The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-02-02

among the hogs in portion ofdlllnois, and
the number of porkers succumbing to the
ailment is very large. The first symptoms
of the disease are manifested by violent
coughing, and very soon thereafter the al
fected hogs die. 1t is stated that the at
tack is particularly prevalent with the
Berkshire and Essex breeds.
A fire broke out at McL!aughlin's FUR
nture store in Parker City, on Sunday.
and before the flames could be xting guish-
ed the following named persons were burn
ed out : Joseph Bingham, bakery; Mrs.
George, millinery John Mclaughlin, fur
nture store; w. @, Gleason, cl"thier
NJ ichael Dessing. saloon MIR. Peters,
boarding house J. w. Miller, grocer,
building wrecked by water. The total loss
will reach $50, 600.
1t was stated some days ago that the
Supreme Court of South Carolina had dis
missed the quo scdrrdnto proceeding
brought by the Democratic Electors to test
the legality of the election Of the tayes
Electors. The Court has decided adverse
ly TO the Democratic Electors on the ground
of want OF jurisdiction in the Supreme
Court of the State, the proceeding not
having been brought in the name of the
United States, which is the real sovereign
from whom the Electors derive their fran
chises.
"A. ID. Orton, ''lighining calculator"
has died in Baltimore. He possessed phe
nomenal talent an arithmetician, aud
for many years made large income out Of
his gift. His mode was TO travel with a
carriage, give street exhibitions, and sell
books in which. he said, anybody could
learn to be as skillful in ciphering. In this
way he traversed every State in .he Union.
Several times he was offered good positions
as instructor in colleges; but he preferred
his wandering life, and always speedily re-
turned to it.
"A Sister of Charity died recently i'm
Bensheim, Germany, who had charge of
the typhus ward in the military hospital at
that place during the war OF 1907 II. At
her funeral the coffin was borne to ;he
cemetery by twelve veteran soldiers, among
whom were several Protestants and Jews
who outrivaled the Catholics i'm their ven
Grafton for the deceased. The municipal
authorities not only gave special place
for the intcrment of the Sister, but have
also undertaken to erect "A suitable monu-
ment ut their own expense.
BETTER read uime novels than not
read at ALL" Little Charlie Barrett, of
B"ston, thus whiled away his play-time
and his head became so full of Indians and
trapping and big trees that he stole SI15
from his sick mother and bought a through
ticket to San Francisco. His mother died
of a broken heart and now Charlie has
been brought back by the police. His ad-
ventures are described in fnll in the Bos
ton papers, to the envy of the whole iuve-
nile population of the Hub, many of whom
long to go aud do likewise.
The meanest man in America lives in
Lodi. Ohio. He is "a well to- do farmer, and
his mother lives alone in small house
near his farm. He supplies her with
fresh milk from his dairy and makes her
pay for it. She does not require much
milk-only enough 20 dilute her tea morn-
fax, faf, C,,l.
day. He has ascertained how many spoon
fuls measure contains and keeps count
OF the number which she receives daily.
When the quantity. consumed approximate
quart he presents his bill. Milk sells for
three cents quart in the town.
The main building of the kerosene oil
works Of r, q F. Jenny. in South Boston.
was demolished by an explosion on Friday
evening. and the ruins Immediately cauc h:
fire. Three men were in the building two
OF whom escaped the other, John CorliSs
is missing. and believed to be killed
While the fire was burning. some connect
ing pipes blew up, iniuruS two firemen
dangerously and several other persons
slightly. a crowd of people stood on the
ice near Boston wharf watching the flames,
when the ice broke, drowning boy and a
girl. The loss on the property is estimat-
ed ut about $50, 900. The explosion in the
main buildng was heard or felt for n dis
tance OF two miles.
A burning gas well in the Bradford
oil district attracts great attention. It was
struck October 4th, at depth of SO feet
the volume of gas suddenly ascending
proving so strong that no further drilling
could be done. The gas is now carried
from the mouth Of the we'll mp two 2-inch
pipes, from which the Bradford Era saws
'the gas belches forth with such terrific
force as TO render ordinary conversation
a..I, Il
mile from noise produced by its escape
1t can be heard five miles away from the
well. The gas is burned as it proceeds
from the pipes, sending up mass of flame
to the height of % tn 40 feet with a heat
so intense as to make summer weather i'm
all its vicinity. The ground is warm and
grass is growing within a radius of 100
feet. The light is sufficiently brilliant to
enable person to read newspaper by it
when half n mile away, and can be seen on
dark nights for distance of 20 miles. at
the towns of Oean aud Salamanca, in New