The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-10-11
Ne1cs anu Otaer Notfags.

Tho Catholics of Baltimore raised last
Sunday by collection 81, 621 for the yellow
fever sufferers.
i'm quarrel between some colored
boys in Washington, ID. c., on Saturday,
James Walker was shot dead by Henry
Watson.
John Clayton, of Greene county, was
thrown over precipice a distance of near
ly 100 feet, the other day, and escaped un-
injured.
Mrs. John Warner, aged fifty-six, of
Salem township, Luzerne county, is the
mother of nineteen children, thirteen of
whom are living.
Gold in small quantities has been dis
covered on the farm of John Griffith, about
two miles east of Point Pleasant, Nor.b-
ampion county.
On a Berks county farm there is
chestnut tree that measures twenty-sw
feet and five and half inches in circum-
ference around the stump.
Memphis is now the NiObe of South
ern cities its population of 40. 600 only
two months ago bias been reduced to 800
whites and 5000 Africans.
MIR. Henry Brocl0erhoff, a well known
citizen of Bellefonte, died on Sunday last,
aged 81. He was native of Alsace, and
was worth about 81, 600, 600.
An island floating down the st. Law
renee river passed Ogdensburg, the other
day. 1t was of swamp-grass and willows,
and looked like a runaway marsh.
"A man in Bradford, England, has
been held in bonds tn keep the peace for
sending ont bellman TO cry the proca-
nation that his wife, Amelia, was for sale.
The latest novelty in the collar box
line is an inkstand aud pen holder in the
lid. It is dangerous, however, to forget to
cork the ink bottle tightly before closing
the box.
j c. Moore, the Bridgeport. Conn,
pedestrian, on Friday night completed his
walk against time. He made 100 miles in
nineteen hours aud forty minutes, actual
walking time.
Harvey Ormsby, who lived the life of
hermit in the vicinity of Willamsport,
died last week, at the age of seventy years.
His property, valued at SIS, 900, he left to
a Mr.. OverGorf
Abe Rauch, well known in Weatherly,
Pa, as an habilual driuker, entered the
Gilbert House aud stole bottle of rum
While swallowing it hastily, behind the
bar-keeper's back, he fell dead.
The City of Glasgow Bank suspended
on Wednesday OF last week. Its liabilities
are stated at $50, 0O0, 600. The bank was
established in 1889 and this is the heaviest
failure in Scotland since 1857.
Jeremiah Donovan, a convict, commit
tea suicide in the penitentiary at jackson,
Mich, on Thursday, by throwing himself
upon fast revolving fly wheel. He was
under five years sentence for burglary
"A six-year-old daughter of William
Rogers, OF Warwick township, Ontario,
bitten by cat which had previously re.
ceived q bite from a mad dog, died on Fri
day with ali the symptoms Of hydrophobia.
"A cOlored man named Stone, at Wash
inGton, on Saturday, killed bis wife with a
razor, aud made IA savage attack upon his
sister-in-law with the same weapon. She
lies in dangerous condition. Stone was
arrested.
The six days walk i'm New York fol
the long distance championship between
OLeary and Hughes terminated on Sat.
urday evening last in an easy victory fnl
O'Leary, be having walked 4O3 miles anC
Hughes 80.
"A Franklin Tenn special to tht
Nashville american says that John Thorn
as, colored, was caught and lynched oi
Sunday for the rape of five year-olC
daughter of James @. Sharman. lie con
fessed his guilt.
B. 5. Snider, who recently arrived ir
Washington city from Cincinnati, and wht
claims to be at the head of 200. 600 ccmmu
nists IN this country, has been sent to the
Government Asylum for the Insane unit
his friends or relatives can be found
The West Chester Je1eysonian say.
! that Mr.. James Dicks, farmer of Wes
/ Goshen, has a SOW that gave birth day
or two ago to a litter of eighteen pigs
/ This is the largest litter of pigs it is said
ever known in that section of country.
"A wife and five children depended or
John Ziber, of Birdsboro, for a livelihood
In fit of dependency he severed two ar
teries of EiS arm. A physician bUunt
them up and he was recovering, when b.
tore the bandage off and bled to death.
} "A Virginia woman offers to sell he
husband by auction, and apply the pro
ceeds to the liquidation of the State debt
q can recommend him to pun chasers," sh
adds, ''as man possessing all the qualitie
woman capable of controlling him coul
desire"
The TnIkish Government has receive
intelligence that Saad Detden Pacba. q
announcing that he had received orders :
surrender Podg0ritza to the Monteuegrins
was killed by the Albanians, aud 156 off
GERS and men under his command wei
massacred.
AT Pittsburg, Richard Edwards an
wife celebrated their golden wedding
Mrs. Chislett, their daughter, and her hn,
band celebrated their silver wedding, an
George B. Edwards, their son. and h
wife celebrated their crystal wedding, a
, on the same evening.
The congregation of Trinity church.
Brlsiol, Conn, were greatly surprised @
Sunday week when, at the close of the Sc
vice, the pastor, Rev. J. II. Gilland. a,
5 nouuced his resignation of the pastorat
with an explain nation of his Intention To ioi
the Roman Catholic Church.
in the ST. Louis Female Hosuital Fl
day night, Miss Emily Moelier, a mrs
q administered a solution of corrosive subj
: mate to Alice Wood, a patient, throne
s mistake, causing her death, whereupc
! MISS Moeller took carbolic acid, and TIN
ended by death her agony of regret.
Among the curiosities of the Pacific
= an oil well at sea, in thirty fathoms of W
( ter, on the California coast, off Santa Ra
: bara, which sends forth "a CONSTANT strea
q OF oil running TO waste. Reflectinp II
e Dght OF the sun In all the colors of n
ainoow, 1t produces a singular aud beaul
= full effect.
G E-John Carpenter, while intoxjcate
Z sunday morning, entered ST. Francis Xa
lers church, New York, and without wor,
+ ing plunged huge knife into the abdom,
5 OF Mary Logan, whom he took for his w
o from whom he has been separated. Ca
( penter was locked m to au,a;t H. -