The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-08-27
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Fla. were taken out and lynched on Satur-
ady morning before daylight.
The difference just now between fishes
and girls is that the fishes are fin backed
and the girls are pinned-back.
The Allegheny delegates to the Erie
convention have resolved to vote soidly
for Hon. James 2. Barr for the gubernator-
ial nomination.
The Adams Express Company employs
5000 men, 900 horses, and 1, 200 railway
cars, and their special messengers travel
over 100, 600 miles day.
BY AN ingenious machine, and at the
cost Of eight shillings a ton, the English
farmer will! hereafter be enabled to make
hay when the sun doesn't shine.
The sword of Francis Marion, the
'sSwamp Fox of the Revolution. is now
in the possession of William Jones, Of
Armstrong county, in this State.
The court of Washington cnunty has
fined several of the township auditors SO
for not publishing a report of the receipts
and expenditures of the township.
"A drunken man slid head first into
hue of church at Pittsfield, and two car
penters destI Dyed hundred dollars worth
of the building in getting him out.
"A girl in Portland, Me, terrified by
the threat of habitually brutal mother TO
whip her, ran and jumped out Of second
story window, receiving fatal injuries.
"A robins nest recently taken from n
tree at Andover. Mass, contained among
other articles, a iady's collar. with cambric
centre and lace edging, and several yards
Of lace.
Kentucky boasts Of a corDstaIk bear
ing fifty ears OF corn and an immense
amount Of silk. The middle ear is full
sized, and the other forty-nfne grow in
ranks about it.
The boiler in J. Painter & Sons iron
mills, at Pittsburgh, exploded or Monday.
The engineer, George Brynon, was serious-
ly scalded, and a fireman named Fisher
fatally injured.
John Dietrich Rorth. aged Il. hung
himself in his bedroom at Pittsburgh on
last Friday night. His feet touched the
floor, but he had no further use for them.
He was melancholy.
A shocking case of ssbaby farming"
has been brought to light in Rochester,
Y. \. A woman admits that three ont Of
four babies brought TO her for board have
died within five weeks.
There is a child in the Protestant Fospi-
tai at Ottawa, Can, that is three weeks old
and nine inches long, and weighs only
three pounds. It's face is covered with
long growth Of dark hair.
TO give an idea Of the magnitude Of
the Centennial buildings it is stated that
Machinery Hall alone viii be large enough
to hold all the church buildings Of PbJia-
delphia-some 500 in number.
This time it is Philadelphia servant
girl and she has inherited $50, 900. This
thing ought really to be stopped, or it
won't be long before the servant girls viii
have inherited all the money in the coan-
Try.
A man worth $50, coo was received in
the Trenton State Prison last week. 10
serve SIX months sentence for forgery.
lie was dressed in the height of fashion,
and donDed the sombTe attire most rCiuct-
antly.
The American rihemen 1ere formally
welcomed home by Mayor Wiekham, of
New York, cn Monday, who, in neat
speech, congratulated them on their sac-
cessful competition with Irish and British
marksmen.
Rev. ID. A. Beckley. late Of the Req ss5-
IicHn, and postmaster AT Bloomsbury, Co
lumbia county, has instituted a suit for
libel against Dr. William II. Bradley
editor Of the HoRfour american. aud Laws
damages at 500, 600
Among the assets of Duncan, Sherman
& Co.. are some hundreds of shares in the
\ uba Dam Canal. From the frequency
with which the canal has been named to
the bankrupts, one might think they lad
shares in nothing else.
"A thirteeu-ye -year-old son of Deunis
Powers, at Eau Claire, Wis, stole a pocket
the money to the owner, and then, over
come with shame because his boy was a
thief killed himself.
An unsolicited order for 90. 900 kegs
of nails was recently received at Pittsburg.
from South America, and it IS held M as a
strong intimation for American mauufac-
turers to seek for new markets in Mexico,
Central and South America.
Several of the negroes connected with
a recent insurrection in Georgia have made
confessions. All white men and ugly white
women were to be killed; pretty white wo-
meu were to be spared, and land and spoils
were 10 be divided among the negroes.
"A musRet which Aaron Burr captured
while serving under Benedict Arnold at
the attempted stOrming Of Quebec on the
night Of December 81. 1910, is on exhibi-
tion in Owego. The gun is of the Queen
Anne pattern, and weighs twenty-seven
pounds.
Richard a Denman, farmer living
near Piqua, o., has natural cufiosity-a
pig born with one head and eight legs
Two pigs are Joined together from the
neck to the center of she abdomen, ana are
separate and perfect, with the exception of
one head.
There is at present resident in Dublin
a great niece of the poet Goldsmith "a very
aged woman (she is now eighty five years
old, suffering from ill-health and extreme
poverty, her whole maintenance being "A
weekly allowance Of four shillings from a
charitable fund.
The respondent in a famous divorce
case few years ago, clergyman, is now
driving cab in London, aud among those
following the same business is former
governor of the Bank of England an ex-
member OF Parliament, and a late fellow of
a Cambridge College.
In case about the right of way over
piece of land, tried in one of the New
Brunswick CAM courts a few DAYS ago.
the plaintiff got a verdict of one dollar.
which was estimated as the value of the
land, while the costs of the suit amounted
to fifteen hundred dollars.
When Andrew Johnson was Governor
of Tennessee, an ex-blacksmith was Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, and the
Governor with his own hands made a vest