The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-11-15

date, 16, 802.
An old woman in North Carolina
tainted few days ago at her first sight OF
a railroad train.
The Minnequa Springs hotel, in Brad
ford county, burned down on ] tuesday mOfu-
ing. Loss. S75, 600 insurance $4,000.
The annual inspection of the PennSyl-
vania Railroad and it's branches has been
completed. Everything was in apple pie
order.
"A Lowell boys clothing caught fire,
and in bis fright he jumped into a cradle
in which baby lay. Both children were
burned to death.
DIR. r. Y. Pierce, of Buffalo, n. Y,
the great patent medicine man. and one of
the largest advertisers in ;he country has
been elected to Congress.
Among the curiosities exhibited at the
Reading fair was a bureau consisting of
-, 900 pieces of wood. 1t vas manufac-
tured in Lebanon county.
The New York policemen think Mr..
Stewards body was lifted over .be fence.
They have found marks of a bag, and are
arresting all we'll known thieves.
William Locker. J. n. Grant, Edward
WamboIt and C. w. richards were drown
ed at White Haven, Nova Scotia, on Sat
urday, by the upsettiug of their boat.
Paul Boyton has received an order for
800 of his life preservers from the French
u
try in a steamer sailing on the 18th instant.
A three year-old son Of a Nr. Schcll
was lost in the woods of Potter county
couple of weeks ago aud has not beer
found
Charles Hook, a poor shoemaker, of
Pittsburg, left that place some years ago
without one dollar, TO find work IN the
West. He came back a few days ago
worth 1925. .0O0 in gold.
General Harry White, in recent in
terview with a Pitisburg reporter, said
l that he still had in Ibis minds eye" the
/ improvement of the KiskimineIas and
/ Couemaugh rivers by Congress.
MIR. and Mrs. Dawley, of Griswold,
/ Conn, celebrated their golden wedding a
+ few days ago. The same day their son
( Thomas narrowly escaped being lynched
for an attack upon an old woman.
! For the murder of john VI. Armstrong
in Camden, n. j., Benjamin Hunter WAS
on Saturday sentenced to be hanged on
Friday, January 10. The case is to be
carried to the Court of Errors and Appeals.
Frank Small, Florida statesman,
who signed his name with an Y and was
so conspicuous a witness at Tallahassee two
years ago. when he was anxious 80 expose
Democratic frauds, is now in jail for steal
ing hides.
Miss Agnes Scott, Of Tiffiu, Ohio, was
formally admitted to the practice of law
the other day ia Columbus. Among sew.
eral other applicants admitted to the ban
was MIR. Ruchard !. Hayes, the eldest
son of his father.
a swarm of bees took possession o.
the chimney of the Miidlefield Conn.
Methodist church during the summer, anC
when fire was kiudled in a stove on a re
cent Sunday the floor of the church base
ment literally flowed with honey.
! "A father aud his son were simultane
ousIy married to a mother and her daugh
ter. in Maysville, Ind. The younger cou
pie bad been counting fOT n long time, bu
: the parents, eighty and eighty-Une, wen
s into wedlocll on a Sudden impulse.
The form Of Colonel Thomas 4
. Scott's illness, which took him to Europe
: vas a severe stroke Of paralysis. 1t at
]. tackled him in tile left leg and existed a
far up the body as the hip. Above th
the colonel felt 10 sign of the stroke.
The friends of Conrad Kdpp. that re!
idcrt Of Keokuk who tried to starve hin
self to death, after he ha0 lived for thre
weeks without taking food or water, cor
cluded that it was time TO interfere, An
= held him while they forced beef-tea inl
his stomach.
George Fes,lar, former treasurer
Stark county, Ohio, who stole $4,000
q the public money, has concluded that IL
~ shortest way across is the quickest awa
" around. nat IS 10 say ne NdIktN III
1t Court at Canton the other day aud ma,
a a clean breast of it.
D. John Tibbotts, of Augusta, Me, had
r gathering of relatives at his house the ot
a er day. Among the number IN atteudan
ia were four sisters, whose united az
1d amount "a 292 years, their ages respectIv
ut ly, being 7S, "A, r. aud 6S years. Tbs
n mother lived to the age of 90 years.
IN The Scientific american aunOunc
I,1 4 I,a
er son, and Massachusetts chemist stat
ee that ont Of twelve jars Of pickles, put
IS, by different wholesale dealers, he fUu
no copper in ten Of them. And yet peoI
1T viii continue to .'pizen" themselves.
re- Mrs. Kate Heath, 81 years of age,
3h Gently walked the entire distance from /
)t, home in Potion, Vt, six miles, to Non
IT. Troy, and returned the same day 5
lis is the daughter of the notorious Color
at, Rutter, who commanded the Indians a
he EngIish at the burning aud sacking
Ter Royalton.
to Rev. Thomas Dudley, of Kentucky
as perhaps the best preserved Clergyman
i'd the United States. He is eighty sey
he years old. aud has been sixty years III
lr. ministry. but continues his clerical We
ad as actively as ever, and preached w
id, great vigor two sermons on successive di
: last week.
ter The Memphis AppcGl lost during
~, epidemic book keeper, s cOmpOsitors a
1t 10 men from the press room, while
I'VE members of the families of its employ
. died. The AgUl1ncb6 lost its busin
+ manager, . editors. ) compusjtors, pre-
NIB men, a porter and 2 carriers, aud the L
In ger composijors.
ty. Mrs. Diana Haines was made insane
ar Mount Gilead. Ohio, by false report q
NO she was heiress to 500, 600, the sud,
be elaii0n and disappointment unbalanc
to her reason. She tried to commit suic
me and was sent to an asylum. Lately S7i
llso 600 was really bequeathed TO her, but
re- will not believe l..
Mgr Capel received into the Cath
2ity Church three weeks ago the Rev. q
at Shipley, author of a well-knOwn volume
ng- essays on The Church and the Worl
her and wife also two Oxford under gradua
Ith- The Marchiouess of Ripon and four gra
ere ates of Oxford went over" on another
'efe Of the same week.
sdl- Six years ago an express agent at \
abe shal, Mimi, missed "a money pack az
err $25, and could not find it, high or
put. The old safe was recently exchanged,
at headquarters they found the pack
urg stuck by the wax 20 the under side of
nee drawer, where it had been showed in
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