The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-02-01
Nescs ana Oiaer Notta0s.

The rats in an Ohio barn rose in their
might and killed the dog that had been
sent III to exterminate them.
-Four sisters in Vermont were married
ON the same day recently. This is tile
!our-runner Of an extensive family.
"A maze belonging to a Mr.. Christian,
near Faii field, Ind, has given birth to a
colt having but three legs. The colt moves
with pei feet ease.
"A man i'll Harom, y. H.. has sued the
dilatory lover of his daughter for 1900 for
room reut. fuel aud lights during four
years OF courtshp.
"A boy of fifteen and a giIl OF fourteen
were married with the approval OF their
-'arents, III Rassellville. KY. Then they
were sent of To separate schools for thee
years.
Stephen Collins and James r. Farmer,
of Mercer, convicted of rape on Anna Rob
insun, have been sentenced to the peniten-
tlary FOR five and two years aud a half re-
sPectively.
john Bluehaker, slate picker boss at
the Burnside colliery, Shamukin, is only
three feet high. lie has wife aud two
children and is the smallest man in ;le
coal regions.
JOHN Young, inventor of the clothes
wringcr, died at Amsterdam, \. Y, recent
ly, in poverty. Es sold conditional right
to Boston firm for So, 600, when lie might
have realized 800 600.
Michael Birgin. arrestee not long since
for the murder of Patrick Burns in Schuyl-
Kill county eight years ago, was discharged
on Saturday. 1t having been shown that be
NOT the Birgin wanted.
-lllustIious personages aTe rapidly
dropping off The Queen of the Gypsics
died In Mississippi last week, and her re
mains, after lying in state for several DAYS
were sent Norb foi intermeut.
A girl, aged fif cen wears, named Ida
Heist, LEFT her home near Emaus, Lehigh
county, about three weeks ago, since when
nothing has been heard of her 1t is SUD-
posed that she went to EaStOn
"A woman in West Winsted Conn. has
lost two brothers by murder and one by
drowning, brotherin law by wounds in
battle, a husband by "A stroke of apuplexy,
and son i'll the recent railroad disaster at
Tarifville.
"A dispatch from the United States
Vice Consul at Shanghai, aski ing for funds,
says AN appalling famine Is raging through
out four provinces of North China. Nine
million people are reported destitute.
Children are daily sold i'll the markets for
food
William and George Duncan, brothers.
aged 81 and Is, while attempting to cross
the Delaware, at Port Jeryis, Friday after.
noon, broke through the ice and the cur
rent carried them do Sn the stream. Their
bodies had not been recovered at lates,
accounts.
When Governor Bedle, was inaugura-
ted Governor Of New Jersey, three years
ago, the expense 20 the State Was 81. 700
This year the bill attending the induction
into office of Governor Mcclellan fnois up
g, 400. 20 precisely, aud he is a military
man At that.
John Anderson, aged seventy five, was
found dead on Friday in miserable huvel
at Montreal, Canada, his body surrounded
by rags and filth. Anderson had been a
classmate of the late z eat dry goods prince
OF Now York, A. L. Stewart, and was ouce
III good circumstances.
There is a spring ON the farm OF Daniel
| Cook, of kitteTy. Me-, discover ed five wears
! ago. Whenever drought becomes so Sc
we're that all the other springs in the vcin-
! ity fail to yield water, This one begins bus
mess. and keeps it up until rain enough h
| falls to start the Others, when it immedi-
! ately knocks off
| In the superior cour. ar Pittsfield,
/ Mass, on Saturday morning, George How
! ard, a negro tramp, was sentenced to im-
! pris"nment for life for committing an out
rageous assault ON Mrs. Maray, at Otis.
! The court also sentenced John Gilbert
| tcolored) TO ID years imprisonment for as
saulting white giIl IS years old.
and wealthy community of gypsies that
owns a large rae: of land near Dayton .
has Just dird in the South, where the tribe
! has been accustomed to go during the
| winter months. She WAS one of the oldest
gypscs in the country aud was recognized
AS head IN authority by all the gypsies in
the United States.
Julia Segerwald, aged nineteen. died
III Philadelphia on Friday last, a DR.. Shoe
| maker giving certificate of death from
perItoEltls, but on Sunday il appeared from
! Information received that her death WAS
. the result of an abortion. The police
thereupon arrested DR.. Shoemaker, who
gave the ceriItica OF dealh, and another
doctor named Bloom. The prnprietress o.
| The house in which the girl died was ais,
! arrested.
! The Central Committee of the ReC
/ Crescent Society, telegrapbs from Constan
tlnnple that nearly 80, 600 refugees victims
OF the war, almost naked aud deprived O
the means of support, are flying from the
scene of hostilities, and that SMALLPOX aut
typhus fever have commenced their sava
ges amongst them. a scarcity of proyi
sions as consequence, is threatened il
Constantinople. and the situation altoceth
er is one that appeals to the unbounde6
charity of the world
The Pennsylvania Editorial Associa
tioh, at its annual meeting yesterday we, k
adopted memorial to Congress apains
Ferry's bill virtually establishing censor
ship of the press by requiring the regisira
tion of newspapers in the Postoffice De
partment. The convention also endorses
the action of the Pittsburgh press in rels
ton To modification of the libal law. ID
ii. Nicmau, of Easton, was chosen Pres
dent, aud j. B. SAMSON, of Indiana, Vic
: President of the Association.
MIR. Jessup, who owned and operate
saw mill near South Hannibal, OSweg
county, n. Y, met with a terrible deaf
while engaged in saving logs at his mil
Mr.. Jessup was caught in the chain b
which the logs are drawn into the mi
ready for saving. and was carried pradua
. ly up tn the hull wheel and the chai
wound repeatedly around his body, slowl
, bur surely crushing him to DEATH As h
was at work at The mill alone, it was som
hours before he was discovered. at wbic
time his body was in terribly mutilate
condition.
Two shocking accidents occurred earl