The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-05-11
Neus and Ofter Nottn0s.

Jack Graves, a negro, outraged Mrs.
Henry McAuliss, of Cedar City. Mo, aud
was killed by her husband while on the
way to jail.
Henry Reel, the abSconding clerk from
the Wilkesbarre postotiice, has been taken
from an almshouse in London into the
British army.
The private contributions from San
Francisco, as an offering to the Pope at
Rome, in honor of his approaching jubilee
exceed, it IS said, $40, 600.
"A number of railroad men are soon TO
leave Binghamton, n. Y, for Brazil.
Work is offered to 600 skilled men of this
class for three years, at a handsome salary.
Mrs. Lemelia Faust, living near New
Castle, was pitched over wall by William
Brantz. The woman is now in danger
ous condition and Brantz has been arrested.
"A delegation, headed 10y The Duke Of
Norfolk, left London Sunday for Rome, to
attend the Papa jubilee. He bears con
neutrality-suspicious. with 800 600 siguat ures.
"A farmer called at a ProihOnutary's
Office in Pottsville, a few days ago, to set
tie a judgment. He carried basket CON
tanning Sl1.00 in gold and silver, some of
it dating back to the first coinage.
The steamship City Of Brussels which
sailed from New York. April 21st. with the
Irish Canadians pilgrims for Rome ON
board, has not been heard from since, and
fears are entertained for it's safety
The body of a suicide found hanging
in an old house near WOodside, l.. L., has
been recognized as John +. Daily, .he
missing proprietor Of the Windsor Hotel
, New York, and man of great wealth.
Fourteen full gauge locomotives for
the Dom Pedro III. railway, Of Brazil, aud
five narrow gauge engines for another road
IN the same county, are to be built at the
Baldwin locomotive works, Pbilddel phia.
The Paris correspondent of the New
Orleans PicdyuHe writes Two men have
this week registered at the births office.
one his thiIty>sixth and the other his forty
sixth child. Have Mormons ever done
better than this ?''
The Phladel lphia Press says editorial
( ly: ''Our special Washington currespuuG-
ent refers incidentally to pleasant CON
versation with the Hon. Samuel J. Ran
dali who we hope will be reelected Speak
er of the new House of Representatives.
Among the inmates of the Nashville
Lunatic AsylIm is negro woman who
/ lives almost entirely upon grass, which she
obtains from the lawn in front of the build
ing. She has great antipathy to weeds,
and suffers none to grow within the euclo-
sure.
/ The archbishop of Quito was poisoned
/ ON Good Friday while saying mass, by
means of strychnine introduced into wine
used i'll the ceremony. There was great
! lege. The perpetrators have not been
! discovered.
The Philadelphia Telegraph says
/ eve have no particular liking for Nj.
/ Samuel ]. Randall but rs between Randall
and Banks there is absolutely no choice.
/ In comparison with Banks, Randall is a
model of personal and political honesty and
consistency
"A prisoner in the Montgomery county
Jail for burglary, studied law when a boy,
/ then enlisted in the United States cavalry
and fought the Mormons in 1887. He
I subsequently attained celebrity as scene
. painter and finally discovered his specially
/ to be burglary.
Frank Kelly, who was charged with
/ the murder of Professor Cato on election
day, October 10f 1871. and who has been
I on trial for The past two weeks in The
Court of Oyer and Terminer in Philadel-
pbia, was, on Friday, acquitted for want
Of evidence 20 convict him.
/ Three Of the ten colored LOwudesville
;. c., murderers-Wig ighiman, Allen aud
.]eIIkins-were hanged at Abbeville CouIt
House Friday morning. The other seven
were comn.uted to imprisonment for life.
John Allen admitted his guilt but the 9th
er two proclaimed their inuOceuce
Mary MIllS, widow of George Mills.
was found dead in her room ut Orange, Y
j., Saturday, surrounded by dirt, rum and
beer. In the room IL satchel contain
ing nearly seven thousand dollars I'M gov
ernment bonds, 5000 in bills, $50 in Eng
lish annuifes, deed to real estate valued
at $40. 900, and marriage certificate
-Rev. VI. W iedeI hold. a priest of the
I Catholic ChuIch, and native of Treves
. IN Germany, is said to be the youngest
priest ever ordained, disrensation hav.
ing been granted by the Pope fo. his or
dination at an age twenty-five months
nj hat uf l.fo fol, H.
/ regularly admitted To the priesthood
king Alfonso, who recently made tire
tour of Spain, on his arrival at Seville, sig
nitied his desire to conform with the tra-
ditional custom on Holy Thursday for
kings to wash the feet of twelve aged pau
pers, and then to attend on them at a
sumptuous table laid out az the expense of
the crown. The ceremony took place in
the presence of 200 persons
MIR. W illiam Il. Weyman a member
of the firm of Weyman Brothers. tobacco
nists corner Smithheld street aud Dia-
mond alley, Pittsburgh, committed suicide
by cutting his throat at 8 o'clock Friday
morning. The deceased had been deranr-
ed III mind FOR several days in consequence
OF the financial embarrassment of the firm
oil which he was n member
"A Mexican county farmer recognized
in the mangled body Of a man killed bv
the cars near Smethport, one James Swee
ny, an escaped jail bird. for whom there
was standing reward of $jO-dead or
alive. Tie shrewd granger dumped the
remains into his wagon aud carted them
Oft TO the residence of the Sheriff. who pa III
the price and took charge of them
There is family now residing in Free
hoid, "a. who have packed up every earth
ly article they posses sed and moved then,
iorty-two times, and all since the ''melan-
choly days" of the autumn of 1866 They
have lived in this State, been West several
times, yet they are not contented. and
probably will never be happy until thew
have astonished the last tenement house
in the country.
"A lively young boar was recently sent
oy RAJ, from CustiiD to Franldort-on-th the
Oder, being shut up in a wooden CAGE