The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-19
NetCs Of the Week.

Fortune Snow, a colored man, Of Milan,
Ga, claims to be ore hundred and twenty
six years old.
An odd marriage is reported in Bland
county. Va, that of Mr.. Allen Hannah and
Miss Hannah ALEU-.
About noon on Friday a dwelling house
on Thirty ninth street, below Market, in
West Philadelphia, fell, killing three chill
dren who were playing around it.
The richest woman in America is Miss
Kitty Wolfe. Her income is 81, 900 day.
Would You work very hard to keep that
kind of a Wolfe from your door?
There is bullfrog farm in South
eastern Wisconsin, thirty acres of swamp
fenced in, and the proprietor sends thous-
a:lds of these feathcrless birds TO New ork.
"A Berks county lady was discovered
i'm a dangerous condition in a second story
window, which she opened in her sleep
mistakiDg it:for a door. The fair somnam-
butist was rescued.
Herman Hartman, late of Bern town
ship, Berks county, had seven sons. One
died single, the other six sons married and
died within the past fifteen years. Their
widows are still living. ,.... ..
There is now no hope that any Of those
on board the i'll fated steamer City of Waco
escaped. TIE body of Captain Wolfe was
found near where; the vessel went down.
The search for bodies continues.
lie SHIP CdlCutUd. IbOT1 SfeDeC lot
Liverpool, was wrecked on Crosse Isle, on
Sunday last. Twenty-Five men of the crew
and a lady passenger were drowned. The
captain, three men and a boy were saved.
The latest count of the New York re-
turhs-official Eow i'm all but six counties
shows Mr.. Bigelow's plurality over Mr..
Seward to be 15,039. Enough-and it
will be increased three fold-for the Presi>
dental election.
Il l.
died attended the funeral of neighbo s
i'm Bridgeport, Mass, and the sight of the
dead body was such a reminder of her own
bereavement that she fell in commissions
and died within few hours.
The Governor of Florida is charged
with having released an indicted scoundrel
named lie Cain, who had been arrested for
forgery, embezzlement and other crimes,
i'm order that he might organize the Re-
publican party in Marion county.
The Ktpers Journal (fep publican)
having been asked how bets should he de-
cided when on majority for Hartranft Ie-
plies: Gov. rnor Har: ranft has no majori-
ty at ALL All who het on ma jorities for
him have lost their BETS This is also the
opinion of Wilkes Spirit Of tie Times, an
other sporting paper. s
"A man and his wife recently passed
through Mobile, EN- route for the Wilcox
S9f pounds. The man weighed AIS and
the wife Alb pounds. They were great
curiosities to the travellers on the several
trains which came i'm at the Western rail
road depot on THAT day.
Montgomery Queen has purchased 100
African ostriches, and is about colonizing
them on his place near Haywoods, a small
town fifteen miles from San Francisco. 1t
is Mr.. Qneen's intention to raise ostriciies
So1alu for tlnir ,,In a,ah xr,aI a..
ing over 5000 worth of feathers yearly.
He has invested 500, 900 in the enters
prise
An extraordinary wild animal has
been agitating Somerset county, Illinois.
He was a little like a ca ibou or half-growp
moose. He would, when hunted, take his
course through the most thickly settled por-
down at Smithfield. He is the only animal
of the kind ever seen in those parts; weight
go pounds.
On Saturday. at Easton, while several
persons were engaged in hosting a 1,500
Id. casting from mould, the foundation of
the large crane gave way. Courtland Bell,
aged eighteen years, who had been turning
| the crank, fell beneath the ponderous APP
pan atus and was fatally crushed. Hart
Reed, a moulder. was badly hurt, and
several Others made narrow escapes.
j. Ritz Burns, Of Lewistown, whose
| accidental death is announced elsewhere.
shot himself while watching a deer cross
| ing on the mountain, about twelve miles
! from Philipsburg. He was dead when
found on The arrival of his associates. He
is supposed to have been standing on a
log, when the gun slipped and was dis
charged by the hammer striking the log.
-Westervelt, the person who was con-
vIcted of being accessory to the abduction
of Charlie Ross and sentenced at Philadel-
! phia TO seven years imprisonment in the
Penitentiary, has failed 20 obtain relief
! from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
| He will likely have to serve his term as it
! is not probable that Governor Hartranft
will exert the pardoBiDg power in his be-
half. So asl ... -. 5#--...
Father Martin Egger, Tyrolese Jesuit
priest, is reported to have taken out a pat
ent i'm Vienna for an electro motor which
makes the electromagnetic current as
available for. driving purposes as steam
The Vienna Academy of Sciences have ad-
mitted the practicability of the invention.
and have agreed to assist the inventor till
lis machine is completed. 1t will be sent
to Philadelphia. fs F...ta
There is a cooper i'm Paoli. Ind. who
showed his lack of forethought the other
day in a remarkable manner. He was
making n caSk, and bade his little son get
inside to hold the slaves steady while he
fastened on the heads. When the heads
were securely nailed he bethought him for
the first time Of the lad who was shut ND
in the cask with no avenue of escape ex-
cept the bung-hole. s..-
-Four ministers of The Evangelical
Church have just completed church
building in Wriehtsville, Pa, which they
erected with their own hands in twelve
days, and it will be dedicated on next Sun
day. They designed it and performed all
the necessary work for its completion
themselves, and in the meantime conduct
ed meeting at the chapel at Millersville,
driving from one place to the other every
evening and morning.
A Flemingsburg Ky.) lady recently
achieved a remarkable task. She put a
quilt on the frames one morning after break
fast, and on the evening of the day follow
ing the quilt was taken out finished Be-
sides doing this, which is itself a big un-