The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-02-09
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in the Iarbor of San Francisco.
s Charles OfCounoi is sole arbitrator CT
a suit involving million dollars.
Fifty seven thousand cattle are graz
i lug in Cheyenne County, Nebraska.
! An Erie father furnishes hiK 'vcly
Gaughter with si5 600 pin money yearly.
"A nurse dozed by the fire III Shelby,
Ky. and baby fell OF her lap and Was
burned 80 death.
, Tile mammoth sIurge TINT was Found
III Florida is twelve feet in circumference,
and weighs niuercen pounds.
/ "A total abstinence clnb in Lowell,
Mass, hrs 1000 members, including the
mayor and representative citizens.
Phil. Sheridan has been summoned tn
; Washington to testify as to his past and
piesent opinions Of Returning Boar,i Wells.
The larges: woman i'll Kansas died at
Elk Falls. in that State, last week. She
WAS % years Of age, and weighed 32o
pounds.
L. A. Tucker. of Brakes Mills, has
an cight-mo,ilIs' old bronze turkey that
! weighs over twenty thee pounds. Send
it to Greece.
! Two coal miners were killed in a mine
4 at Lemontc. four miles north of tuionioSn
: Pa. on Saturday, by large piece of slate
falling on them.
A Peorian the olher day borrowed n
team to perform an errHnd I" sioit dis
: as far he went.
The Wheeling Register gives the devil
his due aud says that with all his wicked
invent ions. lie had never conceived Il Lou
isiana Returning BOARD.
+ Two women vere arrested in Meadville
last week for circulating counterfeit half
dollar CONS. About $25 was found upon
the person of one uf them.
MI. Frank Twist, spirited and intel
! ligcrt citizen of Nashua, \. IT,, running
barefoot upon a wager. froze both his feet
SO that they had 30 be anput"tcd.
Minnie aud Annie Stfylcy and Nellie
! No"il,"us,F aged five. eight aud ten years.
were drowned at Salem. Mass, Saturday
evening. hy l.ieaking through the ice.
Five skeletons, presumably Of mourd-
builders. have been unearlhed in Lnrain.
/ O.. ia quite u gnnd stale &c preservation.
{ The ia wboue~ and teeth are uoied as unjis-
! ually large.
-Rcv Stu:,lt Robinson. Of Louisville.
! Ky. who recently obtained a judgaeut of
s:}o. 900 against the Missouri Democrat for
libel has declined to receive more than
-. 1OS Of that sum.
! --Unemy,lo, I'd workmen Of New York. IN
n mass meeting on Saturday might, called
( upon the legislature FOR All appropriation "f
two million dollars Ia give work To tifty-fise
Thousand idle men.
There has been an unusual mortality
among the bees in England THIS winter,
owing Ia he severe weather. We have not
learned that they suffered in this country
Notwithstanding tho cold.
A handful, signed Ivy Rev. Mr..
Baxter. il being extensively circulated IN
London, England. Announcing the ar-
preaching translation to heaven of IA, co
Christians wiIii.uI DYING.
The locomotive house of the Prnnsyl
vania Railroad. AZ Trenton, y. j., de
i,x Th,s
tivcs were ali .un ont and saved. The loss
will not fail short of SO. 900.
-tieorue Ri>ewick. of Bloomsburg.
drove "a fpur-in hand with "a double seated
Sleigh containing four persons. from
BloomshuIg ~ DInvile. distance OF ten
miles. in 81 minutes. recently.
= lana i. Laird, of \ lie. .heny city. only
f,urteen yrrrs of age committed snicide a,
California. Pa. ON Saturday night last, 10y
taking arsenic. Cause ankunw;..
Mrs. Maria Isa.,rl Tonnes. of Oakland.
Cal. j. ti,e latest person to- die and leave
her fortune to her faithful nurse. The
Nurse was Mrs. isabella Butler. a printers
wife. and the fortune amounts to Sill. 900.
A correspondents If the Warreu Jsdger
residing at Plttsiicld in that county, says
he has measured all the SHOWS that have
fallen since the 24th nf November. aud it
pans out just ninety four incli.s-nearly
eight feet.
-.IoSc;,h +. Dcngler. lately convic' cd 1T
Pntisville of taking IS. .000 that did not he
long t. him from the funds "f the National
bank q: which he was cashier. has boen
sentenced 20 two years aud two months in
the pcuiteHtiary.
Three maiden .adcs. named Chrstia-
na. Susan and Mary Kuuklc. aged respect
lively S.}. 63 aal 13 years. have died near
Quarry die. Lancaster county. within five
months. Neither of the two elder had
n,,l 4
bean.
A bill will be shortly introduced in
the Virginia Senate doing away with the
sending Of persons cnnvi cd of the lower
grades of crime to the Pcniten;iary. aud
instead Ia m Ike them woik on the roads
in tl!e county in which the oifeuse Is com
nIitted.
An old Steamboat man is said to ~ cdict
. freshrt of unusual mayui.side next spring
He argues that, as we had no rain dnriny
the fail of 1876. these will be unusually ca
piouS ia the spring, aud us there is Il Large
body of SNOW on the land. the streams will
bc unpIccrdently swollen.
--.!acnb Den IIcider. one of the Nichi-
gan Hayes electors. is III trouble. 1t ap-
pears that }ier'ier il a iiullander He
came t" Michigan when thirteen years old.
Tie Democrats have been looking mp the
records, aud assert that no proof exists OF
licrder over having been naturalizcd.
The old fort in Marblehead. Mass
built dnring .he war OF the revolution for
the protection of Salem harbpr, is now
gar; i>ourd 10y a large bnll terrier lie
never strrys bcyn"d the line "f cart rthworks
and is 50 nercc HAT all Hho approach the.
fort compelled to beat haSty retreat
On the f,In of Gabriel King. at Mt
lima. Bcrks county. sow gave birth t. a
litter OF thirteen pigs, one of which had
eight legs. Four of the feet we've at their
natural place while two had grown out ON
the back and the other two on either side.
of the hind legs. The pig has since dieti.
Edith Keller, daughter of Thomas
Keller. carpenter. at Mill Hollow about
two miles from " ilkesbarre gave birth To
her second ileeitimate child few davs