The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-11-02
Ne,cs AMI Otnef NOtiHSS.

Half a foot of snow in Canada ought
to be a warning to prepare for wInier.
Forty children, visited the jail in st.
Louis few days ago and sang for the
prisoners.
-Thomas McElrath, of Marlboro, has,
according to Kingston Can paper, lived
nine years without sleep.
Senate or Johnston, of Virginia, Senator
Herman, of New York. and Senator Spencer,
of Alabama. are Catholics.
Mrs. J. f. Emerson wife of the green
back candidate for auditor general, died on
Thursday at Beaver Falls.
1T is said that Prof. Bell has already
rented out three thousand five hundred
telephones at $40 per annum each.
Mrs Charlotte Little, of Wolfe county,
Ky, is the mother of twenty four children
and has sixty-seven grand children.
The result of the supplemental cleo
tions in France makes the Assembly stand
Republicans, $50; Conservatives, 210.
kitty Roup, who died recently at
Pittsburgh, was worth $500, ,O00. The es-
tate will be divided equally among ten heirs
Esther Golfer, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
has been sent to prison for lifo for setting
fire to an inhabited dwelling in the night
time.
A dem John manufacturing company
in Philadelphia has ia lied. The increas-
ing popularity of the pocket-fiask did the
business.
Ambrose w. Garland, of Kentucky, a
dwarf, is twenty-eight years of age, thirty
seven inches in height, aud weighs only
forty pounds
Nat M'Kay has brought civil suit
against the editor and proprietor of the
Philadelphia Times for libel, laying dam
ages at 100000
One of the Sisters of Mercy. named
Sister Mary Joseph, who went to nnrse the
IL, ID Il IF 1l,, fox If
ter her return to Savannah.
AT Tower Hill, Indiana, Monday, Miss
Alta Theady was burned TO death by the
explosion of a coal oil lamp, caused by her
blowing down the chimney.
Gen. Bedford Forrest, the great Con-
federate cavalry officer, died at q o'clock
Monday evening at the residence of his
brother, Col. Jesse Forrest, in Memphis
Tenn.
Lewis Meyers, the Treasurer of Au-
glaize county, Ohio, who beat his confiding
fellow citizens out Of S47, COO, has pleaded
gnilry and been sent for three years to the
peniteniiary.
"A German named Nicholas Hopelmyer
threw himself from the middle arch of the
bridge at ST. Louis, Sunday night, and was
drowned. He fell a distance of nearly one
hundred feet.
MIR. Karns of Titusville, started re-
Gently for China, where the Government
has employed him to prospect for oil. lie
is to get a. salary of $4,000 and expenses
for the first year.
JAS. Collins, of Whitley county. Ky,
was prosecuted in the Whitley Circuit
Court for selling his vote. lie was found
guilty and disfranchised for life. This is
the first case Of the kind on record.
A cry of fire during the performance
Saturday night in Niblo's Garden, New
York. caused stampede, and i'll the rush
out of doors several people were seriously
injured. No one was killed.
Zach Chandler has g. 160 acre farm
in Ingram county, Mich. which cost him
800. 900, on which are So horses, 30 cattle,
900 sheep, and many other appliances for
culsivating the rural vote for Senator.
Miss Jarrett of Maryhoro', Out, was
so overcome with sleep about five weeks
ago that she is still sleeping. She only
/ wakes for few minutes now and then and
nothing can be done to thoroughly awake
her.
Sarah Ward, of Luton, England, is los
years old. and is in the possession of all
her faculties. She has two daughters with
her, aged respectively seventy eight and
sixty-six, and two living elsewhere who
are still older.
Senator Blaines daughter, who was
shot in the forehead by a toy revolver, is
out of danger. There are all sorts of ru-
mors flying about Augusta, one being that
Miss Blaine tried to kill herself because of
some love disappointment.
Judge SteIre.t will lose many votes be-
cause he is believed to be in sympathy with
movement to saddle the state with the
damages to private properly caused by the
| Pittsburgh riots. The amount of these
damages is estimated at four millions of
dollars.
Patrick Duffy, who died in Philadel-
phia worth SIS, 600, left it all to one child !;
he cut off his daughter without dollar be-
cause she married an old man, and his son
James was left i'll the cold because he
made me pay some money that he ought to
| have paid"
The charred remains of Mrs. McCul-
lough were found in the debris of her
dwelling burned at Erie, Pa, on Sunday
morning. She had been intoxicated the
evening previous and was alone in the
house, the other members of the family
being off visiting.
A petrified wasp nest has been found
near Eureka, New, by blasting in the solid
rock forty feet below the surface of the
ground. On breaking it open, some cells,
larva, and two perfectly formed wasps
were found, also petrified. The rock is a
granite sandstone of sedimentary forma-
ton.
"A sad accident occurred on Monday
. afternoon about two miles west of New
burg, Cumberland county. The boiler of
! a saw mill belonging 20 Messrs. Shoemaker
I q Powell exploded, killing son of Mr.
Shoemaker aud a man named Bowers, and
woundng two other men, one Of them se-
riously.
The charred bodies of Philip Wismer
and his son, of Tobyhanna, Monroe county,
have been found in a cabin i'm the woods.
1t is thought that the elder Wismer awolSe,
found the cabin on fire, tried to reach the
! door, bu: fell exhausted before he could do
SO. The son vas doubtless smothered by
/ the smoke and never awoke.
1t is noticed that the "American." :"
Know Nothing, anti-Catholic alliance re-
Gently had a banquet in Washington, at
which Hayes's private secretary was a
guest. 1t is TO be added, as we'll as regret.
ted, that he filled up his glass and drank a
! hummer when the flow of raaSou CO. -,