The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-01
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGs.

tally took fire.
King Alfonso and wife lately presented
to the Pope a chalice mounted with $40 600
worth of precious stones.
james PaddeE, bachelor of 60 years.
living at Pittston, has eloped from that place
with Mrs. Shrank, a widow of 40.
"A woman at Battle Creek, Mich, is re-
ported to have tasted since last October and
to be kent alive by milk and beef-tea baths.
An official letter has been sent from
Rome warning the Catholic authorities
throughout the world against spurious relics.
Col. A. /. Roberts, OF torpedo fame,
died at TituSville on Saturday last. He was
one of the most prominent men in the OIL re-
gions
Gideon w Palmer, father Of the AttOr-
neY General Of Pennsylvania, died at his
home in GlenbUrn, Somerset county, on Sat
urday.
The combined ages of two brothers and
three sisters living in Washington county, OF
the AshbrOok family, are four hundred and
thirteen years.
"A child named KOons, living in Centre
township, Snyder county, was so badly froZ-
en- more than month ago, that both OF its
legs and arms had to be amputated.
The Philadelphia Times thinks that II
the Pennsylvania Legislature were put on
piece work it wouldn't be able to earn
thousand dollars in 4 thousand years.
A young woman living near Greene,
Mimi, while making cake the other day
broke an egg which contained a snake seven
inches long and about the size of pine stem.
A deSpatch from Rome saws that q lady
obtained a private audience with the Pope
and warned him that the day and nOur were
fixed for the murder of himself and Cardinal
Pecci.
las. B. Wood. of Chicago, succeeds l..
p Farmer as General Passenger Agent of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mr..
Farmers resignation goes into effect today,
April 1St
Talking of Malone, the New York World
I - DE- = lT.as
Benedict Arnold bouquet from the royal
garden? And yet they call republics un-
grateful
-Rev. Mr. Beatty rector OF the Episcopal
church in Lawrence, Kan, has announced
TO his congregation that he will use wine in
administering the sacrament regardless Of
the prohibition amendment
Harlan p Hale is under arrest at LO-
well, Mass, on the charge of attempting to
poison the entire family of a Mr. Sanborn 0Y
placing strychnine in the tea kettle, where
large quantity OF it was found.
THE freeboOtng crowd of placP-hunt-
erS" is what the Pittshurg Commercials
Washington special terms the noble army of
patriots who are now IN Washington asking
q fulflment of ante-electiOn promises.
"A monster land meeting was held at
Thuries, TipperaTy county, on Sunday.
Dillon addressed the meeting. lie vinGca-
ted his attack on Judge Fitzgerald and cOun-
selled the Irish tenants not to paw unjust
Alfred NJ. 'CraSk, Of DanverS, Mass, has
q native dark red cow that calved May Il,
1879, and dropped her next calf May p, 1880.
From May 10, and during the next eleven
months, she gave 1858 quarts of milk, an
average of II 35S-365 quarts day, for 365
days.
Miss Kate smith, an inmate of the Unioa
Home for Old Ladies in Philadelphia, after
three years labor has completed a quilt con-
tanning %, ,552 pieces. She has been blind
from infancy. but Threaded every needle
herself. and used 100 spOols of thread in the
work.
Joseph Higgins was arrested at Bremen,
O., on Saturday last, for brutally beating his
StepSon, little fellow of seven years The
hoy was not only numerically beaten and
kicked, bnt actually bitten in the face and
arms by the man, whose teeth sank deep in
to the flesh.
A bully from HaysviIlc. Ohio went to
LOudOnville on Saturday and among other
reprehensble acts iusUlted the editors of two
papers published there, whercupOn mob
assembled, placed a rope around his neck
and made him swear he would never again
appear in the town.
1t is reported that the largest hog in the
country is a Poland China, years old this
spring, lately on exhibition at junction CITY
Kansas. His length IS feet gIrth of neck,
6l1 feet Girth of chest, y feet; girth of
centre, 3 feet width across the hips, 80 inch
es, and weight 1892 pounds
A PittSburg girl was devotedly attached
to a little child Of her OTotEer-iu-law. who
WAS a wiGOweT, and in whose house she lived.
She was about to be married, and She asked
permission to take her niece 70 her new home
The father declined the proposition, and
theTeupOn the girl attempted suicide.
The entire Foster family were down
with smallpox, at Lexington, III. The
house was burned in the night Rather than
seek refuge with any of their neighbOrs and
thus spread the disease, they walked eight
miles in the cold to a pest house, and imppr-
rIled their lives by the eXertiOn and expos
ure.
Buchanan. the bogus diploma maker,
has made q confession wherein he gives the
names of wholesale druggists in PHILADELPHIA
who, he says, have sold his diplomas. Ten
thousand names, preserved by him, are in
cIuded in his disclosures. lie says that %
600 of his diplomas are current in America
and 10000 i'm Europe
While funeral services were being held
for dead baby in Philadelphia, the cry Of
an infant at the door was heard, coming
from a basket that had been left on the steps
a letter begged the bereaved parents to take
this child in place OF the one they had lost, as
the mother was unable to provide for it, The
offer was not accepted.
The photograph of a young girl found in
the pocket Of one of the coats felt behind by
the burglar who murdered Samuel w. GlugS-
ton at Valley Forge has been identified as
that of the daughter Of a Philadelphia ned
dler who left that city for a trip through the
chester valley about the time of the murder
and who is now missing
Miss Hattie Deuel. of Iowa CITY. Iowa
completed the thrty-fifth day of her fast on
Wednesday, and is yet good for several davs
more. The case Is pronounced by leading
physicians the most wonderful case of fast
ing ever known. Miss Deuel. continues to
maintain the silence she began three years
ago, and cOnverscs only by signs.
Joseph Burger, of the Minnesota Legisla-
tuTe, Is one OF the seventeen men in the
United States who hold a gold medal for
bravery. OF Austrian birth he entered our
army at Il, was shot seven times, lost his
left arm and nest Of his righthand, and was
a Captain at Is. He was sent 10 the Lccis-
lature at 81. He draws 5000 year pension.
"A Young girl named Nellie Cunningham
was bound by thieves in her room al No 726
Third avenue, New Ork, Saturday after
noon, jabbed with a knife because she re
fused to tell where the thieves could find
money, and final ly feiied by blow with a
club Jonn r. Camp has been arrested and
Identified by her as the man who stabbed
her.
1t does not look very much like Demo-
cratic greed when the pay roll of the Of
fceTs and employees of the Senate is consult
ed. Practically the Senate is a Democratic
body, yet of the forty-three names on this roll
but four are those of Democrats. These four
draw an aggregate salary Of So, $50, while the
others foot up grand total of S54, ,7OJ annu-
ally
Lord Milltown, an Irish peer, writes to
the London Times to bear testimony in favor
OF the Fenian Brotherhood. He states that
during the whole period when that OrpaniZa-
ton was in full swing, and when their power
for mischief was very great had they chosen
TO exercise Il, not one single outrage against
the persons or properties of private individ-
uas IN Ireland was ever coulmtted by them.
"A mass for the dead in Protestant
place of worship is something new. but one
was recently performed at st. Matthias 5
church, Earlscourt, Kensington. The re-
QUEEN, which was followed by a dies ira, WAS