The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-04-13
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At Nockamixon, Bucks county, a
friskv groom Of 70 courted and welded
/ oomely maid OF ID summers.
A 200 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
I RATS at Marietta is said to he the best that
has been taken to market for number OF
years.
! There is y man living in Hamilton
county, Oho--a DR.. StuIm-who carried
dispatches to Napoleon L. and fought at
Leipsic.
-Ex- Mayor A. Oakley Hall fled to Eu
rope, it is said, because Of the ever-recur-
ring spectre Of his completely in the New
\ ork ring frauds.
The cotton blanket, quite common in
France and Germany, is made by only one
mill in the United States, the Eagle and
/ Pbnnix, at Columbus. Ga.
Negotiations are in progress for
tract of land in Decatur county, Ga, on
which to settle colony nf French immi-
grants from Germanized Alsace.
"A gentleman who went from Centre
county to Kansas some time ago has writ
ten home "Men who can get living in
Pennsylvania had better stay there"
The northern counties of California
are suffering from the ravagcs 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 Lebanon county farmers can
afford to die. At the funeral of a granger
who lately turned his toes to the daisies in
that county dinner was served to 500 funeral
guests.
A youth in Alabama, sixteen years old.
married woman three times his age and
the mother of five children. 1t is quite
evident that without guardian of some
kind this youth would have gone to des-
truct;on.
The smallest Bible in the world print
ed on thin, unbleac ched India paper, meas
uTing - by % inches. and only half &u
inch in thickness. is published by Thomas
Nelson & Sons, if you know who they are
we don't.
MIR. 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 Freit, for thirty
three years.
/ Harrison Lifts, aged about 10 years,
! was assaulted while returning from church
! at Mill Hollow. near Wilkesbarre, struck
! on the head with a stone and fatally injur-
| ed. Five young men have been arrested
A whale sixty feet long has been cast
/ up by the sea near Tyre, and not far from
/ the same spot where the whale cast up
| Jonah 2,I00 years ago. The Pasha OF
! Beirut has presented it to the museum of
: the Syrian Protestant college.
-Catherire Fall recovered 81. 600 from
! the city Of Allegheny for the death of her
{ husband who fell over an unprotected wall
! In the language of the Harrisburg Patriot,
the jury decided that Fall fell because the
| city did not build its wall well.
"A queer bequcst is that oe Miss Max
| well Graham, of Wiliamswood. England
who has left 100000 20 four charitable
| societies, wherewith to relieve poor Pro
| testants who are named Hutchinson or
/ Maxwell, and to educate their children.
The Philadelphia Item says that a
Geary motor is now on exhibition in Bos-
| ton, made of brass, one foot long aud four
| inches wide, which runs the flexible shaft
| OF a dental engine at 900 revolutions per
| minute, at cost not exceeding one cent
per day.
John Calvert and wife Hulda, Of Cal
vert, Texas, engaged in "a religious dis
cussion lately, and after arguing nearly all
night, Hulda started for Jim. In tie
scutfie she thrown across a trunk, aud
her chin striking against the bed her neck
was broken.
"A. man named William Garwood.
abou; Gfty years Of age, living four miles
/ from Wellsburg, W. Va. while driving to
that place in his buggy on Monday in an
/ intoxicated condition, drove over an en-
| bankment, and was almost instantly killed.
! He leaves family.
Mrs Sidney Miller, wife of Joseph f.
| Milley, who was murdered near Lebanon.
| Pa. one day last week, has been committed
to prison by the coroner to answer the
charge Of wilful murder The victim was
[ IN nd
attended by nearly three Thousand PERSONS
"A man by the name of RathJun made
desperate attempt 10 kill himself at Pc
trolia on Tuesday. He stI uck himself with
heavy hammer three times between the
eyes, then taking a razor, which he drew
twice across his throat, completely severed
the windpipe. He will hardly recover
All the Presidents elected by the Re
publican party were born within seventy.
five miles of Cincinna;i-two in Ohio and
one in Kentucky. 1t may be added thai
Harrison and Taylor, the two President.
elected by the Wings also came from tn,
neighborhood of Cincinnati.
An exchange checks the growth q
budding genius in the following crue
style "a poem Of six stanzas from Fan
ME, entitled Where has our beautiful snow
gone? is respectfully but firmly declined
w e don Z know where your beautiful snow
has gone, and we don't care. We haven :
got it,"
There are in Colorado over fifty peak
which rise more than IA 600 feet above Sc;
level. Blanca Peak, i'll that State. the ele
vation of which was determined last veal
by Hayden's survey, is probably the hip
est point within the limits of the Unite,
States, being II, AGA feet above the level O
the sea.
1t is proposed in Germany to max,
wall paper which will adapt itself to tn,
degree of illumination of the room. be
coming darker as the room grows lighter
and Uice Uersa. 1t is believed that yer,
curious and novel effects of color and shad,
may be produced by printing or coatins
paper with oxalate Of copper
DR.. G. w. Frost had dream in whicl
he saw the location, near Springfield Mass.