The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-03-18
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

Crawford county farmers are feeding
their stock wheat instead Of corn and oats.
Have you lame horse Call FOR Ken
dall's SPAWN Cure Read theadvertiSement
Miss Hattie Trimble, of West Chester,
/ sends Strawberries to market for which she
gets s. per quart
ated on Sunday, liberated %, 600 600 OF kus
/ slams serfs in 1861, and three years afterward
/ liberated the Polish serfs-
Tine otner day 4 goat licked oil S11O
worth of revenue stamps from whskey bar
rels stored in a Sheibyville (Ind-) distiiiery.
Mrs Batchelder, OF Bangor, Me-, a gllbe
and persistent talkeT, has had der husband
= arrested for attempting to pull out her tongue
"A Michigan man has had SIX wives, ali
! of whom were negresses. He preferred
/ wives of that race. He was of that race hIm-
The New York Herald congratulated Mr.
I HAYES on the fact that he was returning to
/ Ohio Just in season for the earliest run oI
THE Friendly Sons of St. Patrick indulg-
. ed in big feed yesterday (St. Patrick's Day)
ut DeimOuCo's, New York. Gen. Hancock
. was one of the invited guests.
-About thirty ewes in flock OF sheep
owned bv Lamborn Hall, Of West Goshen
township. Chester county, have given blTth
. TO twins and some of them to tTipiets.
David HUmmeH, residing at Swatara
/ Can. Lebanon county, died recently OF erlet
/ and modification, caused by the hanging OF
his son for completely in the Raber murder
7 in our State Legislature, on Friday last,
an act was lfpOILcd AMI LllttifblN BlNf4Nli4E
for the iniiictiOn OF corporal punishment
upon men convicted OF beating their wives
. or other women.
1 House with Gen. Garfield on Inauguration
. day it was Just three years and seven
. months to a day since he had visited the
. Presidential mansion.
/ A mare belonging in BTownstown, Ind,
4 recently gave birth to fulIy-deveoped twin
. foals, one 4 horse and the other mule.
Both were alive at foaling but have since
. died as has also the mare.
After Reuben Kline Had served as q
. iuryman in several cases, tried in the Nor
+ ristOwn court, he was found to be insane.
. He imagined he was General Hancock and
/ had been elected President
james Gordon Benefits latest eccen-
T tric performance is that Of hiring Johann
. Strauss and his orchestra OF eighty men to
play for his special qualification at Pau for
one month a. a cost Of nearly so, coo.
-Four negroes We're lyncled on Friday
. last near JOueSborO Ark. for the murder of
Miss Matte I9hmael, who had refused 10
disclose the hiding-place of a large sum Of
money 1t is said the negroes confessed their
fault
A cloud burst. near Santa Rosa, Cal,
recently, struck the mOuHtaII-side at the
head OF a small canyon, making a hole or pit
twenty feet deep where it struck the earth,
and swept everything before 1t for nearly
half q mile.
A young woman belonging to a wealthy
family at Atlanta, ga, stepped into a rail
clothing and started ont for a wa TX. This
was the first indication of what IS Pronounced
hopeless insanity.
The Nort5Igestera Chronicle saws that the
Protestant citizens OF White Bear, Minneso-
Ia, gave a dramatic entertainment on Te-
cent evening for the benefit of the Catholic
church at that place. Quite a number of
young people attended from st. Paul.
Before dipping a new pen into ink,
thrust il into fresh cut potato, and the ink
VIII never cling. When the pen Is thckly
Cummed with dried ink, few tlHusts VIII
D clean lt perfectly. When not in use some
accountants leave their pens sticking into a
potato kept ON the desk for the purpose.
. John I. Rich has been nominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the Seventh
Michigan district 10 succeed tongeT. Elcf
is a farmer 10y occupation, and member of
the State Senate He has been ftgice speaker
of the Michigan House Of Representative.
-EN-tTOycmor Hendricks, of Indiana, has
sent to F. B. MarJiuda!e, OF indianapolis, a
valuable g0'd-headcd ebony cane i'm payment
of bet made last year upon the result of the
Chicago convention. The Ex-Governor wa.
gered that Grant would be the Republican
candidate.
An Ohio farmer fell head first into wol
containing nine feet of water and by great
effort and extraordinary presence OF mind,
pushed himself out, feet first, placing hs
p hands on the side and working his way up
At least this is In effect the story the Cincin
: natl Gazette tells.
road. while switching cars at the Northern
I Pacific Junction on Friday morning. cauCh
his loot in a frog, and was firmly held unit
struck by locomotive and instantly killed
= lie was unmarried.
Il The Bridgeport Standard tells of a hi
q LoT-efur the BaTnuW-L L1uGou CirguseS WhIcI
; arrived in that place .eW nights ago D,
u steamer. The animal is twenty-five hand
l. high, weighs q tribe over $500 pounds, AIT
ii is a perfect monster, being fully foot highe
u than the one Row ut the grounds.
"A 1Ir. Eaup, OF Ontario street, Toronto
u is the owner Of q Oue-Ieggeu canary Wlic
e sings both ia the light and dark. Il was no
q Matched q cripple. but after it had one OF II
"a LEGS broken the HLo was &mputaltp ana
l. was laid out 90 die. But it wouldn't sui
cUmh and is now as lively as ever.
Near Mount Cross, Va, the wife of NJ
Is Jacob Myers entered her house few day
T. ago with an an armiul OF wood to Teplehl7
5f the fire On going into the room she stun
H. bied and fell, the wood falling from her arm
n One large stick fell on the head of her littI
r. child, who was playing i'm the room, and
H. crushing its skull, killed it instantly.
H. When ShOwermau objected to Daubut
< making love to Mrs. Showermau, at Naukt
sd sha, ~ is. Daubner replied, ''What are yC
a gong to DO about iS2 You haVan { the,pl nc
e- to do anything. See here and he barred D
il breast, you don't dare to shoot me wit
rs that pistol you've got in your pocket
re Showerman drew the weapon and fired XII
d ing his tOTmcntor.
An imported stone, weighing 90
August Fisher, at Chicago on Ihursd
M evening, and John BeUthbuTger, a sto
re, dresser, had both his legs broken. MIR. Fi>
at er had his LETT leg broken in three place
ay Theodore Plukele, a StOuc-dTeSScr, had J
OF face terribly dishgurcd, and Mr.. Taylor,
on commission merchant, was slightly uIuTeC
he New York and Ohio each contribute
10 the United States Senate five sons in adj
'ay tJOn to their own Representatives in the -
ate. New York gave birth to Senators II
and Teller. of Colorado Van Wvck, of
.o, 5raska Mcpherson, Of New Jersey, a
81 Cameron. of Wisconsin. Ohio to Seuat
81 VOORHEES, and Harrison, of Indiana Mel
no. and Allison, Of Iowa, and Plumb, Of hans
md The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company
the emDhaticallV "hig thing 1t OWLS
OF operates railroads nearly, II not quite, T.
0rt miles IN length. There We're carried over
of roads last year 49,70l, AGA tons of meTch
ion disc Of all sorts. OF passengers, there W,
yer transported 26.2il, ,03G. The rolling stock
adj move this enormous traffic consists of m
Ip than 900 locomotives and more than 40
riSh cars
tn There is a house building in Des Moil
1pi- which has u remarkable record of accide
of already attached to it. The man who bI
q a the foundation, the man who furnished
tor glass and the man who did the marble W.
If a have all died since the work began.
ed man who dug the well met with Il severe
he jury and the principal carpenter lost a CHI
OOd while only the other day a workman
say from the roof.
lion William II. COchraue, the wealthy Pr
ure ident of a bank at Grand Rapids, w
murdered Judge Hayden of the COu
Court last September. He is at large
ball. his trial has been postponed four tin
eI'- ,II and he boasts of his certainty that he