The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-04-17
Ne.cs ana Foi.ticoI items.

San Francisco.
George Klock froze to death in Penn
sylvania last week. He was about two
months behind time Boston Post.
The widow OF Ex-Governor Geary was
married last Thursday in Carlisle to Henry
Z. Goodman. VI. D., of Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania sunday School As
sOciations will hold its next annual meet
ing in Scranton, Juno 9th, 10th and 1lth.
1t is said shat if lamp chimney is
boiled in Indian meal and vinegar for an
hour before beng used it will never crack.
"A husband and wife in Evansville. In
diana, have each nine children OF their own.
and yet there are only twelve children in
the family.
A Philadelphia youth was recently
married to girl who had refused him
eighteen times. He wishes now he hadn't
asked her but seventeen.
The Lewistown, Pa, Gazette says an
experiment Of a big gun is to be made at
the Logan steel works cannon eighteen
feet long, to weigh forty tons.
There Is rooster in Quincy, H., with
four legs Of his own. If he can run III pro-
portion and also crow comparatively, what
a political candidate he would make.
"A law court in Iowa has fined farmer
$50. because he made his son turn a grind
stone IS consecutive hours, for going ho+ue
with an old maid from a singing school.
The hat factory OF Charles II. Tenuey,
at Methuen. Mass. was burned on Sztur-
dav. Loss $50, 600. One hundred and If
ty persons are thrown out Of employment.
Mrs. Or. Whitman, of Mecomince,
Wisconsin, shot herself because, while rid
ing out with her husband, she saw a couple
Of prostitutes wave their haudkerchiefs at
him.
Uneasy lies the fair head of the hotel
gill in TerIe IIaute who has inherited $40
OGO in gold, for by all The aspiring young
man of thuso parts she Is PersistentIy ser
enaded.
Two employees of Robinson's Circus.
named Hamilton and Park, while loading
some cages on board barge at Cincinnati
ON Sunday, fell iuto the river and were
drowned.
A merry wife Of Dayton, New. aged
fifty, has elopcd viii a Lolhario Of fifteen,
and the injured husband vows thar if he
catches the destroyer Of his happiness hen
spank him.
An undescribed monster is said to have
appeared in Lake Harney, Fla. Twenty
feet Of it was seen by the passen gers on the
steamboat Lollie Boy, and i-spouted water
like whale.
There is school district in Maine
where lhe 2f pupils are all the teachers
second cousins, and each is brother, sister.
OF cousin OF every other pupil. This Is
what may be called family school.
A bit Of geography from the Washing
ton RcDuElicu7a ''SaIem-A town on tie
New England coast, where they formerly
cultivated uitchcraft, but of late it has
been exclusively employed in-raising the
devil
While some men were repairing an old
well at Dexter Village, Canada, on Satur-
day, the cuLb gave way, letting the earth
fall and buryiug three men, two brothers
named Black and 4 man named Williams.
All were killed.
-Penusylvania's breadth is one hundred
and seventy six miles; length, two hundred
and eighty miles. 1t contains tyventv-eirht
millions three hundred and Sixty-two thOus-
and and eight hundred aud eighty-one
acres OF land.
The champion forgiven lives in Terra
Haute. Ind. He has taken his wife back
after live elopements with as many differ
ent men. But he has confdemtially sug-
gested to a friend that the thing is beconl-
ing slightly stale.
a Jersey COW belonging 20 Geo. Wan
ger, Of North Coventry, Chester county.
gave birth TO a calf The other day that had
no uCstEil@, and only one eye, which was
located in the middle Of its head, z IL Cy-
clcps.
There were three executions last Fri
day-LoWenstien, Albany, \. z, Hunter,
colorod. At Darlington. 5. c, ana Bryant.
colored, at Pulaski, Tenn. Hanging don't
seem to be played out, especially so far as
the cOlnred brother is concerned.
A fire at Des Moines, Iowa last Sun
day night. destroyed the warehouse Of J.
c. Warner, with about twenty thousand
bushels Of grain, twelve thousand of which
was wheat. Loss on grain about twelve
thousand dollars insurance nine thousand
The pow der hom which Abraham Lin
coins father wore when he was killed by
the Indians is in possession Of an old gen
tleman in BecchIand, Kentucky. 1t has
carved upon it a snake, 4 square and com
pass, with the legend, Liberty or Death
There is a boy in Washington county,
Ia, who sheds his skin in scales every three
months. He IS a bedridden invalid. hav-
ing injured his knee several years ago
while bathing. His malady appears T., be
something like scrofula, but is a puzzle to
the doctors.
Jacob Good, North Coventry. Chester
county, is the owner of pair of tailor's
shears, which are about four ana a half cen
turies old. judging from the date on them
lies. Christopher Columbus probably
brought them over, but this fact the shears
are not sharp enough 20 remember, though
certainly old enough.
"A fire in WilHamsPort, Pa. on Sunday
morning last, destroyed 10000, 600 feet Of
lumber saw mill, 4 planning mill, and
fourteen frame dwellings. The loss is esti-
mated at S5C0,CO \ man is reported to
have perished III one Of the mills The fire .
was TIE work Of an incendiary.
The Nashville Tenn Banner remark /
eth thuSly: just wait until the State elec- .
tons out West take place! The character
OF the radical rOuts then viii depend on
whether :he Republicans remain in the ,
field to be routed and overwhelmed. When
the tidal wave reaches Tennessec-welI (
there Will be slaughter then, my country !
men!
-Remarkable Ninety-niue years ago .
the father of Dr.. Mark, vino is the father
OF young milliner now in st. Joseph's.
No, leased eighty acres of land in New
I ork city for ninety nine years. The lease
has expired, DIR. Mark is dead. and the mil
liner Is the only living heir. The property
is worth 81, 600, 600. She's not for Joe any
longer.
On Friday evening \ horrible acc6cut
occurred IN the quarry adjoining the Allen
town iron works, by which James Kennedy
was killed outright and John Scanlau so