The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-10-05
.Neics ana other NotiHys.

Wade Hampton can call over s, 600
citizens of South Caroliua 10y name.
A Georgia woman is reported to have
given birth TO triplets three successive
times.
Five tons of powder exploded at Lara
bees Point, W., on Thursday, making
great havoc.
"A Newburyport Mass fisherman re-
Gently landed a halibut eight feet long,
and weighing $50 pounds.
Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay, of Kentucky,
killed a negro named Henry White, on
Sunday last and has surrendered.
Virgil Ridgway, n boy of sixteen, of
Frio county. Texas, has made himself IA
NOUS by killing Gray Eagle, noted Kick
apoO Warrior.
Kate Florence accom- plishsd tho feat
of walking Que hundred miles IL 2s hours
40 minutes al San Francisco, fin ishing at
1915 Sunday morning.
A man died recently in Maine, at the
age of II, who could play $, 600 different
airs upon the flute without NOTES, and yet
was permitted TO die a natural death.
AT Frears Bay, Me, while two boys
were in boat, one. aged nine, fell over
board, when the other, a few years Older,
jumped after him. Both were drowned.
"A fire occurred at a farm house at St.
Gregoire, near Montreal, on Thursday
night, by which eight children host their
three suffOcated
"A bark containing seven ihousa nd
four hundred bags of coffee was lately lost
on the coast of Rio JaneirO. All the ma
tives now want is submarine volcano and
they will have boiled coffee.
Tho father of a tail Howard family.
living some~ here in Kentucky. is six fee:
one inch, the sixteen sons Tange from six
feet three to six feet eleven. and The ten
II Siy f.4..f
Joseph SieInon, of ST. Louis, compelled
bis family to dine every day solely on soup
made from a ten cent shin bone, and hHb-
itually Skinned on. a II Tie meat for himself.
His wife has applied for n divoIce.
There IS in the mill of Henry keener,
IN Tuipehocken township. Derks couaty, a
rope scale bearing the date of i772, which
has been in constant use since that date, or
for period Of more than century.
The y. Y. Commercial ids5rfis5F
(Rep( says that even the most prejudiced
bloUdy-shirtist must admit that the annual
crop Of negro shootines is remarkably
backward in South Carolina this season.
A little son of Benjamin Fox, Of Penns-
burg, Montgomery county, attempted 10
climb over paling fence one day last week,
and his clothing being caught, was stran-
gled to death before any one discovered
him.
John Perry, residing near Hydeyille,
Vermont, qrnrrelled with his wife the
other day and finally agreed 70 leave her
for $500. At night he returned. set fire To
the house and sbot himself through the
heart.
The Retirement of Mehemet Ali behind
the Kara Lom seems To iudica that the
Turks will be satisfied 10 maintain their
present advantages and depend on the
winter to force the russians back across
The Danube.
Hon. Cassius VI. Clay, who shot and
killed a negro desperate named White, at
Richmond, on Sunday last, has been eX-
ouerated by the cOgoner's Jury, the evi-
deuce showing that the act was done in
selfdefense.
-Advices from Buenns AyIes state that
fearful devastation has been wrought by
floods resulting from heavy rains in July.
An area of 1,5O0 square miles Was under
water, aud 10000, 600 sheep and cattle
were drowned.
In = strikers disturbance at Circlcville,
on the Kansas Central narrow -IuaCe II IL
way, Wm, Hurstman. leader of the strikers
was shot aud killed by the sherifl-s pose,
and Capt. Taigh, its leader, was held in
SO, GOO bail for murder.
Two Of the high Taymen who recently
robbed the express ear on the Union Pacific
railroad were oyeItakeu last week near
Wallace, Kansas. Icy a posse. The rob
bers made stand aud were both killed,
and Sl6,oO in gold coin recovered.
Gen. Pearson has been arrested fIr
ordering the shooting done bv the State
militia during the Iiots at Pittsburgh.
whereby one Nicholas Stoppcl was killed,
and II is reported that Gen. Briuton viii
be arrested a. an accessory. Pearson has
peen admitted to bail III the sum oc go. =
900.
"A well known youug lady of Sawyer
City, town In the oil regions. on wager,
the other day, climbed tn the top of an
eighty foHr feer oil derrick and waved her
handkerchief 10 her fliends below. TIE
terms of the wager were that she was to
receive new silk dress and a zen dollar
gleeuback.
The Pittsburgh TtIsgr6ph. republican.
makes this remark: I'VE believe thar MIR.
lt'twle promised to make monthly exhibit
of the condition of the treasury, if elected.
lie was elected. but the exhibit has never
been made. Cameron and Mackey taught
him that his duty was To lie low and watch
foi ducks.'''
The large and thriving village of Put
nam, IN eastern Connecticut, WAS nearly
destroyed 10y fire early on Sunday morning.
The business portion is all gone except the
national bank aud new hotel. The loss is
about $500. 600. The insurance is largely
distributed in Connecticut and New York
companies.
Chester. Pa. is excited over The re-
moval of Rev. Father a. p. Hayiland, pas
( tor of s.. Michael's Catholic church since
1850. Several mass meetings of both Cath
olics and Protestauts have been held tn
consider the matter, and Archbishop Wood
will be asked to reinstate Father Haviland
i'm his old charge.
Forty years ago G. NJ. Gillespie, now
of Kansas, courted Miss Ann Wilson, OF
Bourbon, Ky. She refused him, aud he
went W est, married. and raised largo
family. His wife died and he came back Il
few days ago aud married his still waiting
first sweetheart. lie is now seventy-two
! and she sixty-six.
The chrome establishment Of /. Pranc
& CO., in Boston, was burned ON Friday,
! causing a lnss of 500, coo. The insuran-
/ ces amount TO Sll5,2o Five blocks of
stores were wholly or PARTIALLY burned wifi,