The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-07-25

At Elkland, Pa. Friday afternoon, /
four bows. about thirteen years old, filed p.
a piece of tubing. foot and half in !
length. with gunpowder and then light
ed it. The explosion which followed
put out the eyes, tore away one cheek
and part of the Jaw of Frank Whitaker,
son of the mail agent at Elkland, and
he died at nine O'Clock the same night.
Miss Bowden did not deem 1t pru-
dent to reject William Flater's offer OF
marriage on the spot, because they were
riding on lonely road near Omaha,
and he said that he would kill her if she
refused to go straghtway with him to
clergyman but as soon as they reached
the city she called out for help, and
man took her away from her impetuouS
lover, whereupOn Flater chased and
shot her, the bullet going through her
body, but not making mortal wound.
The JOhnstOwn Democrat of We'd
nesday says The delegates to the DEM
Ocratic State Convention were not fur
nished free passes, an order having been
published by the Pennsylvania Railroad
few days before that convention met
announcing that passes would not be is
sued this year to any of the conventions.
The delegates, however, that are at
tending the Republican State COnven-
tion to-day have been furnished passes.
Had the riot bill anything to do with
this matter?
The Catholics far Outnumber any
other denomination in Kansas. Catholic
colonization does it. In that State the
Baptists have siXty-nine churches and
I 18,0S3 members COngregationalists,
! fifty-nine churches and 1920 members
EpiscOpalians, twenty-five churches and
/ .3S9 members LutheranS, thirty-three
I obr an1 4 $50 mann NfafhpdiStS
one hundred and fifty-twO churches and
80, 767 members; PresbyterianS, fifteen
churches and l, ,469 members Catholics,
! one hundred and eleven churches and
63. 80 members. In all there are 559
churches and 135, 7l3 members in a State
I having a population of 70S, ,497.
james Wilson, With his wife and
child. the latter aged one year, reside at
( Weymouth, a short distance below Cam
den y. J. When the W WilsOns retired on
/ Saturday evening their child became
restless. 1t would suddenly cry out. roll
/ itself about the bed as though in agony
and when exhausted lay its little head
{ down upon its right shoulder. The
parents gave their child medicine, which
brought no relief. y neighbOT was call
ed in and the child was undresSed. y
horrible sight met the gaze of all present.
On the right breast of the child was
/ large green worm which had gnaWed the
flesh for a space of over two square inch
es. The worm was removed and imme-
, diately after the child found relief.
Mr.. Henry Miller, tenant on the farm
of Benjamin NJ. Barr, in Martic town
ship, is, says the Lancaster Ne,C Era,
the owner of a young white duck that
lays black eggs. She has laid at least a
/ dozen of these dark cOlOred eggs, some
! of which are quite black, and one of
which has been handed to us for inspec-
ton. There are scratches upon the
black surface, showing the white shell
beneath, and the theory is that the dark
pigment is deposited just before the egg
is laid. so that it is so soft when the egg
falls that the straw of the nest scratches
off the coloring matter in places. 1t is
certainly a curious natural phenomenon,
and particularly so as the dnck is a Dem
OcTat-a friend at our elbow suggest
ing that it would not have been so odd
had the owner of the duck been black
Republican.