The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-03-23
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

sages sent to the Pope by cable Is estimated
to have been not less than $4,000. little
matter OF ju5ilstion for the cable compa-
nies.
Shareholders in Brazil are opposing the
final extinction of slavery on the ground /
that it will be impossible to carry on cOf-
fee planting on a large scale if slavery is /
abolished.
The official report that the number of |
persons drowned In the Yellow River inun- |
dations in China was more than 1OO, OOO be- !
sides 1,s00. 600 made homeless and destitute. |
establishes the appalling extent of this hor-
Tor.
From four to twelve inches of snow fell
Tuesday morning at Sherman and Gaines
Vile, Texas. land buried the spring flowers
and fruit tree blossoms" The tempera-
ture. which was "A degrees on Monday, fell
to "a.
"A Syracuse burglar had been all through
the house. and then sat down 20 rest a bit
before going of with the swag. There was
carpet tack in the chair. and the yell he
uttered awoke the people and he had to
clear out.
Some one has calculated that 1t takes
2,16o bees to 6ll a pint cup. Whoever said
SO is perfectly safe from contradiction. One
healthy active bee alone has, on more than
one occasion, been found sufa cient to en-
gage the whole attention OF a numerous pic
mic party.
The steamer Oceanic arrived from Hong
Kong ano Yokohama, at San Francisco on
last Saturday. The Chinese papers confirm
the reports of disastrous EARTHQUAKE In the
PROVINCES OF Yunnan and Syecnuen, but
give few additional details. Several cities
were destroyed and about %. 900 lives lost.
Mr.. c. o. ID. Kelley, now living in San
Francisco, is the sole survivor of Sam
Houston's famous spy company in the Tex
an War OF 1885. He carried the tidings of
the massacre OF the Alamo in 1886 to New
Orleans, and from thence to New York.
He was born in 1902, and is now in his Seth
year.
"A Chattanooga cabinet maker happen
ed to leave the door of his shop open for a
few minutes, and a pugnacious Plymouth
Rock rooster walked in. The fowl stepped
up to a $50 mirror and began TO fight with
his own shadow. a clatter Of breaking
glass followed and the mirror was a CON-
! plete wreck.
George l.. Came. OF Alfred, Me-, recent
ly sold the largest pair OF oxen that were
ever owned in his town. They were very
fat, handsomely matched, girth feet 8
inches, and weighed 5000 pounds Mr..
/ Came owned them seventeen months, In
which time they gained foot each in meas
uIe and over 1900 pounds in weight.
| "A dispatch from Winchester, O., saws
] that last Thursday
mob of farmers tarred and feathered two
1 Mormon elders near Brier Ridge School
/ House, where the elders have been for some
time trying to hold proseIytinR meetings
After the ceremony the elders were chased
4 TO the Ohio river, which they crossed for
safety.
! This Is the tallest story that came from
the West by the last mail. a Missouri man
says lie recently went into the woods, paint
ed black circle on the end of q log, and
when he went back to the log an hour later
he found 300 dead RABBITS there, the ami
mails having mistaken the circle for hole
in the log and dashed themselves to death
/ against it.
During the passage OF a merchant YES =
sci from Plymouth. England, to Groeningen,
on the bridge of the vessel. The Captain
carefully fed and tended the bird. and it be-
came quite at home. When the Captain
landed on reaching port the bird flew near
him wherever he went. and even entered a
coffee-house with him. Nor did its graft
tude waner for it Is still the Captains cou-
slant companion.
President Johnson was abused for the
purchase Of Alaska as much as jefferson
was when he bOught Louisiana. The price
paid was s. 900, 600. The Alaska CONNER
cial Company has already paid about So
600, 900 ia seal rents for the islands of 81.
Paul and S.. George, and the products OF
the Territory last year are officially stated
TO have been: In furs, g. 500 900; gold
al $50 600; fish. 3, 900. 600; lumber, etc.
500, 900; total, Sc. $50. 900.
-Wind-roIled snow-balls are often seer
on the Dakota and Wycoming pralries
Sometimes millions upon millions of the
balls are in sight at one time. Many ara Of
the size of an orange, some as bic as a can.
nOn-bali, while others reach the proportions
OF the prize pumpkin of the county Fair
These freaks or the storm leave a person
under the fanciful impression that great
armies Of scnoolboys have been bat tin,
over .he snowy spaces.
One day last week A. J. Welsh and
Harry Richards, of North Bend, Pa, kill eC
two bears and captured three alive. They
were bunting on YOUNGSTOWN creek when
their dog discovered the bears in the butt oi
a fallen tree. When the hunters approach
ed the place the old mother bear had heI
] a
tree, when one OF the hunters fired his riff 2,
the ball killing both the mother bear and
one of hur cubs. Three cubs were ca ptur eC
alive. They were taken down to Nortt
Bend and sold.
Rev. Father Accursius Beine, a membe
of the Order OF st. Francis, and assist an
priest at St. Boniface Church, Louisville. Ky.
died Tuesday evening of last week at the
franciscan convent. About half an hour
before his death he called his associates and
desired the last sacrament to be admins
tered He would not accept it in bed
NO" said he, 'let me kneel by the altar, .
Rising with difficulty from the death-beC
be proceeded across the room, where bend
ing before the cross, he was given the las
spiritual comfort.
Mr.. Pridgins. an old peracaer Of Higl
Shoals. Ga, has decided to preach his owl
funeral sermon, and has it set for the day
the second Sunday in April. and the place
little church few miles this side of HIgl
Shoals. Mr.. Pridgins has ordered his son t
make him a coffin, which he directs mus
be perfectly plain and locked with a pad
! lock. The coffin will be placed by his sid,
in the church and there. in the presence O