The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-14
-rc7Cs ami other NOfings.

A Cecil county (NIaryland) calf four
teen months old giTes-a quart of milk per
day.
New Castle. Lawrence county, is to
have baby show. One township has en-
tered five pairs of twins.
"A farmer near Reinholdsville, Lancas
ter county, realized 900 bushels of early
rose potatoes from half an acre.
Margaret Burkett, aged %, domestic,
of Perry county, committed suicide by
jumping into a well the other day.
"A raft containing 15S $50 cubic feet,
said to be the largest ever in those va
ters, passed through Lake Champlain the
othet day.
-Thefe Is a sunhowef In Adrian, Mich,
the stalk of which is IL feet inches high
ano III inches in circumference, and beaIs
90 blossoms
"A man in Nelson county, Ky, has
actually married his step-grandmother.
This is said to be the first case on record
in this country.
/ An Indiana farmer says he will have
yield of $4,000 bushels of corn off 700
acres. Another reports As bushels of
wheat to the acre.
T Judge J. s. Black has an article in the
Pittsburgh Post against large standing
army and Col. Scott's suggestion to have
the same to put down strikes.
jonathan Moyer, of the South Noun
tain, has a corn-crib ia feet long, ~ feet
high, and feet wide, which lie expects to
I'LL with his corn crop this year.
-Bellefonte people are agitating the
question of the passage Of an ordinance to
keep boys under IS years of age off the
streets after O'Clock i'm the evening.
One man has been in the employ of an
other man, in Kittanning, for thirtv-fo
consecutive years, and proposes fighting it
out on that line for some time to come
At landau. \. H.. is the grave Of a
Mrs. bronson, who lived i'm three centuries
She was born in 1G99 and died in 1901. II
is said there are but three similar cases on
record.
Henry Ellis, aged 30. and David Lewis,
aged 10, miners, were buried and instantly
killed on Monday morning al the Hoffman
mine, Cumberland, Md, by the falling of
a roof of coal.
"A man named Adrian Perez. who was
surpi ised in the act of hanging himself in
house i'll Mexico recently. was cut down
and then sent to prison for having stolen
the rope he was using.
"A mechanic near Pottstown recently
contracted to make basket sleigh, and
when it was finished. he found it too large
20 be taken ont either through the door or
the window of his shop
The railroad rioters convicted at Har-
risburg week before last. were sentenced
to the county Jail on Friday, for terms
I
pay fines from $50 to S51O.
BY the premature explosion in n quar-
ry at Northfield, Mass. on Friday. William
Earle was instantly killed, and James
Henderson, the overSeer. WAS SO badly in
jured that he has since died
"A hotel at Policy Pond. Y. H., was
destroyed by an idcendi iary fire Thursday
night, on which the loss was So, 600. Mrs
| Piummer, the mother -in-l law of the pro-
prletor, perished in the flames.
~ large mushroom is said to have
( forced it's way through twelve inches of
concrete covered with a thick layer of as
, phalt in the floor of the Savings Bank De-
pa1tment of the General Post Office in Lon.
don.
Peter O'TIearn of Gold Hill, New. be-
coming tired of the constant interference
OF his wife's mother in his family affairs.
( borrowed pistol, called his wife into n
side room, and shot himself through the
I heart.
-Governor Hartranft has commuted the
death sentence of Thomas Campbell of
IuZerne county, 10 imprisonment for Efe
lie was To have been executed on Monday
last for the murder of Michael McAnultv
July 4, 1876.
old mother Kuser, as she is Familiarity
called, of New Berlin. Somerset county.
mas cncumo Der which has been preserved
in glass bottle for forty wears. Mrs
Jonas Kuser has a similar preservation
thirty five years old.
There were three violent deaths in
fIttsourgh and vicinity on Thursday
Mrs. Gertrude Wolf comrnitre ed snicide nv
drowning. an unknown man hanged him
self in freight car and another unkuown
man was killed on the railroad.
In the Presidential menaperie about to
make tour through Ohio, Kentucky.
Tennessee and Virginia. the Cbic.Go
Times thinks that Postmaster General Rev
will be as valuable as Artemus Ward,s
Kangaroo. He's ''an amonzin' little cnss
"A boy named Cole in Madbury. \. H..
recently received reward of sos for re
storing lost pocketbook. His employer
a farmer, claimed half the reward because
the pOcketbook was fourd on his land
Cole was discharged because he refused
that demand
Robert Anderson, jr., of PITTSBURGH.
mas been arrested for killing his father. !
Dung Anderson is a cripple and he and
the rather became involved i'm a difficulty.
when crutch was either thrust in Tho old
mans eve or he fell on it. Death followed
in a few hours
The Turkish Minister furnishes tho
ioiiowlng In view of the various accounts
circulating about the origin Of Osman
rasha, the Turkish Legation has the honor
TO INFORM the press that the Marshal of
that name was born in Asia Minor of Mus
suiman paren's.
Jack Wilson, colored resident of
Mertwe'her county, Ga. has bought and
paid Tor 'Oo acres of land since the war. He
W. VII MAKE TINS year sixty or seventy bales
OF cotton, 1,50O or 2 600 bushels of corn
has 'en or twelve mules, all in fine copdi'
ton, anC raises his own meat.
"A burglar forced an entrance into the
residence of Richard Boiling. near St, paul
lhd on Friday night. using an axe to
open the window. While he was in tho
., act OF searching bureau Boiling secured
Oh the head killed him instantly
-An aged couple named Fitzgerald were
iound murdered at their home near U;Is1
ooro Nd, on Saturday morning. The
oeed ls supposed to have been comm;tte5
with a sledge- hammer which - c, ~