The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-02-27

Bradford, VT, and Perrin was insane.
-At,Meadville, Crawford county, on
Friday last, John NJ. Hood was fined
81 600 and sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary At previous Court
Hood fired five shots at witness, with
intent to kill (but missed bim every
time), because he testified against him.
According to recent telegram
from Baltimore, Mr.. ParEell says he is
laboring with the best prospects of sue
cess TO form an Irish land league in
this country. A convention, at which
al the cities in the union are to be repre-
sented, viii be held in Boston next
month. The league will not be secret.
Its purpose will be ito secure the lands
of Ireland to tenants by agitation and
financial aid
William Theison, a German, muir
deTed his divorced wife. Mrs. Turey
Redwald, at Columbus, Ohio, on Thurs
day morning. TheiSon returned recent
ly from the west, where he has been in
the army He had been annoying Mrs.
Redwald in various ways and was arres-
ted on her complaint for breaking her
furniture. Regaining his liberty he
proceeded to her house and deliberately
shot and instantly killed her
One OF the queer results of the Phil
adelphia election was in the twenty
committee struck from the ticket, two
days before election, a worthy candidate
for councils who would not pledge him
self for the whole ticket. He was for
mally accommodated, said he didn't
care continental, and the people elect
ed him by large majority, which proves
committees are not infallible
Two marriages recently occurred at
Grimsvllle, Lehigh county, which there
is disposition to poke fun at. The
parties are named Smith and Snyder
Mr.. Smith was a widower, fifty years
old. lie has q son twenty-fouT years
of age. Mrs. Snyder was widow, forty
two years old. She has a daughter,
twenty-one years of age. Mr.. Smith, Sr.,
married Mrs. Snyder's daughter. Mr.
Smiths son married old Mrs. Snyder.
Murders were rife on Saturday. At
Patterson, y. J., Mrs. Harriet Hink
was murdered in her bed and there is
no clue to the murderer. In Sussex
I county, \. J., three jealous men muir
dered young farmer on account of
woman. At Pelhamville, y. y, one
brother shot another because of the lat
ter's improper relations with the for
, mer's wife. A fight at Bottoms Depot,
Miss, resulted in the shooting of two
men. At Wilkesbarre, Michael Burke
murdered his wife.
The latest postal decision provides
, that statements of account and bills OF
sale that are made out on paper that is
printed ut the head can be sent through
the mail for one cent, if the envelope is
left unsealed. Ifmade out, however, on
plain paper the cost is three cents. BY
! having billheads printed about one and
One-half cents on each bill sent out can
be saved, after paying the postage.
The suggestion then to business men is
to get their billheads printed. "a pen
ny saved is penny earned" "
The Pittsburg telegraph says that
when a man can stand in one city and
talk in a conversational tone with one
in another city, the gift of science to
civilization seems nearly complete, but
/ what shall be thought when this gift is so
perfected that the man cannot only talk
with his friend, but at the same time
through electrical influence on the light
wave, raise the image of the friend so
as to see who he is An invention of
/ device Of that sort has gone from here
to Washington to add to the wonders of
the patent office.
A WTlliamport dispatch of the 22d
says that few days previous Geo. Zeig-
I Ter, of Butler, was out hunting rabbits.
While passing through piece of woods
he saw a squirrel sitting on limb, an
unusual sight at=this time Of year He
I fired. The Squirrel did not drop. He
fired twice more before it fell. When
( he went to pick it up he saw four squiT-
rels lying Oh the ground They were
all Joined together by a strip of flesh
that passed from one TO the other.
Three of the sqTSirrels were dead, and
the other one died soon afterward-
They were all fun grown and well-de-
/ veloped.
Charles Price, a Paterson N. J.)
3 weaver, has woven handkerchief from
the raw silk, just aswound from the co.
coon, without dyeing or twisting or
spinning. 1t is a very interesting novel
ty. 1t IL as fine as anything can be.
} 1t is smooth, pliabls and soft to the
touch. and the pretty pattern shows out
very handsomely. OF course such q
handkerchief would-be more expensive
than the ordinary Sort owing to the dif-
1culty OF weaving such, fine threads, but
it is, as specimen of skill and work, as
pretty an article as Was ever turned out
Cf the silk mills.
In PTattsburg, Stsuben county, y.
V. a few days ago, a man named Ed
! ridge was cutting logs on the mountain
, back of his house and sliding them down
a shoot to the valley bslow when one of
them jumped out of the shoot and struck
his own house. The lseGse was a small
one, and in it were his. wife and eight
children. The log crashed through the
house, shatterihg it iabo splinters, in
stantly killing one child, fatally injuring
two others, and more or less injuring all
in the house. The father saw the dis
asser and was so overcome that it is fear
ed his reason is dethrOaed.
George Alb~ee, n ~ell-knOwn char
acter Of Pittsburg, died on Friday last
in that city. lie obtained quite a noto-
riety by his lucky guesSss in regard to at
mOspheTic changes anGlbefOTe the Wealth
er Bureau was established he was wide
" consulted. He was born in Salem,
Mass, and ran away 90 sea, serving OF
board privateer ia the war of 1872,
when he was but ten years old. Lis
took part in numbeTuf minor engage
rFents and witnessed the great fight re-
tween the Boxer and the Enterprise, eff
the coast Of Maine lie was wounded.
and for this he dFeE a pension from the
American privateeF Ravy fund. He was
tho last privateeFsman who drew q pen
sion from the government, all the eth
erS having died before Linn. lie afa 4
large fortune.
The price OF paper has been sdxan.
ced from six and one-half to tea cents
all over the country. If this PHice il
. maintained the public will have TO, pay
more for theiE newspapers. Many daily
papers have already increased theiI
prices from twenty cents to tlSrty cents
per week, and weekly papers ffeIa FL 81
. to 81 co. The advance in paper can be
: stopped if the people will save and sell