The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-02-13
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.


ing.
"A German attempted to commit sui
eide at his wife's grave in PittsburR on
Saturday.
The iron workers at Fulton's Mill,
Norristown, have struck for an advance
of from s. to $3.50 a ton.
-Four Wisconsin men blew up a
stump with gunpowder, and each man
went higher than the stump.
On Sunday afternoon a schooner
was capsiZed in q squall at Grand Man
an. n B., and five persons were drown
ed.
The body of Miss Hartman, OF Pitts
burg, was cremated in the LeMoyne
Furnace at Washington, Pa, on Satur-
day.
Two hundred families of Philadel-
phia Quakers will form colony in Min
nesota on the Northern Pacific Railroad,
next spring.
Thomas Sloan. of st. John, \. B.,
has at various times saved eighteen hui
man lives in that harbor, and possesses
the freedom of the city.
-Four Chinese converts have just
Joined the Presbyterian Church at In
dianapolis, and ore of them has taken
out naturalization papers.
AT New York the Friendly Sons of
st. Patrick will donate g, 500 to the
Irish Relief Fund, instead of buying a
dinner with it on March II.
Another case of ''didn' know it was
loaded is reported from Charleston. a
girl of nineteen is the victim and her
Younger brother the shOotist.
An American woman writes TO the
English Queen that an American farm
er's wife works ten or twenty times as
hard as an English farmers wife.
Henry Fellows, of Bradford, and
several of his children were nearly killed
a few days ago, from partaking OF cheese
that it is supposed had been poisoned.
Mrs. Abbott, widow, Of Smyrna.
Del, remarkable for having married
seven times, and each time, with one
exception, &idower, died on Thursday.
The steamer Bengore, laden with
coal, from Penarth for Gibralter, found
cred when two days out of port. Thir-
teen of her crew were drowned six were
saved.
The Hon. Mrs Ronald Campbell,
whose husband was killed in 1.-THE engage
ment on the hill of Kambula, will &C
company the Empress Eugenie in her
pilgrimage TO Zululand.
Mrs. Donnelly, Of the family bru
tally murdered few days since at Lucan,
Ont, by masked men, is said to have
been sister OF Jack Kehoe, the Mollie
Mcguire who was hanged.
The Irish societies OF Chicago and
San Francisco have decided not TO par
ade Oh st. Patrick's Day, but instead
contribute to the Irish relief fund and
have entertainments for the same puT-
pose
The Harrisburg Patriot says that
the Republican nominations for Supreme
Judge and Auditor General will be
known as the Green Lemon ticket. 1t
is just possible that it may sour on the
Republican stomach.
Near Bradford, Pa, on Monday, a
sleigh occupied by two men and 100
pounds of nitro-glyccriHe upset and the
nitro -glycerine exploded, killing one Of
the men. both the horses, and wrecking
two houses and 4 barn.
-Chauncy Slater. a foreman at the
shop Of the Elastic Frog Company, in
Mansfield, Conn, recently fell heir to
$lG0, GOO. The other day he got check
for 500. 600, and sticking it into his vest
pocket kept unconcernedly at work.
A Chinese wash house, on Pine
street, near Taylor, San francisco, was
destroyed by fire on Thursday morning
The number OF its occupants is not
known, but the bodies of ten Cinnamon
have been recovered from the ruins.
A cOlored girl named Glasgow, aged
- year, was playing with several chill
dTen At UnionyiIle, Chester county. re-
/ Gently, when one of her companions pull
Ell her arms back with such force that 4
blood vessel was burst and the child
bled TO death
Il widow, who lives in a secluded
! part ot Michigan. talks very imperfectly
/ by reason Of having lost her palate. and
+ her two daughters, aged s and y, can
Z only speak the strange language they
! have learned of her, though their vocal
! organs are perfect.
( Joseph Bailey, OF Lancaster, Wis.
] advised his son to break his engagement
{ with Jennie Farrell, and marry her pref
/ tier sister. Jennie resentfully set fire TO
/ the old mans barn. and has gone to
State prison, while her sister has become
! young Bailey's wife.
Charles Wharton purchased eighty
{ five sheep from y. S. Brainard, OF Bel
! fast, in the Bradford! oil regions MIR.
! Wheaton drove the sheep over a road
+ studded with laurel. and the next day
found fifty of the animals dead or dying
from having eaten the laurel.
! There are in Pennsylvania 500 towns
having from !, 500 to Il, 900 inhabitants
! IN which not a solitary Baptist church
/ IS TO be found. There are also entire
counties without q single Baptist meet
: ing house. The Baptists are to make an
: effort TO remedy this state of affairs.
Official dispatches have been recei-
! we'd giving further details Of the hurri-
+ cane IN the Philippine Islands. Twenty
i've vessels Of various Classes were wreck
/ ed, including four foreign frigates. and
a large number of other vessels were
/ damaged. Forty-six persons were drown.
ed.
Cardinal Manning's brother. whose
death has just been announced. was a
! man or cultivated taste and a stanch
/ Protestant, 20 much so that he had pro-
! vided the money to build a Protestant
/ church. He is said not to have spoken
. to his brother the Cardinal for many
/ years.
"A peculiar velocipede is used on
! railroad tracks in Kansas bv telegraph
repairers It has two wheels. like 2
bicycle, which run on one track. and
over which the rider sits. while I small
. er wheel, for steadving, rests on the
other track. Twenty miles an hour Is
practicable with it.
&c. F. Brown. who lived Eve miles
southeast of indianapolis. and who had
just finished a years Imprisonment foI
larceny. was shot and killed on FRIDAY
night while driving buggy along the
/ road near HIS house. His wife and heI
paramount are suspected Of his murder
( and have been arrested.
The Chicago DGilg Nefrs thinks that
when the Queen gave 4 few pounds to.
I ward heluiOp the Srarvirr Dao,,Ie Of 4b<