The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-09-12
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGs.

Many NcIlN VI NdS "AANSOAA -
Mrs Sartoris.
Mr.. O. Hell is the name of deacon (
in Chicago church.
Fulton county Democrats have de-
clared for Gen. Hancock for PRESIDENT
A Young woman was knocked down
at Roseville. Ohio, and robbed of her
long and heavy hair.
Queen Victoria has sent the Shah
SPLENDID barOuche. Shah why don
she send us bar(e )Ouche?
Mr.. Barr will speak at big picnic
to be given by the Democrats of Pine
H Grove Park. Cumberland county, on the
18th inst.
The old Court House bell at Spring
field. Mass. cast in London I31 years
ago. has been smashed by fall from
the belfry.
A hard winter is predicted, and
those who believe in weather prophets
had better take advantage of the present
prices of coal.
Mrs. Bush. of Pennington, y. J.,
fought with three rattlesnakes the other
dav. and killed them all, sustaining no
injury whatever.
DIR. CYRUS b. Smith, of CRANKY,
Mass. was killed by lightning on Snn-
day night. while in his bed, and his
house was burned.
So many ministerial scandals have
burst on the country within year or
two that Mr Beecher doesn't feel as
lonesome as he did.
The citizens of Yorktown, Va, are
, moving for a national centennial cele-
bratiOn of the surrender OF Lord corn
wallis on October 10 1881.
"A brave nine-year-old boy descended
into a deep well. at Cascade, Iowa, to
rescue his little sister, and held her
head above water until help came.
Rachel Vent worked at blacksmith
inc in Baltimore until her death. a few
davs ago. She was rObustly handsome,
, but habitually smoked clay pipe.
Thirteen young men. of good faml-
". have lately arrived in this country
from Brazil, for the purpose of receiving
the advantages Of our best schools.
George G. Burgess, aged eleven
! years, was thrown from wagon upon
! the railroad track at Remove on Friday
J and killed by an approaching train.
-Four hundred and twenty million
: bushels of wheat garneTed for 1879 tells
the story for the Unieed States One
half Of this viii be required abroad.
"A Scotch paper says that two gen
! tlemen had a narrow escape from being
/ killed one night lately by the fall of the
hour hand Of the town clock of Ayr.
: An electric light in Saratoga ena-
: bled persons to read a newspaper at
Ballston, = miles distant, on a dark
r night 4 powerful reflector was used.
The Catholic church at Sandy Hill,
; near Troy. \. Y, was burned, with
other property, early Sunday morning.
! The church was one of the oldest build
e ings in the place.
Geo. Waterfield was shot and killed
c while sitting on the porch of a hotel at
/; EdgehilI. Pa, Thursday, by Titus Hill
Tr rt Gil wit u riff q
r half a mile distant.
8 William Hart of Cambridge. Mass.
: sat up night after night to read the BIZ
e BILE but the more he studied it the more
c he was puzzled. and in final despair he
: committed suicide.
: A young man named Thompson,
5 living in Johnson county. Ind. drowned
himself in a shallow well because a
t widow lie expected to marry dismissed
7 him for getting drunk.
: 1t took Lieutenant Governor Tabor,
c of Colorado. just ten minutes the other
{. day to sell his oUe-third interest in the
> Little PittSburg mine and TO pocket eX-
y actly 81 600. 0GG i'm cash.
n Among the articles Of attraction at
l. the York county agricultural exhibition
n viii be a wooden locomotive. 1t is
n eight feet long, nineteen inches high
y and fourteen inches wide.
e An Illinois farmer astOnished De
d catur by going into that place with a
" train of six wagons, laden with 81
of bushels of barley. and drawn by a steam
n road locomotive of his own invention.
n "A building in Cheyenne, Wy, sud
b, denly fell from the giving way of de,
fectiye partition Friday night Sever
G al persons were buried in the ruins and
lTF two small SONS Of Mrs. Bell were killed.
1 John Cochran. engineer. and Chas.
: Mcintyre, brakeman Of q train or the
is Wabash railroad. near st. Louis. were
!. killed on Sunday by the breaking OF 4
/ bridge over which their train was pass
J.; ing.
s The Grand Jury in Boston on sat.
% urday presented IN Indictment against
4 Nicholas Infantinio Ardito. VincenzC
n Bandecia. Larry O'Neill and Joseph
n Donate for the murder of Mr.. Frye il
n August last
E. The Governor-elect of California
e Mr.. George c. Perkins, ran away from
q his home IN Maine when eight years ole
!, and went to sea as a cabin boy. HC
/ commenced life in California as clerk il
e a grocery store.
(. An attempt was made Saturday
night to wreck the Washington expires,
/ tram by placing Il tie on the track Al
r Iraynor's s station, north of Wilmington
o ne tie was caught Dy the locomotive
% and carried over a mile.
e On Il recent Sunday evening I ,20(
u persons in st. Johns Catholic church
II Rochester Mimi, stood up and repeat
: ed after Father Turner a solemn pledge
n OF abstinence from all Intoxicating
e drinks for period of one year.
s Il young elephant in a manageTi,
J. attacked the keeper at Lancaster. y II
Il anu probably would have killed hin
f mad not the vicious brute's mother come
j to the mans rescue and inflicted terri
y bic punishment upon her offspring.
y james McParlan. the Mollie Magurt
4 detective, was married in Chicago, OF
i Monday. to Miss Fitzgerald. daughter
e OF one of Piukerton's men in that city
He IS spending his honeymoon at Omar
e ga, Ill, at country seat owned by Pin
kertOD.
NadSWOrth Rollins is on his wa,
e from New York to Chicago on bicycle
! lie left the former place on July Sd anC
spent some time at Saratoga. He ar
Il rived in Cleveland on Friday, not hur
/, ryinE, as the trip is for pleasure and no
= a task.
Peter McManus, who is 10 be hang
- ed at Sunbury, with john O'NeiH. OF
W October 9, has made a statement DENY
I ing that either he or O'Neill had anv
? thing 10 do with the murder Of Freder
n lex IleSSer, for which they are to be ex
T, ccuted
: Several days ago Robert Brown an,
L his daughter We're found murdered il
q 4 bed in West AHfDpbaSfa7. Drf Cva~l