The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-12-19
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

year harvested s1O,OOO bushels or pOta-
toes from 45 acres of ground.
Three brutes in Erie dipped cat in
coal oil and then applieda match The
poor animal was roasted alive.
"A hog fifteen months DID, raised by
Mr.. I. II Lewis, of Uniontown, Fay
/ ette county, weighs 755 pounds.
The body of an unknown man,
brought from New York, was cremated
I at Washington PA. on Tuesday.
There is a musical cat in Shamokin
which goes to piano and paws the keys
( for an hour at a time if not disturbed by
any one,
A strong decoction of peach-tree
leaves is reported to be a specific for
chicken cholera; dose, One-half tea
spoonful.
Mr.. Calvin Dietrich, of Pittston,
has taken out letters patent for a pre-
paration of artificial fuel, composed of
coal culm.
John Flagg, of Troy, is so years old;
yet, at riding school exhibition, he
+ jumped his horse over a tive-fOOt hurdle
beating all competitors.
"A Catholic priest named Doyle and
young man named Monaghan, clerk,
I were drowned the other day while cross
ing the river near Athens, Ga.
BY fall of top slate in Faust col
liery, near fremont, Friday morning,
. Frederick Hay, John Rickler and a boy
named James were instantly killed,
1t is stated that on James l.. Rays
farm, in Lewis-and-C Clarke county, Mon
tana. this season one acre yielded 102
bushels of wheat, the largest yield Of
wheat ever recorded.
At Paris. XIV, Mrs. James DuttOn
made a mistake Friday night which
cost her infant child its life. She gave
it an overdose of morphine, thinking it
was some other medicine.
General Grant completed his tour
around the world on Tuesday, and Phil
adelpha, whence he started, welcomed
him back with great demonstration.
In the evening he dined with Mr.. q. W.
Childs
The West Chester Republican tells
I tough story of a goose now living IL
West Bradford township, Chester coun-
ty, that is over 50 years ola and is as
SpTy as some other geese On the farm,
which are p years old.
During an alteration at Mahaney
City, Schuylkill county, on Sunday last,
Daniel O'Connell struck John Hackett,
knocking him over stove and breaking
his neck. O'Connell delivered himself
, UP and is now in prison.
There is grave yard at LehmaS-
ter's station, Franklin county, which
has been in use siaCe before the ReyOlu-
tionary war, in which quietly sleep the
remains of Mr.. and Mrs. Buchanan, he
parents of the late President.
In Newcastle, y. b.. May Willis
ton, a daughter of Judge WillistOn, and
jamie Watt, daughter OF Mr.. c. c..
Watt. shipbuildeF, while skating Oh the
river broke through weak spot in the
ice, and were drowned. The bodies
were recovered.
The lower jaw of a human being
said to have belonged to the primitive
race, has been dug up on the banks of
Lynx Creek, in Arizona. The jaw
never had more than six teeth, and
from its conformation the posSessor sub
sisted wholly on fruits and grass.
An embankment caved in upon ten
| or twelve men just before noon on
, Thursday last, at PlattsmOuth, Neb.
, near the new railroad bridge which is
being constructed. Three men We're
taken out dead and seven badly injured.
= 1t was feared others were buried under
, the ruins.
In Lower Saucon township. Lehigh
county, slate miner named Wagner
laid down by a stove and fell asleep with
= his child in his arms. y leg WAS knock
2 ed from under the stove when a boiler
Of scalding water was thrown over the
man and child. the latter being so badly
scalded that it died soon aftcrward.
The bodies Of John Brown aud his
. daughter -Addie, for whose murder
r Clark Brown, son of the former. was
recently hanged, in Ontario have been
, exhumed for further examination. II
! is rumoTed that Mrs. Brown, wife and
mother of the murdered persons, viii Dc
{ arrested in consequence Of this eNamina
tion.
"A cow that belongs 10 Curtis Ne.
Quiilin, of Wharton township, Fayettc
county, Pa, some time ago experienced
= difficulty in calying. Amos SybeTt
made an inCiSiOn in the cows side. CN.
tTacted the calf, Sewed up the wound
3 and although this was done il May last
T both COW and calf are living and doing
- well
Julia Hoover was committed to jai
t, az Lancaster on Monday morning foi
. trial on the charge Of murder. She Is
. supposed to have poisoned her infant
sister, at Ephrata, by putting arsenic in
cracker soup. At the hearing on Fri
. day Professor I. II. Baker, Professor O
Chemistry at NiIlersville State Normal
a School, testified that he found arsenic IL
Y the stomach.
= News has reached TayIorsville
Tenn. from across the North CAROLINE
e line, Of a brutal wife murder in PiersOl
+ county. GrOSe CanZart married a yOun.
e lady eighteen months ago, and soon al
, ter deserted Ter. lie returned few
, days ago, and without provocation. s,
far as heard from, murdered her in col,
J., blood and fled.
5 A farmer Of French Creek township
& Mercer county, had fifteen sheep killc,
by dogs. The appraisers awarded hin
Sis damages. The commissioners re
u fused 10 pay IL on the ground that at th.
= time the sheep were killed the farme
= owned a dog which ne had never re
i, turned 10 the assessors. The matte
.e was appealed 10 court. and the c0Ur
! sustained the commissioners.
'e Two men were driving along a rOaC
4 that skirted precipice. at Crawford
:, Iowa, and rain and darkness came upol
+ them. They had heard hat horse
Z could see in the dark. and therefore le
n go Of the reinS. trusting tostheir brute
's instinct; but it happened that thi
e horse was blind which fact they did no
!, know until after a good many of thei
bones had been broken.
A young man elOped with an Hi
% nois girl, aud abandoned her at Hay
d City. Kansas, giving her 4 draft for S10l
n and adv ising her to return home, as h
I was going to Texas. She met wit
~, some delay in getting money for tn
draft, but as soon as possible she bOugh
'e a horse, n revolver. and some provision,
e md started after the fugitive Inter
3 esting news is expected from her.
10 Votes were very scattering in Ne