The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-07-25
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A ladv residing in Virginia City, New, (
hos nineteen brothers and sisters, one
woman having given birth to them all.
The wife of Joseph Deebs, living near
Roachton Ohio, gave birth to three girls
few DAYS ago. Wood county against the
world. -
"A willow tree, seventy-five years old
and eleven feet round at the base, IS GU
riosity shown verdants at Georges, Fayette
county.
Isaac 4. Gould, widower, aged for
tv-five, was arrested in Yarmouth, Me, on
Monday, for repeated incest upon daugh-
ter, thirteen years of age
Those inevitable tortoises have turned
ND again. this time in Hereford, Berks
county. each marked with the initials b.
G., one dated 1920, the other 1928. !
Two daughters of Mr.. Gallagher, of
Cortland, H., plOughed and put in eighty
acres of small grain this year. One did
the ploughing, while the other soWed the ,
grain and narrowed it.
Tho Sun says 4. T. Stewart, before .
leaving for Europe last week, made ms Will
A schedule of his real estate with Its Valu-
alton foots up the extraordinary sum ot
one hundred million dollars.
"A few days ago, Ella BatcheldeT, a
Young and handsome girl, suicided at
Portland Me-, in consequence of a quarrel
with her lover Walter Howe. Howe shot
himself on Sunday, and died in few min
utes.
"A Harrisburg woman tIied to drown
herself in Harrisburg Sunday afternoon,
( but a colored Adonis saved her. The rea-
son why she wanted to die was because
her lover broke off an engagement because
she wore No. : shoes.
The storm on Friday evening was ter
rible in Chester county. Large hail stones
fell bv the bushel. The wind was terrific.
Many houses were struck with lightning.
Hogs and cattle were knocked down and
hundreds of fowls killed.
( That is a singular hen down in Ten
nessee, which at the age Of twelve or four
teen. quit all her old habits and turned
into regular rooster. This case, and that
of Susan B. Anthony are the only ones of
the kind we have ever heard OF.
"A Buffalo girl committed suicide be-
cause her new bonnet did not come home
in time for picnic. Another lass residing
at Bellevue, Iowa, shot herself to death re-
Gently because her parents insisted upon
her marrying a man she did not love.
On Tuesday while several boys were
hunting berries in the woods near the Ly-
coming county poor house. they discovered
the lifeless body of young man hanging
to the limb of tree. From a deep cut in
his abdomen it is supposed he was muir
dered.
Miss Beulah Watts, of Waterbury
Center Vermont, aged fourteen, has cut
and pieced within the past two years a
quilt which contains four thousand seven
hundred and ffty-two pieces, made nine
tides, and attended school IS months in
that time.
David Wilson, soldier of the war of
1912. and brother of William Wilson,
Cashier OF the Fayette county National
Bank, in UniOntown, died at his residence
in Miffiintown. Juniata county, on Tuesday
morning the 10Th inst, in the S5th year
of his age.
The passengers of the wrecked At
lantic have brought suits against the
company TO recover damages for baggage
lost, and personal injuries suffered by the
wreck The company does not contest the
suit, but has given security for the liablli-
ty. subject to the evidence of value, yet to
be given.
"A servant girl by the name of Sophia
was left to watch sick lady at Harrisburg
the other night, so as to give her medicine
at proper intervals. The servant, to econ
omize labor, gave the patient all the medi-
cine at once, and then went To sleep. So
di6 the patient, and never wakened. Too
much morphia, as well as Sophia.
Last Wednesday a cow belonging to
Mr. J. W Evans. of Franklin township
gave birth to a calf with eight legs. The
calf, as far back as the shoulders, was per-
fectly natural from the shoulders back it
had two back bones. This singular ami
m al died soon after its birth, and the cow
which gave birth to it had to be killed.
Samuel Wilberforee, Bishop of Win
chester, Eng, fell from his horse last Sat
urday, and was killed He was riding
with Earl Granville from Leatherhead to
Lord Covers country seat where Glad
stone awaited him. The horse was going
at full speed at the time the Bishop fell :;
his neck was broken, and death was in
stantaneous.
Brooklyn had, very recently. a remark
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falcated to a considerable amount. instead
of striking an attitude, and resorting 70 the
various devices of the day TO make a hero
ofhimself. he paid his butcher and grocery
:, bills, provided for his family, and then
went and drowned himself. That was II
sensible man.
7 The little town of Mt. Vernon, Ind,
is sadly afflicted, indeed. 1t seems to have
been singled out by the cholera as its par
; ticulaT victim. Nearly all the citizens who
could leave the place have done so. No
business is transacted. One family of ten
persons has been entirely exterminated by
the terrible disease, and three other fami-
lies have each lost four members.
On Tuesday week two boys named
Lewis Betscher and Sherman Hard, aged
ten and eight years respectively, were
drowned at Canal Dover Ohio. They had
gone into the canal near the brewery to
bathe. Lewis could swim, but Sherman
. could not, and the latter, getting beyond
his depth began to sink, when Lewis went
to rescue him and they both went down to-
gether.
A special detective from the agency
in New York city is now i'll Paris in pursuit
of the Bender family. From the efforts
that are going on actively it is evident that
the world Is TO be thoroughly searched in
the determination to hunt out this pesti
lent brood and bring them to Justice. The
opinion seems to prevail that they are some
where in France, and if so they cannot
long escape detection.
-EX-PreSident Johnson has proved too
tough for the cholera. After fierce strup-
gle with the disease he rallied and was
better. The cholera, not relishing this
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