The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-09-12

was begun at Lock Haven on Monday. /
He was tried and convicted in Clearfeld, I
but obtained change of venue.
A woman who lest her husband and
child bv yellow fever in Memphis, last /
year. crossed the river to Arkansas IN a
skiff when the outbreak of the disease
occurred this year. Everywhere she
applied for food she was chased off by
armed men. Her troubles have made
her insane.
An application has been made to
the Board of PardOns for the pardon of
John O'Neill and Peter McManus, un-
der sentence of death in NOrthumber
land county for numbering Coroner
HesSer The papers were received at
the Executive Mansion, Harrisburg, on
Friday morning.
William SpatZ, while bla asting out
stumps in Lower Heidelberg township,
/ BerkS county, was burned to death. \
/ kep of powder exploded near him and
all his clothing was set on fire ard he
/ was knocked senSelesS. y companion
H reached him in time to prevent his body
( from being roasted.
The Methodist church az Centre
vile. Md, was lighted and decorated
/ for the wedding of Mrs. Taylor and Mr..
! Merchant. the minister was ready. and
an expectant thTOng filled the ediflce,
when the information came that the
/ couple had decided not to get married.
/ No explanation was given.
Edward Howe. a Bridgeport Conn.,
/ negro, has gone crazy over pedestrianism.
! He imaeines that he is Weston, and in
perfect keeping with the assumed char
acter, talks constantly and wildly. He
I walks round a block four hours at
stretch at gait which he believes to
! equal seven miles in five minutes.
General Hoods orphan children are
likely to be cared for. The fund raised
. in Georgia, it is said, viii reach $40, 600.
( Movements are on foot both North and
South to pattern after this generous
. alacrity. The bereavement of these
children is an unusually sad one and ap-
( peals to the hearts of every father and
7 moth er in the land.
A merchant sitting in his Office in
this city, says the New York SIul, re-
. Gently received an answer to a despatch
sent to Shanghai, China, six hours pre-
viously. Shanghai is $1,000 miles dis
tant from New Y Ork by telegraph. and
the message mot making allowance for
delivery at the two cities) travelled at
the rate of 100 miles a minute.
The Province of Chi KianC, in
China, is almost as large as the State of
Pennsylvania. 1t has a productive soil,
and has population OF over twenty-siX
million people. The terrible droughts
of the past summer have paTched the
soil dried mp the iTTigating canals and
threaten to destroy the grain crops. \
famine is anticipated unless there is Il
favorable change.
"A very curious freak of nature has
been sent to the Washington Pa Re
porter Office. 1t is the beautiful pink
rose from the terminal bud of 4 small
branch, which, growing up through its
centre. makes a strong shoot, six inches
long and topped with many green leaves.
\ branch six inches long growing thrO'
the centre of a full blown rose is some
thing of a curiosity.
In all the New York Catholic
churches circular was read on Sunday
from Cardinal hcClOsl1ey. asking a
collection to he taken up in all the
churches the third Sunday in September,
for the purpose Of aiding Archbishop
Purcell. of Cincinnati, in paying off his
= debts. They are also asked that in the
intervening two weeks the pastors
would open subscription lists in their
private houses for the same object.
Benjamin Atkinson : wife having
eloped from Paterson. y. J.. with a
handsome young bOaTdeT, taking most
of the portable articles about the house
and leaving her three children. her
young. unmarried sister, volunteered to
take charge of the house for Atkinson.
He was very grateful until she, too, dis
appeared, carrying with her the rest of
the movable things about the house,
= which. it Is supposed she has taken to
= the absent wife.
A sailing yacht capSiZed on FRIDAY
and sank Immediately in Henderson
bay. near Sacketts IIarbor, y. Y.
There were nine persons on board. seven
, of whom attempted to swim ashore. 4
, distance of halG a mile. and were drown
ed. Two Clung to The spar above wa
ter and were rescued. Five of the lost
leave families. The wind was very
strong and the boat had heavy ballast
that caused her to sink.
, The Tampa EIa.) GJnTdiuJ SAYS
, that IIillsborough county has the Iarg-
est orange tree in South Florida. II
measures five feet and one inch in cir
cumfcrence, forks three feet clever
|, inches from the ground, each fork
branches into four large limbs, and it is
> thirty-fiye feet high and forty feet from
, limb to limb. This tree bears ter
thousand oranges. William II. Holden
r of Orange county. also has a very large
5 orange tree that measures four feet nine
inches in circumference.
A Cincinnati Enquirer special SAYS
a a party of two girls and two young men
while crossing the White River at Nor
} gan'S Ferry, twenty miles south of Vim
cenneS, Ind. on Thursday night, were
: thrown into the river by the horses at
, tached to the wagon in which they were
seated becoming frightened and backing
off the boat. Alice CottTell, aged Il
p Ellen Delenger, Is, and john Summit
p, were drowned, together with the
! horses. The other young man succeed
. ed in regainiHg the boat.
= David Collins, James Green, vii
liam Spencer and W. y. Smith, farmers
? belonging near Carthage, Mo, have
, been arrested on warrants charging
r them with murder in the first degree
The alleged offence was the killing OF
: John Bass Jones. a somewhat noted Con
federate leader. Jones, it is charged
had been threatening to drive UniOI
= men out of the country at the close o
the war and one night, fourteen year
} ago. party of men called him out o
: his house and killed him. The men ar,
: out on bail.
{ In the Cincinnati Geological GaTdeI
''PinafoTe' is played on a real shil
: floating on Il real lake. The character
b are rowed TO the vessel in small boats a
= the proper moment, and the effect is re
: markably realistic. Pretty Estell
: Mortimer, the Buttercup, was a trif
= tardy in getting aboard on Saturda,
evening In her hurry she tripped on
I rope and fell into the water, 4 distanc,
n of fifteen feet Sir Joseph Porter crev
l. s.f1lauf1v rescued her hut she driTTpC