The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-02-21
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Henry Fl. Crocker has just died at OF
tumwa. Ia. OF suustroke, lie was sun
struck last July.
In a single county in Texas there are
956, 900 sheep. larger number than ID any
other county in the Union.
-Morristox xn has David Puskey, aged
twenty-five, who has wooed and won MS
step grandmother aged sixty.
ALREADY three claims TO the SO bounty .
offered by the Princess Louise for trlple's .
have been made within fortnight.
Lewis G. Goldsmith is to start from .
Boston next summer in boat eighteen /
feet loug to make a voyage round the .
world.
Mrs. Reed, of Patton township, Cen .
tre county, accidentally smothered her SIX .
months old baby while carrying II nome .
from a neighbOrs.
-Heedless burglars broke into the house .
of Georgian gentleman OF the ominous
name of Ledslinger, and he fired TWO Dui'
lets into one Of them-
pope Leo Kill has finally decided to
accept Archbishop PurcelPs resignation,
and has now the appointment OF his sue
cessor under consideration.
The wound Captain Samuel CiaTk,
well known coal operator OF Allegheny
county, inflicted upon himself several days
ago with suicidal intent, has proved iataI'
p. Mayne, at Cromwell, Union county
Iowa traduced the character OF Maggie
Rowen, a milliner, wneTeupon she COW
hided him, and the admFring citizens gave
her new dress.
A Norwalk husband discovered proof
that a neighbor was in love with bis wlte,
and agreed to keep the secret Tor SlOoi put
the lover paid only $50, whereupon the
husband dIvulged about half OF the truth
At Georgetown, Mass, the son OF q
widow fsarried a girl whose Brother mar
ried the widow, while a child born 20 the
, first couple has uncle aud grandfather
> -. INF n Ii
l persons.
, In Detroit, Thursday, Marie AEurine,
: a trapeze performer, while swinging on a
s bar eighty feet from the stage, was selzed
T with vertigo and fell headlong to the floor,
: suffering fracture OF The collar bone ana
o three ribs.
There is n young woman in Jefferson
: county who has never seen railroad, has
L never been iuSlde Of 4 church, AID VINO,
) the other day saw n newspaper Tor the
Q first time. Foreign missionary societies
Il take notice.
t house of George Shcrer, in Franklin town
d ship. about twelve miles from Allegheny
d City, was burned down. Mr. Sherer man.
II aged to escape, but two farmers perished
J. in the flames.
il -Iu Norway horse eau help himself tc
J, water as be does to hay, from trough
'e kept full of it, and accordingly drinks like
1r n human being at moals--a SIP, then some
10 hay, and so on Broken wiuded horses are
-g almost unknown IN Norway.
The Pope has been fairly Inundated
with abusive, offensive and Threatening
le letters from Socialists in all parts OF Eu
o. rope, who have been moved to anger be
or cause OF his recent encyclicaI HIS Holmes
)u is making a collection Of them.
G. The soldiers orphan home near AenIa
n Ohio, was entirely destroyed by fire Sunda
e morning No lives were lost and no scrl
faH III q
Ia .he inmates made very narrow escapes
as The loss TO the State is S75, 600.
is John Bradley, of Philadelphia, coul
nt not, in consequence of heart disease, il
On down, nor even sit down Comfortably
RS He had bed made in such way as !
ng sustain him in an upright position, and !
on that contrivance he slept for nine years
ia ID died few days ago.
ITS "A few small boats are SAID 10 nav
nd gathered some $4,000 worth Of sponges
CT. two days, within half an hour sail OF i i
in rida wharf. 4 Key West paper says thu
will the article was supposed to be extinct yea
he ago but it is discovered that the bars
he the bay are teemiug with sponge OF 8
ald peTior quality.
ed Down in Tennessee they have bee
nw drinking buttcrmilk thirty years old al
The good as new. 1t was dug from q we
the which had cavcd in thirty years before
re At that timo tho jug of milk, safely cor
ga cd, was hanging by p rope Tar down u
well, to be kept cool and there 1t hi
ter stsid buried for thirty years
- Seven persons were poisoned by eatIl
Ter, buckwheat cakes at Queeusvills, Ind,
of Saturday. but all except one are expect
hat to recover. 1t appears that a farm
low placed arsenic IN bis barn t. Kill rats a
hat that pnrt of the arsenic became mix
rgo with the buckwhea;, which was aiterWaT
sold to the persons poisoned.
When Senator Shields, of Nilsson
.u drew his pay aud mieage--some $500
- other afternoon, he laid IL on his desk
-. Toward evening page found the mon
,sE on tie desk, lying around as loose as thou
~ it still belonged to the Government.
I'o,, Senator did not know OF his loss until
e. attention had been cal ed To it.
- A barn at Stamford, Conn, was bu
'i,o cd recently by an incendiary, and the TT
-, pious father prayed that the uukno
t'ir scoundrel might be paralyzed. \ n
p5i subject from his childhood to epilepsy
-, lust had stroke Of paralysis, and ''sey'
:, supeTstitious Gcathen or the place I'll
there has been \ wonderful answer
I'm prayer.
!, nIIl N The Cincinnati Euqlirsr states
-IJ high authority, that ''the Pope had de
- mined that, taking into consideration
"a 70 the circumstances OF the case, 1t woult
- Ii, inopportune at this time to receive the
i'utg .,. icnktion of Archbishop Purcell. OFF
~ notification of this determination of
- '"'H Pope is expected in few days.
,"roSS EunSS news will lie received with JOY by Ca
\ ra lies generally"
Two miners OF Humboldt Wells, \
- I';a being drunk AND jovial, went to the C.
= i'S of a wood chopper to have some fun
',s aS ~ him. He was a silly fellow and the c
: -, mon butt of the neighbOrhood, but on
- occasion he refused to be fooled with.
4 LH drunkards resented his lack Of complai
ICu 80 cy, and tried 20 scare him with their II
m Nv. = vers Then he cut them down with
- axe, killing both.
: ' AT Madisonville, near Cincinnati
io u"y Saturday night Rev. Peter Waite, colo
u !" no was shot and killed by Andrew Enc
50 ~ also colsred. The latter is in the empl
WI" Charles )ewett, a farmer, and had
left in charge of the house. Wait
., preaching in the dark to see servant
brazl was hailed by Endrey but refused tc
'ughI swer, and moving round IN a suspi'
north manner, was shot, dying in an hour.
han "A daring robbery was perpetrate
est ca broad daylight on Fifth avenue,
a mil York, Friday afternoon. Tbs wifi
tarva- Adolph DeBary, a wealthy importer,
black walking on the avenue with lady II
)alllng when an elegantly attiTed man darte
were hind Mrs. DeBary, caught both OF hel
'unda. noud earrings and endeavored to tear
u and from her ears. He succeeded in to-
arving ono out lacerating the ear and eEcap
Some While Peter Schmidt and his 81
, have law were walking along the railroad
strug- near Port Jcrvis, n. y, on Sat'
I'd aud night, to meet son of Schmidt, who
Ihous- about to arrive from Germany, they