The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-12-13
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Within fifteen days Mr.. Isaac Newton,
OF CarbUndale, lost six children with diph-
iberia.
"A Rochester IN. " clergyman is in
trouble because he married a boy Of is aud
a girl Of II years
Miss Nancy Bonham, of Chatham,
Canada, stands six feet eight and half
inches in her hose.
Two members of :he Legislature OF
Kansas were chosen by one majority each,
and two others by two majority.
Her great grandchildren were at the
wedding Of Burlington Iowa woman of
sixty with yOung man of twenty five.
Three pounds OF butter, wrapped in a
cloth, with a piece of paper attached for
the address aud stamps, has been mailed
at bloomington, Ia.
-Iu UniondaIe, Susquehanna county,
live fonr persons on one street, whose ages
summed up amount 20 339 years. None Of
them are under 81 years.
AT East Bridgeport, Conn, a colored
youth of twenty has been sued for breach
of promise by colored maiden Of three
and quarter times his age.
"A Pittsburgh justice has decreed that
flag pole in public highway, even with
the glorious stars and stripes flying from it,
Is nuisance and must come down.
Mrs. j. d. Mcintyre. OF Pender coun-
~, \. e, aged twenty four, has just pre-
sented her lord with a son, his twenty
fourth child. He is eighty and she is ais
fourth wife.
-O'Leary, the famous pedestrian, COM
pleted his walk Of 400 miles in less than
l24 hours, in Philadelphia on Saturday.
lie was 81 minutes and 81 seconds ahead
of the allotted time.
"A snow and sleet storm set In at St.
Louis Saturday evening. Snow fell Saiur-
day all along the railroads from St Louis
west, extending to Abilene, Kan. At Kan
sas City the snow was ten inches deep.
The marriage or a San Francisco wild
over to his stePdaughter so diSpleased his
neighbOrs :hat they stuck tar aud feathers
on his door as q mint OF what they would
do IT he did not move away. He moved.
Rev. Mr.. Pentecost, of Boston, IN
sermon against round dancing, said that
very respectable aud intelligent young wo-
man had assured him that the hugcinp
was, to her, the pleasantest part of bail
"A fire at Macon, Miss, on Tuesday
night destroyed four squares, comprising
the entire business portion Of the town
The fire originated in the Commercial Ho-
tel spreading right and left and across the
street.
-SenOr Francisco Agramonts, well
known Cuban resident OF New York. aud
large landed proprietor in CUBA has lust
liberated all the slaves on his plantation,
eighty-fiVe in number, whose value was
$50, coo.
MIR. W. H. Birdseu vent to Lake
county, OAK, six weeks before election
ran fur Sheriff and was elected oveFa man
who had held the office for six years
Very few Of the voters had ever seen Mr..
BirdselI.
Mr. Harmau Sthroe. farmer, living
near CentTeville. Northampton county. uu,
dertook last Friday 20 reprove boy,
named Ludwick Van Horn, for misconduct
when the latter drew pistol and wounded
him painfully.
Samuel Goodman, Of Albany, gave his
sweetheart $50 dolman, and when she
would not marry him took It away. Size
replevined it and got it back, when Mr.
Goodman's mind gave way and they took
him TO an asylum.
Fifteen years ago the children of Will
liam GehIiS, of Hereford, BeFks county,
five IN number, died of Giphtheria. Of
SIX children since born five have recently
died Of the same discase-the last two be
ing inferred in one grave on Friday.
! AT Hamilton, o., at an early hour
Saturday morning, II. Weigle, :he proprie-
/ tor of a beer garden on Heaton street, shot
his wife through the bead, and then shot
himself Both died instantly. Financial
and family difficulties are said to have
/ been the cause.
~, married a girl of thirteen. They lived
together unhappiy a few months agreed
! that they bad welded too young. aud sep
, arated Afte" the lapse of ten years they
recently met in Texas, and began matri-
. mony over again.
The New York Sun opines that j,
would be an inteI esting sum for a Repub
/ Hcau expert at figures, after carefully eSti-
mating the value OF Hayes and deducting
. 70 f.sta t.a l..
CURED by the Republican party in the pur-
Z chase of his election.
"A farmer in Birmingham, Conn. bar
gained TO pay for his ife's coffin partly in
waluuts. While the funeral services wcIe
in progress, and his house was crowded
with neighbOrs, he lugged out the walnuts
in bag, which gave way and let them
down rattlingly on the floor.
Three young ladies iii Pike county,
Pa, returning from a dance early one
morning, had to row across Poter's lake.
wOuEded buck was discovered in the
water, when the girls killed him with the
oars and towed him ashore lie weighed
two hundred and forty four pounds.
The Legislature of Missouri has beer
petliioned by the Grand Jures of severa
counties 10 revive the whipping post in tha'
State. The Boone county Jury argues thai
more punishment is imposed on the hon
est taxpayer than is inflicted on the crimi
nal by small pecuniary fines or short term.
of imprisonment
Twelve of the heirs Of Steuben Girard
have commenced a suit against the city o
Philadelphia for the recovery of all his es-
tate, excepting Girard College amounting
to millions Of dollars. The heirs claim
that the will Of the testator has been disre
garded, hence by its terms the CITY mus
surrender ali that is claimed bv the con
testants.
"A Vest Chester lad named Speakmar
Is the owner Of young bantam CHECKER
which he has trained 10 work i'm harness
He has small wagon and a yoke int,
which the chicken puts is head, anC
draws the wagon by its breast. The LITTLE
} bantam Is said to get down TO its work in
the most earnest manner aud has drawn
: as many as six paving bricks
"A murderer in Delaware has been sen
, fenced to pay fine of 81 COO 20 stand on,
hour III the pillory, to receive sixty lashe
and to be imprisoned for life. II. q
Brown, convicted in the same State -
mansidugbter in having wilfuIly wrecked ;
train, whereby four lives were lost. ina,
been sentenced to pay a fine Of "a. GOO am,
to Imprisonment for FIVE years.
W hat, says the London Court JourD al