The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-08-21

notes the arrival IN that cuy oi newly
married couple that came in from Holton,
the bridegroom being hity,hVe years oiu
and the bride twenty. The bridegroom
was on his sixth matrimonial venture, and
! is the father of thirty-thre children, twen-
! ty-three of whom are still living.
A carriage, containing seven occu-
pants, was struck by locomotive at New
ark, Del, few days ago. \ young laoy
had both legs cut off above the knees ana
died in a few hours, and another young /
lady had both legs mangled that they 4
had to be amputated. The other occu- /
pants of the carriage were injured less Sc
verely.
wheat crop of the entire Northwest proni- /
ses to be little greater than that of last 1
year. though the quantity will be slightly +.
inferior The deterioration in quality is !,
/ chiefly in what is known as Minnesota
wheat. Iowa and Nebraska wheat will
prove to be fully equal to, II not better
than that from the same section last year
A statement of the time that Bazaine
reached Genoa shows that he must have
left the island of St. Marguerite even long
before the hour at which, according to the
report of the Commandant, he retired to
bed" This is accepted at Paris as evi-
dence that the officers were IN league with
the Marshal, and having helped to get him
away, afterwards fabricated story to suit
themselves.
Boy murderers, it would seem, are not
5 confined to the land of the American ca
giles, for two youths have been apprehendec
5 at Birmingham, England, on a charge OF
, numbering a companion named Carp, by
drowning him in the canal. 1t is alleged
that they twice pushed him into the water,
when he escaped by swimming to the bank.
n The third time they seized him, took him
. out into deep water, and held him beneath
the surface till life was extinct.
i tbat e., n kos
of the latest is told by man in Delaware.
3 He was attacked by one of those reptiles
3 some time ago in Sussex county, ne says,
) and in order to escape he jumped behind a
o tree Thereupon the suake in its rage
struck at the tree and thirty minutes after
IS wards dullness in the leaves was percep-
IS tibe In another hour they began to fall
/. off, and now nothing is seen save withered
l. naked trunk. Not so bad, that.
James Baird, of Scotland, in 1890 was
% worth less than $4,000. James Baird, to-
is dav. is the greatest iron producer in the
<, world. James Baird x Co. own nearly al
4 the great smelling furnaces in Scotland.
They employ 5000 men and boys, aud pro-
c. duce POO, 600 tons of pig iron per year
e, This is equal to 5000 tons per week. The
: value Of these products for the year 1874
lie will reach IS, 900. 600. The annual profits
of the concern are estimated at -, 3,OOo,OoO
Y, On Sunday morning, says the Detroit
W Free Press, there came over the Great W est
&c ern Road, on its way west. 4 trunk which
T. made the hair of the baggage smaSher'
stand on end. 1t was thirty-forr inche.
le long. three feet wide. aud was made o
e, solid boiler iron, an eighth of an inch thick
5 The handles were of iron, riveted on will
mt great bolts. ard the lid was fastened dowI
with an immense paddock. On one end oi
ot the trunk was painted the words More
is coming -
e Col. S :. Fisher and son. of Cincin-
H. y. 40
l,v water having embarked in a small iron
lg boat at Elmira. while passing through
.d COncwago Rapids. about fourteen miles bc-
IF low Harrisburg, on Friday afternoon, were
d drowned The body of the father was
found below the Rapids on Sunday and
at given in charge of a relative at \ oTk
t. Pa. That Of his son was found Tuesday
re forenoon in grass patch above tie head
ID of Haldeman's Island.
rs An extraordinary marriage took plac,
at lexington, England, the other day, The
ut ceremony being performed by the err
of Rev. Archdeacon Philpott in the presence
10 of a large congregation. The married
IT couple both belong to the parish of jeving
I'll ton. but the singular part Is the fact tina
the bride has no arms and the ring had L
n be placed on the third toe of her left foot
at At the conclusi III the marriage ceremOn!
III she signed the register, holding the pei
en- with her toes, in a very decent hand
of Sunday morning last about o'clock
three negroes entered the residence of Mrs
I'd NJ l.. Burnley, at Brookhaven, Miss. anC
choking her and her daughter violated th'
rs person of Mrs. Burnley, after which the.
I'd forced her to give mp what money she had
ce and then plundered the house, taking ava,
a large trunk filled with clothing, jewelry
IN etc. One of the negroes has been captured
n but the others still at large. Great cN
ed citement prevails concerning the outrage
M Reading, Pa, claims the smallest TIVE
I'll dwelling houses in the State, if not in Iht
country. They are one-story high. abou
as seven feet front, nine feet deep, and eigll
NJ feet from the ground to the top of the roof
k, The fronts are regularly weather. boarded
i'm the windows and doors finished in the Gus
Id tomary manner, and the front of the roof
has a regular offset the same as the mos
tn modern built dwelling. Each house ha
of one front door and one window. In siz
at they resemble two large dry goods boxes
en- "A Washington special conveys tn
he cheerful information that postmasteI
whose salaries under law recently pasScv
10 are graded according to the number q
an postage stamps Sold are taking advantag
'ol of the law and paying. all their debts an
re- making all their purchases with poStag
lat stamps whenever they can. They get cred
ID it for the stamps sold, and it is reckhne
with the amount of business done, anb thei
in salaries are increased accordingly. This
g- brilliant idea, and entirely worthy of tn
IL reputation of our office holders for shrewd
to ness.
se -Thongh n great deal of news has bee
ne printed about the grassh0pper plague il
Kansas, it is only now that the extent o
as the injury done is beginning to be fully real
Ia. lied. Correspondents writing from differ
on ent points of that State draw most painful
'e, pictures of the devastation wrought 10y tin
ce red-legged locusts, and declare that no
ks only will Kansas lose 81, 600 settlers imme
diately, but there will be little or immi
IT. grafton next year; and it may be five year
lie before that portion of the country will a
le recovered from the effects of the suddei
is visitation.
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