The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-07-27
Ne,cs ana OsHe7. NOti1Os.

"A Spanish nun at Nuria is reported TO
be one hundred and fifty years old.
Very Rev. John Turner, Vicar General
of Brook lyn, died on Saturday night.
j Edgar Thomson, decd, was worth
&. 1885, pol No need of strike there.
"A Reading Eagle reporter found calfs
head with four iron teeth, and 1t was not
on his own shoulders.
VIM. 4. Stewart, colored barber
abou. fifty years of age, is a candidate for
associate Judge of Lawrence county.
-Thos p. Rooney, Thos. p. O'Connor
and James Donaldson were killed Saturday
evening, at Baltimore, by the falling of an
embankment.
"A Brooklyn maiden of fifty one has
sued bachelor of sixty-three for prom is
ing, after nine years courtship, to marry
her 1t will be a lesson to him.
"A youth named Stowell, aged a, kill
ed another named Clark, aged 21, by
striking him on the head with a stone, III
Cornell, Usage county, n. Y, Sunday
morning.
"A large burial plot in Mount Hope
cemetery, near Boston, is completely COW
cred with flowers, so arranged as to repre-
sent book lying open on the ground, with
an inscription referring to scriptnIal
| text.
Mr.. William Leggett, of Chester coun-
| ty, has young heifer that has given birth
/ to a calf with no eyeballs. The sockets
/ are in the head, and the lids blink as nat
urally as if they were filled with the eye
balls.
/ The rail mills at Pittsburgh are enjoy
/ ing a fair season of prosperity, as many
! companies are taking advantage of the
/ slight difference in the cost of iron and
steel rails to relay their railroads with
steel.
/ A kiln for the manufacture of china
were has been erected in Pike township,
flafa.a
! terprise in charge is confident that he can
make the purest kiud of chinaware from
material found i'll the township.
An epidemic of some x nd is prevalent
among the deer family on South mountain
in this State. Several deer have been
found dead, and in five OF six cases deer
were noticed with their bodies drawn up,
crampeG and almost bent double.
"A gentleman in England committed
suicide the other day and left note stating
that he mad taken his life because his wife
was a great deal too good for him. The
jury very appropriately decided that lie
was of an unsOuLd state of mind.
Mrs. Caroline Didty, of Dauphin coun-
ty, left her house on July 20 go to
neigbbor's, aud lost her way in the woods.
She vas not found till The 18th, having
been thirteen days without food. She
was unable to walk when found, but is
recovering.
M. B. Weidler, proprietor OF the Mid
way HOTEL in Upper Leacock, Lancaster
county, raised - bushels and AL pounds
/ of wheat of one and one sixteenth acre, or
AZ bushels to the acre. The variety of
seed sown was Foltz and Red Mediterra-
mean mixed.
-Governor Tom Young, Of Ohio. says
that So, 900 contributed To- the Republican
State Committee by Don Cameron saved
the State for Hayes, and that the filst thing
the ''President'' did after getting into Of
flee was to ignore the man whose money
carried Ohio for him.
Oregon has tue best liquor law that
human ingenuity has yet devised. Every
drinker must pay five dollars a year for
license, and whoever sells to an unlicensed
person is to be imprisoned. The names of
those who procure license, to drink are
published every SIX months.
Hess, Lynch and Wight. three young
men who were on trial in Philadelphia for
two weeks on the charge of outraging
n girl by the name of Clara BauglIman.
were found guilty on Saturday evening
and were sentenced to undergo an impris-
onment of fifteen years each.
-Philadelphia's vagranJ dogs are kept a
few days in the pound, and then, ii no one
claims and pays for them, they are thrown
into small two-stOry brick building in
which charcoal fires are started, The doors
and windows are closed tight. and in three
or four minutes they die of asphyxia.
"A young man who is evidently without
pride of ancestry or hope of posteri.y is
constructing raft on which he expects
next month to ride over Niagara Falls.
The raft is being constructed on scientific
principles, but no doubt the young man
will be drowned III the common way.
Amos Fish, one of the queerest men
in Albany, NY, died on Monday. leaving
an estate of $50, 900 to charitable institu-
tions, and cutting off his wife with dol
lar day. lie and she used to live COR two
DAYS on ten cent shin of beef: so he
thought 81 day a sumptuous income for
her.
In Sonoma county, California near
the GeS sers, is spring called the Lem
onade Springs" which is said TO be a veri-
table bath of beauty, the water being so
strongly impregnated with mineral acids
as to remove ali tan, sunburn and freckles
from the complexion, rendering The cuticle
soft and white.
The Coroner's jury in the case of the
Wadesville Pa. mine disaster, where eight
miners were killed, states the mine was run
in violation of the law. General Peasants.
Chief Engineer; Jonathan Bowen. Super
intendent; Edward Herbert and VIM.
Watkins, bosses, were required to furnish
50, 600 bail for trial.
The Pennsylvania Railroad strik ers in
meeting at harrisburg on Monday. de-
precated violence, asked the dismissal Of
Frank Thomson, General Manager, and
appointed committee to inform Superin-
tendent McCiea that they were willing to
compromise on honorable terms. and
would use every effort to protect the Com
pany's property.
Lafayette Hughes, of Memphis. Ind.
has introduced something new into the
suicide-at- hotel business, shooting himself
in the elevator of .he Lindell House, at St.
Louis He had been drinking to excess
Tor some days previously. During his
rawlings be was heard to say, ''Ieave
whisky alone. Tell mother | am not 90
ing to drink any more"
The whale boat New Bedford. that
made the daring voyage across Tie Allan