The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-02-19
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A piou3 family in Chester county claim
to have eaten 1862 pies Of various kinds in
the year 1874.
The Fourth Duchess of Oneida. a
short>horn COW, valued at $25, 600, died
the other day in Paris, Ky.
"A cheese weighing fourteen tons will
be one Of the contributions from Ohio to
the Philadelphia Centennial.
The Sunbury american says the col
1ieries that had suspended work in Sha-
mokin are resuming operations.
The cold weather, it is thought, has
destroyed the whole fruit crop in Michigan.
All the peach buds are certainly killed.
The Eagle says the iron trade in Reads
ing, Pa, is gaining a little life. The price
OF bar iron isquite as low as before the war.
The Cords Mills in Millbury, Mass,
started up on full time February /. the
wages of the operatives being reduced ten
per cent.
Representative Hooper, of Mass, who
died in Washington, on Saturday evening,
leaves fortune of T5, 600, 600, accumulated
in the China trade.
The Lambertville Iron works are now
in full blast IN consequence of the reception
of orders for car wheels from the Lehigh
Valley railroad company.
-GmOry Brothers, jobbin. for Bond &
Company, lumber merchants of Emporium,
Cameron county, have already banked
O,btt,bUU 1cet OF logs.
Several shocks of earthquake were felt
ON Sunday in San Fransisco, causing some
alarm, especially among the congregation
III the churches. No damage was done.
The famous Mary Ann Boxer, the rich
man daughter, who years ago married her
coachman, John Dean, is one of tho lady
examiners at the New York Custom House.
-Nevoda ics-dealers are already pIepar-
ing to double their prices next summer,
"a tf,-.+ .
almost entirely eaten up by the grasshoE~
pers.
The jury in the Cincinnati lanyard
murder case yesterday brought in a vei dict
of guilty of murder in the first degree
against George Rufer, for killing Herman
Schilling.
Every negro in Alabama, says the
Mobile Register, has at his heels d worth,
less cur, which operates as a prohibition
against sheep raising, and eats as much as
his master.
Tile Pennsy ylvania Pail oad Company
has agreed to make a rt duc;iou Of % D, L
ce t. on pine and 30 e. cent. on hemlOck
l.,m6cr freigits FROM tie Clear field lumber
gion eastward.
The Fairnount coal works at New
Bethlehem, Clarion county, are i'll full blast,
shipping two hundred ana twenty five tons
per day, aud employing from seventy five
TO eighty men regularly.
The cattle king Of Texas is said to be
Mr.. Samuel ". Allen. He has a ranch
eighty miles long by forty wide, lying be-
tween the Nevada and Colorado rivers in
Texas, and hiss 22G, 600 cattle.
Tie Massachusetts Supreme Court, in
the case ofJesse Pomeroy, the boy murder
er, has overruled the exceptions taken and
ordered judgment on the verdict. This
decision sends Pomeroy to the gallows.
The leading Republican members of
tho House of Representatives believe they
can pass the bill by which the writ of
hab2as corpus will be suspended i'll the
Southern States, through both Houses of
Congress.
1t is estimated that in the hills OF Co
lumbia county, n. Y, there is a supply
of at least 90, 600, 600 tons of iron, which
could he mined and delivered in boats on
tie Hudson river at u cost OF not over two
dollars a ton.
On Wednesday night in Steubenville
four Tuthans entercd the house of James
Tucker, maitreated and drove him out and
then outraged bis wife in the presence of
her son, boy fourteen years Of age. They
have been arrested.
1t is reported that the few Republican
members Of Congress who are opposed to
the extreme features of the proposed leg
islation for the South are to be forced to
support them by a special message of the
President on the subject.
Mrs. Sophia Covan, of Cincinnati,
aged sevcnty-three years, was burned to
death, on Thursday, by her dress catching
fire from the CRATE. Mrs. Mills, wife of a
prominent manufactures, was also fatally
burned by the same cause.
The prospect of an increase in the to-
bacco tax has caused an unprecedented
rush on the internal revenuc Office at Rich
mond, Va, for tobacco stamps during the
i.
on Saturday aggregated 800, 900.
The Reading Times announces par
tid resumption of work in the machine
shops OF tile Reading railroad company to
take place on Tuesday. One half of the
force Of employees will be put to work.
This will necessitate resumption of work
in the blacksmith shop, brass foundry,
boiler shop, etc.
The house Of d. B. MelIott of Belfast
township, Fulton county, was burned on
Monday last and four of his children per-
ished in the flames. Mr.. and Mrs. Meliott
went away on a visit, leaving tue childIen
locked up in the building, and on their re-
turn few hours afterward found the bones
of the children in the ruins.
George and Edward Wertz, of Read
ing, are tall specimens. The first named
is 6 feet A inches in height, and the latter
6 feet inches. They have sister who is
6 feet inches. George Wertz, we believe,
Is next to the tallest man in Berks county,
Nation Shaaber, The taiest, being 6 feet Z
inches. Aaron Adams is feet inches.
Report says that the happy and some
what notorious triumvirate -Beecher, Til
ton and MouIton-have been Gin active
physical training" since the trial began.
Ii true, what does it mean? VIII there be
a startling settling of accounts after the
jury shall have rendered their verdict
We trust the weapons of their warfare will
not be carnal.
"A sad spectacle met the vision of
hunter in one of the extreme northern
counties of Wisconsin last week. While
tramping through a large piece of timber
he suddenly came upon an Indian wigwam,
and upon entering it, found the Inmates
parents and three echildren-wrapped in the
embrace of death. Hunger and death had
effectually done their work.
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