The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-06-20
NEWS AND OTHER NoTNGs.


Grant and Hayes were DOrn I'D Ine
same year, and it was an unfortunate
year for the country.
A small black bug. somewhat like
flea. is destroying the cabbage plants in
Baltimore county, Nd.
"A New York boy, aged nineteen,
has been sent to the Elmira Reformato-
" for having married two wives.
Mr.. William HmSicker, of Irappe.
Montgomery county. has forty chickens
which recently laid 191 eggs in six days.
A farmer on the shores of Lake On
ariO has had nine acres washed away in
twenty years. He is evidently losing
ground
Mrs Matthew Shipman, an insane
woman living near Warren. set fire TO
her house Tuesday morning, and was
roasted to death.
In MOntrose. Susquehanna county,
a cat that had been missing four weeks
was found locked up in trunk. She
was terribly emaciated.
Laura Baker. of Clarksburg, Ind,
was forbidden by her parents to keep an
appointment with her lover; so she
went out and hanged herself.
The Harrisburg Patriot tells of an
eel nineteen and a half feet in length
that was caught few days ago in the
Susquehanna, at Conewago Falls.
kentucky has a father of thirty
seven children. He once lived in Rhode
Island. but early saw that it would be
necessary to move ont of that State.
Mary TroXeH, aged sixteen, was
shot and killed by an unknown person,
concealed in the bushes near her home,
at Greenm. Cumberland county. III.
Mrs. Matthew c. Perry, widow o.
Commodore Perry and mother of Mrs.
August Belmont, died on Saturday af-
ternoon at her daughters residence,
Newport. r. |.
-Greenbury Thompson, a horse thief,
in the Charlottesville, Ind, jail, confess
es to have murdered and robbed Frank
Staley. a rich old bachelor, near Mt.
Meridian. Ind, two years ago.
"A little son of Edward Fordham
died i'm Montreal on Friday from eating
diseased pork. MT. Fordham, his wife
and a second child suffered from the
same cause, but are recovering.
Great COncWagO and Lower Marsh
Creek are the names cf two Presbyterian
churches near Gettysburg, which We're
built Of stone i'm 1877 and 1870 respect
lively and are in good state of preserva-
tion.
Cheap raiIroading IN the West these
days. Fare from Kansas City to Chica-
go. distance 800 miles, and the usual
rate Sl5.25. has been reduced to fifty
cents. There are three competing rail-
road lines.
Herman Weaver. Il yOnng man in
Reading. on Friday performed the per
iIous feat at that place of jumping from
the top of a bridge, Il distance of 100
feet. into the SchuyIkill river. He was
not injured.
Two Young men of Robertson town
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mired the same lady. and she unable to
decide between them, viii settle the
matter 10y foot race, to take place on
the 4th OF July.
$. r. Croft. of Uoneybrook, Ches-
ter county. killed a spotted viper four
feet nine inches in length the other day.
The snake followed Croft for about fifty
? wards. kissing like goose and evidently
N-bcHt on mischief.
"A woman at Hill. y. Y. received q
visit from her sister last week. it being
the first time the two had met for six
teen years. although living within four
miles of each other They did not rec
OgniZe each ether.
During heavy storm at Des
Noiues. Ia. ON FRIDAY evening. several
small fish. or mimows, fell in the streets.
They were gathered up and found to be
lively. Their length is from two and a
half to four inches.
A correspondent OF the EIkton Ky.
Register tells Of the killing of "a rattle
snake a few days since in Todd county
When first discovered a little Child was
playing with it. the snake meanwhile
dartiHg ont its tongue.
Miss SaIlie Sutton. aged so years
living i'm Harrison county. Tenn. wa.
frightened by bunble bee which flew
into the room. and. attempting to Is
cape from it. fell to the floor, receiving
injuries from which she died.
A. X. Gray. of Dover. Mass, is
helpless paralytic. who has been con
stautiy rocked night and day for severa
years. Constant motion is necessary e
keep him alive and circulation must
often be induced 10y rubbing his limbs
On Saturday afternoon Michac
Winters and Meade HaUgh, two young
men residing near Brookville. wer,
drowned while bathing below Nichol
sons dam. Neither could swim. Th,
body OF Winters has not vet been recov
cred.
Half of the hair and beard of
man in Springfield, Mass, has turned
gray, while the other half retains it
natural dark color The dividing lin,
of the beard is i'm the middle OF the chin
and ON the head it IS Immediately owe
the nose
An carthen bowl. filled with ric
and fish. with four lighted candles stucl
into it. and the whole surmomted 10y
caif'S head. was found on the stOOp of
, New Orleans house. Somebody ha,
undertaken to put the inmates under
youdo0 spell.
"A farmer living in the vicinity o
Ilammonville, Ky, set a stump OH fir
in the same field in which he was plow
ing, short time since, and a bombshel
lodged i'm il during the war and out O
slght-eNploded, scattering the splinter
all over the field.
James !. Rudy, probably the oldes
letteT-canier in the United States. die
on Monday, at Harrisburg, in his 13
year. The deceased was appointed
carrier for that place in 1888. and he'll
the position without inteTmiSsiOn up
the time of his death.
At Cushtown. in Adams county
during the storm of Tuesday night O
last week, thunderboit passed dow
through the house of Augustus Mickey
: tore up the floor Of the apartment i
which the family were sitting and hurl
ed Mrs. Mickey clear across the room.
A tiye-year-old daughter of Anto
knOlg was instantly killed at Bethle
hem, Pa. on Saturday, 10y q tombstOn
fallm" upon her head The child wa
e playing in d marble yard and upset
heavy stone. which knocked her down
striking her head anG smashing her skull
Two brick HasOus. named Waite
kendeN and Harden Brown. were kiIe
& on Saturday 10y the cavinl in of a ne,
Z sewer. NOW TelJIilGiup gff Eqcf Mi