The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-21
NeiCs ana Other NotIngs.

I'm De Kalb county, Indiana, they
have found a meteoric stone weighing two
tons or more.
"A dead infant. supposed to have been
starved, was found in small box in Alle-
gheny county on Friday.
The democrats of Paoli county, Miss.
have unanimously nominated colored
man for coroner and ranger of the county.
BY an explosion at Turkey Run col
]iery, near Shenandoah, Pa, Jane Thomas
was killed and three others seriously injur-
ed.
Judge West. the republican candidate
for governor OF Ohio, is in such poor health
that he has to make his campaign speeches
sitting.
VIM. Driesbach, of williamsport. is
II years old and 6 feet inches in his
stocking feet. He could be cut into good
sized twins.
-In camp meeting near Guerneville
Cal. a house of three stories made of
a hollow Il ee, the cavity being thirteen feet
in diameter.
A girl in Orange county, New York,
has had three step-moyhers and two step
fathers. The only fun this extraordinary
orphan experiences is eating wedding
cake.
The vault in which the remains of
Brigham Young have been placed is SO
constructed that, after it is once closed,
not a single stone can be removed from
the structure.
A Providence physician is of the opin-
ion that if the city would prohibit the
schools from being open more than three
months in the year the doctors and the I'M
tertaker would have much less to do.
"A vessel left Scotch port recently
with five hundred hogsheads of wine on
board. 1t is intended to take twelve
months voyage, the object being to inn
prove the wine by a passage through the
tropics.
Seven years ago William O'Brien was
murdered in S.. Louis by Michael Ryan,
who escaped arrest. O'Brien's widow re-
Gently recognized Ryan in the street, grab
bed him, aud held hlu until lie was ar
rested.
AT the Boston dog show, a cat that
had adopted Guinea pig and a Spiiz pup,
Nas awarded silver service premium.
Next summer the Hub policemen viii be
hunting down that same Spiz pup with a
six shooter.
-Joseph Horn, an employee of the
I Westinghouse air brake company at the
time of the recent strike, is under arrest in
Pittsburgh, charged with being the man
who by striking at Gen. Brinton began the
Pittsburgh riot.
The roof of the business house occu-
pied by John b. Lander & Son, at Rock
ford, ~. fell in on Friday night, entirely
destroying the buildiug.and stock of goods.
Mr.. Lander aud two clerks were killed,
and two other. fatally injured.
The Harlem steamboat Sylvan Del
ran down a rovboat in East river, New
York, on Sunday evening, containing
William Rodisan, John Welch, Mrs.
Welch, Frank Oliver and his daughter.
I The three latter we're drowned.
"A Chicago fashionable clergyman has
failed. Liabilities 315 OQO atnnno La.
assets, an exchange facetiously adds, were
22 pairs of worked slippers, assorted sizes
IL dressing gowns, 30 pen wipers, % fancy
pincushions, 9 watch pockets and cush-
ions.
A practical joker living near Danbury.
Conn, stole a scarecrow from a farmer
cornfield last week and leaned it up against
the owners door-yard fence. The owner
saw 1t, and supposin4 it to be burg lar.
sat mp all night waiting for it to attempt
to enter his house.
Ann w llson was courted twenty years
! ago IN bourbon, KY, by George NJ. Gil
! lespie, who afierward went TO California
and she saw nothing OF him again unit
very recently. when he returned with
! eleven children by wife who had died
and rel.ewed the courtship. Ann accepted
/ him.
DIR. Roth, of Danvers. H.. died re
/ Gently from starvation, caused by ossifica
I tloh OF the guilet, disease which ha.
never been known to the physicians o
! that section. The entire interior of tn,
es"phagus became solid bone. Ills suffer
ing was terrible, and death was happl
release.
A street car to be propelled by con
/ pressed air, will soon be running on tbt
asphalt pavement, on Second avenue, be
tween Glenwood and the Birmingham
bridge, Pittsburgh. 1t is now being com
! pieted ut Soho. No tracks will he needed
! AS 1t VIII run directly on the sun face of tn,
| avenue.
! Captain McClellan.l. chairman of Ia
Democratic State Committee. has fake,
headqnarteis for the campaign at rooms
ann . Iirard House, Philadelphia. Mr.
| Iiiiam '. McGrath. of Philadelphia. /
treasurer, and z. J. Pierce, of Mercer
sol Foster, jr.. of Pottsville, and W lillian
II. Eagle, OF Marietta, Secretaries
-oarney Harron. of Pittsburgh, VIII,
! had been blind for six years visited a Il,
ot ordinary wrapping twine into a rope oi
sunday last. while his family were a
church, and tying it to the banister of th
stairway and around his neck threw him
self over the banister He was found hang
ing there dead when his family returned.
ne Independent in a long editoria
CRIES data To prove the good grounds mo,
which the Catholic World predicts tha
New England will be the first portion a
TINS country To become ''distinctivelv Re
man Catholic" Catholic immieratio
thither aud Catholic labors there are yer
noticeable.
- he mayor of Burlington, Iowa, 4
w. PARSONS, few days ago handed i'm hi
resignation and has since mysteriously dis
appeared. l. is alleged that he was a de
'a"her TO The Merchants national bank. q
"nlch ne was at one time cashier, to TN
extent OF $4,000. There is also n beav,
oehcit IN The school fund of which Parson
was custodian.
Near 1ifiin, Ohio, the other dav.
Tramp called ut the house of John Austin
ana noiicing that Mr.. Austin had rheuma
,ism he advised him to make tea ont of IN
Jamestown weed and drink it. Mr.. Aus
.,n' without second thought. had som