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

Little girls are employed as pages IN
the Kansas Legislature.
--Abbie McCloskey fell down a cellar
stairway in Chester comfy recently and
was instantly killed.
The Sheriff of Marion county, Iowa. is
in trouble through helping a murderer to
escape from prison.
MIR. Andreas, of Northampton county,
owns a hores 40 years old, which is still
strong and spirited.
"A house occupied by p. Dube, far
mer, at st. Flaive, Quebec, was burned
Friday night. Three children perislIed in
the flames.
The dial for the new clock on the
Crystal Palace, Sydenham, is forty feet i'm
diameter. The length of the minute hand
is nineteen feet.
-Coasting is killing more children than
diphtheria in this state. Our exchanges
all hear witness to the deepest risk of this
homicidal pastime.
Oddly, the pedestrian, finished his 10
miles at Turner Hall, Omaha, on Saturday
night. Time, twenty-thIee hours and
twenty seven minutes.
MIR. John Mellott of Licking township,
Fulton county, is in his 99th year. He
boasts that he can still husk corn at the
rate of 80 bushels day.
On Saturday the young Democrats of
Lehigh township, Lehigh county, ranging
from ten to fifteen years of age, raised a
liberty pole at Rockville.
Samuel House, an unmarried man of
considerable means, died of starvation i'm
Baltimore, the other day, being too miseIly
to supply himself with food.
"A candle box placed on a pole set
where two roads cross, and two miles from
human habitation, constitutes the post
office of West Bclknap, Clay comfy Texas.
Nathaniel j. Kirby, of Berks county,
is thirty-twO years of age, an6 has spent
seventeen years of his life in prison. He
is now in Philadelphia Jail awaiting trial.
Mime. Berghnanns, the fascinating
and wealthy widow of Washington who
recently married the clerk of the Alabama
Claims Commission, settled $12, 600 year
on her husband.
A thrifty young woman i'm Boston got
up handsome subscription for the letter
carrier on the route and tten married him.
and used the fund to defray the expenses
of a wedding tour.
-Cleopatras needle. which was given
by Mehemet Ali to the British government,
and which has remained so long on the
shore at Alexandria. will before many
months are over be set up in London.
A woman of thirty five years, residing
in a shionab,e boarding-house in New
York, amused herself the other night BY
drinking freely and chasing her daughter,
aged ten, down stairs with a revolver
The Shamokin Times says Mr.. Edwin
Cook shot two monster hawks last week
One of them was three feet ten inches, and
the other four feet two and one half inches.
from tip to tip Of his outspread wings.
"A Clarion county man, the other day,
shot at a rabbit in a brush pile aud bit a
can of glycerine concealed there. The ex-
plosion knocked tie man down and made a
small earthquake in the neighborhood.
A negro recently rode crosswise over
the trucks If car ON the Northern Cen
trail r..ilr 'ad from Harrisburg To York. and
in extremely cold weather. He complain
ed of his feet feeling chilly when he arrived
at his destination.
An aged woman in Indianapolis is sup
ported in luxury by her wealthy son, but
he will not provide bcr with tobacco to
smoke and consequently she knis stock
ings, sells them, and thus obtains The one
thing that the son denies her.
The country can never be too thankful
to Mr.. Hayes for his refusal ito influence
the legislasion Of the country while the
electoral bin was pending. Had he under
taken to do so, there is no telling what the
Consequences might have been.
On Wednesday evening Mrs. Mary
Geary, aged about fifty five, ,eft neigh
boris house near Meadville, to walk to her
own residence, some distance away. She
took the wrong road, and was found
Thursday evening frozen to death.
Governor Kellogg, Marshal Pitkin,
and Senators Hoar, Hamilton, and Morton
called upon the President on Monday last
with Wow TO urging upon him The necess-
ity Of recognizing Packard's government
The President declined to do as they re-
quested.
Nathan L. Lehnheim, Junior member
of the banking firm Of Lehnheim & Son,
Montrose, Pa, was arrested in New York
on Saturday, charged with presenting for
discount at the Importers and Traders
Bank a forged note for so, 600. Lehnheim
pleaded not guilty.
The wife of Gen. Sherman is iistribu-
ting, as an agent of tho Roman committee.
circulars inviting an extraordinary coilec
ton of Peters pence for the fiftieth an
niversary Of the Pope's episcopate. Dep
utations from all countries will go to Rome
for that occasion.
The postal officials believe that the
Government is swndled in the aggregate
to large amount by the washing and
second use o! stamps. To check the prac-
tice new three-cent stamp, so made as to
show any attempt to efface the cancelling
mark. is soon to be issued.
Harrison Turner an insane man living
at Sorrel Hill in the oil regions, and who
u
lunatic asylum, and recently released, on
last shot and instantly killed
a companion named Anderson, and within
an hour afterwards committed suicide.
Aver, the patent medicine man, has
been adjudYed insane. His property,
which is supposed to be worth three mil
lion dollars, will probably pass into the
control Of his wife and son. This large
estate shows that he has puked and purg-
ed the people who have bought his nos
trums to some purpose.
In the coal regions lately young man
named Reinholtz, aged twenty years, led
to the altar Mrs. Peter Girl, a W idow lady
aged seventy years, who has for long
time led hermit life i'm a little cot on ton
of Broad mountain, between Mt. Pleasant
and the Buck Horn hotel. The old lady
became tired of her lonely lot.
MIR. Rethuel Brockett, of North Ha
ven, Conn, who fell upon a moving ma
chine last summer and lost his rigbt hand