The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-03-09
Nescs ana other NotLngs.

IL nas HIty-three Mondays.
The largest plant oftobacco ever made
In Pennsylvania will be put i'll this season.
MIR. Smith. of Pottstown, owns four
teen hens. who laid a2o eggs during the
m onth of February.
Mr.. Hayes asked ;'tbe prayers of all
Christian people," and soon after dined
with Bob Ingersoll.
Forty years ago Archbishop Purcell.
OF Cincinnati, was one of the publishers of
the Lancaster Pa Imtelti9encer.
Bertha Won Hilleiu, on Saturday even
ing, at .he music hall in Boston, succeeded
IN her attempt to walk one hundred miles
i'll twenty-eieht hours.
"A horse, belonging to James O.. Wal
lace, of Hopewell township, York county,
is thi~ty-six years old and is still working
A Chester county farmer is selling
eggs by measure in the West Chester mar
ket. One dollar for a half peck is the
price demanded.
Nearly 100, geo Germans are settled in
some forty counties in Texas, particularly
Comal and Guadalupe, and they are high
ly successful as agricultuiists.
john j. High, of Lancaster county, is
eighteen years old, six feet three and one
half inches high, and weighs $50 pounds,
yet be may become higher still.
"A negro exhibited in Arnoldville, Mo,
has tail like that of pig and he can
CuI IL .jtiSL uldI DIS Iiic. % says Il
letter to the St. Louis Republican,.
Cardinal Ledochowsk has beeu found
guilty Of high treason for having violated
the Prussian ecclesiastical law and offered
resistance I'D the authority of the State.
"A man in Cardiff, Wales, having stab
bed his wife, the other day, she FASTENED
to a doctor ~ho dressed her wounds, but,
tnding she had no money, uud.cssed them
again.
6 T. r
lature colored childten are to lave an equal
chance will, white children in the public
schools. The Democrats, were the strong
est advocates of the bill
Tile New York World remarks ''A,r
Hayes succeeds to something very like an
aIgarine presidency He couldn't
get anything butter, and even for hat VI.
IIGen proposes TO bring suet.
Mrs Mary Lace WAS shot in the right
breast ut Brady's Beud, on Friday, by her
father while examining revolver. She j.
not expected TO recover. The lady is Tie
mother of a babe only eight mouths old
An unknown boy, fifteen years Cf age
was fonnd on the PENNSYLVANIA railroad
track near Downingtown a few DAYS ago
cut into halves. Ii was thought three
trains passed over him before lie was
found.
Mrs. Storcr, the treasury clerk. WHO
ington the other day, probably owes her
life to the steel nib in her corset which
stopped the bullet on it's bloody erlaud
MIR. {. y. Hovey, of Dcausville, \. Y.
canuet tell lie, but he has hog that has
sloughed its skin ami much of The under
lying layerof Fat, seventy or ighty pounds
in all. and is now putting on Il new cuticle
very like an elephant.
The b"idge built by the Southern Pa
cltIc I,s l,a, r
Tuiare lake lis more than a mile in length
1t is supported 10y cedar piling. driven ten
or twelve feet into the mud. and the track
is some eight or ten feet above the water
-The boiler OF kucher & Bakers saw
mill. in Huntingdon, Indiana, exploded vn
Thursday. killing Samuel Hall and fatally
woonding Frederick Alien, Jos,.pl, Brown.
James Collins. W. Frazer and john Koch.
er The building Was shattered 10 atoms.
The Pope has received from France a
splendid aud Colossal cabinet containing
i'll separate drawers 300 volumes, each con
tanning a translation Of the Bull ON the I'm
rnaculate Coaception in as many dialects.
silver statue OF the Nirg ia sErInUuuts the
Ca binet.
About half tho inhabitants of New
Orleans are Roman Catholics. mostly of
the old French line. Their churches are
very numerous, and they represent geuer-
ally the wealthy anu cultured people of
the city. The Jews have also some yery
large svHagogues.
AT Tiffin, Ohio, Thursday night.
/ Jacob Wetzel, a baker, shot his little Girl
/ two years old, through ,hc heart, causing
instant death, aud attempted To kill his
vile, shooting her in tue leg. No reason
known for tie act. The murderer is safely
lodged In the city prison.
One hundred aud tifty-three emirrants
sailed from New ork on Saturday TO tIy
their fortunes at the antipodes Their
point OF destination is Sydney, New South
Wales. Hard times have driven these peo-
pie to the uttermost parts of the earth.
Another sl4ipl,ad will sail April IL.
1t is reported that gentleman from
Milwaukee mas received IA grant from the
queen oil Madagascar of large track of
land several miles in extent, and is active
ly engaged in the cultivation of coffee and
the vanilla bean while a colony is being
orgaulZed III Missouri TO share his advan,
tageS.
A young lady Of Honkinton. Mass, is
soon 20 be married TO a man who lives in
the Sand wich Islands, and whom she never
saw but fUr fifteen minutes ata depot in
Nashua, n. H., where they accidentally
met four years ago, till they met in Boston
last week. Romantic, but very sweet and
promising, too.
-Rachel Arnold, better known as s'Oid
Annie, starved herself to death at No. 80
Ridge street. New York. She was worth
@l,6oO, which was deposited in the German
savings bank but being miser preferred
to die than draw cent of it. Her plea
before death was tuat she was saving il
/ for her brother.
Out of 124 children born in Lawrence.
Mass, last year. only 1S4 had mothers who
were natives "f the United States, while
540 were born of foreign born mothers.
/ The population Of the city is pretty evenly
divided between native born and foreign.
l A text this, says the Phila. Times, ror the
Protestant clergymen.
/ Seattle, thriving settlement on PUGET
Sound, was founded some four years ago
/ by priest from Quebec. 1t now has
5,ooo inhabitants, daily paper, four
churches and seven schools. aud ON the 1st
OF January there were six sh ips and three
ocean steamers lying at the wbarycs be-