The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-12-17
NEWS AND OTHER NoTISes.

- man in Bucks county has Just ended
a lawsuit OF foTty-two years standing andr re
covered six cents damages.
An extensive sauerkraut manufacturing
firm in Pittsburg is buying mp all the cut
ca ShsCe IL can get in BerkS county.
On Thursday last woman in Marquette,
Wis in a fit of temporary insanity cut ohi
her babe's head and then committed suicides
Mrs Noah HOwells, bright and rosy
English woman of only 10 summers living at.
Braddcck elOped on Thursday with Jom
Forks.
inc near Orwigsburg. Schuylkill county, was
found frozen TO death within sight Of his
home on Saturday.
Henry Williams, his wife and child died
last week on a farm near Bryan, Texas, from
eating poisoned beef Four others are SICK
from the same cause.
Mr. Tohn H. Parnell, a brother Of the
aoitator who OWNS plantation IN Georgia,
announces his intention OF starting iaud
leagues in that State.
The Commissioner of Agriculture pre-
diets that the year ISS4 will be the last IN
which this country will be at all dependent
on foreign lands for sugar.
"A company is to be established at Toledo
shortly to manufacture Bessemer steel by
new process. It's capacity VIII be from NJ
teen TO forty-fiye tons daily.
They are beginning now TO ship gold to
America from Europe in ron-hooped barrels.
The next thing, says an exchange, European
The Lebanon Courier tells of an Old cOu-
pIe in that county, Michael and Catherine
Bross. who lived together in married life for
sixty-four years Bath died few days ago.
a travelling printer, who. for want OF
employment at his trade, went to work on a
Columbia county farm, came IL one day TO
ask his employer il q hen should be SET solid.
John Golden fell siXJy feet down an el-
evator shaft, in Franklin, to solid PLANK
floor. lie alighted squarely on his feet and
tfrffu a
back of the hand.
The Tammany Hall Committee ON Or
raufyatiOn on SATURDAY. night enthusiastically
indorscd John Keliy's leadership Mr. Kelly
will assume editorial control of the EreHtHg
EyDTeSS of which he Is chief owner
A fire occurred Sunday morning at the
residence Of Charles y. Fisher, in Baltimore,
and Mary Tasker and Perry DeEgs, both col
Ored servants, jumped from fifth story win
dow and were fatally injured.
John W. Garrett las been elected PreSi-
dent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for
the twentv-iifth time. There Is no such thing
as getting above the Garrett without climb
ing into the CUCk-lCft or on 10 the roof.
"A Pittsburgh man, Charles &. Ioeber,
has invented an ajr-shiD with which be pro
poses 20 pilot the azure at rate OF speed uu-
ggUa.igd by the soaring bird Of freedom OF
the fancy flights of q Senatorial aspiIaut
Fortunate. says the Cincinnati Gazette,
rising to the height OF the great occasion, is
The President who can 60 out of Office with
a clean bin Of health But how much more
fortunate would he be if he had come in with
one.
Francis Smith. Patrick Smith and Eu-
gane NOOngu were frozen to death while
Sleeping in the streets of New York on sat
urday night HyWor Nallenberg was found
frozen stiff in his room on Baxter street SUI
day morning
-Anothcr week has passed and yet moth
ing has been done toward rcwardmg General
Grant for his services to his country The
matter ought 10 he attended To at once, so
that the great soldier may properly observe
the holidays.
DIR. Buchanan. the bogus medical dipIo-
ma man, of Philadelphia and N. '. Chap
man, his accOmU.i"c In an attempt to escaDe,
have been sentenced. tue former 10 ten
months Imprisonment and the la ter 10 twpu-
ty-twO months.
At Tumey Bro : Touring mills. i'm Con
neiIsyilIe, on Saturday, the miller, named
Lee, had his head cut of by the explosion of
boiler while be was irving to get OF
good head Of steam. lie was struck by
heavy piece Of iron
An express train struck Mr.. Theo. Da-
venport's carriage in Stamford. Conn. on
Thursday, instantly killing Miss Harriet
Davenport, seventeen years old, and severe
" iniuriug Mr.. Davenport and the daughter
of Rev. J. ". Hyde.
Thomas DiIlev, 2 farmer, living near Col
ona, Iowa, was killed on Friday night. while
in bed and his wife dangerously injured i'm
J
takeG-and Clement and Albert Galliun are
suspected of the crime
Three negroes, one woman and two
men, who murdered Mrs. Kennedy in CIar-
eudOn county, :. c. last Sunday week, were
captured on the following Wednesday and
hanged on the nearest tree to the place Of the
murder that would hold them
An ingenious machine has been devised
for separating the sound cranberrics in
barrel from the UnSOund. They are poured
into it at the rate Of six barrels an hour, and
the sound ones, having elasticity. bound
over a barrier, while those decayed remain.
-kernan, The fiery, uutamed donkey of
OkoIona states n0tOrIety, has broken ont in
Memphis with paper called the Solid South
whose mission Is to pray the day be not Ear
distant when the Union VIII become a thing
Tor worms 10 iced upon The same to YOU,
Herman.
A great explosion occurred on Friday
morning at the new PenVgTrig cOIlicrv i'm
the Rhondda Valley, Wales, in which one
hundred persons persisted. The pit is one
mile from the scene of the great explosion i'm
Denas cOliicry, January 10 1878, when so
persons peTished.
1t is stated that three children Of Mr..
George Brown, residing at New BROOKLYN
Camden county, y. J., have recently bied to
death, one from hemOrrhage of the stomach
the second from a cut lip, and the third died
on saturday from having bitten his tongue
three daeS previously.
Senators OF the United States when il,
W asElECtOn, are shaved at the public eX-
peHSe members Of the House Of Reprrser-
tatives are shaved at their own. expense.
W ny this discrimination? And why should
for their own shaving
Two men fired simultaneously at each
other Iu Salt Lake haTrOOm. and the bullets
came intocOlliSion. There could he 10 doubt
OF ghis, for one bullet dropped t. ne floor
midway between the antagonists, who were
zen feet apart and the other was turned M
ware 10 the ceiling, while both were Gattem-
The keystone yruger factory of F. T.
Adams s. Co, at &c, Pa. caught fire and
burned to the grCura on Nomday night last
" ..ia fndea '-iDg to save the building.
z Uemen Cha ns NlnUEart. George Smith
and George C.-- We're Killed by the falling
oi wall. The loss IS Sl25, 600 insurance,
$50 G0g.
John M0fIiet, q young married man who
'OTkS al the sheet mill OF the Russia rolling
1ii!, at Niles, Ohio, had Just finished his
.orl and put on his overcoat In stepping
-veT The coupling Of the rolls his overcaaE
vas caught by them, drawing him in and
iasHing both his legs terribly. The Injured
saa died.
The VIII Of James f. Brown of Kittan-
my WHO died on Dec. .. bequeaths So to
very widow in the town, and S25 to every
wife who shall become a widow. and fbe
same amount TO all the girls now living who
snail DecomS wives. Large sums are oiyef,
10 charitable institutions out of the 8. SOC. COO
Of the estate
"A well to do farmer. living 1rear Mt
y ernon, O., the father of a large family. ran
away with his Meighbor's wife RECENTLY.
! he deserted husband and wife coolv united
-heir fortunes and have been living together
ever since, without any further ma rrfare
ceremony and with a double family of chill
iren by way Of a start.
At Telford, Montgomery, Milton Souder
Na5 at work IN mill when his foot slipped /
md he fell upon the belt With ligbtninG
apidity lie was drawn towards the large dri- !
,iEG pnlley near the floor. In close proxim- /