The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-05-06

Of Lewistown were entertained the other day
by Witnessing The sale for rent of the house
| hold effects of an old man named John
Brown, even to the bed on which rested the
time worn limbs of himself and wife. So
saws the True Democrat.
Some time since an account was pub
| lished of the sleeping man at the bieetre
Hospital. He died on the 18th ult having
slept there seven months and three days. On
| the morning of his death he woke up and
swallowed pint of chocolate, also the sam
| quantity Of broth and some wine.
AT Omaha a man named Hale has been
arrested for inhumanly treating his niece. a
girl of fifteen. The City Marshal found the
| girl haadcuffed. chained to q stake, and her
hands tied high above her head. in which
condition she had been half the day. She
had also been numerically whipped.
A resident of Treasure City. 10 the
White Pine mining region, died recently. and
q man was hired to dig his grave When the
| funeral corteee arrived at the spot they were
informed by the grave digger that he bad
struck a splendid lead, and had staked OF a
claim and he refused to allow the body to
be buried in the hole he had dug.
Two new styles Of Velocipeds. which
conflict with no existing patent, are report
ed from Worcester, Mass. One Of these Is
to run entirely by friction, and the other
with common foot paddles, enables the op-
orator to make a mile a minute, or therea>
bouts, each tread on the treadles giving the
driving wheels three revolutions.
A few weeks ago q colored brother In
duced a young white girl, aged abont seven
teen, to elope with him from Petroleum Cen
ire. They went to Titusville, where, by di-
rections of her mother, the girl was arrested,
but afterwards escaped. The negro sluded
the officers, stole horse and made Oh, but
was pursued and captured, and is now In
Jail at Franklin.
On Friday afternoon last, as three bsys
were playing with pistol at Oakdale Sta
! ton, about twelve milss from Pittsburg. on
the Panhandle railroad, the third 10y accl-
dsnally shot his companions-two brothers
named Leickley-killing one and severely
| wounding the other. The pistol was charg-
ed with three large shot, each OF which
took effect.
Isaac Harden and Jesse Williams and
four horses were instantly killed by stroke
of lightning on the farm of William A.
| Cunningham, three miles from Martinsviile
| in Morgan county, Indiana, during the
storm of Wednesday evening. Six teams
were blowing in the same field, and when
! the crash came all the horses ran away from
! fright, so that those who escaped the bolt oi
! lightning were more or less injured IN thelI
fight.
The following simple method OF destroy
ing that fatal enemy to our most valuable
| fruit. the curculio, we clip from an ex-
| change: "As soon as the blossoms have
| fallen off, take some straw. and placing 1t or
some Goals in an old pan or bucket. give the
trees complete smoking by holding it an
| der them while the dew is yet on. Repeal
[ AZ IN ho ~ rel az
two or three times will not fail to insure &
good crop of fruit"
Last week q negro woman living in
Bourbon county, KY, deliberately murdered
one of her children by striking it on tho
head and breast with a club, and ther
| threw it over the fence into a garden Wher'
| it was found shortly afterward. When asked
| why she did it she heartlsssly replied thai
she had too many of them anyhow. Sh
has not been arrested. but it is hardly pssi
BILE that such inhuman attrocity will be al
lowed to go unpunished.
Mrs. Diana Vies. a widow lady wht
lives near Nashville, Tennessee, is hundred
| aud fourteen years Of age, and is still hall
and vigorous. She rides on horseback. anc
does much work. She has been married
three times, and bas over four hunred des
cendants living Each of her husbands
served in the revolutionary war, for which
she draws a pension. She is living Will
her daughter, Mrs. Sawyer, who is now only
ninety, but thinks she too may live TO a gooC
old age.
In return for the sum of one dollar
| Commodore Vanderbilt has given all hi
property on Staten Island to his eldest Sol
/ William. The property embraces larg'
areas of land, which have been permitted t.
remain in an undeveloped condition. Th
Islanders are much elated at the report tina
these lands are now to be disposed of in lot
by Mr.. William Vanderbilt TO persons VIII
will improve, and 10 other ways aid in tn
material progress aud growth of Richm ont
county.
| At Columbus, Ohio, a few nights ago
Arthur Duport, while performing doubl
tIapez act with his brother, at the Gazette
| Theatre, fell distance of nearly twenty feet
He was hanging head downwaris when b,
commenced to fall, but turned in his descen
so as to light on his hip. He struck on
piano in the orchestra, splitting the top il
pieces, but jumped up and turned a hanC
| spring before he left the stage, to the sur
prise of the audience, who thought he wa
surely kill.
-Boston's vicinage was shocked into
lively state of excitement the other after
noon by very positive and unmistakabl'
tremor in the earth aud thunder in the air
which suggested earthquake at once. The 10
calities affected were Brookline. Hingham
Stoughton, Canton. Dedhsm and South Ded
ham. 1t occurred at nearly three o'clocl
with heavy report and a vibrstory sensa
tion, which did not last more than three sec
onds. The crocksry ware shook in the clos
cts, and the glass in the windows. Th
weight and duration of the shock was hsavi
est at Dedham.
THE HUMAN FAMILY Is so numerous tha
. birth and death occur every moment