The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-03-11
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINes.

er0n county.
Two Vermouters recently snapped wives
by the aid of the courts.
PENNSYLVANIA has the largest number OF
Sunday school libraries in the country.
Nine vessels and 100 lives were lost OF
the Aberbeenshire coast, England, in the re
Three persons fell into the sea from a
balloon which ascended from Nice, Italy, on
Sunday and were lost
YER The new President VIII doubtless keep
him in Office right along.
The Greensburg Argus tells of man IN
Washington county who mas the head OF =
hog He cannot speak, bat grunts.
Pink Pratt, coiOred, was hanged AT NH
rietta. Ga, on Friday for an outrage on
Margaret Watkins, "a little white girl.
Timothy NIaher, the strongest man ln
New Haven, IS dead. lie coGid ho,d o'o
Dounds suspended from his middle finger
A vessel supposed to have several women
on board was wrecked OF Sunderland, Eng
land, on Friday last. All hands were urO"H-
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company
has established over 25O agencies IN EuTope
for the sale of emiErant tickets over theH
NTopgie Conner. while in n fit Of insani-
tv. iUmped from a hospital window IN Pitts
burg on Saturday and received terIlele III
iuries.
Mr.. G. : Langdon, who was expelled
from the Normal School at Mliiersburg Tor
violating the rules, has apOlOgized and been
reinStated.
One hundred and tweuty-six persons
were killed and property 10 the value Of $500
O00 destroyed by recent earthquake III Ile
island of Jschla.
The report given elsewhere OF the wreck
of n vessel off Sunderland, England, has
been confirmed. Eighteen persons lost their
lives by the disaster.
In Easton. on Sunday, while William
Smith, aged Is years, and Jacob Young, aged
IS years, were playing, the former was
struck BY the latter with a stone and killed.
There is in Juniata county an orchard
containing / 3 900 peach trees, $1,000 ounce
trees. and 5000 Siberian crab apple trees.
1t was planted in 1875 by Mr.. II. Bradford,
of Connecticut.
in Chicago the snow is piled so high that
passengers on one side of the street cannot
see those on the other side. The trains are
still weather-bOund in nearly every part Of
Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
1t has been thought worth while to an
nOuuce that Senator Jones, of Florida is an
freshman, a deyout Catholic ard a carpenter
by trade. He is tall and erect, has a fair
complexion and an excellent bearing.
In a Philadelphia pantOmimic play a
coach is drawn on the stage by live horses,
two wheels come off, and the upset throws
the passengers (who are skilful acrobats)
into grotesque attitudes in all directions.
Among the curiosities at an exhibition
in Washington two are furnished by an
American soldier, who captured them from
the Sioux. One is a white lady's scalp and
the other is a necklace Of human fingers.
/ Governor Hoyt, as commander-in chief,
. issued an order on Tuesday cOngratulJting
the National Guard of Pennsylvania on its
fine display and sodieTy bearing at the re-
cent ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in Washington.
To the cOlOred vote Garfield owed his
. majority in the three StaJes OF Pennsylva-
. MIA. Ohio and Indiana. Yet the list of Car
fields cabinet has been vainly scanned to
. find any recognition of the man and brother.
Joseph +. Fuchs, who shot and killed
Policeman john Virgins in Allegheny City,
was convicted OF murder IN the Second ue-
gree aud sentenced on Saturday to an I'M
/ priSOnmeat of four years in the peuiLentiary.
/ On Wednesday of last week woman
. best known by the name of Kate o Brlen was
discharged Tor the twcntY-nfth time from the
. Pottsvilie jail, in which seventeen years ol
her life have been spent. Wmskey is what
. ails her.
The new Postmaster General seems Il
. be the right man in the right place. lie Is
a printer has been newspaper publisher
and postmaster for eight years of the biggest
postO1iice on this continent and possibly OF
the globe.
4 coIored man has been elected mem
Der of the National Association Of Mexican
Veterans who have Just held a convention
in Louisville. lie Is very black and was
given his freedom by Henry Clay for gallan
conduct at Buena Vista.
jay Gould lives in plain, comfortable
house on Fifth avenue. New York, indulge
in little art and a few horses, keeps hi
family out of the ne wspapers, listens to any
suggestion OF request and i merely Pie
nOmenai money maker and promoter.
. The assertion Is made by citizen o
Maine that $50 OF / 600 mechanics and smai
tradesmen are now living in Massachusetts
who left Maine to avoid Imprisonment 10
debt. Maine is the State where brains O
. the Neal Dow kind assume Importance.
+ The first arrest under the coercion act il
4 Ireland was made on Tuesday, the arrested
party being a merchant of Castivbar. Al
r4-f I'm IN rR q
low all over Ireland. and a reign of iutimida
tion and terror may be said to have set in.
james Hayden, from Lebanon, Ky.
drew revolver in q railroad car near Deni
. son, Texas, Friday evening and fired among
the passt ngerS. William Lewis was ShO
dead ana ThOs. Shaw and James Hamilton
We're seriously wounded. Hayden is insane
Fifty years ago Pennsylvania two Sen
tors in Congress were Geo. VI. Dallas AM
William Wilkins. They were brothers in
law and lived respectively in Philadelphia
and Pittsburg Since the expiration of thei
terms neither Of these cities have had Sen
atOT
, a mulatto barber has eloped with
pretty and tOlerabIy wealthy white girl Q
Lancaster, Ohio. No trace of the fugitive
has been discovered, and as his Africa
blood is hardly diSccruable in his face, IL J
.. surmsed that they intend to hide anon
2 strangers.
= An eagle made of with three month
old pig from the ward Of Mr.. Frank =. Man
u. l
{ county, a few DAYS ago. The glorious Dir
l Of freedom buried his talOns to a better pun
: pose that time than the steward spoken of j
4 the scriptures.
, Paul Boyton, the swimmer, gave an e1
{ hibitiOn in the Rimac at Lima, in Peru, tn
e other day. The torrent was rushing dow
D at great rate, carrying bOudeTS, etc, wit
= it. He floated down in his peculiar ores
without trouble or eXertiOn, although Il
boat could have made the trip.
There is daugher of q prosperous IA
. mer IN Connecticut, still young woman
who has been divorced from three husband
. each of whom Is living and married to anOtl
= eT wife, while she has lately been married
= a fourth husband Nor is this the only cas-
! Of the kind reported in that State
: The Mftintown Democrat tells of a
!, aged resident OF Fayette township, Juniat
. county, Mrs. Margaret Stewart, now s
years of age who has a very vivid TecUlle,
!, tiOn Of having seen General Washington j
, 1894, during the whisky insurrecUOn, an
: when she was only six years of age.
!, "A detachment of the Seventy-first Ne
York regiment on Thursday visited the Coz
= federate graves in New Orleans and decor;
n ted the monument with flowers. The ban
= played a diTge, a funeral salute was fire.
= and Rev. Mr.. Martyr, chaplain of the reg
: ment, conducted the religious services.
- "A shooting affray eight miles east
Dodge, Texas, on Saturday, between tv
10 brothers named Spratt and two brother
- named Cleveland, resulted in the death
= Frank Spratt and Edward Cleveland Au
> tin Pratt surrendered himself to the author
: ties, and Robert Cleveland is still at large.
, Early in February two German wome
u Frau Schmidt and Frau FeUstel, living
- Zeitz, in PTussan SaXony, and in additiC
!, living in the same house and on the san
= floor, were each, on the same day, deliyert
- of three children, and they were all boy
q Probably such singular coincidence new
u before occurred.