The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-02-07

III Cen SHERMAN Is caiiS1 leCNInpi
why shoaldn t his brother John be called
"Resump?'
Mrs. Auna Warkle Was found dead in
Schenectady, n. z, on Saturday, With her
head crushed "a.
1t is reported that the black plague
has made its appearance in the province OF
Ceara. in Brazil Five doctors have been
sent shere.
ST. Mary's College, a Catholic institu-
tion, in Potawatamie county, Kansas, was
destroyed by fire Monday afternoon. Loss,
sSO, 900 to $40, 600.
Nine OF the twelve blast furnaces in
Pittsburgh and vicinity are now iu blast,
producing about fivo thonsand gross tons
OF pig iron each week.
--Diphtheria is never known, according
to ar observer at Des Moines, where soft
coal is burned. The sulphur in it, he
thinks, is a preventive.
"A young lady of Pittsburg, represented
by the local papers Of thai city to be only
sixteen, pretty and wealthy, has been ar
restd for attempted infantioide.
"A Vienna dispatch to the London Ddi
~ Telegraph says a party Of insurgent
Arabs attacked caravan near Hedja1, a
few days ago, and killed 600 persons.
Miss Augusta Kiugling, a beautiful
young lady of Pittsburgh, has been missing
from her home for more than a week and
it is believed che has been kidnapped.
"A youHg man of Pittsburgh, who mar
ried a woman his senior by many years and
very muscular, after having been whipped
by her several times, sues for a divorce
"A cat and dog recently attended a
funeral at Wind5am, X. H., together
marching before the procession to the
grave and leading the way back to the
house.
A dispatch from Indianapolis saws It Ia
now suspected thai two sons-in-law OF
Farmer Brown, who was murdered last
week, were the perpetrators of the crime,
as both Of them had some serious difficulty
with Brown.
The committee appointed to receive
aud audit the claims OF depositors against
Arch bishop Purcell have already received
evidences CT indebtedness amounting to
over 81, 900, 600.
Two years ago speculator at Clarinda,
Iowa, refused sixty cents bushel for 30,-
600 bushels of corn be bad bought at thirty
cents. lie is now vainly trying to get ten
cents bushel for it.
"A London paper says that, under the
patronage of The Catholic clergy, an emf
grafton scheme has been adopted to de-
spatch large numbers of Irish Catholics to
the State of Minnesota.
--Mrs. Dora Grace, living at 961 Cumber-
land street, Philadelphia, reached over
coal oil lamp, ON Saturday evening, and,
I
death in few minutes.
I John Siuey, the Schuylkill county La
Dor Reformer, who holds a subordinate po-
sition in the House at Harrisburg, is con-
( fined to his bed with an illness which it is
believed will prove fatal.
The Williamsport lumbermen estimate
that thoy will get hundred and seventy
million feet OF logs into the boom this sea-
son, which will exceed the amount for last
season some fifty millions,
Ezra G.. Perkins, a Boston railroad
/ contractor who died few days ago, took
. q fancy to o certain Mrs. Hardy, cody
hired her husband to permit her to get a
! divorce, and then married her.
But for his dog, which pinned him and
held him down till the neighbors could
break in and bind him, a farmer near
Ripon, Wis, would have killed his wife
and child while in an insane flt.
A fire broke out at noon Monday in
Lee, Mass, and burned out the business
portion of the town, including ten stores
and printing Office. The loss was nearly
800, 600. partially covered by insurance.
Mrs. Alice Swift, who sells groceries
at No. 5o2 Second avenue, New York, j,
Lappy in the belief that she is the owner ot
an English property difficult of discovery
but worth 81, co., 600 if it could be found.
Two lovers OF South Lincoln, Mo.
were so anxious to get married the othel
/ house in furious storm, accompanied by
two men to shovel path for the Eleigl
through drifts.
when Ashburton Webster was buried
at Marshfield, Mass, last week, the cofiI
OF his grandfather, Daniel Webster, wa
: opened. The face of the great statesman
was readily recognized, his body having
been embaimed,
Mrs. Owen Murphy vas kicked t
T,h
at Pownal, Vt, on Wednesday night
, She was buried next day at North Adams
3 and no investiga lion has been made by tn
r. Pownal authorities.
A constable OF Cannon township
Berks county, brought twenty-five tramp
. TO Reading IL q wagon, on Saturday, an
! had them committed to prison for thirt
, dayg as vaSrants. That's Cannon Law iC
you, Gith q vengeance.
The greatest excitement prevails
: PitisburE among the cattlemeu over th
recent order Of the British governnleI
prohibiting the importation OF cattle frol
America. Pittsburgh ships 5000 head
. cattle to Europe week.
A bride IN BelOit, Iowa, shot heTse
"a on the morning after the wedding, c
:. learning that her husband had anOth'
wife bu. the wound was not serious, al
x on recovering she took the less rag
n course of prosecuting him for bigamy.
r. No tidiugs have been received from Il
schooner Cunard, which sailed from GlOJ
cester, Mass, for Greenland last June {
q a balibut trip with crew of zen me
it since ehe touched at Port Mulgrave, y, :
n October Goth. She is giveniup as lost.
Maggie Quinn is the name of lit
&c girl who lives in Atlanta, Georgia, whe
ri She is known as 'the child poet" a W
a. umo called 'sViolets," containing sele
70 tioss from verses written from her seven
to her eleventh year, has just been printe
oil The schooner Helen A. Hoyt, fro
d. Charleston for Boston was lost of Cape II;
ir teras on the 18th of January. The CAPITA
IT, and crew escaped in a small boat wiSbO
Drovitions and have landed at Kingsto
u Jamaica. The steward perished from e
u posuie.
~ NO religious services were held at
q. funeral on Friday last, of Judge James
Knowlton, of Chicago. Some friends ma
a few remarks, and tune was played
er the iudge's violin. The deceased was
or noted ls=yer. He believed that des
ds ended all things.
"A Philadelphia conductor attempt
he to put his wife off his car because $
couldn't pay her fare. She told him s
he had paid all her money for the supper $
a had lust brought him. y lady paid
fare. Later he beat his wife SO badly Il
Nle her life is in danger.
Miss Mary A. Clymer, young Ia
or, twenty one years old, died OF lockJaH
.; Sboenertown, one mile from Easton, Z
Monday evening, resulting from the ORA
hS ino of two teeth. She was attacked
be- Friday. and suffered terribly. She '
met eating nm from a severe attack OF