The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-01-03

i day. Both husbands we're employed at the
same establishment, aud the faithless wife
secured $50 from her husband, while the
faiihless husband kept his own money,
leaving his deserted wife not one cent.
The immense sugaI pine logs cut near
I Truckee, New, are sent down the precipit-
Gus side of n mountain IN a chute that emp
ties them into a deep pond. The descent
is /, 100 feet, the last thiId of which is per-
pendicuar, SO that the logs strike the
! ter wish report that can be beard a mile
away. The logs weigh several tons each,
/ forming tremendous missile.
In Cincinnati, on Christmas night,
boy, named Biinker, swallowed a piece of
hickory nut, which S uck in his windpipe
Soon after his bronchial tubes became
filled with blood, and aud be was nearly
choked. 4 physician made an incision
across the throat, found that the shell had
lodged in the ia'ynx, removed it aud sew
ed up the throat. The boy is recovering.
"A gil working in Z paper mill az Del
phos, o., found 800 among the waste shs
was sorting. The proprietor Of the estab-
lishmeGt took them from her, but she sued
him for them, and tue Supreme Court has
finally decided the case IN her favor, hold
ing that the purchase Of waste paper does
not give the purchaser right to unknown
valuabies fuIud in It as against the finder.
1t is only two or three years since the
at the head of an English pilgrimage, l.
J 300 strong. He has now gone. with his
newly married Duchess and his mother
and a retinue Of twenty eight. to Lourdes
/ TO show his devotion TO Our Lady Of the
/ Immaculate Conception. The priigrims
/ made d magnificent Offering to the sane.
/ tuTy, and then proceeded to Rome.
A Mas. Drake, Of Muhlcnburg county,
Kentucky, has an apple which has been in
: existence since the Revolutionary war.
/ soldier received the apple from his be-
trothed just as he left to Join the army of
/ washington; kept it during the whole
! war returned after the surrender at York
town and married the fair giver. The APP
pie is sacredly preserved in tie family
1t is day aud sbrivelled, nothing remaining
/ but the woody fibre.
Capt. Buchanan, OF Winston, \. c,
disliked his daughters sUitUr Jerry Shell
don, and forbade him TO come to The house.
/ jerry. went, however, and Immediately
I found himself in the old mans grasp
After brief combat, jerry threw .he Cap
tain down aud held him there. The Cap
tain called his servant girl an6 told her 10
get the gun. She obeyed. Then he order
ed her 10 shoot Jerry. Again she Obeyed,
and Jerry was killed.
An almost incredible story was told in
Peoria, III, the other day, Of a youug grl
named Maggie Lahue to the effect tina. Oh
unknown masked men, taken in a sleigh
into the country, tied % q tres and her
clothes set on fire, having first been CLlol1-
/ formed. Tho flames burned the things
I with which she was bound aud restored
her to consciousness. She was found by y
farmer and brought to her home IN this
/ city, whore she now lies unconscious.
The Snow Hin Hssssngsr. .rersrrirlr, Il,
the recent fatal shooting oi Miss uearn by
: Miss Lillian Duer, at POc0muks Civ
states that the latter has become insane -
Miss Duer, it will be remembered, declar-
ed in the most positive manner that the
shooting was accidental but the statement
Of Miss uearn before her death was to tie
effect that Miss Duer had shot her iu,sa
tionally. Miss DJoI is under g.. coo bail
for trial II rs s--rn5a5 cL.t tie LerllF.I.
] ordeal throuEn which she passed was such
7 as to destroy her reason.
"A London dispatch 80 Friday gays
The steamship Emily B. Sou6er. winch
left New York on the ST. b Of December for
! Turk's Island and Santa Domingo founder
ed At sea two days out from New York
/ This news reached London from Kingston.
Jamaica, teieRraphed by Llovd's agent.
who states that two Of the crew have lust
landed s-t Kingston. What became OF The
passengers, officers, aud remainder OF the
cseT Is not known, but the scamau picked
up believe all the others on board the
steamer have been drowned"
Says lie Northeast sun: Nathan
Robinson and family. who live about
mile south Of here. close 30 the s1nt Of a
steep little hi!i, viii never forget .he win
ter Of 1889. The wind. which Tor sever
al days blew gale, piled up the SNOW ~
the f"It OF this bill 90 am Immense depth,
aud Robius0H's house vas nowhere 10 bs
seen. A. last accounts re aud his family
were in the house, and they are uro5ablv
there uuw. On Wednesday morning uufa
vestige remained above tue snow TO mari
The location Of their house except d snail
uJcco Of s."vCpjpe. through "hicl the
smUke lazily curle.l.
Mr.. Lane wanted 10 give his wife an5
two childrj u = sleigh ride. 1ur La laa
neither horse nor sleigh. lie ovClCaus the
difficulty BY mailing runners ou Z large box.
auc choosing the ice ou the river .this was
near Dubuque, Iowa for the riding place.
because there he couid e6s.iy push tho vs
hjcle aud lis load. The party atarlsd out
ia high glee, iirst making preparations fpr
a hot luncheon on their return. The ice
was strong near tie shore, but Thin over
, he swift current. Mr. Lane pushed his
sleigh toward ihe middle Of the stream. -
The party broke through, and we're drown
ed.
The Pail Mail Gazette says that T. poo
fellow named Ioseau, whose ia.g. nose
aud two eyes were carried away by tie
SPltEtti 81 q Sn6li at ihe p2ltle OF Bar-uu1a,
in January, 1871, has just been able 70
leave tie Faide Grace, and to return
home to his native village. not cured, but
= wonderfully aicbed No. lie has metal
lie mask, provided with eyes, false nose,
and dental arrangement which allows
him To masiicate. i appears that this uu-
fortunate gunner before joining The Army
of the North was engaged TO be married.
he naturally expected that after what had
! happened he would be rejected but this
] was not the case, aud MORGAN has returned
home to hIs wife.
' -ArchbishJp Purcell, OF Cincinnati, has
: made a public statement concerning his
r financial affairs, in which he says that foi
b building lots, churches asylums IN which
e are over 4OO urphans), seminares aud THEN
D suppori, aud various necessities, he has haC
e to beg or borrow considerable sums and j.
< now pretty heavily in debt. lie canno
accuse himself of having spent anything il
waste or PXtrayapauce and If fte P.,Df