The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-10-18
Ne,cs ana 0faer Nottngs.

-A-n1an at Ascutueyville, Vt, has read
%, 600 novels.
The finest flour in Germany is now
said to be ma,le with glass millstones.
Conrad Stricken Of Fayette county,
has sold 1900 bushels Of peaches this year
and realized $3, 600.
An elderly lady of Ackley, Iowa, re-
/ Gently died of Joy, which family reunion
after long years Of separation induced.
Miss Forrest Fielding, of Cuthbert,
. Ca, has been graduated at Andrew Fe-
I male College in her fourteenth year.
! "A descendant of Mary Stuart is one OF
the bells of Bryan, Tex.-AIiss Agnes Nc
Queen, one of the famous Carolina family
/ The bees are reported to have killed
off their drones, which is 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 RoTmida
/ river.
Up to the last accounts twenty-three
! Protestant preachers and eighteen Catholic
/ priests have fallen victims to the yellow
fever.
"A peach tree near West Chester sent
out a 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 snOut and ears like those of an
elephant.
Eugene n. Cronin, who enjoyed some no.
toriety during the Presidential count, died
there on Saturday night.
The post Office at Pithole, NenangO
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
Hr /
to be taking mearures for very consider
able development of Catholicism in Amer
ica.
Stephen NJ. Chandler, eldest son of
the Governor OF New Brunswick. fell over
an embankment near Balmeres Hill Friday
and dislocated his neck, causing instant
death.
"A Texas revivalist ,colored) isspreacb-
ing the doctrine Of q frigid he'll with i'm
mense snccess to congregations that were
not at all impressed by the prospect of or
thodOx torments
jacob L, Levison, an ex-Jewish rabbi
in Cincinnati, has disappeared, leaving
about $50, 600 in forged paper behind him.
Mr.. Goodan. 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 viii 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 GreenbaclIers elected to COM
from Iowa are pledged to vote with the
Democrats on all party questions and to
participate In the Democratic caucuSses.
They add two to the Democratic congres
sioDal column. That settles it.
The house of John Conquest, near
Clio, Mich, was burned OF "Wednesday
night, and the charred remains Of Con
quest and bis wife and child we're found
in the ruins. 1t is supposed they were
murdered and the house set on fire.
DR.. Thos. .. Summers. the first Nash
vile physician who volunteered To go to
the assistance of the plague stricken in
Memphis, has just received a massive gold
medal and clasp, in recognition Of his con
duct, from some Of his friends in Nashville
Edward Ward whipped his wife so
OutragsOuSly in CbaTleVoix, Mich that
his neighbors :arred and feathered him
but The wife removed the tar and feathers
from bin, bound up his Wounds, and &C,
comPanied him in his migration from the
county.
-Lindsey's bankruptcy Manual, which
VIII soon be published. shoy7s that there
were more than sereH thousand persons bv
or against whom petitions in bankruptcy
were fled for the Western district OF
PenDSy lvania since the passage of the act
of 1867.
Commodore Garrison, who isn't q min
ute less than seventy five yeas or age, has
been united I'm marriage to Miss Le;itia
Willett Randall of ST. Louis, a young lady
of twenty-five summers. Three hundred
thousand dollars were settled upon her be-
fore the wedding.
At Decalur, Ill, Charles Everman and
a neighboT cutting corn in a field became
involved in an alteration, when Eyorman
strnck bis neighbor three blows on the
neck with a com cutter, severinQ tho
head from the body. Did Everman hear
of such a crime before?
The Mystic Water Company has dis
covered that James Lee, former proprietor
of a bleaching mill az Somerville, Mass,
but who is now at sea, surreutitiuusly con
nected his establishment 20 the principal
water man and for twetve years used wa
/ ter to the value of SOC, coo.
Later aGvices from Clio Mich, in re-
/ gard to the Conquest family, whose charred
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.tJ. IT. Lambert, a responsible staff
/ correspondent of the Philadelphia Times,
| distinctly charges that i'll 1875 the Repub-
/ lican State Committee, under the chair
manship Of Henry NJ. Hoyt, voted fund
/ of 81, 600 or ., 600 to buy Molly Maguires
/ for Hartranft VIII Hoyt dare to deny the
/ charge?
DR.. O'Donnell loaded a wagon with
| Chinese lepeTs, in San Francisco, aud ex-
/ hibited them in the streets rs proof of his
/ previous assertions that the leprosy was
! common in that city. He was arrested.
but Justice discharged him. He declar-
! ed that he could fill the court room with
/ lepeTs in two hours.
On Sunday last Frank Gurnell, living
( on GibbOn street, Pittsburgh, in a drunken
. fnry assaulted his wife and knocked her
down, when William Hart, a cousin OF
Gurnells, mteTferred. and seizing Gurnell
by the the throat threw him down. Cur
! nells head struck the stove as he fell
breaking his neck. Hart has been arrested
-Advices from Benson, Swift county,
Mimi, report prairie fire extending over