The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-05-08
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brown county. lds IetS HtNOh OAAth ~
a baby which is sure to have its quarrel
lust. That is to say, it is 'thrice-armed.' +
-ChaIles F. King was shot and NOR
tally wounded by G. Adolph Wurgler, at +
Indianapolis, on Saturday. Wurgier was
arrested.
If there is one time more than another (.
W hen a woman should be entirely alono 1t
is when a line full Of clothes comes down !
in the mud.
Paul McAferry and Thomas Brobson |
quarelled about a young woman, in Cass 3
county, H., on Friday, and Brobson was
fatally shot 10y McAferry-
1t is suggested that Congress shall give
Winnie Ream so, 600 for a brass statue of
DIR. Mary Walker, to be placed somewhere
on the coast to warn off vessels.
Tho Pennsylvania railroad company
will hereafter contract for 10 wood for its
engines unless with the condition that 1t
be in sticks of two feet and half in length.
The Decoration Association of Illinois
have resolved that Uhoy will make no dis
tinetion on Decoration Day, but will dec
crate alike the graves Of Union and Con-
federate heroes.
An exchange is in favor OF making
Gen. Buffers birthday national fast day.
II Butlerism continues to flourish we Will
have several national fast days without
any Congressional interference.
AT Maiden, Mass, Thursday, a two
and-a-half story house was moved by the
wind twenty-five feet and dashed against
another house. The first house was com
plctely destroyed and the other badly dam
aged.
French settlement at Shanghai. The Chi
uese attacked the French residents and
burned several OF their houses. The police
interfered, and several Of the rioters were
killed.
-CastIeton, Vt, boasts Caleb Quotem
of a citizen who is good boot and shoe
maker. cabinet maker, upholstersr, carpen-
ter and painter, while, if need be. he can
run farm, grist-nill, saw-nil-any-
thing but a giL-rniil.
"A story is told of boy in Iowa City
who while fishing one day last week caught
muscalonge weighing over twenty-five
pounds. Tho boy was pulled into the river,
aud a Newfoundland dog brought both
fisher and fish ashore.
The Legislature of Washington Terri
tory has enacted that physicians, clergy
men and priests shall not be protected by
virtue of their profession or character from
testifying as TO confessions or confidential
information impaired TO them.
The following is said to be an excellent
remedy for corns One teaspoonful of tar,
one OF coarse brown sugar, and one Of salt
pstre. The whole to be warmed together
Spread it on kid leather the size OF the
corns, and in two days they will be drawn
out.
Two brothers named Walker were
shot in Owen county, Ky, on Monday, by
! VIM. Smuat. One of th6 brothers died
/ instantly, and the other was dangerously
wounded. SmOat charged them with hav-
, ing secured an indictment against him
| in the Federal Count for some misdemeanor.
! "A German saloon keeper in Millers-
town says Ven l goes in mine bet /
sleeps not goot. I dreams in nina head
dat | hear dem yimens blayin'' and sing
| ing in my ears dot Jesus loves me. Dot
bOdders me SO got right straight up and
walk on dc floor and take Guuder glass OF
beer"
1t is stated that the body of DR.. Liv-
! iugstOne was very much deCOmpoSed when
| it arrived in England, but the condition of
the bone of the left arm, OF which there
/ bad been an uuunIted fracture, the result
/ of bite Of lion over thirty years ago, was
was placed beyond all doubt.
| With complete power in their hands
! with both houses of the legislature and the
/ Governor, the Democracy of Ohio refused
! to make an aPpOrtiOnmcnt of the State
| more favorable to themselves than that
which now exists, and which the Republi-
! cans framed to suit themselves. This is
al exam PIC Vi
ought to have some effect upon the Penn
! sylvania Legislators, but it is not to be eI-
| pected that it will be initiated.
| A dispatch from Columbia, Tenn,
! says There is great excitement here over
an outrage committed by nOgro, named
| Merrett Voorhis, upon the person of 2
! young lady whose name is withheld by re-
quest OF her friends. The villain met heI
! ON the outskirts of the city about nine o.
/ clock at night, and accomplished his pur-
pose before tho neighbOrs, who had been
| aroused by her screams, could go to keT
| assistance. The police are in pursuit oi
| the negro.
One day last week book-keeper in the
employ Of lumber firm in Detroit, Mich
became suddenly i'll, and the Free Pres,
says the several physicians who called de-
| cided that one of his lungs was affected
! with an abscess, caused by rubbing hi de
| against the edge OF the table. He was told
that The abscess woulG break within two
days, and that the chances were that he
| would die. He made preparations for his
| deceaSe, and his death occurred within a
few minutes after the abscess broke
| Ten years ago Timothy Wheeler, OF
! Waterbury Centre, Vt, adopted strictly
vegetarian diet, and five years ago became
| impressed that nature did not require so
! much liquid to quench thirst as is common
y used. The result has been that the first
| year thereafter be went thirty eight days
without taking any liquids into his system,
| the second year seventy days. the third
/ 130, the fourth 10, and up to Thursday OF
last week he had gone 22S days in the fifth
year without drinking anything whatso-
Montpelier Argus.
! Horrors have accumulated rapidly re-
Gently. One has scarcely been told ere it
is followed by another. The latest is the
/ story related of a frightful parricde at a
village i'll Maine. James z. Davis, young
man, brutally murdered his father with an
axe. The mother stepped from the door
of the house into the yard, at eight o'clock
| in the morning, discovered the body of her
! husband with the top of his skull split off,
! while over him stood the murderer with the
| bloody axe. The son had been an inmate
! of lunatic asylum, but was considered
cured.
The Staunton (Va.) Yindicator says
! "Eleven months ago Mr.. James McClung,
| Of this county, was suddenly, and without
any explicSble cause, totally deprived of
! f luip lot h,r