The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-08-30

and every part seems desirouS Of arranging
for live President. The prospects in
1880 are everywhere discussed, and Hayes
has been but year and n half in office.
He is like one of Rip Van Wrinkles drinks,
remarks the Chicago Times he doesn't
count.
"A Harrisburg dispatch says that she
day express east, on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, ran into wagon loaded with
sand, near Middletown, Monday afternoon.
No damage was done to the train, but the
driver of the wagon, David CritsOn, was
killed, as were also the two mules which
he was driving.
The Cheyenne Leader mentions the
arrival at that place of a man and wifeswho
made the journey all the way from Penn
sylyania on foot They were on theirsway
to Nevada to take up a homestead, / and
designed to continue their journey as they
had commenced it, not having the means
to travel by rail.
commissioner Raum, discovering that
Americans are going back on whisky and
taking to beer to the extent of 1,371, 600
gallons more during the past year than last,
has conceived the idea of preparing a bill
for Congress increasing the tax on beer
fifty cents barrel, making a total tax
of $3.50 per barrel.
The yellow fever continues its ravages.
In Memphis on Monday the number of
deaths was twenty-six the new cases
100. In New Orleans there were forty
four deaths and 125 new cases. The post
master of Grenada, Miss, gives a sad pic
ture of the gloom and stiffness which have
settled upon that town. He promises to
remain at his post.
Mrs. Margaret Graham, Of West Ches-
ter. aged 1O2 years, went 70 Oakland Gem
etery tho other day and spent several
hours IN cleaning up the tOmbstones mark
| ing the graves of her departed friends.
After securing and cleaning them thor
oughly the old lady picked up her implies
menis aud wended her way back to West
Chester a. lively gait.
The Albany EceainG Journal thinks
that wise and fitting thing for Hayes TO
do @ould be to appoint DR.. Mary Walker
American Consul at Cyprus, where all the
women wear trousers" When il comes to
Inducements of hat sort, says the Courier
I Journal wOuldn't she prefer 10 60 as Con-
sui to the UnUpshyrtidd Islands, where all
the women and men wear nothing at all 4?
The New York Sun has information
that another international shooting match
Is soon TO take place, and that ''it is pro
! posed that the English team shall consist
OF four gentlemen, with an extra man in
case Of accident or i'll hsalth, who will
shoot like number of American gentlemen
in New York, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Chi
cago, st. Louis. and possibly Detroit, Gin
cinnati and Baltimore"
John O'Neill, the Mollie Mcguire, who
was on trial at SunbUry last week for the
murder Of Coroner Frederick Hesser, at
the Hickory Swamp coIliery, near Shame
kin, in 1874, was found guilty of murder
III the first degree. Peter McManus, one
of his conductors, was convicted week
before Tor the same murder. The Jury
went out at O'Clock in the evening and
agreed upon their verdict at $50 o. clock.
An old fellow named Barney Moran,
who died recently in the WorkhOuso At
Balliea, in Ireland, revealed to the chap
lam before his death that he was the exc
cuiioner of Robert Emmett. He was a
young soldier at the time and performed
the revolving Office for q reward. None
but few officers know who he was. and
the secret was so well kept that it has COM
monty been supposed TO be past finding
out.
Jesse Wsite, Of Williamsburg, \. Y,
went to sleep on sleeping car on the r.
andC. K r, forty miles east Of Wheeling.
" hlle the train was moving at the rate Of
sixty miles an hour, he arose. while asIeep.
and walked off the real. end of the car
he train was stopped, and the conductor
went back and met the man walking along
the track, following after the train A
lew scratches were all the injuries he had
sustained.
Mr.. Wilson Mcdonald has completed
IN clay his statue Of General Custer. which
ls TO be erected at West Point. The gan
eral is represented in the uniform of n
colonel, his rank in the regular army.
The figure is Of heroic size, eight feet high.
lie Is placed in the attitude of fighting the
Indians off with his sword. The statue
VIII be cast in bronze and tho whole work
viii cost $4,000 Of this amount 81. OO0
have already been secured.
-Patrlck Donahoe, Of the Boston Pilot,
" q
ago, owing considerable money to his poorer
fellow countrymen, for whom he had i'm
pTuuontiy served as a savings bank The
Igtot passed into the hands Of ArchbishOp
Williams and John Boyle O'Reilly who
voluntarily assumed the burden of this
debt, and last week declared a dividend of
ten per cent, making in all S2O 600 which
they have divided among these noor 40
pie.
baltimore county, Md boasts of the
oldest man in the country. He is a color
ed man, William Scott by name. and
claims TO be 149 years old. He is n local
preacher Of the Methodist FpisooDal
church, and says he was present at the
hrst conference of that Church ever held
In this country, at Baltimore. He claims
10 have known the mother of Ceorce
Washington before the immortal GeorSo
was born. This beats Washington's BODY
servant all hollow
Robert LiddeIl, Mayor Of Pittsburgh
mas hled petition in bankruptcy. La
bllities, about S115, 600; assets. $50 600
The Mayor is a member of the firm of
Spencer, Mckay 81 Co, one of the largest
brewing firms in the city. His baukrupJcv
however, IS an individual matter, and does
not involve the firm. His embarrsssmen.
was caused by the failure, few wears ago
OF the Nation Trust Company, an indi
VldnaEhabllity bank of which he was n
large stockholder.
"A triple execution took place at Ben.
n1tettsvilie, Marlboro county, S. c., last
friday. Two brothers, named John Lock
lear and Neil Locklier, and Pompey Fas-
terllng, their negro confederate, were
hanged at P. NJ. for the murder of Frank
Brlce, an Irish pedleT, in February last
The Locklear5 were half breed iesperadoes
and formerly belonged to the notorions
band OF the North Carolina outlaw. Henry
Berry Lowry. The doomed men mado no
confession, and met their fate calmly
"A few months since Mrs. Meister died
under suspicious circumstances in. AUocbe