The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-05-02
NEWS AND OTHER NoIIN0s.

living in Boston, is the father of sixty
I three children.
Miss Sue Beatty, of Franklin, Pa,
has been appointed stenographeT of the
/ Clarion county courts.
"A woman at Rutland, Va, recently
dropped senseless on hearing a brass
band. Who can blame her?
[ George Jackson. a white teacher IN
the Cincinnati High School, has married
. a negro girl : but her father owns $780,
600.
An Indiana girl named Pullberry
married a man named Bennett simply to
secure a new name. She refused to live
with him a day.
William Rey. a colored barber. of
Raleigh, \. c., has declined an offer to
be a barber Of the United States Senate
al a good salary.
The sales of land by the Kansas Pa
cific Railway for the month of March
amounted to 15,45S acres. Average
price, $40 per acre.
"A Cape Breton woman, Mrs Spar
Ian. of Baddeck, has presented to her
husband four male children at a birth.
Rev. \. J. Faust has retired from
the Protestant Episcopal church. Wash
ingtOn, and embraced the Catholic faith.
"A little girl, Celia Horay, who was
taken away from Locust Gap, NOTthum-
berland county, a couple of weeks ago, by
gypsies, has not been heard from.
"A dispatch from Nidalia, Concordia
parish, Louisiana, reported three thou
sand negroes on the river bank SUNDAY
awaiting transportation kansasward
"A London dispatch of April 80 says
that the steamer Nile, from EIeva for
Newport, with cargo of ore, has been
lost, and that only three were saved out
of a crew of twenty-three.
"A piece of bone from one of Charles
Lewellyn's fingers was blown into and
embedded in his chin by the explosion of
blasting cartridge at the copper works,
near Phgnixyille, a few days ago.
Mr.. Abel, of Wabash, was success
fully divorced from three wives. Then
he married the first again, and now,
npon her death, he has reunited with
the second. The third has reason to
hope
Jesse Pomeroy. the boy murderer,
made another unsuccessful attempt to
escape from the State Prison at Con-
cord, Mass, recently. He made saw
out of a case knife and nearly cut of
one of the iron window bars.
Captain Boyton arrived III New Or
leans Sunday afternoon. He was badly
tanned by the sun and somewhat IA
tigued from the trip. He was welcomed
by large crowd along the river bank
from CaTrOlton to the foot of Canal street.
-GCOrge Einsig. convicted at York,
Pa. on Friday last Of murder in the first
degree, for killing his wife committed
suicide in his cell next morning by cut
ting his throat with razor and then
hanging himself with piece of rope and
a towel.
A young woman named Mary Lang
don. Of Portville. Potter county. had
cancer that physicians pronounced in
durable. She drew athread beneath the
cancer, with which she tied the artery,
and then with a sharp tableknife cut the
offensive object off. She is doing well.
A carriage, containing gentleman
and four young ladies'. was thrown over
an embankment - feet high. at the East
End. Pittsburgh, Sunday. The OCCu-
pants made a remarkable escape from
death, the carriage catching in a tree a
few feet down. All got out minjuTed.
Lord Ripon, once = Protestant and
FreemaSOn. but now devoted Catholic
has purchased the Sanct uaTy and ClOiStcT
of It. Damian, near Assist, in order to
preserve these monuments for the piety
of the faithful and the admiration of ar
lists. = He is about to establish an or
phanage there.
Peter Sullivan, an old man living in
ChicOpee. Mass. was burned to death in
his house on Friday afternoon. His
wife had emptied ashes in the yard and
the wind blew a live coal into some fod-
der which set the barn on fire, from
whence the flames were communicated
to the house.
-Dan'l Oriway. Of PrOct OrSyille. VT.
is eighty-four years Of age, and expects
to die soon. His grave clothes and coffin
have been made. under his direction, and
Clergyman recently preached his fu-
P neral sermon. IN accordance with his ur-
gent request. 4 want to manage all
these matters myself - he says.
Father VINEYARD. of the Church OF
8 the Assumption, at South Bend, Ind.
swallowed an upper set Of teeth, con
sisting Of four on a gold plate, while
; he was asleep Saturday night; when he
! awoke they were SO far down his throat
, that the surgeons couldn't extract them
and at last accounts he was likely 10 die
Eighteen years ago farmer living
I near Eldred, in this State adopted q boy
, The boy has grown to be d sturdy young
. man and for him the farmers wife, not
, I more than thirty years of age. has takeT
quite fancy. This the old farmer
G found out a few days ago. and concluded
it was about time for him 10 leave anG
did so.
The trial of Buford, the man who
4 shot Judge Elliott in the street n
Frankfort, Kentucky, because the judg,
decided law suit adversely to him, be
Z. gan Oh Monday. The result IS looked
Il for with much interest, as it IS not con
sidered that the prisoner, although I
l prominent man in his native state. de
serves any mercy.
! Among the eccentriOs OF Detroit IS
= man who always keeps two men and TIVE
women servants. and insists upon tn,
/ men having black and the women rec
{ hair. This is with view to luck, mas
d much rs years ago he passed black
{ haired man and Ted-haired girl walkin!
; together, and presently found purse o
0 money which was never claimed.
u At a meeting Of priests and bishop
> held in Cincinnati at the archepiscOpa
e residence on Tuesday of last week tn
u names of Father Spalding, of Peoria
{ Bishop Chatard, OF Nincennes, ant
II Father Quinn, Nicar-Generalto Cardina
u Archbishop McClOskey, were recommend
e ed to the Pope as cOadjutor to Archbish
q op Purcell. with the right Of succession
: at his death.
- Rev. DR.. d. Cans, late pastor of tn
II Third German Reformed church of Bal
u timore. together with his wife, two son
IL and a daughter. were formally admitte
le to the Catholic faith at St. Ignatius
I. church. in that city. on Sunday last. \
q the same time f. /. II. Geiger and wife
IL members of his late congregation, wer
iJ also received into the Catholic Church
d and all made their first communion.
= The Indianapolis Journal prints
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