The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18
NEWS AND oTHER NOTISes.


The friends of Mr.. Bayard place his I
strength at 165 on the first ballot.
Counterfeit twenty dollar American
gold pieces are in circulation in Ottawa,
Canada Ottawa be adopted to prevent +
this
-Faribault, Mimi, lays claim to hav- +
ing the oldest horse in the country. 1t IS
a 46-year-old mare descendant OF the
original Justin Mogan.
The ex-Empress Eugenie took her
departure on Sd instant from the spot
where the Prince Imperial was killed
and is now returning TO Durham.
The Bedford Inquirer maliciously
remarks ''Messrs Cessna and Over
went to the Chicago convention instruc-
ted. They return enlightened"
The remains of the boy tramp, Will
lie Carter, who was accidently killed a.
Titusville, have been eXhumed and sent
to his parents at Wilmington. Del
Three hundred millions of dollars
worth of cotton will be gathered into
the pouch of the solid South this year,
no matter who is elected President.
Samuel Ford, a colored sailor from
Philadelphia, committed suicide Friday
morning by throwing himself in front
of a heavy-laden truck on Broadway,
New York.
st. Paul's church at Troy is to have
two organs, one in the choir and one in
the chancel. \ pneumatic apparatus
will enable single player to play both
instruments at once.
"A. II. Clark. of GrotOn. has a ram
that thinks. It thinks enough to butt
apple trees, when there is fruit on them,
until the apples drop off, when It stops
thinking and goes to eating.
The Elk AdUOcate says it makes no
difference where Harry English, the
murderer of that county, is that 81, 900
reward has not proved an inducement
for any man to lay hands on him.
"A Bradford dispatch of the 18th
says: The fire at Titusville is entirely
under control. The total loss will ag-
comparatively nothing on the above.
Elmer Brown, a young man of Mil
helm, Centre county, was accused by his
father on Monday of last week of taking
8 from his pocket. The son soon after
ward committed suicide by shooting.
The body of a Pittsburg shoemaker
who disappeared several days ago, was
found in an abandoned well in that city
on Tuesday last. bearing marks of vio-
/ lence. 1t is believed that Quirk was
murdered.
/ The Kane Blade reports that an at
tempt was made recently to arrest HaT-
( rv English, the Elk county desperate,
. in the southern part of the same county
J and that he killed one man and wound
ed three 9th ers.
In the centre of large wood In
/ Warwick township. Lancaster county,
/ lives the Musselman family, consisting
{ of three maids, aged %. "A and 16 years,
and cousin, aged so, They never have
company and seldom leave home.
Elijah Pedergast (colored) OH sun
I $
/ to ear, at her home in California, a sub
urb of Louisville, Ky. The two had
/ been for some time separated on account
of jealously. The murderer escaped.
Henry Augustus Boardman, ID. D.,
a well known clergyman and for over
forty years pastor Of the Tenth Presby-
teUian church, Twelfth and Walnut
streets Philadelphia, died at his resi-
. dence at seven O'Clock on Tuesday morn
ing.
John Cessna and W. II. Armstrong
say it viii be harder to carry Pennsyl-
vania with Garfield than with any other
/ candidate who could have been selected,
because the people of Pennsylvania can
not be made to believe that Garfield is
not free trader at heart
AT Allentown, on Saturday, Mrs.
Laura Aldrich, wife of l.. 2. Aldrich,
shot her husband, while in fit Of jeal-
Ousy, and then inflicted several wounds
upon herself which will prove fatal.
Mr. Aldrich treated cases of stammer-
Jag and hailed from Philadelphia.
Mrs. Campbell, wife Of Joseph Camp
bell, farmer living near LindsborO. Hi
noiS, on Monday, became deranged, and
while her husband was in bed attempt
ed to dispatch him with an axe. She
succeeded only in badly disliguring his
face, and causing him to nearly bleed
TO death.
Joseph II. FortieT is the name of an
interesting youth who was found 10y a
census man at Oldtown. Me, the other
day. He is twelve years old and the
fifth in succession bearing the same
name. Each of the five was the first
born, and all were born on the first day
of y April
AS two children Of Jesse Cloud, oil
Kennel township, Chester, were playing
in the or chard a large black snake coil.
ed itself about the arm and leg Of the
younger. The children screamed and
the father appeared and dispatched the
reptile, though not before the little girl
was bitten.
The body of james Williams, color.
ed, was found in the woods near Law
renee, Ind, on Saturday, with the head
crushed into a shapeleSs mass. His wife
" 40 lOulltl UNCONSCIOUS On ltle llOOI OF
his cabin with her skull crushed, but
still alive. Her recovery is doubtful.
There is no clew to the murderers.
The dory Little Western, manned
by George p. Thomas and Frederick Nor
man, started on her perilOus voyage
across the Atlantic on Saturday after
noon. \ large number of boats OF
every description accompanied the tiny
craft some distance out. This is the
smallest boat that ever attempted the
trip.
The Philadelphia Record will begin
fight in the courts to wipe out Of eX-
istence the following institutions which
1t Is claimed are dealing in bogus diplO-
mas Eclectic Medical College, Amer
lean University of Philadelphia. Phila-
delphia University of Medicine and Sur
gerry, and Philadelphia ElectropathiC
Institution.
Governor Albert g. Brown, of Mis-
sisSippi, was thrown from his horse into
a pond, near his home, on Saturday night
last, and drowned. The deceased resId-
ell near Jackson Mills and was So years
old. He was governor of Mississippi for
two terms and served his State as a
member of Congress and of the United
States Senate.
Part of the Pacific delegation TO the
CincinnatIi Convention arrived in Chi
cago on Friday. All declared to a news
paper reporter that, with good nOmi-
nation by the Cincinnati Convention.
the nomination of Garfield by the Re-
publican Convention would give the
{ Democrats alItOrpIa hV from len f.