The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-01-12
Ne,cs and Of5ter NOfiugS.

L1Ck-nOJ many Oh us ielb.
MIR. Pickett of Akron, Ohio, simu TIA
neously misses his wife, his pastor and
5000.
Three sons and a daughter of a farmer
residing near POttstown, were married on
Christmas day.
Father Bollig, the new custodian of
the Vatican Basilica at Rome, is said to be
the master of fifty two languages.
"A large hawk was captured i'm the
woods near Chester, the birds feet being
frozen to the limb of tree b that it could
not fly.
"A Portland girl got married to one fel-
low in the clothes that another fellow had
bought for her, the latter fellow having
expected to marry her himself.
logan has been renomtHatsa to the
United States Senate, but that does not
settle it. The independents command the
situation and they are not for John.
"A postal clerk in Dubuque opened n
letter just to see if a certain gill was very
sweet on certain fellow. She was, and
the Government is also very sweet ON The
postal clerk.
Judge Henderson, of Lebanon county,
has put township supervisors To work by
deciding that it was their business to open
drifted roads and put them i'll a fit condi-
tion for travel.
New York has produced "snow an
nihilator" which dissolves the snow by SUI
perheated steam. 1t is claimed that "A two
horse machine will clear much street as
could be done with 400 carts.
The ladies Of Louisville, KY, on New
Years daJ presented an elegant suit of
fashionably cut blue jeans to Governor
Williams, of Indiana. He wore the suit
on Monday at his Inauguration.
In an alteration at Shenandoah, on
Thursday night. boy named Oscar
NJ Cord struck Joseph Bogarty on the head
will a club and killed him. M'Coid WAS
taken to Pottsville and lodged in Jail.
The boss counterfciter, a man named
Miles Ogle or Ogleby, with string of
aliases as long as the titles Of German
prince, is in Jail at Pittsburgh with a fair
prospect of the penitentiary before him.
-Commodore Vanderbilt died in New
York Oh Thursday morning last, aged 50
years. His was all eventlui, useful and
successful life. His wealth is estimated at
eighty-five millions, and yet lie started in
life poor.
The other day in Memphis, Tenn, a
blue limestone paving stone, from the Ohio
River quarIies which has been in use i'll
one of the ncipal streets for fifteen
years. was broken and a live frog hUpped
out OF a cavity in it.
"A citizen of Huntington, VT, has a
Cat which is in the habit of going into
stable on cold winter nights and getting ON
the back of one of the COWS and remaining
there during the night, having discovered
that this is an effective way to keep warm.
The London World says Mr., TiIien
has been fairly elected and the opposing
party are trying to- keep him ont by fraud
be war in the United States, but in Eug-
land party in the majority would not
submit to such AN outrage.
The Pennsylvania railroad has
spiing and fall inspection Of every bridge
on the road. The chief engineer visits
them all himself, and desceuds into the
structure, carefully inspecting every por-
tion of the bridge, and every defect, where
one exists. is at once thoroughly remedied.
Governor Robinson is the first Cover
nor Of New York elected to serve for three
years. The term OF his predecessor was
two years. This enlarged term of office
will Je advantageous to the State and give
the new Governor time to carry out policy
of administration which ought to be use
full.
Five negroes, who killed two res3ecta-
BILE Germans near Aiken, 5. c., in Noven-
Der last have been found guilty of murder
in the first degree. One of the prisoners
confessed the crime, and mentioned the
names of prominent citizens whom the
gang to which lie belonged intended to
murder.
- Miss Lutz, young lady in the bloom
of health and life, aged Is, fell Instantly
dead in the street at Hyde Park, Luzerne
county, on Wednesday last. Her death
was said to be the result of heart disease.
All sudden deaths are now attributed TO
this cause If no other ready explanation can
be given.
Senator Wallace has distinguished
himself by an able aud comprehensive re-
view of the questions involved in the
electoral contest. His speech in the Senate
on Monday bears evidence of thuIou
acquaintance with the subject and is
strengthened by fresh legal points and
precedents.
On Saturday gold sold down to 1861,
which is the lowest point in several Years.
Shipments from abroad and disbursements
on government account have loaded bank
vaults to the extent of S3S. 00O. 000 and
rendered the expense of carrying so oner-
ous that the operators on the bull side are
chary of touching it.
Jane Thomas, living near Reading,
during this cold spell of weather caught a
bird having pure white feathers from bead
to tail, there being but two spots of black.
one on each wing, the size of five cent
nickle. The bird was as large as a robin,
and nearly frozen when captured. 1t is "a
stranger i'll these parts.
The ruins of the oldest settlement on
the upper James river were discovered q
few days ago on the upper Falls Plantation
by Manchester (Va.) antiquary. They
are supposed to be the remains of an old
stone house or fort which was erected by
Colonel Thomas Stagg, near the Three
Islands, in the year 1868
1t appears to be the opinion of railroad
men that the terrible disasters at a Ashtabula
on the Lake Shore railroad was caused by
the second locomotive jumping the track.
Inc train, owing to the storm, it will be
remembered, was pulled by two engines.
If this be the case it sufficiently accounts
for the destruction of the bridge.
This is COlorado's best Cat story: A
cat had alternately lived in three families
in neighborhooG. She had four kittens.
and. as soon rs they were able 20 take care
OF themselves, she carried one to each of
her two former residences and left it, re-
tanning two with herself. She desired. il
seems, to secure good homes for her