The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-05-16

ark. Wayne county, Monday morning,
and pleaded poverty 60 the:driyer Of Z stage |
At thai place, and pifeousIy asked him to
carry her to the village She had i bum
de which fell willie he was putting It .up
in his carriage, and broke open. Out Of it
came stocking --save tlle mark NEARLY
filed with silver lf-doIIars and quarters
"A Texas cotton planter imported for
ty-three monkeys for the purpose Of test
ing their cotton picking capabilities. He
calculated that five monkeys would pick
as much as three negroes, and that one
negro could manage ten monkeys In-a
stead Of that, however, il required ten ne
groes to manage one monkey, and not an
ounce Of cotton was picked. The Jsckos
are now .fusticating IN 8 menagerie.
Elder Adams, who went from Maine
with colony Of emigrants, to settle in
JafEa and Christianize Syria, is represent
ed by the United States Vics-C Consul at
JafFa, as a drunken swindIer. The ma
fives call him the drunken Messiah. He
was great on ssmoral ideas before he left
Maine. He was tsIoyals all over N 1865
and 1866, and now he curses and con-
demns his native land IN bis drunken
TRADES, which he calls sermons. 8
There is now living in Lawrence
county, Ohio, gentleman who separated
from his wife, IN Pennsylvania, many
years ago. He came to Southern Ohio,
and married Miss p, of Marietta.
After the second wife's death, daughter
| by the first marriage brought about q
reconciliation between her father and her
mother, and they were remarked more
than twenty years after the date of theiz
ssparation-the first wife becoming the
1 third. s' - s..
AN Australian paper announces the
discovery of a new species of liquid gum Of
oil. A tract ten miles square has been
discovered which everywhere abounds with
bubbling springs of gum or oil, while al
around are vast quantities of gum solidi-
fed into the consistency Of india rubber.
When exposed to a fire this substance
which is light, and floats in water, is sale
to burn with bright flame, to be accom-
panied by thick smoke, and smel
similar TO old grease.
i -Dr. J.. S. Fuller, of Perry, Allel
county, Indiana, has examined the ske-
Teton of an elephant found on the farm o'
Mr William Thrush, in Noble county.
near the Allen county line. The skeleton
! was found about four feet under ground
below the surface of the marsh, in whicl
/ the ponderons felIsW evidently became
mired, as the skeleton was standing up
Il DR. Fuller says he stuck in the mnd full,
one hundEed years ago. The Indian
+ had tradition that elephants once inha
bited northern Indiana.
& The West has new sensation.
81 young man is m the habit of visiting ID
large cities, and in front of some Of th
s finest residences, usually where coupl
81 Of young ladies happen to be sitting, he
suddenly taken with hemorrhage. th
, blood flowing copiously from bis moutI
Of course he is taken In the house, whei
: his story is that he was In the war, has
bullet in his heart, has been imprisone
and all that. which of course elicits Il
: sympathy of the crowd, and every lad
comes down handsomely. The felIo
. RECEIVERS rapidly and deoamps.
81 "a woman died recently at Soui
t Reading, Mass, who was well known f
j her eccentric habiis 81 the two roor
/ and calIar occupied b herself and husbal
were two sleigh-Ioads Of pieces of iro
which she had picked up or begged al
! seventeen hundred pounds of paper RI
/ were gathered up on the promises and sol
In asserting the rags, several quarts Of co
5 per coin some of them rare specimens
were found, and good handful of sils
pieces The place was so filed with trul
= perry that It was considerable labor to Gle
= q place to lay her out IN after death.
& "A bit of sharp practice has be
going on not thousand miles from Uti.
: New York. A man contracted to pl
chase farm The ssIorfsit'' was $5(
= A few weeks subsequent to this transs
s ton third party came in and offered
y original owner an advance Of $500 5
e the farm. The seller abacked water 3
g paid the forfeit, when purchaser No
y ssdidn't want to buy AS the man Il
received the forfeit money has made t
e- or threa thousand dollars in that y
Is within short time, i is entirely safe
OF conclude that the ways to make MOI
r. are as numerous as holes in skinner
n- The Richmond Enquirer says: 81
VI Wilson's statement that after the pass
of the Shellabarger bill, the reports
ys murders Of freedmen ceased, proves n<
be ing except that the object Of the. previ
re- lying being gained, the falsehoods =
IS abandoned. The Improvement was in
IN Radical repcrters not the Southern j
C pie The Times adds that ssthe i
eomplacant way in which Mr.: vi
n described the great victories which
aat won over The Confederates, recalled
ast mighty warriors magnificent retreat {
If the first battle Of Bull Run, II edranc