The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-05-21
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

A COW at ConneIlsvflle when separated from
her calf, jumped from high embankmeut and
Mrs Frost, OF PIt1sburg. aged o. years by
mistake ate a saucer of oatmeal and arsenic, in
tended to poison mice. and died soon afterword
By an explosion at the Birchil's Hall Iron
Works near Walsail, London, Saturday IE
persons were instantly killed and IS injured,
some fatally.
"A Detroit mule accomplished the feat ofkick-
ing two men at cnce- Although they stood sever
al feet apart, each received one OF he beast hind
"A Tennessee man can so perfectly i'm itate the
sound made by two dogs engaged in lighting that
he can call a Memphis congregation out OF church
in three minutes.
a lightning stroke went clear through a
Clark county. Ky, school house, killed a grey
hound asleep under the floor, but left twenty hve
About ten cents worth Of damage was done to
q fence by boy with a knife, at Galesburg. III.
The owner MANNED the boy for life by Kicking
him, and has had 10 pay $4,000.
"A negro walked from New York to PhIadeI-
phia, a distance Of nearly hundred miles inside
OF twentytour hours. The colored pedestrians
seem 10 be taking the cake all around
tbI eldest GIshoP m OF the Episcopal Church in
presiding bishop who was born in 1874, ordained
in 1917 and consecrBt8d as bishop in 1882
on Friday last Carl Manke was executed at
Buffalo tor the murder of John Atlof. and Thos.
killing OF cOlored boy named Hawkins.
-Tuesday evening a portion Of PeHnypackers
caved in. Killing Joseph Miles and James K,
Brown. Their bodies we're horribly crushed and
N the drawing for seats in the Methodist
General Conference, at Cincinnati, several color
Il q
ehandar Bose. of India found himself sandwiched
between white and a colored delegate.
A special express train Of four cars, pulled by
a new locomotive, which has but one 611loot
driving wheel at each side, was run on a trial trip
between Philadelphia and Jersey City on Friday,
minutes
Simultaneously, in the Audubon (IowaJ Coun-
ty Clerk s Once, one man applied for a copy OF
decree OF divorce from his former wife. and anoth-
er man for license to marry her. The former
wished the latter JOY, but sarcasm was detected
tragic deai ny falling through an old barn floor
in Ittusyiic q few days ago. was accorded a mag
nifcent funeral. His final outht cost not lcss
than 500 NO one knew where he came from OF
who his friends were.
Two brothers named Hun were sho: at East
Cairo Ky, Sunday night, by man named
Rogers, the owner Of fsh boat, tho result OF
quarrel between the brothers and Mrs. Rogers.
One viii probably die and the other recover.
Rogers escaped In boat after the shooting.
on his farm in west Bradfr Bra m Tow tPpEnshp ship Chester
county, which is more than $50 years old The
has always been very prolific, having borne fruit
son. who is now over 81 years Of age.
Benson Jones well known resident Of ALE
gEeHy City, committed suicide IN Pittsburgh
into his brain. He had been drinking freely foI
several days. Eeuson was single man, aged
thirty i've years. AMI for some time past had been
bookkeeper for UpPenheimer y Co, that city.
Smith, destroyed by fire early on Saturday
miles distant Her three children whose R.yes
ranged from to II years, perished in the flames,
together with David Fry aged 25 wears. who went
10 the house the previous night in a drunken con
1t is announced that under an arrangement
made between the trunk lines the Pennsylvauia
Railroad Company win issue no free passes TO the
National Conventions to be held next month
Chicago and Cincinnati Round trip tickets viii
be issued at reduced rates from the eastern cities
and from prominent interior points to both con-
Israel Brandt. Josiah Hummcll and Henry F.
Wise, convicted o. the murder Of Josiah Raber, in
ISIS, were hanged on Thursday at Lebanon Pa
condemned
exercises M to i O'Clock the night previous
Brandt and HuumeU had a private consultation
before the execution, in reference. it is believed TO
the supposed confession Of HunmelL
\ son OF John Leach, of NIarple. Delaware
county, ABOUT twelve years Of age, came over the
chester county line TO attend sunday school and
i'm climbing fence he fell of and broke his arm.
The singular part OF the affair is that he attended
the SINE sunday school once before about a year
ago, and in getting over the same panel of fence
and going in the same direction he fell of and
broke tie same arm.
A little boy and girl residing in the north
eastern part Of Forest county, Pa. aged about
thirteen years went out a few days ago and
caught sixty dozens Of live pigeons in ore day,
little girl wanted organ and took this method
tnUed the business several days, but this
their most success iul day.
an exchange says: Two sparrows have
built rest and are raising family inside the
gong which announces the departure OF trains at
" Transport. The gong is about eighteen inches
in diam. ter, and when struck by its hammer has
dealeuing sonnd, but notw! thstanding its racket
and the roar ani rattle OF engines and cars, the
birds are unmUved. the male, indeed, being fre
guently observed sitting upon the Ton kuocSer
itself while 10 is str. Eng''
Prominence is given in several religious news
papers to the recent conversion catholicism OF
Methodist minister Of Fort MIL ). @, as we'll as
his 1--WE children II is name is !. G. Russell. He
has been preacher for nineteen years past, and
his conversion . said TO have heeu the result ot
several years Of close study and careful inquiry.
He was received into the catholic Church on the
3lSt 81 March. Mrs. Russell was present at the
habtsmal service, but has not yet decided 10 FOL
The young wife OF Voorhees, SkfIIman. Of
New lorsr saved her chld's life on Thursday
night by running through blazing room TO It's
cradle and carrying it back through the hre.
. The child was uUhuTt- but the mothers hands
were scorched. hair crisped and singed eyelashes
burned aW ay ana ace and ears severely scorched;
. Her sairts were blazing and falling in bits. and
she tainted after she and her child were safe.
She suffered serious burns, hut her physician be-
licvcs her lite not IN danger.
-Mrs- wilkins, OF Oxford, y. ., had three
children oi her own and was stepmother TO boy.
The latter annoyed her by stealing eatabies from
depredaJons She locked tho dantiest OF the
food in a chest. and he opened it with skeleton
closet. and went away for days visit. On her
return, instead OF finding that the boy was dead,
5sG 5 saw saw ne re- remains m OF two OF her children who
or the newly eiccjcd Methodist bishops all
wear white nccktics: all crown themselves with
high SILK hats and all of modest bearing
Bishop Haven is the smallest, as well as the old
est of the four. He is more than five feet five
inches in height. and weighs only l3J pounds.
. Bishop Hurst wears a small sandy goatee. Both
Bishop Warren and Bishop Foss tall and
somewhat slim. There ism mouStache in the
whole party. Dr. Leonard Gurley said the other
elected bishop in the Methodist Church
The land Of honey. il not Of milk, has been
discovered al last. The Tappahannock (Na.l In
del says quite an excitement has been created in
some portions Of that county 10y the appearance
of vas quantities OF liquid resembling honey in
taste in the forests: the pine forests are laden
with Il and Il Is falling almost in showers from
the huuGhs. It is found, iJ is said only anG in
the immediate vicinity Of pines, and hence it is
supposed to exude from the leaves of the pine, on
VIII iCh ii may be seen hanging in crystal drops.
II hC suit of Father Stack against BiOhOp o.
Hara Tor $4,000 was decided at WilliamspOrt on
SATURDAY 10y "A veruict in iaver Of the defendant.
. The controversy began in 1871 because Of the
moval OF the priest by the Bishop from the pas
tOT;te at that place The reason for his removal
had not become known until this trial. 1t is now
asccrtainCt that the priest incurred censure by
Noncompliance with a letter from the Bishop
parish. This neg ect OF the priest was regarded
diso5edicnc. a bill of exceptions has been aiken
against the decision OF the Court and the whole
case will be reviewed in the Supreme Court.
In the case Of the relatives of Dennis Coppers
| who obtained mandumus compelling the board
of trustees of st. Patrick's cathedral. New York
Coppers, a decision was rendered in the general
term of the supreme Court Friday, Over-rulfnu
. the mandamus. The opinion says the plaintiffs
main reliance was on receipt Tor a lot given by
r the superintendent. and which they cIaimed
the right OF burial Irrespective OF whether the
Sed was q Free Mason or n Protestant. The
Court holOs that the Catholic Church has n right
. to use denOmins tiOnal cemetery and has the
power to make such rules bylaws rs will re
IT. for the sole of those in fold the re
ceipt he held not being title deed of the lot.
4 Tho Glare (Ireland} Independent publishes
the following: On Tuesday Of last week Captain
Ray mOnd. X -eper OF Lille Saving Station No. 3,
. found on tie beach what he supposed to be a mer-
+ maid. which mad been washed up from the sea-
. 1t was dead when it came on the beach, and in
describes it being about the size Of dinary
six year-Oid boy. and to the waist middle Of the
body Tesembled a boy in every particular. He
says hat its face head, neck, arms and bust,
well hair, as perfect in appearance as