The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-03-23
Nescs and Other NOtings.

A woman eighty eight years old is do
ing the household work for family of five
persons at Taunton, Mass.
-Abner Huntley..died at Cuba, Allegbe-
ny county, N. Y...on Sunday, March II,
at the ripe age Of one hundred and uine
years.
Senator Christiancy thinks that ex-
Secretary Bristow is the man who should
be called to the vacancy in the Supreme
! Court.
james whitmer, Of Snyder county,
raised 1,500 bushels of potatoes on ten
acres of ground last year, for which he re-
ceived 81 900
Hayes says that he viii give "the same
weight to the recommendation of a con-
gresham as to those Of any other respecta-
BILE gentleman.
The furniture factory Of T. NJ. D.
Pitcher, and an adjoining saloon, in Ath-
ems, Ohio, were burned on Friday morning
last. Loss $50, 600.
"A girl of sixteen married a man of f fly
at WolverhAnpton, England, few weeks
ago, and is now in custody for attempting
to cut her own throat.
The Chicago Times says that no one
should smile at Judge Davis 33 inch chair,
as Illinois has but one Senator. Rather
hard on Dick Ogiesby.
Dennis Duane, aged IS, and his sister
Maria, aged Sc. were fatally burned Mon
day morning, during a fire, at No 227
Cherry street, New York,
An old man engaged in hauling coal
in Ashland fell heir to $111 900 some time
ago, and on Saturday last he died, leaving
the fortune to an only son.
"A Du Bois correspondent of the Brook
vile Jefersonidn says that seventy five
thousand feet of lumber is daily shipped
from the lumber yard of John Du Bois, in
that place.
The Sunday Mercury suggests that the
name of the state be changed from Penn
sylvania to Cameronia, as it has for years
been "a sort IF farm or domain, or barony
owned by the Camerons.
Thomas NJ. Butler, of Fredonia, KY,
has spring Of water Is feet in diameter,
whose bottom has never been reached, al
though weights with ropes 300 feet long
have been lowered into it.
There are some men who can put on
white choker and look as if they were only
little lowerthan the angels. Colfax, the
Smiler, and Hayes. the Returning Board
President, belong to this class.
Patrick Dolan, a laborer at Pitts
burgh brewry, on Monday last fell into a
vat Of hot ale and was scalded to death.
His body was not found until the contents
of the vat were about to be removed.
In Chambersburg an infant child of
Mr.. Sbatzer, while asleep, was attacked by
rat. When the mother, awakened by
the child's cries, went to it's relief, the rat
had already bitten it in ten different places
Mrs. Louisa Mccall of Canton, Ohio,
has been elected director of the National
Bank, of which her husband was President.
She is the second woman chosen to such a
position, Mrs. Bradley of Peoria, ILL.,, being
the first.
Edward Henry Howard, the new Eng
lish Cardinal. belongs to the great Ducal
family which heads the peerage of England
and was favorite in society before he took
holy orders. He is the youngest of the
Cardinals.
w. B. Lebo, esq, who fell dead and
was found near his office, in Tamaqua,
last week, is the person accused years ago
for selling his vote in the Legislature to
Simon Cameron, thus electing him to the
United States Senate.
On Monday last young married man
OF Laceyville, being unable to get work.
and his wife threatening not to live with
him unless he did work, shot her and then
himself, dying instantly. There are slight
hopes of her recovery.
An eleven year old son of Mr.. Stit-
graves, of Pit.ston, Luzerne county, com
mitteG suicide last Thursday by hanging
himself. The boy had been confined in a
room by his parents for some offense and
while there committed the rash act.
Mark Shriver, young man residing
near Waynesburg, Green county, was
found dead on Sunday of last week not far
from his fathers residence, and as he had
been In perfect health a short time before
there are suspicious that he was poisoned
"A New York tax idermist is stuffing a.
lion for L. I. Barnum, inside of which he
is placing machinery that viii cause the
beast to roar loud enough to be heard two
miles. 1t viii be mounted on a chariot, 1,
and steam engine inside will move the
animal to utterance.
The steamer Governor Garland was
burned et Red Fork. forty miles from the
mouth OF the Arkansas river, on Thursday
of last week. Three deck hands and r
cabin passenger perished. Her cargo.
consisting of 600 bales of cotton, is lost.
The boat is valued at S25, 900.
Mrs. Carolina F. Shugart committed
suicide by hanging in a woodshed attached
TO the house in which she lived, in Erie,
on Saturday. Her husband had gone for a
doctor and when he returned found her
suspended TO beam and lfeless The
cause was sickness, poverty and despair
The wife of Joseph Nutting. Who lives
at Forsythe's coal works, opposite Calfor-
mia, on the Monongahela river, tried to
commit suicide on Sunday by drowning
herself She jumped into the river from a
skiff, and was rescued by her husband, who
saw what she had done and swan out to
her assistance.
"A remarkable case of inherited longev.
ity is reported from Kingston, Me-, where
the last of family of twelve brothers and
sisters has just died. The youngest of the
family died at the age of sixty four years.
the Oldest at the age of ninety three years.
and the average age was eigh.y-three
years.
fortunate conductor, George Powell, who
was killed by the cars at Concord station.
Philadelphia & Baltimore Central Rail.
road, last week, are blind from an attack
of the measles, and his whole family,
which lives at Chester, are in an extremely
destitute condition.
On Saturday Ellen Devine, of No. 26
High street, Brooklyn, left her six months
old infant in charge of Hannah Dougherty.
neignbOr, for a short time and on her re