The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-05-04
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3 Whlc t1UlnE Olnnef ON fIiuHY, was accl-
dentally cbokcd to death
"A lighthouse keeper at Charleston was
! literally frightened out of his wits by the
recent storm in that section.
Abraham Halter, a tramp hung him
self to a tree on the farm Of Jonas Hess,
/ Warwick, Lancaster county, on Friday.
-Parson Brownlow died dt Knoxville at
two O'Clock til Sunday afternoon, of paral-
ysis of the bowels, after a long and tedious
illness.
/ "A Chicago girl, IA years old, has fur
nished comfortable home and bought a
piano with the money obtained by selling
papers.
In New York, on Friday night Prof
Paul Carter performed the uuurecedented
feat of waltzing five hours without inter
mission.
john Miller. of Warwick, Chester
county, has been arrested for incest at the
instance of a sister who is four.years older
than he is.
1t is said that over thirteen thonsand
persons have thus far signed the temper
ance pledge at the Murphy meetings in
Philadelphia.
A grapevine on W. G, Phelps premi.
ses, near Stockton, Cal, measures, at dis
tance of one foot from the ground twenty
six inches in circumference.
Jos. Cunningham, of Fayette county,
Z =
the farm on which he was born and from
which he had never removed.
"A girl aged eleven years was caught in
cog wheel IN Lehigh comfy and drawn
around at the rate Of sixty revolutions a
minute. Her injuries were fatal
james f. Whitney, six years old in a
quarrel with a playmate, Lewis Shattuck.
at Nashua, Y. H., Monday, was stable d
by the latter, probably fatally, three
times.
The Richmond Wig reports in detail
( the case of youug man in that city whose
black hair turned white i'm a single night
in consequence of great anxiety and tlibu-
lation.
John Barmettler of Pittsburgh, com
mttcd suicide on Thursday by ,hootinp
himself in the head. Despondency, caused
by having no employment, induced him 10
kill himself.
VIM. Mason has been arrested in
Washington county for debauching two
orphan nieces-chiidren of "A deceased SOL
der. lie Is being prosecuted by the Grand
Army Of the Republic
-Richard Phillips, bagcaCe-master on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, is charged with
robbing the mails. A large quantity of
stolen properly was found at his residence.
He is held in So. 900 bail
The Methodist says that Rev. MaIlalieu
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ern policy in the New England conference.
should study Wendell Philips less and the
Lord Jesus Christ more
The following advertisement recently
appeared in New Haven journal "Any
person having five to fifty loads Of manure
7" dispose of will please send word or drop
1t through the post office"
Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, editor of Godey's
Laiy.S Book, is eighty-two years old. but
< u nc anti al, e
partment of that periodical. A hale old
lady must be Sarah J. Hale.
"A posi- moriem examination of the
BODY of colored child supposed to have
been murdered at Harrisburg by Barney
J o. Brien, its father, disclosed the fact that
death resulted from starvation.
w bile grating horSeradish, last week.
VIM. Cove, Al years of age, of New Yolk.
was taken with hit of sneezin9, during
which he rnpiured n blood vessel and ex-
pred IN few minutes Afterwards
"A French Canadian boy, fourteen
%caiS Old, while asleep in a car on the Cen
tral Vermont Railroad the other night.
walked off the platform while the train
was At fun speed. He was uniniured.
AS the President so called. Sits outside
of the capital dome and looks ont on forty
millions of freemen, he sees some states
men who don't live i'm Ohio. and he won.
! III.
james Lick meant 70 have left 81. 500.
ooo to public charity and benevolence. but
after ms son aud the lawyers get through
cramming their pockets there won't be
ditch.
A few days ago Patrick Dolan was
ninwn thirty feet in the air at the Phila.
detphia Coal Company's colliery No. ,
ABOUT three miles from Shenandoah by the
caving in of car-breast. He reached the
! ground without injury.
"A single firm in Chicago made settle.
ments on Tuesday of 1000. coo bushels of
wheat and the next day of 700 600 NETTING
profit of about quarter of million
lhe margins put up on Wednesday amount.
ed to a million dollars.
Wonderful discoveries or rre bis,o,iO
remains have been made at Arkodelnb;,
Ark, twenty miles south of the Hot
/ Springs, consisting Of road from 500 ~
/ i,OoO years old. skeletons of primitive ci
ants seven feet high, etc.
- he Lancaster InteUiqencey saws that
Hayes is so conscientious that he will have
none but an upright piano. But his love
ior 'he poor African was not strong enoup h
10 cause hun to have the key board com
posed entirely of daik-keys.
Judge Schacffer has rendered n deci-
SION IN the famous divorce case of Ann
Eliza oung against Brigham Young. in
winch he says the alleged marriage was
and is polygamous, aud therefore null and
Soid; She receives no compensation.
Hayes has appointed Judge John f
/ King as collector of the port at New Or
leans. lie is resident of Opelousas par
ish' and formerly occupied a seat on the
supreme bench of Louisiana. Pity the
! sorrows Of poor old Packard, Anderson &
! Co. ~
! The St. Louis Times thinks that Uaves
Is a great deal like the individual mention
/ ed in Holy Writ, who having bcen rorc,;,.
/ en- his own debt, went out straichtwav ond
ciapped his unfortunate debtor in prison
because he couldn't pay him what he owed
/ him.
1t is reported that Mr. Packard will
not leave New Orleans until he has securcd
documentary proofs that the qayes eIec,or,
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