The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-09-06
Netos ana Otner Notfngs.

-ISereaTns, ice cream is PLAYED out J"
"A resident of DanbuTy, Conn.,, has en-
gagged his divorced wife as nursemaid for
his present wife's children.
Lyman Grinnell, of Norwich, Conn.
has lived four years on cat flesh. The
boys supply him at ten cents cat.
During quarrel in Boston, on Tues-
day, John Lane, aged twelve, stabbed his
brother Timothy, aged fifteen, causing
death in a short time.
Clint Anderson was hanged at Little
Rock Friday on the charge of rape. The
Governor refused to commute his sentence
or postpone the date of execution.
Seven men were prostrRted by an ex-
plosion of black damp in the new tunnel
of the Stanton mine, WTlkesbarre, Pa, on
Saturday. One could not ne resuscitated.
Mrs. Sarah Thompson, of Clover
Grove, n. C., has borne to her husband, a
delicate man of 100 pounds weight, twenty
consecutive children in twenty consecu-
tive years.
"A skeleton, supposed to be tbst Of one
of the Fathers who came to Canada about
240 years ago, has been discovered near the
entrance of the old Jesuit Barracks now
being demolished in Quebec.
Rev. Mr.. Gilliland, rector of Trinity
Church, Bristol Conn, suddenly announ-
ces that he, becomes a Catholic. His
course produces much surprise, as his own
family had no intimation of his intentions
"A stranger had to carry his cbild7s
/ body in a coffin through the streets of
Portland, from the wharf 10 the depot, the
! other day, as the city fines any one not a
licensed undertaken who conyeys a body
in a caTriaga.
"A contest has been commenced in
I Union county, Pa, over the estate of Will
! liam Cameron, a brother of Simou Cameron
The viii gives $ 400, 600 to one daughter
Mrs. Packer, aud only obCut Sf00, 600 to
other relatives.
Rev. Joseph Yesger, OF Allentown,
, serves five congregations, and has a con-
firmed membership OF fifteen hundred peo-
pie. tie has been 10 the active ministry
( for a period of fifty one years, having been
ordained IN 1927.
Prof. Edison's latest invention is a
new ink which leaves a raised mark on pa .
per, with which the blind can easily eom-
munlcate with each other, 1t is i'm the
+. form OF powder which becomes TT for
use on dissolution in water.
An infant, less than one year old
orawled out Of bed during it's mothers
temporary absence, in Washington, early
FRIDAY morning, upset coal oil lamp
placed Oh the floor, and was so badly burn
ed that il died iu few hours.
The Marquis of Butte has given S25. 600
towards fund for the erection of a Roman
Catholic Cathedral at Dundee. to com
memorate the rec establishment of the bish-
opric Of Dunkeld, which ceased about two
hundred and ninety two years ago.
DR.. j. 5. Myer, of Virginia city, New,
mas redlscovered lost Egyptian art. He
tempers copper tools to more lasting cut>
ting edge than steel tools will hold. similar
TO that or the copper implements yitb
which The stone for the pyramids was cut.
-On Tuesday OF last week Mike Green.
colored, aged 30, committed revolving as.
sault on young white woman in Prince
George county, Md. The same dav be
was lodged in Jail Early Monday morn
ing twenty-fiv men took Greene from the
Jail and hanged him to tree.
George Wenrich, OF Reading. who left
nome twenty years ago and vas long since
considered dead, returned a few days aoo
ana tells a wonderful story of how he spent
seventeen years as a prisoner of a tribe of
sdVages IN the interior OF Africa. on the
coast of which he was shipwrecked in 1Se1-
"A Biblical curiosity in the English
section of the Paris Exhibition which at
tracts crowds is the model of the Taba,,,a-
Gle as 1t rested during the wandering of
TIE Israelltes in the desert. The exterior
Hnu interior are constructed in strict ac-
cordance with the details given in the Old
Testament. NiH
lctoT Saunders was married in Roclr
ingham, Va. four years ago, and on the
next DAY Killed man. He was sent tn
prison on conviction of manslaUpbter
hls VIE got divorce aud married another
man. but she was widow when Saunders
they remarked
-Wm. Mason is in iail at York for tho
alleged murder of Erastus King in ,L.t
city. Matson and George King. ifaDnears
engaged IN tight, and Erastus. brother Of
george, stepped in to part them. As he
dId so, Matson drew a knife and s,abbaS
him in the side, from the effects of vybJob
he died in a few hours.
Il, Alien q. Wood, aged fourteen. iupned
from from the hurricane deck of the steamer
NY Oh y Detroit on Saturday afternoon into
Lake Erie and was drowned ~,
w ood anG a party OF friends were bap,eT9
ing each other To jump into the lake. Whom
without warning, the boy iumned and
sank beneath the waves. "'u
-Biackie, General Meade's old uor-
morse, lives at Alyerthorpe, Pa. He is as
nshosome as ever, despite his twenty fonr
yeais- y ne comes OF Black Hawk stock.
csus S "0unGeu at the battle of New Market |
Cross Roads in June, 1862. but served tIo tee |
General al through the war and untii n
short time before his death.
young man named Craiomer str,,cl,
AnOtoef man named Burke with n Diece Of /
pig iron AZ the furnace, five milae fron,
lrohtoi;' Mo-, Sunday evening, killing him
instantly. The affair grew ont of Rnrla |
paying attention 20 Craigmer,s sistar |
against the wishes of the latter's famiIy
l ne murderer was arrested on Monday.
Since William Pennypacker of Ho
1unsville. Belks county, died. last FridaO
ne Jinghng of money has been heard =,
he house he lately occupied. His sons
IRE tearing away the walls TO find ~
'oin' Just before be died Pennvnaoiras
completed a remarkable weapon in IFS yzaS
consisting Of a four-barreled gun yeio b;H1,
1ut seven pounds. VII "'is mug
Another frightful nitro-plvcerine ax
'ios1on, the second within eight davs oc-
'nrrec at Negauuee, Mich, on Thnysdo1
~ which three men were blown IN niaoay,'
'hlle fourth was landed on sheIr;U,
ock' almost uninjured. The killed are
andrew Sullivan, Stephen Day and StenbD
n heahus All were married. The caPso
II The accident is unexplained. ''''o
In Belmont, n. Y, Hiram p;x,o,- q.
cen years OF age, shot his motbar d,a5 -,
mere appears TO have been family altor
atlon, and the boy in fit of nassion o.
hlnklng 10 frighten the others into o,,iot -
ess, threatened, with shotgun. to sboot
imself and whoever interfered with h;ro
struggle ensued, the gun was discbo-aa5
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