The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-28
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Ne,cs ana Otaer Notsngs.

The Pittsburgh GatliHg Gun has been
spiked. Ii was newspaper of the baser
suIt, and its editor languislies IN iail.
Rev. George Bull baptized forty per-
sons by immersion i'll tweuty-seven minutes
i'll Savannah, and he is so years old too.
Philip Tilzie. aged ninety, and Rita
Brown, aged eighty-SiX. both colOrcd, were
married at Fayette, Miss, the other day.
Ten years ago the late Senator Bogy
reuounced Masonry to juin the Roman
Catholic Church, and lie died in that
faith.
Gen. Gibbons official report Of the
fight at Big Hole, Montana, August 9th,
shows that 20 men were killed and 40
wounded.
"A Seneca county woman uou.ns the
/ accidental! breaking of n lamp chimney
which she had used continually for eigh-
teen years.
"A Vermont hen recently hatched out
+ nest Of turtle eggs and no mother was
ever more surprised and out Of sorts with
her family.
For the first time in the history of
Armstrong county an election xill occur
this fall in which there will not be a single
county candidate to vote Tor.
The pilot who caused the recent terri
BILE steamboat collision ON the Nolga river
! is To be sent to Siberia foI life. One hun
dred aud eighty lives were lost.
I The farmers in Carter county, Ky,
/ aIe offering board gun and ammunition TO
hunters who will como and kill the squir-
/ rels that are demolishing their cornfields.
BY recent invention, buttons are
fastened upon cards 10y machinery instead
of by hand as heretofore. One machine
will do the work of twenty killed workers
"A fire in Keyport, New Jersey, des-
! troyed thirty houses aud stores in the bus
/ mess part of the city. The loss was $780,
600. The business part of the town is in
ashes.
/ Ex-Governor Tilden is to sail from
! Europe for America on the 18th of October
and expects to reach New York some time
between the Goth and 25th of the same
month.
Francisco Lopez, on trial i'm Corpus
Christi, Texas, vas set upon in court and
choked almost TO death by the mother of
the man whom she was accused of mur-
derng.
! David Duzall, of Butler county, is
ninety nine years old, and he went to But
3 Ter county "a the time of the whisky rebel
J lion, 1895. s1Ie is a native of Franklin
county.
! MIR. Montgomery Sears, the wealthy
young BOstonian, who was married the
other day to Miss Choate, gave his bride a
wedding present Of residence costing
S11O,
! A farmer living on Cumberland River
/ near Columbia, Ky, inspected ten acre
! field of corn, few days ago, and did not
/ find full ear in tie patch. Destroyed by
squirrels.
Captain Jashna Wheeler, of Glasgow.
KY, now abont ninety years Of age, sol
dier of the war of 1912, is said never to
! have been sick day or taken dose of
medicine.
Susan B. Anthony soiourneth ia C,,l-
. orado, and the snow clad mountains re
/ vertebrate her eloquent pleas iii behalf of
glound down, ploughed- under aud harrow
/ ed over woman.
! Lewis I'll. Shelton of Sycamore Spring
/ Texas, declares that twenty miles south Of
I Aust in is cave containing pctrIfietl man.
| sitting on n stone with Gun, hard as a
/ rock, lying on his knees.
} Thirteen ma ives were recently killt d
! by the crew of an American vessel near
/ Cape Prince of Wales, in the Arctic
! Ocean. The trouble arose i'm the course
OF trade between the two parties.
/ Owen Farren, said TO have been 1O5
years old, was buried in New York on Mon
day. lie was from Ireland. 1t is said
that his mo her lived to be 1O3 years old.
aud that his oldest son is 73.
! Henry Moore stood looking at a street
fight in Eureka, Cal. lie had no concern
/ with the encounter yet suddenly as
+ though actuated by devilishness alone. he
DIRE" knife and stabbed one of the men
to the heart.
"A pair of boot lasts have been made
for Leonard Wilcox o: Rome, y. y, who
! Is seven feet in height and weighs Goo
pounds. The lasts are twenty two inches
! III length. seven in height. and eighteen
/ around the instep
The ST Louis Republican saws there
! are, subject to entry by ac udl settlers or by
/ Cnted States land warrants. not TaI from
: anrnS Ss,ft
State of Missouri. and a large portion of
! this land is valuable.
! -General Mcclellan las formally ac-
! cepted the Democratic nomination for
! Governor at New Jersey. The constitution
calls Tor seven years residence. The Gen
eral declares that lie has been twice that
! time citizen of New Jersey.
The largest man in North Carolina is
] captain James +. Jones, of Greene county
lie is six feet one inch high, and weighs
, 64I pounds. lie is also an active man. ror
circus agent has been yanly trying fn.
/ three years to build tent around him.
MINNIE. the thirteen year old daughter
OF Willard Smith, a wealthy Shrewsbury.
VI, farmer, acknowledges that she forged
her mother name 10 a requcs, with which
she was enabled to get marriage certifi-
cate, and declares that whatever is done
she will cling to her husband.
David Warren, the first man known
to have been born in Lincoln county. XIV.
IS still living. He is one hundred and two
years old. and now resides in Pulaski
county. The oldest man now residing i'm
Lincoln county is David Curtis, who is one
hundred and one years of age.
On the farm of Jacob Rain, In Rich
mona township, says the Reading Times,
tEere is at present an apple tree i'm full
blossom, which at the same time is covered
with fruit OF this seasons growth. The
/ tree IS regarded as great curiosity by the
people residing in the vicinity, and has
been visited by many persons.
"A man at Niagara is building raft of
pine logs, with houSe at one end for the
accommodation of cats and dogs that are
10 make compulsory voyage over the
falls. If the raft goes over smootblv and