The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01
Nescs ana C6aer NOttHgs.

All the families of Dandy, VT, are now
related through cousins intermarrying.
-Molle Darling teaches writing school
in Devereux, Herkimer county, n. \.
A silver mine is reported to have been
discovered recently near Myerstown, Leba-
non county.
-Godfrey Brossais Saint Maria, Cardinal
Archbishop of Rennes France, diec on
/ Wednesday last.
"A special from Rome says an explosion
of dynamite at Parma, Italy, on Saturday,
killed six aud wounded sixty three persons.
"A Michigan woman of wealth and
strong convictions has hired a man to
preach literal hell throughout the coun.
try.
james Cook a married man of John
son county, Indiana, has been indicted for
assault for paroxysmally kissing Miss Alice
Pitcher.
"A Cincinnati landlord is holding wo-
mans baby security for four dollars
board. Seems to us we'd rather lose the
four dollars
The house of David Oikle, near Bridge
water, n, s., was burned on Friday night.
His son perislled in the flames, and Mrs.
Dixie was badly burned.
The long continued blindness of a
woman in Elizabethtowp, KY, was recent
ly broken by an hour of sight, after which
she became totally blind again.
When a mail bag was opened at An
/ napolis, n. s., on Wednesday last, a cat
jumped out, and is now duly established in
/ the good graces of the postmaster.
The boiler of the Chinese coasting
vessel Iesso exploded recently, killing
about eighty natives. The engineer has
been imprisoned for manslaughter.
/ On Saturday evening an infant child
of Mrs. Margaret Dewitt, a widow, living
one mile west of Forest, Ohio, choked to
dsath, caused by a'woIm i'll its throat.
The elevator in the Grand Hotel,
/ Paris, lost its balance on Sunday last, and
/ was carried to the roof with great force,
/ killing Russian lady, French gentleman,
and 4 servant.
/ Graves county, Kentucky, claims a
( woman who has given birth to five children
! in thirteen months. The distracted hus-
/ band has not been heard from since the
/ official count.
The boiler of the Mound City Touring
mills, situated about two and bali miles
east of Bigelow, Mo, exploded with terrific
/ force, entirely demolishing everything and
instantly killing four men.
"A Dubuque man, some four years ago
/ buried 81, 600 in field, and soon after left
the State. He returned and only found
! his treasure after many months of search,
/ the old landmarks having been removed.
The Brooklyn (N. y Court House
had its flags at halfmas. for one week in
( reverence to the memory of Plus TX.
/ This mark of respect was rendered by vote
of The Kings County Board of Supervisors.
The Presbyterian, Catholic and Epls-
/ copal churches at Hazelwood, in the 23d
J Ward, Pittsburgh, were broken into few
/ nights ago and robbed of Sunday school
/ books, religious cards, candles, vestmeuts,
etc.
Captain Hitchcock, principal of the
( Germantown 90 public schools, is under
arrest for an abominable outrage. The
warrant was procured by the mother of the
young lady. Hitchcock's wife has taken
| steps toward divorce,
! An eccentric and useful sheep is kept
on steamer plying between San Francisco
, and Stockton. Ee is trained to go out on
/ a gang plank at a landing when a flock IS
to be loaded, to show that the approach is
safe, and to act as pilot.
The New York Observer says shat the
Baptist church at Binghamton, which in
vited Col. Bob Ihgersoll to lecture before
it for the benefit of the funds ofthe church,
reminds one of the mode by which Judas
earned his thirty pieces of silver"
/ -Goveluor HaTtTanft has issued war
rants for Jhe execution of Patrick Hester.
Peter McHugh, and Patrick Tully, of Col
umOia county, on the 2StE of March next,
and Jack Keboe and Dennis Donnely, OF
Scuyl6ill county on the 18th of April.
horsehesh, and "A Chamber street restaur,
ant hangs out a sign offering this diet to
its customers. There now seems to be a
way to dispose of the street-car mules as
the old vehicles are replaced by steam.
Some months ago Joseph Brown, OF
Carmi, H., committed suicide, and twenty
days after his father, Elijah Brown, follow
ed suit with n shot gun, after having dug
his own grave. On Friday night Mrs
do
Brown family.
In York. Pa, Friday night, Mr.. Albert
Fond, aged abont forty-five years, made a
number of desperate attempts to take his
own life. Six times he tried the rope OF
suspenders, and once was well hanged tc
the lookup cell door, but each time was
discovered and released.
! "A Chester county boy baby, one wear
old, weighs sixty pounds His height is
32 inches around the chest he measures
% inches, and a measurement taken
around the head in a line with his ears and
nose showed u inches. At the time of his
birth he weighed IA! pounds.
"A private letter of the 21st announces
the death from old age of Margaret Logan,
a colored woman, at Freehold, n. j, Hel
relatives claim she was one hundred and
fourteen years old, having been born in
1864. They say it was her boast that she
had often, when girl, seen "Massa Wash
ingtOn."
"A prominent financier of HARRISBURG
who now holds two city bonds of the de
nomination of 81 900 each, states that the
bonds were purchased by the accumulation
of interest of a 500 note which came into
his possession when he first set out to Phil
adelphia as jonrneyman printer fift,
years ago.
-General Toombs says that if the peo
r pie would only learn the process of curing
the leaf, as good tea eau be produced il
Georgia as i'll China. Tea has been plant
! ed and grown in Georgia for the last fort,
years. Within few miles of Atlanta. i
! somebody hasn't cut them down. are te,
trees thirty feet high, planted in 1S42.
, -1hirty-odd years ago a child was Dor,
, IN Welsh poor house. a few days ap,
! the charity-boy, since the hero of man,
r strange adventures and vicissitudes. dine1
with the Prince of Wales and received Al
ovation from the Royal Geographical So
, ciety. Was there ever any wilder romano,
, than the life of Stanley?
: "A man in Dansville, n. Y, while cut
, ting into q straw stack drew forth h;