The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-09-26
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGs.

- EDWARD " Tre3VtS. OF LOuiSFlfle, n.y..
fell and broke his neck at Pittsburgh ON
Friday.
kitty Dee was married in Hartford
at in the afternoon, and a. \ was lock
ed up drunk.
"A shirt of strong chain mail is now
worn by the Car. It was made by an
armerer of Paris.
The Pittsburgh races have been
postpOued until the 4th Of October, con-
tiuuing until the 7th.
A Lancaster lady has a raspberry
bush in her ward which IS now bearing
its third crop of fruit.
Thirty thousand people met General
Grant on the water and two hundred
thousand in the streets of San Francisco
The Countess of Tankerville and
her eldest son, Lord Bennett, are among
the latest converts to the Church OF
Rome.
The Boston Post says that john
Kelly has performed the somewhat diff
cult feat of kicking himself Out Of his
own door.
"A rare golden wedding has just
been celebrated at WatertOwn, Conn,
the couple being Hiram Atwood and his
fourth wife.
A West Hempffeld township. Ian
caster county, farmer has p cucumber
15g inches long and IL! inches in cir
cumference.
Helen Burke. young woman liv-
ing near Media. was burned te death on
Friday morning by the explosion of a
coal-oil lamp.
From sunrise to sunset q gentleman
recently drove a horse from Centre Hall,
Centre county, to New Bloomfield. Perry
county. a distance of 60 miles.
4 =
siXty-eight years Of age residing at
white for number of years past.
"A San Francisco man was caught
altering the figures on his mothers s
tombstone, his object being TO make the
date suit his purpose III q lawsuit.
In a Paris circus. trained horse
draws a Sledge. while a second sits in it,
and two others 60 behind. their fOTefeet
resting on the back seat, as lackeys.
Louis Guetig was executed at Indi-
annapolis, Ind, on Friday. for the mUr-
der Of Mary McGlen, who had refused
to marry him. He was less than twenty
years OF age.
"A two-year-old child Of Adam
Hoover, of Mead township. Crawford
county, fell in the fire during the alb
sence of the mother on Thursday and
was burned 10 a crisp.
Jefferson Weaver, living near Litiz,
Lancaster county, who is thirty years
old and has wife and several children,
has eIopsd with the pretty ffteen-year-
( old daughter of a neighboT.
By the fall of a wooden bridge over
Connequenessing creek, near Butler. on
"Wednesday. EN-Sheriff McCandleSS and
his three sons, who were repairing it.
were seriously and probably fatally in
jured.
Near the northern line of Berks
/ county, Jacob Frey. with number of
woodmen. were hunting raccoons. y
limb which had been cut from lofty
tree fell and struck Frey on the head,
killing him almost Instantly.
John ~4uint, now serving a term in
the Berks county prison for engaging in
the riots Of II, mas become one of the
most expert carpet weaveTs in the insti-
tuition. lie is able 10 weave fifteen
yards Of carpet in ten hours.
The Rev. II. =. Smith. Of Slough
ton, Mass, is 30 years old, and his wife
is 10. The difIerauce in their ages is
not greater than the differance in their
temperauentS. and they have signed
and published an agreement 10 separate.
The Rev Mr.. Keith. a popular
preacher in London, rides 10 church Oh
his bicycle. followed by q crowd OF
friends mounted on similar vehicles.
The riders house their vehicles in the
Sunday school room and ride home after
sermon. Brother Keith is lively par
son.
A young woman OF Staten Island.
named Jessie Bailey. is trying to have
the marriage OF ,he King of Spain with
the Archduchess Christina put off on the
Ground shgr hL frrfr ig -,
But the poor young woman is crazy on
this subject. like 4 great many others of
. her sex.
Mrs. Daniel Martin IS going to
school in BellefOHte, Ala. to her grand
daughter This Blay seem tail story.
but it isn't. Mrs. Martin is only six
teen Years OF age. and recently married
tn very Old. hut very vivacious grand
father Of Miss Martin. the BeIIcfonte
public school teacher.
The mUniiicenCe of the Duke of
Norfolk as a Catholic is wonderful. 1t
is calculated that within the Iast ten
years he has applied over a million dol
p lars 20 his religion. He has jus under
taken 10 defray the cost of 4 new church
( at Sheffield, and is about 10 build al,oth-
. eT 3t the east end of London.
-Adyices from Tauev county. Mo.
say that on Tuesday Of last week two
brothers named Burr and James Manus.
4 living near kirtyVille. got into quarrel
about = COW. and James shot and killed
Burr. y younger brother then went
home and procured q rife and shot his
brother James through the heart.
-8ir. Isaac Mills. of Braddock. has
provided himself with steam wagon
with which he expects to skim over the
roads At the rate of twelve miles Der
hour. The wagon has al engine with a
wo-and-a-half-inch cylinder with six
inch stroke. and boiler two feet in
length and ten inches in diameter.
Elisha Grimes said in PRAYER
meeting at Little York. Ind. that he
was wholly prepared to die. George
Jones called him ont OF doors a few min
utes stterward, and killed him with a
knife 1t Is conjectured that Jones
thought Grimes, protesting readiness
might rs well die at once. for no other
motive has been discovered.
"A singular freakof nature is noticed
near Newfyle, Scotland, where NAV be
seen well-grOWn plane tree. the foliage
OF which, when viewed from one point,
shows plainly the profile of Lord Bea-
cOnSueid's 5 head. All who have seen
the tree declare the likeness to be very
good The tree has never been cut TO
any shape, but is in its natural growth.
Joe Pentz took rife TO his we'd
ding. at Mark 5 Gap. Texas. The sexton
tried TO persuade him 10 leave it. at the
door oI. entering the church. but he per
sisted in carrying it across his shoulder
3 he walked with the bride up he aisle
TO the altar rail. His explanation was
that q rival sUiIOr had threatened to kill
MN on this occasion, and he meant to