The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-06-11
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGs.


A tract of fifty thousand acres on
tie Northern Pacific Railroad has been
bought for a colony from Belfast, Ire
land.
james II. Gallup and Emma Canter
were married at Grand Rapids few
days ago Give 'em time and they III
make spanking team.
Annie Larock, of Kansas City, tho
only Is years old, has already caused the
separation of two married couples and
the suicide of two bachelors.
Mrs Daggett of Greenbush, Mich,
is 30 years old yet, rather than let her
blind husband go to the poorhouse, she
chopped six acres of timber for S24.
H. G.. Rogers, a member of the
PENNSYLVANIA constitutional convention
of 1887, and once minister to Sardinia,
has recently applied to the Butler cOun-
ty almshouse for relief.
Mr.. :. y. d. North, of the Utica
Herald, has been appointed special agent
Of the census for the collection of sta
tistics Of the newspaper and publishing
interests of the United States.
Joseph Hurd had his wife pros ecu
ted for running away with another man
at JaneSyille, Wis, and secured her SEN
tence to prison. Then he went about
with a petition and obtained her par
don.
Governor Colquit, of Georgia, not
being disposed to call q1lt on the guber-
natOral question, is making a vigorous
canvass for reelection, and his adher-
entS have already carried several cOun-
ties.
Mr.. Waterman. of Duluth, was SO
eXaSperated by a corn that he took care
ful aim with pistol and shot bullet
through it. The corn is gone, and so IS
most of the toe. Waterman for foolish
ness.
The mother heartless enough to
deliberately Starve her infant to death,
while pretending to feed it, lives in
SteubeEyille, Ohio. Her excuse was
that she could not be bothered by a
child.
Miss Rigney, a school teacher at
Lincoln, H., white, married Rev. Mr..
Raymond, cOlOred. and her relatives are
endeavoring to send her to an asylum,
on the ground that her love fer him is
mania.
r. ID. Porter, of Mercer county, has
a grade eve, which dropped twin lambs
that weighed twenty-three pounds when
born. Fides Weber, of Nenango county,
has a eve, a cross between a Leicester
and Lincoln, which dropped two lambs
that weigh twenty-five pounds.
Mrs. Samuel Beales, the wife of
wealthy IdIlDtI III beaver NlIy- WAS
found on Friday evening hanging from
rafter in one of the upper rooms of her
residence. Her domestic relations were
happy and she enjoyed excellent health.
No cause is assigned for the act
John Hartford, "A WayneSbuTg faI-
mer, used the loop of a tTace-chain for a
stirrup, Oh Thursday, as he was return
ing from work The horse which he
bad mounted in that manner ran three
times around the field, dragging Har-
ford body until it was torn to pieces.
In the seyenty-twO hour gO-aS-vOu
please walking match commenced at
Toronto Tuesday morning, Eph Glow,
of prin ce Edward Island, bear Fab5r's
celebrated record in Buffalo, covering IS
miles and one lapin y hours. Glow ap-
peared quite fresh when he left the track.
"A special Of the 9th to the Cncin-
natti Commercial from Lima. O., SAYS
During a violent wind-StOrm TO-DAY a
church near Mount Carey, in Hancock
county, was blown down, the roof fall
ing on the congregation. Twenty per
sOns were injured, three of them fatally
The Swa.nS5Oro (Ga.) Herald SAYS
there IS a negro woman in Emanuel
county, Known as Hannah Rountree
who was a grandmother at the age of
twenty-siX years. She gave birth to a
the daughter, when about thai age. be-
came mother herself.
jefferson Davis plantation at Hur-
rIcane, Mississippi, is leased 10y a firm
composed of four negroes, who We're for
merly owned 10y a brother Of the EXPIRE
Sideut of the COnfederacy. They own
plantations worth SO, 900, hire several
more and do Il large mercantile business
at Nicksburg. Mississippi,
james Myers, of Concord township.
Elkhart, Ind, had a colt fOaled this
spring which is I55 hands high. When
its head is raised up it reaches over the
dams back. 1t has to be fed by hand.
owing TO its inability to stOop to the ma
ternal fount. The dam is a common
animal about 10 years old.
Gen. \. Is. Norton. was q singular
: looking delegate 20 Chicago. He was an
ardent admirer of Henry Clay, and in
rash moment made a vow never to be
shaver or shOrn until his favorite was
made President. lie is now 81 years
old, his long white hair and beard at
testing his fidelity to his vow.
A clock Is feet high, s feet wide. >
/ feet deep and weighing 4 600 pounds has
; been completed by Professor Felix
! Meters at Detroit, after nearly life
time of labor. 1t is said to be the most
wonderful timepiece in the world. The
/ Old South Church management in BOs-
ton has offered So, 900 for the affair but
/ the owners want 500, 600.
"A delegate to the Chicago conven-
tirn from Chester county, this State,
named Taylor, was the first person who
: voted for Garfield, and is therefore
greatly elated at his nomination. Mr..
7 Taylor was also a delegate TO the Chica-
/ go national convention which nominated
f Abraham Lincoln, and claims to have
/ cast the first ballot for him.
John Meadows parents consented
( to his marrying Miss Pinard, at Mem
/ phiS, and all the preparations were
! made for fine wedding. Two DAYS be-
! fore the appointed time, however, they
! found out that her golden hair had been
/ made so by bleaching. Regarding that
/ as deception, they forbade the banns,
and the son OJediently broke his engage
ment.
! East of the River Jordan there is
! an Arab tribe which has embraced the
/ Catholic faith and is ministered unto bv
( a native Italian pIiest. These Arabs
wander about from place to place with
/ their fOckS of sheep, and when their
/ tent is pitched in any place temporary
! building to serve as church is put up
/ Other Arab tribes are disposed to follow
/ this example.
John Dougher, of Scranton, aged
/ thirty-SiN, and Annie Jones, of Shenan-
( dOah, aged twenty-SiX, were united in
matrimOny at EastOn. by Justice Horn
on Tuesday. The bridegroom is a one