The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-18

The story runs that when Mr. Geo.
B. Roberts was a young man he WAS en-
couraged by q friend with the remark
that he might some day be President OF
the United States. After meditatInE
moment he answered, 4 would much
rather he President OF the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company Little did he
think then, as an humble civil engineer,
that his wish would be fulfilled.
Some days ago William II. Herman
late editor of the paroxysmal Okolona
States. was severely cOwhided at NIcks-
burg, Mississippi, by Colonel a. \ Har-
per. the senior ediroT and proprietor of
that paper. Herman got angry because
of his discharge from the editorial force
of the States and sought revenge by max
ing slanderous remarks about Harper's
family. which led to the cowhiding.
The Paris Figaro says: Do not waste
your orange peel, but make an incision
round it midway. and remove carefully
/ in two halves. Take the two cups and
place them hollow downward, one on
/ the grass and the other among the plants
! or vegetables. At the end of few days
/ you will be rid of all slugs, black OF gray.
Every morning your will find that they
( have taken refuge under the cups of or
ange peel and can be destroyed.
The Lancaster NejC Era says that
/ Mrs. Augustus Derrick. of Rawlinsville.
+ is the owner of turkey hen that recent
/ " hatched out TWENTY-FIVE turkeys.
: Soon after that event she became per-
manently disabled, when the gobbler
/ took possession OF the brood and is rails
ing them with as much care as the hen
could have bestowed on them. y few
DAYS ago a number of crows attacked
the young turkeys, but they We're put to
flight by the old gobbler in short order.
/ e. i. Williams, a young cOlored
man. is the .census enumeTatOr of the
Ninth ward of Burcyrus, O. Several
I years ago Williams was run over by a
train of cars and lost both arms, which
were taken oft near the shoulder. In
the absence of hands to write with he
( has learned to write by holding pen or
pencil between his teeth, and is able in
this way to produce legible style Of
penmanship. He writes very rapidly,
and in his work as enumerator takes AZ
average of two hundred names q day
Howard 5 wife deserted him at lola
Kan. and positively refused TO return
to him. He procured the service Of two
clergymen, who accompanied him to her
fathers house. where she was living,
and spent an entire afternoon endeaVOr-
ing to effect a reconciliation. Ho ward
was willing to promise anything she de-
manded, but she stubbornly resisted all
arguments, and the ministers gave up
the task. That night Howard broke in
to the house with an axe, chopped his
wife frightfully, and would have killed
her if her father had not shot him dead.
"A terrible tornado swept through
the southeast part of Pottawattomie
county, Iowa, Wednesday night of last
week. The track of the tornado was
about half mile wide, and demolished
Il.
/ persons are known to be killed, and
twenty in all are known to be missing.
( Not a house was left standing IN the
track OF the storm. Men, women and
! children were blown great distance,
some being killed and others badly in
jured. The storm did not last fifteen
minutes and was unaccOmpanied by
ran.
Charles A Hill, a lawyer of st.
Louis. was arrested III his Office last
Friday on a charge OF cOunterfeiting
and utteTing bogus money. When the
officers entered his office he was found
manipulating One-dollar greenback notes
in such a manner as 10 make ten dollars
out of nine. In his trunk, IN sleeping
room adjoining his Office, were found q
regular cOunterfeiteT's outfit of plaster
: OF paris, various metals used in making
! bogus money and mOulds for making
five and ten-cent pieces. \ man named
Buckingham, who was in Hills office
at the time, was also arrested.
: A telegram came to the Wesleyan
; Female Seminary at Cincinnati for Mis-:
Mary Beach. daughter Of a State Sena
: tor. saying that her father had died sud
denly of apOpleXy. The school officials
: gave a ready assent TO her speedy de
T. paTtuTe, and did all they could 10 assist
I and sOOthe the seemingly GTief-StrickeT
= girl. She was Joined at the depot by
. young man whom she introduced as hel
5 cousin. lie really was her sweetheart
. and had sent the message according Il
previous understanding with her, uo
! because her father was dead, for he va,
4 ( not. but to enable her to get out of th'
r seminary and elope with him. Thcy
, were married before the fraud was dis
, covered.
t Farmer Wait, living in Washington
y township. Erie county, underwent AZ
: operation the other day for a most hOr
f rible and incurable disease. His head
? face, nOstrils, mouth, arms and bod
= are covered with hideOus spongy fungus
2 sprouts, filled with blood and quit,
I black, a hue which his whole body i
, assuming. One Of these parasites faS
] tened upon a tonsil, and, spreading ovel
the air passage, nearly SuffOCated hin
= and prevented food being taken thTO
- . the natural channel The removal O
I the throat growth was effected, and h,
p can now swallow. but his death is inevi
f table. He is a most horrible sight {,
{ witness, and prays tor death. Physi
clans there have never before met with
case OF this rare disease.
I William Binus was hanged at War
- ren, Bradley county. Ark, on the Ill
e inst, for the murder of Com Edwards
: in June, 1879. Both were colored ant
{ kept company with a colored woman
= named Dora Cook. Binns became jeal
= ous and Edwards body was found il
2 DOUa'S houses with the skull crushed bl
some heavy instrument. Binns wa!
l seen near the house shortly before. anl
= ( when arrested had blood on his clothes
, Both he and Dora were sentenced L
death, but the Governor cOmmuted th,
wOman's sentence TO twenty-One years
imprisonment, there being doubt of WI
= ing completely. BiEns showed great
2 GOODNESS on the scaffold and died protest
ing his innocence. lie died of strang
ulatiOn, his struggles being terrible.
+ The Chicago Daily Ne,cs which strOngl,
advocated Grants nomination for a thirt