The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-11-29
ne,cs. a,a Other Netsnas.

"A widow Of eig hteen has been Temar-
ried at Fleming, ky.
-Eightesn hives of bees recently sold
in Lancaster for $17S.
The Oneida community picked 1,5OO
basbrls of apples this year.
Not single yynnffydddll book has
ever been printed in the Welsh language.
One hundred and eight acres of land in
Bucks county recently sold for SlO4. so per
acre.
"A new town in Idaho has been named
Onegirlia, because there is only one gIrl .
there.
There are 239 Catholic cenvents for
women in England, and over 400 female
academies ia this country.
Nine persons were injured by a boiler
explosion at Springfield, ILL.,, on Thursday
night. One has sfuee died.
The Baltimore Gazette says that Mr..
Stephens now weighs ninety-.wo pounds,
, Democratic gain of two pounds
! Several of the Illinois schools have
adopted, with excellent results, the reading
and discussion of newspapers as class ex-
/ ercise.
There IS a man in Armstrong connty
who sends ten of his children to school,
/ while several others remain at home to do
chores.
Thomas A. Doyle has been nominated
for Mayor of Providence, r. l., for the fif-
teenth time. He has never been beateo
for the office.
/ "A farmer la Staunton, Va. possesses
valuable breed OF ducks which can be Ia
ken to distance of forty miles and sold
and will next morning be found at bone.
i Mrs. j. H. Bryant, of Benton, Ala,
during the prevalence of the yellow fever
Cut her hair, forty-twO inches long, from
her head aud sold it for the benefit of the
, sufferers.
The next Governor OF Pennsylvania
, WI hold Office for four years, instead of
, three, as heretofore. We shall, therefore,
! in the future have one more year of rest be-
5 tween gubernatorial elections.
} As Governors, the Hoyts are becoming
I. numeous. In addition to Henry NJ,
: Governor elect Of Peunsy lvapia, John p.
Hoyt II Governor of Idaho, and John w.
e Hoyt is Governor of Wyoming.
! Franklin county, n. c., has distin-
! guished resident, forty-nine years old, who
d never heard sermon preached, never read
y chaper in the Bible, never fired a gun
and never saw white man married.
# -CyrHls Dugal scared his aged father
/ to death, in Quebec. by brandishing a
: knife ana threatening to kill him. The
7. old man oaly survived ten minutes. The
st son has been convicted Of manslaughter.
d Fifteen years ago the wife of DIR. Ca
Il pei, of ChallOttetOwn, P. E. l., got di-
d vorce from him, with alin,ony of ESQ a
y year. Rather than pay this he went to
D weeks ago.
t. MIR. Eggers, Of Cincinnati, has sued
N for divorce, after Mrs. Eggers has foI
l. twenty two years teen keeping drunk on
ID three bottles of Rhine wine a day, at 81 %
e. bottle, aud forcing MIN to mend and wash
er the family clothes.
1t "A branch of tie Mennouites, called
Evangelical Mennonres has decided tC
r, expel from the churth any member whC
T. gets bis life insured. Two ministers, re
De fusing TO be governed by the rule, have
OF been accommodated.
'e Paper collars were first patented il
lg 1854, but till 1859 met With little favor
s. In that year 1,500, 900 were manufactured
In 1877, 360, 600, 900 were made, an average
K Of more than one box fO every man, wo
5, man and child in the country.
an While a number of workmen were en-
by gagged iii tunnelling under a street in Ma
. hanoy City Monday afterupun the cart
en- overhead fell in on them, killing John an
er Anthony Risher and Christ Post and sc
be riously injuring Michael Yempher.
be The wife of James Smead, residin
ed near jamestown, Wisconsin, vas burned t
en- death by her clothes taking fire Will
er slumberiug in a chair near the stove. He
-er child, 10 years old, was also fatally burue
'e, iE attempting to save her mothers life.
N On the 9th inst. terrible explosio
OK occurred in the coal mine Rosario ar LebaI
he Chilli Sixteen miners were killed aud
he large number wounded, six ouly escapin
all unnjured. The damage to the mr
he amounts to one hundred Thousand dollars
ot On Monday, Robert Lopez, farm'
les living near Ashviile, \. Y, exploded ca
- on an old gun be thought to be unloade
ho while it rested across his knees. The ran
1Iy Iod, which was in the weapon, passt
zen through the body of his little daughte
ler who died soon after.
he 1t is the Louisville Courier JOurn
,ed which says that when Satan took Sine
w, Cameron up into the Allegheny Mountai
ing and offered him the State of Pennsylvari
etV Simon took the Old Boy at his word.
Ever since the State of Pennsylvania b
been in the Cameron family.
- Frank Tompkins goes out OF the Oh
the gOn State prison, after serving three yea
the as horse thief, with his innocence clear
aud established by the confessions of the II
tue criminals. He has not only suffered u
to deserved imprisonment, but his proper
iys. worth ST, 900, has been wasted.
the Mr.. Peter y. Tighe, of Memphis, di
to of yellow fever, and so diG the doctor W
the attended him. the undertaken who Il
Der him out and the clergyman who official
in, at his funeral, so an insurance compa
ling which required their certificate has refGS
,red to pay over the sum for which his life v
ous insured.
sent Estrada eloped with Glenn's wife,
,uds Los Angeles, Cal. The two men me
sea- few days afterward. Both were on hon
port back. They drew pistols and seized Q;
rs it other, without dsmountiDg. Several sh
lity, we're fired, at such close quarters that ev
ugh wound was blackened with powder. II
ling we're both killed.
the Henry F. Darlington, editor and 7
sea pretor of the Bucks County Intelligent
,rm, was stricken with paralysis on Satur
'om, morning at his home in Doylestown.
inn remained unconcious during the day
eed- night aud died on Sunday morning at {
The o'clock. The funeral did not take pl
ded, until yesterday.
urse The extensive farming operation:
rain. NJ. L. Sullivant in Illinois have resulted
the bankruptcy. He cultivated 10000 &C
Ir of was called the Corn King, and was ia
n its as enormously wealthy. His property
the not bring, at Sheriff7s sale, enough to
,ssed his debts within $1,000 His land
first be divided into farms.
nst., The Central Canadian, a paper !
nfor- lished in the township adjoining Peel,
the tario, the place where a man was roote
and the ground for cursing God, says the
20 its is now dead. The ground about hir