The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-11-08
Ne,os ond Other Notings.


along but leaving her husband behind.
An Iowapap gives thrilling account
of the effort of young man 10 take nome
n widow aud three swarms OF bees at the
same time in wagon.
A horse owned by y. w. Davidson, of
indianapolis, is credited with baving -e-
Gently committed suicide by running into
n wagon and breaking his neck to escape
work.
! 1t is alleged James II. Wheatley, pro
prietor OF sugar refinery in Brooklyn, IS
missing with nearly quarter OF a million
trust funds belonging to several estates IN
that city.
Auburn, Mass, have just celebrated the
sixtieth anniversary of their marriage IN
the house where the captain was born and
has always lived.
Under the direction of the spirits of
his two dead wives, a Mr.. Wheaton has
erected a flagPole on Mount Washington,
and placed upon it Il baune er of a strange
device, costing 500.
The Emperor of Brazil has pensioned,
at the rate of $50 month, young Brazil
ian woman, in order that she may be able
to pursue her medical studies in New
York, and become physician.
james Mathers was killed on the BOs
ton and Providence Railroad, near Dodge
vile, Mass, on Saturday, and John Gray,
over eighty wears DiU, Vas kliltl bg az III
coming train at Newport, Il. /.
"A Georgia farmer waited till three
hundred bats had cOngregated in the gar
ret of his house, and then he went at It and
batted the whole lot to death. No one
gains any bats by being in hurry.
Forty nine Indian children from the
Missouri River agencies, Of the average OF
fifteen years, are to be sent under the
charge Of Captain Pratt, of the regular az
ATa - ha duo tod
AT Hartlepool, recently, a man gave
himself up to be returned to his regiment
and punished for deseTtion. This was the
only way in which he could identify him
self as the heir to n fortune Of c35, GOO
A priest of Brahma, in Medina, India.
mas prophesied that the end of the world
will occur on July II, 1879. On that day,
according to the prophetic gentleman, the
sun viii rise in the W est instead Of the East.
Colonel Thomas a. Scott and family
sailed on Monday for Autwerp on the
steamship Switzerland from Philadelphia.
lie expects 10 be absent the entire winter.
Vice President Roberts will act as President
during his absence.
-"Shoot shoot - was the response of
w. i. Stegner, Of Polk county, Tex, 10
his seventeen year old son when the latter
seized gun aud ordered the old man TO
cease castigating his daughter. The boy
shot and the old man was killed.
"A man in Paxton, III, seized with an
uncomfortable desire to take human life,
assailed his wife with a knife. She es-
caDcd from the house. as did other members
of the family; but a baby left behind in its
cradle was ruthlessly slaughtered.
Mr.. and Mrs. Terrell Of Houston. Tex.
liked an orphan girl so we'll that they de-
cided legally to adopt her their daughter;
but, just the papers were ready fJr sign
ing. Mr.. Terrell made MP his mind that he
would prefer her as a wife. Aud be eloped
with her.
AT Dcs EToines Iowa, q kitten had
caught and was playing with a mouse
when the frightened captive spranE into
pussy's open mouth and ran down her
throat. The kitten went into spasms,
which did not subside till the mouse had
been suffocated.
"A yawl boat named Julia was washed
ashore on Stony Point, Lake Ontario, near
/ Henderson, \. y, on Sunday. There was
man in it lashed to the seat with life
/ extinct. There we're also marks of vio-
. lence on .he head and body, and the bands
. were tied togeI her.
! Mr.. Martin was on his way f.om Nadi-
/ son to Jauesvillc, Wis, TO marry Miss Fos-
ter, but he chanced to meet Miss Cobbe,
whom ne had once known and loved and
strajghtway married her. leaving Miss
/ Foster aud her wedding guests TO wait IN
vain for bis coming.
MIR. Philips, Of MilliugtOn, Mich,
1 whipped lis thirteen year old daughter
/ till she consented 10 5e married to man
/ she detested. As soon IS the ceremony
( was over she escaped and reused the neigh
boThOOd, and her husband and father had
to fly for their lives.
Ellen Murphy, who disappeared from
. Clifton, Staten Island. about three months
ago, and was supposed to have been muir
drred by her lover. Louis Reige, at Silver
Lake, has Suddenly reappeared a: Clifton
. with baby in her arms, and was married
to her lover on Sunday.
Mrs. George Partridge, Of Orland,
I Maine, aged 81 years, died last week, leav-
ing her husband of the same age and i'm
good health This aged couple have been
married 63 years, and always lived in that
. village, where they raised ten children,
I eight of whom are living.
The Catholics of Cincinnati had con
cert and picnic recently, for She benefit Of
the Hospital of the Good Samaritan, Of
which the Sisters Of Charity have charge
. The speaker selected for the evening was
the Hebrew Rabbi, Dr. LilienthaI lie
made a charming address.
"A PhCnixville, Pa, dispatch says that
a large and very brilliant meteor appeared
there in the West, about fifteen degrees
above the horizon. on Saturday evening.
about six O'Clock, leaving very luminous,
trail, which was visible for about a minute
and n half after the meteor fell.
On Saturday morning two pIasterers,
named NJ. Murphy and Patrick Conlev,
working in the new Produce Exchange
building, in Toledo, Ohio, stepped upon
the end of a swinging scaffOld and fell
eighty feet to the cellar. Conlcy was
killed Instantly and Murphy will die.
The Newark, N. J.. journal saws that
Mr.. and Mrs. Wright, aged one hundied
and six and one hundred years respective
ly. are staying at their sons residence in
that city. They have been married seventy
years, and have several great great-grand-
children. Both were born in New Jersey
Twelve years ago Deacon Benson. of
Fort Wayne, Ind, man of fortv>ei.rbt.
was worth $500, 600. He speculated. lost
money, became a passenger conductor.
then saloonkeeper, then a street car
driver, then pauper, and last week he
he died in the hospital and was buried in
the pOtter's field.
"A Leavenworth, Kansas, despatch saws
one of the large Government stables at Ft.
LoaycnwOrth was burned at noon on Sem
day. No cause has yet been ASSIGNED for
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