The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-02-04
Nescs and other Meetings..

Just the size of Daniel Webs:er's. or three
inches Hanger in circumference than the
average OF men,
Lieutenant Cameron travelled on foot
1858 miles, from Zanzibar to Benguela,
trusting to mere accident for his livelihood
as he went along.
John Armstrong, OF Laperte, Sullivan
county, has in his possession a sword which
taken from Tory at the battle Of
Germantown, September Is, l777-
-Four men, while filling lime kiln, as
Columbia, Pa, on Saturday, were over
como by the gas, and fell into the pit.
Only one of them was rescued alive.
e. ID. Winslow is the sixth member OF
recent Massachusetts, legislat rTes who has
committed felony-Bardwell, Beet, Judd,
Bond and one more, being the others.
There is n man in Philadelphia who
not only has the impudence to be John
Smith, but the ''hardihood'' to have lived
already 104 years and he is keeping on.
Mrs. Edwards, of Streator, H., will
not cut bread with her baby in her lap any
more at least she will not cut off its nose
when she does, for the nose is off already.
"A party of contractors while filling
in Long Labe, point twelve miles from
St. Louis, dug into mound which will
prove perfect bonanza to curiosity hunt
"A law rs now proposed in California
requiring banking corporations to keep
posted in conspicuous place the names of
their stockholders and the number Of shares
held by them.
A large lake has been discovered forty
miles west of Laramie, Wyoming Territory,
in the bottom of which is thick layer of
sulphate magnesia or EPSON salts in al
most pure state.
Joseph Mshow, of Wiliamsport, who
will be 100 years old on the Sth of March,
will be taken to the centennial. Mr.
Alishow has a son aged seventy years who
is the father or eighteen children.
The Marquis of Ripon, who is now in
Rome. has made present of fifty Thousand
dollars to the Pope. A contribution of
forty thousand dollars has also beeen Of
fered to the Pope by NJ. Salwyna, Belgian
Senator.
The well known Catholic newspaper.
| the Boston Pilot, suspended publication OF
Saturday owing to the failure of IT'S owner
Patrick Donohue, bot,k seller. His liabili-
ties are put down at $500, 900 and his assets
! $215, 900.
"A Schoolcraft, Mich, apple tree, plant
ed forty-fiye years ago and still fruitful,
measures seven feet seven inches iu cir
! cumference, and at the height of six feet
| branches into three limbs, each over a foot
! in diameter.
"A Salt Lake Mormon has written so
| the Centennial Committee proposing to
| exhibit his nine wives at Philadelphia, ''to
| illustrate one Of the social phases of Ameri-
can life" He ACIDS that his wives are
anxious to go.
The Philadelphia correspondence of
| the New York Tribune says serious move
ment is on foot among Pennsylvania re-
| publicans to put Gov. Hartranft on the
track Presidential candidate with a
solid backing.
john G.. Thompson, of Ohio, Sergeant
alarms of the House of Representatives,
4.
| National DemocI attic Executive Commit
tee, in place of Representative Randall,
! who declined the office.
Mrs. Mckenzie, who eloped with Fred
rick Brydges from Montreal, is said to have
sailed for Liverpool with her four children
from Portland, Me-, on the steamer Sar-
matian, on Saturday night, Fred, Bridges
is still in Ph9nixville, Pa.
"A dispatch from philadelphia saws
that George Mcguire a director of the first
school district of that city, has been con-
| victed of the larceny of coal from the
| school houses In his section aud sentenced
to four months imprisonment.
-~SpeHker kerr's father was never a
rich man, but he had very narrow escape
/ from it. He sold his farm, near TitusviIle,
Pa, in 1854, for 50, 500; the next year
petroleum was discovered on it, and not
long after it was sold for over $3.50, 00O
! In the Mcguire whiskey case at St.
Louis twelve gentlemen from ''the interiors;
were impanelled as jurors. At Indianapo-
lis Hill and McGraff have been refused new
I trials and at st. Louis VIM. Mckee of the
Glo5e-Democrat has been found guilty.
Putting it the other way a Dayton.
Ohio, baby can count up among his living
ancestors one great grandfather, two great
grapdmothers, one grandfather and two
grandmotbers, besides his pa and ma.
They visited him in a body the other night
-Boynton, the swimmer, encased in his
patent 'lfe-dress," on Saturday swan
from Alton to st. Louis, a distance of
thirty miles, when the Mississippi was
filled with floating ice. Forty thousand
people gave him an ovation when lie landed
at the st. Louis bridge.
"A hat made Of human hair was re-
Gently sent to Chilian exhibition by a
Guatemala woman. the material of which
came from the heads of her two daughters
Hereafter young ladies are expected to
present their lovers, not with lock Of
hair, but with hat of hair
"A freight train on the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad was robbed on Friday night, near
Elizabeth, n. j., of quantity of goods.
designed for western firms. Bales and
boxes were pitched from the train by the
thieves, who got aboard at Jersey City.
One man has been arrested.
| And now it is revealed that Mrs Cun
nlngham Burdell married her first lover.
Captain Hyde, of Lower California PENN.
sula, after her acquittal of murder In New
York. His two children died suddenly. and
the woman left him to live with a Mexican
. paramour. She is now living ''fashiou.
able'' life in California
John Lipps, German residing at
Sedansvile in the suburbs of Cincinnati
was arrested few days ago for rape com.
mitted upon the person of his own daugh-
ter, aged 16. Lipps is worthless fellow.
spending most of his time in the groggeries,
while his wife supports the family by stand,
ing in the markets as a huckster.
How is this for small tea party In
the Province of Piauhy, Brazil, there is
still living a Brazilian lady of 9S wears of
age, who has lost children, II grandchil-
dren, and 1913 other descendants, but can