The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-03-07
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"A wonder in West Chester is a ten
months-old child which weighs only ten
pounds.
Rev. Father Garland, rector of ST..
Patrick's Roman Catholic church, Pitts
burg, has become incuTably insane.
AT the recent election in Mitiiintown,
Juniata county, only twelve tickets were
voted without scratching, seven of which
were Republican.
For the murder of Miss Catherine
Richards at Plainfield, \. Y, on June %,
1873. Myron Buell. has been sentenced to
be hanged on April IS.
Jacob Leckrone,, aged eighty seven,
was found dead in bed at York, Monday
morning, suffocated by coal gas. His wife
was unconscious, but may recover.
John Bush, of Steubenville, Bradford
county, wants to know who be is. He ad-
vertises that he was stolen thirty yeals
ago when a child from Tunkhannock.
The historical library of the PTesby-
teriau Church of Philadelphia has the rep
utatiou of being the richest and best collec-
tioD of Presbyterian material in the world.
--Twenty-three Spanish sailors were
drowned while on their way from Ferral TO
spend the recent carnival in their native
villages. Their boat was capsiZed by a
squall.
Leo XIII is an excellent scholar. and
lately produced some charming stanzas in
Latin on the occasion Of a well known pho
tographer visiting Rome to take pictures of
the curia.
-Connelsville has been having consd-
erable of a revival Since January l over
a hundred people have been admitted to
the Baptist Church and about a hundred to
the Methodist.
BY the explosion of quantity of sui
phuric acid in the lower Ranch Creek col
lierv, near Pottsvills, Wednesday forenoon,
three men were killed instantly aud three
others burned severely.
Many of the farmers of Lehigh county
will plant what is known as prolific white
Tennessee corn, which attains to the height
of twelve or fourteen feet and produces six
TO ten ears to the stalk.
Mrs. Mary McGrath died in New York,
on Wednesday, aged 106 years and four
months. She had never during her long
life, previous TO fortnight ago, experien-
ced an hours sickness.
The pious Scotch, though only num-
bering some f. 600, 600, spend SO, 900, 600 a
year in drink, which proves how uufounded
are the charges of niggardliness SO often
brought against Them.
"A German socialist in Chicago public
ly asserts that the shell which is to explode
the despotsm of Bismarck has already
been cast, aud during the present year Will
fulfil its benificient mission.
At St. Paurs church, Montreal, on
Sunday, telephone apparatus was rugged
up in the pnlpit, by means of which sick
member of the congregation heard the ser
mon distinctly in bed a quarter of a mile
away.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott's health is
reported, by last direct advices, as entirely
restored. He is now enjoying n trip up
the Nile and expects to return fully equal
TO all the exacting duties of his responsible
position.
Serious apprehension is felt in regard
to future harvests IN the Holy Land, and
famine there seems imminent. Arrange
ments are being made to import flour aud
grain direct from New York TO anticipate
the wants of the people.
The editor of the Plain Dealer, of
Wilkes Barre, vas compelled to go to Jail
on Friday for the want OF few thousand
dollars bail for his appearance at coIrt
when called for trial on libel charges pre-
ferred by Judge Harding.
Mr.. Jacob Bedell, man of 60 at Bald
wins, Long Island, is said to have passed
over eight weeks without sleeping a mo-
ment, or feeling inclined to do so. The
sOporifics he has taken have had no effect
on him. He enjoys good health.
The house Of J. NJ. LunsfOrd was
burned to the ground at Nelsouville, O.,
about II o'clock Friday morning. Mr..
Lunsford and six of his children, who were
asleep, were smotbered or burned to dealh.
Only the wife and one child escaped.
One of Mr., Blaiue's greatest objections
to the Chinese is that they do not assimi-
late with Americans. This seems partially
coutradicted by the sentence of a China
man to prison in New York for being a va
grant. This is very much like Mclean man.
At North Audover, Mass, the other
day, George ReXtTaw, in a drunken frenzy
struck his daughter, Mrs. Smith, with a
poker knocking her to the floor. and she
has since remained inseusible. Immedi-
ately after he delivered the blow he fell to
the floor a corpse.
Monday morning, while William Kauf-
felt aged nineteen, employed at the Penn
sylvania Agricultural works at York, was
standing On a ladder oiling the shaftiuC,
his clothing came in contact with il, whirl-
ing him around and dashing out his brains
against the ceiling.
As the occupant Of the White House
lives there rent and furniture free, gets his
table ware, flowers, fuel, horses, coachmea
and secretaries a. the public expense, his
beef at cost from the government butcher
and buys no wines, it is estimated that
Hayes is sailing down at least $40, 900 a
year.
Thursday evening Mrs. J. p. Coulsou,
OF COalvile, Webster county, Iowa, locked
her three children, whose ages ranged be-
tween three and nine years, in the house
while she visited a neighbOr During her
absence the house was burned to the
ground and the children perished iG the
flames.
New Castle, Del, will be overcrowded
with guests during the coming Methodist
Conference. Father Kelly, The Catholic
priest, recognizing this, nas offered the
hospitality of his parsonage TO two of the
Methodist ministers. There is rivalry
among the ministers as TO who shall be.
come Father Kelly's guests.
james Elias VOORHEES,, colored, aged
sixty years, is a remarkable old boy Of Bor-
dentovn, \. J. He was a servant of Cen
e7al Winfield Scott for many years, and now
wears gold watch, chain aud SEAL valued
at 81 $50, the gift Of the old warrior when
on his death bed. He owns real estate in
BordentOwn, Princeton and New Bruins
wick.
A spondent Of the Lancaster Neu
Era says: The cost Of the National Guard
to the State for the past five or six years
has been enormous, and somehow the ex-
pense account is so arranged that il is diff
cult 20 ascertain what it is but that it has
been excessive, there IS no manner Of
doubt, and a statement of it would pTOba.
bly, startle the taxpayers.
"A salt we'll at lie Roy, n. Y, had beer
bored to a depth of 450 feet, when rush
of gas was ignited a the mouth by contact
with a stove and the blaze rose hundred
feet into the air. A volume of water
came next, smelling and tasting strongly
of sulphur. The superstitiOus workmer
fled in dismay, supposing that the inferna
regions had been tapped.
In Columbus, o., William Manypeu
ny's extensive warehouse was totally de-
stroyed by fire on Saturday night, with so.