The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-06-18
Netcs C,ad POtttlcUI Items.

-Thirty-four head of Ayrshire cattle ut
Fitchburg, Mass, were sold on "Wednesday
for So, 900. One COW brought S4l0.
News has been received at Havana of
a terrible earthquake in New Grenada, 1t
being reported that /, SEQ lives were lost.
The Upper House of the Prussian
Diet has passed the bill withdrawing State
grants from the Roman Catholic clergy.
-"Heavy cold rains" fell in California
on Saturday night and Sunday. The cut
and standing grain was damaged in many
places.
-Four editors have consented to run FOR
Governor on the Democratic ticket. Three
at least are likely to go into decline before
autumn. --.-.
The Catholic jubilee procession of
Montrea al. Canada, on Sunday, was partlci-
pated in by over 90, 600 men, women and
children. - EeHF
-Ex-Governor Bigler positively declines
to become candidate before the demo
cratic state convention for the nomination
for governor. m
and 100 years, recently attended the funeral
of their mother, aged 132 years, at Aca-
pulco. Mexico. - IE
Every business house in Newfeld, n.
Y, burned on Tuesday. The disaster was
occasioned by burglars firing building
which they had robbed.
Count Allessardro Marefoschi, of the
Noble Guard of the Pope and the bearer OF
the zucchetto to Cardinal McCioskey, sailed
for Europe Saturday on his return home.
Mrs. Lottie Cole, of Carroll county,
Georgia, is SO yeais of age, and is the
mother Of IA children, the q andmether of
81, and great grandmother of "a; total, lS2
Gold has been discovered in Surry, n.
H., on small creek that empties into the
Ashuelot river. Persons are also prospect
ing for a silver mine with indications OF
success.
An iron tank containing IS, 900 barrels
of petroleum was struck by lightning at
Monterey on Saturday. Part of the oil
was saved 10y running 1T through pipes into
tank cars.
A Lancaster county man few days
ago put in the ground 2, 100 tobacco plants.
The succeeding day they had all been de
stroyed but three. The cut worm had
been there. ...
Tom Mcclellan, a notorious desperate,
made famors by the tragic end of his
counsel, Hon. G. l.. Naliandigham, was as
sassinared i'm his saloon at Hamilton, Ohio,
Sunday night.
While some school boys in Littleton,
n. H., were playing bah recently, ball
batted by one of Them struck a swallow in
the air and brought him down as suddenly
as if hit with bullet.
hanged by Judge Ewing. at Pittsburgh, on
Saturday, for the murder of James " hite.
The prisoner received his sentence with
remarkable composure.
I'm tue Superior Court Monday morn
ing Thomas w. Piper was indicted for the
murder of the child Mabel Ii. Young, in
the belfry of the Warren Avenue church,
Boston, a few Sundays ago.
Talk of official advertising The Nd-
tional Republican gets 800, 600 for publish
ing list of the delinquent taxpayers of
the District of Columbia four times, and
S73, 900 of this is said to be clear p! oft.
john Bent, lighthouse keeper, Howe
Rayw Orth, George VI. Trenholm and }. c.
Barnes, merchant of Bay Verte, were
drowned Monday morning while crossing
the strai. from Prince Edwards Island.
The grasshoppers are moving north
ward. Thousands of them passed over
Omaha on Monday, causing a lively con-
sternation among the residents of that
place, but not even alightirg for dinner.
A Dansville. Y. Y, veteran of the
war of 1912, Moses George, was shot in the
groin by an Indian in the battle of Chip
pewa, July 1915. The other day that
ball was extracted from his thigh by the
veteran himself.
A problem in relationship might be
constructed from the case of Mrs. t. W.
Taimage, of Columbus, Ohio, who is n
erauddaug hter of Mrs. Harriet Parke
" no was niece and adopted daughter of
George Washington.
1t is the same story from every section
of Teunessee-the wheat crop likely to be
one of the largest ever harvested corn,
cotton and tobacco doing magnificently,
and the farmers in better spirits than at
any time since the war.
A large turtle was recently captured
by ''tur;ling'' vessel, about two hundred
miles from st. Marks Florida, weighing
was discovered carved on his back "a. j.,
St. Marks, April 9, 1892"
A ratilesnake with thirty-one rattles
was killed fortpig ight ago on the Keweau
River, in Tulare county, California. 1t
measured thirteen feet in length, and is
said to have been the largest rattlesnake
ever killed on the California coast.
There is shown in the business part oi
Conwayboro, S. c., a house. once the head
quarters of Gen. Marion during his Reyo
lutionary campaign on the Great Pedee
River. 1t is built of cypress and is still il
an excellent state of preservation.
Little Stella Montz. of Madison, Ind
aged 8, on Saturday last went to a drawer
where loaded pistol had been carelessi,
left, and in taking it out ace den.ally dis
charged it, the charge taking effect nea
the heart and killing her instantly.
"A large share of General Sheridan't
wedding feast was stolen from the yard o
his father-in-law, on the night of the wed
( ding, but the guests were none the wise
when they sat down to second supply
somewhat later than had been intended.
The champion grasshopper story come
from Brown county. Kan, where the insect
fly in fiocks SO thick that the farmers hay,
to plough with the aid of calcium lights
/ The noise of their hatching is so great a
to render futile all attempts at converse
tion.
-Twenty-two locomotives are now i,
course of construction at one shop in Phila
delpbia, destined for South American rail
roads. Russia and South America ma
nov be counted on as steady customers q
the United States in this branch of in
dustry.
While an excursion party was bathin
| at Ark wright Island. near Savannah q,