The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-10-06
Ne,cs and Otner NOfings.

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/ A California man has cleared So,oVo
this year from eight acres of black berries.
. The N Y. Times admits that s'Blue
Jeans Williams will be elected in Indiana.
! The fireworks at the Centennial were
distinctly seen at Phoepixvilie, 2I3 miles
distant.
"A colored woman gave birth to five
I children, three boys and two girls. at Mar 3
Bluff, Uuiou county, 5. c., last week.
Gen. George B. Mcclellan and Hon.
Lyman Trumbull speak at Mansfield. OHIO,
today, at a Tilden and 1endrick mass
meeting.
A rich lead mine has been discovered
in Sinking Valley. Blair county, aud leased
for forty years by party of capitalists
from the East.
/ "A Doylestown man owns piece of
one of George Washineton's night caps.
! Not every man is satisfied with piece of
a might cap"
III. b. Claflin & Co.. of New York, of
! fered in vain 81, 900 per front foot for a lot
| on the corner of Wabash evenue aud Mon
roe street, Chicago.
"A ferry boat was swamped on Satur-
day evening in Youghal harbor, Ireland,
and fourteen persons drowned, nearly all
I farmers and their wives.
Father Bessories, of Indianapolis, has
paid over, within the last year, to the Pan
Handle Railroad $40 conscience money"
received by him ihrough the confessional.
The block system of railroad Signals on
the Pennsylvania railroad has been com
pleted between Harrisburg and Altoona,
middle division, and is found to work ad-
mirably.
1t is now estimated that 1000, 900 visi
tors will have attended the Centennial Ex-
hibition at it's close, and that the stock
holders will be paid so per cent. OF their
subscriptions.
Ninety soundings were taken at Hal
lett's Point Reef, Hell Gate, on Saturday.
Beyond the distance Of 100 feet from the
shore bottom could not be touched with
the 26 foot pole.
"A live centipede, four inches long, was
found in box of gum from Central Amer
lea which was opened in New Haven, Conn.
a few days ago. The reptile WAS boti led
aud sent to the Yale Collage museum.
An ex Sheriff of Cumberland county
has been convicted of perjury and seHtenc-
ed to Imprisonment for ninety days and
fifty dollars fine. As an official for fifteen
years he had been a resident of the Jail.
Any person III Illinois who wagers
money or valuables of any nature on the
result of an election is liable To a fine Of
s., 900 and an imprisonment in the county
jail foi period not exceeding one year.
Two girls took arsenic in Newport,
Ind, last spring. and one died at once. he
fore the romance of the event had lost its
interest. Now the other has just prosily
died of liver complaint brought on by the
poison.
Judge Lindeman of Cincinnati senten-
ced n little boy to two years imprisonment
Tor stealing newspaper from doorstep.
The lads mother was thereby made insane
and the magistrate is the object OF public
indignation.
The New York Sun says Gov. Tilden
stands fire like veteran as he is. The
perjury shot and the copperhead shell have
not hurt hair of him. He is all the
stronger for the futile efforts OF his enemies
to break him down.
One hundred and fifty thousand honest,
hard working men Of Pennsylvania with
out work to-day Two hundred and fifty
thousand meu, women and children in
this State destitute and winter approach
ing 'Rah for Hayes!
"A strange and fatal disease has broken
ont among the cattle in Wayne and adioin-
ing counties, in this State. They are in
fected by singular tick, which bores into
their flesh. Inflammation sets in and death
follows in few hours.
-Mr. and Mrs. Edward Chichester, of
Trey, y. Y, were burned to death on
Sunday by an explosion of alcohol, which
was being used in the preparation of var
nish. The mixture had been put i'll a leak
ing pan on kitchen stove.
was driving a wagon loaded with lime on
Saturday. wbenthe wagon upset in ii ditch
with about two inches of water, and the
limo slaked, burned up the wagon, aid
nearly destroyed Fishers body.
Julius Blank, blind professor IF
music, shot his wife Sunday night in New
\ ork. int1icting a mortal wound He ais.
shot his child. Amelia, three and one half
years old. She died soon after. He then
shot himself, causing death Instantly
"A wild duck, which was flving down r
stream at Westpot, Conn, few days ago
struck telegraph wire, which was stretch
ed across bridge. with such force that it's
head was severed from it's body. a passer-
by found the bird, and had it cooked for
supper.
The Philadelphia Bulletin notes that
Allegheny county is to send four or five
Thousand school children To the Centennial.
and that they are To march from Sixteenth
ana Market streets where they expcct to
disembark, to Independence Hall, when
they will sing the national anthem
Jacob Huntzinger. late President Of
the Miners Trust Bank, Pot.sville. was re
arrested last Friday on five distinct chary
es covering alleged misdemeanors by false
pretenses and embezzlemeut 70 the extent
of upwards of 5000. 600. He was subse
quen'ly released on 5000, 600 bail furnished
by his sons.
-Twenty two Apache Indians. formerly
belonging to one of the most savage tribes
IN Arizona, are now on their way Ia Phila-
delphia in charge of their agent They in
tend to visit the Centennial Exhibition.
and will after their return doubtless des
crIbe wonders seemingly to their agency
friends passing belief
Probably few men i'm the couutrv
know better than p. Fl. Watson. assistant
secretary of war under Stanton the status
OF leading men in the country as To The
prosecution of the war. Mr. Watson
vouches for the patriotism of Governor
Iilden and is giving him an earnest sun
port for the presidency.
-Gen. A. j. Warner, who went into the
army as captain of Company G, Tenth repi
ment' pennsylvania Reserves, and came
erai, by virtue Of gallant conduct in the