The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-08-30
Ne,cs ana otaer Nottngs.

dennis kearney Is Said 10 be not so
much of a drayman as a brayman.
"A miners meeting in Allegheny coun-
ty ordered a general strike on September ,.
The old home of John Randolph, of
Roanoke, will be offered for sale on the I'd
! of September.
! --Ex- Guerrilla Colonel John S. Mosby
has been appointed United States consul 20
J Canton, China.
! Gen. Garfield has been nominated for
/ Congress for his ninth term. There is
/ II, 600 Republican majority in his district.
! Johnny Steel Goal Oil Johnny, at one
bime millionaire of the oil reg ions, is now
clerking in a grocery store at Dennison, o.
! The man who saw Washington is with
us yet. His name is James Boyd, his age
ninety-six, aud his residence Brook county,
/ Va.
-Ex-DOorkeeper Fiizhugh, the ''biger
man than old Grant. - will reopen Wizards
Hotel, Washington, as resort for South
ern people.
-Tho Grant family are well equipped.
says the Atlanta Constitution. Ulysses is
the man on horseback and Orvil's tongue
/ is a waggin'
"A Titusville dispatch says that the
shipments from the oil region on Monday
were the largest ever known, amounting
) TO 50, 500 barrels.
"A tornado occurred in Grundy county,
Illinois, on Saturday, which destroyed sew
| eral buildings, killed one man and serious
/ ly injured another.
| The Hon. jeremiah S. Black is making
long visit To the Pacific coast After a
stay of several weeks in San Francisco be
has gone TO San Jose.
| The official vote in the part of Luzcrne
county set of, on the newcounty question,
| stood-for new county 9,615; against,
1885 majority for, 1899.
! The trustee OF the Jay Cook estate is
compelled to show cause why be should
not file an account. The creditors allege
j that he has wasted $780, 600.
The prosperity of the oil regions NAV
/ be inferred from the fact that the Sheriff
/ OF Fenango county published over eight
columns of sales in the Spectator last week
"A wooden canal is to run through the
! Pittsburgh exposition building in order
! that the various models for improving the
/ ONO river may be advautageously display
( ed.
| At Princeton, Ky, Monday, two men.
! named Riggs and Lu:trell, on trial for
/ horse stealing, attempted to escape from
! the court room and were instantly shot
| dead.
! The Democratic Conference Of the
| Twenty-fif.h Pennsylvania district on Fris
day last nominated Hon. J. NJ. GufTey. of
Clarion county, for Congress, amid much
| enthusiasm.
"A son of Surgeon General Barnes of
! the United States army has been sent TO
/ the Government Asylum for the Insane,
! and there seems to be little or no hope for
/ his recovery.
Somebody has at last whispered that
! John &. Breckenridge wrote The famous
articles OF agreement for which Generals
/ sherman and Joe Johnston have received
/ SO much praise.
"A man named jackson shot and killed
his wife, from whom he had been sepalat-
ed for some time, at Lower Boulder Valley,
laef Got
blew his own brains out.
"A receipt taken up by the tornado at
| W aillngtoTd, Conn, was dropped at Peace
! Gale, X l., sixty-five miles distant. a
| Bible leaf was found at West Hsddam.
! Conn, seventy miles away.
1Goyernor Hartranft has appointed 3.
| >. Bentley, of Wiliiamsport, Judge of the
new Lackawanna county. judge Bentley
was the back-LzbOr candidate for
the supreme bench last year
! DR.. Nobiling, who attempted TO assae-
/ Slnate the Emperor William, is suspected
of felgning madness He will shortly be
conveyed to lunatic asylum, to be placed
under the observation of experts.
/ In Pittsburg a crazy man threw awav
! Eifo In money and check for 5000 few
/ Gays ago. Ills name is unknown, but he
! says he is from Cavanaugh, Ireland. aud
mas been IN this country but few days.
/ Says an exchange Judge William
h"lnas OF Jacksonville, H., ninesy-two
years oid, is now on his wedding tour with
his new wife, who is seventv-five." Cunid
I ought to be kicked for such freaks as that.
-EXtenslye preparations are making
/ Tor the National Soldiers Reunion at Ma,
rletta, Ohio beginning September 8 and
lasting four days. The Government has
FURNISHED large number of army tents.
cooking utensils, &c.
Mrs. Leblanc of Cbarnblv. Canod,
baylng become mother, her mother. Mrs,
hooert, insisted upon visiting her and
speuding few weeks with her. On the
flrst day of her visit she suddenlg threw nm
her hands and fell dead.
-Edlson, the inventor, who was nm
heard of at the time of our grand Fvnos;
tlon two years ago, but who astonjsbed H.
world SINCE has carried off the grand prize
Tor inventions at the Paris Fxbibitior
America may well be proud of him.
~ prize light took place recently in a
nail at New Castle, between Tim Collins
iighI weight champion, and Bin Terry. for
a; PuiSe ol S%oO: Nine rounds were fought
III ioity-uve minutes, and when the teDtb
was called, Terry failed TO come to time
- IL IS well to look at both sides of a fan
Oh "heated' Sunday II PHILADELPHIA re-
Gently, the minister was tanning hiYnsolf
vigorously, He did not see, but The con-
gTegatIon did, that the reverse of his fan
ters.' D'Esio hlU-
"A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald
Is IS. arguing that Grant having accented the
freedom of the city Of London therebv
became citizen of the English metronnIis
% aha subject of Her Majesty Queen Vic.
( the Presidency. . ''0 ~
drant, according to Judge Black. as
reported by the Philadelphia Times guorId
not minu running for a third term. but
~onld have to be paid 5000, 600 cash he
D I0re ne would accept the nominatioD
tefhaps the Democrats would be WILING
to raise the money?
Senator Sharon will probable ros;,.-,
D Dis seat in the United States Senate ncS,
Octooer, and will recommend Mr. JoDas
9eely, OF Story county, Nevada, to the
legislature FOR the succession. Mr. SaaI,y (
IS a prominent citizen, largely in,c-ostngy
ID the Bonanza mines. i"loIested
Tho following commissioners have
ooou appointed oy Gov Hartranft to select
a 2, slte Tor the middle peniten.iarv. Ham,
Rawle, Eric Ii. Howell. George viIeuIy