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


from thirty-four head of sheep.
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'll
make a 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 20 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 o. 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 q,at on the guher
natOral question, is making a vigorous
canvass for reelection, and his adheT-
entS have already carried several cOun-
ties.
Mr.. Waterman, of Duluth, was SO
eXasperated by a corn that he took care
ful aim with a pistol and shot a 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
child.
Miss Rigney, a school teacher at
Lincoln, H.. white. married Rev. Mr..
Raymond, cOloTed, and her relatives are
endeavoring to send her to an asylum,
on the ground that her love fer him is a
mania.
r. d. Porter, of Mercer county, has
"A grade eve, which dropped twin lambs
that weighed twenty-thTee pounds when
born. FideS Weber, of NenangO county,
has "A eve, a cross between Leicester
and Lincoln, which dropped two lambs
that weigh twenty-five pounds.
Mrs. Samuel Beales, the wife of a
wealthy farmer at Beaver City, was
found on Friday evening hanging from a
rafter in one of the upper rooms of her
residence. Her domestic relations weIe
happy and she enjoyed excellent health
No cause is assigned for the act.
John Hartford, "A WayneSburg far
mer, used the loop of trace-chain for a
stirrup, OIL 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 S body until it was torn to pieces
In the seventy-two hour go-as-you
please walking match commenced at
Toronto Tuesday morning, EPh Glow,
Of prin ce Edward Island, bear Fab5rs
celebrated record in Buffalo, covering IS
miles and one lapin y hours, Glow ap-
peared quite fresh when lie left the track
A special of the 9th to the Cincin-
natti Commercial from Lima, O.. saws {:
During a violent wind-storm TODAY
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 i'll Emanuel
county, Known as Hannah ROuntree.
who was a grandmother at the age of
twenty-siX years. She gave birth to a
girl when only thirteen years old. and
the daughter, when about thai age. be
came a mother herself.
jefferson Davis plantation at Hur-
ricane, Mississippi, is leased by a firm
composed of four negroes, who were for
merly owned by a brother of the eX-Pre-
sideHt of the COnfederacy. They own
plantations worth SO, 900, hire several
more and do a large mercantile business
at NickSburg. Mississippi.
james Myers, of Concord township.
Elkhart, Ind, had a colt foaled this
spring which is I5E 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
teTnal fOunt. The dam is a common
animal about 10 years old.
Gen. \. B. Norton. was a singular
7 looking delegate 20 Chicago. lie was an
ardent admirer of Henry Clay, and in
a lash moment made a vow never to be
shavea or shOTn until his favoTite was
made President. lie is now s. years
old, his long white hair and beard at
testing his fidelity to his vow.
A clock Is feet high, 5 feet wide. >
feet deep and weighing /. 900 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
I Old South Church management in Bos-
ton has offered SIS. 600 for the affair. but
the owners want S50. 600
A delegate to the Chicago conven-
! tiTn from Chester county. this State.
named Taylor, was the first person who
voted for Garfield, and is therefore
greatly elated at his nomination. Mr.
Taylor was also a delegate to the Chica-
60 national convention which nominated
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 a 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 a deception, they forbade the banns.
and the son O1ediently 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
native Italian priest. These Arabs
wander about from place to place with
their flOckS 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-SiX, and Annie Jones, of Shenan-
doah. aged twenty-SiX, were united in
matrimOny at EastOn, by Justice Horn.
on Tuesday. The bridegroom is one