The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-19
NEWS AND OTHER soTTNes.

will get away by the middle Of May.
The oil producers fund to the relief
Of Irish sufferers increases at the rate OF
600 barrels day.
People in considerable numbers are
leaving Clearfeld and Centre counties
to settle in Kansas.
An old man named L. Tenant was
found frozen to death on the plains 15O
miles from Cheyenne.
"A child was born in West Alexan-
dria, Washington county, few days
ago, with fully developed teeth.
The youngest twins of the Hood
orphans have been adopted 10y a lady and
gentleman living in New York city.
Colonel B. J. Chambers, Of Texas,
the Greenback candidate for Vice-Pres-
ident, is wealthy lawyer who used to
be banker
Lawrence Shilling, shoemaker re-
siding on the Graffstown road, Just out
side the city Of Lancaster, fell down
stairs on Monday and broke his neck.
Strawberries hawked about the
streets in a binding snow-storm,. was
the novel spectacle presented in Balti-
more on Friday,
ANY Spencer, colored, Of Stafford
county, Virginia, has been committed
for killing her 12-year-old son by cruel
and inhumsn treatment.
On Saturday there were eighty RATS
tied up in the dam at Lock Haven
awaiting q sufficient rise of water to
cgrry them further down.
There are two brothers and four
sisters living near East Coventry, Ches-
ter county, whose ages range from sixty
five to eighty-three years.
-Adolphus McNitt, of Armagh town
ship, Mifflin county, has a calf which,
when seven weeks old, weighed 22l
pounds, it being the heifer's first calf.
William F. Taylor, aged 6S, late
Auditor of Public Accounts of Virginia,
was found dead in lis bed yesterday at
Richmond. He died of heart disease.
The expense of the removal of the
Alexandrian obelisk to New Y YOrk Is to
be borne by w. II. Vanderbilt, who is to
pay S75, 600 on its successful completion.
"A slab of wood marks the grave Of
Stozewan Jackson's mother, who was
buried on an eminence seven bundled
feet above,the river at Hawks Nest. Va.
A disease known as the "black meas
les, - is alaTmingly prevalent il the cOun-
try around Petersburg, Va, and has
caused many sudden deaths during the
last few days.
Mr.. r. &. Tilden, Of Norwich,
Conn, has a Durham bull calf, a months
Olu. hGlSb bl1lS tOC POuiuos "iAiCiA III ~
days gained 80 pounds in weight-an
average of 81 pounds daily.
Edwin Fair, brother of the Neva-
da millionaire, James G.. Fair, has ar
rived in this country from Ireland,
where he was renter paying an annual
rent on eight acres Of s.. 80 per acre.
Philadelphia has 800 churches or
places Of worship. OF these 96 are
Methodist. "a Episcopalian, 81 Presby
terian, 67 Baptist, Al Catholic, 81 Luth-
eran, and 20 Reformed Of several kinds.
Harry Monroe, who halls fIOm Troy,
Pa, challenges George II. Wade, who
claims to be the champion ocean swim
meT of America, to swim one mile for
$500 in ChautaUqua Lake on July (, 1880.
Mr.. PembertOn Pearson, Of Uwchlan
township, Chester county, is the owner
Of an ordinary bred cow, five years old,
which has given birth to seven large
calves, first one calf and three pairs OF
twins.
Tho residence OF Mr.. Richard John
son, farmer near Dennison, Crawford
county, Iowa, was burned, the other
day, and two Of his daughters perish
ed in the flames. Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson
and seven of their children had mar
row escape.
Some time ago Miss Hester Parker,
OF Bangor, Ne, pressed a number OF
very pretty autumn leaves and sent
them to the Queen OF Spain at Madrid,
Recently, Miss Parker got an autograph
letter from the Queen, acknowledging
the receipt Of the leaves.
John McDeTmOt, sentenced to Sing
Sing from New York in 1873 for life,
and who was known as Praying John, -
from his deVOut and religious demeanOr,
attempted suicide on Friday last 10y
thruBting his head into the furnace of
the mess-TOom. He will probably die.
"A gentleman of means and Teputa-
ton in Adrian, Mich, has taken oath
before justice OF the peace that he has
made the numbers come in rotation, al
though they had previously stood 13, 10,
II. He sweaTs that he has done it, but
has no inclination to undertake the job
again.
A hog measuring feet in length, 7
feet inches in giTth, and weighing l.,
137 pounds, dressed, has been on exbi-
bitiOn ct the Continental Market, near
32d street, New York. Before killing,
the animal weighed 1890 pounds. 1t
came from Copakc, Columbia county,
New York
Cardinal McCloskey celebrated on
Wednesday the thirty sixth anniversary
Of his elevation to the episcopacy Of the
Roman Catholic church. He was conse-
Grated in st. P2trick's (oldl Cathedral,
in Mott street, New York, on the 10th
OF March, 1874, as cosdjutor to the late
Archbishop Hughes.
General Benjamin F. Butler lectur-
ed before large audience III New Y YOrk
on Sunday evening for the benefit of the
Irish relief fund. The lecture was de-
livered in Steinway Hall, under the aus
pleas OF the Veteran Corps of the Sixty
ninth regiment, the subject being THE
Irish Soldier in America"
Mrs. Sarah Coorley, Of Lancaster,
who was convicted Of conspiracy TO mar
~ young lady TO Dr.. Eugene De Leon,
who had a wife living in Harrisburg,
was sentenced on Monday to impUisOn-
ment in the common jail Of Lancaster
county for term Of thirteen months
and to pay a fine Of 500.
While Frederick Brinkman, q FIRE
man on a freight train, was shoYeling
coal into the locomotive furnace. near
Rohrerstown, on Friday night, one foot
being on the engine aud the other on
the tank, the coupling between the en-
gine and 5ank broke. As he fell Brink
man caught a chain and clinging to it
saved his life. 1t is deemed miraculous
that he should have escaped.
There was a quiet marriage OF
dwarfs in Rochester on Sunday, Colo
mel Reuben SteeTe, who is thirty-three
years old and thirty-fOur inches high,
being united 10 Miss Rebecca Ann Ny
ers, second soprano OF the Liliputian
Opera Company, six years younger than
her husband and one inch shorter.
Admiral Dot WGeueralI, Tofrnar