The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-12-01
ne,ps and Cfaer Notis:Ds.

s-athered 104 bushels of corn from! seven
acres Of ground this year.
pr. lie Moyne, the cremation leader,
! was once "a candidate Tor ice Iresldenl Oh
the Abolition ticket.
! Wade Hampton declines the present of
( n home from the ladies of South Carolina.
( He says lie cannot accept such a gilt.
Albert Sweet committed suicide at
[ Taunton, Mass, on Saturday, 10y taking
laudanunl. This is the fourth suicide there
in two months.
Salem, Mass, little TO its credit be it
said. furnished two of the South Carolina
] Returning Board-Coutrol!er Dunn and
( Attorney General stone.
Al G.. I.aros, :be EaSton murderer,
is not expected to live until the Gay OF his
/ execution. He is sinking rapidly under
frequently recurring spaslnodic attacks.
Wash Warren. OF Griffin, Ca, Is 40
years old. lie has u young third wife and
n new baby--a girl, whom lie has named
/ Lucinda Nancy Matilda, after the three
I wives.
Showers Of grasshorpcrs are reported
! In various portions of Fayette county,
/ Ohio. They are rather late for this year,
/ but their SUCCESSORS will be at work early
! in the spring.
I John Tost, an employe at brewery in
/ Lebanon, fell into vat containing three
( feet of boiling water on Monday evening.
His entire body was submerged except his
/ head. He died soon after the accident.
Among the relics recently added to the
Revolut iUDaIy collection in the museum a
! the Old South Church, BustOD, is q pair OF
! spurs which General Washington gave to
! Mr.. Thomas Lamb at Valley Forge in
| ,779.
Judge Ford. formerly 'of Bismars,
/ loaned to Gen. Custer a line dog, which
accompani led him in the Sitting Bull cam
paign. Ten days after the battle the dog
7 r-4..k
miles.
Within the space of four years a Nor
witch woman has been married, dIvot COD,
married 10 another man, ho was divorced
from his wife for the purpose oC marrying
this woman, and now she applies Ior d d.
/ yOrce again.
"A man named Sebastian Brown was 20
badly injured III an alf.ay with George Ii.
Bennett, on Friday, III iIitsbuTgh, that ne
died during the night. Bennett, who ar-
pears to have acted in self defense, stuck
Brown "A blow with his fist
Ills fiighuesS the Nawab OF IphaTu
sent a remarkably diminutive Nepaii pony,
which Is only eight inches high, 10 the
young Maharajah of Patiala. The pony is
:, perfect miniature ot a wcll-bred horse,
and is highly valued by the natives.
DR.. Doughty, OF Coyington, Ken
tucky. vowed sixteen years ago that he
would wear the bat he WAS then uoing un
til Democratic President was elected.
and now he is easily picked out from o.hor
citizens of the town by the Appearance of
that hat.
"A delicate boy, fifteen years OF age,
attracted great deal of attention from the
passengers Of the morning train from Bps
ton to New York last Tuesday, He got on
at Palmer, Mass, and WAS on his way TO
join some exhibition. lie only weighed
415 pounds.
james y. Atkinson, OF Upper Dublin,
Montgomery county. raised tins season Il
teen hundred bushels of potatoes on about
nine acres of land The fertilizers used
were bone dust and phosphate in equal
parts, at the rate of six or seven huudred
pounds per acre.
Mr.. UIham, foreman OF the Paxton
Rolling Mills, Harrisburg, recently made
a plate of steel which sustained "A tensile
strain Of So, $50 pounds per square inch
This process, WHOM more FULLY known, will
take the place OF the Bessenier for L rails
and boiler plate.
The New York Herald thinks ii il a
significant f,ct, that the three most trust
worthy journalists from the North now
i'll New Orleans, all three Republicans and
OF excellent reputation for accuracy, unite
in saying that Mr.. Tildeu has ;,u undoubt-
ed majority in Louisiana.
A case of four children at n birth and
one Of five. aIe reported in the Medical
NeTS by the attending physicians. The
mother IN the former was Il white woman
in Texas aud the children, ali girls, are
living. The other woman WAS q South
Carolina negro, and none of the ba bies sur
vive.
Ralph I. Rollins, one ofthe Chambers
burg bank robbers, who had been returned
to Cham bersourG for the purpose of hav-
ing new trial, made his escape from iaii
on Sunday night by cutting Ills wav out
through the ceiling and roof of the build
ing ana then letting himself To the ground
10y a rope.
At Benwood, Va, q few DAYS AGO two
boys, named Morris and BogaId, aged re-
spectivelv ten and thirteen years had a
dispute about the. presidential contest.
when the younger lad drew a pistol and
shot young Bogard, iniiicting a wound
that must prove fatal. Morris was arrested
and locked up.
There IS point on the Jefferson
branch of the Erie Railway, about nine
miles from Mt Pleasant VILLAGE. Wayre
county, New York, which is said to be the
highest railroad elevation in the United
States except on the Union Pacific 1t is
known as Ararat Summit, aud is overs coo
feet above the sea.
A horrible tragedy occurred in Reserve
township, Allegheny county. on the out
skirts of Allegheny City. on SATURDAY. after.
N'i'' lOS Cppt'iildtItl, lACU illIN zone.
murdered his wife Barbara, with an axe.
cutting her terribly about the head aud
lace. lie then cut his own throat with n
knife. Both died almost instantly.
-lhe latest news from India confirms
the fearful destruction of human life by the
cyclone in southeastern Bengal, psi 600
people having perished. Nothing within
the experience of the present generation
can compare with this awful catastrophe.
which was so sudden and terrific nc ~
mako all effort for escape unavailing
The Tilden and Hendricks Climb of
Washington city held a meeting Thursday
night and decided to postpone their pro-
posed procession and tOrchlight demon
stration indefinitely, owing to the present
exc lted state OF the public feeling. They
ISSUED an address, setting forth Mt copsid