The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-04-06
Ne,ns nna Otner Notlnas.

A stranger walked quietly into the
Niagara river last week, and, swimming
straight TO the falls, doubled himself up
aud went over.
"A London telegram of the 4th says
that a school house in the Norwegian Will
age of EIieoso was burned and sixteen
children perished.
David Tidball, postmaster at New
Castle, Mercer county, has an experience
in that sort of public service running back
to the days Of Martin Van Buren,.
John Hopkins, a miner at Scranton,
was instantly killed, and Daniel Morgan
and Patrick RudGy were fatally injured 10y
the caving in of a coal pit on Saturday.
"A column of vapor steadily rises from
the center of a vast swamp in Florida, and
nobody has ever been able to get near
enough TO the phenomenon to find out the
nature of it.
Nathan Cooper, n wealthy citizen of
Belmont, Ont, has been arrested, charged
with the seduction of his niece aud attempt
ing to procure abortion. The prisoners
wife is charged as an accomplice i'll the lat
ter crime.
Captain A. II. Bogardus, in shooting
his great match at GilmOre's garden, New
York, on Friday evening, broke l 200 glass
balls, one at a time, i'll the air. III Y minS
utes and 40 seconds. He only missed %
ba lis out of ,02S,
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child, Harry Craig, eighteen months old,
inhaled the steam from the spout of tea
pot, on the 20th ult., and, though not sup
posed to Toe seriously injured, died about
six hours afterward.
"A San Francisco man, said to be wOrth
a quarter Of million dollars and having no
family but Eis wife, has been sued for the
support Of his father, who is old, feeble
and destitute, AS well as sober, industrious
and willing 10 work when able to do SO.
Near Milford, Pa, Austin Sheldon,
called the Hermit of Lehman, aged II
years, who for the past Al years has made
deep aud dismal cave in the mountains
his home, living upon fish and game, was
found frozen 60 death near The entrance to
his cave "Wednesday morning, by two fish
ermen.
Tho railway from Vera Cruz TO the
city of Mexico is nearly 268 miles long, has
many fine iron bridges and eighteen leng til V
tunnels. 1t cost the round sum of 40, 600, =
coo of Mexican dollars, and is held 10 be
the finest constructed railway on tie
American continent. Its greatest elevation
above She sea at Vera Cruz is $4,000 feet.
"A man in Fryeburg, Me-, got so dis
gustcd with his wife because she discharged
a pretty servant ciIl in fit of jealousy
that he sent to Chicago for divorce papers.
/ The wife got Wind Of his game, and, in
order to insure its entire success, eioped
with another man. The laws of Maine W i'll
probably now be sufficient 10 the husband 5
purpose.
"A special despatch to the Poughkeep-
Sic EdgIs from Rhinebeck y. Y, saws that
the funeral of Peter Burns's wife and four
children, the victims of the burning dsas-
ter, at the Catholic church on Monday was
very large. The latest facts point with
suspicion at two men who were seen in the
. vicinity of the fire as the parties who fired
the building.
One of the parties implicated by the
confession of Lee, comes out in card, ex-
culpatjng himself, Haight and Young
flom all responsibility for the Mountain
/ Meadows massacre. Although the word
of one of this party is about as good as
that of another, public judgment against
Young will probably not be much moved
by this last appeal in his behalf.
The New York papers generally adopt
the theory that eX-Mayor Oakley Hall, OF
that city, has fled to Europe, fearing that
! Sweeny' ) return and Tweed S expected CON
I fession and release would result in hi,
downfall. The sun saws that Hall fled be
cause he knew himself gnilty of sharing in
the punder of Tweed's ring. and feared
that he was about to be exposed, diSgraced
and comre He'd to disgOrge
"A frame house at Rhine Cliff n. Y,
occupied by Peter Burns and family. wa.
DulnF'i W tue STOunu on Glfldy DfSnt last,
and Mrs. Burns and four children perished
in the flames. Finding escape by :he
stairs cut off, MIS-. Burns threw a bed out
of a window, and on it dropped her infant
child aud one other, but the rush of the
flames and smoke prevented further sa wing
of life. The husband was absent at the
time.
A supposed Frenchman entered z
house on Twenty-sevcnth street, New York
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man aside and upbraiuing her because o
the life she was leading. lighted a mattel
aud set her clothing on fire. The girl rai
into the parlOT, thence tn the street, whel,
policeman extinguished the flames bu
not before the girl was so badly burned
that she died soon after being admitted t,
Ihe hospital.
An Allegheny farmer recently pur
chased little know ledge of the law 70
which he paid at an extravagant rate. II,
loaned a married woman fifty dollars, tax
; ing her promssory note for the amount
|, W hen the note fell due, the maker re fuse,
to lift it. The holder brought suit anl
learned, to his chagrn, that the ducumen
, was not worth the paperuron which it wa
written, as the woman's husbands sigma
ture was not appended TO it.
, In the operating room OF the Western
Ubion Telegraph Company at Philadelphi;
on Monday evening. a large number o
. prominent citizens assembled to witness
the exhibition of Prof. Grays telephone
on which numerous airs were played b,
Prof Boscovitz, the sounds being trans
mitted 20 an audience assembled in Stein
way Hall, New York city. Telegrams wer
received from New York at the conclusion
of each piece, describing the success of tn
: transmission and the enthusiasm of tn
aud ieEce i'll Stenway Hall.
Senator Cockerell, OF Missouri. visite,
5 the President the other day aud made
5 new discovery, which he thinks explain
, why the commission was appointed. |
, seems the President and members of tn
Cabinet have an impression ''that neithe
Nichols nor Packard has a legal right t.
: recognition as Governor of Louisiana. be
cause the State law requiring the vote fn
GOXeIuOI and L .ieutenant G1.un,I,a,. g., L.