The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-04
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last year. ,-.r.a :, IN.
Forty nine persons were killed IN a iie-
phepy county last year
Patrick Murphy has been mlsslng from
Pittsburgh for five weeks. >.
The Pope declined to accept any di-
plomatic congratulations ON New lear
day. :. ,,;sa,o.o
Conn. smokes and swears, just like his
! THE new Union depot at Pittsburg
cost the Pennsylvania railroad company
S65, coo. Tn.
Quebec, has just got rid OF her name III INC
ordinary way. go. A.
time for the meeting OF Congress, ana the
reasons offered seem plausible.
| An explosion occurred at the stanton
| shaft. near Wikesbarre, on Friday, IN
/ which seven persons were injured.
/ MIR. Isaac Davis of Indianapolis, has a
/ Cochin China hen that catches and kills
} mice with the dexterity OF terrier.
! Late Monday afternoon two more bod
! les were recovered from the ruins of the
| Barclay street New York; fire, making
eight in nil.
! In the Commune of Rivola d AIDA, in
! italy, n woman has given birth to quintup-
| lets, all living. A year ago she bore four
| children at birth.
John Mangus committed suicide at
Tracy City. Tennessee, Monday night, by
! jumping into a bake oven, an almost COM
plete cremation ensuing.
The publishers of the Pittsburgh
Leader presented boot blacks box to
every boy in the city engaged in that bnsi-
ness, on New Years day.
Thomas Durkin has been arrested,
charged with being one of the Mollie Ma
guires that murdered Superintendent
Smith at Jeanesville, Pa, November 5,
| 1853.
The Twin Relic still flourishes. Six
ty-fve polygamous marriages were celebra-
ted at Salt Lake on Friday and many
more sanity couples were sent away until
Saturday.
Benjamin Snyder died at Kutztown,
Berks county, few days ago, in his S6th
year. He leaves 105 living descendants
children. 4S grandchildren aud 81 great
grandchildren.
The Governor OF Ne. York has par
doned John Ryan. sentenced May s, 1874,
| to twenty years for burglary and larceny.
The District Attorney, Judges and COM
plainaut believe him innocent.
There were published in the Philadel-
phia Ledger last week notices of the deaths
of ten men aud ten woman whose ages
were over eighty years. The oldest was
:
The exasperatiug work of putting up a
stovepipe resulted in a tragedy in Lancas-
| ter. Cheney and his father-in-law, Sny-
der, quarreled over the job, and Cheney
was killed in the fight that ensued.
A Berks county resident while eating
! oysters on the shell found a nickel cent of
date of 1853, partly covered over by the
/ heart of the oyster. There WAS also an in
dentation in the shell produced by the
/ cent.
| The Pittsburgh Post thinks there is
| danger the Bible will be driven on OF
! the public schools, since Catholic priest
! down east insists upon it's being kept
among the school books. This seals its
doom.
| her baby, five months old, up in a room
with pet terrier, aud when she returned
! found that the dog had almost eaten off
the little ones foot, which was so badly
! mapgled that it had to be amputafed.
| a special from Vienna to London Tel
| egrdph states that instructions were sent
! by telegraph from St. Petersburg, on Sun
/ day, to the Russian commanders in Europe
| and Asia, to receive any overture for a
| truce that might be made by the Turks.
| The Irish Catholic colonization society
of Philadelphia has purchased about 1000
acres of land in Virginia, about ninety
miIes west Of Richmond. on the line of the
! Richmond & Danville Railroad. A Catho-
! lie colony will shortly settle on this land.
"A young man in Saline county, Mo
! playfully attempted to kiss pretty young
widow who was boarding in the same house
W it'll him. In the scuffle the widow sud
| denly thrust finger into one of the young
man S eyes, totally destroying the sight
"A little child three years of age named
! Michael Dodds, of Salisbury station ON the
! Connellsville railroad, was accidentally
shot in the head on Sunday by cousin
named Peter Dodds, who was examining a
revolver. The child was expected 20 die.
w illiam Strider, of Greenfield, O., is a
| man of an unbounded stomach. In 1876
| his Christmas dinner consisted of four
! teen-pound turkey aud six mince pies
! last year last week. be devoured a twenty.
| five pound gobbler, with the usual accesso
| ries.
In Georgetown, d. c.. Monday night,
| George Washington and JAS. Hutchinson,
! bTothers-in Law, quarre led, and went into
! yard adjoining their prem ises ito settle
it." 1t was settled by Washington stab
bing Hutchinson in tue region of the heart
! Hutchinson dying within au hour.
| On Monday night the barn of Michael
! Shade, in Limestone township, Lycoming
county. was burned, together with the en-
tire crop, five horses, ten head of cattle
| hogs, poultry, harness and wagons. Loss
T~,OOV Nv ibsuldItCt. Ht ldUlilS W6It
! absent ar the time, attending meeting al
the church near by The house was saved
! Innocence and crime are curiously
blended IN the case of the little girl al
! Philadelphia, whose parents took her from
school and treated her as a servant in O
, house Of i'll fame which they conducted
! The society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
to children, to whom she applied for deliv-
erance. very properly removed her from
their inhuman keeping.
There is case of sdpSus nature or
Fountain street, Allegheny. A well devel
oped child was born the other day with a
tumor fully the size of its natural head
growing fiom its neck. AS this growth
was covered with hair of the same hue a.
that on the head of the child, i: gave the
! appearance OF two heads. An enterprisiue
photoera pher has taken the child's picture
THAT'S the medicine that would have
saved me a week ago." said Elizabeth
Gibson, aged forty eight, an occupant o
the Ashley Building, St. Louis. when the,
gave her some sonp. She died of starva
tion in a room where her husband lay par
alyzed, and her son, a boy of five, was re-
duced by hunger to a skeleton. Theu the