The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-26
Ne,cs ana Fottt5caE Items.

A mariuc disaster in the Sea of Mar
mosa resulted in the loss Of 320 lives.
The old fashioned woman's crusade
A boys head aud y fine-tOothed comb.
"A dairy company ut Railway, y. J.,
turns ont abOnt a ton of suet butter daily.
-Sheboygan has three Young ladies
who claim to have refused SartoIis when
he v0s . farmer there.
Tie ladies OF Pennsylvania are doing
moro towards raising funds for The Ceuten-
NAL exposition than the men.
There is an old maid in Lowell, Mass.
who shows the documents TO prove that
she has refused over forty offers Of mar
riage.
Two girls have gone into the green
hide business III San Francisco, and are
making money. Neither of them is over
seventeen.
The Peoria woman who wanted to
throw herself into her husbands grave, a
few months ago, has just married light
ning-rOd man.
Chester is the oldest town in Pennsyl-
vania. The title of its town lots extend
back through the ownership of Europeans
and their descendants to 1915.
of the Pennsylvania delegation in the
house only four members, Messrs. Magee
and Storm, democrats and MeSSrs. SEQ
field and Townsend, republicans, voted
against the currency bill.
Henry Gill shot and killed Mortimer
Sullivan at a saloon, corner of Greenwich
and Murray streets, New York. ON Friday
last. Gill was arrested after attempting to
shoot Police Officer Sheldon.
kitty Camp, Of Northbrook, Chester
county, keeps a home for disabled and va
grant cats. All sizes, sexes and cOlors oG
felincS are welcomed and cared for, with
out money and without price.
In Omaha a baby ghost is astonishing
the people. In a certain house every other
night a baby is heard to cry and a cradle
to rock, though the family is babyless.-
Every other night Just at twelve o'clock.
Duchess of Oneida, a two-year old
heifer, purchased by w. J. Alexander. at
the New York Mills sale last Fall for S19.-
600, died on the Alexander farm. Wood
ford county, N Y, lately, Of pneumonia
There is goose of a hen in Spring
field, Ohio, who laid her eggs up in an old
apple tree, and when last heard from was
sitting on a bough, not cOmprehending
that her eggs weut to grass as fast as she
laid them.
A singular coincidence was noted re-
Gently in a church at Newburyport, Mass.
The pastor called for $40 for a specific OBJ
ject, and when the collection was counted
it was found that precisely that sum had
been contributed.
Says broken-hearted Pennsylvania
farmer eff the new constitution had
machine and lightning rod men it would
have been carried by 4 majority that
would have been unanimous"
A band of crusaders, in San Francisco.
while standing on the sidewalk, outside
saloon, broke through and fell distance
of ten feet into the mud below. They were
not hurt, but, after extricating themselves.
the meeting adjourned abruptly.
A young fellow living near Bowling
Green, Missouri, got into tight place the
other day by marrying girl no. vet tbir-
teen years old. The girls father and
brothers taTred and feathered him and then
rode him on a rail out of the country.
Fifteen persons were killed outright
and some two hundred others were more
or less injured, many of them fatally. bv
the giving away Of the Central Baptist
church, Syracuse, \. Y. during the Dro-
gress Of strawberry festival on Tuesday
night last.
AT Eureka, Nevada, a curious suit for
the possession of child has been going on
between two women, both claiming 10 be
its mother The child is perfectly white.
while one of the claimants Is lIl-boonde6
negress and yet the case has lasted for T.
some time.
Clark Evans, who recently murdered
Mr.. Hol5act, in Green county. Ill, was
taken from jail in Carrollton. at > O'Clock /
Sunday morning, by a large mob of dis /
guised men, and hanged to a tree near the .
of the town. None of the lynch
ers were recognized.
The largest locomotive in the world Is /
the pennsylvania, on the PHILADELPHIA I
and Reading railroad. The diameter of
the cylinder is twenty inches: the stroke .
twenty-siX inches /; the number Of driving
wheels twelve the diameter of the drivers
four feet the weight of the engine alone
sixty tors.
A r,oJ;o;ro 81 -
der, named Pearce, undertook to make n
balloon ascension at Allentown on Friday.
without bar or basket. He rose 60 feet and
1angled around the chimney tops until he
slipped from the ropes and fell. breaking
both legs and it is supposed injuring him
self fatally.
of the thirty-seven States in the Union
slghteen are under Democratic and eigh-
.een under Republican Administrations
Arkansas being neutral ground. Five Ter
i'orles are Democratic and three Repub-
lean. And yet the RAIDS pretend to think
hey have seen the funeral procession of
he Democratic party
Two New Haven fishermen recently
rev up n pOcketbOOk which had evidently
'een III the water for number of years
t contained several American gold and
llver coins, and n roll af bank bills esti-
mated to be worth 81, 600. There were no
marks sufficiently legible by which its for
ner owner could be identified. .
The Boston Post is authority for the
tatement that boy in Athol, Mass, is
radually eating himself up. He has been 5
t 1t with such fatal persistency during the
our years of his life as to reduce ali the !
myers of both hands to raw and bIeeding j
tumps, while of the thumb of the left '
and uothing whatever remains. :
Paper flour barrels are being made in /
owa. They are said to be air-tight and
'ater-proof, to weigh much less than the
wooden barrels, and to be able to
,anG more rough usage. One of the man
iacturers predicts that in five years every
arrel of western flour will be sent east in
arrels made from the straw the wheat d
rev on.
The recent hailstorm in Clayton coun- ;
> georgia, did much damage. The shin
les and boards on the house-tons were
'lit by the hailstones, the crops were de-
ohshed, and an immense amount Of tim
sr and fencing were blown down. The