The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-04-16
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINes.


China.
A Chester Valley hen recently laid
An egg three inches long and about as
thick as a pipe stem.
Hon. jeremiah s Black Is quoted
as declaring that he has mo preference
for the Presidency except Gen. Han
cock
Mr.. John KlOpp, q grocer OF Read
ing, has q hen which laid an egg that
q by 62 inches, and weighed
80 ounces.
"A drunken couple at Saginaw, Mich,
took their little girl, aged I, along on a
spree, and finally left her intoxicated III
the street.
At Waco, Texas. on Sunday night,
VIII Hardwick killed John French,
rival in love affair, and then commit
ted suicide.
Mr.. 4. 5. Musser, of Mountville,
Columbia county. has hen that laid an
egg measuring 64xS inches, and weigh
ing ounces.
"A little boy at jamestown, Iowa,
hanged himself because a baby sister re-
ceived the attention that had previously
been bestowed on himself.
Mr.. William hTcElree, Of Franklin,
Washington county, threshed $50 bush
els of oats and l, 100 bushels Of wheat in
four days with a thresher.
"A powerful bulldog entered school
room in Harrisburg on "Wednesday OF
last week, and, attacking the children,
bit seven of them seriously.
The British steamer Darita was
sunk the other day by collision on the
river Danube. Eleven passengers and
five of the crew were drowned.
The Danielites. members Of the
latest English sect. are strict yegeta-
rians, and also abstainers from beer,
wines and spirits. snuff and tobacco.
A lisast rOuS fire broke out in tIar-
risburg on Saturday afternoon, destroy
ing the c3y shop planning mill, ten dwell
ing houses and two stables. The total
loss is about $40, 600.
There is a Swede living in HeEder-
son county. Tenn, who claims to be l4f
years old. He has lived in that county
for forty years and until the last two
has made his own living.
At the BrOmpton Oratory, a few
DAYS ago. thirteen Ritualists, five Of
them ex-clergymen, were received into
the Catholic Church. Nine more Of the
same group await reception.
-Francis Murphy, the temperance
lecturer, took possession on Saturday
Of the Philadelphia house presented TO
him, and for the first time in over nine
years had all his children around him.
Nine disinterested Republicans have
announced themselves as candidates for
the nomination for Sheriff in WestmOre-
land county, where the Democrats are
pretty certain to elect their man after all.
-AnOther genuine wife of Clarence
f. Davis, the bigamist. now a prisoner
at Chicago, has been discovered. Shc is
from Wisconsin and has marriage GER
tilicate dated November, 1876. She is
No. IA
-Lettie Guy of.Syracuse whistles for
money, and it comes to her. She gives
whistliDg concerts, is young, and looks
pretty and GUy-less with her lips puck
cred Her performance sounds like a
piccolo.
The family Of Cornelius Palmer,
living near Tweed, Ontario. were poi
soned on Saturday by eating wild pars-
nips One child is dead and the mother
and four children are in a dangerous
condition.
In Pittsburgh. on Friday last, the
Western Iron Association met and low
cred the price of finished iron from to
2-10 cents. The movement is intended
to decrease tho price Of pig, and discour-
age foreign importation.
Two dOuble-yOiked eggs in a Potts
town nest hatchcd out two double
chickens. each chicken having four
wings, four legs and two heads. They
We're the property Of Mrs. Isaac YOTkey.
Both Of them have died.
Daniel COnrOy, the gem puzzle mad
man, is not violent now. and his friends
feel that ne is recovering his reason.
He sleeps well and enjoys his meals.
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tiOn for the benefit Of his family.
Eleven persons were killed and 4
number Of others injured Ey fire and
explosion in the oil well Of Bart, Bolton
x Haywood, at Silverton, near North
WoOlWiCh, Eng, on Tuesday last The
loss is estimated at thousands OF pounds.
"A special from Dowington. Chester
county, gives the particulars of a fatal
explosion on Friday last, by which two
men were killed and ten were wounded
The men were quarrylng stone, when q
large charge of dynamite suddenly ex.
ploded.
-Wm. Clark, Of West Goshen town
ship, Chester county. is the proud pos
SCISSOR OF a shoat pig that made its ap-
peaTance upon this mundane speTe
about SIX months ago, and, that, too
without ears. It presents a strange ap
peaTance
A petition one hundred and eighty
eight yards long was recently presented
to the House OF Representatives by Mr.
Brewster, of Michigan, signed by "a, ,O0C
women. who want Congress to prohibit
the making and selling or ardent spirits
in this country
"A toll gate near Green sburc. Ind.
is guarded night and day 10y ten armed
men. ut an expense Of S1T5 a week
while the receipts are only $40. Tht
residents have repeatedly destroyed it
and the company have resolved TO de
fend It al any cost.
"A man named Charles Easterdar
attempted to board = moving freigh
( train near Newport on Saturday last
while intoxicated and was thrown I,
the track and had his head badly cut
lie died on the train while being takel
: to his HON e at Harrisburg.
Jacob Palmer, of Sporting Hill
Berks county, is the owner OF q CHECKER
which was hatchcd five weeks ago. anC
( Tejoices in the possession of four well
developed legs. Most singular Of all. j
uses lis four legs in walking, and is 3
active as any other j-weeks-Old chick.
/ Mrs. Wilhelmina Treske. a German
lady Of GO years, living in Louisville
XIV, was murdered by her oldest sol
William on Saturday forenoon. TIL
boy has been crazy for the past thre
years. No one witnessed the deed
which was done with q butcher knife
"A farmer at Rochester, No, toll
his wife that $500. which they had save
by many years of industry and econo
my had been stolen. lie was mistaken
eor within an hour he found the treqsur
where he had mislaid it but the vii