The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-01-19
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"A repeal of she scalp law is demanded
by the people of several counties.
Barley, in Lake county, California, IS
two feet high and nicely headed.
May was not hurt and Miss M. did not
elope, hence the best stcry of the season Is
spoiled.
Mr.. Hill Keith of Lake Forest, \. c..
ma wing lost his wife last year, was married
to her mother on Christmas day.
"A child sat down on hot stove hearth
in Pittsburgh and WAS permanently BRAN
ded with the words Base Burner"
In Cambridge Mass evening school
is a man of fifty-seveu learning TO read and
one of foity working at arithmetic.
Great destituton prevails in New ork
and Brooklyn, and deaths from starvation
and exposure are frequently reported.
"A little siX-ycar-old daughter of
Thomas Graham, of Butler, was burned to
death on Friday while playing about the
fire.
--Wm. Fox of Titusvile, has n dancing
rat The little creature is perfectly tame
and keeps most perfect time TO the :une OF
the violin.
In Pittsburgh, on Thursday, George
Caughey was crushed TO death by being
drawn between bar rolls at the steel works
of Park, Bros. & Co.
"A woman dropped dead on the streets
of Pottsvile last week and the coroner's
jury has decided that her death WAS caused
by Intoxicating liquor.
Fred Douglass is despondent, and
says: "Tilden's Inauguration viii com
pleiely unchain the devil, and think he
will come i'm great wrath"
"A fire in Edinburg. Clarion county. on
Saturday night, destroyed twenty-five
buildings in the business part oftown. The
loss is estimated at 800, GOO.
Samuel Morris ami child, of Cranberry
Park, New jersey, were burned to death
at their residence on Friday. being unable
to escape from the burning building.
"A dispatch from Gloucester, Mass,
brings the melancholy intelligence that ten
schooners of the Gloucester fishing feet
are missing aud are doubtless lost, involv
ing loss of fully 100 lives.
Albert Gray, of Lancaster county,
brother of Col. Harry GIay, of PhiladeI
phia, whose memorable contest with Alex.
Mcclure for the State Senatorship will be
remembered, committed suicide recently in
St. Louis.
In the early part of the present century
John Alsop, a iich eccentric Englishman,
left his daughters a. a legacy their weight
in one pound bank notes. When weighing
day came the eldest got e51 200, the young
est GJ1. 344.
1t is reported that shreds Of flesh and
portion of human arm were found
hanging on the tuck of a coal car, at Port
Clinton on Thursday. Pieces of clDthing
we're also discovered, denoting that some
person bad met with d fearful fate.
-Martin Meyer, aged sixty years, froze
To death on the sidewalk, at Eastun, on
Friday night The deceased was bone
picker, and is supposed to have fallen fiom
the window Of stable where lie usually
slept, in front Of which he was found.
-Governnr Hartranft has refused to
grant a rcguisit ION on the governor of Cali
fDrnia for the return of John a. Bigler,
late vice president OF the ciiy bank of
Harrisburg, on the ground that .he appli-
cation is not in conformity with the rules.
The Hampton government has been
indorsed in nearly every county in South
Carolina, aud meetings have been called
in all others for the purpose of ratifying
the new government. Money is coming in
freely for its support. Gov. Hampton is
appointing county officers wherever needed.
The fire which broke ont in Lyken's
Valley Mines TN January 1st is q adually
dimiu ishing, aud the steam engine which
has been sent there from Harrisburg has
been returned. 1t is now believed that
the damage done will not be as great as at
first feared.
-Readug has square-toed preacher,
who recently said III :he couise of sermon ::
Il want Il holiness that puts n basket on
the arm and puts something in the basket
and goes to the home of impoverishmcnt
and says. not in words but in works, Here
is the evidence of my piety.'"
Father Barger, noted for his early ex-
perience in Methodism in the West aud
one OF the oldest divines living since the
death of the celebrated Peter Cartwright
died at Bloomington. ILL.,, few days ago,
of heart disease. He. as born in 1901 in
Culpcpper county, Va, and went to the
West in 1882.
MIR. James Gordon Bennett is reported
to have sailed for Europe in the steamship
City of Richmond, on Saturday last. He
got on boaro the steamship from the Her
aid news yacht, in the lower bay 1t is
also reported that Mr. May was not wound
ed and is staying with friends 'south of
Mason and Dixnn's line
"A terrible fire occurred at Scranton on
Saturday IN ,rning last, in a block of build
ings on Lackawanna avenue, known as Ex-
change block. The flames originated in
Pryor and Thompson shook store, and in
few hours the entire block was destroyed.
The total loss will exceed 800, OOO Sup
posed to be the work of an incendiary
NJ Dofruiti's peak, on lake Superior a
great Pyramidal rock of granite overhang-
ing the water, has fallen. 1t measured at
its base 100 feet in ciTcum fercne and rose
to the heightb of $50 feet. This towering
rock or shaft was called MDonald's peak.
in honor of a Hudson Bay company factor,
who is credited with climbing to the top of
it in 1922 and jumping into the lake to win
wager of eco.
In the case of VIM. Henry Brown. who
persisted in his burning dwelling in Mid
dletown, X. L., on the night of the 10th
inst. the coroner's jury has returned a
verdict that Charles ). Brown. a son of the
deceased. knew of the death of his father
at the time of the fire, and that he feloni
ously aud malicicusly refused and neglect
ed to make any effort to put out the fire or
save his fathers life. The sheriff has ar
rested the accused.
The Chicago Inter Ocean of Saturday
says the mystery of the Ashtabu!a disaster
has probably been discovered, and that the
terrible calamity was the result of deliber
ate design to rob and pillage. The paper
says its statements are based on what is
believed to be the most reliable informa-