The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18

viii meet at harrisburg on W Wednesday,
23i instau'. Essays will be read by emf
nent and practical men, on tue folio wing
subjects :-Breeding Stock, Sheep Hus-
baudry. Fruit Growing by Farmers, aud
BarnyaId Manure. Prof. J. Il. Lesley,
State Geologist, viii address the Legisla-
ture on Wednesday evening, 23d. Subject
soils regarded from the side Of Geol-
ogy.
The fishing schooner Little Kate, is
TepOrie5 lost. with her entire thirteen men,
ali Of South Boston, Mass. The names are
John A. Hines, captain; Martin HINES,
Owen Hines, ir. Michael Hines. Thus.
Hines. Michael CoSgToye, john King, Pat
rick King, Martin Gay. Morgan Eiah@rty,
Michael Fiaher-v, Thomas GlyUn, aud
/ Michael O DuuneU. BY this disaster seven
women are made widows, and twenty one
I children orphans.
The funeral Of King Victor Emmanuel
! took place at Rome yesterday auG the re-
mains were deposited .h the Pantheon.
/ The Chapter OF the Church. declared that Il
{ felt bonured by sacred trust. The &c
( cIesiastcal authorities, 5y the Pope's order
( removed all difficulties in connection with
J the celebration OF the funeral and tie
clergy were also authorized To attend,
/ while the archbishops Of Upper Italy were
ordered to celebrate requiem masses.
About fifteen thousand persons fr0r3
+ all parts of the State. Philadelphia and
/ New York assisted IT the installstiou, a.
/ Trenton. y. J., on Tuesday last, of Gov
ermor Mcclellan. The ptocessiouwa ian
mense and impressing. Flags. @bauners
( and bunting were profuse. and the cheer
/ ing OF the peOple hearty and continuous.
] Governor Mcclellan was received at E!s
residence with salute Of loo guns. The
housetops were filed with people, as were
! also the siTeets,
/ AT seven O'Clock Sunday evening one
! of the large cattle sheds in the stock yards
/ of Fairbanks disulleiy at IeUe EsuJe,
I Ind, caught fire from loose hay, and vas
/ destroyed. The building contained eight
. hundred Texas aud Colorado cattle, the
/ property OF Isaac Wexal Z Co, of the
stock Yards IN Chicago. TbUee hundred
of them, worth forty dollars each. wee
burned. They were partially insured in
! Chicago. The loss on the builiing and
hay is T2, 900. ! he sheds were the proper
ty of II. Holman, aud were partly Insured.
Friday afternoon a tramp entered the
basement of Fumivars bsCging factory, in
| Brooklyn, and WAS OIdered away. "nen
| going out ne struck a match against = bag
of jure, and in a moment II was in flames,
/ which rapidly extended in the lower part
OF the factory. There were l30 giIls EN-
Iloycd in The upper part, who had narrow
escape from being sutfUcated and burned E.
! The passage ways being IN flames they ali
escaped without accident by windows
which opened on the roof of a ueighboring
shed. The flames were confined to the
lower part of the building. The loss IS
IS, 1000
The Worcester Spy says that as Mrs.
G. {. Tracey, of Northampton, Mass, was
descending the stairs at her residence on
Friday, ring ON her right hand caught
ON the gas stixtures pendent in the hall by
the side of the stair railing, and swung
her out into the hall, where she hung for
several minutes by one finger, wreucbiug
her quite severely. Her little daughter
head her cries and fiually succeeded IL
lifting Mrs. Tracy SO that she removed ber
finger, which was very much lacerated. \
Jeweler was called in to file off the ring.
and Mrs. Tracy has not been able TO SIT up
since the accident.
Mercedes, future queen Of Spain, will
be one of the most beautiful sovereigns
In Europe. She Is very pretty young
woman of the pure Spanish type, with
very black eyes and hair, fine features aud
full figure. She receives from the Duke
de Montpensier, her father, n dowry of
50, 5,O0O, 600, a great quantity of diamonds,
and magnificent trousseau. Her sister,
the Countess de Paris, has sent a wedding
gift of a teautifrl suite of jewels. The
young king gives his bride loads of jewels.
and his portrait set in brillants aud the
Pope sends wedding ring which lie has
blessed, and a rose in diamonds.
~ new foinp pen mas been discovered IN
Italy. At the foot of Mont Gargauo a
buried town has been laid bare, the houses
being down twenty feet below the surface.
a temple of Diana was first brought to
light, then portico composed Of columns
without capitals, anG, finally, a metropolis
covering nearly four acres. The Italian
Government has taken measures TO cOntin-
ne the excavations on large scale, aud
has already discovered a monument erected
in honor of Pompey after his victory over
the pirates, The town is the ancient 81
pontum, of which Strabo and Levi speak,
and which was buried by an earthquake.
-lu the State prison at Charlestown,
| Mass, is a man named Dunaunin, who has
! had an eventful career. When the wal
, broke. out he was serving sentence oi
thirty years. but WAS pardoned on the con-
dltion that he would enlist in the army
His bravery quickly won the good viii ol
his officers, who knew nothing of his ante
T cedents, and after the battle of Frederlcks
burg he acted as spy, gaining important
! information. He was afterward captured
l and sentenced tn Libby prison and paroled
. lie broke the parole, reeulisted, deserted
, committed "A burglary, and is back in hn
old quarters, with twelve years more Il
seTve.