The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-10-10


infested by them with buckwheat early
in the spring, allowing it to grow till it
is in full blossom, turning it under and
again reseeding with the same grain.
The last crop is harvested when ripe.
George Worbey and Mrs. May
McGeary, of Camden, have eloped.
There is in the elOpement just about
enough romance to suit a strOng-minded
spirster. Worbey is about 40 years of
age and leaves a wife and grown son
living on Liberty street, below Locust.
McGeary is about 25 and leaves a hus-
band and child on Mechanic street,
above Locust. Both are ugly.
William I.ydie and Charles Morris
were a young woman's rival suitors, at
AshevilIe. \. c. After considerable
coquettish hesitation she chose Morris
and promised to marry him. The re-
vengeful Lydie caught Morris in the
woods, bound him to tree and disfigur-
ed him with a knife in a horrible man
ner. for which the fiend has been SEN
fenced to sixty years Imprisonment.
"A hOg-scraping machine which has
lust been tested in Chicago worked very
satisfactorily. a hog was killed, placed
in the machine, and almostin in an instant
came out with only a few odd hairs on
his head and legs. Seven hogs were
IL
seven seconds, and each one came out
as hairless as could be desired. With a
few improvements the machine is ex-
pected to finish off 5000 hogs in ten
hours.
The wealthiest man in Kalamazoo,
Mich, was approached IN the street by
an excited little boy, who said 'EMis-
ter, my sister is in the flume. over there
if you'll get her out III give you a dol
lar" The man rescued the imperilled
child. A few days afterward the boy
entered his Office and put on his desk a
dollar in small coin. having broken
open a toy bank and sold a hobby horse
to raise the amount.
Professor COsgrOve, the TrOnaut,
and G. II. Williams. the manager of
( Woodward Gardens. attempted to make
a balloon ascension at San Francisco.
I Cal, on Saturday, but their balloon be
came Unmanageable, and striking the
telegraph wires the bag was ripped open
and the occupants were thrown to the
ground. Williams was fearfully crush
ed. and died in a few minutes. Cos
grove at latest accounts was inSenSible,
, and is not likely to recover.
A sheet of iron, said to be the larg-
est ever turned out in Western PennSyl-
Yania, was rolled Thursday morning at
the Union Iron Mills. Canagie Bros &
Co., on Thirty-third street. Pittsburgh
I The plate, which is 30 inches broad, ,
inches thick, 13 feet in length, and
weighing :. 900 pounds. was heated by f.
Schiller and rolled by John thinner.
The sheet is one of thirty-six, ordered
/ by the Government for the United States
Navy Yard at Chester. Pa.
Rev Albert Whiting. an American
missionary in China, died Of famine
fever while ministeTing TO the starving
natives. The Governor Of the province
offered TO dcfray the expense Of sending
/ the body home. and when it was eN-
planned to him that Americans did not
share in the Chinese horror Of being
buried in foreign country, he gave a
! plot of ground in which to make q
grave and deputed twelve Cinnamon to
worship the dead clergyman s spirit.
A serious accident occurred at about
/ 8 o'clock on Saturday morning near
/ Middleburg, y, c.. on the Raleigh and
! CASTOR railroad. The engine boiler of
a cotton gin exploded, killing three ne
! grOes instantly. Two of the men were
operatives around the gin and the other
was sitting on a farm wagon one hun
dTed yards distant and was struck BY a
piece of boiler iron. Everything around
the gin was torn to atoms. The acci-
dent was caused by d defect in the pump
of the engine and lack of water in the
boiler.
Andrew Tracy, the young Mexican
county lawyer who was to have been
hung yesterday for numbering his cousin,
a girl with whom he was madiv in love,
I was on Friday last granted reprieve
by the Governor until November 6th, in
order to let the case be again presented
to the Board of Pardons. The reprieye
was granted at the solicitation of Hon.
:. r. Mason and Miss Helen Tracy.
! His case was before the Board of Par
dOns in September, but new facts show
ing his insanity are said to have been
discovered.
Quite a sensation was created OF
Main street, san Bucnayentura. Cal, by
the appearance of one Ramon BOneas H
a state Of complete n&dity. who rushed
frantically up the street from his resi-
dence and before he could be secured
dashed into the Catholic church where
early Mass was being held. Proceeding
to the altar where the astouished Father
was officiating. he lay down at full
length. demanding 90 be nailed to The
cross. About this time a constable es
cOTted him to the lookup. II is not
known whether insanity or dguardjeHt1
was the trouble.
The Holland Clarion says there j:
man now serving a two years term o.
imprisonment in the Lancaster county
prison for forgery, who can't write his
own nor any other person S name. His
name is Al. ChambeTlin, from the uppe
part of the county. The infOTman
says he is feeble-minded and previous t,
his trial his ceil-mateS told him if M
would plead guilty he would get a shOrte
sentence. which he did. He has SERVED
fourteen months of his sentence and vii
doubtless livethe remaining nine month
and come out Il free man, having don
, what we think no other man in tn
: world ever did before, viz, served tern
OF Imprisonment for forgery, when IL
can't write his own name.
, Mrs Benjamin Abbott, of Smyrna
/ Delaware. has recently lost her seventh
husband by death. Her maiden nam
: was Williams. and she has been Succes
J sively Mrs. TrauX. Mrs. Riggs, Mrs
2 FarrOw. Mrs Wallace. Mrs. Berry. Mrs
Pratt and Mrs. Abbott. In every III
stance save the first she has marTie
! 4 widOwers, some of them with children
, and one occasion in her early marie
: life She went to an almShOuse and too
, from it three children. and raised them
D She never has had any children of he
, own. All her life has been passed j
D the neighbOrhOOd of Smyrna, and a
L her husbands were buried by the sam
undertaken. She is eighty-siX yeaI
:, old, and four years ago married her las
t husband, who was then seventy-eigl
< years old.
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