The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-05-30
cold Ned, Richardson. of Jackson,

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which ZOO acres are in cotton and
1900 in corn and oats. He also runs
about 1900 spindleS, and makes 124
per cent. on his capital, He has ad-
yanced at New Orleans 81 400, 900 on
the growing cotton crop.
Queen Victoria was go years old on
Saturday The anniversary of her birth
was celebrated at Montreal with a grand
review of troops and sham battle on
Fletcher's field. Among the visiting
militia was the Thirteenth Brooklyn
Regiment. Henry Ward Beecher is its
chaplain and was present
-French'S animal barn. erect ed for
the safe keeping of wild beasts, situated
five miles from Detroit, was destroyed
by fire Thursday morning. Five lions,
a zebra a leopard. deer, the elephant
Sultan and many other valuable beasts
were roasted alive. The loss is heavy
and there is little insurance.
The widest excitement prevailed at
Murfreesboro, Tenn. on Saturday, over
the capture OE band of thieves, white
and black. who have been plundering
/ the stores of that town for the past two
months Over two wagon loads of
/ goods were recovered, a large portion of
( them consisting of jewels and diamond
rings.
/ Five years ago the wife and child of
a Mr. Chandler were drowned in the
Mill river flood in Massachusetts. She
( wore at the time valuable diamond
ring 4 few days ago some workmen
/ digging in bank discovered something
bright. which, on investigation, proved
So ibe ring, which has been identified
/ rs the one worn by Mrs Chandler at the
/ time of her death.
The Shippensburg Chronicle says
/ that lives of great men, such as legisla-
tOES, dOn-t any more remind us we must
make cur lives sublime. If in depart
. ing Legislator don't leave behind him
footprints IN the sands of corruption his
constituents regard him as a.herO in the
/ strife, and be is held up that some for
I lOrn and shIp-wrecked brother, seeing.
may take heart again.
Mrs Russell Fields, Ewing near
/ Orrstewn, Franklin county, went to the
barn to. gather eggs, when she passed
into u stall where a horse was stand
ing and stopped down to take the eggs
from nest which was undeH the feed
ing trough As she was in the act of
/ picking them up the horse reached down
and bit one of her ears entirely off No
+ remains'of the auricular appeBdage was
found, and it is supposed the animal
I swallowed the ear.
Isaac SeltZer and David SeltZer, of
D.. Chester county, are probably the oldest
+ twin brothers in the State, being in
: their SD year. Isaac celebrated the
50th anniversary of his wedding last
I week, at which a remarkable gathering
. took place. Isaac's wife is ia her S4th
year. and her sister, who was present, in
her Goth year There were seven per
. sons present whose ages are over eighty
d. and nine over seventy. The average of
4 their ages is about Seventy-Six
L. fr,r Fg.x
st. Patrick 5 cathedral in New Y oTk has
been placed in position, and IS one OF
the NEST powerful organs eveE built. It
D.. is voiced to the unprecedented wind
- force Of twelve inches, the enormous
pressure on the valves being overcome
by a vacuum pallet. The bellows is
blown by a steam engine, II contains
four manuals of five octavss each, q
pedal of TIVE and One-haHr octaves
seventy stops and combinations, and five
Thousand pipes.
-SIr David Leth2rbury, Of Chester
is very fond of pets, and = short time
ago. be had a cat and squirrel Both OF
these pets became mOthars, and tn,
families became much larger. Their,
, were four or five kittens and two littl,
squirrels. After each was a day or 5,
old, all the kittens but one died, an,
the old squirrel escaped aud left the lit
tie ones, and one of them died. The ole
cat then adopted the orphan baby squiT
: rel, which now lives eontentedly wit
the solitary kitten.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says tlet
> Mr.. Lewis Rolf, who resides in Gree
} township that county, has wondeEfu
COW. In the place of cream raising o.
2 her milk, it is actually butter, nee,iin
: no churning whatever to fit it for tabl
, use. All that is required is the work
, ing in'' of the necessary amount of sal
4 to suit the taste The butter is pro
e nomced excelleat. This streak bega
last fall since which time no chun ha
. been used, but before that the creaI
I was the same as other cows milk.
e "A singular accident happened
|, Paradise township, Y ork county, Ia:
t week. Samuel Stable, a blacksmith
q aged "A years. whose home was in Littl,
:. town, attended the funeral of Mrs. Maj
+, HantZ, There were many persons ahou
e so Stable and other young men thre
n themselves down on the grass in Il
t. yard, Stable had his open pocket-kni
t. in his hand, when one of the young mt
re jokingly rolled him over. The blade
the knife passed through the ribs al
L. pierced the heart Stable died Instant
er "A singular story comes from Il
ld Maine State prison. James y. Lowe
Is NdS tbllN lttttt III 1919. at 11CWlStB
Of the murder of his wife, Lizzie, who
/ supposed skeleton had been found in Il
woods. Lowell was sentenced to
T. hanged, but the sentence was commut
e. to Imprisonment for life. 1t is now {
st certained that Mrs. Lowell is living
as Saginaw, Michigan, as the wife of
er man named Spalding, and that she dc
not ueny her identity. Lowell, VIII
on trial had claimed that his wife I
at away with the employee of a circus.
as "A young man in NOrridgewOck. NJ
an dreamed that he was aminiSter. that
he companion was Judge and that
ng opened his friends court with pray,
ok The dream was a subject of only passi
comment. That was thirty years a2
sh Lately, the Rev. DIR. Charles T, ALE
in the dreamer, dropped into the Suprel
m. Court at Augusta. where his old frieI
he now Judge Charles DanfOrth, was p
)e- siding. The Judge thought that {
re- whole dream might as we'll be realize
and SO invited the clergyman to Op
ch the court with prayer
on N. j. Steel, of Franklin tOwnSh
)r- Chester county, says the West Ches
he JetferSOnidn. is the posSessOr of a h
ed which produces eggs of such pecul
I'm character that he considers them no
-" worthy, and he therefore sends us spe
ro- mems The hen lays at intervals of fC
AT days eggs of a very large size, weight
ay from - to 81 ounces, the latter c
Ie- measuring q and S2 inches i'll ciTcu
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