The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-01-24
Ne,rs nnd OtAer Not.mos.

student at a college at Chapel HUI, \. L
i'm 1850 ihe Catholic population of this
country was 3. 600, GOO; now it is 6, 4OS, GOO.
Wyatt AIcKeever Mckensey, convicted
of murder in North Carolina, escaped jail,
name and all.
The organ Of the Congregational
church at Clinton, Ia, is run by water
power from the city mains.
Tampa, Fla. had watermelons and to-
maiOes in the market, and jacksonville had
ice an inch thick on the beach last @eek.s
in village with population OF not
over 200. in Crawford county, seventeen
children died in ore week with dIphtheria.
One day last week the three children
Of a resident of Providence, r. T., were Ie-
spectiyeiy eighteen years, eighteen months
and eighteen days old.
"A new song and dance team soon to
make their appearance in Saudusky, Ohio,
are Day and Knight. The former is feet
s inches high, and the latter Is feet 3.
Tile last survivor Of the men who
were with Major Anderson at Fort Sumter
has begun to die. One of him was drowned
Tuesday and others viii not long survive.
The Baltimore american ,Rep) says
that there are ''more election frauds in
Pittsburg, and more political jobbery to
the square foot, than IN any other city in
the country.
The ladies connected with College
church, Lancaster, are arranging for
game of chess which will be played with
ladies and gentlemen to represent the diff
ferent pieces in the game.
Major Andres watch, the one he wore
when he was arrested as a spy, is said to
Re in the possession Of an Oshkosh lady
1t is a curious oval shaped watch, inscub
ed inside, John Andre, MA"
Among the deaths recorded IN New
York last year, fifteen were of persons
whose ages at the time Of theiT death were
given as over 100 years. All except three
of these were natives Of ireland.
Robert Anderson, on tiial at Louis
vile, Ky, for lie murder Of his wife, has
been fouud guilty and sentenced to be
hung. He was convicted on the testImOu y
| Of his little son. who saw the killing.
Hiram y. Reese, who recently Cied in
. Franklin county in his uincty-seconc year,
had twenty five sons and had been married
three times. He was a soldier in the Rev
olutionary war and had nine sous in the
Union army.
/ Detroit is some what excited by an ep-
i9emic of infauticide. During twenty
four hours the bodies of six newly born in
fauts were found in different parts of the
city five of chem in ash barrels and barns,
and one in snow bank.
-Ex-Sherif Matthew T. Brennan died
Monday forenoon in New York. lie was
emiuently a self-nade man, and thong "a
his life was a busy one, he leaves behind
him a name un1aruished amid the most
/ exciting events Of political life.
Mrs. Geo. I. " WeuJwOrth, Of Dover, \.
H., is of The opinion that liquor dealers
ought to be hanged 'aud a ], 600 pOund
weight attached 10 their feet So The cords
Of their uecks would be tit to sew with,
they would be pulled out 50 fine.
New England thrift Two murderers
have just been indicted At Pittsfieid, Mass,
I'll.
10 cents worth OF cider. while the other
kicked his victim TO death for refusing TO
be satisfied with % cents for sharpening a
razor.
Henry Feltus. editor Of the Blooming
ton, Iud.) Courier, has been indicted for
murder in the second degree, and has been
held in So 600 bail for trial on the 2Sth iu-
stant. lie killed County Attorney Rogers,
on New Years evening, both being drunk
at the time.
/ Mrs. Kate Cobb Of Norwich. Conn,
found guilty Of poisoning her husband, was
sentenced on Friday to Imprisonment for
/ life. Her counsel moved for a new trial,
aud ten days were allowed to perfect the
/ motion. The trial of Bishop has been fix
ed for the March term.
/ Nicholas Jacoby, who was shot on the
street in PIttsburg while accompanying
! his wife home early on Thursday morning,
died Sunday. He made a dying declara-
/ tiOn, in which he stated that Frank Small,
/ a former lover of his wife's, waS the muI-
derer. Small is under arrest.
Al the Guupowder water works, n few
miles from Baltimore, nine dynamite car
/ tridges exploded Monday morning, KILN z
J an engineer named HolstOn aud badl V
manning two other men. 4 boiler iu a shed
weighing four tons, bursted by the coucus-
! sion aud was blown fifty feet away.
/ Little Willie Anderson limped into
! the witness box in the LOUSY ille Court, on
/ Thursday, and swoTe thai he saw his faith
( er, Robert Anderson, kill his mother. -
/ Willie is II years old, small, lame, pale =
/ faced child, of such intelligence that his
! testimony was admitted without hesitation.
Referring to the preponderauce of
/ Icishmeu among British Colonial Cover
nors the London Times remarks "When
/ Irishmen can be found who to SOUND sense,
/ large information, and liberal views, add
/ rich bumOr and unfailng good temper.
/ there are none better fitted 10 lead a nation
/ with a silken rein
. One of the most notable churches in
/ the United States is that Of ST. Michael at
Narblehead, Mass, which was built in
/ 1906 of material wholly brought from Eng
! land. 1t has a TeredOs, an ancient chan
deller, and a pulpit of a quaint pattern
/ The second rector married the Widow
Cuslis to Gen. Washington.
The BhIade lphla norm american
, lRep.) compares General Butler to the
'howitzer mule Mark Twain wrote about
and says that he lis charged to the muzzle
with cipher dispatches, and no one dares
to touch him off. for it is impossible to
tell in which direction the load will GO"
Very neat but read John PhUnix for
. Mark Twain.
The largest story tortured into exist
ence Of late is that Of a twenty pound me
teoric stone in Fountain county, Illinois,
which crushed through the roof of a dwell
ing and through the body of a man sleep
ing within. The tale sounds very like a
yarn such as would be told by a we'll known
scribbler, but State Geologist Cox has dis
patched an assistant to secure the fatal
aerOlite.
"A remarkable case of hyd-Ophobia has
appeared in the person of Ella Kidney,
daughter of Charles Kidney a shoemaker,
Of keutOn, Ohio. Her case is a very seri
ous one, being violent in the extreme, hei
/ rarpnts having 10 keen her lied to preyfni