The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-03-14


boys-a few days ago.
A. J. Shultz, of Woodville Allegheny /
county, invested s. in the Louisiana State /
lottery and drew 81, 200.
A Canadian couple, en- route to Dakota /
to settle, weigh GA pounds-the man 80 /
pounds, and his wife 304.
Isaac Brown, an octogenarian Of JET
fersou county, Alabama, has ploughed the
same field for GO consecutive years.
Fears are felt in Gloucester, Mass.
that a whole feet OF fishing vessels, fifteen
sail in all, were lost last month with all on
board.
| The bodies Of the Chisholm family,
murdered in Kemper county, Miss, have
| been inferred at Salona, neaT Lock Haven,
| this State,
Allen Macdonald, a wealthy and re-
spected citizen OF Glen~ood, Allegheny
county, committed suicide by cutting his
! throat on Saturday.
"A belated Erie train one evening last
! week, it is said, made the run between
! Canaseraga and Burns, five miles, ia four
/ and a half minutes.
| MIR. Ross Sweeney, sixty years old,
| committed suicide in Snowden township,
/ Allegheny county, on Wednesday. Ill
! health was the cause of the act.
! "A fire occurred at Georgetown, D. c.,
( on Saturday night, by which three children
of Daniel Martin, colored, aged from one
/ to five years, were burned TO death.
The poormaster in Lemont, ILL.,, keeps
barroom, and it is charged that he en-
| courages men to spend their money for bis
liquor by promising TO help their families
| from .he public treasury.
! "A Philade lpbia Emigration Society is
! preparing to settle large colony in Kan
sas. Their y-laws provide that no intoxi-
eating liquors shall be sold as beverage
within the lines of their settlement
/ "A large number of young men lately
I left Zurich Swifzarlapd for Gaor0ia .,pdar
the leadership of Swiss farmer who is set
tied in that State. 1t is proposed to estab-
! lish an extensive Swiss colony there.
! "A Mrs. Miller, in Portland Oregon,
gave birth on the morning of February 20
to her twentieth child, girl, weighing a
fraction less than two pounds. At last ac-
/ counts it was represented to be "heaithy
! and cheerful"
The ship Turkish Empire, with a car
go OF deals, went ashore at Big Duck
. islaEd, near Grandmenan, Me-, on Friday
/ night. She was a total loss. The captain
and six men were drowned. The pilot and
| seven men were saved.
The San Francisco Post says that a
Mrs. Bruff, of Oakland, has applied for a
! legal separation because, as her petition
/ states, Mr.. b. leaves her "to run around
with the McCrackeu boys and do things
she afterward regrets"
An Oxford (Mich.) girl of IA, desiring
would be regarded by the clergyman as All
| objection, altered the date Of her birth in
/ the family Bible, and took the sacred vol
ume along when she eloped with her lover.
The editor of the Wilkesbarre Sunday
Plain Dealer continues to edit his paper in
jail, where he is confined for libel. All the
copy has to BE submitted to the jailoT, who,
with the dignity of a chief i'll newspaper
Office, scratches out and interpolates to suit
himself
"A farmer in Cook county, Illinois, by
the name Of Dunning, raised last year 100
tons Of squashes from forty acres of laud,
and had good corn cIop besides. Sixty
tons of these were sent 20 Boston for mar
ket. He realizes thousands of dollars from
the crop.
On Monday last young man, named
Miller was caught upon the shafting in
the nail works at Milton, aud his oody
whirled around at the rate of ninety or a
hundred revolutions \ minute Strange to
state, he received no internal injuries and
no bones were broken.
1 An extraordinary freak OF natnre has
just come to light in Pittsburgh. Twins
have been born and are connected at the
breast by an arm of flesh. The physicians
who have examined the children state they
( are sound in every respect, but to cut the
arm between them would be almost instant
death to both.
Three boys. Charles and William Cess
, ley and Ambrose Rubright, of Waterloo,
Schuylkill county, boarded q coal train
Saturday at Auburn and rode 10 Hamburg,
where they jumped off while the train was
, in motion. Charles Gessley was killed in
staDtly, and Rubricht seriously and Wm.
, Gessley slightly injured.
Al Smith of Elko, New, is a tough
, man. In fight his antagonist chopped
three chips out of bis skull with an axe,
{ and the chips were afterwards picked up
) on the field of battle. The axe penetrated
, to the brain, partly paralyzing him, but
, none of his wounds have infiamed, and it is
, thought that Smith will get well.
. ! On November 81 last Mrs. VI. Ens:ng-
er, of Harrisburg, aged fifty years, myste-
riously disappeared from her home and all
; efforts to discover her whereabouts proved
fruitless until a few days ago, when the
J body was found in a mill pond in the lower
} part of the city. She is supposed to have
3 committed suicide, as she was slightly de-
: ranged at the time of her disappearance.
r Positive romance, epitOmiZed Miss
t Martha Ruggan, q pretty young school
teacher, OF Cleburne, Texas, was engaged
3 to be married to Henry Crowley, of Little
a Rock, Arkansas. The wedding was set
3 for April-showers and flowers On We'd
] nesday she received an invitation to attend
the wedding of Crowley and Little Rock
. ! woman. In few minutes she died by her
S own band.
/ "A young woman married an old wild.
over in Tanuerville, Ca, and soon fell in
. love with his SOD, who was about her own
. / age. The matter was fully drcussed by
the trio, and all agreed that it would be
: | better for her to become the wife of the son
: The transfer was amicably made by means
: of divorce. Since then, the OLD man has
= married his ex wifes mother, and the re-
arranged family is harmonious and happy
A Toledo, Ohio, gentleman has invent
r ed q machine for elevating grain in bulk
. The principle which he has applied in The
invention is that of atmospheric pressure
. and his machine is really nothing more
It than a syphon, with one leg in the elevator
g and the other in the hold of the vessel
II with cylinders at the elbow to effect tht
Il exhaust. AT a recent trial grain was suck
= ed up through the syphon with great ra
1T pidity and 10 height of fifty feet from th'
e ground.
e The family of John Mace, conducto
!, on a railroad in Maine, has been unfOrtu
a nate by railroad accidents. Several day
n ago Mr. Mace himself vas badly injured
d at Burnbam, by being crushed between tw
n / freight cars. A number of years ago
/. young son was run over and killed 1T Port
l. land. About two years ago John Mace
d IT,, had arm crushed while shacklinj
IT cars in Belfast. Last week his second son
,e Charles, was Iun over and killed at Wes
Ia WateTville.
During run of the Rose Tree, Della
ware county, for hunters the other day
they struck sensation. On the Barrrar