The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-11
Nesrs ant Otaes NOsie0s.

"A Texas dog left In nj sssourl found his
way back TO his masters house, distance
of 500 miles.
"a. NJ. Peterson of Burlington, VI,
has a common house cat, four years old,
that weighs twenty-three pounds Next.
john ii. Mason, of Grassy Lick, Mont
gomery county, has jus torn down barn
built in 1875 to replace it by one of modern
pretensiops.
The Office of the Eastern Express Com
pany at Dexter, Maine, was entered Monday
night, and four thousand dollars stolen
from the safe.
MIR. Witten, a member Of the Virginia
House of Delegates from Tazewell county.
is the father Of sixteen children, including
five pairs of twins.
MIR. James &. Flood, of Nevada, is a
generous man, He gave to various cbari
! table institutions Christmas gifts amount
ing to more than Sc. 600.
What is called a one legged railroad is
being mRJe near Oil City, Pa. There is
single iron rail on which saddle shaped
cars are to run, guided by wooden rails
lower down.
Crockett county Tenn Sentinel: w.
F. PosIon has a hog eighteen months old
that measures six feet seven inches from
stem 10 stern and three feet six inches
around the neck
The debt Of Pennsylvania unprovided
J for by bonds and cash in the sinking fund
4
: that aud go couple of millions better.
Philadelphia can Quintuple ii.
! "A cave, supposed to be tramps' re-
! sort, has been discovered at Waterbury,
] Conn. 1t is thirteen feet deep and is fitted
up with a stove, chandelier, hunks and
other household eonvenences.
| A private letter received in Boston an
nouuces the death of Rev. Mr.. Tracey, Tor
| forty years a missionary of the American
| board in India. He was born in Norw ich,
Conn, and was 70 years of age.
Statistics for last month in various
parts of the country show that a green
/ Chris mas cut down the usual mortality
about twenty per cent. Bat epigrams
( should never fool with mathematics.
State Legislatures now IN session in
! Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois,
Indiana, Louisiana, Maine. Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Ne
vada, New York, Ohio and Pennsy lvania.
The Uniontown Express east on the
! Baltimore and Ohio road struck a woman
named Jones ON Monday evening, between
Moore's and Armssroug's stations, killing
/ her instantly. She lived at Armstrong s
and was thought to be intoxca ed.
The Richmond Wing says: Mrs. Elz-
! abeth Bouyer, mother of MIR. VIM. Bow
ser. has a young COW two years old las
! August that gave milk regularly for five
months before it bad a calf, giving about
| one half gallon at each milking
| The last OF the bodies buried in the
! Barclay street ruins, New York, has been
| recovered. There are no more bod les
there ali the facts show that eight were
lost within the walls, and two persons were
crushed to death on the sidewalk.
The London Advertiser learns on re-
liable authority that official information has
been received in St. Petersburg thar the
Chinese have massacred is, 600 men, women
and children at the Kashgarian town of
Maras, committing most fIightfnl atroci-
ties.
-Kiron Carroll, a lawyer of Rome, N
Y. aged fifty years, dropped dead on Sat
urday while on his way to the funeral of
his brother, 1On. Geo K. Carroll, of Cam
den, n. Y, who dropped dead Wednesday.
Their father and brother both dropped
dead.
Victor Emanuel, King OF Italy, die d
on last Wednesday afternoon, in the 5Sth
year of his age. The full name of the de-
ceased, with all the titles attached, was
about two yards long, though it was not
that, but military emptioD, whatever that
is, that caused his death.
A telegram from Rome says Cardinal
Manning has submitted to the College of
Cardinals a proposal, that on the death OF
Plus TX. the couclave assemble at Malta
J The Sacred College is divided in opinion
5 on the matter. The Italian Cardinals are
indisposed to accept the proposal
Probably the tallest man in the United
State is Henry Thurston, a native of Mis-
souri,, now residing in Titus county, Texas.
} formerly a confederate soldier, who stands
: feet inches in his bare feet. Barnum
offered him large sum to join his exhibi-
, tion, but he very modestly declined.
> Even dried acorns have their uses.
> Sparks from defective flue set fire to some
clo'hing in an upper room of house in
.. New Hampshire when a lot of acorns or
! the floor were made BY the heat to pop so
! loudly that the family heard the noise and
running up stairs ex inguished the fire.
Rev. Father Mauzer, pastor of st.
Mary's Roman Catholic church, Newark
, called on a firm of carriage makers in that
ci'y, on Friday, and handed them $50,
which one of his parishioners bad admitted
J in the confessional to have stolen from
them while in their employ several wears
ago.
"A lawyer and his wife in Lafayette
1 KY, got drunk on New Years day. The,
smashed the windows of their dining room
and the glass of the pictures, tore down th,
r curtains, killed two birds, broke dog =
i leg, whipped servant girl, Their case il
to be considered by the church of which
0 they are members.
"A singular accident occurred on Sa:
chell Creek, Kan, recently. A party o
Q hunters were loading up team preparatO
Il ry to starting for Wichita, when one o
! the men threw an ak into the wagon
s which discharged a shot gun loaded will
q buckshot. The charge entered his head
9 and he was killed instantly.
n MIR. George Llewellyp, of Cheste
8 Springs, Chester county, a few days sine,
d caught live weasel at that place whicl
, was entirely white, with the exception o
= the tip of it's tail, which was black
About year ago the same gentleman
caught a similar one there which he dis
+ posed of for the snug little sum OF fifteei
. dollars.
a The day of reckoning for s~iudling lif
d insurance officials has come. Two Presi
/ dents-Case ard Lambert-of New Yorl
a companies have Just been sent to State
IS Prison for crookeduess and now Connec
II ticut Grand Jury has inflicted the Presi
d dent, Secretary and General Manager @
4 the Charter Oak fo- conspiracy to defrau
J. the policy holders.
< "A girl baby was born in Nebraska re
:, Gently with but one leg, and that was co,