The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-12-14
Nesss ana DfHer NOftngs.

Neses ana Of1eT NOftHgs.
One California farmer claims to have
killed six thousand wild geese this year.
Five thousand pounds of artificial but
ter are manufactured daily in Pittsburg.
"A Maine lady has refused 50, 900 for
her tresses, which are eight feet one inch
long.
Thomas A. Doyle was elected mayor
of Providence, r. l., on Thursday, for the
twelfth time.
BY the big a. Millerstown, Butler
county, few days ago, $3.50, 900 worth of
property was destroyed.
Near Karnes, Butler county, oil
well has been struck which will, it is esti-
mated, run 600 barrels per day.
Ira Robbins, OF Hughesvilie, Lycom-
ing county, has constructed revolving and
/ repeating rife which fires two shots a sec.
ond.
There are five hundred names on the
poor books of WilliamspoIt, aud a local
paper estimates that it Will require $50, 600
20 keep them.
In the family of David Kline, in Berks
county, four persons died in one week of
diphtEeria. In another family three died
within ten days.
"A little child of Mr., John Splitter, of
Bald Eagle furnace, Centre county, was
burned SO badly on Thursday last that he
died iD about an bour after the accident.
On Main street, Louisville, Saturday Y
night, Cochran d Fulton and Davis &
! Hadin's whisky stores, and four other
| firms were burned out. Loss. s 900, 600.
There is strong Catholic movement
against dancing III Baltimore. Many
young women who are church members are
dropping the amusement Fl ON their party
engagements.
The other day Miss Harriet Lyon, of
| Beaver, received through the post office a
sum of money which included the interest
for thirty years on sum stolen from her
thirty years ago,
-Leng's brewery, stables and several
cottages, at Louisville, Ky, burned Sunday
night. Cause, Henry Groom threw a lamp
at Emma Chime. The lamp exploded
Emma Chime died.
"A ST. Louis widow has had three hus.
bands. She has on hand a lawsuit to
break the will of the first, another to recover
the insurance money on the life of the sec
ond, and thiId to obtain alimony from
the last.
Mary Ann Collins, employed in pa
per mill in Verona, on the Allegheny Val
ley Railroad, fell through 4 ha:chway of
the mill into vat Of boiling water and
vitriCl on Saturday. She died almost i'm
medateiy.
An Irshman and German woman, both
II.
eloped TO St. Louis, where the man per-
suaded his partner to transfer IL, 600 out of
81, 500 In her possession aud decamped for
California.
Charles Mulrich shot and killed his
wife at the house of Squire Burns in
Fountain Bluff township, Randolph coun-
ty, Illinois, on Saturday, and then blew
his own brains out. Family difficulties
were the cause.
Rap C,i,-, r,fT Tof
over $50, 900 exclusively from bees, by
keeping a very large number, and having
all the labor connec ed with them perform
ed by members of his own family, and
thus avoiding expense.
Near Mansfield, Ohio, Thursday night,
man named Finney was murdered. and
his wife, son and daughteI-n-law were
badly wounded. A negro aud a farm
hand are suspected of the crime, the mo-
tive of which was robbery.
"A daughter of Major General Richard
Butler, one of Washington's mos trusted
commanders in the revolutionary war, is
living at Uuiontown, Fayette county
She is ninety five years old and until re-
Gently enjoyed good health.
W llliam 5. Bergen. who murdered J.
Mcbride at Mount Vernon, Ohio in June
last, was hanged at Cleveland on Friday.
At the first attempt the moose slipped and
he fell sirangled to the grouud. Another
effort accomplished the purpose.
Father John j. Kcan, OF Washington,
-. e., has been appointed Bishop Of the
Roman. Catholic Diocese of Richmond, Va,
to succeed the Most Reverend James Glib
oonS, recently elevated to the Archepisco-
pal See of Baltimore, vice Archbishop
Bayley, deceased.
"A Warsaw, n. Y, girl married a men
dicant of eighty two to get rid of marrying
fellow who wanted to marry her fortune.
She then put off to Europe, the conditions
having been that her mendicant husband,
for a certain sum. should keep himself for
ever out of her sight.
In the swamps Of Harrowgate, a Phil
adelphia suburb, the cruelty-to-anirnals
people have found German svineherd.
who, with wife and two children, a sick
horse, COW, herd of goats. geese and
two pigs, live in a miserable, one-storv
hut, about 30 by 90 feet, made of warped
pianks and slabs, with no floor.
John Carter, sea captain, went to
Manchester, Mass, to get married He
found that the Town Clerk was away from
home, aud nobody else had the right to
give license. His vessel was 10 sail ON
the morrow. so tha. delay was ont of the
question. In this emergency town meet
ing was held, AND a temporary clerk elected
Mr.. Samuel Brewer and Mrs A. CRUDE.
the former seventy-six, and the latter six
lynne years OF age, were married in an
Indiana town on the 18th ult. Mr.. Brew
eli Is the father of eight children and tho
grandfather of thirty seven. while the bride
is lowered with nine children and forty
three grandchildren. Almost all of these
were present.
-Pauline Slicher, aged 10, was INSTANTLY
k'iied In Philadelphia on Sunday evening
py the accidental discharge of pistol.
Henry Russel was at the time removing a
cartridge from the pistol, the owner Lewis
Myers, having been refused admittance To
the house while Russell was arranging the
weapon. The girls parents reside at Bir-
mingbam, Pa.
At noon Saturday John Oothout of
Jersey City, proprietor in an iron foun.
dry' returned from the bank with S7OO to
pay ms hands. While alone in his office.
counting the money soma ono nro.. -