The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-05-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Daniel Boone first set foot in Kentucky
on. June Z, 1869, and the people of the
State propose celebrating this centennial by
grand barbecue and festival at Frankfort
The Fat Contributor has been visiting
Baltimore. and is pleased to find a growing
and Strengthening Union feeling. especially
among those who want to hold Office under
Grant
Young Siegrist who lately rode bicv-
Gle on a wire rope 20 feet above lake 200
feet wide In San Francisco, talks of crossing
the Niagara River below the Falls in the
same manner.
Fourteen railway locomotives have eI-
ploded within the past seven months in the
United States, killing twenty-nine persons
outright, and severely wounding a much
larger number.
"A machine has been invented and put
in operation in California which, it is said :.
has cut, threshed. cleaned and sacked the
wheat for twenty acres in ten hours, with
only three men to work it,
-Washington's ''little hatchet" is in the
Alexandria, Va, Museum. Washington
didn't tell lie about it, but there is a lin
geriHg doubt that the specimen in question
: is the cause of falsehood in the Museum
Snowman.
John H. Mills. brakesmaa on the
Central Railroad. residing in Utica, has re-
ceived by the will of deceased relative,
city lots in Chicago, covering about thirty
acres, and valued from two to three hundred
thousand dollars.
There is chestnut tree on the farm Of
Joseph Whitman. In Upper Sauoon town
ship, Lehigh county. that measures twenty
six feet in circumference at TIE base, and
maintains this huge width up to where the
branches fork out.
"A citizen of Cairo, Illinois, has invented
a spring to be attached to the feet. by means
Of which person is relieved of the labor of
walking to great extent He claims his
invention will enable a man to walk ten
miles per hour with ease.
A DR.. Lichtenthalcr, Of Lock Haven,
recently drove his horse over two ladies
named Mrs. Anthony and Mrs. Barnes. cans-
ing injuries to the former lady which result
cd in her death the same night. The doctor
has been arrested.
The following makes an excellent guano:
Collect barrel of bones and crush them
mix with a barrel of hard wood ashes
moisten with soap-suds apply quart or
two at time. Use as n special fertilizer
on melons. squashes, early corn and cucum-
bers, allowing gill to a hill
In the Office of the Corning. New York.
flint-gasg works, a single window has been
fitted with inside blinds. the movable stats
of which are made of green glass. The eff
| feet is beautiful, and the experiment may
mark new era in the history of inside
blinds. both for Office and dwellings.
As means Of destroying vermin. the
carbonate of btryta is recommended ss the
.urest and swifJest poison available. 1t is
a dry. white, tasteeSs powder, which may
be mixed with raw flesh. dripping or meal,
and thrust into the holes OF among the runs
Of rats, mice and other small game
An iron water pipe, eleven inches in
diameter and $500 feet Cone and two thirds
/ miles) long, has been laid in Tuolunne
count v California. 1t rms Down a noun
tian under creek, ard up the ascent on
the opposite side, under a perpendicular
pressure at the lowest point of 6e4 feet
The Stockbridge In,lians iE Wisconsin
| are rapidly disappearing. This tribe once
numbered 10000 wArfi rs. They immigra-
ted from Massachusetts To New York in
1889, TO Ohio in 1909, and to Wisconsin IN
1921. They are now suffering for food. and
number but 500 men. women and children.
-Ex Governor Pollock. the proscriptive
old Know Nothing. whom Grant made Di-
rector of the Philadel phia Mint, has turned
out every one of number of wounded sol
diers who were employed therein, to make
room for lot of political bummers who
never saw battle field. Such is Radical
! love for the dear. brave soldiers.
( At Lima, Ohio, recently. two confiden-
! tial men were arrested for swnGling an old
| man out cf some money. The next night a
/ vigilance committee took them out of Jail,
| shaved their heads, tarred and feathsred
! them, and egged them GU: of town, with a
little frieUdly advice to give Lima a Wide
berth in their future pcram bulations
AT Jacksonville, few days ago, man
had in bis possession grub worm brought
| from Missouri, which. though itself dead,
had live plant growing out of its body
The P liant was quite long, and seemed like
! iy to become shoot for a forest tree. 1t is
supposed the worm ate the seed and died
wheIeupon the seed took life and grew
The New York Tribune is exercised in
spirit. because it announced that ex-Presi
dent Johnson will soon visit Washington.
Why not ? 1t is asked '.Can the leopard
change his spots 90 The answer is "Yes
when he is tired of one spot, he can 90 to
| another" An ex President has the same
! privilege, even without the TTibune's per-
mission
An elm tree, supposed to be from 25O
to 800 years old, has been cut down in Roy
alton. Connections. 1t was one hundred
and twenty feet in height. The trunk was
perfectly straigh: and sound, and measured
seven feet at the ground. and three feet in di-
ameter at sixty feet from the ground. at
which point the first branches start out Tne
tree furnished over thirty-six cords, running
measure of sixteen inch wood. and EN- mployed
one man nearly fifteen days to fell and work
it up.
The Portland (Oregon) Courier says
that during brisk shower 1t Sheridan, in
Yamhlll county, on the 18th of March,
there Tell what seemed to be a kind of bail,
but on examination was found to be COM
posed of peculiar whitish worms-millious
of them. Each worm had the power of
doubling up and skipping a foot or more.
They were from an eighth to a quarter of
an inch long. with a small darkish spot
about the head. They appeared TO die very
soon.
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