The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-11-23
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fish was lately sawed into steaks at Padu-
cab, Ky.
"A man built n couch of stones and
leaves in the woods near 81. Louis, lay
down it, took poison and died.
Complete returns of the New Jersey
election place McClcllau's plurality at 49,,
634 and his majority over all ri 9, 1f2.
BY the explosion of n kerosene can in
New York, on Monday, Mr.. Thomas Do
ran and two children were bum to death.
Harry Russell, son of Charles G. Rus
sci. a banker of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, commit
ted suicide a, his home on Saturday. No
cause can be assigned for the deed.
George Black and James Johnston,
miners, were killed in the Diamond mine,
near Scranton, Monday, by the falling Of
the roof. The firing of blast Was prob
ably the cause of the fall.
Two men were found shut up in a
fruit car on an east bound freight train at
Boone, Ia. They had been without food
of any kind except fruit for four days, and
were almost dead from thirst.
The two oldest voters at the late eIec-
tion in Southampton, Bucks county, Pa,
both Democrats, were General John Davis
and Dir. John Lefferts, the former being
ninety and the latter nnety-two.
"A young lady of Clinton, H., sent
twenty. five cents and postage stamp in
reply to an advertisement of "How to make
an impression" and received for an
swer Sit down on a pan of dough"
Orlando Abbott and wife, of North
Andover, Mass, while attempting To cross
the track at Portland street. Lawrence, on
Tuesday last, in light wagon. were
struck by engine, and both were killed.
AT n New York florists is a large
crab-apple tree on whose topmost branch
blooms white rose. The rose stem,
which is growing from the apple branch. is
over two years old, and it has already
bloOined twice
Samuel and Isaac Noll, two brothers,
of Centre county, were thrown against u
stone fence while driving, and both had
their skulls fractured. Samuel Noll died
iD about three hours, and his brother three
days afterward.
Three men, one named Hamburger
the others two brothers named MarOff
have been arrested on suspicion of having
murdered the scissor grinder whose re-
mains were found in the mountains near
Lick Haven last September.
According to Sitting Bulls account of
the Rosebud fight, Reno and his men re-
mained on cliff terrified by the presence
of the squaws aud a few old men, while
! Custer and his whole command were being
! butchered by the savages.
Troy. n. Y, is excited over a child
stealing case, the six year old son of Cbas.
! Cannon, mechanic of that place, having
J been brought to New York by q friend, and
| having, together with the custodian disap-
! pealed leaving no trace behind.
! The latest sensation in the oil regions
! is a well near Millerstowu, which is said to
/ be producing refined oil. 1t is OF a green
! ish cast, clear as though passed through a
/ returt. The most remarkable thing about
! it is, that it has fire test of over 11Uo.
The fire fiend'' had full swing last
week, and an aggregate of several million
: Hlli Ia If n
at Chicago, Boarden City, Massachusetts,
and other places, while the Pittsburgh
/ blaze of Sunday morning adds $50, UO0 to
! the list Of losses.
1t isn't every man Of fifty-three that
can tuID = sOmersault ON a rope eighty
feet above the ground. London coIrss-
! pendent ~ho saw BiUudiu recently at the
/ Crystal Palace says he is as 1.-the and dex-
terous as ever, with the same steel nerves
/ and iron muscles as of Old.
| last year man of miserly habits died
near POitstown, Pa, leaving his relatives
very small sum and the poor of Norristowu,
! Pottstowu and Upper Providence over
! hundred thousand dollars, The relatives
have tried in vain to break the will, but il
/ has just been admitted 10 probate.
Julius kircher, a Lutheran, and his
wife, Jewess, living in East Forty sixth
/ street, New York, being unable to agree TO
! the burial of their dead child in either a
! Christian or a Hebrew cemetery. agreed to
cremate it, which was done at the chemi-
cal works of which the father is proprie-
J tor.
-Scrap.on's burning mine is still on
| fire, all efforts to put ont the flames having
| thus far failed. Serious fears are enter
tanned for. the safety of those now In the
works, and the situation is altogether
| gloomy one. In an adjacent mine two un-
! fortunate men have been crushed to death
| by a falling roof.
The value of the wedding gifts of Nile
| d'Albe, niece of the ex- Empress Eugenie
| is said to be 8 500. 600. One of these was
a cameo ring which belonged to Charles V
| Eleven necklaces of brilliants adorned the
collection. The Duke of d 'Ossuna, whom
! she married, is said to be one of the
! wealthiest persoDages in the Peninsula.
Mrs. Marie Davis, a rather noted re-
! gro woman. an old resident of New AlbaGy
! Ind, died the other day. She was about
half white and half negro blood She
married Squire Davis, a white man of
| considerable property, and they had quite
| large family, most of HON married whites
AT one time she was the wealthiest colored
| person in the vicinity of New AlbaLy.
| 1t is now claimed that Wilson Wad-
| bingham, of New York, is the largest in
| dlviduall land owner in America. He owns
one tract OF 656, 900 acres in Eastern New
| Mexico, and 600, 600 acres more scattered
along the banks of the Rio GIande and
elsewhere in the same territory. The land
is in many cases improved with ferries
and buildings, and on it are 5000 head of
cattle ami IL, 600 head of sheep.
Col. Kings farm on the Rio Graude
consists of one hundred and sixty thousand
acres, all fenced. He has been growing in
wealth since the war with Mexico, aud
now owns besides the land twenty-two
thousand horses, fifty thousand cows, sew
| enty-ive thousand sheep, and thirty thous-
and mules. He employs three hundred
Mexicans as herders. Most of the land
has been fenced at an enormous cost.
| Sister Simplicia, sister of charity be.
longing to the convent of ''Good Succor.''
at Turin, was recently walking out in
charge of a procession of orphan pupils.