The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-04-20

No less than twenty six couples are to
be joined i'll matliInony in Sharpsburg, Al
egheny county, in the course of a few days.
The banns were published for all of them
at the German Catholic church in that
place on Sunday last. All the young peo-
PIE who are to be united are members of
that congregation. Good enough.
Gov. Hampton is fifty years old has
been married twice aud is a widower. He
had three children-two Sous and a dauCh-
ter. His Oldest son, Preston Ham Ston, was
killed at Gettysburg, and the second,
Wade, jr., lives in Washington county,
Miss. His daughter, Margaret. is the wife
of Col John Hascall, of South Carolina.
Birds killed on the Western prairie.,
packed closely with paper in barrels, and
without any freezing or oihe" artificial pro-
cess of preservation, now go regularly to
Leadenhali, and are sold and eaten in the
dining rooms of London and the West side
by side with the much more expensive par
tridges and fowls which ale reared in Eng
land.
The jury i'm the Mary Kavanagh abor-
tion case, in which that unfortunate and
misguided girl paid the forfeit with her
life, have found Samuel McMasters, a well
known Pittsburgh alderman. guilty as an
accessory to the crime before and after the
fact. This on Saturday last, when n mo
tion for new trial and in arrest of iudg-
ment was made.
Judge Black SAYS that the golden fields
of the Black Hills and the commencement
of the great European war. is the mama
from Heaven for this country, and es-
pecially for Pennsy ylvania. for the reason
that thousands of the idle men will go
west, and the remainder will get work on
our railroads, that viii be busy bringing
grain and provisions to the seaboard for
shipment to Europe.
i Of ID
animation in Honsick, y. Y. About two
weeks ago DR.. Il. III. Green apparently
died and was placed in vault Last Sat
urday his wife visited the supposed CORPSE
and was surprised to signs of life. the
body being warm. Physicians had the
body removed from the vault. aud have
hopes OF bringing the Doctor back to active
life and usefulness.
john Smith, of Crooked Hill, Mont
gomery county, aged 20 and blind, cut his
throat with a butcher knife. The wound
was sewed mp, when he could converse
freely. When asked for the reasons for
committing the rash act, he stated that
owing to his blindness and disease life had
became so great a burden to him that he
wished to be re iieved Of it. and had taken
this method to end his troubles.
David Davis, a prominent Welsh citi-
zen of Hyde Park, Luzerne county, recent
ly met with severe pccuniary losses. 4
man 70 whom he had lent So 800 failed and
couldn't reEay it, and several speoulations
turned out badly. These losses proved ON
his mind and he became morbid. Monday
he went to work as usual, but shortly after
returning home he first cut his throat and
then shot himself through the head.
The verdict of the coroner's jury i'm
the case Of the death Of Orville ID. Jewett
and George w. Jewett, in New York. was
that George w. Jewett came to his death,
April ), 1877, from the shock caused by
the explosion of a hand grenade brought
into the office, at No. 1S2 Front street, by
Orville ID. Jewett that Orville ID. Jewett,
came to his death at the Chambers street
hospital from pistol shot wounds inflicted
by himself at the time and place before
mentioned.
The Columbus (Wis.) Republican SAYS
that four year old child of Deacon d. j.
Evans, of Elba, fell into an open cistem a
few days since, and an elder brother leaprd
III after HIM but the latter found it inn
possible to reach the floor above, while
supporting the child. A large Newfound-
land dog, comprehending the situation at a
glance, ran off to neighboring field,
bringing back with him number of men,
attracted by the strange actions of the
I dog; ladder was put down the cistern,
and the young man and his charge, half
drowned, were rescued.
Gov. Z. L. Nichols, of Louisiana, lost
leg aud an arm on the same side of the
body in the late civil war. His arm was
shot away while he was serving ON the staff
of Stonewall Jackson in one of the Virginia
campaigns. His father and grandfather
were distinguished lawyers of Louisiana,
and each in turn chief justice of the
supreme court of the State. Young Mich
oils, who was also bred to the bar, often
said that his highest ambition was to sue
coed them. But when he lost his arm he
looked ruefully at the stump aud exclaim-
ed that that put an end tn his aspirations
for judicial honors. since he could not adj
minister even handed Justice