The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-09-27

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took place at French Camp, Cal, for
purse of $500. At $50 the word was
given 4; at noon there was an intermission
for dinner at 2:10 p. NJ, Thomas King
was hailed victor. having shorn 40 sheep TO
Al for George CarrutheTs, whose hand
gave out.
The women Of this day are getting TO
be insufferably annoying. Last Saturday
evening Nellie Green, of HobokeD, took
the liberty of cowhiding Thos. Dunn, of
that place, through the public streets,
simply because as lovers they had had a
falling out and he had spread some false
reports about her.
Lizzie 3. Pearse, of Lancaster. o, com
mitUed suicide Saturdaynight ny cutting her
throat with razor. Poor health rs sup
posed to have been the cause. Capt. f. Z.
Abbott was found dead in his bed al Shaw
nee, in the same State and ON the same
night, having shot himself through the
hesd with a pistol.
AT bout one o clock Thursday afternoon
a farmer named Geiger, living in Chesney
township, near KentOn, Ohio, attempted
to burn his wife by setting fire TO the bed
where she lay sick Her Injuries are not
serious. He afterward suicded by cutting
his own throat. Money matters seem 10
have been the trouble.
"A sad accident occurred at q wedding
party in Elizabeth, \. j., Thursday morn
iEg. a party of roughs threw stones at
the house Richard Ray went out. with
others, to drive them off; one of the
groomsmen then fired at the roughs, and
the bullet struck Ray in the back, inflict-
ing dangerous wound.
"A farmer, named Worlev gave lOdg-
ing to tramp at Bridgeport, Ohio, on
Saturday. The tramp was taken sick
during the night, and the physician called
in declared his illness yellow fever. When
the sick man learned the nature OF his dis
ease, be suddenly drew a pistol and shot
himself through the brain.
Miss Roe. of Dublin, bad a wedding
cake leight feet high aud weighing 800
pounds. 1t was ornamented wi b the arms
of the Roe and Gordon families and six
banneTe.s Nth arms and mOnograms. and
sireTn with orange blossoms and myrtle.
Roe" your hoe gently, giIls--there's no
Dublin" the size Of tha: cake.
"A rumor is floating around the Wash
ington hotels thai Eliza PiDkston has been
recently brought to Washington, and
would be KEEP. hidden till the next meeting
OF the Potter committee, when she Is to
appear before 1t as witness. IF the Pot
ter com n1ittee could catch Eliza she would
be 4 greater star than Mrs. jerks.
"A most fendish and diabolical outrage
Is reported to have occurred At Sterling
Run, Cameron comfy, Pa. On Monday
last three tTsmps visited the house Of n
Mr.. Hasseneder, and assaulted bis wife
the only person in the house, outraging
her person, and ihficting injuries from
which size died on Ee following day.
Farmer Atkins, of Camden county,
Missouri, had 80 violent a temper that his
eleven ear old mo. beIless daughter ran
away To a neighbo:'s house. lie brought
her back, tied her 10 post and whipped
her with hickory aud thorn switches til
O e. i L.
kins Was promptly arrested anG-fiued.
Near Salem, Oregon, recently, team
hitched - q self binding machine ran of.
taking its way through 2 standing field uf
wheat containing bout 100 acres. Strange
to say, the machine kept together. and
/ bound every buudle that came TO il with
lightning rapidty. When the team was
Stopped it had nicely bound about $50 bun
dies, bu' the swath was crookeder than a
curkscrew
MIR. 4. II. Moore showed at the Min
nesota Fair team Of elks, Dexter and
Dasher, two years old aud weighing re-
sPectively SIC and 500 pounds They are
well broken, and a woman can drive them
50 well trained are they. With two men
In the buggy behind them they can easily
travel sixteen miles in an hour, and they
can travel one hundred miles as easily as a
horse can dfty.
Additional advices about the tornado
which visited Michigan state that Lamonte's 5
store, at Pentwater, was demolished, and
woman killed. At Greepville. the Bap-
tist church was blown down. killing A
workman At Chippewa Station. a wagon
maker, uamed Price, with his wife and in
faut, are injured the latter fatally. Miss
Thompson was also seriously injured -
Many others were burt, bus not fatally.
Buildings were wrecked aud great damage
done.
The New York World saws that a
blDated capitalist and Wall street shark
Harrison by name, holds 800. GOO worth of
mortgages on Illinois property. His agent
recently told him that between hard times
and poor crops the farmers would have
difficulty 10 making their payments, where
upon the leeCherOus Harrison instructed
/ him to reduce by ten per cent. all debts of
interest due and TO accrue, aud to return
/ 10 per cent. to the men who had met their
1 payments.
Miss Gussie Dotze, possessOr of fouT
I lovers and an lTate parent who threatened
/ the LIE Of ber accepted lover, Frank NJ
/ harrington, eloPed with the latter from
/ Springfield, Ohio, on Saturday afternoon
and was married on the train on the Gin
cinnati, Columbus, Cleveland and Indian
apoils Railroad, between Spring field and
/ MaTysvllle, by Rev. Joshua knight This
I is supposed to be the first instance on re-
cord of an elopement- on a rail
/ way train, and that at forty miles per hour.
The Pittsburgh Post says there IS a
! disposition on part of creditors to firh.
/ every case now pending in baukrupicy. and
( II IS stated very few will be able TO GET
. through. Hitherto there was scarcely a
/ question raised before discharge, but now
! wives. children and relations will be broup bit
/ mp and put through au examination painful
J 10 the parties, and exceedingly emharrass-
/ ing. as it involves the publication of nri-
yate and family affairs. Rare develop-
/ ments will doubtless be made by these ex-
amilations.
/ Henry Boss, of New York, a German,
/ twenty two years OF age, was to be married
on rday &c young woman named Caro-
line hratz. Nothing happened to mar the
! harmony of their courtship until Friday
/ when Miss kratz Suddenly disappeared.
ana 1t was whispered about she had run
/ away and married another man, a knowl-
] an for l. ~