The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-09-27

Out of Americas 45, COO, 600 people
not over 600 ever went up in balloon
This is very sad thought.
"A ten-year-old boy named William
Skean, of Pottstown, was stung on the toe
by bee last week and died Of lockjaw.
Married, at Windsor, Conn. 9. }. X.
Babcoc1,, colored, aged twenty-five, and
Agnes f. BeciSwith, white, aged thirty-six.
In North Carolina a negro woman
tainted at a camp meeting while shouting.
She remained unconscious four OF five days,
ard then died.
Mrs. Julia c. r. Dorr of Rutland. Vt,
has received the personal thanks Of King
Alfonso of Spain for n sonnet oD the late
Queen Mercedes.
J Mary Handiey, aged eleven years, was
burned to death at Hope Falls, \. y, on
Friday night while attempting to kindle
3 fire With keFosene.--. ....-....
David Bell, nineteen years old, or
I Fishknl Landing. y. y. was bitten by
dog July 8. and died Sunday night of by
/ drophobia in terrible agony.
/ Frank Pike dged into the Bower river,
/ Wis, stuck his hands into the mud at the
bottom, and came mp with a long lost dia-
/ mond ring on his finger.
( DR.. BabcOck, inventor Of the fire ex-
, tinguisheT bearing his name, is a drunken
/ outcast in Oakland, Cal lie was at one
time moderately wealthy.
On Monday last a police magistrate at
/ Montreal committed for trial at the Court
of Queens Bench ak Orangemen for be
longing to an Illegal society.
More than score Of Sisters Of Charity
have died in the South since the yellow
/ fever broke ont. They died at their posts,
nursing the victims of the pestilence.
A Cincinnati man Of 40 had sweet
/ heart of 16 and because she persistently
associated with persons of her own age,
/ followed her To party and killed her
/ -''N bile the lamp holds QUITO burn tt e
/ viIcSt sinner may return Thomas Bud-
gen died recently in England, aged 104
/ years. He was converted at the age Of SO.
( Bill Langley, the Texan desuerado. has
. been sentenced TO be hanged. He thanked
( the Judge and jury for their courtesy and
/ invited them to be present at the execution d.
/ The Harrisburg Patriot wants 10 know
whO ever heard OF Henry NJ Hoyt as
/ statesman. or public man, before Mackey,
Quay aud company invented him as their
! candidate for governor?
Mrs. Dennis Keamey, wife Of the
/ California agitator, while en- roUte East
! the other day, was the victim OF al assault
. by party Of roughs, who broke into the
( second class coach where she was slee ping.
In Cincinnati, on Saturday night,
Christian Prebn shot his wife, killing her
! INSTANTLY; then be shot himself in the head,
dying iu few minutes Domestic trouble
2.
! George Baker, Of Lowell. aged 20, re-
/ turned home from cemetery, where he
! had been placing q monument bearing bis
. name, but leaving The age md date ~ death
/ blank, and was killed sooU after by falling
/ down stains.
! Mr.. Reynolds, Of Cu'bbert, Ga, aged
( tweuty-one, has married Miss Chance, aged
eleven aud weighing sixty FIVE ponds. If
/ by any Miss Chance this story should prove
I To be a eSaUCprAfiap has.a he rsadar
/ will not blame us.
! An inventive mariner bas launched at
/ Wiscassct, Me, q diamond shaped vessel
! with five nasts, . great number of triang-
/ uIar sails, ard n ruddeT of common
/ length. lie believes that the odd craft
/ viii make great speed.
The marriage Of handsome young
lady Of Quebec with a promising young
/ lawyer had been fixed for last wedk A
/ lew days ago, without any notice or ex-
/ plnna'iuo. she went into a convent and he
joined the Jesuit order.
! -Louisa Eady, aged fourteen, was found
on Thursday evening near her fathers
I house, three miles from Neadville, in q Cy-
/ ing condition. She had poisoned herself
/ with Paris green on account, as she alleged
! of III treatment by her father.
"A fisherman at Kingston. Ill. saw \
| coffin floating down the river. The tide
took it toward the shore and he pulled it
/ in. Holes had been bored in the top, and
/ inside be found a live baby about two
months old, with nursing bottle half full
of milk.
/ "A visitor TO the tomb of Daniel O'Con-
nell, in the cemetery near Dublin, SAYS :
'lhe number Of pilgrims to the tomb is
incredible, aud i: is touching sight to see
! many poor Irsbman, with his crownless
hat, raise his shabby tile aud exclaim
/ Poor Dan = -
Rev q
| of :he Canada Presbyterian Church to
China, has marrid Chinese lady, native
OF Northern FOTmosa. She is q convert to
Christianity and a bright and intelligent
lady. Her fun name now is Chang Mia
Tsong Mackay
If it be true as stated that fifteen tons
OF sage were raised this season on a farm
near Bristol, Bucks county, by tyyo brothers
named Rogers, who, it is said valne their
crop ut $4,000, it would be a sage conclu-
sion for other farmers to make up their
| minds to go into the sage-raising business
"A woman was found in a PittsfeId
tenement nearly dead from starvation.
The houSe was devoid Of the simplest com
forts, and her four children, nearly naked.
were crying for food. Her husband. a
hac%man, earns fair wages, which be
spends in drink and cards
john Boyle O'ReiIly, nominated for
Audltor of Massachusetts, by the Busler
Convention, has declined the candidacy.
lie gives rs his reason for doing so that if
elected he should have to choose between
hiIing tde Auditors or the editors char,
and he prefers the latter.
"A letterfrom Shang bal in relation to
the great famine in China says that mil
mons of people in that country are eating
bark stalks. thatched roofs and dirt that
human flesh is sold in the market, and
parents are selling and killing their chill
dren to prolong their own existence.
The first weeping willow in ENGLAND
is SAID to have been planted by Alexander
Pope. He received q present of figs from
Turkey, and, observing a twig in the bas-
ct ready to bud, planted it. From his
stock all the millions in England and
America are believed to have sprung.
Potter, the man who has been wheel
ing barrow across the continent, has final
ly reached California. He travelled leisure.
iy, was deadheaded at saloons and hotels
on the way, and is satifed with the enter.