The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-01-31
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lucky and Illinois four for a dime.
Hereafter eyeryiloaf Of bread sold in
Cincinnati must have lis weight stamped
upon IL.
Henry Clay Dean is a good lawyer and
has practiced at nearly every bar in Iowa
except bar of soap.
The trustees who were appointed to
settle Archbishop PurcelIs affairs com
menced paying of the creditors on Thurs
day.
The statistics of the unpretentious
town Of Akron, Ohio, show that there were
thirteen elOpements from that place within
a year.
-Tweuty- one hundred and ninety pen
MES man at Fond Du Lac, Wis, sbanded
to a ticket agent in exchange for s2l.9O
railroad ticket
james w. Gaff, the Cincinnati million
aire, who died on Tuesday, was day-la-
boreI forty-five years ago. He made his
millions in distillinG whisky.
-Rt. Rev. DR. Lynch, Of South Carroll
ua, has presented to the Smithsonian Iu-
stitute fossil tooth found 1 800 feet below
the surface of the ground at Charleston.
Mrs. Captain Daniel Dobbins, of Erie,
who died at that place last week in her
ninety ninth year, went there from Carlisle,
the place of her birth, in 1900, on horse
I back.
a fourteen-year old boy in Jackson
! tempt to chastise him by drawing his trus-
I ty Toledo (O.) jack knife and plugging it
, into :he hireling's heart.
The Baltimore EU6ninG Bulletin makes
public the heroism of two boys Of that city
named William and George Buckley, who,
between them, have saved nineteen lives.
. They deserve monument
Ben Knimpelman and Jack Crowley,
aged 13 and II, were drowned in the river
at foot OF Russell street, Covington, KY,
Sunday, by the upsetting OF skiff through
the collision OF a coal barge.i
John Wakefield, Of Bowling Green,
recently deceased, was twice married, zach
time TO woman OF nineteen, who died at
I the age Of thirty three, after having borne
/ to him two sons and five daughters.
Riley Johnston lived ia Religious
street, New Orleans, but the name OF the
street did not make him good man, Tor
he tied his daughter TO a bedpOst and
whipped her with a strap until she died
Major Isaac Strickland, OF Livermore,
Me, has voted the Democratic ticket for
sixty one years and ayOws his readiness to
say his Runc dimittiS, now that the Pine
Tree State has Democratic Governor.
-"Praise the Lord - cried worship
per at the Sr. James Street Methodist
Church, Montreal, when the minister told
impressively how the reprieve for the Mol
ly Maguires arrived just half minute too
. late.
Mrs. W. c. {. Foster, a widow resid-
ing about three miles east of Memphis,
Tenn, was brutally murdered on Sunday
night by unknown persons, who crushed
her skull with a hammer No clue to the
murdcrers.
The Catholic clergymen OF Salem,
Mass, are denouncing the use Of beer and
whisky as a waste when SO many are suf-
feTing for need of the necessaTies Of life,
aud threaten public exposure of the deal
eIs and drinkers.
w illiam DOugherty, Z veteran Demo
crat of Estill county, KY, died a feN
weeks ago, and at his request was buried
on Tilden Hill, an emiuence where in No
vembeT, 1876, a salute was fixed in honor
OF Tildeu's election,
Senator Lamar has astonished the
railroad companies by returning all FREE
passes sent him for 1879, and stating tha
member OF the United States Congress
ought not to be under obligations TO the
railroads or other corporations.
Susan Zentmeyer vas a milkmaid il
Lebanon, Pa. \ COW kicked boy off
/ stool and the sight struck her as so fanny
that she laughed her jaw out of joint, auC
had to remain all day with her mouth wide
open, until physician could be brought.
The Atlantic ocean, IL it were to b.
+ drained, woud bs a vast plain, with
l. mountain ridge in the middle running
parallel with our coast. Another rang
: crosses it from Newfoundland to Ireland
, on the top of which lies the telegraph
Z cable.
Mr. Howard, Of ScottsviTle. Warrel
f county, says the Cory Herald, lives wit
his wife in shanty, aud in a married lif
OF twenty-One years seventeen childre
1 have been born to them, Mr.. Howar
. . does not chew nor smoke, and never use
an oath.
= AT Joliet, H., one day last week, tn
/; $500 children attending tho chools. an
4 their teachers were taken out for a sleigh
ride in nearly 400 sleighs and cutters
! headed by band Of music, fifteen barrel
: of apples being distributed TO them at tn
S reviewing point.
/, "A dancing idiot, ten years of age, is
resident Of indianapolis. Ever since hi
: birth he has been going through the me
3 tions or a waltz to silent music He
/ never still in his waking hours His moth
! er had danced to excess at ball Just be
. fore he was born.
"A woman of 40, residing at Fairfield
: Me-, is the mother of II children. Durfn
! one twelvemOnth she gave birth to two q
0 different times, married off two and los
{ three by death. One of the two marrie
: sons lost his wife and was REMARKED with
I in the same year.
I The Mobile Aelcs has offered 4 500 ST
) yer cup for the best poem by Souther
] author expressing the gratitude OF th
I South 70 the North for its charity show
in the recent epidemic. Manuscripts mus
t be sent in by February 10, and Father Ry
4 an is one of the judges.
Jim Porter, a remarkable negro dwarf
died at Evansville, Ind, recently, leaviG
|, his body to the doctors for dissection. -
: His head was found TO measure twenty fiv
= aud one-half inches in circumference, hi
liver was twice the usual size aud hi
: thigh bone no larger than the cloud see
by the prophet.
About thirty years ago Senator cleo
z Orville ri. Plat, of Connecticut, becam
: the principal of an academy at Towards
d Bradford county, Pa. His predecessor Il
V that position was Henry VI. Hoyt. Tues
J day week MIR. HOyt was inaugurated Gov
! ernOr of Pennsylvania, and Mr.. Plat wa
!, elected United States Senator.
e AT Montville, about fifteen miles fror
Belfast, Me-, IN Saturday evening, job