The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-12-27

/ Father M'Car.y of Monson, Mass, has
/ patented a cabdlestick to be used in fuuer-
al services.
! -Isaac Holtzman, of Lebanon county, is
six feet seven and half inches in height,
aud is large in proportion.
Three children of a man in Berks
county were buried at one time recently.
They had died of diphtherIa.
A thirceeu-year-old girl IN Lancaster
keeps house for her father, and does the
baking, washing, etc, to perfection.
"A man was found at East st. LOuis,
Mo, a few days ago, frozen into a solid
cake of ice, having fallen into a small pond
and been drowned.
! Because sic thought he used too
much tobacco a woman of Melrose. Mass,
locked her husband up in a hen house and
horsewhipped him.
! The proceeds of a breach of promise
suit are to be appropriated for repairs on
church at Bowling Green, Ky. The girl
sues for no other purpose.
The Indiana Supreme Court has deci-
ded, in the suit Of church against MEM
ber that subscriptions made on Sunday
cannot be collected by law.
A wedding recently took place near
Camargo, Lancaster county, at which the
great grand Of the bride was pre-
sent and took part in the dance.
I George Albertston, switch-tender at
the Pennsylvania Railroad round house at
! Harrisburg, was instantly killed on Satur-
day bv locomotive passing over his body.
The horse which Wilkes Booth rode
fiom Washington after his murder of Pres
ident Lincoln is said to be owned in PonI>
fiet, Conn. The animal is eighteen years
old.
The body of Jack Kehoe, who was
hanged at PJttsviile on Wednesday, was
taken to Tsmaqua for burial Friday after
noon from Girardville. The funeral was
largely attended.
"A cat at Morrisville, Mass. is endea-
voring to corner the mouse killing market
and establish a monopoly by stealing aud
taking home all the traps she can find
She already has five.
During the recent food at Westfield
Mass, a house was carried quarter of a
mile by the current, but not a dish was
spilled from the shelves or broken although
a owe was smashed.
The large barn Of DIR. John Stephens,
in Tulpehoken township, Berks county,
was destroyed by fire last week. Eight
horses aud twenty seven& head of cattle
were burned 70 death. Loss, 50, 900.
Dan. Drawbaugh, OF Cumberland
county, Pa, is the inventor of 4 perpetual
clock, which, by utilizing magnetism as a
dynamic force, mas been licking away
without winding for four or five years.
/ Peter Weber, of Union county, died
the other day at the age of 6S, and bi:
wife, who was year younger, and had ex
pressed the wish years ago To uutlive hel
, husband only one day, died just twenty
five hours after.
= Louis +. Therassan. a lawyer Of New
York city, convicted of obtaining from hi
client, Mrs. Zabriskie, her signature to
, satisfaction piece of mortgage under falls,
| pretences, has been sentenced to the State
prison for two yeaIS.
, "A Boston man named Burnside vii
: shortly attempt the fea. Of crossing tht
Atlantic, doubling the Cape of Good Hope
and then crossing the Indian Ocean t.
Australia. in a sloop-rigged craft 19 feet II
$ length and % fe.t deep.
D The wife pf J. L. Eakman, farme
, residing near Leechburg, hung herself tn
q other day with hank Of yarn. The IN
; fortunate woman had become insane b.
Il reason Of distress of mind over debt con
tracted by going on a bail bond.
Two men in Canisieo, Dodge county
& Mimi, have Just discovered that for fou
: years past they have been occupying eac
y others land. The matter has been right
= ed by a mutual transfer Of titles, each re
p tanning the land he has occupied.
5, "A woman at Lawrence, Mass, has iuS
;, given birth to her twenty second CHILD
E. while her NO married daughters have COZ
l. tributed a baby year to the populatio
: of the Sta during the seven and thre
y years of their respective welded lives.
e The widow Of Lieutenant Benner, tn
,o commander of the yellow fever relief boa
d. who is visiting in Evansville, Ind took a
= overdose of laudanum Friday eveuinl
il mistakng 1t for cough medicine. She
$. believed to be in dangerous condition.
u --"lm m IEtabaga, aud here's where
W plant myself" said tramp he entere
re farmhouse near Freeport, Ill and seate
a himself at the table "We alters b
- ours" said the farmers wife, and sousF
td him with dish-panfu'l oi.bDilin0 water.
y MIR. a. G. Pearce, a culpred man, is
candidate for the CleI kship in Washingtu
as county, Mississippi, vacancy having bee
u caused by the death of Albert Shadd, al,
nj a negro. He announces himself as hear
ed lily IN accord with the Democratic party
n n the State and county"
ne AT noon ON the dav that Wade Ham
1d toms life was declared to be in danger fro
Is Is the effects of the amputation of his leg, IL
business of the South Carolina conferenc
then in session at Newhury, was suspen
- ed and all the delegates knelt in prayer {
- the recovery Of the Governor.
"A startling story OF outrage is receiv,
~ from BOSTON. A New York lady stoppir
at a hotel in that city is said to have be
robbed, two weeks ago, by man who G
,si tered her room, broke open her trunk,
les fiicted severe personal injuries upon ht
''s and has thus far escaped arrest
Ier -lu an affray at Lebanon, on Saturda
sy John Ivenson vas killed by a Germ
ng tramp named Nimrod Spattenhower
,n ir' lvenson was stabbed four times with
St large knife. receiving the death wou
to from thrust in the left thigh, which st
no 70 cred an artery. The murderer was ARE
Ike ed.
no "A: New Castle, De-, on Saturd,
si- George Draper, colored, convicted of M
,es der in the second degree, for killing Jo
sed Wilson, was placed in the pillory in
tsn binding snow storm, and afterward
ceived sixty lashes in accordance with
sentence. He will now be imprisoned
, life.
IL There wasa wedding in Newton, Cor
on the other day, after, as the local chronic
q says, vigorous courtship of fifteen yea
cd So delighted was everybody that the st
and stripes were hoisted on the hotel 2
Tic many private residences, and salute
"a many guns was fIed a. the hour of
- ceremony.