The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-08-09
Ne,Cs ana Otner Nottngs.

Chester D. Parkhurst, wife and son, of
Pottsdam, y. Y, was drowned on Satur-
day by the capSzing of boat.
"A lady, about seventy-twO years old,
walked from Philadelphia to near Lebanon,
ninety miles, in three days.
There was only one white man in the
Republican county convention at Chester,
). g., aud he was an ex- Con federase.
-COwansville, Ont, boasts Of a bride
who was recently led TO the altar for the
fourth time, and who is not over eighteen
. years of age.
Colonel William P, Wilson, who was
Chairman of the Republican State Central
Committee last year, died Suddenly, at his
home in Bellefonte, on Saturday morning.
Mr. Brantley Chalfant, an ingenious
Nllllamsporter, has secured letters patent
on an invention of an apparatus which, it
is claimed, can turn out IL, $40, 500 match
sticks in ten hours.
Instead of sitting up nights and wear
ing The down on her cheek off on some feI-
lows vest, an Indiana girl has during the
las year made 5000 by cultivatiug broom
corn.
"A young man of Port Austin has been
sued for pos suppers by the father of ehe
young woman he called to court every
Sunday afternoon for four years, aud then
Gid not marry.
0lSeT
brick. Samuel Miller, who clipked the
shekels by his ;allow dip. bequeathed
$3.50 900 to the poor school children Of AL
bemarle county, Virginia.
Revenge is sweet, but there are sever
al grades TO its sweetness, and the very
acme was reached by Warcham. Mass,
woman who emptied two quarts of potato
bags into her neighboI's garden.
The Wayuesburg Republican saws
. Daniel of 4 roll
lngton county, who is seventy years old,
has smoked during the last fifty-five years,
an average Of eleven cigars per day.
a native of Newry, England. lately
dieo in Canada at the age of 119 wears.
He was the father of eleven sons and seven
daughters, eight of his children being born
, at four births. One of his daughters has
also had twins four times.
1t is stated iE clerical circles at Rome
that Monsignor c. Aloisi MaseIla, the Pa
pal NunciO at Munich. has arrived at an
underst andng with Prince Bismarck, at
hiSsingen, relative to modus vivendi be-
tween Germany and the Vatican.
ten. A. i. Roumfort, formerly SUPER
lhtendent OF the Pennsy lvania railroad and
eX mayor of Harrisburg, died in that city
Hday afternoon, after lingering illness
Deceased was born in Paris, France. De-
cember 10, 1896
Mr.. Seely r. Huling, Of Williamsport.
owns an eighteen year old fig tree which
has Its third crop ON for this season The
( present crop consists of over two hundred
hSS, many Of them the size Of a large hens
egg.
In recent breach Of promise case At
Limerick, Ireland, the plaintiff was a widow
with seven children, and the defendant \
widower with twelve children. No wonder
he avoided the union of family of nineteen
able bodied youngsters.
-Geo. B. Ellsworth of Fredonia. suici-
sulcIded Friday night, near Pickwick. in
I4e II oireglon, by jumping into a tank of OIL
ne lett note to his employer. SAVING that
he was tired of life, and directed him to
certain tank, where the body was found.
The Lewistown Sentinel saws that
Noah Weaver IS given as the name of a
boy, said to be - years old, committed 10
jail on charge of attempting an OUTRAGE
/ on four year-old girl at ReedsvIle. II is
impossible to realize sucb a thirr, a. -,
able.
! "A daughter of Thaddeus Frost .var-
ty seven years old, living with her father
at he!mont, Mass, poured kerosene over
/ her head and clothes on Friday afternoon
and set fire to il. She had been affected
by insanity for some time. Death soon en-
sued.
The Cincinnati wholesale grocery firm
/ OF X. NJ. Bishop & Co, of which the Gov-
ernor of Ohio, r. NJ. Bishop. is the bes5
! suspended payment on Saturday. The
/ reason assigned is the heavy shrinkace in
property Liabilities and assets so far nm
I known. '''-
"A pestilence which IS sweeping over \
/ portion of Bolivia, in South America is
horrible In many of its features. In some
/ cases the oodles OF entire families are left
uncared for, and many children barof. .eIS ls
/ nome and parents, sustain their lives bv
catching and eating grasshoppers.
After twelve hundred and fiftv five
6allots the Democrats of the Fifteenth
ONO district succeeded in uominati1,-
/ Judge Geddes, of Mansfield. After taking
/ so much trouble to nominate A man in
/ John Sherman's district, the Philadelpbia
/ him defeated. N'''0
/ George Hiltz, aged fifty-four wears
cominitted suicide on Friday by shootipg
hlmSen at Lancaster. He left a pota rs
blnd hlm IN which he declared thar he i'm
tehded 1mmitting self-murder because bis
family woIid not stand by him. and that
ms son, pretzel baker, would not baks
oread as well as pretzels.
During a storm SUNDAY oFtorro,,,
lightning struck the Methodist tent ~ M
amond street and Ridge avenue. PbiIadei-
phia, while Sunday school exercises we're
progressing. Mary Elery. aged eleven. was
instantly killed, and Walter Fiery eigbt
"m- Adams, ten, aud Nellie Burns. fen
were fatally injured. 'e"'
a fourteen -year-old adopted daughter
oil Mr. Edward Crosby, of Brattleboro. Va
was was oTutaiiy outraged by tramp about II
0iock Saturday morning within a short
distance of her home. A handLercl;aS
was arawn tightly over her mouth. sY.D-
pressing her screams. a reward of s56o
Is offered for the arrest of the villain
he American boat Nautilus. which
saied from Beverly, Mass, June - ar
rived at Mallion, in England. on the 1st
@ .ls.' ms boat is one Of the smallest that
by Swo brothers, William and w,lteT 49,
areTs They had perilous and ventnr-
Gus VOYAGE, and will not lil,nlr - h 49,.