The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-28
Ne,cs ana Other Notfn0s.


strong Run, Clarion county, was struck
and killed by lightning on Friday
"A London dispatch says party riots oc-
CURED in Belfast Saturday night. during
which several persons were killed ana
many wounded.
Bishop Irelaud's four Catholic colonies
in Minnesota are said to be doing hand
somely, and far exceeding the most san
guine expectations.
Archbishop McHale, of Tuam, Ireland,
is 81 years old, and is supposed to be the
oldest chbishop i'll the world. He was
consecrated in 1925.
There are six brothers i'm Washington
county, named Sprowl, whose farms ad-
join. They have fifty eight children and
forty eight grandchildren.
In New York, the other day, man
was sentenced to the penitentiary for one
year for swapping an unloaded pistol at an
other, 'Just to scare him."
An elopement was frustrated in Greene
county by dog seizing hold of the lover
! and holding him until the father Of the
girl returned home from church.
An iDcurable disease has broken out
among the cattle in Berks county, consist
ing of inflammation of the eyes, resulting
in total blindness in many cases.
Rev. John Z. Jones was sentenced at
Butler, on Friday morning, to two years
in the Penitentiary, and to pay fine of
$50, for fraudulently raising note.
In Chester county boy was fatally in
jured while playing leap frog, two of his
companions accidentally striking his head
as they jumped over him and injuring
his spinal column.
There is said to he living in Harrison
county, Texas, man so years of age, who
never spoke WORD to anybody in his life
excepting his mother and sister. lie ought
to be sent to congress.
Tphn Finn JamaS Shea Hattie Sands
and Mary Welch, of Oswego were drowned
on Tuesday last, at Pleasant point, Lake
Ontario. They belonged to the st Johns
church excursion party, which left Orange,
n. Y, that morning.
| Madame Bonaparte, the s'ster-in-law
| of the ''littIe corporal" )" who now lives in
! Baltimore, used to hold Gladstone in her
/ lap. She is ninety-six, is worth million,
/ and says she will not die until she has eel
! ebrated her centennial.
Joseph Payne and wife, accompanied
! by little child, were crossing a mountain
near WILLIAMSON, Dauphin county, when
! Mrs. Payne was thrown from the carriage,
and striking her head against stone, was
so badly injured that she died in half an
i hour.
Two boys started from Rochelle, H.,
! in quest of adventure. They walked along
a railroad for ten miles, and then, very
tired, they sat down to rest. Very soon
| they fell asleep, and one lay with bis bead
across a rail, so that when train came
, along he was beheaded.
The husband of Mrs. Kate Sothern,
of Georgia, who was sentenced to be hang
ed for the murder of her rival and who
had her sentence com muted 20 impTison-
menL for ten years. has been appointed a
guardsman at the Georgia Peniteutiary, SO
| that he may be near his wife.
William ONelll, New York news
/
drowning, which makes seven in all. He
wears a medal of the Life Ssaving AssOcia-
tion, and promises in time to become as
famous as Jamie Lambert, whose life story
was written by Charles Reade.
The schooner Eotheu sailed from New
York on Wednesday of last week for TIE
Arctic regions, in search of the remains of
Sir JOHN Franklin. The searching party
expect to be absent two years. The same
day sixty-nine colored emigrants sailed
from the same port for Liberia.
"A dispatch from Brady's Bend says
during a storm on Friday the wife of Chas.
! HemeTly, of Armstrong run, was instantly
killed by a flash of lightning. Colonel
Templeton, of Brady's Bend, was consid-
erably injured by the same shock. Mrs.
| l1rmelly leaves three small children.
AT Bronson, Mich, Tuesday night,
Samuel Whitaker shot his wife dead and
afterwards killed himself Domestic
trouble was the cause. Whitaker en-
deavored to commit suicide by poison about
two years ago. The parties are respecta-
BILE, and The affair has cast q gloom over
| the entire cOmmunity.
Bishop Tuigg las furnished Arch Dish
op Wood, of Philadelphia, with a state
ment OF the diocesan assets, from which il
appears that instead of the diocese leaning
toward bankruptcy, rs has been freely cir.
cuiated by the unwary, the balance inclines
in favor of the assets by about $3.50, O00
exclusive of church buildings and grounds.
Proctor Knott says that the rapture OF
the miser over his boards, the rich flood.
of maternal affection over the first born
the mingled emotions of the young and
buoyant bridegroom. all dwindle into utter
insignifcance as compared with the pro-
| found and deathless affection which the
} average congressman feels for the laboTinp
man.
Some idea of the magnitude OF ON
free school systems may be obtained from
! the fact that there are more than s. OOO OOC
pupils enrolled and the average daily at
: tendance is 4, 500 900. The State of Indi-
ana has the largest school fund, it being
about $4,000, GOO. We are carrying out
the noble injunction of Old II ;ckory ed
; dicate the people,
One of the curiosities of the Paris Ex-
position is the smallest book that ever was
printed in any language-a marvel of ty-
poSIdpiiy. IL IS microscopic COPY oil
Dantes DiUi7ae Comedia, printed in Padua,
bound in red velvet aud silver, and SO
small that it may be worn as a charm.
hanging from the watch chain. A micro
: scope is needed TO read it.
On Wednesday evening a negro nam
ed David Crawford shot and killed his
: wife on Beech island, South Carolina. He
!, then Killed himself. On Tuesday morning
a white man named Ferry, a short distance
from where the above tragedy occurred.
chopped woman with whom he was liy.
ing in the head with a hatchet and tnen
shot her. He afterwards shot and killed
, himself.
: Mrs. Fry, of Oswego, n, Y, will, il
she lives till the 10th of September next,
3 be one hundred and eight years old. Bya
3 recent fall she broke one hip, and it is
doubtful whether she will ever be able tC
S walk again, but her mind is still clear,
! Mrs. Fry has used tobacco over since she
4 was ayoung woman. Lately her physician
Q has not allowed her to smoke as often as
l Sla To