The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-04-25
MEMS AND OTHER NoTINGs.

"A woman in Mt. Sterling, KY, Is
! years of age, has been married SIX years
and has three children.
/ Prank Small. for the murder of
Nicholas Jacoby, was sentenced at
. Pittsburg on Saturday to be hanged.
About l .100cOmmunists paraded the
streets of Chicago on Sunday last
: About 400 were armed. No disturbance
occurred.
1t is the opinion of Charles NoTd-
hoff. of the New York Herald, that
! General Grant will not run for President
again. Sad, amt it
/ An ElrinbOT0, Salem county, n. j.,
q man and wife hunt muskrats together.
. He paddles and she shoots. They some
times bag twenty a night.
A canoe containing eight men be-
/ longing to Ettchemen, Ont, while re-
turning from Quebec Friday aftern oon
: was upset and six Of the men were
{ drowned.
Martha Sladder, OF Groyeville, Y.
Y was found burned to death in her
( bed Sunday morning, with bottle of
! whisky and pipe beside her. She was
/ unmarried.
-Emnret Hampton, of West Chester,
owns a hen which has performed the
astounding feat of laying triplets. She
was IocketB up in a cellar and in one day
laid three eggs.
a tramp crept up behind George
/ Bennett. yaFd-master at Tiffin, Ohio, on
/ Friday. and crushed his skull with a
/ broken car-IHk. Bennett is dying, and
/ the tramp has escaped.
/ Among the Kansas emigrantS who
passed " est a few days ago was Simon
Rosenbm'g. an old man from Horse Val
4 lev, Fran kiln county, this State, who had
! never before been on railroad car,
/ Miss Ida Jones, daughter of Mayor
. Jones. of Toledo. Ohio, who elOped with
one sheridan Waite Oh Monday of last
week. has been declared insane at an in
auest of In macy held by Judge Sherwood.
/ The bo iler in. Hawley u Co. S steam
saw-mill, : helby. Oceana county. Mich
. igan. exploded on. Thursday, killing the
! engineer an seriously injuring two 9th
: er persons. The mill was entirely de-
i Stroyed.
Six mer and boy were imprisoned
by the caying III of q mine at Sugar
Notch. LuZs rne county, on Wednesday
last and at latest reports two hundred
men were working from the surface to
rescue them.
Five inches of snow fell at Port Jer-
Wis. y. y. r foot at Monticello, and six
to ten inches along the jefferson bTancE
of the Erie railway, Friday. At Scran-
ton. snow, hail and wind Frustrated two
miles Of telegraph wire.
Two Kentucky lovers have centred
their affections. upon a damsel who
would be happy yith either were t'other
dear chaTmeT away. \ walking match
has been proposed. and the successful
competitor viii get the girl
Seventeen i've prairie grouse from
the United ~tafe5 recently arrived in
New Zealand. where it IS proposed to
endeavor to establish the bird. They
were. shared near Topeka. Kansas
Twenty-Five were sent, hut five died on
the voyage.
The large livery stable of Z. f. Bar
key, at TicondeToga, New \ Ork, were
totally destroyed 10y fire at two O'Clock
Sunday morning. Twelve horses and a
number of carriages, sIeighs. etc, were
burned. The loss is about SIC, 600. In
sUrance, 81, 500.
Anna Lewis chased 4 neighbOr il
Cincinnati. firing at him as she ran un
til she had emptied the seven chambers
of revolver. when she loaded the wea
pon and fred seven times moTe-al
without hitting him, although his cloth
ing was perforated.
Jackson BOggs, President Judge q
the Third Judicial district, died sudden
" Of apcplexy at Kittanning. ArmstIOnG
= e
fering for some months with gangrsnt
of the feet. and his death from apOplexy
was a great surprise to his physicians.
Henry II. =. Tudor and Louis II.
Ayme. en- route for Patagonia, arrived
: at TuScumbia. Ala. on Friday, anC
took rest tin Monday morning, wheI
they resumed their journey southwark
. Ayme is young surgeon, and JOINED
Tudor at Lynchburg Va, to go.to Pat
agonia as Il scientist. They look fTeSl
b and are we'll mounted.
Three hard-worked and under-pai'
, printers. John b. Jackson. William J
. Heaney and Patrick O'Brien, of New
f York. clubbed together recently and in
= vested two dollars in lottery ticket
] They now Jingle 5000 apiece-havin
2 held the lucky ticket in the April draw
! ing. About the first time on record tina
e lightning ever struck a printer.
F.. Or. c. p. Carver, OF Angelica, Al
= legheny county, New York, owns a sma
= road stallion so peculiarly marked tha
J. when he buckles a surcingle around hin
= there is not a hair back of it that is No
G snow white, and not square inch i
T. front Of it that is not beautiful iro
gray. One eye is like that of whit
= horse, and the other like that of a biac
l. horse.
atUs Saturday morning. the alarm be
q on the Court House at Harrisburg con
! menced striking. and continued for SON
5 time, exciting the people. a report 10
e lowed that Judge PicrSOn was found dea
and the bell was tOlled in consequence
l. The excitement was only ailayed whe
o the venerable Judge appeared on Il
st bench as usual.
is A fire at Eureka, New. on Frida
night and Saturday morning, destroye
n half Of the town. including the heavie
IF business houses. the hotels. neWspap
If Offices. telegraph office. the Mason
Y building. and a great number of dwel
ings. Three hundred families are de
So titute aud two thousand people are wit
it out shelter. The loss is roughly est
mated at one million dollars.
N A special the indianapolis DGi
l. Nctrs. from South Bend. Ind. repOrtt
Is the College building at \otre Dame
j. fire and burning rapidly on Wednesd.
I. last. with but little chance for saving
T the immense dome. and the large ina:
M of the Virgin Mary surmounting, ha
In ing already fallen in. The building W
re six stories high, and out of reach
N South Bend. the water supply being ty
miles from that place.
IS. The Pennsylvania railroad has ma
a complete plans for vast improvements
ty the New York terminus, the cost
v which estimated at 3. 600, 000 Amo
the alterations contemplated is 4 ne
ferry building at the foot of COurtlal
street. while new warehouses are to
. erected on the Jersey side. y grain e
fe vator with storage capacity of 1, 800, @