The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

-1he butter, cheese, egg and milk pro
ducts of this country are estimated to be
worth Ss4O, GOO, 600.
Mrs Elizabeth Quinn, native of Ireland,
and for 66 years a resident of Philadelphia,
died on the 9th inst, aged 104 years.
Earthquakes sill. continue at. .SciO; forty
five villages have been destroyed and only
twenty houses on the island are Eabitable.
A heavy shock of earthquake was felt
early on Sunday morning in the central part
of California. No serious damage IS report
ed.
Colonel w. W. Brown died at NIiesburg,
Centre county, last week, of starvation. He
was unable to retain anything on his
stomach.
Miss Eliza Warner, a highly respected
young lady of MOntrose, died there a few
days ago of malpractice. Several arrests
have been made.
The West Chester TiUdqe Record says
that Maria Raymond, cOlored, died in Pocop-
son township, Chester county, on Tuesday
last, aged 1Oj years.
THE lawsuit brought by the self-stvled
daughter of the late Cardinal Antonelli to get
possession of his property has been finally
dismissed by the courts.
The Wilkes Barre Union Leader wonders
what under heaven JEFF Davis is thinking
about? Why don't he Join the Republican
party and get something rice.
The Methodist Church has grown from
200 members TO 1000, 600. This growth took
40 years. and is considered both healthy for
the present and encouraging for the future.
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sale in Northumberland county, a clock made
bv his uncle in 1890. 1t still keeps good time,
and every three hours plays a tune on
chime of bells.
Near Staunton, Va, on Friday, the
house of Edwin Reeves was totally destroy
ed by fire. Two of his children periShed in
the flames and Mr.. Reeves himself was pro
badly fatally burned.
OF eight marriages that took place IN the
vicinity of COatesville, Chester county, this
winter, none Of the contracting parties was
under sixty-fiye and one of the bridegTOOmS
was seventy-five years of age,
A wedding party got so drunk at Wau-
paca, Wis, that the object of the gTathering
was forgotten by all, including the bride,
bridegroom and minister, and the marriage
did not take place until next day.
When Samuel J. Tiden read the names
of the members of GarteidS cabinet he Is
said to have remarked that this adminiStra-
tiOn would be the stOrmieSt on record Our
Uncle Sammy seems to have stuck a pin
there.
Harriet Lane Johnston. who as Harriet
Lane was the charming hostess of the
White House during the Buchanan admins
tratiou, has met with great atfiictiCn in the
recent death of her eldest son in the 18th year
of his age.
john Conyers, born in 1874, and now
past ninety-Seven, was married in Shelby
vile, Ind, a few days ago, to Martha Mat
thues, aged fOrtY-tive. The old gentleman
is quite spry and has lived a widower for the
last thirty years.
Miss Hattie DuelI, of Iowa City, Iowa,
died at noon on Monday last, after fasting
foTty-seyen days. 4 post mortem examna-
/ tion made Immediately after death revealed
the fact that she hadn't drop OF blood in
her body, which weighed only forty-five
pounds.
The circus manager WHO advertised for
/ the handSOmcst woman in the United States
has chosen from among the applicants girl
named Louise Montague. She is a singer in
variety shows, beauty of the brunette type
and fayoTite of the BOwery youths. She
Will represent Lalla ROokh in the street pa
geantS.
In Vinton county, O., is a family. named
Reynolds, whose combined ages amount to
g19 years. The father is ninety-onP the
I mother eighty-eight. They have had four
teen children, all of whom are living the
oldest being SlNty-nine and the Youngest
, forty-three. There are more than fifty grand
children, many great grandchildren, and sew
eral great great grandchildren.
Mr.. Edward Schcffiein, one of the min
1 ing milliOnaireS, was OUce q ''mule-puucher''
/ at Tough-Nut Prescott and other camps.
One day while at Camp Huachuca he an
/ nounced his purpose of starting out to make
a fortune. "Oh, yes replied bystanGer
/ you'll find a tombstone" Schefieiu soon
/ afterwards "Struck it rich" and named the
/ now thriving camp Tombstone. His first
! act after making the strike was to settle SlOO
/ 600 upon his mother.
An attempt was made last week to black
( mail Mr.. Louis StTasberger, a wealthy citi-
I zen of New ork, threatening in case of re-
! fuSal to pay $4,000 that his daughter, little
( girl OF eleven years, should be abducted \
decOy letter caused the arrest of the rarties
one OF whom when arrested showed some
/ signs Of resistance and was shot and Instant
. " killed by the officer. The ANNOYANCE TO
. Mr. StrasbergeT's family began last Decem-
Der by letters to Mrs. >
/ AT BalltOWE, Forest county near Fox
. burg, Clarion county, is a wei. which has re-
. Gently began to produce a black oil bearing
J a close resemblance to coal tar. In its NAT
urai state this oil when burned emits a denso
. black smoke, from which a thick SCOT iS do
! posted. No other well in the vicinity pro
/ Guces anything like it. though the drill PASS
eS through the same kind of slate at equal
/ distances N all of them. The people of the
/ vicinity are greatly puzzled.
/ All Luck, a Chinaman, whose name
/ seems TO have been miSnOmer, was hanged
at Nevada City, Cal, on Friday, for the mur-
der OF teilow-countryman on May Is, 1879
| He was baptized on Thursday night bv a
. Catholic clergyman. Heseencd resigned to
to his fate, but aftlmred to the last that he
did not commit the murder. On the ralloyys
he spoke for few moments calmly. but
. broke down completely when the strans were
being adjusted to his limbs
A Reading printer, who IS 60 years of
age, has never been out of Berks county over
night, except upon four occasions. Hespent
one nightin Lebanon county and three NIGHTS
. in Schuylkili. lie entered the Berks and
Schuylktll Journal Office as an apprentice in
1898, ana IS to-day one of the most reliable
. hands in the Office. He SAYS he never likes
/ to get so far away from home that he can't
see the smoke of his own chimney There
IS no danger that he will ever elOpe
There is a lady living in Calhoun county.
HI, who, although Seventy-years old has
J recently married her sixth husband. Her
I last deceased husband vas named Race. and
the 1lan she has Just married is named Far
( us. a romantic feature of her last matri-
! hlohlaI venture IS the fact that Mr. FarriS
/ was her first love, but cruel fate INTERVIEWED
. and prevented their union. All of her dead
/ husbands are buried in the family grave
yard upon the farm on which she resides.
The Washington ID. c. Presbyterv was
/ aPpealed to last week by the North PreSbvte-
nan Church for severance of its pastoral |
/ IeIatlonS with Rev. Charles H. RamSdelI on
/ tne ground that his wife a Catholic attends
/ Mass, 10 the great detriment of her husbands
IuHuence. Judge Drake, of the COurt of
CiaIihS, oHered a resolution for his expulsion.
lnaSmuch 1t was mortal sin for Presbv-
teildli clergyman to take Roman Catholic
WlIe: Inc resolution provoked Am anima-
TED discussion, but decision was deferred
- ne Reading Times says that among the
I5O,OOO OF lnfantile trout Matched i'm the front
pools of Mr. Reuben TroxeII, in the western
part OF Salisbury, Lehigh county. are a num-
eeT OF curious double fish that is, young
( Hsil joined at the sides as if one BODY. vet
each having two heads and two tails. They
are queer looking specimens, and in their
way quite as big n curiosity as were the Ia ta
SlameSe twins. They are quite hearty. and
dart about the bright waters of the 'nur-
sery IN manner just as lively as the rest
OF the small try.
In the spring of the year. the season for
all KIND OF weather within twentv-four hours
ram, snow, sleet, wind, sunshine. etc
some persons are always more or less addict
ed 70 neuralgic headaches, which, to say the
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