The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-09-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

atld was SCdtucO 10 uedtD.
"A double apple tree is owned by Judge
Moss, of Livingston County, Mo. The |
apples grew in doublets, Siamese twin
fashion.
Mr. James Young of Great Falls,
\. y, learning that his wife WAS sick,
ran from Rochester home, six miles. On
reaching his house he fell dead
A woman died of starvation at Fort
Wayne, Indiana, on Sunday night. She
refused to take nourishment for several
days, saying she wished to die.
-Zion's Herald adverlises two coIorcd
preachers ''of superior parts. who want
white congregations. 1t says, snow bre-
thren, let us practice as we preach"
General Grant found no less than
twenty-nine qnartermasters on duty in
Washington, where only three or four are
necessary! He gave them walking tickets
with summary haste.
"A man fell head foremost into a well
forty-six feet deep, and containing six feet
OF water, at Dubuque, ON I thursday last
Strange to say, he was brought out alive,
and less hurt than scared
Caroline Newman, 0 years old, was
swinging on a clothes-Iine attached to two
chimney5 "n the roof of Il house at Buffalo
on Thursday. One of the chimneys top
pied over and fell upon her, killing her
ilstal t'y.
A little girl who go lost tie week be-
fore last in the Blue Ridge Mountains,
was found on the ninth day about three
miles from her fathers house She was
perfectly well when found, and stated that
she had lived on berries.
bridget Durgan was executed at New
brunswick, n. j., on Friday last, for the
murder of Mrs, Mary Ellen Coriell, on
the night of Feb. 25th. She made a
statement to the District Attorney in
which she acknowledged her guilt
A remarkable character named Said,
native African, lives on one of the Sea
Islands, near Charleston, South Carolina.
He is said to be great linguist, and
| speaks, reads and writes a dozen langua-
! ges. lie is now studying Hebrew.
At Clair, Michigan, Chas T. Wheel
er sprang into the river and saved young
girl from drowning, but while himself
climbing back on the dock, he was struck
| by propeller coming up, and injured SO
/ severely that he sank back and was
/ drowned.
Jordan, Chairman Of the Republican
| Committee, finds hard road to travel
this year and thinks there is great danger
unless the loyal leagues are revived and a
large amount of cash forthcoming imme-
diately. It won't do, Mr.. JoRpAx, you
are gone up.
The new Catholic Church at Alps
vile, Allegheny county, of which Rev
! Z. NJ. Ward is pastor, was dedicated to
the service of Almighty God on Sunday
last. The church is r neat and commo-
/ dious byick structure and will be an orna-
ment to the thriving village Of Alps,ille
jay Cooke, who made his millions
out Of the sale of Government bonds,
upon which the poor pay nsury, assuaged
his conscience by the erection of an aristo-
cratic church near Philadelphia. This
sacred temple of bond aristocracy Is very
properly called "The Church of the Holv
/ Five Twcnties."
-Pegged boots, it is stated, if occasion
| ally dressed with petroleum between the
soles and the upper leather, will not rip.
II the soles of boots or shoes are dressed
with petroleum, they will resist wet and
wear well. The pegs, it is said, are not
| affected with dryness after being well sat
urated with this liquid.
A man calling himself Crenshaw,
who has been at Roanoke, y. c., for
nearl| twelve moEths past teaching a ne
gro school, and the "IIead Centre of the
Union League Il. that county, left for
parts unknown on Iass Tuesday night,
forgetting to leave behind him abo"t $500
belonging to the League.
"A man named Butler, living in Ce-
dar Valley, Iowa, in whose honor Butler
/ County IL that State had received It's
name, recently took to drink, and The
| other day shot his son, while in a state of
insanity from dIink, and soon after being
arrested himself. died in jail from an at
tack of delirium tremens,
Prentice of the Louisville Journal
says, "Before we would employ in our
business, or patronize in our business, any
man, white or black, who should vote to
disfranchise us and rob ms of all civil
rights, we would ask that our head should
be chopped off and cast upon dunghilI."
Every man feels the same way
An old farmer near Lynchburo, Va.
has had standing bet of ten dollars with
nelghbor tor the last thirty years that il
would rain on the first Saturday in August
OF each year. During the time he has
won twenty-seven out of thirty bets, win
ming, of course, again this year He will
not explain what meteorological rule gov
erns his opinion.
Among the novelties at the Paris
Exposition is reported TO be an instrument
which is combined organ and piano,
worked by wheels similar to those in a
hand-organ, only this has dozen wheels.