The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-07-19

There are corustalkS in Berks county
seven feet three inches high.
"A boy in Chester equity has learned
coon to follow him Ike a dog.
A her and daughter were married
the same day at Titusville recently.
-kittanuing bad a 500. 600 fire Wed
nesday morning, Insurance S34, 500.
-Elopement, marriage, twins, and dl-
voTce have happened to an Indiana girl
within year.
"A negro saloon keeper at Chicago has
erected $40, 600 monument over the
grave of his wife.
Three tons of bay from an aoJe has
been an average yield this season in some
sections of Berks county.
Miss Emma I. Daub, Of NOrristown,
has just finished q silk quilt which contains
six thousand and thirty-seveu pieces.
There Is wrestler in Reading who
can lifs a horse and rider weighing 300
lbs. His name is Lucien Marc, of Paris.
"A large mahogany tree is one of the
unusual products OF Warrington township,
Bucks comfy. Its owner has refused $50
for it.
1t is said that within fortnight eleven
clergymen Of the Church of Eng gland have
withdrawn and Joined the Church of
Rome.
An exchange reports forty cases of
prostitution from the heat in st. Louis
on Monday last. Shocking decentralization,
surely.
A few days ago the wife Of tinker
gave birth to foJr children, three boys and
a girl in a cave twO miles from Oban, in
Scotland.
-RepoIts from Ohio, Indiana and Ken
tucky show an unprecedentedly large acre
age Of wheat, with prospects OF an i'm
mense yield.
r. L. Potter, the wheelbarrow pedes-
trT-a,
CISCO is well out on the plains now and
ahead Of time.
There is a man living at Varnell Sta
ton, Ga, who churus his butter, rocks the
baby and keeps the flies from his dining
.able by water power.
Mrs. Maria Saunders. of Graves coun-
ty. KY, one hundred and fourteen years
OF age. lost her Youngest child last week, a
STRIPPING of eighty seven.
"A boat containing eleven boys swamp
ed on Natuppa pond, Fdll River, Mass,
on Sunday, and two of them named White
and Wm. Kelly were dIowned.
"A TItuSvile man who had suffered
from domestic infelicity dasted on a pass
ing locomotive and was caught on the driv-
ing wheels and fatally mangled.
No less than 145 fatal cases of sun
stroke were reported to she authorities of
St. Louis from Wednesday of last week
until Tuesday evening of this week.
"A German physician has discovered
that II one-tifth part of oil of turpentiue be
added 10 chloroiOrm the latter can be ad-
mIniSteled without danger of asphyxia.
The New Haven Register says Zone
OF the most unpleasant truths that can be
told Of Hayes is that he has made the Re
publican party ready to accept Grant
again 20
-In Cos Cob may be seen house that
has been surrounded by scaffolding for
years, although tenRntcd, because by
Connecticut law unfinished houses are ex-
empt from taxation.
dennis kearney, the leader of the
WorkIngmen's party in California, was
born at oakmouut, county Of Cork, Ire
land, in 1S47 lie is a Catholic, married,
aui strictly temperate.
"A Sharon cow that we wouldn't care
to have share in gives eight gallons of
milk per day. Some .times she gives as
high as five gallons at milking. She
must be veritable mich COW.
In Berrien county, Ca, not long since,
Mr.. James \. Nigh was married to Miss
hoilIe Il. Nigh. The Atlanta ConStI ution
thinks this is coming mighty close 20 the
scripturhl IHlunction-a Nigh for Nigh.
Adam BOwersOX, Of Dover, York
county, has two pigs grown together, hav-
ing two baCkboHes, one set of inteStines.
two bind legs and two tails. The heads,
IofeiegS ana shoulders are perfectly formed.
-AIonday was day of terror in st.
Louis, the temperature having been the
+ hottest ever known in that locality and
the cases of suns:rOke being numbered by
the hundreds, two score of them proving
fatal.
The water in which the dishes are
ashcd at the St. Nicholas hotel. ir New
ork, Is conducted to immense tanks i'm
the cellar foi the Pulpose of s<imuIiug OF
n eFFEa d. al,
a day.
The Allentown CIroafc1e asks its rea-
ders to believe the statement that Mrs. ST.
mon hoIsS, of Lower Sducon, Lehigh coun-
~, aged lO3 years, went INTO the harvest
/ heId, bound ten sheayes, and then retired
not exhausted.
W benever you send a paper 10 a Young
Iady, cuta small item ont almost anywhere.
bis InSuTeS the Office the sale Of another
paper. She has got TO see what it was her
/ trleno cut out. Thus is the printers 5 bust
ucss increased.
A farm sixty miles long and ten wide
/ IN one tract, mostly fenced. is that of
/ Miller x Lux, cattle monopolists of CaIifor-
MIA. They have $4,000 head of stock, own
/ 'O.,OOO acres of choice land, and are IA ted
/ as> orth SI5, 600. 600.
Friday morning at GalasburU. TIL
Mrs. opaulding, the divorced wife of Mar
/ TN - Connor, shot him with a revolver the
ball entering just over the heart. She
| then shot herself fatally, but is not vet
! dead. Jealousy was the cause.
ELIAS Black of New Britain, Pa. has
not sold an ounce of his farm products in
years. ne believes in keeping everything.
J y held OF four acres is covered with stacks
OF grain, some of which nave stood there
. Hlteen years, and are the homes Of vermin.
! FROG culture has attained to some Si
mensfons as an industry in some parts of
Minnesota. Very little labor is involved
/ The principal duty of the frog raiser is to
protect the eggs.aud tadpoles from birds.
ana this is attained by means of wire
screens. sc In market the frog-legs sell at
20 cents a dozen.
In tho house of a Devonshire Iabo~or
( there were lying in an ordinary sized he'd
TWO mothers, two sons, one daughter, one
grahdmother, one grandson, brother and
sister, uncle and nephew, all of whom
(eieven) were comprehended i'm four ner-
sons VIZ a mother and daughter. each
with all infant son. 0"'N
In count of oyer and terminer. Pbila-
deiphia, Saturday morning, Judge I.ndlory