The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-09-04
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vested ) -uOO III them SO litf-
duncan Ross, an old gentleman OF
Portland, Me-, has Il suit of clothes whleh
he bought thirty years ago He has
been married in it four times. and con idsTS
it a pretty good suit yet.
Tim Nolan, a fireman in Indianapolis,
is the champion melon masticator Of Amer
lea In five hours and three quaI ters he
ate seventeen and three-quartcr musk mel
ons, and, stranger still, survived.
a fter BecChcrs committee had made
their report, they one and all fled TO the
: country. Eeecher remains at Twin Noun
tain 50 that in case he wants n mountain to
cover him he will have fun supply.
A Mr.. Wakeman, in Vermont, started
out to borrow hoe. That implement
mus. be scarce III Vermont, for Nj. Wake
man has now been gone sixteen years, and
his wife is growing anxious about him.
Albert Brown, the negro who was shot
to death by an indignant populace for
raging and then numbering little girl in
Bradford county, served three years in the
Eastern pcnitentiary for grand larceny.
An Iowa minister was recently killed
by lightning while standing on tie banks
of a muTmurng stream and endeayorng
to convince some bad boys that bathing
on Sur day was a sin. An awful warning.
Advertising has created many a new
business. enlarged many IA old business,
revived many duh business, rescued many
large business, and it iHsures success IN
any business.
No sooner is Bcechcr wLitcwashed
than he is nominated a. 4 republican can
didate for President. Tie Plymouth church
committee have given him n character that
ii i thought may stand the wear of a pO-
litical campaign.
Many persons remember the c0mmo-
tion create in ECropc 4 few years ago by
the baptism of Jewish boy named Nor
tara. This young man Is at this moment
an Augustine monk in the monastery of
Notre Dame dc RCauchcne.
/ Mr.. Monitor was attacked by 4 rcli-
gious mob Friday night. and only saved
from injury by the activity of the police.
. We presume that Mr.. Bcochcr's friends in
their cooler moments will regret their un-
justitiable and riOtous conduct.
The Sacramento THioH says that there
il snow bank in the Rocky Mountains
which sends its waters into the Colorado,
and thence to the Gulf Of California to
the Columbia river and the North Pacific
Ocean and also into the Missouri and the
Gulf of Mexico
, Among the archives of Missouri Is a
, resolution passed IN IS a, aud still in effect,
requesting the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Judges, and other State officials
= and members of the General Assembly to
dress in clothing. the growth and mianu-
, facture of Missouri.
The order of Lieutenant General Sher-
idan forbidding parties from arming and
going to the Black Hills in search of gold,
q is an cminently proper one and ought to be
. rigidly enforced. An Indian war of puu-
7 stIal magnitude would inevitably follow the
, moving of any such expeditions into the
, Indian country.
: On Saturday night, n Shenandoah man
named Labaugh, shot and killed lad
, named Mcguire The boy was taking
~, 10
80 intense that Labaush at his ewn request
vas taken to Pottsville and lodged in Jail.
? There is no doubt that the excited crow Is
of men would have resorted to lynch law
, had he remained in town longer.
= A disconS0late widow in Western New
! York. daughter Of Il former noted railroad
officer, repairs to the tomb Of her husband
, every evening a sunset. enters the vault.
, and seats herself in a chair formerly used 10y
the departed, where She remains 9ometimeS
several hours, always an hour, and she has
done this with scarcely an imIermission for
two years since hcr husband 5 death.
The supreme Court of Minnesota late
= " decided that railroad companies mus.
: pay for iniuries to those who travel on free
: passes the same as for accidents happening
1 to passengers who pay their faes. Tile
/, numerous class Of dead heads viii rejoice
\ TO hear it. They can now travel for moth
Il ing IN Minnesota, lose n leg oran arm with
i sum 10y the operation.
!. The negroes at WOocoche Valley. Ala
, bama, have been holding secret meetings
, for several nights of late. preparing to at
: tack-the whites. Their plan was reveal ed
+ on Thursday by an Old negress. in time
: for the whites to prepare. When the ne-
I grues mace an attack they were driven
, back. with Il loss Of four men killed. They
I then burned down the churches and left
+ WoOcOche Valley is sixteen miles west of
I Columbus, Ala near Opelika.
2 An experienced western editor pays
L high compliment to the fair patrons of the
r press Women" he says care the best
: subscribers IN the world to newspapers
d magazines, &c. We have been an editor
5 for forty years, and have never lost a dollar
v by female subscribers. They seem to make
!, 1t point of conscientious duty to paw tho
a preacher and the printer-two classes o
the community that 81 fer more by bad pan
II and no pay at all than all the rest put to
a sether.'
( There recently died in Belgium a lad,
! of fortune, named Madame Monsieur VIII,
i had singular mania for the boarding Of
j. articles of dress. After her death an ex
=, animation of her effects revealed an un
5 usual state of things. There were noun
y tains of dress goods uncut and bearing the
II tradeSman's price labels, besides hundred,
S of bonnets, dresses made up cloaks. shawls
e and various specimens of the modistes 5 art
: 1t is believed that this accumulation o1
S goods will realize something like $50, 900
c In Oregon, a woman and her son, upon
o rImors Of improper relations between the
schoolmastcr and the womans daughter,
visited the supposed offender, and, by aid
!, of a shotgun and cudgel, left him on the
\ school-room floor defunct pcdagOgue.
; Presently it was found out that the poor
II man was entirely innocent. What was to
+ be done ? An indignant public took up the
: matter, and finally determined to make all
: straight by lynching the woman and the
o boy. Luckily, they didn't think it neces-
{ sary to lynch the daughter
-Braquet, the aeronaut of Bordeaux.
was about to make his 331st ascension on
: Monday afternoon, Aug. 10. az Royan