The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-08
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGS.


was dedicated with imposing services on
Sunday afternoon.
Commodore c. <. Garrison died sudden :
ly of paralysis OF the heart at his residence
in New York on Saturday.
Attorney General Garland sets the en-
ploys of his department a good example by
doing his own marketing and appearing at
the Office ready for work percisely at g
O'Clock.
The Harris Remedy Co. St Louis, Mo,
must have confidence in the PastiIle treat
ment for weakness, nervous exhaustion, etc.
in men. They offer free trials and trust re-
suits for orders.
Mrs. Frank A, Vanderbilt, the widow of
Commodore Vanderbilt, died at 9 O'Clock on
Monday morning at her residence, No. 10
Washington Place. She had been i'll for the
past few days with pneumonia.
-Quinsy troubled me for twenty years
Since l started using DR.. Thomas Ecectric
Oil, have not had an attack. The oil cures
sore throat at once. Mrs. Letta Conrad,
Standish, Mich, Oct. "a. 's3.
"A life prisoner In the pe6itentiary at
Charlestown, Mass. says be has a bullet 10
his head which he can feel move when he
shakes his Uranium. He has sold his head
to a docter for SIS, proviso that be is to keep
it until bis life sentence has expired.
Wheeling is no longer the capital of
West Virginia. The state archives, proper
ty and officers were on Saturday removed to
Charleston, which, under the provisions OF
an act passed in 1879, becomes the permR-
nent seat of government for the state
An exchange rises to remark, the war
news reaches flour dealers from the ends of
the earth By telegraph. raising the price of
-four; but it would take a declaration of
peace six months to travel over the same
ground and bring the price down again to a
peace basis"
The United States Treasurer, on Thurs
day, received through the mail an envelope
postmarked Washington, d. c., containing
$500 United States note and a note saying :
" This $500 belongs to the Treasury of the
United States" The money was deposited
to the credit Of conscience.
Mr.. Joseph Barker, of New Brighton,
Allegheny county. who has been acting
queeTlY Of late, was discovered few days
ago dissecting a cat, and upon his wife in
quiring the cause said he was practicing
preparatory to dissecting one of their child
rem. He will be taken to Dixmont.
Colonel jim Bowie's famous dagger,
which served him in many a combat and
was the pattern of subsequent "bowie
knIves," is now on exhibition at New Or
leans. It is doub,e-edged weapon, with a
born handle and a curved blade fifteen inch
rs long and an inch and half wide at the
hit.
Lightning struck the residence Of a lex
ander Cameron, Of Shenango township,
Lawrence county, the other day and played
some queer pranks. The carpet was set on
IRE in one room, double barrele6 shotgun
was discharged without injury to the gun,
the wheels of a clock were welded together,
and the hands split.and welded so as to make
perfect letter Y. No one was injured.
The United States grand jury returned
indictments against twenty eight of the
Oklahoma boomers separately aud a gsner-
al indictment against the remainder Of AT
kansas City colony, charging them with in
citing and engaging in rebellion against the
government in opposition to the presidents
proclamation. No steps have been taken
toward making arrests under the Indictment
AT II O'Clock on Monday morning Lucy
Gilcrist. wife - Tohn Giicrist, of Newark,
n. J.. while Insane from drink seized her
six-month-old baby and placed it on a block,
chopped its head, neck and body with an
axe, killing it instantly. Another Of her
children gave an alarm and neIehbOrs rush
ed in, but too late 10 save the baby. The
woman without doubt is Insane. She saws
she did the deed because the s7irIts told her
and because she must save Ireland. She
was taken into custody
Major General Irwin Mcdowell died at
San Francisco Monday night. after a long
illness He was aid de-camp to Gen. Wool
IN the Mexican war, commanded the De-
partment OF Northeast Virginia and the de-
fenses at Washington in 1861, and led the
Army OF the Potomac at the first battle of
Bull Run. Id 1864 he was appointed Com
mander of the Department of the Pacific, in
1866 of California, in 1868 OF the East, and
in 1872 Of the South. His death was due 10
pyloric disease of the stomach. He was born
in Ohio in 1918.
n---Eo1r tramps were taken from iail at
forty men, armeu u.sSv-~-asja jav nfobt nv,
whipped until they bIed. For The past ~
days a gang OF tramps has terrorized sub
urbs of Anderson. After the whipping Oi
the tramps a gauntlet was formed from The
railroad to the river and through this tbs
tramps were compelled 20 run aud they theI
plunged into the river. When each on,
reached the water he was bleeding from th,
castigation he received. All got out safel,
on the other side, The citizens of Ander
son generally approve of the course taken
-WainriQhrs brewery, on Thirty-sixtl
/ street, Pittsburgh, caved in with q heav
| crash about 3 O'Clock on Sunday mornin
/ last. The structure was four story bricl
and substantially built. In it were twelv
! thousand barrels of beer and lot of De1
! and valuable machinery. The Immens
weight OF beer, it is supposed, caused tn
supports of the floor to give way, and tn
building collapsed from roof to cellar. Tb
falling of the walls crushed the beer barrels
| and torrents of the malt fluid ran dow
/ the street and completely flooded cellar,
The loss is estimated at $1OO, 900. The stru,
ture will be rebuilt at once.
Three thousand people witnessed tn
unveiIing of the Poe me emorial in the mai
hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, |
Central Park, New York on Monday afte
noon. Men OF letters, men of science an
others prominent in society we're seated @
the platform at the east euG of the ha
when the ceremonies began. They consis
ed of actresses bv Algeron 5. Sullivan, Edwl
Booth, Louis P di Cesnoia and Willa
| Rouseville Ager. The unveiling was col
Quoted by Jodn Gilbert. The memorial is
lifesize marble figure, loosely draped, bOI
a marble wreath over the bronze medalliC
of Poe. The medallion is affixed to a viii
marble tablet. and the whole stands upon
huge block of granite.