The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-02-08
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! Pennsylvania Coal Company, at Pittston,
| Pa, resume work on Monday.
! "A sycamore tree was cut on John
Nichols farm i'm Kansas last week that
measured over seven feet at the butt.
An asylum FOR women and children at
Tuen Tsin, China, has been burned and
over two thousand persons perishsd in the
fire.
On Friday last a resident of Napier
vile, Canada, buried his five children, who
had died of diphtheria in twenty-four
hours.
"A young lady in Wisconsin refused an
offer of marriage on the ground that her
father was not able to support a larger
family.
-Cowansville, Ont, boasts of a bride
who was recently led to the altar for the
fourth time, and who is not over eighteen
years of age.
Josie Fowler, of New Haven, sIuffs
candles and cores apples with a revolver.
The young men are exceedingly respectful
in their attentions to her.
Another meeting pf the Pennsylvania
Editorial Association will be beld at liar.
risburg, February 81, when arrangements
will be made for next summers excursion.
Louis Henderson, a jealous young man
of Pottsville, threw vitriol over his sweet
heart because she went to the theatre with
another party. Her clothing was badly
Patrick Sullivan, of Gordon Plane,
near Pottsville, was found on the north
side of the Broad Mountain on Monday
n orniug frozen to death. He b ad attempt
ed to walk home from Heckscherville the
night previous.
Father O'Reilly, pastor of the Church
of the Annunciation at Shenandoah,
Schuylkill county, recently denounced in
his pulpit the Emerald beneficial society
as he TAI hnl 10 nd in fho ;nio
est of peace and order.
AT Calais, France, Saturday night,
during performance at circus, there
was false alarm of fire, which caused a
great rush Of the audience, Ten persons
we've snffocated or trampled to death.
Several others were hurt.
DR.. William A. Davis, an aged physi-
clan of Philadelphia. charged with causing
the death of Julia Speigerwald by criminal
malpractice, was stricken with paralysis
when the warrant was served upon him on
Monday, and died on Thursday.
st. Bernard's spire, Cohoes, n. Y, is
I to have cross nine by five feet, and made
of l,5OO glass prisms. Through the in te-
rior of the cross are to be projected num-
bers of gas jets, which will be lighted by
the agency of an electric battery.
Francis Murphy, the t. importance revi-
valist, is a widower, and, it would seem a
heartbreakeT. The Troy Times says that he
was wildly loved in that city by several
women. and that widow was so infatuated
that she followed him to Springfield.
-Messrs. Levi Evans and Charles Burch,
OF Dodge cornty, Ga, killed, on the 18Th
( ult., IN Turnpike swamp, an eagle whose
wings measured nine feet from tip to tip.
! One OF the feet of the eagle measured Z
| inches when placed in n standing attitude.
james Christie, of Newark, ". J.. al
though dead, will still live IN the discus
sious which will result from his taking of.
He died, 1t is said. from the effects of poison
In potatoes upOa the vines Of which paris
green had been sprink led TO kill potato
bugs.
The Reading Pa Times saw. that
snipe, which usually do not make their -
pearance in that vicinity until the latter
part of March or beginning of April may
be already found in the meadows along
the Wyomissiug aud other streams la ths
neighborhood.
-Of the eleven mail bags that were ship
ped on the Metropolis only one came ashore
aud IL is charged by some Of the survivors
that Richard w. Blocks, the arSt man to
reach Norfolk and the first 10 leave it, cut
two or three of the others aud abstracted
their contents.
The Lancaster, Pa EraHfHer saws
that Samuel Miller. while passing up Big
Beaver Creek in boat one day last week,
q
tree, and was threwn into the water
Luckier than Absalom, he escaped without
further harm than a duckiDg.
"A washington genius has invented a
new way of collecting old debts from his
neighbOTs. He makes out receipted bills
and sends them to friend in New York.
who packs them in neat boxes, directed TO
the debtors, and sends them off by express,
marked "Naluable-C. .. D."
Col. Mcclure thinks the oldest man
now living may live to see the day when
Kellogg, the arch-thi ief of election retur,s
shall exchange his Senatorial robe for the
striped jacket OF a convict and when every
active participant in the great fraud shall
occupy cell in the penitentiary.
"A San Francisco gentleman owns a
PAIR OF tiny Greek fighting cocks-they
weigh about pound and half each
whIch VIII whip anything that wears
feathers, no matter whas its size. After
chasing bulldog out of the stable the
other day they tackled horse sixteen
hands high.
William higgins, in San Saba county.
Texas, dug cave to protect himself and
his family against the weather. During
the la.e rains he and his family were i'm il
at night, and without warning the tom
gave way with its weight of logs and dirt
Higgins escaped with severe injuries. but
his wife and children were smothered
The Legislative committee appointed
to investigate the Pittsburgh riots arrived
ID that city on Tuesday night and organ.
lied on the following day, preparatory 70
entering upon the duties assigned to if.
he committee is limited to twenty days
within which to report, but the Legislature
can extend it if it should be found pecess-
ary, as it most likely will be.
what story of misery is comprised in
the brief despatch to tie Press stating that
the entire and partial stoppage of opera.
tions IN the different districts of the coal
regions has thrown out of employment be-
tween $4,000 and 80, 600 miners, laborers.
railroaoers, and other classes of mechanics
who are employed about the mines and bv
the transportation companies"
/ The storm of thursday last struck
with terrific force at Manhattan Beach
Cohey Island, sweeping everything before
| 1t. Several shanties were swept away and
eight persons were drowned The victims
were Mrs. Wynne and three children
Mrs. Brennan and two children, and a wo.
man whose name is not ascertaioed
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