The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-07-25
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGS.

Flood, the California millionaire, Is
to have a stable built at Menlo park at
cost of $50, 900.
John II. Watson, Jr., died in New
port, r. l., on Friday, of lockjaw, caus-
ed by nail piercing his foot.
"A mammoth boy lives in Redwood
Valley, Mendocino county, Cal. He is
IA years of age and weighs 201 pounds.
John FitZsimmOns, eight years old,
was drowned Saturday afternoon while
bathing in the Allegheny river at Pitts
burg.
Eight persons were drowned by the
capsiZing of a pleasure yacht at Point
aux Trembles, near Quebec, on Friday
evening
The Illinois Lutherans, in Synod as
sembled, have instructed their ministers
not to administer baptism by immersion
to any person.
At the Mass in London for Prince
Napoleon, dove hovered above the in
cense and alighted on gilded eagle
above the altar.
A nine-year old boy named "SnOw"
Clark was accidentally drowned in
French creek, near Franklin, Venango
county, on Friday.
Louis Seagodi, Paul Bishoffski, and
a man named Fisher, were drowned in
the bay'at San Francisco, on Monday, by
the swamping of their boat.
"A West Bradford. Chester county,
family possesses a blind dog, a deaf cat,
a blind hen, rooster with the st.
VituS' dance, and a 'muley'' calf.
An unknown man and boy, while
walking on the New York and New
England railroad bridge, at South Bos-
ton, on Friday, were struck by a train
and killed.
The camp meeting is growing in
favor. Almost all denominations now
recognize and use it. The Methodists
have a list this year of not less than $50
camp meetings.
The postmaster at LOganeport, Ind,
has been arraigned by the Presbyterian
church to which he belongs because he
keeps the pOStOfIice open an hour every
Sunday morning.
An enthusiastic temperance woman
at Fort Collins, Colorado, has given a
supper to all the young men in the town
who had not imbibed alcoholic liquor for
sixty days previous.
"A negro named MarcelluS Floyd,
who attempted to outrage a white girl
near Richmond, Va, was taken from
Jail by an armed mob and hanged to a
tree ON the road side.
.
Jack. two miles from ken. Ont, was
burned Monday morning, and two of his
children perished. Mr.. Jack was also
probably fatally burned.
A negro at Dallas, Texas. believing
/ that God demanded the sacrifice of his
/ family. gave poison to his wife and three
! children but an irreligiOuS physician
( interfered and saved their lives.
/ James Lentrell killed Elisha ThOmp-
/ son by blow on the mead in Union
4 county, KY, on Friday night. The
! blow was given to prevent Lentrell from
shooting a man named Wedding.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
lady in that city has Il pet cat which
takes its meals at the table. 1t sits up
at the table with a bib tied around its
( neck and is fed with silver spoon.
Several men who have been eXplOr-
! ing for gold on the farm of Elias Wal
dron. near fredericksburg, Lebanon
county, have reported the finding of eX-
cellent tracings of the valuable metal.
1t is said that in WatertOwn. Conn.,,
on very hot day. a woman rubbed blue
paint off the leg of BaTnum'S tatO Ooed
. Greek with her handkerchief, and that
he abruptly withdrew from the platform.
"A Catholic journal in the Chinese
. language has been started at Shanghai.
1t is named the Timua Lob (writing
about the things useful to be heard) and
is under the control of the Jesuit Faith
: erS.
On the return Of a couple to Sims
. bury. Conn, from their wedding tour, q
party of girls met them at the train
put them into 4 carriage. took hold of
the shafts, and drew them to their new
home.
r. -. D. e NI;,,,,cJ.l.,
has accepted the Office of Secretary o.
War, to succeed McCrary. when the lat
ter shall retire to succeed Judge Dillon
as Justice of the Eighth Judicial L. 5
Circuit.
The Meadville Reporter cites cas-
in that place of young lady NAMED
Cora Gray dying of a broken heart. Th'
young man in the case married another
and is to he sued for breach of promise
by Miss Gray's relatives.
The Rev Mr.. Ross, of East vii
lamS, Ont, has fobidden FreemaSOnS t,
approach the communion table in hi
church on the ground that at Masoni
/ funerals the name of Christ is not uset
in supplications to the Deity,
The Rev. y. y. AlcOtt has stepped
down and out of the Presbyterian min
istry at the suggestion of the Wooster
unlimited atOnement-th doctrine tina
Christ died for all and not for the elec
only.
Saturday afternoon a quarter sec
tiOn of the new round house in course O
erection for the Erie railway, near But
! faiO, y. Y. fell in with a terrible crash
seriously iniuring twelve men emplOye
on the work, one of whom has sine
died.
The BellefOnte WdtchHlnR saws tn
graSshoppers are destroying almost eve
rything in the shape of vegetation.
some parts of Centre county they hav
; eaten all the grass and corn, and al
l now working industriOuSly ON the frui
, trees.
-AleXander st. Martin. who was
, great and valuable curiosity to phyS
clans forty years ago, by reason of a hol
in his stomach, through which the prC
cess of digestion could be stndied, is sti
living at Oakdale, Mass, but in greS
. poverty.
1t was an exciting moment whe
Mr.. Rhea was holding rahid bulldC
by the ears at Gold Greek, Ark. an
Mrs. Rhea was taking aim with a GU
at its head but the woman S markham
ship was good, and the beast tumble
over dead.
At the request of Representativ
Casey Young, of the Memphis Tenn
district, the Secretary of War has fO
warded to Memphis 800 tents and r
tions for 10000 people for thirty day
to be used in aid of the sufferers fro
yellow fever
Il "A man charged with a criminal a
?. Sault on his own daughter languishes
Butler iail in cOmDanV with eleven Otl