The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-07-14

The New York Times in a 16-cOlumn
article showing the progress of religious de-
nominations in that city between 1S45 and
1892, shows that while its population has in
creased 225 per cent, its total Protestant
Church membership has increased but 76 per
cent, while the Catholic Church me m5ersnip
100000.
1t used to be considered a wonderful
thiDg TO engrave the Lords PRAYER on three
cent piece At the last meeting of the San
rancisco Microscopial Society the President
eAhlOiteu an engraving upon 4 glass plate of
the Lords Prayer so infinitely executed that
on me same scale nine copies of the entire
Bible could be produced within the space of
a square inch
The coking village of Alice Mines. in
Westmoreland county is the latest victim OF
the smallpox scare, said disease having
. been brought there by a German family re-
Gently from the old country. On Saturday
last the dreadful scourpe had found lo60-
ment in five different households. and il was
reared that the cOntagiOn would become
widespread. a pest house has been erected.
Miss Ada DeyO, of Gardiner Ulster
county, \. Y, a white girl of resDpcta HE
/ family ran away with burlv negro named
Johh W Wesley sampson, to whom she bad been
secretly married. The event caused much
| excitement at the time. The girls relatives
We're wealthy and held high position in So
clety The poor girl has bitterly experienced
the folly of her act and is now an inmate of
the sullivan county poor house
-On leaving her home in Licking county.
ONO, last fall, Aura NJ. Scott left her skirts
oehind, and went to Cincinnati in male
clothes. Although only IS and not coarse in,
FORM or features, she readily passed for a
boy. Perhaps the deception was made easv
oy ilef careless manner of smoking drinking
ana swearing. She was successiyeIv a nor
Ter clerk IN notion store. and conductor of
a morse car, before being found out
DOC Leighton, a Michigan hOrspmaD
was was attacked by an enraged stallion day or
Two Two ago While he was in the act of adjust
iuS Ine harness about the head the stallion
hnocked him down, and kneeling on him. bit
on ms under lip and all the flesh and skin
beneaJh II running down under the Doirt of
Lne GHlh. The brute then bit his right cheek
and back of the neck also TAKING hold Of bis
fingers. VI O'oi"'
"A fellow who was on the i'll fated Scioto
was boa3ting to his girl, to whom he was en-
gagged to be married. and who acconnaniad
Nun on the excursion on the fatal Fourth
t'aI ne could swim ashore and carry her pas'
iiy' but when the collision came he deserted
her and took care Of himself She was also
Ia, II,er5E, ana when he came to congratulate
her upon being still alive, she refused to
speak I'd him aHd handed back the engage
ment ring.
-AionzO d, Mccarthy, a Young LAWYER of
,i1,5s DiTctIHE II Ind, had great difficulty in win
LING MISS Rhodes for bride. She loved
nIhl' out feared that his habit Of fre0uent
Iu1OAtcaIlon would make him a sot and
W., mou'u only consent to marry him on his SOL
@onlh @ promise OF total abstinence. On'tbe dav
appointed for the wedding he committed
suicide, leaving letters to explain that he
couId not keep his pledge and would die ra
ther than break it, N
James G. Hill, a West PHILADELPHIA tin
I,, 1,i,,Sli' auu NOISY Independent in politics.
Ildue an eplStOlary assault of an Illicit anna
IoIS character on the wife of G. p. Jones a
sUaiWaFt custom house empIovee Mr. min
VIII hencetOrth take less interest in politics
alG anu IoVe. The cOwhide welts on his head
atiu a. iegs are nearly as thick as Candidate
beavers crutch. He now knows that there
= HoIhlng IN The Independent platform to
yusslliy one OF them in cOveting his neighbor's
"A New York Herald speciaI contains an
interview with O'COnnor Power. who was
Interviewed about Davitt's statement that
rover was traitor to the Irish cause He
Dronounces Davitt a coward and the real
traitor 10 the IFlSh cause, who after attempt
lng TO undermine PaTrell is now irving TO
distract attention from his treacherv by at
tdcklng Others and posing as an APOSTLE Of
humanity being in reality an agent of dis
union, having one cause to-day and another
At o'clock Sunday afternoon James
HaWks, labOrer, stabbed and killed his wife
at syracuse, y, 7. She bought a nail of bear
IN saloon, and returning home met her hus-
Dand, who was drunk. Hawks drew a lack
knife from his pocket and without word
STABBED his wife TO the heart. The woman
ran about thirty feet and clune to tree.
she died i'm fifteen minutes Hawks was ar
rested. When told that his wife was dead
Ne exclaimed I'm glad Of it. It's a good
thing for me
"A cow at Hazelwood. Pittsburp. is the
maternal parent of calf which, i'm addition
the usual number Of legs, has an arm grow
ing out OF It's shoulder, and persons who have
seen the monStrusity say that 10 has a com
plete hand, having fOuU fingers and a thumb
the nails on the fingers being exactly like
those on the hand of a human being The
owner of the modern wonder has been offer
ed el25 by some enterpriSing Snowman for
tue youthful bovine, which at latest accounts
was still living
The Springfield (Mass) Republican is
authority for the following A rather inter-
estlng'oIt OF scandal comes 20 light i'm con-
i htcIloh win the recent appointment of Will 4
lard y HlckOX as Land Receiver in Colorado. 1
EickoX was an OHIO man, from humble be-
ginnlngS came to be station agent of the
Pennsylvania Road at Mansfield was well
OH, a prominent Sunday school worker be- I
came quite popular and had a liking for pol /
itics. Soon after the National Banking act (
passed Senator Sherman helped establish an
institution under it at Mansfield. Hickox
was taken into the management, in a few
years became its head, and had a reign of
considerable financial power with the conf
dence of everybody. In 1873, however the T
bank failed, and it was found that both its
regular assets and some funds deposited for
safe keeping had disappeared. HickOX was
iHuicted, ana escaped convection only by
running to Canada and fOrfeiting his bonds
After this he ventured to 90 to Denver, and
has lately asked and received the appoint
ment indicated. And the goSSips wopder .
why, among all the Ohio and other men IA .
miliar with the circumstances, there was not /
confirmation