The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-01-28
NEWS AND OTHER NoTISes.

show are said to be valued at Sl0, 600 each.
A chicken covered with haiI instead OF
feathers was exhibited at the Pottsyiiie poul-
try show
Miss Belle Bladen has been elected treas
urer Of the Waynesburg and Washington
"A frozen toe caused Philip Ga1is, aged
35 years, OF South E5stOn, IA, 20 die IN great
agony Of i0ckjaw.
Herman Hershey. Of Pittsburg, has lost
his reason because Of grief over the death OF
his two children from diphtheria.
Only seven women have been hanged IN
this State in eighty-siX years. NIli!anspoft
will soon increase the number to eight.
-Twenty-four people were frozen 70 death
on the Wiltshire moors, England, during the
recent storm, and numbers are missing
Snow fell in Augusta, Ga, foa eight
hours on Monday, the heaviest snowfall ever
known there. 1t melted almost as fast as II
fell.
The town Of Lansing. Tompkins coun-
ty, n. Y, has a growing girl OF II VINO now
touches seven feet, snd is still evolving sp-
lin an accident on the Rock Island road
at Pond Creek, H., on Friday, one woman
was burned to death and six persons were
Mr.. Richardson, Of Cresson Mississippi,
is the largest cotton planter in the world,
and Is reported to have made go OO0,000
from his fields.
BY the explosion of a boiler on Thurs
day. az Dewsbury, York county, West Kid
ing, England, eleven persons were Killed and
-Reuben Justie, an old citizen OF Worth
/ inptOn. Indiana, was recently foGDd kneeltuG
in g shallow pond, frozen to de2th, ana iTo-
! zen fast in the water. -
The house of Benjamin Snyder is built
/ acrsss the line dividing Lebanon and SchuyI-
/ Kill counties Mr SNYDER dimes in Lebanon
/ and dozes in SchuylkilLI
The schools Of the Christian Brothers IN
/ Jerusalem are attended by more than three
: hundred children Of all denominations, among
: whom is a son Of the Pasha.
Alex. Anderson, aged Is years, Whlle
! skating under q bridge ct jamestown, Ne n
/ York, Struck an iron rod, by which the scalp
was stripped from his head.
Jordan Cope, butcher Of buckingham
/ township, Bucks county, las elOped with
( Fanny Cosuer OF the same place. lie leaves
a wife and several children behind.
-JacOt Shirk, a rag dealer Of Lancaster
/ has .eloped with y Miss ShTeiner, OF that
/ place leaving = wife and four children be
bind A good name foT IN eloper.
/ Two or three acres Of corn will supply q
Western family with a winters fuel hf
+ same corn sold and turned into wood or co2l
. would not supply fuel Tor = month.
The wife OF Elias Cummings, coloredl
/ living near Crauston, y. = gave birth last
Saturday night 10 four boys. Mother and
. children are reported to BE- doing vel.
Father Ryan, tile pcet-priest, Is not Only
swaTthy, but re wears long locks. IN baitl-
! more the ether day newsbOy stopped hlin
and said SAY, mister, amt you an InlUn
Fifty vessels have been wrecked in :
terrible storm on the Nediterr&neR1. Ihe
Italia has reached Ireland after q stormy
/ voyage, during which it lost leo head Of cat
lie.
Fifteen persons we're killed aUdwouadea
/ by x band Of Apache Indians nearSdn Hariai
. New Mexico, on Saturday and Sunday last
Nine mcurare missing, and believed 10 be
/ killed.
Harrison White was killed in a coasting
accident At Woodruff, New Jersey, on Thurs
/ day. J. ). AckPrley was fatally injured al
/ Port Jefferson, Long Island, from the same
cause.
/ An insane man boarded a steamer neaI
. Memphis, Tenn, on sunday, killed the
clerk, shot a negro, fired at the pilot and
, wounded the captain before he was over
powered
1t is rumored that responsible parties
/ have leased all the land they could get hold
/ of in the vicinity Of Craigsvilie, in Arm
/ strong county, and will soon 20 to work
Mr. John II. Inman, Of Dandridge
/ Tenn, came out of the Confederate army al
( % with less than 800, and got ? place ia Z
/ New y ork cotton firm. He is now IepUted
! worth e, SOC, OO0.
/ A FIRE in the village Of Wilton. New
1 Hampshire, before daylight on Thursday
I morning, destroyed fourteen stores, The say
/ IngS bank and several Offices. The loss j
I estimated at $50 GOO.
: ern trip until after the Senatorial election.
/ When lightning is striking arO and anywhere
. says the Lancaster T1stclljgeHcer, the wise mar
/ taketh not IN his rod
/ "A large oak tree vas thrown down by
blast on the Robinson farm, near COHEclIS
/ Vile, on Saturday, killing Cyrus y. Robin
. son, the owner of the property, and : laboreI
named Daniel hcC6dy.
A little -year-old girl, named lulu
| Yelling, OF POttsylle Pa, is making \ great
ga a.
an accomplihcd pianist. Her father who has
been her only instructor, is q vi0iiRjst.
"A singular curiosity on exhibition at n,
postoftice al Franklin, \. z, IS a 50-pOunC
pumpkin. grown between the four posts OF
common chair completely filing the space
so that it cannot he removed without break
ing the chair
The most humorous bit Of ''Boycotting'
yet heard Of is the case Of an undertaken il
the county of Down, who has been "Boycot
ted, - every man in the reighborhOOd havinj
entered into solemn eUga cement not to rid;
in the blaggard's hearse
AT recent prayer meeting in Readint
they prayed Tor editors and newspaper pub
fishers. The Rev. w. J. Mills said that j
was rare thing to hear prayers offered 70
the press, and yet he did not know anything
that needed Gods blessing so much.
A one legged Republican soldier whit
was elected by that party Clerk Of the Court
Of Erie county has been arrested, charge,
with en- beZZling the funds OF the Orphans
Court Of that county. He had been specu
latIng and lost many thousands or dollars.
James B. Martin, sober and industri
Gus man, left his home in TarpOrt some tw
weeks ago to visit Bradford He was seel
but once on the day be arrived and is miss
ing ever since. His wife and children AT
nearly distracted with grief at his absence.
Father Edward Purcell, who was re
sponsible for the great financial crash i
Catholic circles in Cincinnati, two years age
dIed on Thursday night at the Ursuline cor
vent IN Brown county, Ohio. He wa
brother and business manager OF the Arch
bishop.
Father O'Reilly, of Carondolet, has er
tered suit against the st. Louis Globe Demo
crot Tor damages in the amount Of so, 90
Tor hbelOus language employed in pu5shin
an account of the trouble between pupils O
the public schools and those OF the parochis
schools.
Michael Soils, citizen Of Bogota, in tn
Republic of San Salvador, is reputed to b.
$50 years old, or eight years older than tn
famous Parr. He is methodicsl in life, an
eats food during single half hour daily. O
the 1st and 18th Of every month he fasts IN
only drinks water.
Charles Kennedy. an irOnvorker at tn
pennsylvania steel Works Harrisburg, wa
caught Thursday morning by a bar Of rec
not iron. II pierced his body and the
wound itself around one Of his legs, breakin
1t IN several places. He died almost immC
Glately. He was married.
"A driver boy at Preston collierv Pott
vile, :caTelessly threw a can of lubricating 0
. into a stove around which were seated Sc
eral miners eating dinner. The explOsic
. burned John Davis, boy named Geo. How
els, Henry Jones and Edward Eagen-th
two former probably fatally.
In the United States District Court,
Charleston, ). G, on Saturday, William
Webb, white, Of Georgetown county, va
tried on the charge of voting twenty-on
ballots at the last election. The Jury I'll
same night returned verdict of guilty wit