The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-04-13

The court house a. Welisboro. Pa,
was built Of Antrim sandstone. Ia 1876
forty-two years ago. aud the material is
now nearly as hard rs flint. showing no
tendency Ia crumble. When first quarried
this stone is soft, and easily worked, but
hardens on being exposed to the atmos-
phere, and suldil flies with the lapse OF time.
On Thursday the body of Miss Nettie
RuSsmaD, a respectable young lady of Tiff
fin, Ohio, was found in the river Eear that
place, with marks OF violence upnn her
person which indicated that she had been
murdered Her lover, Lester Slime, was
arrested on suspicion, she having stated
the last time she was seen alive that she
was going TO meet him.
d. NJ. Boyd, jr., general passenger
agent OF the Pennsylvania railroad, who
died in Florida on Tuesday Of last week,
devised The widespread summer excursion
scheme associated with the Pehnsy lvania
railroad and its bran ches, and perfected
the excellent arrangements in vogue on the
railroad last year for the accommodation Of
centennial travellers.
Mrs, Patty Stanton, of North StOninC-
ton. Conn, is bright ninety-nine year
old woman. whose Impaired eve sight is
coming back, and who is growing "A new
set OF teeth. She was married at fpurteen,
has an cighty-year-old daughter and says
she would marry again but for the fear
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more than her love.
A terrible tale of suffering and starva-
. tion among miners in Schuylkin county is
. told in the Pottsville Chr0nicIe by mine
superint tendent, who knows whereof he
speaks. He tells Of miners going to work
with empty dinner kettles not liking to ex-
! pose their poverty, and who seek solitude
during the dinner hour for fear their real
condition should become known to their
fellow workmen.
The Shamokin Times says: A lady
named 1arnell. residing in Mahanoy valley,
about half mile from TaylorsviIe. owns
a sawmill which she superntends herself.
She rolls the logs nn TO the mill and places
I the IN in position in the carriage, and after
setting the saw in motion she seats herself
upon the log as c"niented as any male saw
/ yer. All this she does without :he assist
ance of any one. \ pretty good Yarn ell
/ that
There were in New Hampshire last
year 2, 49S ordinary schools, ass graded
schools, Is town high schools. u district
/ high schools. and S6 higher English and
/ language schools 1t would hardly be be-
/ lieved, remarks the Lancaster T3telligencer,
/ that such educational facilities exist in a
State wherein religions bigotIy and igno, =
( ance exist to such an extent that Catholics
are constitutionally debarred from holding
! Office.
Compton has invented locomotive which
! possesses the popularity of being able to
run around any obstacle placed on the
track and righting itself on the track again
without any trouble. The invention has
been tested and has been found to work
I satisfactorily. Such are tho points of a re-
port which comes to us in other newspa-
pcTs. The question naturally aIises. why
have any tracks at all?
! On the Sth day of April, 1878 Jesse
and Mary Way, living in East Marlborough
township, Chester county, were married :
( ON Sunday last they celebrated their Gath
/ wedding anniversary. Both are i'm the Seth
year of their age, and Jesse daily tolls at
shoe mending and doing little jobs in wood
! work, in which lac is quite handy. The
fact of their married life being sixty-four
years is truly remal kable, but that seems
10 be their Way of astonishing the world.
Six men attempted to abduct Mrs.
Geo. Watson, a wealthy lady of Massillou,
I o., on Thursday, fIom a Rock Island train,
| between Rock Island and Iowa City. Tn
der pretence that she was a lunatic they
| kept her gagged and held her down at
each of the stations. She, however man
aged to escape fiom them al Wilton, after
desperate struggle, during which she
sprained her ankle. The object of the men
was probably money, as she was richly
dressed.
"A most terrible and heart rending cal
amity occurred in St. Louis ON Wednes-
DAY last At half past one O'Clock in the
morning the Southern Hotel, the largest
. eGifice of the kind in the city, was discov-
eled To be on fire. The building was six
stories high. and in one hour after the fire
began scarcely a vesige of it was left ex-
cept portion of its walls on three of It's
sides. 1t was crowded with guests all of
whom were in bed the time, and it is
supposed that at least fifty persons many
OF whom servants. were burned or suffnca-
ted tn death. The loss is estimated AT
about a million of dollars.