The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-01-09
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

900 in Christmas presents.
Bishop Gilbert Haven. of1the NJ. E.
Church, Maiden, Mass. on Saturday.
Three boys were drowned while
skating at Alliance, Ohio, on Thursday.
Some persons sent Rev. Mr.. Bloss,
of Allegheny city, coffin and shroud
for Christmas presents.
The anthracite coal product last
year was 1000. 600 tons in excess of any
previous year.
-Buckwheat flour is recommended
/ for giving the hair OF horses q fine,
smooth brilliant appearance.
Mr.. J..H. Phillips. of Suffolk Park,
near Philadelphia. is the owner of a
hog that weighs ,250 pounds.
Governor HOyt denies that he pur-
: poses calling an extra session OF the
! Legislature to meet this winter.
A man in Easton. Maine, last year
harvested 10000 bushels Of potatoes
from forty-five acres of ground.
Ex-senator PomeToy, of Kansas, has
a gold mine in North Carolina which
paws him a thousand dollars a week.
An explosion occurred at the.Cellu-
Ioid Works. Newark, \. J., on Monday,
and four men were killed and two Sc
verely injured.
The Renova Record estimates the
total amount Of lumber that will be
floatedR from that point next spring at
14.000, 900 feet.
-Four negroes. charged with murder,
were taken from Jail, at Amite, La, on
. Sunday night week, and shot dead by
mob of fifty lynchers.
There is a boy living at Benders-
vile. Adams county, u years of age who
eats regularly five times a day and is
+ said to weigh 10 pounds.
Miss EckhaTt. a farmer daughter,
of State Centre, Iowa. pitched eighty
acres of wheat from wagon to stack,
and was married few hours afterward.
"A Hungarian wood chopper on the
Blue Mountains. BeTkS county. was
caught under falling tree and held
there three days before help reached
him.
A Jersey COW in Memphis has sur
priSed her owner and the farmers there
about by giving milk that made three
pounds of butter from one gallon OF
milk. 50 the papers say.
The twin brother of the late Michael
{. Kerr who at the time of his death
was speaker of the National House Of
Representatives. is Justice of the Peace
near Breakdown, Crawford county.
F Finding basket on her stOOp, q
cautious woman in Newport, r. l., took
il to a police station. and was surprised
to learn afterwaTd that it contained d
twenty-pOund turkey and not a foUdling
Father Schneider, Catholic priest,
taught school in Hereford township,
Berks county, as long ago as 1743. The
little but i'm which he taught still stands
and is the Oldest school house in the
, country.
james Wood, of W Wcstchcster county,
. y. y, raised 5000 bushels of turnips
the past season on four acres of land. or
at the rate Of 500 bushels peracre. The
Country Gentleman is authority for the
statement.
a one-legged man Of Tallahatchie,
Miss rented Is acres Of land last year
and gathered forty bales of cotton from
it. His name is Thomas Mckinney. eN-
f Treasurer Of the county. lie did near
. ~ all the work himself.
Mr.. Samuel j. Mover Of Pleasant
Run, New Hanover township, Montgo-
} merry county. lost five children within
2 fifteen days by the dread scOUTge diph-
liberia. OF these little ones three were
buried on Saturday. December 2Tth.
Two men. named Woodruff and
Seminole. the latter a half-bTeed Indian.
= who were charged with murder, were
taken from the Jail at Golden. Colorado.
, about one o'clock Friday morning. and
lynched by a mob Of 80 masked men.
A story of q sea serpent that makes
5 loud whistling noise may be expected
from the Pacific. An automatic bOuy
which ismade blythe action of the waves
TO give out such Il sound. has gone adrft
from the mouth Of san Francisco har
= bor
r Turn Halle. in East Fourth street
. New York, was partially destroyed 10y
fire ON Monday last, and four person,
were either burned TO death or suffocat
- ed. and four others We're injured. one o'
I whom, Rose Lang, died at a late houl
. Monday night.
Mrs. b. .. Sullivan died in Tionest;
township, Forest county. on Monday
b from paralysis, brought on by trouble
; and exposure. Her husband deserted
- her not long since, and last week Sh,
r was turned out for rent. She leave.
u three little children.
c On Monday. Mrs. Jane DaIes. o.
L Brownsville. entered an Outbuilding tha
: had not been used for some time. lie
C nephew, not knowing Of her presence
+ there, discharged a gun at the side q
c the building in practising al a mark
killing the unfortunate lady instantly
Bernard Stanley, a quarTyman, wa
splitting a large rock near New IIavel
Conn, on Saturday, when il opened an,
j he fell between the two pieces. The,
T. closed upon him from some unknown
@ cause, and when they were pried apar
Y lie was SO badly injured that he died il
., a few hours.
"A Democratic statesman in low.
7 has a proposition for the settlement O
r. the affair in Maine. He wants the Re
. pubiicans to ''call on HAYES TO give nj
Mr.. Iilden's Office, and then let tn
" members from Podunk. ~hOWunk. Mad
e awosky, NCmphremagOg and NOosheat
l. take their seats. 80
> SigismUnd Kaufman. who was tn
- Republican candidate for Lieutenan
" Governor of New York IN $50. has ed
dressed a letter To the German voters O
D, that state, in which he takes uncOm
is promising ground against Grants re
70 nomination for the Presidency. ant
COuuSelS his German friends cycrvWhcr
to resist IL al al hazards
+ One day last week Edward Welsh
is lad Of is years. was killed in a co;
y mine at Homecoming, Nd. When d
was babe in the cradle az the home q
Z" his parents, at Piedmont W. Va. j
i 1864. that town was bOubarded and
,e cannon ball. striking the crib. shattere
o one of his arms to pieces.
: A party of iicndish Young men al
- tempted TO hang q young girl at Bea
E. Gap recently. She was placed Cna chai
b. and rope about her neck fastened to
&c beam. She was discovered by her siste
and cut down alive. but her fright wa
- so intense that she has been confined {
ii bed from the effects OF the shock
f The Wilhelm viii case. in Scmerse
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