The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-01-03
Ne,cs aud Other Not,nos.

after a few months.
Ten thousand dollars in bills was
found sewed in the dress of woman who
died in Norton, Mass.
"A fire which broke ont in Hong Kong
on Christmas ragged all day Thursday
The loss is very great.
During the recent food Cochran Bros
lost some 200, 900 feet of logs from Young
woman's creek, Cameron county.
"A resident of St Albans has a son, a
grandson and great grandson, aud one OF
his grandsons is older than one of his SONS
Two young men named Thatcher,
brothers, were burned t. death in a stable
at East Orange, n. j., on Saturday morn
ing.
While combing his hair at Trnfant,
Mich, young man pricked hole in his
scalp with tooth Of the comb, and nearly
bled 20 death.
Pope Leo XIII is engaged in drawing
up scheme of cooperation oct ween all
the European powers, with view to the
preston OF Socialistic and international
tendencies.
There was ian old peoples party in
West Chester, last week, at which Ann
Scarlet, aged one hundred years, aud
Aunty Graham, aged one hundred and two
years, were present.
The Catholics and Prutestants of Gin
cinnati sincerely deplore the resolution Of
Archbishop Purcell to retire from his cler-
ical ciiice, and are employing the local pa
pers to express their regret.
While the Test of the world is sympa-
hziER, San Franciscoans are probably
contem plating with satisfaction the posi-
bility that numerous heather Chinee were
cooked in the great fire at Hong Kong.
a little girl named Fiudlay, while
playing ''snap the whip" in Dauville.
Montour county, few days ago, was
thrown against building with such force
as 20 canse her death in few hours after.
Ono of the curiosities of Christmas in
Boston was a sermon, preached in Bap-
tist church, before a Reformed Episcopal
society, by clergyman who was Me:ho.
dist last year, but is Cougregationalist
now.
A package in basket was left on the
doorstep of n cautious Newport woman,
who. having no desire 10 adopt foundlng,
took she basket to the police station and
there found that it contained a twenty
pound turkey.
The Philadelphia Record says "Mr
Blaine, in his remarks at the New England
dinner in New York, on Monday night,
said he was not ashamed that he was born
in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is yet to
be beard from"
An old man is still cu:ting wood in the
swamps near New Orleans Ia virtue of a
permit granted by General Butler, and
even sells the right of cutting wood to 9th.
ers, under this order, which, he claims, has
never been revoked.
"A lion in a menagerie at Lowell,
Mass, broke loose from his cage last
Wednesday. He did not devour the audi
ence, because there was no audience to de
vOur, but he bOted a whole bear and
frightened a timorous baboon to death.
Tho 81. Paul Dispatch tells Of young
man who bought for $40 from a rival a
quit claim TO n girls aff, ctiOns, paid So on
account and got credit for the remainder /;
pawned bis overcoat for 50 to buy her a
present with stole the coat aud was sent
to jail.
In Scotland there are 81 Baptist
churches and S. 163 members. At a recent
meeting in Skye, one Of the speakers said
that the Presbyterian churches we're full Of
nominal members, aud that there was not
one good Christian in Skye outside the
BaptiSIs.
With bis little, but keen razor, !. p.
Thomas, proprietor Of tho Lindell House
barbershops. had accumulated $50, 000 but
he made a much more successful shave
when he married giil with half million
more. Now they call him the richest col
ored man in St. Louis.
Rev Joseph b. O'Hagan, IF the So
ciety Of Jesus, President of the College Of
the Holy Cross at Worcester, Mass, who
was passenger by tho steamer Granada,
died at of apoplexy On December 18th.
lie was buried in Ire Catholic cemetery at
AcGpulco on the following day.
In the Criminal Court at Chicago, on
Friday, the closing speeches were made
aud the jury charged in the murder trial
Of Jack Peters aud Mrs. /. T. Clark fJr
the murder OF the iatter's husband at La
grange, aud after five hours deliberatiOn
the jury returned verdict Of not guilty rs
Z to both.
-Advices from Port-au Prince state
that 'it is reported hat in PuGt de Pax
the river changed its bed and crossed The
town, Overhowing the principal part Of it
aud destroying many houses and lives. 81.
Luis del NUrd, situated about three miles
distant, is said to be entirely destroyed By
the food"
A dispatch from Patterson, \. J.,
states that small bundle OF bed ticking,
/ that had been kicked about the streets for
several days, was on Friday last found to
contain the body of well-developed in
l fan., frozen stiff. y post Haortsnl discover
+ ed it had been born alive, and an inquest
is tn be held.
James Garland, Judge of the Corpora
I tion Court OF Lynch burg, Va, is doubtless
the oldest American judge in active service.
/ He was eighty-six years old las June, and
. DARING the preSut month held court Tor
fourteen days, Invariably walking from and
TO his residence, a distance of three guar
ters of mile.
AT the inquest on the body of JohI
Henry Schultz, who was murdered a
South NorwallS, Conn, on Thursday night
it trauspired tEat Schultz had in his pos
session nt the time S17, 500 in money. His
servant, William Breckhole, who was viii
him when he was murdered, denied al
knowledge of the money.
There was strange sight in New
York tenement house on Tuesday after
nOou-a mother standing guard over he
dead baby, while the father struggled will
a well-dressed stranger who. as both tht
parents firmly believe, had slipped int
the room TO steal the little body. Th,
we'll dressed stranger is now under loci
and key.
In Staub's coal mines, near honOnga
hela city, which have been ming slowl,
for several years, the flames increased I,
such au extent a few days ago that tn,
miners were compelled to abandon thei
work. AS the burning mines are located