The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-02-23
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"A lady was baptised at Warren last
Tuesday, in the Presbyterian church, with
water from the river Jordan.
= In the fruit house of Nathan Hellings,
near Bristol, are stored over GO, 900 barrels
Of apples, in addition TO other frnit.
AT Fort Dodge Uowa) rat skins have
become an important article of commerce.
One dealer, it is reported, has psrchased
81, 600 pelts within \ few months.
A sycamore tree, measuring twelve
I feet in pirth, was felled the other day in
/ Berks county, from which ihirty-two
/ splendid butcher blocks were cut.
! A bullet fired 10y a hunter in Texas
! struck the surface Of "a lake at considerable
| distance, glanced upward, and wounded
! girl who was walking on a hill beyond.
! Every little community has its pet
pride. Earl township. in Berks county, is
now boasting of a ve:y voung grandfather,
viz, Nathan Rae, who is not yet 30 years
! of age.
| Madison Macon, who died in Orange
county, Va, recently, was the last of
! Presi lent Madison's nephews. He was
eighty. six years of age, and has been blind
for many years.
"A loving couple at Sharon, Pa, recent
ly presented their fourteenth heir for bap-
tism and named him William Centennial.
! The oldest child of this industrious pair is
but eighteen years old.
Father Keenan,. one OF the oldest
Catholic priests in the country, died al his
home in Lancaster, ON Sunday morning
last in the 9Sth year of his age. His fun
crnl took place yesterday.
"A blacksmith is greatly exciting the
region around Fresno, Cal, by curing dis
eases in q way that, according to the belief
Of the superstitious, proves him to be pos
sessed OF supernatural powers.
| Mr.. Andrew Stephens, the inventor OF
the steam whistle, died On Gin ristmas day
III England, at the age Of 81. 1t is n pity
his ability hadn't cut Kim off before lie in
vented such an Internal nuisance.
The San Francisco Alto says that,
from causes not easily explained Califor-
MIA, and perhaps San Francisco in particu
lar, furnishes more cases of paralysis than
any other section of the country, if not Of
the world.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
/ is rapidly substituting metal known as
the "phosphor bronze" for brass in the
construction Of bearings. The metal is
said to be from twenty to thirty per cent
more servceable tIan brass.
A colored statesman in Moth Carolina
offered a resolution asking the Legislature
to suggest some plan upon which Congress
could be memoralized To set apart a terri
tory west Of the Missouri river for the col
oniZation Of color ed people of the South.
Edith Lysle, book agent who had
been canvassng for Clusters Life, died
suddenly at house Wylie avenue,
! Pittsburgh, Thursday afternoon. She
positively refused to send for a doctor, and
the cor''ner's jury rendered a verdict of
death from poisoning.
The town of Harrison, Maine contains
among many other natural curiosities, a
mineral spring in which the temperature
of the water never varies, Upon the hot
test day of summer, the coolest Cay of
winter, thermometer lowered in it's wa
ters " i'll indicate exactly 46o above zero.
"A negro man aud a white woman
travelled all over Macon City, Missouri re-
Gently, trying to- get some mag gistrate or
minister to marry them. Eveiywhere
their request was denied, and at the house
of the last person to whom they applied
the refusal threw the woman into violent
spasms.
Rutland, Vt, expects to become an
important mining centre. One man there
thinks he has found coal /; another knows
where there is iron, and a third has a gold
mine on Bald mounta in which he stealth
lily visits at night. carefully concealiug his
tiacks. Specimens of the gold ore seut to
Boston for assay are said to be very rich.
A man named VIM. Fl. Weldon at
tempted to kill Gov. Packard at New Or
leans on Thursday last. Tue Governor
was in his room when the would-be assas-
sin leveled his pistol at him. Packard
, struck the weapon down, when it exploded
and shot Packard in the knee. Weldon
r was wounded by bystander aud has been
committed to prison.
Jeanette NJ. Robinson, of Chicago. as
serted that for seven years paralysis pre-
vented her from uttering a word, aud that
III an instant, in answer to prayer, she was
cured. A reporter recognized her as a
| woman who under the name Of Mary Da-
Wis. had only year ago been a remarkably
GLIB witness in a lawsuit. The exposure
OF the fraud seems to be omplete.
, -Theus, the Albany butcher who re-
Gently killed a boy by throwing knife at
, him, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on
, "Wednesday, and was sentenced to the pen
, itentiary for three years. He said he threw
the knife in anger, without intending to
: Kill the boy, and that the white face of the
i boy is constantly before him turn which
way he may, both day and night.
, "A student named Talford on return.
, ing to his home in Missouri recently from
college i'll Indiana, became insane on the
2 cars, and leaving his satcbel of books in
2 his seat, leaped from a train on the North
: Missouri Railroad, AS it was going at full
speed, lie was captured near Renick, Mis-
sourl, III dense thicket, and was taken
D to be wild man. He is held in iail Cor
a identification.
In Cincinnati on Saturday young
: man named Abel Rothschild attempted 60
b commit suicide by shooting. 1t has trans.
pred that he murdered his mistress, NAM
ed Bessie Moore, in Jefferson Texas. some
: time ago, where they had been stopping at
: a hotel Rothschild was commercial
: traveller for house in Cincinnati His
o wound is not fatal, and he will be taken to
O Texas for trial.
: Mary Paul, of Cincinnati, had an ap-
!, petite for alcohol that she could no. mas
0 ter. She tried hard to reform but her
!. husband told her, finally. that if she ever
h got drunk again he would separate from
:, her. She kept sober for awhile, but a,
s length, finding that she could not resis,
9 any longer, she drank glass of brandy
$ But she put arsenic in the brandy, and
0 died of the poison.
e The wife of J. Marzenius, was fatal,