The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-11
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hanged in .he United States in 1877.
"A Texas dog left in Missouri found bis
way back TO his masters house, distance
of 800 miles.
"a. NJ. Peterson, of Burlington, VI,
has a common house cat, fonr years old,
that weighs twenty-three pounds, Next.
John II. Mason. of Grassy Lick, Mont
gomery county, has jus; torn down barn
built in 1775 to replace it by one OF modern
pretensiOns.
The Office Of the Eastern E1pres. Com
pany at Dexter, Maine, was entered Monday
! night, and four thousand dollars stolen
! from the safe.
MIR. Witten, a member of the Virginia
House of Delegates from Tazewell county,
is the father of sixteen children, including
five pairs of twins.
Mr.. James &. Flood of Nevada, is a
generous man, He gave to various chari-
table institutions Christmas gifts amount
ing TO more than So GOO.
! What is called one legged railroad is
being made near Oil City, Pa. There is
o single iron rail on which saddle shaped
cars to run, guided by wooden rails
| lower down.
Crockett county Tenn Sentinel: W.
| F. Pos,on has hog eighteen months old
that measures six feet seven inches from
stem to stern and three feet Blk inches
around the neck
/ The debt Of Pennsylvania unprovided
{
{ is $I3, 352, 3S6. Pittsburgh alone can see
that and go a couple of millions better.
Philadelphia can quintuple it,
| "A cave, supposed TO be tramps' re-
sort, has been discovered at Waterbury,
! Conn. 1t is thirteen feet deep and is fitted
/ mp with q stove, chandelier, hunks and
! other household eonyehiences.
"A private letter received i'm Boston
| nounces the death of Rev. Mr.. Tracey, for
! forty years a missionary OF the American
( board IN India. He was born in Norwich,
/ Conn, and was 72 years Of age.
| Statistics for last month in various
! parts of the country show that a green
| Chris. mas cut down the usual mortality
about twenty per cent. Bat epigrams
/ should never fool with mathematics.
State Legislatures a re now IN session in
/ Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois,
! Indiana, Louisiana, Maine. Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Ne
] vada, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
! The Uniontown Express east on the
! Baltimore aud Ohio road struck a woman
named Jones on Monday evening, between
Moore's and Armsiropg's stations, killing
her instantly. She lived at Armstrong;
and eas thought to be intoxioa ed.
The Richmond Wing says Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Bo~yer, mother of Mr.. VIM. Bow
ger, has a young COW two years old last
August that gave milk regularly for five
one half gallon at each milking.
The last of the bodies buried in the
Barclay street ruins, New York, has been
| recovered. There are more bodies
there III the facts show that eight were
/ lost within the wallis, aud two persons were
crushed to death Oh the sidewalk.
The London Adrsrtiser Ie arms on re-
liable authority that official information has
beeu received in ST. Petersburg that the
Chinese have massacred is, 600 men, women
and children at the Kashgarian town of
haras, committing most fIigbtfal atroci-
ties.
-Kiron Carroll, a lawyer of Rome, n.
Y, aged fifty years, dropped dead on Sat
urday while on his way to the funeral of
bis brother, hon. Geo +. Carroll of Cam
den, n. Y, who dropped dead Wednesday.
Their father and brother Doth dropped
dead.
Victor Emanuel, King of Italy, die d
on last Wednesday afternoon, in the 5Sth
year of his age. The full name of the de-
ceased, with all the titles attached, was
about two yards long, though it was not
| that, but Military emption, whatever that
! is, that caused his death.
"A telegram from Rome says Cardinal |
Manning has submitted to the College of
Cardinals a proposal that on the death os
Plus TX. the conclave assemble at Malta
The Sacred College is divided in opinion
on the matter. The Italian Cardinals are
indisposed to accept the proposal.
Probably the tallest man in the United
State is Henry Thurston, a native OF Mis-.
souri, now residing in Titus county, Texas,
formerly confederate soldier, who stands
feet inches in his bare feet. Barnum
offered him large sum to join his exhibi-
ton, but he very modestly. declined.
Even dried scorns have their uses
Sparks from defective f1ue set fire to some
eloihing in an upper room of a house in
N4r IL.
the floor were made by the heat to pop so
loudly that the family heard the noise, and
running up stairs extinguished the fire.
-Rev. Father Mauzer, pastor of St
Mary's Roman Catholic church, Newark.
called on firm of carriage e-makers in that
CRY, on Friday, and banded them $780,
which one of his parishioners had admitted
in the confessional to have stolen from
them while in their employ several years
ago.
"A lawyer and his wife i'm LAFAYETTE.
KY, got drunk on New Years day. They
smashed the windows of their dining room
and the glass of the pictures, tore down the
curtains, killed two birds, broke dog s
leg, whipped servant girl, Their case is
to be considered by the church of which
they are members.
"A singular accident occurred on Sat
chen Creek, Kan, recently. A party of
,. hunters were loading up team preparato-
ry to starting for Wichita, when one OF
the men threw ak into the wagon
which discharged a shot gun loaded With
buckshot. The charge entered his head.
and be vas killed instantly.
! MIR. George Llewellyn, of Chester
Springs, Chester county, few days since
caught live weasel at that place which,
was entirely white, with the exception Of
the TIP OF it's tail, which was black
About year ago the same gentleman
caught similar one there which he dis.
posed OF for the snug little sum OF fifteen
dollars.
The day of reckoning for sxindling life
insurance officials has come Two Presi
dents-Case and Lambert-of New York
companies have just been sent to States