The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-08-13
NEWS AND OTHER NoTIYGs.


the proud pOSSessOr Of the bed General Ham
cock slept on when a babe.
-James Van Horn, of NorristOwn, raised
in his garden a tomato weighing one pound
and ten ounces, less one drJchm.
A summons in a breach OF promise suit
against the bridegroom was sent in among
the bridal presents at an Iowa wedding.
No place on the continent IS so richly
pcrfumed aS Magnolia, y. C., where +. y.
Ncwberry has 2S4, 900 tuberoSes in bloom.
A tailIeSs eat belonging TO Police Head
quarters, Staten Island, is the mother of FIVE
kittens which among them sport but one tail.
An apple tree on Che farm of Mr. Isaac
Siggins, in Harmony township, Forest c0un.
ty, that was planted in 1900, Is So feet around
the body.
Mrs. Gilbert G Cameron, the wife OF the
editor of the Marietta Times, caught Il bass
in the Susquehanna near that place weighing
IA pounds.
~ mechanic aged 26 years, who had been
condemned TO four years Imprisonment at
Cusano, Italy, starved himself to death in
-iIenfy X Lands, of Montgomery coun-
ty lost five children with diphtheria in July
and has several others very low with the
dread disease.
The last Iowa Legislature passed law
making women eligible to the office of COuI-
ty RecordeTand several ladies are candidates
for nomination.
The editor of the CanouSburg Rural Notes
left his paper in charge OF his brother last
week, and he changed its politics, bringing it
out for Garfield.
"A Boston man permitted his wife to OBJ
tain a divorce from him on the ground of
cruelty. She married another man, who
paid the first husband 81, 600.
Two owners of one flock of sheep in
humboldt county, Nevada. sold few days
ago 10000 pounds of wool this years clip,
an average of six pounds per fleece
At political meeting in Perryville, Ky,
the other-day, Captain English delivered a
long political speech from the saddle, his
horse being surrounded by auditors.
Three ears of an excursion train fell
through a bridge into the canal at Waverly,
Ohio, on Friday evening. One person was
killed, and sixteen injured, one fatally.
AT heOkuk picnic dead snake was
laid across a sleeping mans neck for fun.
The fright was all that could have been cX-
pected, for he lay half day i'm couvulsionS.
Il Maryland farmer has discovered that
potato bugs boiled will turn leather a beau
tful scarlet color, and . company will be
formed to make dyeing mixtures from pota-
to bugs.
-Bcese Owens, q prominent pork packer
of Pittsburg, failed on Thursday His ia-
bilitiCs are reported at Sl70,OO0, while his as
sets, it is said, Will scarcely yield five cents
on the dollar.
Daniel r. GoodIop, of Kentucky. an old
free sOiler and an intimate personal friend
OF Abraham Lincoln, has written to Col.
Forney, declaring his purpose to vote for
Cen Hancock.
During storm last month at Norancc,
in Switzerland, lightning struck one of two
little girls sleeping in the same bed, and in
stautly killed her, without even touching or
awaking the other.
Mr. Andrew Morgdnthal, Of Ricktown,
BcrkS county, has paid $50 penalty ami %
cents cost for killing tine cat OF Samuel II.
Boyer. The cat attacked Mr.. MOrganthal
whi!c he was eating dinner.
The Chicago Times says that Mrs. Han
cock must SuhMIt the Generals love letters
for publication. They are suspected of con-
tanning reasonable utteraures, or at any rate
of having been written by Jcre Black
kit Carson, SON of the famous scout,
says that he and Henry NJ. Stanley, of AfTi-
can reUoVn, once clipped sheep at two cents
a head in New Mexico, and worked with n
team near Ogden. | tab, FOR SD month.
Now it is a Yankee, Nj. Samuel Brom-
ley, of Mystic River, in the state of CunUec-
ticut, who announces his ability to live for
ten hours with bis nose and mouth heTmeti-
cullV sealed. Where is this thing to stop
The Sheriff of Armstrong county sold the
effects yf Boyd & Peters circus at LecchbuTg
on Friday. The circus owners were the pur-
chasers. il was to this circus that the men
charged with outraGing the BuIkett girl were
attached.
The death Of Ex-Governor William BicIer
leaves but three CX-tioypTuorS of Penn SYLVIA
MIA living. Pollock and HlTtranft are in
Philadelphia, Both holding Office, and Curtin
is @t his nome in Be.lcfOute, cudeav0riEg to
Get into office.
~ About thc time that Gen. Hancock is
sued Order No. 80 at New Orleans, Mr.. Gar
field was negutiatidg at Washington with
Oakes AmCs for tine shares in Credit NObi-
leT on which he afterwards received a cash
dividend of S92q
Mrs. Glenn saw her friend Mrs James
take fatal dose of laUdanum in H9staH, and
within few days she attempted to Kill her
self in the same manner, though She had
never before mCGitatcd suicide, nOT had any
cause TO desire death.
The census man has found a boy in
10
age, but is married 10 a large, fne-loJkiug.
buN0m woman, and they are living VcacCt-
bly, and happily on farm. The boy is a
very thrifty young man.
Minnie SCcbach, a Louisville girl of
twenty years, it - claimed, has lived forty
four days without food, and is still fasting.
. She lives in bed in etui-unc0nSciOuS state
with her mouth wide open. She has not
spoken q worG foT two weeks.
"A London Catholic newspaper states that
in 1879 two thOuSaud persons renonced Pro
testantism in England and became Catholics.
II also says that seventeen out of every
twenty Of these converts were prepared FOR
the step under Ritualstic teaching
AT Columbus, o.. on Sunday last, Right
Rev. John y. Natter~pu, native OF BlaiTs-
vile, Indiana county, was couSecrated Cath
Ollie Bishop Of Columbus. About 1,Se0 per
SOns were admitted by tickets Eight biSh-
ops and eighty-five priests were present.
The body of Patrick COTcuTan, aged q,
was found on SUNDAY on the third pier of the
Tenth street bridge, at Pittsburg, with his
skull fractured ana several other " oundS on
the head, evidently made with a blunt inStru-
meut. 1t Is supposed he was murdered.
j Lloyd IlaiCht, we'll known in good So
cicty in New York ard Brooklyn, and con-
tractor for the wire for the East river bridge,
whose fOrCcTies caused the suspension of the
GT0cerS' bank, has been sentenced to the
State prison for four years at hard labor.
The Washington Reporter says that
Samuel r., age IL son Of Samuel CARRIER OF
South StTabane, Washington county, in one
day bound niUety-five dozen of oats, from g
o'clock till Sund0Wn. He also gathered
nineteen dozen OF it. II was all ordinary
. binds
DR. Germaine las for three years been
blind, yet he continues to practice aeceptably
at WCStfeld. Mass. His wife accompanies
him on his calls, describes to him the visible
symptoms of bis patients, and assists him in
other ways so well that he las lost none Oi
his business.
If the business Of the Pennsylvania rail-
road continues as at present its earnings foI
the current year are expected to exceed those
Of the New York Central railroad 10y S70O,.
coo. The tonnage and income Of the Penn
Sylvauia railroad are by far the heaviest oi
any road in the United States.
DR.. Eckart, OF Rockville Dauphin couH-
ty, was seized with an epleptc fit while
driving in Harrisburg on Wednesday. DR..
II. /. Stckel, OF that city seeing that relief
must be administered at once, took out a
sharp penknife and slightly cut his patient
throat, giving him instant relief.
Mr., Bell, the inventor of the telephone.
Is only y years of age. lie has made an ex
cellent thing out of his invention, having re
ccived q large sum outright, besides a lot OF
shares and $4,000 annual salary as electTi
/ clan. He and his father-in-law, Mr. Hub
? bard, have made several millions out of the
: invention already.