The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-06-14
1esos ana o5aer Notlngs.

sylvania is now ia session at Erie.
Tive children OF a Mr.. Gray, residing
at Canton, Ohio, we're crushed to death
on Friday by a load Of lumber overturning
on them.
Juan Gonzales, a Mexican Of Font
Concho. Texas, can throw a la>so 225 feet
in length aS accurately as maiksmau could
shoot with a iitie.
Two neighbOrs in Putnam county, Mo,
have enjoyed lawsuit about a quart of
buttermilk, Tie costs of which amount to
several hundred d"llais.
There is a French prophecy which
says the eud Of the world will come when
Easter Sunday falls on s.. Marks Day.
This will be the case in 1885
1t is stated that the principle of the
phonograph is TO he applied to toys, 50
that dolls will be able 10 laugh, talk and
sing, dogs to bark, pigs to squeal, etc.
The microphone. that does for the
sense of hearing what the microscope does
for the sense OF sight, was successfully
tested at The Philadelphia mint on Friday.
-Jrdge Grant, of Davenport, Iowa, in
the spirit ofaa true philant hropisi, has
adopted seventeen girls, raised them and
married most of them off with generous
endowments.
A wetty schoolmistress in Maiden,
Mass, kept a boy fifteen minutes after
school as punishment, and when the
tune was up ne aSkeu leE II she cUuiuD
make it half an hour.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jenkins, the mother of
Mrs. SurIaIt, who was executed in 1865,
died near SuIrattsville. Prince Georges
county, Md, ON the 9Th instant, aged
eighty eight years.
Three children were killed at Blair,
Ca, on Monday last, during a heavy wind
and hail storm which blew down Wynn's
gin naHufactory, ouihouses and fence, and
cut down the corn and cotton.
AT FinchviIle, Ky, there is the model
hog house Of the country. Il is built Of
stone with hanging roof, aud a clear
stream flows through the building. There
are $50, 900 worth of hogs iu it.
Edward Melvin was found guilty of
manslaughter ut Stroudsburg on Saturday,
in having caused the death oil his wife
while she was confined in child bed He
VIII not be sentenced until next month.
Mrs Sarah Wilson, widow, and her
niece, girl of ten or twelve years of age
we're found murdered thirteen miles east
of Greenfield, Indiana, on Saturday.
There is no clue as to the cause or tue per
petratOIs of the deed.
On the road leading from WomelsdoIf f
to Bernyiilr, BcIks county, on the farm of
Bonneville Zerbe, a tent of caterpillars
have taken en:iIe possession of .he apple
orchard. Twenty bushels of pests are es-
timateh to be on the trees
some seeds of the umbrella pine.
large tree that does not prUduce seeds un-
til II is 100 years old. and Is much used for
ornamenring the grounds about the Japan
ese temples, are on their way TO the Mass
achusetts Agricultural College.
The Steam engine in the saw mill Of f.
Pinney, at Holland, Vt, exploded FRIDAY
evening, driving The engineer through the
side Of the building and scaling a boy
and man badly. Pant of the boiler was
thrown entirely through the roof.
-Wm. JOsephs, Of Ackley. La, while
drying his head with a towel rubbed off
every spear Of hair. Then his eyebrows
fell out, and his mOuslacbe followed, aud
finally bis whiskers. In one short hour Ee
was totally bald. The cause of th,s affllc-
ton IS uraCcUUnted for.
A Female fIercuIcs," native of
Franco, Is to be seen in London. One Of
her feats is to lift up an anvil by the hair
Of her head aud then have the same anvil
placed en- her bosom, while three smiths
forge a horseshoe with their hammers, she
talking and singing all the while.
The purchasers Of the Moody and
Sankey Tabernacle in Boston have dedica
ted 10000 bricks Of the building to charity
1t the public will buy them. The plan Is
10 polish each one aud ornament it with a
picture Of the Tabernacle, aud to sell them,
thus embellished for % ccn,s apiece.
H.
the murder of pedler named Bacbman
on the steamer Fair Play, was hanged at
Fickshurg, Friday afternoon. He ascend
ed the scatfOid smoking n cigarette ex-
/ hihited perfect cOmposure throughout, and
made no speech.
"A gentleman caught at Atlantic Citv.
y. J., one day last week, rare specimen
of a ribbon jelly fish. lie preserved IT,
alive, and il is now in the Atlantic Civ
Z Il J
/ eyes, is about five inches long. and is the
color of the water. 1t is described as being
+ a rare specimen.
-Adolph Ballschmicder, the boy ruffian.
recently sentenced to eight years imprison-
men, for attempted mprder while confined
in the New York Tombs, attempted to kin
[ sleeping fellow prisoner by Jumping
upon his breast and choking him. He
was removed to = separate cell. He is am
/ oItious OF being dime-novel hero.
&c. Guy1n, Of Chicago. walked 1874
miles in A. hours. 80 seconds i'm New
I ork, winning a piize belt. One Of the
other contestants was ten miles behind
+ him, and another twenty three miles
Ghlcago takes the lead for great walkers.
! In the first fifty miles Guyon made a little
+ better time than the famous O'Leary.
"A Georgia farmer smeared his hogs
/ with tar to rid them of flCaS, and turued
/ them loose in the woods At night tbev
. did not return TO tine pen as usual and in
I the morning he found them stuck together.
( the tar making them adhere in a mass.
they might have gone home, nevertheless,
( by concert of action, but it isn't in a hog
to haTmUuiZe.
I A man named II. Faux from Scran-
ton, has been astonishing Harrisburg with
feats of walking. lie walked, square heel
and toe, half mile in thlee minutes
eleven and quarter seconds. He offered
to make wager he could walk half a
mile III quicker time than any horse in
: Harrisburg could trot mile. His wager
was not taken.
Emma Bartlett, an English woman,
who started in the harness business in New
1otk some twenty years ago on a capita
OF Sl-s5, and built up an enormous trade.
employing at one time as many as a hun
dred men, died in that city on Thursday.
When at her best she weighed but eighty.
four pounds, aud was commonly known as
''little Miss BARTLETT
William y. and \. Walter Anderson.
brothers, left Boston on Friday for Havre,
I France, in the Nautilus the small lies. vessel