The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-08-01
NEWS AND OTHER NOTNGs.

Passenger rates on the New Y YorlI /
Central is two cents mile. 1t IS the 4
cheapest fare of any railroad III the /
world.
The wife of John Steiger, of Union |
Hill. n. J.. gave birth on Thursday to a /
babe which has twelve fingers and
twelve toes.
Michael Fitzgibbons, another OF the
Memphis refugees who went TO New
York. died at quarantine Of yellow fever
on Monday last.
George Washington was recently
hanged in Kentucky, and not long after
Napoleon BOnapaTte mounted the seal
fold in Mississippi.
Malcolm Macarthur was instantly
killed and six others seriously injured
bv the falling of a beam at barn raising
at WOodville, y. $, on Monday.
John Hennesy, one of the stevedores
who assisted in unloading the steamer
CITY of Merida at New York and con-
tracted yellow fever, died at quarantine
on Sunday.
"A birds nest containing four blu
ish-green eggs, was found underneath
an Erie freight car, on a beam above the
truck. The car had just passed over the
entire road.
Nellie Cox, a six-year-old daughter
L
on Saturday from hydTophObia caused
by the bite of a rabid dog about two
months ago.
Miss Martha ~ Head, the bride at
a wedding in Wayne county, Ga, was
only 10 years old. Her parents were
present at the ceremony and gave it
their full approval.
The Court of Errors and Appeals at
Trenton, n. J., has reversed the decision
of the lower court in the case of Mrs.
Smith and Bennett, convicted of murder
ing policeman Smith in Jersey City.
Two aged cOlored women fought in
the Newport aImsEOuse, and it tranSpir-
ed that sixty years before they had quar-
Ieled about a lover so bitterly that, on
meeting, their animosity was as strong
( as ever.
Mrs. Johanna Brennan. q. refugee
I from Memphis. died of yellow fever in
} New York on Friday morning. She
! had been in the city only three days,
/ and was taken sick on the day of her
arrival.
! The proprietors of the Boston Pilot
will, in September, pay a fourth yolm-
tary dividend of ten per cent. on the
amount due those who deposited their
money with Patrick DOnahoe. making
nearly $50, 900 paid.
Empress Eugene has written to
Queen Victoria begging that no penalty
be inflicted upon Lieut.. Carey. lie
was with the Prince Imperial when the
latter was killed, and has been sent home
for trial on charge of neglect of duty.
The Catholic Church has in its
Asian missions 100 bishops. j.G30 priests
and ,, $50, SOB converts. OF these con-
veTts there are SS7. .474 in India, 112, AZ
in China and 16,622 in Japan. More
than 5000 additions were made in China
last year.
"A shooting affTay occurred at the
/ farm house of /. Convert, near Colum
bus. Ind. at the breakfast table Wed
neSday morning between his sons Henry
and Alexander in which Henry was in
b stantly killed and Alexander mOTtaIly
= wounded.
Mrs. Margaret Vaux, of Philadsl
phia. mother of eN-NayOr VauN. has
according to Fomey's Progress, visited
Long Branch annually for sixty years
| and is there again this season, She j
{ - years old, but still enjoys life and it
pleasures.
"A man named Gross. in the emplo,
} of Frank Myers, five miles west Of York
during the absence of Nlr and Mrs. Ny
r ers. outraged a child named Strayer,
Step-siSter of Mrs. Myers, aged II years
The child Is in a dangerous condition
Gross has fled to parts unknown.
I Miss Layinia Fry. living on farm
I near LitiZ, Lancaster county, was pick
8 ed up on the horns of Il fer0cioUS bull Ol
Friday and tossed across a creek. Re
? newing the attack, the animal threw
{ . the young lady over a fence, and. Strang
, to say, her injuries are not serious.
f ~ young man has died in Bingham
hG of low ell
i yer half dollar about three weeks pre-
D , yiOUs. He was tossing the coin in tn
' air and catching it in his mouth, t
+ amuse a child, when it lodged in hi
throat and passed into his stomach.
= john MahOney and James Sullivan
5 were drowned at Black Rock Harbor
p near Buffalo. y. Y. SUNDAY last. Will
I fishing, Mahoney fell into the river
and Sullivan. in attempting to save him
was grasped by MahCney and pulled t
r the bottom. Both men We're married.
= Martin DefOOr and wife. living si
T miles from Atlanta, Ca. bothg nearl
, eighty years of age, were bTutaI Ily muT
, dcred on Friday night while in be,
; asleep. Both were cut in the neck witt
= an axe. The mUrdererS are not known
5 nor IS their object in committing TIN
deed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sims. who died il
Z . Lee county, Georgia, q few days ago, !
5 said to have been 10 years old. J-p [,
{ her last illness, which commenced som
, two months before her death. she wa
, remarkably active, and went about witt
! as much ease as an ordinary person O
t sixty.
e While a Seyen-year-OId son and
I nine-year-Old daughter Of a man name,
f Hanson. living at Astoria. l. l.. wer
5 playing on the bank of the river on Fri
day the boy fell into the water. TIL,
{ girl tried to rescue him and i'm the at
tempt fell in also. They were boil
drowned.
In pushing ahead the work Of i'm
proving the roadway, the Pennsylvani;
2 railroad last week purchased between
5 - and 40 acres of ground at Bryn Mawr
, paying at the rate of =. 800 per acre. O.
about 100000 for the whole The bar
gain was made through Mr.. Townsend
- the iron man.
, A mine on Mosquito Range, neal
= LcadYille, Col, in which W. \. II
Lovcland, of the Denver Nc,rS. has one
half interest. has come intOmarveIlousIy
5 rich carbonate equal TO anything before
, discovered. Joveland refused $500. OOC
, for his interest. and has paid 500 OOg
for three adjacent mines.
-Awrit of error having been granted
in the case of Cox, the convicted mur
, derer of Mrs. Hull, in New York. there
Is row good chance that the assassin
viii have a new trial from a Jury thai
may regard him more fav0rabIv than
: the first one did. In which event
more's the pity for justice.
. All Ching. a native Chiuamau h9,