The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-11-22
NetCs and other NOtin0s.

-Thos. II, Power, drug manufacturer,
worth $1O,OOO,OOO died in Philadelphia
Wednesday.
"A genius of Owensboro', Ky, has in
vented road sc-aper which will do the
| work Of dozen men.
Married, in Galloway county, KY, Mr.
Bonus Kemp, aged ninety six, and Miss
Mary Bridget, aged sixteen.
1t is nov believed that Jack Kehoe
will have to swing. The Republican par
ty has no further use for him.
-BenJamin Swing, OF Fairton, Y. j.,
has just died of an excess of fat about the
heart. He weighed 525 pounds.
Two young ladies nearly lost their
| lives at the Herdic house, Williamsport,
recently, by blowing out the gas in their
bedroom.
John Kirchner, formerly member of
Council n Pittsburgh. employed as a trav-
cling salesman, committed snicde in Bos-
ton on Saturday.
Two sisters of Chillisquaque, North
cumberland county, had their brother, a
man named Evarts, arrested upon tue
charge OF incestuous conduct
The favorite cavalry lender of the
Ameer of Afghanistan Is said to be an
lrishman by the name Of O'Donneli, but
the story may be Ameer rumor.
According to DR.. Tarnier, a milk diet
chew green leaves when you are out walk
ing-any leaf you choose, except those of
noxious plants, Of course.
Mr.. Cooper's majority over Mr.. Schell
| in the late mayOral;y contest in New York
is 19,601, and the majorities for the entire
anti-Tammany municipal ticket average
very nearly the same figure.
Miss Martha Brown, Young lady of
Goochland county, Va, was gored 20 death
by a mad bull on Wednesday. The ami
NAL ran her through with his horns and
! then threw her down a well.
Best quality of Baldwin apples are
worth only 81 per barrel, in Maine-and
this includes apples and barrel. Corn is
six cents bushel at Yirdep, H., and hay
SO ann 81 ton in Dubuque, Iowa.
"A Washington county farmer aged
eighty recently married young lady of
twenty, and the family is badly mixed up,
because the brides older brother is mar
ried to her husbands only daughter.
Frank Fluegel and Peter Wingerter,
two very young men, of Erie, married sis
! ters just for fun and because they we're too
drunk to know any better. They are now
in Jail for neglect to support their wives.
-Ihink of what an agricultural fair
must be in California, with cabbage five
feet IN circumstances, pumpkins weighing
a hundred pounds, cucumbers a yard long
and peaches and pears rs large as your
head.
Excitement has been created in oil
circles by reports that the Philips we'll in
Venango county, was flowing at the rate
of from SCOT 800 barrels a day. Twenty.
| five dry holes were drilled in search of the
blast.
Protestant hymns are sung in the pub
lie schools of Waltham, Mass Fourteen
| Catholic pupils refused to join in the sing
ing, aud were sent before the school com
mittee to be disciplined but the commit
tee took no action.
The New York Witness, ''the only re-
| ligious daily" proposes that the best ele
ments of both parties unite to elect Rav-
ard in 1890, on a platform devoted to ian
unalterable gold standard" and several
other things not necessary to mention
Rev. Pleasant w. Bishop, a Presbv.
| terian minister and prominent .Greenback
politician of Mclean county, ILL.,, has been
sent to the Insane Asylum, having gone
mad through excitement during the polit-
Ical campaign and disappointment at i;s
result.
Gov. Hartranft has CONSIDERABLY left
the major geueralship of the Pennsylvania
militia open because of his inability TO
find anyone for the position. His success
sor, Gov. Hoyt. will thus be enabled to fiji
the blank with Major General John z.
Hartranft
"A trunk shipped from Cory to PhiIa-
deiphia, and supposed by the smell to con-
tain the remains of a. T. Stewart, was
opened, aud found to contain the fresh
hide of a fox with the head attached. pro-
bably sent home by some Philadelphia
youth as trophy.
"a terrible story comes from Trenton,
N. j., of an old watercress gatherer.
Charles Yopp, who go: into a mud hole
xx-hf l.n T.
himself, and remained twenty hours He
was at last rescued, but only to die subse
quently of exhaustion.
Col. Ballard Lambert, of Mount Airy,
Va, went to The house of his fatber-in-
law, Mr.. Snavely, where his wife and child
were living, and undertook to take the
child 10y force. When resisted he struck
Mrs. Snavely, an old lady, blow that
killed he's almost instantly