The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-03
Ne,cs and OfHcr NOtiEgs.


Friday night.
Michael Bresln aud wife. OF Schuylkili
county, have had twenty children, none of
whom were twins.
Daniel Murphy, of Tulare, Cal, has
bought 1900 square miles of land i'll Mexi-
co at two cents All acre.
Daniel lTivcly. of York. claims to have
been taken from his mothers arms in 1893
by George Washington and kissed.
Mrs. Betsy Fries, of Steiusville. Lehgh
county, supports herself and two children
by cutting timber for land owners.
"A school teacher of Lycoming county
walks to- and from his school every working
day. The round trip is fourteen miles.
While searching for eggs in stable in
Montour county n little girl was outraged
by two tramps. Both the brutcs escaped.
"A man has offered $4,000 for the
privilege of sweeping out every morning
the fifty acres of ground covered by the
Centennial buildings.
-Linsday, the murderer, WAS born on
Friday, killed his victim OH Friday, was
arrested on Friday, sentenced on Friday,
and executed OF Friday.
Thanks to the strict enforcement of n
rigid Maine law, Portland was able last
week to show among her public drunkards
three boys under twelve.
Jonah Woodruff, the inventor Of that
American luxury. the sleeping car, died ut
IT..
consumption, aged 81 years.
Winslow's S liabilities are set down by
his creditors at over 100000. Besides
this there is his liability To 60 to State
Prison which is also very large
Warren Parker, Of Adrian. Mich. has
bid FOR distinction in 1neanuess by forging
the name OF one sweetheart to a note. and
using the money SO obtained in eloping
with another.
A five year old girl OF Montgomery
county has just finished bed quilt com
prlsed OF 52O pieces Of patchwork. She
used but two needles and did the sewing
with the left hand.
Stan. Altman, OF Punxsutawney, gave
an ''oid folks party on Tuesday evening
of tins week, at which twelve ersons were
present. whose aggregate ages amounted 10
over one thousand year..
Two old ladies Of Saugus, Mass, will
send to the Centennial a sample Of the tea
pitched into Boston lIaibor. Their grand
father received it from one of the patriots
who took part i'll the dempnstration
-Garbaldi has given his adhesion to
the Italian Cremation Society. ITO be
burned after DEATH" remarks tie Pontifi
cal organ at Rome, sis sign of c.viliza-
ton in the eyes OF the modern Pagans."
This eminently Catholic joke is from
.he Irtsh Citizen General sherman II
is intimated, will go to Europe next wear.
where he conteml'lates a visit 10 the Pupe
That will be Shermans second march TO
the Sce.'
A sleeping car on the Harlem Railroad
Extension was burned on Wednesday nigh.
OF last week, near Poughkecpsic, y. y
Mr. Bisscil. the proprietor of the Sherman
iionse, Chicago, and his son, persisted i'll
the flames.
-Thos. s. Mcdowell. the first white
child born III Franklin, Eenango county.
L.
lie had always lived in that place. and
within one hundred feet of the place where
he was born.
Colonel Henry A. Rutledge, Of Jack
sonviile, Ala, is perhaps the only living
representative of two of the signers Of the
Declaration of Independence. lie is the
grandson of Edward RutleGge and Of Ar
thur Middleton.
"A three year old child sprany from the
arms of its mother standing at an open
window OF a house in Providence the other
day, and fell 26 feet, but struck on a baby
carriage standing below the window. and
was not seriously hurt.
"A Mlddletown CompositOr has caIcula-
ted that IN the course of years type set
ting the average compositor will put up
more than 1000, GOO separate pieces, which.
with their distribution, requires more than
10, 00O, OOO motions of the hand
Late Wednesday night fire i'm Iemars.
Iowa, destroyed large building occupied
by four families. 4 woman and three
small children were buried in the ruins. and
whcn found were burned to a ciuder The
husband is now a raving maniac
"A Watcrville (Ii. L. girl worked the
motto: Il need thee every hour" and pre
sented it to her chap. lie says he can't
help 1t. 1t takes him two hours to milk
and feed tue pigs, morning and night, aud |
business has got to bc attended TO-
-On Saturday night man named Asa
Raynor was shot dead by some young men
VINO attempted to force an entrance into
hIs house, at Princeton, Mo. 1t is said the
young men attempted to get possession of
Raynor wife and another woman named
Cargo.
Probably the tallest living specimen Of
the human race is young man from Al.
cacer, in Spain, who is twenty-six wears of
age and nine feet ten and half inches in
neiGnt. Ho is named Augustin Luenca
CapIlla, and has lately been presented to
the King of Spain.
Tho American whaler Young Phnnix
saved forty one survivors of the emioraut
snip Strathmore, and took them aboard on
the 22d of January. and on the Goth trans.
1erred twenty of them to the Sierra Norena
The latter vessel has arrived at Cole, and
landed the unfortunates.
Two startling deaths recently occurrol
at MeadTille. a tramp, whose name was
unknown, hung himself in the lookup. and
a young circus acrobat who was oractisiuo
aud exercising to resume his business in
the spring, broke his neck while trvinp to
turn double somersault.
AT Logansport, Ind, not long since
while several children were playing together
the Tour year old daughter of Eliza Wap.
oner thrust her tongue through the crack
OF the room door, which one Of ber -,
mates IN stantly slammed to- cuttin1 n,
nearly behalf of the member
-lhe election in Albion. Erie countv
was made interesting from the fact that
nearly every voter in the borough was vo,ed
for. The election returns shows that SO
persons received one or more votes. ont of
a 'otai poii OF loo. OF this number TWEEN
ty-seVeh received votes for Council, with