The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-11-28
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

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A diamond dealer vffrted Erie few days ago
rrh $50 600 worth OF stock in . leather ssteheL
--Iows. New York and PennsylvaEia show
falling of In the greenback vote Of this year
last OF I2s. ooo.
The weather has been so farorsble in Ogle-
thorpe county Ga, that the third crop Of ngs for
1879 is nearly Npe.
/ There is negro woman in MontgonfeTy ooun
ty Ga, who has become the mother u seven
children In the Isst sixteen months.
Charles Stewart, Conneautville (Ps. man,
lynched in LesdviIle the other day. He was
notorious footpsd, and only twenty years q age.
"A COW belonging to Mr.. Wilmer Garrett, Of
willistown township, Chester county, recestly
dropped Gait with double head. 1t was bosB
dead.
-Fifteen inches in length and eight inches in
circum ference is the size OF of raised
by Franklin Shappell, Of Perry township, Berks
county.
Mr.. Halliday Pride, of West oshen township,
Chester county, raised 500 bushels of upon
thirteen acres Of land at average of I7O bushels
to the acre.
j. @. Coon, the proprietor and publisher of the
. Scranton Ne0s Dealer, has been arrested and
placed under q 500 bail a charge OF libel pre-
ferred by F. A. Beamish.
"A band Of !, 500 sheep was ssrned to death by
brush hre Ventura, Cal, the other day.
The FIRE surrounded the stock before the herder
could drive them out OF danger.
The venerable Isaac Westcott who has been
Baptist minister for ffty-two years has baptized
/ f,5oQ converts am built six churches. Enjoying a
good old age he now rests from his Eabors a New
/ Brunswick, v. J..
On the day that Senator Baysrd was first
elected to the United States Senate, his father,
James A. Baysrd, reelected to the same
body the only instance of the kind I'M The history
Of the country
Three kittens have died of diphtheYia in Og-
densburg. They contracted tho disease from
children affected with 1T. The post -meEtem ex-
animation showed plainly the dphtheritie mem
brane IN the kittens throats.
The CleaTfeld Republican intimatee that the
Democrats bsVe not been vaIloped badly after
all. 1t says that 1t is rather noteworthy aet the
total Republican vote in this State is equal to
the total Democratic vote last fall.
Mr. Jeremiah Collier, residing near Pugh-
toTn, Montgorery county, shot and Killed re
Gently an American brown eagle that in the
act Of carrying of shoat. The bird measured
six feet six inches from tip to tip of wings
william, chief of the williams Lake sndhns
| IN British CsEumbia, has published q letter. In
which he says his people are threatened with
starvation, because the whites have taken all his
lands and that he can hardly restrain his young
men from war.
Mrs. NcSJsOk, who buried at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, a few days Ego was
the mother Of nine and three daughters.
She bur ed in the remarkable group formed
by her husbcnd and her sons who fell during the
war Only two sons and two daughters survive.
"A Chieapso special to the Cincinnati CONNER
cidT says that IL Grant doesn get some employ
mont when ae comes East he will then consent "a
! run for President that his family want to get
back to the White House, and the brilliant young
wife of CoIsnel Fred is particularly anxious about
this.
. -SiIss Gray, who is now in the Western PenI
tentiary from westmoreIand county for horse
stealing, when his term expires will be tried fol
i, the murder Of Mary MsCready, of Grssnsburg. IN
: 1873, She disappeared suddenly; and some tim af
: terward, what was supposed to be her skull uai
: found and that was the only portion Of the bod!
discovered.
-Nueb excitement has been created in the vi
cinity OF Batavia, Ohio, by the return there o
IT William Allen, whom an attempt was made Il
r, lynch by hanging, in May last for eIoping will
- the wife of Charles Atchley. Th=rope broke an,
N Allen escaped and went West, but he has return
Ell. and now proposes to prosecute his vould-b b
, fynehers for sn attempt murder him.
When the wedding guests a. the residence O
y Robert J. Douglass, In Yonksrs, New York, tn
= other evening, had taken geOd look at the wed
ding gifts, they all filed down into dinng-rooI
:; leaving the treasures unguarded. Thieves VIII
knew Of what was going then slipped in an
bore of most of the presents, which were costl
: and SOME of them not easily to be replaced.
"A Louisville Courier-Journal special froI
20 Canton, Miss, says Eliza Pinkston of Returnin
Board fame, vas arrested on Saturday weeI
charged with numbering her husband who die
-, suddenly on the morning OF the 18th. They ha
=, been married only two years had frequent qua
y rels and separated two weeksago. They met an
-, quarreled Friday. He died on Saturda
The Coroner has the case under investigation.
:, Perhaps no table that Will appear In any
= the almanacs for the coming new year will attra
= more attention than that in the Catholic Fami
- ilmaHac for 1880, giving the progress OF the Cat
- olic population OF the United States, prepared
-, eminent statistician of that denominatio
The estimates are given Dy decades, follow
l77o IS coo 1890 80 600 1900 100 600; 1870 OO
10 $50, 300 OOO $780, 100000 1s4O, 500 900; 1880
Is 5oO,o ,o-o; 1850, 4 500 900; 1873, 100000.
n The result of q trial just concluded at Carlisl
ct Pa says the New York Sun of Saturday, inC
de Gates that jurymen there not soft-hearted
~. the average Connecticut jurymen. a woman "
; trial for the murder of a woman. Mrs. Ma
=" Kiehl had been poisoned with arsenic. The ia
of the poisoning was proved by an examination
the body, long after 1t had been inferred, and HI
m become partly decomposed. Mrs. ZeIl and w
liam H. Wynecoop were arrested for the Grim
b Mrs. ZeIl's trial ended Wednesday. by
r. verdict of guilty OF murder in the frst degrs
80, The jury had been out eighteen hours, and stoc
a on the first ballot seven to five for convictfO
D. whether tho minority were bulldozed into chan
-, } ing their views is not stated
80 -One OF the Saddest bereavemehts on record
-, that which has recently fallen about the home
- Thomas Plunken, who is employed at the trans
- depot and resides on Bedford avenue. In t
=, month OF May last his wife and one child died
,n diphthera and family of Ave children, four ri
. and little boy were left motherless. T
, weeks ago two OF them attacked by t
&C. same disease and they also died. Last week I
= other three took their beds, and the grief strck
o., father buried one on Friday and two SaturdS
~, sister law OF Mr.. Plunken's lives in the sa
.u. house and her child also died last week of
- same disease. Mr. Plunken is almost Wild "
-, grief, and searceIy bear the loss. He is
-, only one left out of what was a happy family
". eight not many months ago.
~, One OF the most unprovoked and cold blood
go, , murders ever chronicled committed on Sat
u day at a farm some ten miles north of Virgin
,.- brothers named Erchcnand were husking co
an when John N and Robert Taylor, also brothc
ono 7 came along horseback, dismounted, and say
"a, that they were now going to settle a feud VIII
-, had existed between the families, immediat
r. began by stabbing brother. who fell wit
knife thrust through the lung. They then turl
upon the other Erchenand, who being unarm
attempted to escape. They caught him,
aSt pIunpfng knife into his neck, severed the ju
lar vein One brother died after, and
Itch other died Sunday night. The murderers csc
be- ed and the officers are in pursuit.
It It A hendsh murder committed sun,
ress evening of last week about seven miles south
tho Lawrence Kansas. a colored man named ST
Aor,a Nall