The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-08-22
NEWS AND OTHER NOTNGs.

A new paper called the Rag Bdbg I
las been started in Philadelphia.
John BetZ died of lock jaw from /
zee sting in Philadelphia on Saturday.
Two thousand, four hundred and /
eight emigrants arrived in New \ ork !
asst week.
Horse thieves have been stealing in
and New Jersey and ship
ping to Iowa.
"A swimming match between Cap
tains Webb and BOytOn for 81 900 Will
come off at Newport, r. l., ON Friday
next
Bogardus. colored, shot and
killed his wife, Susan, in Baltimore on
Tuesday. The killing was the result of
a quarrel.
Mrs. Patrick Hannabray, of Troy,
n. Y, killed Matthew Duffey in a
quarrel on Monday night. She hit him
with a club.
The house is still standing, near
Fort WinnebagO, from which, fifty
years ago. Jeff Davis ran off with Zach
Taylor's daughter.
A cartridge is said to have been in
vented which floats on the water, tastes
good to ducks and blows their heads OIL
when they chew it.
-Lemire Latremoville was hanged
at Albany, y. Y, Wednesday afternoon,
for the murder of Catharine Dunstbach,
near Cohoes, in April last.
The japanese Government has just
ordered eleven pianos from firm IN
New York. This is the first shipment
ever sent to that country.
The wonderful old cOlOred woman,
Soiourner Truth, who is said to be 1O3
wears old, recently passed through CHI
cacrp ~, haT yVaU to X kanSgS
John Kane. aged twenty years,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed on Friday afternoon while walk
ing along the road near Oil City.
The West Chester JeterSOHid1l dis
claims the paragraph complimentary to
Mr.. Samuel Butler, the Republican can
didate fer State Treasurer, which has
been credited to it.
Every one will be glad to learn that
General Grants daughter, Mrs. Nellie
Sartoris, of England, is not dead as re-
ported, 1t was her mOther-in-laW who
died few days since.
"A man named M'Guirck, who by
his own admission murdered James
Needs, the servant of a Philadelphia
dentist, fifteen years ago, was arrested
at Erie on Sunday last.
Frank Lambett and his wife, of
t Il OISOIl. Odi.. NClC dNldChtu Nllilt III
bed by an unknown assassin on Friday
night Mr.. Lambett was killed and
Mrs. Lamb2tt badly wounded.
Mrs Martha Rogers, of fMiddletown,
Conn. who gave bells to four of the
churches in the place and contributed
TWENTY-FIVE thousand dollars tOreligiOus
objects, has just died, aged seventy-siX.
Governor Crosweli, of Michigan, a
widOwer of fifty-five, who has grown up
children, is about to marry Miss Lizzie
MusgrOve, of Charlotte. in that State, a
rich and pretty woman still in her TWEEN
ties.
"A Lebanon dispatch of Monday
says that Weiss, one of Raber's murder
ers, has made a confession. in which he
implicates another man. Drew. Hum
mel. Stcchler and Brant were sentenced
to death ON the same dav.
The deaths from yellow fever in
Memphis from the commencement OF
the disease up TO last Sunday was l4O
or at the rate OF about four per day. II
has not made any progress in any other
city or town along the Mississippi
During a storm on Friday after.
noon, lightning struck a stable neal
Thornton, Va, on the Washington and
Ohio railroad, killing two yourg mel
and seriously injuring two others who
had taken refuge from the rain in the
structure
Speaker Henry NJ. Long was at.
tackled by a ferociOus dog as he wa.
getting Oft a street car in Allegheny OF
Friday evening. The animal made q
serious wound in one of Mr.. Long.
legs, which required the attention of {
physician. The dog was killed
"A Florida man, who owns 1J0,00l
cattle and Is richer than ANYBODY elSt
IN the state is a recluSe living i'm Z
shanty which has neither fireplace noI
chimney. He sells his surplus cattle il
Cuba; he seldom sees men and h,
hides his money in cans on his land.
Mr.. Rudolph Oberly. residing o1
the EastOn road beyond FarmersviTe
NOrthamptOn county, is the owner of Z
mixed AIderney calf that is a wonder il
its way. 1t is but six months old
yields quart of milk per day. from the
. cream of which the most delicious but
ter is chumed.
1t is related that when General Ton
Ewing was in Maine that he made ;
ringing speech against Senator Blain,
. and then spent the night with the mar
he had so roundly abused, When Mr.
Blaine goes to Ohio to speak arains
+ General Ewing he is to be the guest O
that gentleman.
"A Martinsburg. Butler county
lawyer named J. II. Mcdonald on Fri
day evening shot and painfully injured
Charley Arlington, a man of that place
alleging that he had been the author O
a vile and Slanderous letter to Mrs. b
r. Dennison, charging her with havin.
criminal relations with Mcdonald.
-Thirty-twO tramps recently tool
possession of Humboldt Wells. a min
ing town in Nevada. stripped themselve
of clothing, held a war dance in TIN
principal street, and declared their in
tentIon to sack the place but a part,
OF mounted men drove them naked int,
the hills and whipped them soundlv.
q. y. Briggs, of Stafford county
Va, was struck in the left thigh by
minnie ball, in October. 1864, being thel
in the Confederate service at Peters
burg. Strange to relate the ball passed
across the lower portion of the stomach
and worked its way into the groin OF
the right side, from which place it wa
extracted on Wednesday.
a singular accident occurred n
Greensburg on Friday evening. DR.. 4
Waugaman, a dentist, was using tn,
YulcaniZer, Wien it exploded. and tn
cap, metal plate weighing nearly tw,
pounds, struck him just above the ewes
fTacturing the front plate of the skull
and intiicting otherwise serious though
not necessarily fatal injuries.
Robert Collins, John Uhla. Michae
Kelly, Thomas Burns and one otbe
man, name unknown, were drowned nea
Rocky River, summer resort nea
Cleveland, O., on Friday. They ha,
started to go in boat from the city to
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