The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-08
NEWS AND OTHER NOTISGs.


in the ruins Of building in Buffalo, Y. Y, /
which had been burned to the ground last |
December.
A pit 135 feet deep has been discovered
in the Mammoth Cave. It's mouth is reach |
ed by crawling on hands and knees through |
q long passage.
Mrs Garfield who speaks French and !
German fiuentIy, is said to be the first Pres /
ident's wife able to talk with foreign diplo- (
mats In the court language of Europe.
Harry English, the Elk county outlaw, /
who was tried and acquitted of murder, has /
been convicted of forgery, and sentenced to !
four years in the Western PententaTy.
Hester Howard struck terror into the /
hearts of her funeral party by rising on her |
elbow in her coffin at the cemetery at st. /
Louis She really expired soon afterward. !
Or" John Buchanan is said to repudi- I
ate the alleged confession of his misdeedS in /
issuing bogus medical diplomas He pro- (
fessed great astonishment when it was read
to him.
"A Frenchman is breeding camels in Ne (
vada. He has forty camels, all but three ma /
tives of that State, engaged in carrying /
goods from railroad stations to mining /
camps.
A bantam hen belonging to Jacob Gay /
man, Of Dauphin, Pa, laid an egg in pigeon /
nest. The pigeon hatched it out, and the /
bantam, now full grown, cnnsorts with the /
pigeons.
During the high wind on Saturday last /
two boats were capsiZed in the Thames OF (
Chiswick Six persons were known to be ]
drowned and it was feared some others had /
pershed.
John Minnich. living near Pinegrove, /.
Schuylkill county, has been married seven .
years and is the father of thirteen children. 7.
His wife has given birth to twins six times .
in succession
Jefferson Davis Bill. of Connecticut, has (
lust completed his studies at Eastman col l
lege, Pougnkecpsie He has two brothers (
named Lecompton Constitution Bill and .
Kansas Nebraska Bill
DIR. Logan, of EaSton, has advised the /
Young men of that borough to go to the .
country to find wives, and the newspapers
counter by advising the girls to go to the .
country TO get husbands
A young fellow in Audubon county, La,
recently defended himself in q breach of .
promise suit on the ground that a contract .
entered into on Sunday night was not legal 4
" binding. He won his case.
An old man named Joseph CCokstOn
arrived in Pittsburg from BellefOntaine, O.,
four weeks ago and deposited $4,000 in .
bonds in bank. He has not been seen since,
and his friends are looking for him.
j. b. Brewer killed his brother, r. II. .
Brewer, near Mount Oiivet, Kentucky, on
WedneSdayof last week. The deceased was
quarTelsome, and was attempting to shoot
his father at the time of the tragedy.
Charles and John Miller, brothers, were
killed in Cincinnati on Saturday night in q
quarrel with 4 man named Kuapke, who shot
them in sef-defrnse. The Millers were nine
teen and twenty-one years old respectively.
-Ex-JUdoe Grant of Iowa, who has a
large law practice ia that State and who is
nearly 20 years old is a pupil at the Massa-
chuSett5 Institute Of Technology, He IS
studying chemistry for use in mining litiga-
ton.
John c. Koch, who lives five miles from
Mannheim, Lancaster county, is the owner Of
an Aiderney calf, born on the 25th of March, /
which has no tail, is blind of one eye, and has
perfect representation Of a heart upon its
forehead
The negro exodus is on again, and Kan
eae j.. tI,ol l1 Il of
have left Huntingdon, Tenn, for the Bleed
ing State since Tuesday of last week. What
those poor people are going to do in Kansas
nobody knows.
Philip Franks writes to the Pbiladel-
phia Record from Mount Joy, Lancaster
county, to say that he shipped to that city
week before last two head of cattle weighing
1870 pounds. They gained 5o25z pounds
each i'm four months.
The great CorIiss engine which was on
exhibition at the Centennial and was taken
to the new town of Pullman, a few miles
south OF Chicago, has been placed in the
Pullman Palace Car COmpanvs works and
was on Saturday started for the first time
"A chicken with four legs was recently
hatched out in Salisbury township, LancaS-
ter county Two Of the legs arc in the nat
Ural position, while the other two turn up-
ward in the air and have the toes pointing to-
ward the tail instead of the head Of the chick
The Emperor of Austria, who had pre-
yiOuSly given 129,000f to the Catholic church.
Nazareth a magnificent Gothic altar and
beautiful statue Of Our Lady of the Rosary
in marble Of CaTrara, besides gift of IA, 900
nO.iRS.
A Madison, Ind. despatch of the 1st
says Reliable information from Saluda
township, this county, SAYS that large Quan-
titles Of sulphur -four fell in the su0w-storm
Of last evening in that vicinity. The same
remarkable phenomenon was witnessed in
this city.
Since the generous donations made bv
Col. Thomas \. Scott to the University JET .
ferson College, Episcopal College and Ortho-
pedic College became known, that gentleman
has been inundated with begging letters from
all sorts of Institutions and in. pccunIous in
dyGUajS
Information was received a few davs
ago by the Chattanooga Times of a terrific
cyclone in Randolph county, Alabama
which destroyed the home and killed the en-.
tire family OF John Emhry, consisting of
himself, wife and two children, while they
were asleep.
-Papai bulls containing the official ap-
p0iutmcnt Of tho Very Rev. +. Jansscas as
Bishop OF NatcheZ, Miss. have been received
by Archbishop Perche, Of New Orleans
The cOnsecration will take place in Rich
mond, Va, on the 1st of May, Archbishop .
Gibbons officiating.
"A eve belonging to w f. McCav. re-
siding along Jacks creek, about two miles
east of Lewistown, gave birth recently to
lamb which had two perfectly formed heads. I
iit ilttl' cur ttSitS NNet dbOuJ a nnurS, dur
ing most of which time the two heads kept
up a continual beating
Elizabeth Smith, who lived at Union !
Hilf y. J., and owned a number of cows,
went to the brewery in that place on Satur- [
day morning with a wheeibaTTOw to get some +
grain for her cows. On the way home she
fell over her barrow and broke her neck
Her body was taken home
"A two-storv brick building in course OF
erection at Baltimore fen on SATURDAY. ia
tally injuring Frederick Hamburg, aged 81.
who had only arrived from Germany on Fri
day, and seriously injuring Andrew 4. Sen
iSky, aged p, F. \. Gentelin and William
SchTeck. All were employed on the building.
William :. Bates, a United States Mar /
shal, was fatally stabbed in a fight near a
bar-rCom or the Southern Railroad, below
Somerset, KY, on Wednesday night of last
week. Mr. Cooper, another Marshal, was
killed at the same time in Lttetown, ten
miles distant. Both were active against the .
mUonShinerS.
BY the explosion OF the boiler of a saw
mill at Berkeley, Va, on Saturday, Andrew .
Brown (white), Thomas Creek, Moses Con
way and Luke WhitehuTst (cUlOTed) were
scalded to death. Robert James and Robert f
Brown (cOlOred) will die. Lee MingO, Lo- /
reno Bachus and Edward Morton (colored) (
were badly scalded.
"A passenger train going north on the ST.
Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba railroad on
Friday last ran into a delayed freight train
SIX miles north of ROthSay. The cabOoSe
took fire, and Oliver LiSchtz was burned to
death, while William Wissinger died of his
injuries. T accident occurred while the
air was so full of snow that it was difficult
to see any distance ahead.
"A strike among the Pittsburgh machine
mOulders, which was to have taken place on
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