The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-05-18
Ne,cs ana Otner Notings.

ley at MinerSyile last week.
AT Caraquet, n. b., Friday last.
/ family of five persons WAS drowned III at
temptiuc to cross the Polleouch river.
There are said to be over p, 600 sheep
in Amwell township, Washington county.
Two thousand died there the past winter.
"A Utica man twenty yeaIs ago stamped
his name upon silver quarter Inst
week he received back the Identical piece
i'll change.
Miss Laura Pierce aged 16 is in the
Union county Jail, having confessed that
she fired "A tanners barn which was bum
ed some weeks ago.
"A dispatch from Valparaiso, Chill, re
ceved in London on Saturday. announces
the destruction of iquique, i'll Peru, 10y an
/ earthquake and tidal wave.
Several fiocks Of sheep, each number
ing 90, 900 or more, have started from Ven
tuIa county, Cal, To cross deserts aud
. reach Texas, heIe there ls bettUr p;isluI-
age.
I -Goverucr lIartranft on Saturday issued
warrants for The execution o1 GeuIge ".
Fletcher, of Philadeilh on June !, and
Frank W ilson (cvloieG} Of Harrisburg, on
July II.
The fatal accident at the Wadesvile
mine was dus to the explosion of tiie damp,
say the juIy, Who censure the owner, liz
spector aud Jusscs fui not comply my with
the law.
A 0iSp1lCD 10 t1c " 1 IJttHtIt :
JOuPHaE from Rome says Bishop Dibbou~,
of Richmond, has been named Coadjutor
of the Archbishop of Baltimore, with the
right OF succession.
"A remarkable tidal wave was observed
at Gaviota, in San Luis Obispo comfy,
California, few mornings ago Between
I, 10 and 7.3O o'clock, the sca rose and fell
twelve feet thIce iimos, No damage ap-
pears to have been done.
The CapUltpr q a wealthy plIlgdel-
phia merchant eloped couple Of weeks
ago 70 New York with "a l:bertIne, and was
found in one of the worst dcns in Greene
street. She is 10 yea old and quite pref
ty. TT e man was not with her.
j. Evans Edings, while carrying ST.
200 to pay wages to hands at the plios jhdte
works. near Charleston, was Shot dead aud
robbed on Saturday. Two negroes were
arrested and confessed the crime. The
money was found IN their possession.
Windsor Hotel Daily got check for
$1,000 every month in the year but he
didn't have money enough - purchase the
very cheap article known as sleep, 50 lie
went crazy. He who has health is the
wealthiest. regardless of tie poclct-book
business.
Patrick Hester, Peer NHuch and
Patrick Tully. MollieS who were convicted
on the 18th OF February Of the murder of
Alexander Rea in Oclober, 1868, wcre SEN
fenced at Bloomsburg Columbia county,
Monday morning, by Judge VIM. Elweli, To
be hanged.
"A mocking bird entered Methodist
chulch at jackson, Tenn, the other sun
day, and, after ciiclug around the room.
lit on tbe railing Of The pulpit, where Il sat
in attentive silence till the close nf the ser
mon, when it Harbled some of IFS sweetest
notes and sailed away.
The county elections in Pennsylvania
flsfh #
tance. Nomembers Of Congress or Legis
lature to be chosen, and the Commits
sioners elected i'll 1875 hold over another
year. In Clinton county, it is said, there
are no county offices 10 bc filled at all.
! An area of land, about six hundred
/ acres in extent, situated i'll Mississippi.
/ about fifty miles below Memphis, Tenn
: was found strewn with PARTICLES resemb
/ bling fish scales af er a heavy rain storm
the other day. The people are converting
! the hard and shiny pieces into Stint but
/ tons.
| The number Of Indians who have sur
/ rendered to Gen. Crook Is about $500.
/ They were starved into Il surrender. as fpr
:. long time they have been compelled to
. live on dogs, ponies aud such roots as they
cUnld secure 10y gging IL the snow Like
( wild beasts hunger alone sUbdued Them
In Pike township, aboul fourteen miles
/ from Reading, AN experiment is to br
/ tried, which, II Il proves successful will
result IN the establishment of an industry
entirely new IN the United States The
attempt viii be made to manufacture pure
! China poi oicciain, something never attempt
ed in America.
AT Polt Carbon, recently, a mother
. half cIaz"d from recent deaths ia the fam
lily, attempted to drown her eighteen
. months old child in Il creek. She was
caught in the act aud the infant saved.
. The woman said she intended to bapl izt.
her offspring AMI send it to a better world
at the same time
The father Of Charlie Ross has been
/ IN Bridgeport i'm consultation with T. T.
Barnum. The latter viii make personal
/ offer OF 10000 for the recovery of the boy.
/ 1t Is believed from recent evidence that he
( is still alive, aud that tie reward with "A
guarantee from punishment will induce
the captors to restore him.
The .Stnr and HeraId saws the Arch
/ bishop of Onto. a very gentle aud iuotfi.n-
sIve pIelate, died very suddenly March 3O,h
and it Was believed some person had ad.
/ mlnlSteTed poison in the wine used for Gel
/ ebrating n.ass on Good Friday. We learn
an autopsy showed death had been caused
by suffusion of blood on the brain.
"A SIX story brick building in AHeghe-
, ny City, occupied by the Excelsior Coffin
works of Hamilton. Lennon. Arnold &
Co, tumblcd down on Thursday at noon
Eugene McGeary, "a contractor, who was
making some repairs TO the structure was
buried in the ruins, and his body was nnl
recovered Tor day or two. \ few other
persons were slightly injured.
"A young Indian girl who had curious
/ ly watched the process of marking barrel
heads iii Touring mill in Winona. Mimi
stole in one day, and taking possession OF
the stencils, ornamented Ler blanket with
the words ''EllsworthS Choice an6 Da
raded the streets in great delight, but to
the disgust of Mr.. Ellsworth, who is 4
/ bachelor and had made no snch choice
On Wednesday of last week a man
named James Warwick went 20 the house
of Bohemenian woman in Cleveland and
. finding hara n liftIa ,,;,.l ,y,,-..