The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-10
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mer wife. and attempted to poison him.
He married her in May. She flies counter
charges Of gross Immortality on bis part,
with denas of the truth Of his accusations
against herself Both parties are well known
in Kansas City, and they have occupied good
positions in society.
Now we are told that the horrible
stories of starvation and cannibalism in Persia
are all bosh. 1t was only the other day the
cable asserted that they were Confirmed
The Persian Minister in London explicitly
denies the reports. He admits the scarcity
Of food. but denies the famine and-most
emphatically-th eating of the dead. He
believes the slanders on Persia originated
with commercial agents.
The Canadians are much exercised IN
regard TO what is called the "pestilence fly"
! which they assert is now paying thCm visit.
! 1t is an insect smaller than the common
| house fly, Jet black on the back and wings,
the under side of the latter and the belly
! being striped with yellow. Hamilton pa
! per says it is never seen in ordinary years,
/ and was noticed in great numbers previous
to the cholera epidemic of 1854
Ohio seems 20 take the lead in produc
! Ing double headed babies. A dispatch from
Raysvile says The wife of Eli Graves.
| living one mile from this place, was deiV
cred of double headed child, this morning.
/ 1t had two heads and necks, four arms and
! four legs Tho two children appeared TO be
perfect in every respect, except grown to-
! gether from the neck down, their arms en-
circling each other. They lived but short
/ time.
Under the head of ''Elopement Extra
! ordinary" the Kentucky Sentinel Of the
! 9th says: 'On Wednesday of last week,
Miss Salie Mckee, of this county, eloped
with her yopug nephew, Thomas Mckee,
| and was married to him at Aberdeen, Ohio,
by Squire Massie Beasey, on the succeeding
| day, Thursday, the 20th inst. The woman
| is a sister of the Hon. Samuel Mckee, now
! of Louisville. and her husband is the son Of
her brother William"
Seven miles from Lexington, Virginia,
! on the road to Staunton, stands an old and
venerable edifice known as The Timber
/ Ridge Church." 1t was built in the year
! 1856, nineteen years before the revolution
ary war. 1t is built of rough stone, and has
| 4 double arched entrance. The sand that
was used in its construction was carried by
women, on pack mules, from South river,
six miles distant, the men being constantly
occupied fighting the Indians.
A Mrs. Rex and a Miss Ulrich, both Of
/ Philadelphia, stopping for the season at the
Renova House, Renova, Pa, were drowned IN
/ the river at that place. on the 4th inst. They
were out rowing for pleasure when the boat
! either sank or capsized, and both were
/ drowned. They were discovered, but all
! efforts to save them were unavailiDg. Mrs.
! Rex leaves husband and two children in
/ Philadelphia to mourn her sad fate. Miss
! Ulrich is niece Of General Bickel.
"A very curious phenomenon YVES wit
messed on Lake WinnepisseOge on Sunday
| afternoon, July so. by two men in 2 small
! ICa la p lya T=1g
was scarcely breath of air stirring, and the
surface Of the Lake was unaffected by even
a ripple, when the centre Of the Lake sud
! denly appeared to sink, and Immediately
| following three large waves, the largest over
/ five feet in height. dashed over the island. for
moment threatening destruction to tile boat.
The dead bodies Of Mrs. Loriug and
! child, two years old, were found just out
/ side Of Lasygne; Kansas, Oh the 29th ultimO.
! The child had been very sick. and the moth
| er had become deranged from watching it.
/ On the morning of the goth, she took the
child, left the house, and some hours after
| wards the bodies were found in the woods.
! She had choked the child by examining
rags down its throat, and then killed herself
/ by tying a rag arouad her throat so tightly
as to strangle herself.
They have a first-class sensation near
Germantown, Ohio, in the shape of mani
! festations of spirits at the house Of Joseph
| Silver. Furniture was removed, milk crooks
| upset, eatables disturbed. aud the whole
| household disarranged. The family, though
not all residing together, appear in an arti-
| Gle iu the Cincinnati Commercial under oath
recitiug the circumstances with singular
! particularly. The afiants are old citizens
and have the general respect Of people Of
| that part Of the country.
Three generations of the Phillips family
| of East Fortieth and Forty-fifth streets. oc-
! cupied carriage on the boat which explo-
| ded in New York barbor at the fatal mo-
! ment, and were very near the boiler they
were grandparents, sons and daughter aud
| grandchildren, and were six in number
/ Only one of their number (hlrs. Moss Phil
/ lips) retains any Intelligence. The Others
are dead or unconscious. All wore a large
amount of diamonds and ornaments, which
are either lost or in the hands of the author
! tiles. Mrs. Moss Phillips. Of East Fortieth
street, had shortly before left a sick bed.
The Christansburg, Va. Messenger, is
not willing to give In TO the Tennessee snake
stories. The Messenger tells this "A rur-
! key gobbler belonging to Mr. Il. D. Mon
| tagne, OF this place. some weeks ago took a
| strange fancy into his head, made himself
! nest, gathered into it four apples. and went
leSu'aiiS ~ SetllnS. his performances on
the nest are truly feminine and hen-ike. He
! permits no disturbance of his incubatious.
but when approached ruffles his feathers,
pokes out his head, blows, and puts on an
aspect fierce and terrible to behold. At
last accounts he was still setting. but with
! what prospect OF Matching his apples is not
! known.
About y O'Clock on Thursday night last
a colored man named Thompson. residing in
| Horse Heads, n. Z, having become jealous
On account Of attentions paid lis wife by
another colored man named Hager, conceal
| ed himself in shed near the house in which
his wife and Hager were stopping, and with
a loaded gun awaited an opportunity OF
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