The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-07-04

Mr.. James Townsend, aged eighty
four years, is now living, and always
has lived, at Bolton, Mass, in the house
where he was born. He has never been
married and is as active as many a man
of fifty, frequently taking fishing excur-
siOns, on which occasions he is obliged
to walk several miles to the pond
Mr.. Christian Amole, of st. Mary's.
Chester county, is the owner of a rooster
with but one leg. The fowl is about
two yeras old, looks as if it had never
had more than one leg, and attracts con-
siderable notice from curious persons.
There is story, however, that the 9TH
er leg was bitten off by a hog when the
bird was but a little chicken.
The widow Berg, of Evansville,
Ind, had a suitor in the person of Mat
thew Schnautz, and they had made
marriage engagement. Although she
was only 3S years old, she had a daugh-
ter of 16, and when SchnautZ saw the
girl, on her return from boarding school,
he transferred his love to her The
. mother then committed suicide.
The st. Augustine Fla. Press says:
We are needing money yOmniferaciOuSly.
Jobs turkey was millionaire compared
with our present financial condition.
To-day, If salt was two cents barrel
we couldn't buy enough to pickle jay
bird. We are out of tobacco, our hair
needs cutting, and by rights we ought to
get shaved. DelinquentS should pav,up.
Mr.. Worth, of New Harrison. Wis.
| was remarkably handsome young man.
He was engaged to marry Miss Dakin. a
/ wealthy girl. She pointed what she
thought was an empty pistol at him.
and shot him in the face, diSfiguring
him terribly. She now refuses to keep
AN... l.
ugly husband would make her constant
f ly nervous.
The Dunkard Church forbids man
to marry a divorced woman. George
. Hoover, of HageTstOwn, Ind, was a
! Dunkard, vet he married woman who
had been divorced. The Church warm
ed him before hand, and expelled him
afterward. The expulsion grieved him
so much that he refused to eat. and
starved himself to death, in spite of his
wife's entreaties
"A Nebraska City, Neb.. special says
y horrible accident occurred on the
+ Missouri river, five miles below this
place, late on Friday afternoon. The
. boiler of the Government tugbOat Clitie
! exploded killing J. Lane, OF East Ne
braska City, and Herman Boil. iircmen,
and fatally mjuring j. and w. Kinney
engineers, of st. Louis. II. Pinney
captain of the tug. and Mat PYLE were
horribly scalded.
"A gentleman whose word the Mil
ford (Del.) Chronicle cannot doubt
states that negro named Stephen Wa
pies, residing between Staytonsville
and Greenwood. last week killed won
derful reptile, which was nothing less
than Il twO-headed snake of the ordinary
viper species. 1t had two separate and
distinct heads. which branchcd forth on
each side of its neck. and was about two
feet in length.
William A Blake, a Princeton
student, residing near Allentown. y. j..
I who had determined to commit suicide
and for that purpose abstained from all
food for nineteen days. reconSidered his
determination on Wednesday, and began
to take nOurishment His desire for
death resulted from Il belief that he
could not recover from paralysis
which afflicted him his present desire
. to live arises from contrary belief.
r. III. Moore, keeper of the Dupont
Powder COmp3ny'S magazine at Cali
fOrnia City, Cal. on Friday last shot
and instantly killed 4. Fulton. mama
ger of the works, and then blew out his
own brains. The tragedy was enacted
in the presence of Fulton'S wife and
children. Fulton recently gave Moore
llplltt llldl llt NOtlIl uISIltIlSt WIFI MS
further services, and it is to this Moore's 5
action is attributed. Fulton was a ma
tive of New York.
The boilers of the pleasure steamer
May Queen. on Lake Minetonlle. the
popular summer resort, near MinneapO-
lis. Mimi. exploded while she was
landing at Il wharf on the upper lake
on Saturday afternoon. Six persons
were seriously injured. The boat was
sunk in five feet of water, and is a com
plete wreck. Fifteen persons were on
board at the time of the explosion,
which was caused by imperfect ma
chinery and caTcleSSneSS.
"A strange occurrence is reported
from WetZikon, Canton Zurich. in
Switzerland. On June Tth the commune
was invaded by an immense swarm of
butterflies, two-thirds of mile wide
and so long that the procession took two
hours TO pass. They were principally
of the kind known in Switzerland as
DiSteTUtCr. which feed on nettleS and
thistleS. They flew from ten to thirty
feet above the ground, and went off in
nOrthwesterly direction.
Mrs. John j. Pearce, of Bristol. r.
l., has been regarded as paTtially insane
for some time. \ few weeks ago she
shot her husband in the head while he
slept. Monday, when Mr.. Pearce went
to dinner he found the door of his house
fastened. He forced an entrance, and
found Mrs. Pearce in bed wrapped in
flames. 1t appeared that she had satur-
ated the bed-clothing with kerosene.
lain down and set the bed on fire. The
fire was eXtinguiShed, but Mrs. p. was 50
badly burned that she cannot recover.
Gossip in fashionable circles i'm Cam
bridge, Mass, is considerably agitated
concerning the report that the father Of
young lady, whose lover is poor, has
informed both the lady and the young
man in question that if she marres as
proposed he Will procure Il certificate
from the family physician pronouneing
her insane, and then will have her con-
fined in an asylum. The young lady. it
is stated. will come in possession of
$500 600 in few weeks, and according
to the specification of the will, the
father will receive $40. 900 for his Servi-
ceS as guardian.
"A singular spectacle was presented
on the Allentown road near North
Wales. Lehigh county, on Tuesday af-
ternOon. Suddenly Il tall pillar of wind,
at least 30 feet in height, and apparently
10 feet broad at its base, tapering up
ward in sugar loaf FORM began a rapid
revolution which lasted about two min
uteS and seemed to suck upward a lot of
dust. The shaft was of dark. dusty