The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-09

Levin Wiley, OF Reeness Ditch, Dor
chester, Del, has reached the age OF 100
years. He has been living with his present
and third wife fifty-one years. He has been
the father Of twenty-five children. de was
very active up to i've years ago. At present
he is feeble. awaiting the end Of his long
journey. For sixty years he was success
ful muskrat hunter, having caught rs many
as /, 500 a single season.
A short time since the residence of Sam
Page, of Mill Beat, Ala. came near being
burned by rat which got into a box where
there were some matches and paper Biting
the matches caused them to ignite, setting
the paper on FIRE. Mr.. Page happened TO be
awake, and hearing the rat and seeing the
flames from the matches jumped out Of bed
and threw the box, papers and rat all ia the
fireplace, thus saving his home from destruc-
ton
The present and prospective wealth Of
I Arizona is enormous. Within the year the
mines OF the Territory, which are as yet in
{ their infancy, have paid dividends amount
( ing to nearly 81, 600, 900. Nor Is this all.
/ Arizona aspires to become an agricultural
Territory, and il is asserted that by the aid
of artesian wells the desert lands can be
made the most productive wheat-growing
districts in the country. The grain fields Of
I the valleys are now ready for the reaper.
"A dispatch from Calcutta to the London
! Tunes says it is stated that the Khonds, the
aboriginal tribes in the Central Provinces,
I who, it was said on Saturday last, were ere
atiDg trouble, had taken iBhawns patna, the
chief Itown of a tribe called Kultas, whom
the khOnds accuse of agrarian encrCach-
ments. They looted the treasury and muir
/ dered over 400 people. Portions Of the hair
and flesh of the victims were distributed
among the Hill khondS to induce them 20
/ join the revolt
Rev. Alexius Lenarkieweiz laid the cor
ner-stone of a new Polish Catholic church, to
! be known as St. Kaseimer, at Shenandoah,
I Pa, ION Sunday afternoon, the erection of
I which will be vigorously pushed. There was
. a representation OF Irish and German Cath
Olic clergymen and their congregations from
/ all parts of the county present All the PO-
ltsh societies, including the Polish National
! Guard, Of Warsaw, numbering three OF four
hundred, paraded. The ceremonies were
witnessed by 5000 people.
"A special to the Boston Herald from
J Lumberton, n. C., contains an account OF a
terrible Slight in st. PauPs township Friday
between two women on account of q young
/ man, which resulted in Frances McNaiT
plunging dirk knife into Jane McKelIar's
. heart. They fought each other like tigresses,
and the Mcclellan girl had nearly succeeded
/ in choking Miss McNaiT to DEATH when the
latter with final effort released herself and
. stabbed her opponent in the heart and then
: swooned across the body.
/ "A Berlin newspaper mentions the case
70 boy who fell sick and was found after
futile treatment for long period, to have
I worms in one OF his lungs that had unQues-
( tiOnably come from pet dog which be had
I been accustomed to fOndle. Two dangerous
I the
removal OF the parasite, and the lad barely
survived them. The journal advises parents
I generally to take note Of this case, and not
to allow their children to kiss their pet ami
ma!s OF fondle them too freely.
"A destructive hail and wind storm oc-
Cured on Sunday afternoon, extending from
Halifax 10 Garysburg, Y. c., a distance of
ten miles. Several houses were blown down,
and huge trees upTOOted. Matilda Gary
(cOlored) and her two daughters, and IL
years old. living near Garysbure were killed
by the blowing down of her house. The
other members of the family narrowly es-
capped alive. The hailstones were as large as
ones ist. It is feared much destruction tO
crops was done. Trains from the South have
been delayed by Dlockades Of fallen trees
"A lad at La Sale, H., named Johnnie
Carr, while crossing the Illinois Central Rail
road bridge few evenings ago. and when
near the centre of the structure and directly
over the middle of the river was met BY a
drunken brute, who grabbed him and, In
spite of his piteous appeals and pleadinCs.
raised him over his head and hurled him tc
the stream below, distance of sxty-five
feet. The little fellow, who is up and going
about again in his terrible descent turned
rapidly over several times and when near
the water he managed to straighten himself
and struck the water feet foremost, which
saved him his life. Two fishermen near by
saw the fall and fastened to his rescue, and
saved him as he was disappearing the last
time.
A boy OF II and a girl Of 10 started awav
together from a picnic at Indianapolis,
bought some laudanum, made a fair division
or 1t, an0 swallowed Ii. The dose was not
enough to cause death. They had a sound
sleep, and then awOke to find themselves still
IN the land Of the living Not wea kened in
their suicidal purpose, they went to a neigh
boring village audhbought some more Iauda-
nun. Then they betook themselves tn
woods near by. sat down among the bushes,
made another fair division of the poison, and
I again swallowed it. This time the dose was
too large, that is, for the girl Her stomach
/ would not retain il and she threw il up. 1t
settled the boy, however. In the course of
Few hours be died, the girl holding him in
( her arms and kissing him. Then she left the
I body where it lay and went home to tell what
had happened But what nobody caG IN
derstand, and what the girl refuses to tell, is
the reason for ths strange conduct of the
youthful couple.