The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-08
Se,ys ana otaer Notings.

One hundred and seventy-slX persons
died from smallpox in st. Etienne, France,
in six weeks.
Mr.. Wallace. of Rawdon, n. s., has
lost nine children within sixteen days ;
/ iphthera.
-Jaffrain, a skater at the Casino, at
Brussels, has just won a bet by skating ten
hours without stop.
| General Beauregard was chief marshal
of the grand street pageant i'll honor OF tue
! late Pope in New Orleans.
| "A North Carolina woman used her
! baby as a missile SO effectively as to knock
her husband down, but it killed the child,
A family near Evansville, Ind, con.
| ssting of father, mother, aud son, have all
committed suicide within the past four
months.
-Ebenezer Haskell OF Philadelphia has
| expressed in his will desire TO be cremated
and placed, in the form of ashes, under a
/ rose bush.
1t showed once in Lisbon, Portugal,
during the past winter for the first time
since 1910. Similar slight falls occurred
! IN 1897 and 1899.
Governor Mcclellan and wife surprised
the aristocratic people of Trenton by max
! ing the acquaintance of most of the poor
/ families in the town.
Since the murderers in Iowa would not
| follow the example of the state In ceaslng
/
store the death penalty.
1t is said that a lineal descendant of
the Dutch statesman, ambassador aud
poet, Jacob Cats, who lived two centuI les
ago, now dxells in Pittsburgh.
"A Cincinnati man named Sullivan
dropped dead from ancurism Of the aorta,
the result of exertion and excitement, while
in the act of chastising his son.
Sol. Foster, ijr., editor of the POttsville
Evening Chronicle, was cowhided on Sat
urday by r. b. Fielders, editor of the
Miners Journal, of the same place.
The Papal palace of Castel GaDdolfo,
the summer residence of the Popes, near
Albano, village ten miles outside of Rome,
is to be restored for the reception of The
new Pope.
Mrs. Phillips, of Hopkins, KY, went
out to shoot her husband. from whom she
| had parted, and who was throwing stones
at her house. By mistaken aim she kill
ed her brother.
The Catholic benevolent societies Of
Louisville will not parade on st. Patrick 8
Day, but devote the money usually eXpend-
ed on music to charitable objects. That s
the right spirit.
james Spence, of ElkhOrn, Armstrong
county, married his stepmother few days
ago, his father having died several years
ago. Young Spence is now the father of
several of his brothers.
Madison county, Fla, claims the honor
of the tallest family in the country. The
father is represented to be Z feet 4 the
mother feet s two sons are feet 3, and
one daughter is feet 8.
"A young woman Of Newburg, Wis,
severely thrashe6 her father because be
would not raise $500 to give her as a
dOwry, in order to marry a Nan who wanted
| his wife to have that sum.
"A mouse placed in box with three
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snakes, while the two remaining ones
showed the greatest fear of the little beast,
! watching every move it made.
There has been a frightful outbreak OF
smallpox in RientOrt, in the Depart ment
/ of Lozere, in France. The population of
| the commune has been decimated and
nearly all the inhabitants are sick.
| w iliam Pavitt, of St. Paul, on being
arrested for branding his unruly sons
! tongue with hot iron, said that things
/ had come to pretty pass when parent
! could not discipline his own children.
| Geo. Ladd, a mathematical prodigy,
| died at the poor farm at Brattleboro, VT,
! last week. Although without even a com
/ mon school education, he could instantly
| solve many of the most difficult problems.
Winston Anderson, who attempted 10
outrage little giil, near Clarksville, Tenn,
! was taken from the jail on Friday night by
a large body of armed men, and his body
was found on Saturday morning hung to a
| tree.
"A pleasant feature of the Protestant
! Orphans Fair at St. Paul last week was
| the liberal contribution of money and arti-
| cles made by the Jews and Catholics and
notably by the Sisters of the Good Shep-
| herd.
Cardinal Franchi has been confirmed
| Pontificial Secretary of State Cardinal
! Simeoni, Prefect of Propagands Cardinal
/ Marichini. Camerlengo and Cardinal
Bartolini, Presideng of the Congregation of
Rites.
While John Burden and his wife and
child were crossing the railroad track, in
| Dodgeville, Conn, in a wagon, on Friday
| morning, they were struck by train
| Mrs. Burden was killed, and her husband
| severely injured
Father Guilaume, the priest of Russell
! township, near Ottawa, recently arrived at
the Canadian capital conveying train of
elghty-fve cords of wood, the gift of his
parishioners to the poor of the city without
| regard to nationality or creed.
| "A fire at Forsyth, Ca, Monday MORN
ing destroyed the hotel, bank and six
stores, causing a loss of $50, 900, mostly
covered by insurance. A number of per
sons.were seriously injured and it is feared
others were buried by falling walls.
-Commodore d. Curtis, a farmer, fifty
years old, was shot through the heart and
killed at his house, near Mount Vernon,
Ind, one day last week, by his STEP son,
aged thirteen. Curtis was trying to MUIR
der his wife in drunken spree, and the
| boy got gun and shot him.
Sill another wonderful clock is being
exhibited in Reading. 1t was made by a
man named Troutman, of Donaldson.
! Schuylkill county, and has ships and apos.
/ ties and Modoc warriors and Jonah and the
whale and great many other things that
couldn't be brought together except in this
way.
John Barry, night watchman on the
Michigan Central Railroad, went to his
home at Jackson, Mich, few mornings
ego, and found his wife a corpse, sitting
/ up in bed, and his child almost dead, from
the effects of gas from coal stove "a gas
! burner) which bad no: been properly reou-
lated. The child died little later.
"A special from Illinois says that the
neighoors discovered the house of Montz
Kaiser at Fish Landing on the Mississip-
( pi, fifteen miles south of Waterloo, on fire
/ Friday morning. The structure was al
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