The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-11-14
Ne,cs and Pottt5caE Items.

There is COW at Winterset, Iowa,
which operates the pump and drinks at
the spout.
"A Minnesota guzzler drank seven
glasses of beer III two minutes and half,
on a wager.
When a boy, Wade, the murderer,
was arrested in Berlls county for passing
counterfeit money.
A white deer, great novelty, was
shot in Centre county recently. 1t weighed
160 pounds dressed.
One hundred and forty bushels of
corn is what young man of Centre coun-
tv husked in one day.
A colt ut Springfield has but one fore
leg. and one lung, but has a lot of extra
ribs and double joints.
"A stock company has been formed at
Griffin. Ga, for the manufacture of coffee
from peTsimmon seeds.
A Chester county man has raised
cabbage head fifty inches in circumference
and weighing twenty-five pounds.
Five fossilized shells, each nine inches
long and shaped like rams horn, have
been dug up at Menomenee, Wis.
"A man of sixty and woman Of fifty
two eloped from Pittsfeld, H., the other
day-she leaving family Of children be-
hind.
Bishop of the VI. Z. Church South, died
Nov. 9th, at Lynchburg, Va, aged So
years.
-Renzine is getting to be a common
fuel for stoves in Titusville, a large num-
ber of the citizens having commenced
using it.
An Oil City man has tame rat which
takes its food from person, hand, runs
uncaged about the house, and on the whole
is very intelligent and social rat.
Seven persons were instantly killed
and several others wounded by boiler ex-
plosion In New York on Tuesday afternoon
last. All the killed were either wholly or
partially decapitated.
1t is believed that four Of the Stokes
Jurors will be indicted, and, if half what
is said about them is proven, they can not
escape conviction. 1t is now conceded
that Stokes evadcd the gallows by bribng
jurors.
1t is asserted that the Philadelplians
want everybody to drink tea on the 10th
of December, the centennial anniversary
of the throwing overload of the tea in
Boston harbOr. This is tea-total move
ment in a new shape.
Ten mills in Manayunk, Philadelphia,
have suspended operations entirely, throw
ing seventeen hundred and fifty hands out
of employment. So it goes all over the
country, the blessings" Of Grants adj
ministration are not confined to any To-
cality.
Daniel Seager, of Lehigh county, has
sold fruit from an apple tree amounting
to $41.12. In addition he made a barrel
of cider from apples taken from the tree,
a bushel ''snits,'' and has thirteen bushels
left, for which he can obtain two dollars
per buShel.
A Kentucky farmer has saddle mare
which was taken from him by some sol
dierS during the war, and was gone niue
years and Eiue months, to the very day,
when she astonished the whole ncighhOr-
hood by returning home by herself and of
her own accord.
"A party of nine fishermen, whose
names had not then been ascertained,
were drowned from a sailbOat OF SImcoe
Island. in the st. Lawrence river on the
evening of the 4th inst. ThIce of the
party were Seth Green's men, engaged in
collecting fish spawn.
"A girl named Rearaon, of Pttston.
Luzerne county, died from the effects of
hydrophobia on the Sd inst. Five weeks
ago she was bitten on the nose by small
dog while at play, and after few days she
began showing signs of the disease and
finally died after suffering terribly.
N. G.. Aughenbaugh, Of GoldsboTo,
Pa, raised five bushels of red beets. from
which he selected twelve, which weighed
fifty-Seven pounds. lie then selected
second lot of twelve, which also weighed
fifty-seven pounds, making one hundred
and fourteen pounds, to the twenty-four.
Although the law prescribes different
rates of postage for printed or written
matter, the Postmaster General decides
that ''to affix printed matter to postal
card. whether with or without writing on
the same, is to make the card liable to
letter postage" This is one of those
things that no fellow can fud ont
II. Bucher SwOOpc, United States dis
trict attorney, has again swooped down on
J. X. Turner, of Titusville, who was par
doned out of the penitentiary few weeks
ago. The released convict having crit
icised the district attorney severely, that
official has resurrected an old indictment
for forgery, on which Turner will next be
tried
Lew Williams, colored, and a white
man went out cunning together from Oil
City on Friday morning. In the after
noon Williams was found among the leaves
dead, an ugly wound in his head Both
barrels of his gun, which lay near his
corpse, were empty. It's disputed point
whether he shot himself OF was murdered
by the white man.
The Erie Dispatch says: Mr.. Charles
Burnham, of Edinboro, is looking FOR some
man who has raised more com and pOta-
toes to the acre this year than he has.
From little less than three-fourths of an
acre he has dug 113 bushels of potatoes
and husked 81 bushels of corn. Aside
from this lot, he has 4 field of corn that
averaged over 125 bushels of sound corn to
the acre.
A special to the Cincinnati CONNER
cjdl from Portland, Ind, says that VIM.
j. Hughey, proprietor of saddler shop,
was stabbed III the neck and a fiendish
outrage committed upon his person on
Thursday night by some one unknown.
Hughey had received letter telling him
he would never marry certain woman to
whom he is now engaged, and that his life
would be taken if no other means would
prevent.
All hope is abandoned as to the fate of
the fourteen persons left on board the
burning steamer Bavarian on the st. Law
renee. The names Of some of them are
as follows: Captain Carmichael. Chief