The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-10-17
NEWS AND OTHER NOTNGs.

was broken into on sunday night and robbed Of
gildsd ehalice valued at rs.
published at Strouds5urE, has taken up the name
Of Daniel o. Barr for state Treasnrer-
Mr.. Wm GrcIfer q Franklin county farmer.
assisted IN killing a large hlacksnlke recent
Is BY a hocK % turkeys on his premises
Terror again refEns In Garter county. Ky.
There have heen i've murders in three weeks,
four of the murdered men being uterwoods.
-Dran~es. lemons. olives and almonds 20 be
cultivated 10 Florida soon bY large number Of
Italian culonisis nov on their way 20 that stat.
"A LONDON dispatch @ Monday SAYS that In the
small village 1f Cfcuiiesk z0u. .hern Russia thirty
persons died from accidentally eating poisonous
Mr.. Phaon Stiue hotel keeper Q II eineyulans-
vile. Lehigh county. one day recently sold 20 a
-'Three thousand dollars Is the reward now o.
tered for The apprehension OF sam bright. The
Perry county people. DO seems, still believe that
sam Is alive aud kicking.
train iu the west the other day As the train
contained an excursion OF editors, the only loss
A ten dollar gold piece is to be awarded at the
VI fiIn county fair 20 the prettiest girl in the
can give a unanimous decision as TO who she is
Judah p. Benjamin, Of London, the remarka-
again since the end OF the war recently sent a
poor country editor in Louisiana check for $500
note of the series Of 1878. letter is in cirsuIa-
tion. II can be detected by the blurred engrav-
in Lancaster, on Friday NIGHT. a young lady
saw for the FIRST time wauderinE corn doctor.
paired to q minister's and were made man and
Wit
Emanuel Deary. a youth Of seventeen years.
living at Silver Springs. Lancaster county. acci-
dentaliy shot himself through the heart on Satur-
day ternoOn while hunting and was Instantly
Henry Grear and -ohn Donovan tie cutters
were run over and killed by train on the van
dalia road. six miles from Elingham, H.. on sat
urday. They were lying on the track when
1t is a rare thing TO be sunstruck in October.
yet that is what happened to Fred. Hamilton,
tank builder, at TarpGri, Mhean county. last
week. His condition was alarming, but he viii
recover.
assert with all sCriOusn IS. that during n shower
OF rain there on Friday several bushels Of green
peas came down over territory about square in
John J. Bailey wiro married daughter OF
the late Governor Ford. OF Illinois. and who
public school collection arrested in ST. Louis
the other day for pocket picking.
The other day a young lady named Sieber. of
M.thintown, Juniata county. was sitting on iOg
which was lying Inclined plane when the
log started to roll, upset the young lady and roll
ed over her. fniuring her severely.
"A Miss Whitten. now at DaWariscOtta. Ne,
has probably the longest Eair oi any woman In
the world It is etrht feet long, and when dress
ed in a French twist IL passes six times around
her head. The growth is perfectly natural.
The death is announced of the Rev Gideon p.
Perry. d. d. Ii. D at HopknsvIlle. Ky. He
the last surviving kiusmin contemporary OF
. Commodore Perry and was born under the same
roof at South Kingston. r Z. October u. 1900.
Forty disguised men called at the house Of a
coIored woman. nameI Esther. near Dallas Tex
s. a
ance was made. ana, after me "ounllu2 OF sever
al people on both sides, Esther and her son were
shot and killed.
In attempting to swallow an oyster the other
day young man Of Shenandoah also swallowed
his false teeth. Dr. Davis sent the plate on down
into the stomach, but it j. feared that the young
man, who since has suffered eNcruciatiug pain,
viii not recover.
At RuuzIau SUesia the wife ora farmer has
. been confined on three consecutive Sedan auul-
versaries giving oirth IN 10. 10 S!T l3.- year o.
twins aud this year TO another girl -Four chill
dreE in q family whose birtdgaN occurs .I The
same date is probably Unprecedented
The Memphis irIi7uefc proposes that fHc old
town he entirely dcpopuIated ana destroyed. aud
that q new Memphis bG built At place known q 81
bartlett. eleven miles distant II suggests that
halt dozen railroad tracks could do all the
TRANSPORTING between the new city and the river.
There Is man In the western part OF this
ceUnty. says the Pittsboro IN g Record. who
some years ago married the widow OF hts own son.
and she was also his own niece. The woman has
had children by both husbands. Now VIVA; kin
are they? II presents about as mixed kinship rs
= The treasurer Of Chester county has appoint
ed Mrs James Horton. OF Atg!en. tax collector Of
M delhqhtnt laNes on t.st boronSlt Tor Ihe year
lS79- Tho p0ntmcnt was asked for by quite a
number OF The people OF AtElen. as Mrs Horton
is good business woman ana can very readily
perform the duties.
AT Paris. TEX. J J. Wheeler. editor Of the
EG1Hff was shot dead by William b bonner. a
LAWYER. Wheeler had preferred charges for the
removal OF a policeman named CLARK. whom Ron
ner defended and succeeded in getting acquitted.
This appears TO have iucensed Wheeler and he
several times threatened Bonucr's life
A son Of Jacob l.. BruEger, of West Perry
township iSnyder county has TIA ned sheep
ance at the Snyder county tar ant drove on the
track at intervals last Friday. His performance
was Great novelty ami also an attractive fcnt-
ure, aforiiUg amusement to the crowd.
The fUIl4vn Is q list of the casualties by the
smasHup On the Bal liimore and Ohio railroad at
BeIt"n. VI va on SaiuTdaE night: h!i eE-ton-
ductor Askew. Fireman Smith. ana boy named
an an i oGy We - "a 60 wv" S,i ,i9Lo
a pCstaI clerk: Fireman Jasper (seridUsly). and
little girl in one Of the passenger cars
Having mentioned. some time a-o. saws the
Lane ster Et-- EE0. the receipt OF corn cob. one
cut OF which formed the letter y Nr. b. z. Herr.
Of W iil'w street, reaH the article and Thought he
could produce greater curiosity IN the shape OF
a corn cob. one half OF which is bright red and the
other haII lurc White. II IS certainly h1rd to
beat
Orange, Nj. was murdered in his house at noon
on Thursday having been shot 10 the back Of the
head. His wife accused Frank Lammens, a Ia
mems were both arrested Thursday night and
locked up in Orange. Lammens and the woman
in he'd together when arrested.
The Bpelikl Gala o5gcT~Cr says: Yesterday
a woman af about twenty five yeas Of age was
seen on our streets whose appearance created CON
siderable astonishmeut ami curiosity, as she was
yeT'tS2lya spotted woman. her Wlo.e lace. neck,
hancs tand she says her enJlre o'tEJ axe covered
with large dark brown white and cream coiOrei
spots. The woman lives about tour miles north
0: town and has been here several tim .s.
Edward Holmes, a negro. sixteen years OF
age, was convicted IN Union county, { >. > -. q oI
old infant daughter OF MIR A. i. Humphreys. his
employer, and was sentenced TO De hanged on the
capped death from the effects OF her inh2man
that the fend WAS not lyuched ere his trial.
Henry FILTER. OF Thuri0w. Ohio, says that
OF his bounds gave birth recently TO four pup
pies, which " hen only n lew Gays old were taken
. in possession By a large Brahma hen. which drove
their mother away after desperate fight, and
actually undertook to shelter them under her
wings. One of the puppies died. and the others
were then returned to the hound, but the hen had
. to he locked up to keep her from again breaking
F up the family circle
The venerable Cato Oakley (colored) SuC-
field. Conn pauper, is considered to be ia years
old. Once he was slave. his last owner being
. EbeucZcr Davenport, OF New YORK Cato served
four years in the navy and during the war Of isl2
. He has. strange to say. always been q Feavy
+ drinker and an incessanr yotary OF tobacco. In
early life he neglected his political opportunities
il he had any. and did not cast his first ballot un
til he los years Old.
The Jury In the case OF +. II. BroCkhart. tried
. for rape on a small girl. named Hcnninger. last
spring, in WiliiamsDurt. returned a verdict of
guilty soon after o'clock Sunday morning. after
ne ng out from o clock SATURDAY afternoon. \
great crowd assembled in the court house 20 hear
the verdict, which received with satisfaction.
The first week Of the criminal term. which close
Saturday evenfug was the heaviest ever kuO -, in
the history Of Lyc0ming county.
. Among the slightly injured. BY the woeiui
. Long. a resident OF AlVoua. IOWA. Yet the sur
. icons say that there Il NOT an inch OF space on
his body that does not show wound He was
hurled horizontally for thirty feet, and while in
transit thought L dead the idea thrilling
him, he says, lin me thousandth part OF a sec
ond." He landed feet foremost in window, and
as the glass shattered he cried out: I'm alive
Miss Mary Eager. aged nineteen years com
rnffted Suicide On Monday et No Efl% Hudson
street, y N-w y ork- She was an orphan, and after
her mothers death few years ago she support
ell herself by sewing. For several months pas
on Dy oveIwork. IIcr uncle Luke Eager. OF
. brooklyn. had some Of her money. which he re-
fused to-Pay cycr- The lawsuit which she began
to recover it dragged 50 that she became slzcour-
aged and shot herself
Benjamin = Clark, a lawyer. OF New York
CITY. thought he heard burgiar down II the haii.