The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-01-30
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

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The German government intends to
levy tax on advertisements in newspa-
pers.
Alexander Smith, a Floyd county,
Georgia murderer, has one black and
one gray eye.
Joseph Grant and Seth De Garno
were instantly killed on Saturday by the
explosion of q boiler at Transfer, Pa.
! "A family quarrel in Mercer county,
Kentucky, resulted in the heads of the
opposing families shooting themselves.
Two boys, while playing on q pond,
. near Providence, r. l., on Monday,
broke through the ice and were drowned.
The age of Abraham johnson, who
lives near Scranton, is los years. His
health is good and his memory remark
able.
F. Staff, German saloon-keeper in
/ Pittsburg quarrelled with his wife on
Saturday night, and then went into the
garret and hung himself.
Jason p. ScribneT was on Monday
sentenced at Augusta, Me, to imprison-
ment for life for the murder of two OF
his children in May, 1873.
Daniel Barrett. Supreme President
of the Catholic Mutual Benefit AssOcia-
ton of the United States and Canada,
died suddenly 1T Medina, \. Y, on Fri
day.
-Ile EriuOSIO1E OF Tue sCClhuAOi litO
works at Providence, r. l., burst last
Tuesday morning. instantly killing VIM.
FAIRIES. a grinder, and completely shat
tering the building.
The Western Catholic opposes par
ade on st. Patrick's Day, and advises
all Trishmen to devote the proceeds OF
the DAYS labor to the relief OF Irish dis
tress Which is a very sensible sugges-
tion.
Governor Smith, of Maine, is big
ger man than Governor Davis Is. smith
weighs 900. and Davis only l40. The
Republicans had better see that their
man is kept at a safe distance from the
big Fusionist.
Lewis Browning, one Of the county
commissioners of Bedford county, drop
ped dead the other day after having aid
ed in quelling an attack made by some
Young men on a school teacher in his
neighbOrhOod.
w ashingtOn county. Blaine S nati.e
place, enthusiastically instructed its
delegates to support the Maine Senator
in the State convention. y poll OF the
county convention resulted: Blaine,
116; Grant, 10.
John McCarty has been convicted
at Ottawa, Ont, of cutting the tongue
out of a horse belonging to a widow
who had refused TO marry him, and was
sentenced to seven years imprisonment
in the penitentiarv.
Sheriff Taylor. Of Philadelphia, an
nounces that he will sell on February 4,
at public sale. Horticultural Hall. in
consequence of the foreclosure of
mortgage for s64, $50, held by the Phila-
delphia Savings Fund Society.
Gen. Grant was met by an earth
quake when he landed in Cuba, but the
Harrisburg Patriot thinks it was very
( mild one to that which the Blaine and
Sherman men are preparing for him on
his return to the United States.
Miss Margoe, OF Port Jervis, was
offered $500 by an old farmer living near
. that place If she would marry him. She
refused the offer. but finally accepted
when he made the amount an even
thousand. The same old story money
makes the Margoe.
Mr.. !. c. Flood. OF San Francisco,
has just bestowed 2 pleasant little
amount of pin money upon his daughter,
/ Miss Jennie Flood he has registered
. g, 500, 600 in United States bonds in her
name. The gift provides for her an in
I come of 500, 600 year.
"A young man named John Mcguire.
alias VIM. Love. has been arrested at
/ Welland, Canada, Tor a murder commit
ted in Pennsylvania seven years ago.
He is supposed to belong TO the MOlie
& Maguires. lie will be held until the
{ United States authorities are heard from.
Important IL true. says the New
/ York Sun The report from Washing
ton that, al the approaching Pennsyl-
vania Republican State Convention, the
I next friends of Grant will announce by
authority that he is not candidate for
. President, and that his name must not
I be used.
A dispatch from Rome says that the
+ monster Italian double turret iron clad
{ 'DuilO," the most powerful war vessel
in the world in trial on Saturday gave
fourteen miles per hour. working six
Bevenths Of her full capacity. She has
I a powerful ram, and at the stern q tor
pedo boat
The steamboat Charmer, with 9. 100
bales o. cotton, was totally DESTROYED bv
fire, about fifteen miles above the mouth
of the Red river, on Monday last
Eight lives were lost-two chamber
maids, two cooks, two cabin boys, one
fireman and one deck hand. The boat
and cargo were valued at SI30. 600
~. W. Foster, Esq, a prominent
attorney of Pittsburg, and also one of
the founders Of the Pittsburg Dispatch.
died in that city on Saturday after 4
few hours Illness. He was very popu-
lar, enjoyed large law practice, and
. IlstI ielV several OiHCcS u0Gef appoint
ment from the State Government.
Geo. ". Henderlite, prominent
Greenbacker of Virginia, who went to
. Washington, j. C.. week before last. to
atterd the Greenback convention, and
has been in an intoxicated condition
! ever since, jumped from window in
the third story of the metropolitan Hotel
( Friday morning and was instantly killed.
, General Grant has invited General
Robert Patterson, his old commander in
I the Mexican war, to join him on his ap-
/ preaching tour through Mexico, and
I the old veteran, though now in his eighty
ninth year, has accepted. General Pat
! terson will not go to Havana, bat will
I join Grant on his arrival in Mexico. pro.
/ bably at Vera Cruz.
The Pennsylvania Editorial Associ-
alton. at its meeting in Harrisburg on
Thursday Of last week, elected ClaytO,,
McMichael. President Jacob Zeirler.
l.. j. Woodruff and J. II. Shieblev.
Vice Presidents; and II. :. Memamin.
Secretary and Treasurer. 1t was resol-
we'd to hold its next summer excursion
at Watkins Glen and Cayuga Lake.
VIII l. Marple. a st. Louis artist
has applied for a divorce from his wife.
One of his grievances is that she sent a
broken frying pan to an art show. where
some OF his pictures were on exhibition
with request that the hanging com
lnlttee would give it a position. as ian
example OF the way in which the talent
ed MI Marple provided for his family's
necessities ?;