The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-10-04
He,cs ana Otner Notfngs.

-Four men now living AT Oastletopi ~,
have had between them twenty wives.
An eighty-year old woman at Sharon,
VT, is suffering from her second attack of
whoopng cough.
The widow OF Daniel Webster. now
quite aged and in feeble health, Is living
at New Rochelle, n. Y.
An Episcopal minister, aged 149 years,
is said To have been discovered in Balti-
more. His preaching days are pretty much
over.
"A woman In Herkimer county, Mo-,
recently set foot upon a snake, and her
glossy black hair turned white in few
hours.
Generals Mcclellan, Hancock and
Buell. will attend the reunion Of the Army
/ OF the Tennessee at indianapolis next
month.
/ twenty-five ministers, including twelve
Catholic priests, have died in the cities of
the Southwest since the beginning of the
yellow fever epidemic.
AT Jamaica, VT, a town with an al
most exclusively American population,
there are 112 families that never attend
church, and IA that have no Bible.
Christopher Mann, Of Independence,
Mo. has just celebrated his 1O5th birthday.
: lie has son only eight years old, and Is
the father of twenty eight children.
General James Shields, who is recov-
ering from a severe illness, will take the
, and Ohio before the close of the campaign.
John Shermans brother-in-law says
! shat Honest John is tired of the public
service. Well, as the public service is
. tired of Honest John, there ought to be
: faIr basis for an arrangement.
The wonderful vitality of Loman Grif-
! fin, who has lately died I'm Lodi, o, aged
/ 1O5, was shown by the fact that he breath
. ed several days after his limbs were lifeless,
although be had not eaten for a week.
Hon. Henry VI. Payne, Of Cleveland,
says the Democrats will carry Ohio by 90,
600 majority and that they will elect thir-
! teen and probably fourteen COngressmea.
/ Iayne-ful picture for radical cOntempla-
tion.
A priest at Lawrence, Mass, reached
the church where he had to perform the
marriage ceremony a little late, and in his
haste ordered a couple Of the guests down
( to the altar and bad begun to marry them
( ere they could explain matters.
Ben. Hin, of Georgia, says 81 begin
I to think that the Democratic party can
J never be killed. Secession did not kill it :;
! the war has not killed it fraud has not
killed it; it has not killed itself, and it will
not die
A convict in the Joliet UH) prison
hanged himself in the solitary cell IN which
/ he had been kept several days for writing
/ letters without permission. He had served
several terms OF ordinary imprisonment,
/ but utter loneliness drove bin crazy.
Elder Stevenson, a Mormon missionary,
! incidentally proposed matrimOny to a wild
/ ow and her two daughters in Hickman
/ county, Tenn. They said yes and are now
( on their way to Salt Lake City, where the
marriage ceremony is to be performed.
/ Henry II. Kaufman, a son Of Hamil-
/ ton Kaufman. OF Oliver township, Miffin
/ county, on the cath of August fell from
! steamer plying between Sioux City, Iowa,
! and the Black hills country and was drown
i ed. His body had not been recovered az
/ last accounts.
During a quarrel at Allentown, Pa,
/ on Sunday afternoon, between two farmers,
named Jacob kressley and Elias Lins
/ living on adjoining farms in Heidelberg
/ township, kressley struck Lins in the face
With club, causing almost instant death.
kressley was taken 10 Allentown and lodged
/ in jail.
Charles Tompkins, a stove mounter, Of
! POt'stOwn, met his death under peculiar
circumstances. He ran small piece Of
iron in his eye, and a friend ATTEMPTED to
| remove it. Tompkins got a fit and fell out
OF second story window, resulting in the
breaking OF his neck.
Rev. 4. II. Aughe. we'll known Lu-
theran minister Of Gettysnurg, died su6-
denly on Saturday on the floor of the Cen
/ tral synod, convened at hifflintown, Pa
He had made few remarks about church
papers a few minutes before his death,
and intended preaching in the evening.
They must have queer ideas in St Pc
tersburg, says the Hartford Times, OF What
manner of man Gen. Grant is, when, in
honor of his arrival, they played all the
fountains in the city. About two bottles
OF choice old double can Russian rum would
have cost considerably less, and would
have been much more acceptable.
-Ex Governor Curtin has been nomi>
mated for Congress by the Democrats OF
the Twentieth district, and as a nOmina-
tiOD in that district is equivalent to an
election, the people of Pennsylvania are to
be congratulated upon the fact that they
Will have such respectable addition to
their Congressional delegation in the next
Congress.
Letters from Northern Ohio express
the confident belief that the National
movement is showing signs Of fatigue. 1t
began so early, they say that it's spirit
and strength are tagging, and it would
poll fewer votes to-day than it might have
done two months ago. Doubtless the best
test of these opinions will be the election
returns after next Tuesday.
The wife ef Stephen Butler, OF WAYNE.
Michigan, a lady of excellent connection.
and the mother OF thIce young children.
procured her husbands razor and, shutting
| herself up in the house, deliberately cut
/ her throat from ear TO ear, falling dead on
| the floor. In this condition the lady was
discovered by ber husband, who had been
called from work by his little boy.
- Three yellow fever nurses, sent from
Norfolk, Va, to Memphis, ATTEMPTED TO
return home on Wednesday, but were put
off the train some miles from Norfolk, by
order OF the health authorities. Thew
managed to elude the police and got into
the city late at night, but were arrested
and taken to the pest house. Their clothes
have been burned and they will be strictly
quarantined for ten DAYS
"A veraciOus correspondent writing
from Blue Bell, Montgomery county, un,
der date of the 9th instant, thus INDUCES
saw IN barn here this morning a cat
squatting in hens nest covering five kit
tens which were born during the nigbt
On the cats back sat the hen and under
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