The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-10-27
Nescs and other Nof5ngs.

--Sravaley' old mill sat Lancaster was
burned Sunday morning. Loss, Sl5.GuJ.
Sixty varieties of chickens. turkeys
and geese aud thirty varieties Of pigeons
were exhibited by Col TaggaIt at tie
Northumberland county fair.
At an auction in ThomastOn, COnnecti-
cut, 200 bushels of potatoes were sold for
eighteen dollars, or n little more tlan two
and half cents per bushel.
In consequence OF a lightning rod ped
der girl in Columbus, Ohio, hotel swal-
loved bottle of vitrol OF two evils she
probably encountered the least.
The estate of the deceased Pittsburgh
coal king, w. Fl. Brown, foots mp over
50, go, 600. In early life he dug coal at
one and a half cents per bushel.
Twelve hundred United States troops
are now stationed in or near COUNT bia, ).
c., and the number is being added to daily.
All is quiet throughout the State.
An effort is being made now to have
. the machinery on the Centennial grounds
permanently retained for the purpose of
holding franklin Institute exhibitions.
"A pipe line war is on the tapis. The
Pennsylvania transportation company Is to
be brought up on q quo tcarT0nt0, to show
whether its charter should not be forfeited.
Five thousand unclaimed Trunks are
stored in the West Philadelphia depot of
the Pennsylvania railroad. This is the
champion grand trunk road OF the country
-Qu!nbo Apo, the notorious Chinese
murderer, OF New York, arrived in Cali
fornia from the Flowery Kingdom in 1874,
and has been carving Christians in de-
sultory way ever since.
The Main Exposition building is to
remain permanently ia it's present position.
and be used for exhibition purposes by the
| citizens OF Philadelphia. This will no
| doubt meet With general approval
| The cost of running the Centennial
averages sl1, 600, a day, including $500. 600
! paid to 300 judges of award, aud all the
/ other expenses. The total admissions down
! to last Saturday amounted 10 81. 14S
The coronor's jury have rendered a YER
! Dict IN the case OF the boiler explosion at
/ Zug's mills, Pittsburg, declaring that it re-
/ suited from insufficient water in the boil
ers and that the engineer was Incompetent.
! -Linkner, suspected of being the muir
derer of his partner Henry Shaffer a cattle
/ dealer in Allegheny county, has been COM
/ mltted for trial. The evidence against
HIN Is circumstantial but leading TO serious
suspicion.
A man entered the Massachusetts State
/ Prison at the age of 81, ON Tuesday, to
/ serve sentence OF 20 years, all of whose
( life except two years and three days had
! oeen spent III reformatory or charitable in
] stitutiOns.
during prairie fire i'm Saline county,
X.
nlng for safety to plowed ground fell ex-
hausted with her head on the loan. but
was burned to death, having been unable
/ to rise and move a few feet further
/ -trteen colored men paTaded With the
/ Hayes and Wheeler Battalion at Lynn,
Massachusetts, the other night, aud were
/ then excluded, by order of tue battalion,
! from the collation. which vas given after
ward. Has Mr. Chandler been notified &?
e s,F 81, k..,y-
Almlra states that the crew of five, inclad-
/ ing the captain, took to a raft, and after
terrible suiferiDgs the captain and one of the
crew died. Another became insane and
! jumped overheard, The remaining two
were rescued.
1t was the desire of the late Francis
! I. Blair that the bearers at his funeral
/ should be chosen from among his grand
sons In compliance with his wish, eight
sons of the late Gen. +. p. Blair, of the
late James Blair, aud of the Hon Mont
/ gomery Blair acted in that capacity.
1t is now in order for the gentlemen
who conducted Governor Hartranft's can
vass last fall to tell what they know about
the bargain with the Nollie Maguires.
! Slattery is unquestionably bad man. but
/ he appears to have told an unpleasant
amount of truth. Don't all speak at once.
California bids fair to rival Spain in
the field of raisin production. Last year
she sent to the San Francisco market %,
QUO twenty pound boxes of raisins. This
year she will produce 60, 600 boxes one
vineyard of "a acres alone yielding this
season so tons of raisins from 240 tons OF
grapes.
The Waynesburg Independent says
| There is grave yard on a hill in th is coun-
ty which contains but two graves, and both
have most peculiar history. Two men
are buried there, one of whom committed
suicide by hanging and the other by cut
| ting his throat, and both were married to
the same woman.
There is terrible story going the
rounds of the radical journals detailing the
indignities visited by Gov. Tilden on the
corpse of his nephew, Union soldier, who
died on the battle field. But it appears,
ON inquiry, that there were no such in
dignities and no such corpse, and that Gov.
: liidon had no nephew in tae service.