The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-09-20

An Italian, named Palo Lagone, dona-
ted one pint of peanuts. few days ago, to
the Oil Exchange, at Parker city, to be
sold az auction for the benefit of the vel
low fever sufferers. The total proceeds
amounted to $232.S0. The price far each
nat ranged from one dollar up to fifteen
dollars.
On Saturday morning, while three
b0ys were playing on the shutes of the
breaker at the William Penn Colliery, at
Shenandoah, the doors were opened for the
purpose of loading cars and the boys were
/ drawn into the suction. Two of them were
rescued alive, but the other one was dead
1 when taken out.
AT the school district election in New
I Haven, Conn, ON Monday. the issne being
/ an attempt to Te-establish devotional ex-
/ ercises III the public schools, the ticket ia
! vorlng re-establiShmeDU was elected by
2.9OO majority, the Catholics uniting with
the Protestants to bring about the success
/ of the Bible ticket
! -Ex-Governor Bigler, OF Clcarfeld, re-
cen'I Iy visited 8ellefUnte and was sereuaded.
/ lie said that he left there forty-sIx years
! ago, with twO-horse wagon, bearing his
worldly wealth in the shape of a printing
/ office, with which he set up business in
Cleartelc after having printed paper for
I two years in Bellefonte
/ "A Nisalia. Gala, dispatch says Last
/ night William J. White, Suspecting undue
intimacy between his wife and DIR. Mehr-
ing. the family physician, osiensibly left
home, but soon returning, found Mehring
I in Mrs. Whites bed room. aud attacked
/ him with penknife and cut his throat,
/ producing instant death
East Liverpool, Ohio, is warmed and
J lighted by is naturel gas wells. The gas
( gives Same that almost rivals the electric
! light IN Sriihancy. and it costs so little that
! the lamps in the city streets are kept burn
/ ing day aud night. It is used in private
! houses and factories alike, and cooks a
steak Hr heats furnace.
! Some of the boys Of Carrolvile. Wis. d.
1 made midnight parade, wrapped in
sheets, and starting from the village grave
/ yard Their idea was to scare whoever
saw them. They succeeded. Three wo-
4 men went into commissions at the sight,
one sick man was thrown into relapse. and
giIl broke her arm by fall in climbing
I hastily over fence.
( Stanley is going back to Africa, and
I countless youDg men thirsiing for renowu
want to go With him. We do not like to
suggest it, says the Harrisburg Patriot but
/ VI BE could be persuaded to take a certain
Eliza PInkston along as cook OF something
/ OF that kind he would be lifting a great
! weight off the mind Of .be man who fraud
( uleniIy occupies the presidency.
/ Mr.. Heating, editor of the Memphis
/ Appest, writing in defence Of the negroes
concerning a malicious charge made against
/ them IN regard to the yellow fever scourge,
/ says The statement is libel upon the
! negroes Of Memphis All honor to them.
/ they have done their duty. They have re-
/ sponded to every call made upon them, in
proportion to their numbers, quite as
promptly as the whites"
Mr.. c. d. Sanders, OF Parkersburg,
/ w Va, is tall, straight, robust man,
( between hfty and sixty. lie has not slept
/ Tor hiteon years be efeels tired sometimes
/ but never sleei.y, tbOugh he has tried
/ working continuously for ten or eleven
/ days and nights. Heavy opiates have no
effect upon him. At night he goes TO bed
/ $50 as 10 be out OF the 9ay" and lies
/ tbere and thinks, but does not sleep
-Soutb Carolina seems to be blessed
/ "lth only one great aud good statesman
and that man = Governor Wade Hamilton
! he people want to send him to the United
/ States Senate, and yet don't want to either,
! because that will take him away from the
! State, and they need him at home very
/ badiy. This appears to be such "a sad case
/ that we, like the Harrisburg Patriot man.
/ might be induced to 60 down there for a
/ conSiGt ration.
! An old resident of Oil City, Pa, saws
! II have lived here since oil was first dis
J covered, aud | can confidently say that
/ over ninety per cent. Of those who have
! Ni'Hii IlCii III on production ana OIL SDeCn-
/ Iatlohs are now paupeTs. The discoverer of
/ the oil in this district himself never realized
{ anything from 1t. This was Colonel Drake
/ VINO mace the first strike on the Oil Creek
| near lltusville, in 1859. He is now living
on charity in Vermont, a poor old man.
Mary Haley, supposed widow, was
! Killed IL Steubenville, Ohio, by a railroad
. accident. Her baby was left to the care of
her brother, who sued the railroad il. its be-
half, securing a verdict of s., 600 Soon a
! husband turned up to claim the custody OF
J the child AID the money Afterward an
/ other husband came, with an Insurance
/ policy of $1,000 in his favor on her life.
Both men had parted from her years be-
iore' out were ready to profit by her death
/ -Between the yellow fever, the sun
/ stroke season, the recent floods, the great
marine disasters, the colliery explosion. the
SINKING OF that English pleasure steamer
and numerous other accidents the mortal
! lty Ilsl has been unusually large this wear.
! including thousands 6ho seemed destined
to attain hale old age. The reports Of
the famine in India and China show, too.
that tbe work of decimation has been by
no means confined to the civilized portinn
of the globe.
| a true heroine has come 10 Iicht Mt
/ Washington, who, when she found ont re-
Gently that the 81, GOO salary of a man with
family was about to be cut down. went
quietly to the authorities and begged that
the reduction might fall upon her 81 2OO
salary, as she had no others to support-
and cpnld bear the reduction better. She
requested that her name might not be
/ mentioned, bnt it leaked out, and she was
/ much confused when her grateful feuoyr
clerk came to thank her.
Mrs. Pearce, the woman at Hamilton.
/ Ont., who tasted for forty days in obedi.
ehce 20 divine command" at the con-
clusion Of the ordeal ate a hearty meal in
the presence OF her family and four physi-
Grams without experiencing any inconve-
hlence. The doctors are said to be pnz-
zled and to entertain no doubt that she did
last, as she pretended to- inasmuch as her
bedroom door was locked at nights. and
during the day she was always accom- par
led by some member of the family.
line fastest trick of the Republican
campaign orators, says the New York
World, is to denOunce the Democratic
claim of economical administration as false
because the eleven appropriation bills for
the fiscal year 1850 foot up 1857 .213 933
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