The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-01

ADMINISTRATION refugees from the Northern
provinces had assembled took fire. and of
nearly three thousand people in the build
ing, but one hundred escaped.
Cardinal McCloskey did not reach
Rome until last Saturday--three days after
the election of the new Pontiff, Leo the
Thirteenth. He presented his homage TO
the Pope on Monday, when ne took occa-
sion to say that he had no reason TO regret
the lateness of his arrival in Rome, mas
much as the conclave had made 50 excellent
choice.
Three Welsh pilots, by whose fore
thought, skill, and arduous exertions nine
men were rescued from the masthead OF
the steamer Pioneer, on the coast of Wales,
in January las, on being asked by one of
Lloyd's agents what they wanted or ex-
pected for their services, Immediately re-
/ piled ''We have had what we wanted
the lives of the men,"
The marriage of Miss Eldena Elden,
of Biddeford, Maine, to a. j. Packard, OF
! Youngstown, Ohio, was celebrated on
! Wednesday, This is the result of the re-
mantle match made between the parties
/ from the genilemans reading g an extract
/ from the young lady's graduating essay,
J wherein she expressed a determination to
make her own way in the world
! "A Minneapolis boy was sent by his
! teacher, a woman, to the superintendent
I to be whipped. The lad suspected the
/ contents of the note, and hiIeG boy he
met on the street to deliver it, giving him
! ten cents. The superintendent didn't dis
! cover until after the castigation was over
/ that the boy he had fiogged had not seen
/ the inside of a school house for a month.
AT Mauch Chunk recently a child died
under painful circumstances. In cauteriz-
/ ing the throat or mouth of the child piece
/ of caustic dropped into It's throat and was
/ swallowed. In moment it was in great
/ agony, ich continued about thirty-six
/ hours, when death relieved it. During he
( whole of shis time the child screamed and
cried for water, of which 4 large quantity
was given it.
! The Portsmouth (Maine) Times says
/ that at the trial of criminal case in the Su-
preme Court in Saco recently, the prisoner
entered a plea of ''net guilty." when one
/ of the Jurymen put on bis hat and started
/ for the door. The Judge called him back
] and Informed him that he could not leave
until the case was tried. Tried 90 quer-
/ led the juror. ''Why, he acknowledges
/ that he is not guilty"
The trustees of the Dexter Savings
/ Bank, of Dexter, Maine, offer reward of
SO, 1000 for the apprehension of the murder
/ er or muIderers of the late treasurer Of the
/ institution, J, w. Barron, who was found
on Friday evening locked in the vault of
/ the bank, handcuffed, gagged, a rope
about his neck and in a senseless condition
able the murderers killed the official be-
cause he refused to open the safe.
1t has been said that fewer children
are born of American parentage in New
/ York than in any other city of the conti-
neut. The New York Times says that the
! reason is that begetters of children are
, frowned upon by landlords, boarding
/ house keepers, and maids of-all- work until
/ one of the first laws Of nature appears to Oe
/ social crime. The possession of small
/ children seems to be esteemed an audacity
or an indecency, if not mixture Of both
J -Messrs. Collins, contractors of the Ma
deria & MamOre Railway, Brazil, have a
dispatch from St. Thomas, announcing the
arrival there, after ormy passage of the
/ steamer Richmond. hence for San Antonio.
Brazil, with supplies and 1aborers for the
construction of the railroad, all we'll The
schooner Paul 5. Evoy, arrived at New
York, reports seeing on January 29th, at
the mouth of the Amazon, an American
steamer supposed to be the Mercedita the
first vessal dispatched.
! -Fredeli ick Wahlen, the murderer of
| Max Hugo HOehne, near the Centennial
grounds, in the fall of 1876, hung himself
in his cell at NorrestOwn, on Saturday, af-
ternoOn. When the night watchman went
on duty at six o'clock he found him hang
| ing with his head cut. 1t is supposed that
he stood on a chair and tied himself
pounded himself with the CRATE ont of the
register, and then pushed the chair away
/ His head is cut across the forehead, aud the
CRATE has blood and hair on it.
Ono of the most novel election con-
tests i'll Western Pennsylvania was that
between Uncle Jake Ziegier of the Rutler
Herdtd, and ex-Burgess Keck of the same
borough, for burgess. Neither wanted the
office, and each went to work diligently
ike beavers, to elect his opponent. The
! result was both men were beaten hy a
handsome ma jority," in their respective
wards, but Uncle Jake failed to get in his
work as well rs Mr.. k, for he was elected
by three votes. He saws it's the worst heat
he ever got in his life.
The Lafayette Ind.) Courier records n
curious case OF 4 man rendered insane from
remorse. About two years ago 'Souire
Brown, of Eugene, Nermillion county, lost
a pocket-book containing $295. No clue
to 1t was found until a few days ago, when
man named Norman showed unmistak-
aole signs OF mental arrangements and
said that he had found the money. He
also said that he had found $50 belonging
TO bible agent, Who had cauvassed the
town few months ago. Later discoveries
have proved his statements in the main to
be true, and it has also been proven that
he has gone crazy from no other cause
than remorse. The thought that he had
never returned it to its owner, has So
preyed upon his mind that he is now an
inmate of an insane asylum. 1t was the
duty OF Brown, the man who lost the
money-being a justice of the peace-to
send him to the asylum.
"A horrible case of seduction and in
fanticide was discovered on Friday last at
Glover's Gap, a small station on the Balti-
more and Ohio road, about twenty miles
from Wheeling, W. Va. The BODY of an
infant was dragged out from under a pig
pen oy some dogs, who maugled it copsid-
+ erably before it was discovered. If had
evidently been born about two weeks and
pore traces of having been smothered to
death. a coroner's jury was at once called.
and the following facts came out: A
: young man named Perry Hall, about &c
years of age, has been attentive to a Miss
Garre Tucker, beautiful girl of eighteen.
lie seduced her, under promise of marriage.
ana she hid the still living child under the
lioor OF the hog pen to conceal her crime
0he continued 10 work about the house
!