The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-12-05
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

ed at funeral BY a runaway horse.
The total expense CT collecting the customs
revenue during the year was -. ass. 1906
Twenty eight special agents Of the Treasury
Department were employed during the fiscal year.
Rev. George Randall. of Yancy county, n C.,
has killed SIS gronnd hogs this season, and preach
ed two sermons every Sunday.
The Denver Tribune says that mere million
sire is a mere nobody at Leadville. Nen talk
there OF n five or en-niIlionaire.
During November the mints turned out 50, i35
double eagles, 1850 eagles $50 2s4 half eagles
and 2 .49s coo standard silver dollars.
The King Of the Sandwich Islands has a
daughter named Victoria awekie- KaiuIani-
Lunalilo- o-kalaniuiahiispiIana ard yet she is only
years old.
"A mass meeting Of Irishmen has been called
to meet at st. Louis December 8, to advance the
project Of raising funds and otherwise providing
for destitute people In Ireland.
William Il. Mclean, prominent Odd Fellow
and for nearly twenty seven years foreman Of the
Washington Evening star composing room. died
IeteIy Of Brights disease
The West Chester Local Nctcs says If a man
has wife. and if she weighs one hundred and
twenty pounds, and # she is worth her weight in
gold, she viii be worth exactly $4,000.
In splitting open log hauled on land from
the Susquehanna river at MerIetta, Pa, three
handsome bass one Weighing ave pounds were
found in a cavity in the centre of the log.
DR.. Glenn, the California wheat-grower is
said to have had $4,000 acres in wheat this year;
his crop was soo,o00 bushels. For working his
enormous rancho he has 100 double teams
TO saw and split wood, carry water COAL and
wood. plough, harrow, AID thTesh, and In cities
sweep the streets, are, says the Berlin TaggCcht,
among the avocations of Il German woman.
Among the latest German patent applications
there is one for the process of making a green
color by oxidizng the sulphide of ftetramethyIdia-
. midOrriDheu Y me fhan rbot
A party of Clinton county hunters had four
teen deer strung up in the woods at the head of
( Bakers run. Another party returned TO Lock
Haven on Thursday night Of last week with nine
deer.
Bishop Elder. of Natchez, has been selected as
Z coadjutor to Archbishop Purcell of Cincinnati.
Bishop Elder has long occupied prominent posi-
tlOn in the Catholic Hierarchy o. the United
States, but he will not have bed Of roses in q
: diocese overwhelmed in debt.
Work on the middle penitentiary has been
I suspended on account Of the cold weather. The
foundation Of the wall tha: Is to enclose the
I ground-ten acres-has been laid up the surface
and the reservoir is completed. No more work
will be done at the building until next spring.
Dennis Kearney threatened to break NJ
meeting in San Francisco if he had to wade knee
deep in blood to do it but when arrested by q
very small policeman for disorderly conduct he
submitted with Iamblike meekness and would
not permit hts followers to raise finger In his be-
halt.
"A whaling bark from the Arctic Ocean brings
the news that the exploring vessel Jeanette is
in peril ot beiug caught in the fee ana crushed to
pieces, though the crew may escape in safety.
After all the preparations made for her voyage it
would be TOO bad to see her wrecked almost IN
view OF her destination.
The Firfiil11 OF Rome states that the Pope
has written to the irish shops asking them to
interpose between the people and the governrn ent
10 avert strife and to pacily he people by
ing them that the English government viii
promptly examine into the questions which have
caused the present agitation.
Alexander Mccall, formerly Of tho pro
prie;Ors and editors OF the Troy Htig. aud after
wards proprietor OF the New orl1 Gd=effe, which
merged into the Journal Of Conssrl- died az
his residence in Troy on Sunday mornin ing in the
soth year Of his age. In his days Of activity he
was an able journalist and business man.
The Grand Jury which recently adjourned at
salt Lake City found four indictments for polyg-
+ amy. Great dimculty was experienced In obtain
ing truthful testimony from Witnesses who. by
, their own admission and from the circumstances
could, II they would. have given satisfactory evil
cerce as to the guilt or innocence Of partics.''
f A very beautiful lady who hurrying thro
the streets Of Baltimore turned and ia pathetic
r accents asked gentleman walking beside her tc
, knock pickpocket down who was follow Inx her
The gentleman obliRingly complied. As a:
she saw the fight fairly begun she ehuckled gayIy
ani skipped away. The man Knocked down wa!
her husband.
+ Prof. Joseph II. Clarke, The preceptor o. the
G. poet Edgar Alien Poe, is living in baltimore al
the age of eighty nine ycars. Hewas born in 1870
and began to teach school in 1909 lie says thai
d lie remembers well when young Poe became hi
b pupil, in Richmond. about the year 1920 and de
E serthes him as "a boy with very pretty eyes anC
i hair and rather eGeminate face"
( --HawesYi!lc. KY, brags of q man VINO doesn'
4 care for dogs at all when he's SOBER, but whor
l. ae's drunk has a mania to al the dogs in tn
n . country. lie will ask neghbor TO give him hi
dog. &C he give IT, the tries to buy Il
n il the other won't seliit the first steals 1t. He ha
: thus been known 10 collect $50 dogs in q week
o spree and feed them literally till he gets sober
Mrs. W L. Bullock, wife of railroad fireman
I went to neiehboriug house at Houston, Texas
i ard called cut Julia Seals, handsome serran
. girl and accused her Of receiving the attention
@ OF Nr. Bullock. Perceving her wedding ring ol
the girls finger, she drew pistol and fired, tn
r BAH breaking Miss Seals iawbone, and causing
$ ugly and painful but not mortal wound. Mrs
= Bullock WAS arrested and gave bond
,, A few days ago half n dozen prisoners escape
I from jail at Floresville. Tex, and were though
il to have left the county, but Mr.. Baldwin, VIII
It lives tina. place, while cut driving with hi
!, wife met of the escaped prisoners The hIgI
% way, leaped from his wagon and collared hin
C Mrs Baldwin, while controlling the team Wit
: hand, took pistol in the other and pointing
IS the negro ordered him to surrender to her hu.
Y band, which he did at once.
c The exodus, we observe upon good Radica
: testimony has collapsed. Bulldozing has stoppe
n in the NIississ ppi Valley negro man and hi
wife from IS TO So a day picki eotto1
and almost every black man the west side
the river who stayed at home has cotton enoug
/ to pay all his debts and have good sum of none
II ler.- Precisely bow this can be II what thes
e Radical papers have been telling US all summe
is true, We cannot sec. May be. though they wer
4 lying?
n While q resident Of Anaheim, Cal. was walk
e ing in oi the orange groves of Los Angelo
n the other day lie one of the limbs of one
=, the trees what looked like a ripe orange. II
Is pluck 1t, but found that instead of orange
N nine yellow bats clinging together, head
- downward. They were in a scmdormant stat
,s and the spherical form into which they ha
n crowded themselves and their color made thei
IS look exactly like ripe orange to a careless oil
a server
+, A steam canal boat is now in course Of COZ
le struction, and is to be put the Lehigh and De
= aware canal The craft is to be entirely OF froI
.e except the cross and deck. II will t
II eighty eight feet in length ten feet iuchC
v in breadth and viii be propelled by ten-hors
G power steam eng inc with a screw wheel. II
> said that by a new invention TO be applied to ii
Or screw there VIII be but little agitation to the WI
ss ters and the washing out OF the banks viii col
A. sequentIy he avoided. The boat will have carr.