The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-05
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

The women convicts in the Ken
tucky penitentiary wear mems clothes.
Samuel 2. Bailey, of Washington,
n. H., completed his one hundredth
year on Saturday.
-Four Chinese converts were admit
ted as members of the Second Presby-
terian church of Indianapolis, two weeks
ago.
Edward Herrick, Schell's chief
clerk, is the only name yet mentioned for
the Democratic nomination for Auditor
General.
Mrs. Betsy Henderson, of Boston.
who is hale and hearty, celebrated the
one hundreGth anniversary of her birth
on Sunday.
There is but one county in Pennsyl-
yania that has not heard the shrek of
the iron horse within her border, and
that is Fulton.
The steamer Ningorla, bound for
Kurrachee from Bombay, has founder
ed. Six Europeans and sixty-two ma
/ tives were lost.
The United States Treasurer recei-
we'd on Friday, through Catholic priest
) in New York. the sum of Sj04. % to the
credit of the conscience fund. "
Mr.. LambOIn Hall, residing in
+ West Goshen township, Chester county,
/ is the pOssessOr of a eve which gave
/ birth to four lambs one night last week.
A room in Michael O'COnnOr's hotel
/ at Harrisburg was robbed Of g, 900 in
/ bank notes, the property of O'Connor,
on Thursday night. No arrests have
! been made.
! Young Brumidi, the sixteen-year-
/ old son of the Capitol artist recently
! deceased. is said to be ambitious to fin
/ ish the work on which his father was so
/ long engaged.
( Efforts are being made in all parts
of this State to procure the names of
/ AndersOnville and other prisoners held
( during the war. for the purpose of Sc
curing special pensions for them.
Among the unclaimed land patents
recently taken from the cObwebbed
cuddv-hOles of the Land Ofice was one
issued by President Pierce to Abraham
/ Lincoln for service in the Black Hawk
I war.
/ A man at Union Mills. Erie county
who was disappointed in love affair.
+ has not spoken to a woman for twenty
years He is a miseT. and aYeTtS his
head when he meets one Of the opposite
sex.
At Point Pleasant, W. Va, ne
I gro called "A be-. = has just died, He
was the oldest person in the State, be-
ing 112 years of age by actual data.
He was a full-blocded African, having
been brought to this country when a
babe.
Christ will come and the millenni-
um begin in September 1881, accord
ing to the calculations of the Rev Mr.
Rounds, an Adventist. Of Portsmouth,
Y. H, who has devoted seven years to
figuring out the matter on a chart 26O
feet long.
"A Young woman, who was known
as Mary. and was employed as dOmes-
tic at 1907 Spruce street, Philadelphia,
fell down stairs the other day while
carrying some crOckeTy-waTe. One of
/ the pieces severed az artery in her neck,
causing almost instant death.
The paper mills Of the country are
now said to produce 800 tons Of vdrI-
+ Gus grades of paper daily. There are al
together 62T mills representing a capital
Of S1O0, 900, 600 and employing % 600
+ persons, who are paid for their services
a little less than $4,000, 600 annually.
Herbert Burrill and Andrew b.
COOmbs, the two men who left Boston
on the 9th Of July, in a small decked
boat for Melbourne. proceeded no fur
ther on their voyage than a small fish
ing village twenty miles north of Bahia,
when they were compelled to land in
distress.
II. i }
President Lincoln. was murdered near
Harrisonburg. Va. on Saturday. Lin
coin was killed in mill owned by two
men with whom he had been gambling.
and to whom he had shown roll of
money obtained that day from the sale
of cattle.
On Thursday morning last, young
man named Anthony Fowler was caught
in the machinery of McKec's furniture
factory, at Peterborough. Ontario, and
hurled around a shaft with terrible
velocity. Both OF his feet and one of
/ his hands were torn off. and every bone
in his body was broken.
A hen always kicks backward after
laying an egg. A Bridgeport ankee is
reported to have turned this fact to ac-
count IN inventing device to prevent
/ the sale of stale eggs. When the hen
kicks she hits an electric disk. to which
IS attached rubber stamp. and the ap-
/ paratus stamps the date on each egg.
{ The resolution adopted 10y the late
Republican State convention at Harris
burg in favor of Grant for a third term.
has been condensed by the Washington
) iPerjelr and E.rGnlincT. as follows Re
solved, That the IS delegates to the ma
! tional convention shall vote as one man.
and that Don Cameron is that one man. :"
Charles a. Dana. of the New York
SIN, began on the Tribune as foreign
editor on a salary of SD per week. He
now receives SD, 600 a wear from the
San and enough more in the way of
dividends from the paper and from the
1uterjcGB CyclOpedjG to bring his income
up to $4,000. Mr.. Dana has Just pur-
chased house in New y ork for $50. 600.
Rev. II. W. Richardson, of Sea Cliff,
elOped on Friday evening with his wife 5
. sister, named Elizabeth IOutkie and
nineteen years of age. He left wife
and several small children. including
Il nursing baby. On Saturday afternoon
the guilty pair were arrested at New
Y ork on board the steamer Rio Grande.
] as the vessel was about to sail for Gal
weston. Texas.
A literary curiosity has Just been
published at Amsterdam. 1t consists cf
three short stories, possessing the pc
+ culiarity that in each Of them only one
vowel is employed, in the first a, in the
second c, and in the thirG o. according
to which the stories are entitled A
Saga, - "E-Legende, = "O-SprOok" " In
the Dutch language only would such a
feat be possible.
The excitement about the miracul-
GUS cures at Knock, in Ireland, increases
and more than a dozen persons have al
ready sworn to tho apparitiens of the
Blessed Virgin at the chapel on the DIST
! of August last. which have brought such
fame and Importance to this little cor
ner of COnnaught. Curesare related of
all kinds and degrees, and wrought on
T OatieUts of every ST at ion i'm life