The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-29

Peter Deeeau, Who was scaided with
boiling wafer by his paramour, Ann Kane,
at Montreal, died on Sunday.
William Howcs, Of London, has chal-
lengod OIcary 10 a pedestrian match for
the champion belt and - 800.
Baltimore is building a new Catholic
church, TO be called the Plus Y Memorial
chuIch. 1t IS 20 cost $40, 600,
"A young woman of Woolwich Ne q,
aged %, married man Of SO on payment of
$1,000, which was the price lac offered and
she was sold for.
The Schuylkill county Grand jury has
found a true b.ll against Martin Bergen,
charged with the murder Of Patrick Burns
at 1uscarora in 1870.
Manchester, \. IT,, is excited over the
elOpcneut OF Harry Dixon, a widower Of
eight months standing, with the married
sister Of his deceased wife.
"A man and his wife, at Allentown,
quarreled ii few days ago, and the break
fast table was upset during the fight and a
child fatally scaldgd by having hot cOfIee
poured over it.
Peter Mag uire, She burglar, who soap
ed himself and escaped from the Northum-
barland county jail not long ago. bat was
recaPtured, has been sentenced to six
years Imprisonment.
Pour framps who recently bid in a car
loaded with cotton, on the Iron Mountain
railroad, near Piedmont Mo, set fire 20 the
cotton ~ Goals from their pipes, aud, being
unable to escape, burned 20 death.
Two estimab3e people Of nearly four
score years, residents of Baldwin township,
Allegheny county, and ore Of them tie
mother Of an aspiring citizen Of PitlsbuIgE,
have fallen IN love and gOS married.
An undertaker's establishment a.
Schuyikill Haven was broken into a few
nights ago and all the cDfdus carried away
and deposited on the doOrstcps Of the doc
tors Offices and drug stores Of tie town
"A thread mill that viii give employ
ment TO 400 men win shortly be erected at
Scranton, LuZorne county. The business
has been drawn from Massachusetts by the
cheapness Of coal aud other advantages Of
the State.
The tallest man in the United States
is probably Henry ThuIs:on, = native of
Missouri, now residing in Titus county,
Texas, and formerly a confederate soldier,
who stands seven feet aud six inches in
his bare feet.
Mrs. Lucy I. Day, IN old woman aged
eighty years, was muulcIcd ON Saturday 1t
Cicero, y. Y, by her daughter, married
woman aged fnrty-Six, vi ho stabbed her at
the dinner table with "a knife. The quar-
rel WAS the result Of an old feud.
oil City has blind man by the name
of Lynch, who knows every inch OF ground
in he place. He travels about without a
guide and walks ds fast as any one. lie
has peculiar manner Of beating the boys
at ten pins. aud his wife has twins.
john Mylsn, an employe mt Butteriield's :
malt house, Wheeling, W. Va. entered The
hay NOW Of The stable on the prem. ises
Sunday forenoon to sleep of drunk. 10
set fire to the stable, and was himself bum
ed 10 death aud horribly disiigured.
Mr.. Eli COgCswel, Of Norwalk. had
three wives. and get lie wasn't happy. The
third one threatened to expose him. aud
fear that She might do So led him to end
his days with strychnine. There are those
who are charitable enough 10 say that he
was insane.
-Isaac Adams5ied al Sandwich, y. H..
on Wednesday, leaving fortune estima-
ted at from four To six millions. lie bought
what 5 known As the Adams printing press
from the inventor for an old gpu. and ufier-
ards receiving SO GOO in gold for the u>e
Of it in England alone
The remains of Senator David !. Ma
gle were deposited on Saturday In the fam
liy vault in ST. Mary's Catholic church,
philadelphia, Governor Hartrauft, Lieu
tenant Governor Lntta aud some sixty
members OF the Legislature were among
the attendants
James Ross SDOwden. Of PhiladeloLia.
is dead, aged sixty seven. He was an an
thor Of numerous useful works and had
been 3iombero the Legislature. Speaker
Of the House. State Treasurer, Treasurer
"t the United states m;nt, and ProthOuo
tary of the supreme Court
n man was scared to death in Barry-
vile 10. He vas passing graveyard at
midnight, whom two mon Sprang from be.
hind monument and shouted at him. He
ran home and went to bed, but was 50
nervous that he 'uld not sleep. aud before
morning he died ia commissions.
II here - consider able excitement over
The arrest at Petersburg, Va, Of three
men sn0 woman, charged with robBjn-
the Office of Jajncs X. Yonug. NJ. 40 Nas,
san street, New York. Oh the 2d of Jauua-
~ last of certificates, stocks aud securities
to the amount uf @200. 600 ur more.
- be dwelling Of Pat. Logue, at KarDs
city, caught fire ON Thursday night. while
the inmates were having ismboree.
Logue was fatally burned, and q one armed
pedhier whose name could not he learned
was burned 10 death. The fire was caused
oy Logue letting a lighted lamp ral to he
floor
Hon. J. CLANCY Jones died At Reading
"a, on Sunday night, aged sixty-six wears
he served IA Congress with only a brief
interruption from 1850 20 1883. and was
Tor two years Chairman Of The WnyS and
Means Committee. lie was also Minister
to Austria during President Buchauau's
admin stration
In 1853 Joseph Caldwell was a drv
goods clerk in Boston. In 1868 he was a
millionaire speculator, and began house
which was to be the finest in America. ana,
one window Of which cost him 81 500.
caldwell Is now bankrupt and the uniin-
lshed house, which cost a half IN iIliar, d,l-
lars, IS being torn down.
W III Lister, young man in Cedar
county. Neo, was while ago Giving in
clover, engaged to half "A dozen v,,,uo
ladies', aud would have been vet if tbey
hadn't begun inviting each other 10 be
bridesmaids. That broke ND Lister. and
the young ladies went in body and sci
Ire to his homestead, burning evervih.ng.
Col. ILos. \. Scott testified before the
legislative special committee iDvestipat-
ing last summers riots, that the loss of tie
property OF the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
sums up S3,O9O,Oo0, while the entire loss.
including merchandise, is estimated AT
$o'OJ0, GOO. He also said there had aIwavs
peen trouble with Pittsburgh people.
The wife of Joseph Brown. of Alaba-
ma, has presented him wirb tv,,i,,s -