The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-08-08

Anna Brown, fell through floor vault
at her residence in Coyington. and be
fore aid could be secured both suffoca-
ted. Mr.. Howe, hearing it, ran and
jumped down to their relief He was
taken out insenSible, but was resuscita-
ted by vigorous means.
The Bristol (Na.l Nc3rS credits Mr..
Robert Blevins with the killing of
rattlesnake on top of the Iron Mountain,
southeast of Bristol, which lacked only
one inch of being eight feet long. Cir
cumference six inches behind the head,
and twenty inches in centre of the body.
7 When coiled it could not be more than
covered by a large sized wash tub. It
had twenty-five Tattles.
The st. Louis Dispatch says that
/ Mr.. William Thompson. of Douglass
county, is in happy possession of his
fifth wife. Mr.. 7. has been totally
| blind for twenty years. and this newly
( acquired bride is the third to whom he
has been welded since he was afflicted
! with loss of sight. He says he has been
/ exceedingly happy in all his matrimonial
affairs, always getting most excellent
! wives.
/ "A telegram to the Rochester De1pO-
/ crdt says that Mr.. Daniel Clark of Con-
/ esus was married to Miss Lizzie Gordon
of Springwater. at O'Clock Friday
J
! ScOUtsburg. The age of the happy
! groom, Mr.. Clark, is 72-that OF the
/ bride, Miss Gordon, y. The marriage
/ was the result of an acquaintance of a
/ few days, the cOuTtship being brief, but
! earnest
/ Charles Drews, Frank Stichler, Geo.
! Zechman, Henry Wise. Josiah HummeI
and Israel Brandt. convicted in Lebanon
( county last April of murder i'll the first
/ degree for killing Joseph Raber, were
/ brought into Court last Monday on
/ writ or error. After hearing argument
| Judge Henderson granted new trial to
| Zechman, but denied the application of
/ the others, and they were remanded for
| sentence.
An aged couple of negroes had lived
as husband and wife thirty-five years, at
/ OglethOrpe. Ga. without ever being
/ formally married, when the old man
elOped with a frislly yellow girl. lie
soon returned and obtained the old wO-
man forgiveness but she insisted that
I they should be reunited by marriage
( ceremony, as she was convinced that
/ something stronger than their former
union was necessary. The wedding
/ was made notable by great gathering
, of colored people.
Rev. John Graham, d. D., of
! Brighton, England, lost his life while
I bathing in the surf at Cape May, on
Friday morning, having Nentured out
too far The body was recovered thrO'
/ the brave efforts of DR.. GTaham'S niece,
Miss Bessie Graham. with whom he was
bathing She secured the drowning
man and clung to the pier with him un-
til aid reached her, but the doctor was
, found to be dead. The cause of his
death Is said to have been congestion Of
. & 1. =. IA 4fr.r- Fy,R, FF-fr
-Mvron G. Collins. of Tennessee,
claims to have discovered a cure for rat
tlcsnake bites DIS. Eve and Shacklett,
of Nashville according to the ImerjcIH,
made test OF the medicine. Collins
let a rattlCSnake bite him on the wrist,
and at once applied 10 the wound and
took inWardIy a decOctiOn of mOSSeS
from oak and hickory trees. lie suffer
ed from nausea, and his pulse and tenn
peratura were excited, but within an
hour he had completely recovered. The
bite of the same reptile speedily killed a
/ dog.
-Early Saturday morning 4 reSpecta-
BILE girl. aged eighteen. named Ada Ray.
was found lying in plumer street, in the
outskirts of Oil City. She was removed
to Il house near by where investigation
revealed the fact that She had been raw
ished and left III a dying condition.
The doctor said size would not survive.
but Sunday evening she recovered from
the effects of the drugs sufficiently &c
give the names of four young men who
stopped her in the street and committed
the outrage One OF the villains, named
Hump stewart, has been arrested.
One of the greatest vegetable curl.
osities we have ever seen, says the Ian
caster Nor Era Of Saturday, was show
4. I'll.
hart. It is a tomato. grown on the
premises Of Capt. john Barnhart, Of No
AZ High street. On the side of the to
: mato ere two projections, one of which
b nearly one inch III length. Is Il fac-simile
+ of a parrot ; the body is the dark red OF
the tomato, the head is of yellowisl
green color, and the bill IS black ana
/ very perfect in form. 1t IS as complete
= Il parrot in all respects as though 1t haC
beer SCUlptuTed.
, The \. i. Herald, en- independent
journal says that General EWiuC's
: showing Of the saving which has been
2 effected in the national administration
since the Democrats came into posses
= sion of the House of Representatives ].
? unanswerable. and it viii strike the peo
pie. The single notorious fact that
since the Democrats obtained the mas
5 terry of the House the lobby has utterly
disappeared from Washington is an az
gumeEt which every farmer and mechan
! ic in Ohio can understand. It means
, that huge and wasteful leaks in the
Z Treasury have been stopped.
Charles Johnston. the largest maT
III shingtOn, died at O'Clock Friday
morning. He was born a slave on The
Carroll estate, in Maryland, but wa!
3 freed before the war. \ year since he
2 weighed 700 pounds. but at his deatl
; only 800 pounds. i special coffin haC
{ to be made, and the side of the house
had to be removed to let the body be
carried to burial "Uncle'i Charley
was temperance man, but would
: drink al the gin he could get. He
was five feet nine inches in height
three feet two inches across the chest
and hip, and measured three feet around
the abdomen.
: The Census Department desire tC
keep complete record of all deaths Oc
curing in the United States during the
b next six months, with their causes and
= any comments which the attending
physicians desire to make. To attain
their end they invite every practicinq
5 NJ. j. to send a record of fatal cases il
his practice TO the Census Department
7 Washington. D. c. The Government
will furnish blanks for the purpose. and
| application for such blanks should be
/ made Immediately. Tie census officers
, request all those who have not received
, blanks to forward their names and ad.
dresses at once to the Department.
"A pleasure party left Clayton, y