The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-08-02
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caster county, thirty acre pareh yielded
almost /, 100 bushels of wheat.
Two farmers in Tioga comfy we're re-
Gently attacked by an infuriated bull, and
one Of them has since died OF his injuries.
w estmorelaud is the smallest county
in Virginia, but il was the birthplace OF
three Presidents-W ashington, Madison,
and Monroe.
A fire at Sharon, Pa, on Thursday, de-
stroyed Bowden's carriage factory, and
several other buildings, causing loss of
more than S6O 600.
The Pittsburgh Chronicl6 says that
Hen. \. II. Din, Democratic candidate for
Governor, viii be in that city next week
to remain for a fortnight
The Congregational Church in Fair
havan, Conu., is rejoicing over tho con-
version of an old LADY of eighty-one.
Never too late to mend"
Collector Smith, of Chicago, refuses to
comply with the demand for campaign
funds, and says be will not allow his EN-
ployes to contribute cent.
"A widow of 60 summers and youth
Of so, both residents of the Twenty tfirst
ward, Pittsburgh, were united in the bOuds
of matrimoDy on Saturday last.
"A kiss recently cost a Beioit (Wis.)
man $500. He was a bachelor, kissed a
married woman, and paid the amount to
the husband to settle the affair.
-MiCIaGI EOiief. Ol W lI3pW ArEOFG y.
j., has one hundred and eighty living des
cendants. He can get up several Potter
committees right in his own family.
Eleven children, at Washington, who
had climbed into an empty wagon, were
seriously Injured on Monday by the horse
taking flight and upsetting the wagon.
Mostly deserves great credit for his
sacrifices in the cause of the Union,' says
Grant. ''Grant can carry all the States
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Fourteen children and three teachers
we're drowned by the capsizing of a boat
on Friday in the river Blackwater, near
the town of Baiie borough, county Cayen,
Ireland
oil was struck on Friday in a well
started some months ago at MckeespOrt
Allegheny county. The prospects are
considered good for one hundred barrels
per day.
The Presbyterian says that Living
stone, the fraudulent Indian agent, invest
ed some of his stolen funds in stained glass
for chapel windows and in Sunday school
library books.
During the recent heated spell a fat
woman Of Ithaca and her children attired
themselves in calico and passed nearly the
whole Of the day in CascadlIa creek, un-
der umbrellas.
AT Bethel, Conn, there are FIVE kittens
bound together after the manuer Of the
Si8mese twins. When those kittens older
gr'w, and their voices fully develop, life
at Bethel will be a luxury.
On Friday afternoon Lizzie Files a
nine year-old girl, living on kerlin street,
Chester, was enticed from home by
tramp, VINO gave her ten. cents. Search
was Immediately instituted, but she has
not been found.
Two children Of Mrs. Ann Elizabeth
" ills, Of Lock Haven, we're run over by a
Bald Eagle Valley Railroad train on Thurs
day. One child had bis head cGt of. and
the other lost both legs. The children
were twins, aged two years.
-Thirty-sjX seCeGers from the churches
in and around Brighton, England, and
many Of them boaseing high position,
wealth and influence, received the sacra-
ment Of confirmation recently at the hands
of the Catholic Bishop of South waIk
"A small fiat bug has appeared in Mass
achusetts, which is armed with "a sword
or point about quarter of an inch in
length, with which it stabs the potato bug,
killing him in a short time, - and so prov
ing valuable cOGdjuJOr in the Murphy
movement.
At Enisburg, Potter county, the light
ming StTuCk the residence of Mr. Pye. a
few nights ago, killing two of his bows.
Three brothers were sleeping in one bed.
ana the lightning killed he two on the
outside, while the one in the middle es
capped unhurt.
Within The limits Of York couu.v there
lives a man who has never been outside of
his house since some time during the war.
He reads some Of the time and does odd
jobs about the kitchen, but he will not
step into the yard even, for fear Of being
drafted into the army.
The family of Mr.. Ewing, residing in
" ashinGtOn avenue, Beieville. \. J. who
lost two little boys by drowning some three
weeks ago, have just met with another ter
rible bereavement in the death of their
eldest boy, who was gored by COW on
Thursday and died on Friday night.
1t is printed in Clarion county paper
that one day last week a man Knocked al
The door OF wealthy mans horse and
wanted something TO eat The owner of
the house recognized in him a former oil
prince, whose business capital was nearly
5000 600, and he is reduced to beggarv.
-hev. II. G. Din, father of the future
, Governor, was presented with a handsome
aud valuable gold-headed cane. on We'd
nesday evening. by the VI. z. congregation
OF Lewisburg, after the prayer meeting
services had been concluded. The da7
was the venerable diyine's seventfeth birth
day.
Prof. Schroeder, the man with The
flying machine, will at once berin The CON
+ stFuctloH OF an aerial vessel in which he
proposes to cross the Atlantic between This
time and October 1st, Thirty six bours is
the maximum time he has laid out for the
voyage, and the estimated cost of the air
ship is s., 600.
Thomas and Charles Edwafds, broth
ers Of Plymouth, Pa, were arrested few
days ego aud lodged in tho Wilkes barre
jail. They are charged with the murder
OF Charles richards at Pittslon bridge. in
march, !Sto- The arrest is based upon
the testimony of an accomplice named
Limms, who has turned State evidence
Another famine Is feared in freIand
/ because of the sad havoc that has heen
played with the potato crop this wear
IL IS thought that it has been almost entire
IS destroyed by six recent heavy thunder
storms which have caused it to commence
to rot. 1t was the failure of the notato
crop that produced such terrible SUFFERING
thirty years ago.
DR.. Carver, the glass-baH rifle shot
spent thrilling and thoroughly dime
novel youth. His father, mother. brotbarS
/ and sister were massacred bv the Stony
. IN Minnesota and he taken osr.;,-o !.