The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-11-18

s-Ohe farmer inechester county has made
twent tyzsevef tbousand gallons q cider this
wEdrunken usas was'fssnd lying lathe
streets Of Pittsburg fecently. wrhsover eisS-
en- hundred dollars in his peck sts.
A corpuleats machinist ia, CincfnpAti
lived fourteen bours, after being drawn
through space of seven inches by power
ful betting. :,
Over four millions of foreigners are said
to have landed at the port of New York IN
the past ten years, bringing with them over
five billions OF dollars.
The farm iu Yorktown, VirRinis, upon
which Lord CORVALLIS surrendered his for
ces and signed the articles of capituiAtion,
was recently sold for $1,000
The latest money making operation IS
that of a gang of boys in Portlan', Nc, who
have been caught stealing bones from the
cemeteries and selling them to the bone
mill.
The Mauch Chunk Democrat Of Sa'ur-
dav last gave the particulars of no less than
FIVE fatal accidents Which happened on rail
roads and in mines iu that vicinity. Dan
gerous neighhorhood that
The boiler Of small engine used with
a tbresbing machine. exploded at Concord
station. Erie county. aud q, boy was blown
to pieces. Oh the 18th inst. =
"A child Of Ahsslom Weaver, aged one
and half years. in Rush township. Centre
county, during the temporary absence Of its
mother, one day last week. was so badly
burned By its clothing taking FIRE that it
died the next day.
John Charles. the founder of Char les.
ton. Lancaster, county. now part Of the bor-
ough of Washington. is said 10 be 103 years
old, and has an eye as keen as youth OF g,
and duIing four late - ducking days" bag
ged ene hundred and four ducks. --
Seventeen infdels and atheists met in
Philadelphia recently. As they called their
session {" national convention" it is happy
to know that only seventeen men and wo-
men in the whole of the States are cracked
Drained enough to dare come together for
such fell purnose
Mrs Pike. of Pinesroye township. We
mango county. missing for two weeks. was
found in the woods on Sunday week. where
she hanged herself. Her husband remarked
when she was found that it was his tday,
and has since been missing. It is feared he
has also put and end to his life.
The supposed object Of the formidable
naval expedition which sailed from New
York on Wednesday last, is 10 take posses
sien of the harbor and bay of Samana (which.
it is whispered. has been obtained bv-a rs
cent treaty, the details Of which will be made
known in a few weeks. Its possession by
our government as naval station is of the
highest importance. The rnmor that the
object of the expedition was the ennexafion
of San Domir gu. which was belieTed by
many. seems thus to he diSpelled.
Near Lexington. Kentucky, on Monday
night Samuel MeMeekin. who had come
home in usual good health. was standing be
fore the fire in cheerful mood when he was
suddenly noticed By his wife to be falling.
and she caught him in her arms dead. The
sad news was at once carried to his father.
William McMeekiu. Of Lexington. and he
broke il to his wife, who sunk under the ter
able affliction. was carried to her bed. and
in few moments breathed her last. Moth-
er and son died almost within the same
hour.
james Brophv. who escaped from the
Auburn Jail in Maine. a few days since.
showed much ingenuity in making the false
key for his purposc. De borrowed pair of
scissors from prisoner. ostensihly to mend;
some ciething. but used them m cutting mp
a tin dipIjer out of which heseGt his false
key, using nail for the handle. The tin Is
of many thicknesses and fits the lock pre-
cisely. The handle was made by winding q
black clath neatly around the end of the
KEY. on which the constructor worked in
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