The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-10-11

Protestant Episcopal Churc0 IN the CnlIeu D.
States is to assemble in Cincinnati on the .
18th instant. The session will extend ,
over five days, and several subjects OF i'm /
poTtence to the church are to be discussed. /
"A young couple of De Roy, n. Y, hac /
their wedding day selected, and then got !
into a squabble over which church the 4
knot should be tied in. He wanted to go 4
to the Presbyterian edifice, because IT vas /
the fashionable one of the village, and she I
wanted to go to the Baptist one, because /
she used to sing in the choir there. The f,
quarrel snapped the engagement.
Preachers in the West are going into
politics rather extensively, about forty Of
them being candidates for political offices.
Some of the religious journals do not look
upon this new departure with favorable
eye. One thinks that if the result aimed
at is to purify politics, they may well be
spared, yet it thinks that politics viii effect
some of them more than they viii effect
politics.
William Brombam, the Connecticut
youth who showed his younger brother,
Edward, overheard into the Long Island
Sound, and, turning PROV toward land,
with wet sheet. a fOaming sea and waves
that followed fast, left him there to perish,
now knows the musty smell of a prison.
Edward, who has recovered from the eff
fects of his wild, five-mile swim, is the
prosecutor.
Colonel Edward W. Upsbaw, who
was long connected with Tennessee jour
nalism, lad no relatives in Holy Springs,
Miss, but he was there when the yellow
fever broke out, and when urged TO leave
he said 'My duty is here with this peo-
pie. IL live, my Master will approve
If die, my friends will have the satisfac-
ton of knowing l died at my post" He
died there.
The Jackson Tenn TJrbU1e SAYS
that a true and grand hero died when
Father RioTdan, Vicar General, laid down
bis life at Memphis. At Bon Aqua when
the pestilence struck Memphis, he hasten
ed from the life giving waters to the dark
rushing stream, on whose banks sat the
plague, the pail of death. He fell ad-
mnistering to the sick and dying, and has
gone to the martyrs reward.
/ Nineteen persons were killed outright
/ and one hundred and forty more or less
injured on Tuesday last by an accident on
the Old Colony Railroad, seven miles from
Boston, whereby an excursion. train re-
turning from a rowing match was thrown
from the track, through some fault, it is
thought, of a freight conductor whose
( train had just been switched of at the
place where the catastrophe occurred.
Five noble and wealthy English girls
are about TO take the veil, all having con-
siderable fortunes in their own rights.
They are Lady Edith Noel, daughter OF the
Earl of Gainsborough /; the Hon. Constance
Howard, sister of the Marchioness of Butte :;
1.-TWO daughters Of the Hon. Maxwell Stu.
art, of Traquhar, Peebeshre, and the
youngest daughter of Mr.. Biount, of Ma
pledurham, the representative of the
stanchest Catholic family among common
ers in England -
Lucy Os5urn, pretty young woman.
bad her entire scalp torn off by machinery
in New Milford, Conn. She was brought
to a New York hospital, and there the te-
dious process Of grating on her head a
new SCALP was successfully ended a few
days ago, and she has returned to her
home. The new scalp was composed OS
minute bits Of skin, -, 600 being used, ia
ken from the arms of the hospital surgeons,
and put Oh carefully one at a time. One
surgeon supplied more than a Thousand Of
them.
Some time since it was published that
an eX-MaiOr General in The Confederate
service had enlisted a private soldier in
the regular army and there has been 4
great deal Of cur iosity exhibited as to who
the reduced general might be. It trans
pres that the man is Major General Stock
ton, Who is a graduate Of West Point Mil
itary Academy, and went into the ~ebellion,
reaching the rank named. Upon his en-
liStment he was not sent to the frontier
with the ordinary recruits, but was detailed
for clerical duty at the War Department.
That there is more herOism in the
Catholic than In Protestant churches. says
the indianapolis Herold is abundantly
demonstrated 10y the mortality reports in
the fever stricken cities of the South. Not
a single priest has forsakeC his flock and
sought safety in flight. They die at their
: posts. The dark~robed Sisters Of Charity
also brave the pestilence without fiinching.
r and offer up their pure lives sacrifice tC
- duty. There is something vital in the
, Catholic faith which inspires its priests
2 with more than mortal courage when they
5 come in contact with the destroying angel
Ten years ago there settled near Z
Paso, Noodford county. Illinois, one p &
y Ransom, man Of wealth. His wife was
D gentle lady. lie had dark, wild man
D nered boy, named Panl. Ransom prosper
, ell. Everybody liked him. He was elect
j. ed mayor of FL Paso, was reelected and i
Q mayor now. Last week a dark-f faced wo
man, resembling Paul, appeared Sh,
O went from door to door in EI Paso, declar
!; ing that Ransom was her husband, that h
:, left her, taking $50, 600, twenty-five year
d ago, and that since then she has beel
s bunting him the wide world over Ran
II som denies all. The woman appeals :
the law.
n There is a solemn warning to farmer
u who hold back for higher prices in TN
I story OF Elias Black, living near Doyles
l. town, Pa. Mr.. Black has one hupdre
u Bucks county. In 1862 he stacked mn hi
crops in the fields for higher figures an
l. he stacked up each succeeding years Gro
,, in the same way and for the same purpose
i One hundred and three stacks of hay an
D grain remain where they are placed, mos
u OF them IN decayed condition. Twent
Is thousand dollars have been piled MP TO ro
but MIR. Black is more stubborn than eve
is and still holds on for the higher prices b
4 will never get.
+ The Republican candidate for I,ier
N tenant Governor is Senator Stone. of Wa
e rem. His opponent is Senator Fertip. {
'e Titusville. Stone is n lawyer. and not
/ producer. Fertig is producer and not
lawyer. Both attempted to exercise the
], influence at the last session of the Leoisl,
v ture in favor of free pipe 6in. Ston
! succeeded i'll getting five votes out of IN
~ thirty-one of his Republican associate,
E. and those five, like himself, representa-
F. oil producing constituencies. There We,