The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-12-07
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No, that is one hundred feet tail.
The biggest sassaflas tree on the globe
sheds it's aroma on Mississippi. Mo.
A Mrs. General w. T. sherman Anti
Round Dance Association is proposed.
Two widowers in Berry county, Texas,
married each others daughter recently
Forty seven members of the Forty
fourth Congress are natives OF fennsylva-
ma.
Mrs. George Heinken, Of Cooington,
Ky. gave birth to triplets-two boys and
a girl--on Monday last.
An overc confident hawk attempted TO
carry off - gildcd rooster from Il church
stccple in Raleigh, y. c.
MIR John Carpenter, Of Newton county,
Ind, is six feet, ten inches in height, and
claims to be the tallest man in the State.
"A gentleman of Nprwalk, Conn, has
a pair of stockings knit from yarn made
from the hai- of his large ST. Bernard
dogs.
DIR. s. NJ. Harris, of Grass Valley, Cal,
has chestnut orchard. The trees a,e
OILY four years old, and are loaded with
fruit.
Two Siamese twin oysters were recent
ly found III the Chesapeake. They were
joined by a .igature running from heart to
heat.
"A Bartlett pear raised near San Fran
cisco measures sixteen and half by eigh-
teen inches, and weighs two and one-half
pounds.
"A cave has been discovered near
Nytheville, Va. which is said to rival the
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky in extent and
beauty.
Now bring out your cld pocket-knives
DIR. Name, or Jessamine. KY. has one
which he claims is one hundred and seven
teen years old
Francis Coffin, of Nantucket, Mass.
has several lunches of corn which grew
from seed taken from the hand of an
Egyptian mummy.
"A letter WAS mailed ut the ITorncls-
vile, \. \ =. post office, recently. that WAS
feet, II inches long, and Is inches wide.
1t required 60 cents TO pay the postage
"A man in ST. Albaus, on Saturday last,
wound a coil of lead pipe aIound his neck
jumped In'n ram wafer CiSiprn aud was
drowned. He was temporarily insane.
"A Lancaster county man saved the life
Of a mule that was dying from collie, and
the mule returned tie compliment by en-
abling the mans wife to realize on his life
insurance policy.
A cheese factory in Canada has turned
out splendid sample nf .heir skiL-nearly
seven feet in diameter, a yard high. weighs
three and a half tons. and took thirty five
tons uf milk To make it,
wo maiden sisters. who have for frty
years lived and slept together in the Old
Ladies Home IN Portsmouth, y. H.. died
there last week within four days Of each
other and were buried together
The store of Nathan Cornwall. near
Barlow, Ga, was burned on Friday night
and Mr.. CORVALLIS charred remains were
fDunf III the ruins. 1t is thought he was
/ murdered and the store burned 10y robbes
The house Of Eliza Nurse, rolored, at
Sedalia, Missouri. was burned on Thursday
night, during her temporary absence, and
her two children pcrished. The fire is be-
leved to have been started bv Noudoo
doctor named Eddy.
n young man at rifle match in Port.
land, Oregon. when his turn came at the
! target. shot a hystan.er through the heart.
( The killing may have been accidental but
the tvo men ere bitter enemies, and there
is dOut' ON the suhject
- Benjamin Godfrey. aged nintccn. shot
and instantly killed Miss Moiiie +. Win
niger aged seventeen, at Norfolk. Va. on
Sunday. Go0fIcy then shot himself -hro'
the lett breast and will probably die. .Ieal-
( ousy was the cause of the shooting
"A Louisiana man has discovered 4 ne q.
use for wives. lie has had three i'm fnur
years and has succeeded in trading one
Tor farm, another for a pair of horses and
the third for mule. lie is Il good Judge
OF stock and of The kind of women ctler
men like
-PassenCers on the cars between Ian
caster and Philadelphia say thaf on Thurs
day afternoon. for 4 distance of fifteen
miles east Of Downing own, there was i
continuous coating of snow on the south
side OF ihe railroad while not "A flake was
10 be seen on the north side
Mother May, f0un,iress of the Ursu-
lines of Quebec. who died in 1871, has been
declared venerable at Rome, and steps are
being taken for her Qualification and can
onization. She spent many years laboring
among the Indian giIlS. and requests for
her canonlzatiOn was made by the chiefs
and warriors Of The Huron .ribe.
The seyenty-eight oil refincries owned
oy the Standard Oil Company in Pittsburg
Will hereafter be fed 10y oil pumped direct
from the wells Il line of pipe tli,ty miles
! IN length, from Great Belt to Pittsburgh,
has just been completed for that purpose.
a four inch stIeam of oil will be kept con-
/ stantlv flowing from the wells to the re-
! fineries.
David Stillman and his wife. an iptrm
/ compile, aged about seventy. were found
! murdered Friday morning at their home i'm
Sheffield, Mass. The weapon emploved
was an axe. John Ten Eyck. a colored
! man, who wen to,,the house to buy butter.
has been arrested on suspicion, and will be
/ held TO await the result of investigation bv
/ the Coroner.
! "A horrible mine accident occurred at
The North Mahanoy colliery, in Schuyll<iIl
county, Thursday morning. While Joshua
Holt was at work lump of coal weighing
n ton or more fell upon him, crushing him
terribly. His bowels were foi ced out. his
heait was literally cut in shreds aud his
! legs and arms were reduced to a icliy. ue
was in the mines alone when killed
! Rhodes Fisk, farmer of Benton
township, Luzerne county, has been ar
| rested FOR murder. Geo. HARRINGTON. \
man without relatives, recently made his
home at Fisk's. lie had a s. 600 life i'm.
surance policy and o her property, which
he bequeathed to Fisk. and died soon after
isk is charged with administering alcoholic
drink to Harrison in undue quantities.
Lorenzo Baker, thrty-two inches IN
height and 20 years old, is a minstrel per