The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-04-13
NescS ana OfT.cr INottHgs.

fIisky groom of 20 courted and welded a
comely maid OF ID summers.
A geo pound frog. taken from neigh
boring bayou. has been the recipient of
much attention in the streets of Mobile.
The square timber now arriving in
( RATS at Marietta is said to I've the best that
has been taken to market for a number of
years.
There is man living in Hamilton
county, Ohio--a Or. Slurm-who carried
dispatches to Napoleon |. and fought at
/ Leipsic.
-Ex- Mayor A. Oakley Hall fled to Eu-
/ rope, it is said, because of the everre cur
ring spectre OF his completely in the New
\ olk ring frauds.
The cotton blanket, quite common in
France and Germany. is made by only one
mill in the United States, the Eagle and
Phoenix, at Columbus. Ga.
Negotiations are in progress for
tract of land in Decatur county, Ga. on
which TO settle a colony nf French immi-
grants from Germanized Alsace.
"A gentleman who went from Centre
county to Kansas some time ago has witt
ten home Men who can get living III
Pennsy lvania had better stay there"
The northern counties OF California
are suffering from the Tavages of squirrels
and in some sections it is said To be i'm
possible TO raise grain on account of them.
"A Virginia bridegroom over seven
fee. high is announced. The affair created
considerable sensation, but it is believed
she only married him to go clestnuting
with.
Very few LeDanon county farmers can
afford to die. At the funeral of granger
WHO lately turned his toes to the daisies in
that county dinner was served to 500 funeral
guests.
~ youth in Alabama, sixteen years old
married a woman three times his age and
the mother of five children. II is quite
evident that without guardian Of some
kind this youth would have gone to des-
tIucton.
The smallest Bible in the world. print
ed on thin, unhleached India paper, meas
uIing - by % inches, and only half &n
inch in thickness. is published by Thomas
Nelson * Sons, if You know who they are
we don't.
Mr.. John Garman of Watts township
Perry county, has held the office of Just ice
of the Peace for thirty five years and is
beginning another term. He has had the
same constable, Mr.. Jacob Fleit, for thirty
three years.
Harrison Lifts, aged abnnt 10 years.
was assaulted while returning from church
at Mill Hollow, nodr Wilkcsbalrc. struck
on the head with a stone and fatally injUr-
ed. Five young men have been arrested
charged with the crime
"A nhale sixty feet long has been cast
up by the near Tyre. aHd not far from
the same spot where the whale cast mp
Jonah ?. 700 years ago. The Pasha Of
Beirut has presented it to the museum OF
the Syrian Protestant college.
Gather ire FAN recovered s.. 900 from
the city Of Allegheny for the death OF her
husband who fell over an nnprot tectcd wall.
In the language of the Harrisburg Patriot.
the iury decided that Fall fell because the
city did not build its wall well.
~ queer bequest is that o? Miss Max
well Graham, of Williams wood, England,
who has left 100000 70 four charitable
societies, vherewith to relieve poor Pro
'estants who are named Hutchinson OF
Maxwell, and To educai their children.
The Philadelphia ITEM says that a
Geary motor is now on exhibition i'm BoS-
ton, made of brass, one foot long and four
inches wide which runs The flexible shaft
Of dental engine at 900 revolutions Ter
minnie, at a cost not exceeding one cent
per day.
John Calvert and wife Unlda Of Cal
vert, Texas, engaged in a religious dis
cuSsiOn lately, and after arguing nearly all
night, Hulda started for john. Ia tie
scuffle she WAS thro@n across a trnnk, and
her chin striking against the bed her neck
was broken.
A man named William Garwood.
ab"nt fifty years Of age, living four miles
from WellsburC, W. Va. while driving to
that place in his buggy on Monday in aI
Intoxicated condition, drove over an en-
bankment, and was almost instantly killed.
lie leaves a family.
Mrs. Sidney Miller, wife of Joseph f.
Miller, who was murdered near Lebanon
Pa. one day last week, has been committed
TO prison by the coroner to answer the
charge of wiifUl murder. The victim was
burie0 on Sunday, and his funeral was
attended by nearly three Thousand persons
~ man by the name of Rathbun made
a desperate attempt to kill himself at Pc
trola on Tuesday. lie struck himself with
heavy hammer three times between the
eyes, then taking a razor, which he drew
twice across his throat, completely severed
the windpipe. lie will hardly recover.
All the Presidents elected by the Re
publican party were born within seventy
five miles of Cincinna;i-two in Ohio aud
one in Kentucky. 1t may be added that
Harrison and Taylor, the two Presidents
elected by the Wings. also came from the
neighbOrh0Od of Cincinnati.
An exchange checks the growth of
budding genius in the following cruel
style "a poem Of six stanzas from Fan
ME. entitled Where has our beautiful snow
gone? is respectfully but firmly declined
weldon know where your beautiful snow
has gone, and we don't caIe. We haven t
got it,
There are in Colorado over fifty peaks
which rise more than a. coo feet above sea
level. Blanca Peak, III that State, the ele-
vation of which was determined last wear
by Hayden survey, is probably the high
est point within the limits of the United
States, being Il, AGA feet above the level Of
the sea.
1t is proposed in Germany to make
wall paper which will adapt itself to the
degree of illumination of the room. be-
coming darker as the room grows lighter.
and rice Cersa. 1t is believed that very
curious and novel effects of color and shade
may be produced by printing or coating
paper with oxalatc of copper.
DR.. GAW. Frost had a dream in which,
be saw the location, near Springfield Mass.
OF gold mine. The dream returued to