The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-10-18
Netcs ana t5taer Nottngs.
-Anaa at Ascutneyville, VT, has read

"A man at Ascutneyville, VT, has read
25, 900 nevels.
The finest flour in Germany is nov
said to be matie with glass millstOnes.
Conrad Stricken, Of Fayette county,
has sold 4, 600 bushels Of peaches this yeal
and realized $1,000.
An elderly lady of AckIey, Iowa, re
Gently died of JOY, which a family reunion
after long years Ct separation induced.
Miss Forrest Fielding, of Cuthbert,
Ca, has been graduated at Andrew Fe-
male College in her fourteenth year.
"A descendant of Mary Stuart is one of
the bells of Bryan, Tex.-Miss Agnes Nc
Queen, one of the famous Carolina family.
| The bees are reported to have killed
off their drOnes, which is an indication
that they are preparing for an early winter.
Seventeen persons have been drowned
at Cortemiglia and Millesmo. in Northern
Italy, by the overflow of the Bormida
river.
Up to the last accounts twenty-three
Protestant preachers and eighteen Catholic
I priests have fallen victims to the yellow
fever.
"A peach tree near West Chester sent
out sprout in the spring which grew
( during the summer just eight feet nine
inches.
| Henderson, KY, has hermaphrodite
pig with blue eyes, the Jaw and chin Of a
child, and a snout and ears like those of an
/ elephant.
"A Portland, Oregon, dispatch saws
Eugene y. CrOnin, who enjoyed some no
toriety during the Presidential count, died
there on Saturday night.
The post Office at Pithole Eenango
county, has been discontinued. Thirteen
years ago this post Office was the third in
the State in point OF business.
In consequence of the report from
Cardinal McCloskey, the Vatican is said
to be taking mearures for very consider
able development of Catholicism in Amer
lea.
Stephen NJ. Chandler. eldest son of
the Governor OF New Brunswick, fell over
an embankment near Balmeres Hill Friday
and dlslocated his neck, causing instant
death.
"A Texas revivalist ,colored) isspreach-
ing the doctrine of frigid hell with i'm
mense snccess to congregations that were
not at all impressed by the prospect of or
thOdOX tOTme0tS.
jacob l., LevisOn, an ex-Jewish rabbi
in Cincinnati, has disappeared. leaving
about $50, 900 in forged paper behind him.
Mr.. GOodall, a monument builder is the
principal sufferer
Lydia Squinn, the last lineal descend~
ant Of the famous Indian King Philip. is
still living at New Bedford Mass, and.
although eighty three years Of age, is still
bright and vigorous.
"A story comes from Woodstock. Vt.
OF an old clock that no tiukering will in
duce to run bnt at every annual gathering
OF the family it starts of itself and keeps
on ticking and striking the hours until the
visitors have departed.
The Greenbackers elected to Con less
from Iowa are pledged to vote with the
Democrats on all party questions and to
participate in the Democratic caucusses. J
'faaz Il =
sional column. That settles it.
The house of John Conquest. near
Clio, Mich, was burned OF "Wednesday
night, and the charred remains of Con
guest and bis wife and child we're found F..
III the ruins. 1t is supposed they were
murdered and the house set on fire.
DR. Thos. o. Summers. the first Nash I
VINE physician Tho volunteered to go to /
the assistance of the plague stricken in (
Memphis, has just received massive gold T.
medal and clasp, in recognition Of his con /
duct, from some of his friends i'm Nashville. /
Edward Ward whipped his wife so
outrageously in CbaTleVoix, Mich, that 4
ms neIghbors carred and feathered him . I
but The wife removed the tar and feathers /
from him, bound up his wounds, and ac, 4
companied him in his migration from the /
county.
-Lindsey's Bankruptcy Manual, which /
VIII soon he published, ahUws that there 4
were more thaE SereH thousand g7erSo7ls NV /
or against whom petitions in bankruptcy I
were filed for the Western district OF !
Pennsy lvania since the passage of the act /
of 1867.
Commodore Garrison. who isn't a min
ute less than seventy-five yeas OF age, has .
been united in marriage to Miss Ie;itia 1
w lllett Randall, of St. Louis, young lady
OF twenty-five summers. Three hundred /
thousand dollars were settled upon her be-
fore the wedding.
At Decatur, Ill, Charles Evermau and {
a neighbor cutting corn ia "a field became /
involved IN an alteration, when Everrnap
struck his neighoor three blows on tie /
neck with com cutter, severinQ the
head from the body, Did Eyerman hear
of such crime before
The Mystic Water COMPANY has dis
covered that James Lee, former propyisfor
of bleaching mill at Somerviile. Mass. /
but who Is now at sea, surTeUtitiuusly con
nected hIs establishment 20 the principal F.
"a'er nam ana Tor twelve years used wa
ter to the value OF 500, 600.
Later aGvices from Clio, Mich, in re-
gard to the Conquest family, whose cbarred
remains were found in the ruins Of their
home on Thursday, state that Mr.. and
Mrs. Conquest were found with their
throats cut from ear to ear and their skulls
crushed in. The baby's throat was also
cut.
-Mr.'J. IT. Lambert, a responsible staff
correspondent of the Philadelphia Times
distinctly charges that iu 1875 the Repub-
Iican state Committee, under the chair
manship Of Henry NJ. Hoyt, voted a fund
OF >, 600 or ., 600 to buy Molly Maguires
Tor Hartranft. VIII Hoyt dare to deny the
charge?
DIR. O'Donnell loaded a wagon with
Shlnese lepers, in San Francisco, aud ex
hlolted them in the streets as proof of his
previous assertions that the leprosv was
common in that city. He was arrested
bnt Justice discharged him. He declar
ed that he could fill the court room with
lepers in two hours.
-On Sunday last Frank Gurneu. living
on GIboon street, Pittsburgh, in a drunken
ihry assaulted his wife and knocked her
down, when William Hart, a cousin of
1urnell S, mterferred, and seizing Gurneu
oy the the throat threw him down. Gur-
, men mead struck the stove as he fell.
breaking his neck. Hart has been arrested
,-Advices from Benson, Swift county
NJ mimi, report prairie fire extending over