The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-12-08
1Netcs and OfHer Nottngs.

IA caSt-lrDn grandmother Is the name
of a new machine for darning stockings.
-Alexander Peoples, OF Chester county,
thrashed 333 bushels OF wheat from eight
acres.
Fifteen Thousand gallons of cider
were made this season by one man i'll Ches-
ter county.
-Titusvillians experienced severe
shock on Friday evening. They declare il
was an earthquake.
Mr. Wilson, nf Canonsburg, recently
sold two hundred and fifty fine wooled
sheep, which averaged IL pounds each.
The main exhibition building was
sold on Friday last to the International
Exhibition Company for $3.50, 600.
- Nh. and Mrs. Buckley, of Schuylkiil
county, were buried in one grave last
week. Their deaths were only few hours
apart.
Ennis county, Texas, cast a solid
Democratic vote, and iheu had Jubilee
with 5000 men in line, cannons and a
great ball.
In Cincinnati, the other day, Mr..
IIOunsdorfer. of Illinois, aged cighty-tlree
years became the husband of a charming
young woman of nineteen.
MIR. Wolf recently killed four wild
turkeys at one discharge Of his double
barreled gun while hunting on the side of
the mountain, above Harrisburg.
Elliott Cheney. aged fifteen, while out
hunting near Freedom, Beaver county, on
Saturday, accidentally shot himself in the
right side and died in few hours.
j. 4. Jamison, of Washington county,
recently drove from 1ankton, Dakota, to
his home in an open-top buggy, the distance
being 200 miles time twenty-one days.
"A Nevada man died few days ago,
from the effects Of gunshot wound re-
ceived in 1852, the bullet remaining i'm
beddcd in his lungs for twenty four years.
A young man IN Bridgeport, Conn,
pulled back 80 hard, when his companions
hauled him up to bar to drink, that one
of his arms was broken. Tue truth of the
story is vourhed for by the Bridgeport
newspapers.
An Irish democrat walked from Elk
City, to his home in Indiana county. nearly
one hundred miles. to vote for Geo. 4
jerks for congress, aud then walked back
to his work at an oil well. There is hope
for the country yet.
The Associate Judges all over the
State are dying off, officially. by the expir-
alton Of their terms of office. There are
but few Judicial districts now in which.
under the new constitution, Associate Judg-
es are any longer elected.
"A Virginia Irishman did not have a
very lucid idea OF the 7nodats 0perdndi but
he fDrcibly expressed the popular view Of
the case when he said Il wish some one
and split it over Grants head"
In Philadelphia, a woman named Celia
McClain is on trial for murder. She is
charged with having poisoned James VI.
Garfield, a Centennial exhibitor from Iowa.
The verdict, according to the law, mnst be
one of acquIttal or murder in the first de
gree.
A Bethlehem, Pa, dispatch says more
than Onc-half Of the mines in the State are
~ 70 hzr f : rttf-,,v
of work is estimated at between thirty-five
and forty thousand. 1t Is believed the sus-
pension will be entire by the middle Of the
month.
A negro named Crutcher attempted 70
commit a rape on the wife Of J. Z. Cogar,
white, at Shaker ferry, Mercer county.
kentucky, on Friday. but failing in the
attempt he fed. lie was captured by
mob the same night, taken 10 a point near
Nicholasville and hung TO a tree.
David Glenn, OF North Sandy, Mercer
county, left his sweetheart a long time ago
and went West. For seventeen years he
lived the life of frontiersman. and about
three years since he came back and mar
ried the girl he loved. Recently lie died
in the ahnshousc near franklin.
-Ou the 25th Colonel Mckenzie. had an
engagement with the Cheyemnes near the
Sioux Pass of the Big Horn mountains, in
which 1I3 lodges were destroyed. 500
ponies captured. and % Indian bodies
found. Five soldiers aud one officer were
killed on our side, and twenty five wound-
ed.
The Joliet Record relates an incident
of death from grief: Mrs McGec, the
mother of the youug man killed at New
Lenox few weeks since. died at her home
i'll this city last Saturday night She
mourned herself to death, having taken no
food since the boy was killed. Under hey
pillow was found photograph of her son -
--Carl Schurz says in the EeStliche Post
that from whatever point of view we con-
template the latest events in South Calol-
na, we can only look upon the interference
Of military power in the organization of the
Legislature as an act of usurpa;ion and 4
violation o! tie laws. What followed this
usurpation of power seems i'm the same
spirit that dictated the lawlessnoss
"A Chester county farmer. named
Bickel residing not far from Pottstown.
has five yearold bu! trained to run a
thraShing machine, and which this fall has
furnished all the morive power for the cut
ting of his corn fodder. The animal need
only be driven upon the barn floor. when
he knows what is to follow. and takes his
place with the docility Of a horse accustom-
ed to the business.
Charles Loudon. while a work recent
ly IN saw mill near Blossburg, in taking
q "c'NS I'i1hh from the saw was oVerbal-
anced, and i'll falling struck he saw. cut
ting OH one of his arms and throwing him
up nearly TO the roof of the mill. and com
ing back he struck on the saw again, that
time cutting off one of his legs and maug-
ling him otherwise frightfully. He lived
only fifteen minutes.
On Saturday afternoon. boiler in n
saw mill at Dayton, Ohio. bursr James
Neale, the owner, who was standing near,
was severely bruised and badly scalded by
the steam. y boy assisting him was thrown
some distance by the shock, but with only
lew bruises. The boiler, weighing a ton,
was thrown fifty feet in the air. Pieces
were found hundred yards away. No
damage was done by flying timber
AT Salinesville, Ohio. on the Cleveland
and PiffSbnr,r Rn ilrnnI L.. ILL.,