The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-11-23


Marne, Iowa, forty miles east Of Council
Bluffs, threw herself and infant into a deep
we'll on Saturday. When recovered. two
hours afIerward, both were dead. She is
supposed to have been temp poraIily Insane.
Mrs. Frances Alexander, whose hus-
band is a merchant i'm Mount Clemens
Mich, eloped with a circus performer
named Dale. The act astouudrd her
friends, for she was educated and intelli-
gent, and had previously behaved herself
with propriety. She was beautiful. too
and in no way seemingly suited for the
companionship of the fellow with whom
she ran away. She accompanied Dale and
the circus company to Ingersoll Canada
where she killed herself with poison.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, Of Norris
rown. on Wednesday celebrated the one
hundredth anniversary OF her birth. She
WAS born at Barren Hin, Montgomery
county, November Il. 1777, and lived there
until she was ten years old, when she re-
moVcd to NOrristnwn, where she has ever
since resided. When quite a small girl
she saw General Washington at the Black
Horse hotel, in Plymouth township. ami
on that occasion she shook hands with him
and handed him drink Of water.
The wife of 4 canal boat cap ain. nam
ed Franklin Kramer, who was receuily
drowned at kocher's locks, two mics
above Reading. upon hearing the news of
her husbands death, at their residence at
Auburn. immediately faiiTed. remained in
a cOmatose state, and in p few hours af eF-
wards was corpse herself. Lucy Gunder-
man, widow, living at Auburn, who was
a cousin OF the drowned man, grieved
terribly as to bring on a fit Of epilepsy.
from which she died in a few houis.
AT Shenandoah, on Saturday evening,
Patrick Brennan, while intoxicated. stab
bed a woman named Mat hews, iufiicting
fatal wounds. He also attacked her hus-
band, Patrick Matthews, and sOD-in law,
George Reilly, stabbing the former in the
throat and the latter i'm the head. near the
right ear, Neither of the wounds are Sc
Iious, but the woman cannot recover. The
stabbing was done with All ordinary pocket
knife. Brennan was arrested and iucarcer-
ated in the Poitsville Jail Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Conger, the witty Congressman
from Michigan. has a love history which is
quite rema. kable. His present wife was
his first love, but they quarrelled and each
married. Twenty years afterward, he.
widower, was in Congress, and she.
widow, sat in the gallery and listened to
him speaking. 1t was the first time they
had met since they had their lovers quar-
rel. She sent her card and invited him to
call on her, which he promised to do if lie
might visit her rs he used in the DAYS of
their youth. Her consent was easily OBJ
soon married.
The Erie Dispatch says the State made
an excellent bargain when ii bought the
farm at North Warren, Warren county, as
a location for an insane asylum. The de-
velopment of oil on its property more than
doubles its value, and the Commonwealth
is now deriving handsome revenue from
the royalty paid to it by parties putting
down wells. In the last letter of our War
ha e,
two hundred barrel well is reported. the
State receiving one third. Oil may not be
good Tor crazy people, but il serves to lu-
bricate She financial machinery at Harris
burg. and Mr.. Rawle will be the last man
TO sneeze at a two hundred barrel spout
er"
1t is melancholy despatch from the
Pennsylvania city of Reading, says the Y.
Y. Sun of Saturday, about the panic that
was raised there on Friday by he sudden
failure of all the savings banks of that place
three in number. In one of them, which
was an old and trusted concern, the saving
depositors had placed nearly two millions
of dollars for safe keeping; and now, on
closing its doors, the bank puts them off
with the promise, usually made in such
cases, that the 'assets, it is believed will
pay all of its liabilities" Another fami-
liar item of Information is given in the
woros that the '1oss falls heaviest upon
the poorer classes, who have from $50 to
$1,000 on deposit" This is a dismal SEN
tence, heavy with lost years, blasted hopes,
and wrecked lives.
j. b. Shearer, a blacksmith residing
at Stonersvilie, Berks county, is the father
of two little girls, aged respectively seven
and five years, both of whom have been
singularly deformed from their birth. The
elder of the two. Hannah Amandilla, who
reached her sixth birthday on the 31st of
October last, is very diminutive in form,
has but little flesh on her bones and weighs
only eleven pounds. She can neither walk
nor talk, but can, however, stand alone. 4
She was born without eyes, the skin being
drawn tightly over the sockets, with no
eyelids. The younger child, Anna Miner
va, who will be five years old on the 9th of
January next, is also very small, but a tri-
fte heavier than her sister, an6 is similarly
deformed, the principal difference being |