The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-12
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.


- london mas t.OVD,UUO lLtldDlIaIlJS.
A Reading grocer has well-pre-
served apple eight years old.
Daniel PiersOn. of Crawford county,
has Just died, in his l04th year.
American wives have made them
selves notorious in France by six elOpe-
ments in as many months.
George Hilton, postmaster at South
Parsonheld. Me, is 81 years old, and has
occupied that position since 1880.
Mr.. Cutler. of the Nova Scotia Leg
islature. has been member of that body
for forty-twO years, and is now SO years
of age.
A boiler exploded in Glasgow on
FRIDAY Six persons were killed out
right and thirty severely injured by the
explosion.
BY a notable coincidence. the 18th
+ of March this year will be Maundy
Thursday as well as the Feast of the
AnnunciatiOn.
+ Six young women, armed with shot
guns. recently accompanied as many
4 Young men on rabbit hunt in Georgia.
4 No one was hurt.
+ "A countryman attracted cOnsideTa-
/ BILE attention at Titusville by stopping
his wagon in the middle of the streets
and engaging in prayer.
The Pittsburg police made a raid
houses. and arrested Seventy-six persons
Of all colors and both sexes.
Joseph Wicker, Of Reading, who IS
. y years old, has become deranged from
grief over the Affections of his mother,
who is suffering from dTOpsy.
There will soon be sent out from the
State hatchery at CORY between 100, 600
and SOC. 900 brook trout, for stocking
streams in Western Pennsylvania.
An owl was recently captured in the
+ Pigeon Hills, near Shippensburg, that
; had white head and one white wing,
! while the rest of the body was black.
"A COW belonging to Mr.. Charles
Shipe. OF BirchrmvilIe. Chester county,
recently gave birth to a calf without a
tail. Otherwise the aniclal was perfect.
The adhesion of the Catholic bishops
of the United States to the POpe's ency-
cIical relative to the philosophy of Saint
Thomas Aquinas has been delivered to
the Pope.
The body of DR.. Samuel Hahr, 80
. years Of age, and Hungarian by birth,
who died in New y York on Saturday, Of
erysipelas, was cremated at Washington,
Pa, on Monday,
Simon J. DiIler, of Hanover, has Il
. monster Poland-China hog weighing
over $50 pounds. 1t is said to be the
largest hog ever raised in Southern
Pennsylvania.
John Rauch and wife, an OctOgeua-
riau couple of Merriwcather county, Ga,
have quarreled and separated, after liv
ing together for over half a century and
raising a large family.
"A Boston man claims 10 have dis
cOverd a method of making paper boxes
directly from the pulp, whereby he can
turn out 30, 600 day at ona-th.Td of the
cost OF the usual method.
Mr. Parnell sailed for England
on Thursday, in consequence of the dis
solution Of Parliament After his cleo
ton is secured, he will return to Amer
lea and continue his work here.
An orphan boy named SwatZfagger,
employed in the family Of a Mr.. Da!es.
at Shippensville, Clarion county, blew
cut his brains on Wednesday afternoon.
No reason for the act is known.
Maine lumbermen recently from the
logging camps report three feet of snow
and excellent shedding. They say that
this has been the best winter for hauling
logs in Maine for a number Of years.
C. f. Cooley. of CharlcmonU. Mass.
has a COW years old that has borne
eighteen calves She had eight before
she was s years old. has had four at a
time twice and three at a time twice.
Friday afternoon. while tearing
down the Reno breaker at Centralia, Pa,
two carpenters, Andrew and W. Wolf
gang, were instantly killed bv the falling
of the framework. caused by high winds.
The Hon. John \. Cuthbert, of
Mobile, is still practicing law in that
city, although 81 years Old He was an
officer in the war of 1912, and was
elected to Congress from Georgia in 1919.
The right foot and leg of John
Y nt ]
ty, are petrifying. These members have
no feeling, and to strike them q sound
is given like that produced in striking 4
stone.
The London Times says it is stated
that on Parnell'S return from America
monster meetings in favor of his scheme
for peasant proprietary viii be resumed
by series of county demonstrations in
all parts of Ireland
Christi GrassInan and William Car
son, the DelphOs (O.) robbers. who at.
tempted to murder Pickens, and who
tortured his wife, have been sentenced
to twelve years each in the penitentiary
at hard labor, and to be locked in a dun
geOn every night for six years.
Three white men and one cOlOreC
man were drowned by the upsetting OF
. a skiff at Caseyville. Ky. on THURSDAY
morning. The whole party had beer
drinking too freely at saloons along The
river, hence the catastrophe
The German population Of New
I Ork city is estimated to he go. 000
OF this number so, 600 are Protestants
| 10000 Catholics, 60, 600 Jews, and 30, OOC
are claSsed as Indifferent, infdels. etc
The number of Protestant communicate,
is -, 600.
Hon. Simon Cameron celebrated til,
eighty-first anniversary of his birth on
Monday by receiving his friends at hi
country residence in Donegal. The ven
cradle ex-senator was found in remark
| able vigor of body and mind for a mar
of his years.
Delegates from various Irish soce
ties and uibernian organizations in
Brooklyn met on Sunday afternoon anC
decided not to parade on St. Patrick's
Day, but to send the money usually ap
prOpriated for such occasions to the suf
fering poor of Ireland.
"A negro barber living in Norwalk
Ohio, named Hawkins. attempted to xii
his wife. his stepfather and himself or
Saturday. He put two balls in hi
/ wife's head, shot his stepfather through
! the arm and then himself once in tn,
. head and once in the breast Pur,
devilishnesS is assigned as the cause.
Mrs. Schuler, of Catasauqua. wen
out to wash on Tuesday week, and left
woman in charge of her three children
The woman left in the afternoon, anC
the two eldest children went out to play
Soon afterward fire was discovered il
! the house, and the remaining child, :