The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-17
Ne1Us and other NOtfu0s.


solid for Tiden.
| Mr.. Hemmlng is the appropriate name
| of the great English needle maker.
! Martha Farrell, of Chester, aged 103
years, and remarkably active, has visited
/ the centennial.
Eleven hundred girls employed at
one artificial flower factory in France, none
! being over twenty years of age.
"A child of George Howe, of Bradford
county, fell into the fire during the absence
/ Of its mother and WAS burned To death.
| -''Snibbs' Arnold, the worst man prob
! ably who ever lived in Western Pennsyl-
( vana died in the Penitentiary on Sunday.
! One of the remarkable discover les
made by the gallan. Arctic explorers is
that the length of a Polar night is 142
days.
A wild goose recently struck the Chin
ney of the market house in Pottsville in its
/ flight, fell to the earth and was captured
! alive.
Clark Jackson, aged 12 years, recently
/ killed a catamount in Bradford comfy OF
/ the largest size. He was aided by a dog
! and a shot gun.
| A comparison of the votes i'm 1872 and
/ 1876, shows that Tilden has gained 1. .4O0,-
/ 600 on Greeley's vote and has a popular
majority of fully 400, 600.
! "A jamestown man attempted to COM
nit suicide because he thought Tilden was
/ elected. A stomach pump saved a Repub-
I lican vote for coming years.
! "A white owl, measuring five feet
| acruss the wings, was recently shot, in
! Mercer county, by Frank 5. Reeger. 1t
is a rare bird in that locality,
"A buck deer recently attacked Miss
Dunkle near Sinnemahoning. She was
rescued by Mrs. II. E. Chamberlain, who
killed the animal with an axe.
-Cardinal Simeoni, recently the Papal
Nuncio at Madrid, has been appointed To
succeed the late Cardinal Antonelli as
Secretary of the State to the Pope.
- MIR. Norwood, the new United States
Senator from Georgia, is the son of IA tau
nsr, and forty six years old. He is one of
the most inveterate jokers in the State.
Boss Shepherd is said to be bankrupt,
and now his old friends flock around him
to buy his furniture at the sale. A friend
in need is very often Of a business turn of
mind.
The grass and timber covering Look
ont Mountain, the scene Of Hooker's great
victory, were burned last week, forming a
pillar of fire by night visible for many
miles.
AT Republican torchlight procession
at Wrightsvile on Saturday, young man
named Gully fell from wagon and the
wheel passing over his head killed him ill.,
stantly.
Two young democrats of Gallauher
township, Clinton county, named james
llennessey and Jacob Barker walked 16
mlles on Tuesday n ght to carry the elec-
tion returns to Lock Haven.
Justice is still pursuing the murderous
Mollie Maguires. Patrick Tilly was arrest
cd oh Sunday, charged with having assist
ed i'll the killing of Alexander Rea, a M inc
boss ut Mount Carbon, i'm 1868.
The Campbell lightning Press at the
Centennial on the Sth inst, was run at the
rate OF 43, 200 complete papers per hour. A
numerous throng witnessed the feat and
pronounced it success in every respect.
-Pithole City. the famous capital of
oildom, which twelve years ago was hive
of mining industry, lively with speculation
and gay with grease, now polls six votes.
three for Tilden and three for Hayes
Even its politics is nix.
DR.. Thos. J. Monahan. who died re-
Gently in Baltimore. left So. 600 in the lin
ing of his vest. (Which has been pulled
down. and three wills. which have created
an enmity among his relatives that hun
dred millions could not alay.
Gov. Tildeu is feet 10 inches in height
and is spare in figure. ii lis head is large
and round, his eyes are blue. his abundant
chestnut hair is sprinked with gray He
is 63, and the family arithmetic shows that
IA OF his ancestors attained the average age
Of 20 years.
"A pigeon recently alighted on coal
schooner Seventy-five miles out from the
Virginia coast, and now refuses TO leave
the ship. preferring tarry feathers ami a
lie ON the ocean wave to being stoned by
boys on land and kept in a continual stew
about pot luck.
-George Cook, a clerk in drnC store
of George Hill & Co., Wiliamsport. lost
! his eyes one day last week by the gas that
had generated in n bottle containing nitric
acid and mercury. from which he suddenly
pulled the cork, flying over his face and
into his eyes
The latest reports are that Oregon will
wheel into the Tilden column, a private
dispatch from Portland, Oregon, stating
that some of the remote counties which
were claimed by the Republicans have gone
Democratic. There has been no news from
Oregon by associated press for six days
-Mr. John Lawyer of Mifflin county.
last week climbed a tree to secure a suuir-
rel he had shot, and when 80 feet high, A
limb broke and he was precpitated To the
ground. Both his arms and his left leg
We're broken. When found his dog was
lying beside him, with its fore legs around
his neck.
Experiments are making at the Cam
bria iron works, Johnstown, to test the
possibility OF coking as they do in Wales
he following mixture Anthracite culm
or slack, 90 per cent biuminous coal
AI!atrooeJ 81 per cent; pitch per cent.
The test is being made in the Belgian
ovens of the Cambria iron company.
The Japanese commission sent n com
I municatlon to the mayor offering to the
city of Philade lphia the Japanese building
and garden at the centennial grounds as a
token OF the appreciation of his maiestys
/ government OF the hospitality and kindness
received by the Japanese. The mayor has
sent suitable reply accepting the gift.
! Sophia Valentine a girl resid,ne near
Peekskill Jefferson county, strayed from
home on the 18th "f October and was found
on the 9th in swamp near that locality,
dead. Her clothing had been almost en-,
tIrely torn off her in her flight, doubtless
through briars and stones. Her flesh was
bruised and torn terribly, and her bare
feet cut neatly in pieces
Two brothers. named Edward and