The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-08-22
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-Sunbury boasts natural curiosity in
the shape of chicken with its wings put
on wrong side up.
Rev. Leonard II. Bushnell, 4 Mctho-
dist preacher at Lauesboro, Pa, was crush
cd to death the other day, by tree, winch
fell across his body while he was asleep in
the woods
Elijah Newton resides in Claremont
county, Ohio, and is 40 years old. 1t IS
said that he once refused to exchange forty
yards of kentucky jean for the lot on
which the Cincinnati pOstOffice now stands.
A happy couple in Iowa, having been
twice married and twice divorced, are now
doing their counting for the third time
and the parson and the lawyer hope they IL
be steady customers for many years to
come.
Peter Kessler, the mule-stealer, who
was imprisoned in jefferson City, MisSou
II. has been hanged by a mob, and the
Sheriff who had him IN charge has been
mortally and two others very seriously
wounded.
Last wcoIl pig was born on Henry
Brendle'S farm, near Greencastle, that was
double until ii reached the neck, where
the two bodies formed a junction and ter
minated with one head. 1t lived but a
short time after seeing the light.
1t trauspires, says a Washington dis
patch to the st. Louis Republican, that tine
patentee Of the new cigaT-bOX which 1T is
proposed to force upon the trade : broth
cr-in-law of the commissioner of internal
revenue, Douglass. Which tends still fur
ther TO show that ours Is not so much
government Of law as of brother-in-law.
The balloon of Professors Wise and
+ Donaldson, IN which they are to cross the
Atlantic in sixty hours, viii be nearly
ready for imitation at the close Of the pres
ent week, and the start viii be made be
tween the 1st and 10th of September. We
cannot say when or where the landing viii
be madc-perhapS in mid-Ocean.
"A few days ago on the farm Of VIM.
Seidel in Greenwich township. BeTks CO..
a crow venturcd near stream of water
where he was caught and killed by a snap
ping turtle. The cries of the crow were
heard by number of labOrCrs in the field,
who fastened to the spot and observed the
unusual occurrence.
A special dispatch from Tioval Spring,
Linn county, Kansas. says a horrible mur-
der was pcrpetrated near that place on
/ Sunday night last. \ man uned Keller
/ killed his wife. her sister and two children.
piled their bodies up on the floor. covered
them with straw. and then set fire to The
heap. He was arrested next day and there
was strong talk Of lynchiug him.
Recently, III California. Pike county.
Ohio. Reuben {. Rogers and Mrs. Caroline
LittleiOhn were united in marriage. He Is
81 years of age, and his bride 6l-their
. united ages. therefore, are one hUndl cd
and forty-thrcC years. Eie was ont in the
war Of 1912. and draws a pension from the
government for his services. The bride Is
his third wife and lie Is her fourth hus-
band.
/ a horrible murder was committed in
Harrisburg last Sunday night. at - q clock,
. Mt the corner of Short and South streets.
4 Two negroes, named Jones and W ilhamS.
got into an alteration as to who was
the better man. Jones drew a bOwie-knife
and stabbed Williams several times in the
stomach Williams lived but few min
utes. The murderer has been arrested and
committed.
! a type OF Radical RepubHcanism. \
/ Senator and a haTlut. displayed. in im-
tatiou Of princely state, with coach and
/ four and liyericd lackeys, before the gaze
of the world, holding q levee at Long
. Branch. while crawling creatures in human
form endeavor to invest the humiliating
spectacle with halo of respoctability.
/ The deprayity Of AthCas' declining days
without its genius. DeIicles' brain and
. Aspasia' ) Wit.
The \. y. Herald reitclates the state
. ment that the names of siEty-one custom
house officials. whose conduct should have
/ been investigated, have been sent to Wash
ingtOn and says there is 4 disposition to
sacrifice lesser officials, to save the mag
mates. Statements made by men in high
position at the Custom House have tended
to throw all the blame upon inspectors of
wharves. ThiShas been done to save them
selves and for nothing else.
The Treasurer of the United States
has made the following ruling, which il
will be well for administrators to take no
tice Of: In order that administrators may
collect interest in the name of the dece-
dent, they must send, with power of attor-
ncy authorizing an attorney to receipt for
and receive the interest a certified copy of
the letters of adminiStTatio on. The letter
will be fled in the Office of the Register of
the Treasury, and viii answer if any time
the administrator should wish to sell OF as
sign the stock.
A bit of romance, n Vermont paper
says, crops out az SALISBURY. in that State.
in the marriage of Nathaniel Oin, an old
man of seventy years, to a woman who.
years ago, had been the bride Of his youth.
but from whom he had been divorced. Dur
( ing the long interval OHn has lived in Ohio.
and had two other wives 10y one of whom
he had a large number of children. But
the first wife seems to have cherished a
tender feeling toward him through all these
long years, and remained single and loyal :
and on visit Of Olin to his old home last
week the two met, the old flame revived
and the happy panacca of marriage was
the satisfactory denouement.
A new witness Ii the Tichborne case
turns up at Springfield, III He was the
real Sir Rogers riding teacher and daily
companion when Sir Roger, then a young
man, was stationed with his regiment at
Cahir Barracks, Ireland, and feels sure he
can tell whether the claimant is what he
pretends to be. His name is John Crow
ley, and he is a well-known veterinary sur
geon of Springfield, and is YOU ched for as
man of high character and intelligence
Should Mr.. Whalley, the English member
of Parliament who is now in Now York
collecting funds and testimony, really want