. Shipments to date are valued at
$500, 600. 1t is estimated that the entire
crop will realize $500, 900.
The house of Mrs. Sarah Wulborn, of
MyeTslown. Lebanon county, was DESTROYED
by fire on Saturday night. Mrs. Wolborn
and her daughter, the 1ife Of DIR. W, B.
Devices, were suffUcated.
"A party OF gnigrants going down the
river at St. Louis. in skif, on Sunday
night, were run into by a tow boat. Mar
tin Crowley and Mrs. james Crowley ard
her baby we're drowned.
-Clintonville, Clinton County, y. y. is
devastated with smallpox. Sevsnty persons
died within few days Travellers are
prohibited from entering the place, all the
highways being blnokaded.
Philadelphia furnishes the oldest Dem
ocratic member of the House in the person
of Speaker Randall. aud in Judge Kelley
the oldest Republican member, who ad
ministered the oath of Office.
AT Pittsfield, Mass. three sons Of Will
liam DOwney loaded an old gun barrel
with powder, and discharged it. The
~capou burst, killing two of the boys aud
tearing off hand of the other.
AT recent trial Of the Edison tele-
phone in Canada, a conversation was read
lily carried on between operators in Mon
treal and Quebec, the distance being some
thing over one hundred and eighty miles.
John c. Morton, late President of the
Market Street Passenger Railway company.
Philadelphia, has been held in six thousand
dollars bail to appear on n charge ofperiury
in swearing falsely to the annual reports CT
his Company.
In excavating an old tannery last week
used by ID. Johnson, of lie Rsysvilie,
Bradford county, fifty years ago. there
was uneaIthed a side Of leather VIII ch had
lain in an old vat 80 years, fresh aud
bright as when first put in.
An inceudisry fire in Portland. New
brunswick, on Saturday last, destroyed
seventy-five buildings in the principal por-
tion OF the city. One man was burneo to
death, and severalmen and women injured.
Loss estimated at 5000, 600.
"A malignant epizOoty in Southern
Russia has destroyed hundreds OF thousands
of cattle, and is still raging. In many vii
Iages, according to a report OF our consul at
Odessa, scarcely a cow or an OK is left to
the impoverished inhabit.nts
Allen c. Laros, the murderer Of his
father and Other members of his family,
who was to have been hanged last month
at Easton. but was reprieved, has been
pronounced insane. an epileptic, and in
every way unfit to be executed.
Fred. Brydges and Mrs. Mckenzie,
whose flight from Canada to the States
created such a sensation little over a
year ago, were married in Boston on Fri.
day last. The lady has been residing in
Chicago for some time, and obtained a di-
voIce there lately from her former husband.
MIR. Connolly, editor Of the Washing
ton (La.) Enterprise, declares that if An
derson, OF the Returning Board, had been
more respectfully treated by the friends
and organs of Mr.. Tilden and not abused
and written up, "the Presidency of the
United States would have been different
from what it is today
MIR. and Mrs. Bard we'll, an aged couple
of Whately, Mass, divided their money
into equal parts before starting on a Jour
ney, each taking one. Their idea was
that at least half of the sum would he saved
from thieves; but the world is wickeder
than they thought. Both their pockets
were picked.
-Mung Fong, Chinese cigar maker
living in Chicago, for love of Celia Man
ming, abandoned the creed and costume of
his fathers, cut off his pigtail, took out a
license to marry her and prepared a sump-
tuous wedding feast against last Saturday
night. Behold the bride came not, and he
shot himself through the body and died.
Austin Sheldon, who for forty years
has lived in a cave in Pike county, met