The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-12-10


-TLe Reading Eagls states that "0ld
Daddy Fisher. Of Fh-etWond, Berks county.
eighty-Cue years uf age and ''Worn ont by IN
tirmities," " has recently had speculative Ia
surauce put ou hi5 l!is By parties in noyTiSe
related 10 him 20 he amount c1 O. least $50
000 and Mrs. Susan Eve.H1Tt, aged 50,
''with one foot in the grave" residing two
and cne-hIlf miles from Fleetwood, has
been Insured in like manner for SIS, ,000.
They are regarded as good subjects BY the
spectators
Chang, the Chinese giant who arrived at
New y oTk on Wednesday OF last week by
the steamer Berlin, Is described rs nine feet
in ht irht He is under engagement to Bar
mum 4 60. for a year at 500 per week. His
age is 53. he is the son Of a HekiE merchant
and speaks five languages. lie refuses to
be- measured. and says be fears he would die
ut once if ile allowed this to be done, as l. is
superstition with his people, amounting TO
religious creed, that they should not be
measured until after death.
The great unwashcd statesman Of the
north west, Henry Clay Dean, has his own
views, says the New Haven Union. az 70 the
result of the late election. lie sAys "WhGt
elected Garfield was the combination Of
Beeclier, who, Tor two decades, hes polluted
literature, and who was caught in crime,
with C0ukliEg, whJ has hccn praECiHg fOT
years with another mans wife, and inger-
SOIL who read = writ of ejectTert against
Almighty God and jail delivery % hell
this is " hat defeated us and elected Garfield. -
Mrs. imsHsChnider who is said to
have nePD fourteen times married i'm seven
years, and who il in jail al Newark. :. J..
upon the chsrga Of robhinC one Cf her hEs-
. bands. II not handsome, but her FiTaCifV and
lively temperament make her Nerv attractive
and some men say decidedly fascinating.
She euly admits, however, that she has been
married three times; SAYS she is =, her
father being q farmer H. Germany. There
+ she married Carl Temple, brewer. and
cEue q this country seven wears AGO. first
: living in Philadelphia. She subsequently
moved to Newark.
Mamie CEGWD.in was a patient in q
luuatic asylum At Cincinnati, and Dr. VIII
& son attended her Both were young ard r0-
+ mantle. She was at times SO violent that It
was necessary TO rut her into q strait jacket,
but IN her rational spells she was as lovely in
disposition as IN person. The Doctor fell in
love with her, and proposed marriage. She
accepted. and on Q day when she was IN her
right mind, they slipped out OF the asylum
tnget- -er and were unrt@d by q m UpSuSpcctinE
+ clergy man. The result was that the bride
. groom lost his position and his wife, for the
asylum managers asked him 10 resign, and
+ the brides relatives took be- away from him
+ by recourse to law.
William Beach left his wife and two lit.
tie children ut Plumas, Cal, 20 undertake "a
ycaIs' mining job i'm Nevada. lie provided
comfortable nome for MIS- family, sent
money regularly IO- their support. and re-
cejveG letters at short Intervals from his wife
/ At thc end OF The wear he returned joyfui!v
to IlUUaS. Mrs. Beach. as soon as the
greetings We're over, confessed that she had
fallen in love with another man during his
absence and begged tCarlIly for forgive
ness. lie replied that he could not caGcluc
the offence and should procure q divorce E
but tHal he would not separate her from her
. children and would let her I've in She house
and tu-e care Of them. She was gTatef al
for tHis Cpuce- sion, ana she fast Of the di-
NCTc" was not ceucia.iy known but LLe
sorrow drove her crazy, after 2 few months,
and she IS now ia an insane asylum.
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