Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1875-03-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

A physician from Augusta, Ca, fell into
the canal at Granitcvllc, S. c., on Satur-
day of last week, and was drowned.
On Friday nj ,ht, woek ago, drunken
man accilcntly set u dwelling house in Port
Jervis on FIRE, and persisted in the flames.
During the last month, according to the
Treasury statistics, the public debt in
creased three and half millions of dollars.
1t is reported that cattle raising is on
The decline in California, while the grain.
dairy and vineyard interests are continually
growing.
A venerable woman, who died recently
in Staunton, Va, at the age of one hum
drcd and ten years, had lived in the same
house one hundred years.
At Cad Hill, Nevada, there is Portu-
guese boy, seven years old, who has not and
never has had hair on his head. An aunt
of his exhibited the same phenomenon.
The other evening. in Baltimore, q boy.
aged fifteen, was shot in the forehead and
fatally wounded By another boy. who was
carelessly handling loaded gun.
French woman near Aubc attacked q
large wolf with pitchfork, and killed him,
after short and desperate fight. Tho
wolf was in her sheepfold, and had done
much damage in the ncie ehborhool.
A house carpenter fell from the roof Of q
house on which he was working in York
vile, ON wednesday Of last week, and was
so badly mang!ed that both legs AMI era Of
his arms had to be amputltod.
A man named Brown, his wife, two chill
drep, and three servants were murdered in
Lee county, Mass a few days ago, and
their bodies consumed in the house, which
was set on fire by the murlerers, who all
escaped.
A Chicago couple who had beccn married
thirty-two years, and then got divorced,
IL t'o'Sl'iG ~ tiINi
edncss," were recently re-marricd, and de-
clared their intention to "stick it out this
time"
Some enterprising Western farmers are
said to be preparing to turn grasshoppeTs
into oil, in case those insects make their
appearance i'll destructive numbers next
season. A grsshoppcr oil factory would be
a novelty.
A young man in st. Paul, Minnesota,
who by an attack of typhoid fever, lost his
power of speech nine months ago. suddenly
recovered it again few days since, after
having been absolutely dumb for three
quarters of a year.
A dwelling house, near Clairsville, Pa.
was burned the other day, and Mr.. Lyun-
the owner of the housc--ono of his daugh-
ters, and a young lady visitor, were fatally
injured by leaping from IL window; and
another daughter and a servant were burn
cd to death
A woman living in Williamsburg left her
child, aged about two years, in a room. the
other day, in which there was Il tub with
about four inches of water in it. On re-
turning to the room, she missed the child,
and on looking i'll the tub found it, face
downward and drowned.
A couple of young men got intoa fight
in an omnibus, opposite the Astor House,
one day recently. There were ladies in the
omnibus who screamed. and policeman
rushed up and arrested the two belligcrent
and ll-mannered young men, and marched
them off to the station house.
Harold Vasargar, u gigantic Norwegian
lumberman, living in Wisconsin, is re-
ported to have been attacked by wolves re-
Gently, while telling trees in the forest;
and it is said that he killed thirteen of them
with his axe. and the rest of the pack,
eighteen in number, fled and left him mas
ter of the situation. and without serious
injury.
A young man named Becker. i'll New
town, Iowa. who had been married but
few weeks, was walking with his wife on
the street one evening, when Il rutliln i'll
suited Mrs Becker, for which her husband
knocked him down. The ruilian soon after
met them again, and stabbed Becker in
the neck. lie WAS helped home by his
wife, and soon died, the ju5ili.r vein ha?-
inc hnan rrt The EIlc lar.r -"..s ar-sst i.