The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-06-15
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The York Dtspatch is very certain 1t
has found the Ross boy. but we ale not let
into the secret of the thing.
BY the capszing of a schooner in the
harbor at Halifax, \. $, on Tuesday, four
men and a boy were drowned.
Eleven hundred employees in seven
colieries of the Lehigb and Wilkesbarre
Companies have struck against reduction
of wages.
A Womelsdorf. Lebanon county. hen
has hatched three broods of young chick
ems this Spring and is now setting on
goose eggs.
The wife of George f. Woodbury., of
Methuen, Massachusetts. gave birth to
four children on Wednesday night. Three
of them died at the age of three hours.
Miss Elizab beth Thompson, the well
known painter, was married in London on
Monday last to Major William Butler.
Card dinal Manning performed the ceremony.
The execution of George w. Fletcher,
for the murder of James IIanley, in Novem-
Der, 1875, took place a Moyamensing pris-
on, Philadelphia, at 10 O'Clock on Monday.
! the Workman family of Greene coun-
ty are heavy weights. The father and
nine children Gncludng two girls weigh
2,016 pounds, or an average of over 201
pounds.
Jack Wharton has been appointed
marshal a: Louisiana in place of oitkin.
: This is what the Lancaster IlteIlioencer
calls a loud call Oh Butler for another Mac
/ Veagh letter.
Mr. Benjamin Whitman, of the Erie
/ Observer, announces in his paper that he is
not candidate for the Democratic nominal
/ tion for Auditor General, nor for any other
political position.
I "A pine tree has started from San Fran
cisco, on its way round the world. II has
reached New York in front of locomotive
! smoke stack, and will soon be on its way
J 20 a. l.. e -ao
Three blocks of houses in Galveston,
! Texas, were destroyed by fire on Fl iday.
The Southein Hotel. Cotton Exchange. and
twenty-fonr other buildings were burned.
/ The loss is estimated at three million dol
lars.
Five car loads of cattle were last week
shipped from Lancaster county to Liver
pool. The price paid was seven cents per
pound. John Bull not only likes our beef,
but he imports large quantities of Ameri-
! can butter.
The small schooner, only twenty feet
long, in which Captain Grape and wife are
making their way to Europe, starting from
New Bedford May %. was spoken June 6,
latitude 1920, longitude 64:22, getting
along finely.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Philadelphia took To Rome as IA special of
! fering to the Pope 500, 600 subscribed in
his own diocese. This is $50, 900 more
than the Roman Catholics in all England
sent to Plus y. on his jubilee.
The little town of Salem, n. c.. with
two Thousand inhabitants, has gathered
and sent to market during the past three
years more than three million pounds of
blackberries, for which the gatherers re-
ceived nearly half million dollars.
The Boston Post reports the existence
! of Know Nothing order in Rhode Island,
. so well organized as to have made it's n-
huehce felt at the last election. There is
no State in the Union where an order of
this kind could flourish more thriftily.
The brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers is twenty-five years old, and has
fund of nearly $4,000, coo. The monthly
dues OF members are $40. In case of sick
ness an engineer receives S25 week, and
at his death his family receives S3, 600.
The grand jury at St. JohnsbuIy, Vt,
have refused to find true bill against
Mrs. Young, of Newark, who recently kill
ed her children with All axe, the medical
experts appointed to examine her mental
condition having ascertaincd that she is
insane.
Between Soradoville and Painter,
! Miffiin county, hail storm prevailed a
few evenings ago which is said to have
never had parallel. Hail the size of eggs
iell and III great quantity. Four hours af-
terward chunks as large as walnuts were
picked up.
"A Lancaster comfy farmer, who
Claimed that he was too poor to take q
newspaper, sold his wheat recently for
Sl.30 per buslel, when the market price
was over 50. The loss sustained by him
IN this transaction would have paid for a
paper for forty years.
Last week the divorced wife of J. Z.
Kirby visited Sunburv and secured her bow
who lived with her former husbands sec
ond wife. They left Sunbury on Friday
do tia e.
injured on the Leh!gh Valley railroad and
the child seriously hurt.
"A: Petrolia, on Friday, Minnie Small
ley, aged ten years, attempted to kindle "A
fire IN stove with kerosene oil, but hold
ing tie can too near the flame it exploded,
burning her fatally, the skin being torn
from her body and limbs. She died in a
short time in great agony.
An old lady IN Biughamton, Y. V,
who died some time ago, :oUk off and
gave to her daughter, JUS before her
death, pair of earrings that she had worn
, eighty-one years without removing them
her father had given them to her when
, she was only six years old
F Charles Evans, of Norristown, who
disappeared about three weeks ago. was
found in barn in Montgomery county
one day last week almost starved to death
W hat bis object was in remaining in the
barn until nearly dead is not known.
Evans recovery is doubtful.
Alderman McMasters, of PITTSBURGH.
recently convicted of procuring an abortion
which caused the death of Miss Kayan-
/ augh, was on Monday last sentenced to six
years in the penitentiary. The case will
be taken before the Supreme Court mean
time the sentence remains in allegiance
An insane man on the Pacific Express
west from Pittsburgh the other afternoon
5 attacked passenger with razor and cut
his throat from ear to ear. Fortunately
the wound he inflicted was not fatal. The
assailant, who was on his way to Plymouth.
Ind, was arrested and imprisoned at Lima.
Ohio.
Inc reason for the transfer of the
Rice-Coolidge scandal case in Boston from
the courts to referees is that the revelations