The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-01
NEWS AND OTHER NOTIyGs.

I Joseph Barber, the oldest printer in Con-
I necticut, died on Sunday at Bridgeport, aged
90 years.
"A drunken Denver burglar bIundered
into his own house and robbed himself of a
. watch and $40.
For lame back, side or chest, use Shi-
! loh's Porous Plaster. Price % cents. At
I James drug store.
A black snake was killed in Shenango
I township, Mercer county, recently, which
measured 9 feet in length.
-Sleeples5 nights made miserable by that
/ terrible cough. Shiloh's Cure is the remedy
/ for you. At James drug store.
! An Advent congregation at PhilipSburg,
/ Tenn, has voted unanimously that the world
/ will come to an end on October I, 1882.
/ VIII you suffer with dyspepsia and liver
! complaint? Shloh's Vitalizer is guaranteed
/ to cure you. At James drug store.
frankie Evans, OF Reading, aged twen-
/ ty years, committed suicide with laudanum.
| Jealous of her lovers attention to another
! girl.
In Cobb county, Ca, natural ink is
| found which neither corrOdes, freezes nor
fades The records Of the county are kept
with it.
The colored men of Missouri intend to
place a negro independent ticket in the ield.
a convention for this purpose will soCn be
held i'm st. Louis.
On Saturday last Mary Burns, a promi-
nent young lady, died at Helena Ark Thos.
Page, her betrothed, on Tuesdayscommitted
suicide on her grave.
-Catarrh cured, health and sweet breath
secured by Shilohs CataTTh Remedy. Price
30 cents. Nasal Injector free. At James
drug store, Ebensburg.
"A .citiZen of Cincinnati has discovered
that small quantity of Limburger cheese
taken to bed with him at night keeps the
mosquitoes away. Phew
The jealous husband OF pretty woman
at Fayette, Texas, branded her with an iron
used for marking cattle, making star and
cross, which she must bear on each cheek for
life.
Edward FOllett, a woOd-sawyer at East
Ararat, SusQuehanna county, vas recently
killed by slab of wood which was thrown
with considerable violence from saw against
his body.
"A difficulty occurred at CTeencastle,
Ind, on Saturday, at a shooting match, in
which Thomas Eads was instantly killed by
James Ryan, who struck him blow with his
fist and broke bis neck.
A telegram received In London from
Hong Kong dated on Thursday, SAYS
"Four thousand natives have died OF Asiatic
cholera in a single Philippine province, but
the epidemic is decreasing"
Richard Wilson, Scotchman aged "a
years. shot his wife in Chicago on Monday
morning, and then killed himself. The wO-
man will not likely live. Jealousy was the
cause. Seven children are left.
Two brothers in Omaha have been ar
rested for stealing house and its furniture.
1t is charged that they carried the house
away while its owner was absent. They also
William Aust, citizen of Omaha, Ieaped
from a stage near Sidney, Neb., while on his
way to DeadwOOd, and wandered around in
the wilderness for i've days. Enfeebed and
starving, he was attacked by coyotes and de-
vouTed.
Senator Hil's physicians say that the
cancer which killed him was caused bv to
bacco. He had habit of almost constantly
holding a cigar In his mouth, and keeping
the nicotine coated end against the left side
of his tongue.
In a quarrel at Shiloh, O., on Saturday,
over an attempt to enforce the law prohibit
ing the sale ofliquOrs OnSunday. Rev. w. l..
Phillips, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church, was stabbed seriously by John E.
Smith, a leading grain dealer
Charles Sperry, Brookfield, Mass,
boarding house keeper on Thursday tried to
poison his family and nine boarGers with
Paris green, but the poison was fortunately
discovered before harm was done. Sperry
has fled, and officers are in pursuit.
Elder George, negro preacher, dubbed
Lucinda Amos, negro woman, residing at
Lake Providence, Miss, until she died
George, who was arrested, alleges that the
woman had recently traduced his character,
and that was why he attack her.
Mrs. Charles Havey, living in Thetford,
Genesee county, Mich, bound her J-year-old
child to herself on Sunday last and then
plunged her own head and that of the child
into wash tub filled with water Both
were drowned. 1t Is supposed to be a case
of insanity.
While lady on a train near Vandalfa
Ill, was indulging in an extended yawn her
jaw slipped out of place, leaving her mouth
open to such an extent that she inserted her
closed fist to hide it. A commercial traveller
who was on the train snapped the Jaw back
into position.
Mr.. A. ). Cassatt has a reservoir upon
his farm in Montgomery county wit a ca
pacity of a million gallons. The water from
this will be used next year in the irrigation
of growing crops. 1t is his intention TO pro-
Aha &
slope who has made irrigation a study
Mr.. Isaac Smith, of BiaiTsville Intersec-
tiOn, who is employed as a brakeman on the
pennsylvania railroad, had his right hand
crushed between two cars on Saturday night
at Derry. The hand may have to be ampu-
tated. Mr.. Smith is a brother of Conductor
William Smith, Of the Pittsburgh division.
The oldest stove probably in the United
States is the enc ti1at warns the hall Of Vir-
ginia's capitol i'm Richmond. 1t was made i'm
England and sent to Richmond in I77O and
warmed the House of BurgesSes for sixty
years before it was removed to its present
location, where it has remained for thirty
years.
in Craighead county, Ark, on Thursday,
two farmers, Jesse Morgan and Alexauder
ShelOskey, quar- eled about the formers
right to cut corn in field Sheloskey struck
Morgan several blows with stick when a
man named Jackson, farmer, came up with
shotgun ank killed Sheloskey. Both Jack
son and Morgan were arrested.
On Sunday evening Mrs. J. NJ Stratton
wife of a successful lawyer at Leland, Ill,
shot her husband and then herself, both dv-
ing immediately. No cause is assigned for
the deed. They had been married onIy a
short time and it was supposed lived happily
together. little while Before the shooting,
neighbors heard loud words between them
-fhe Beilefonte Wdtcbnaoa says tnat the
Life of General Beaver has been a poor
sale. At first it was offered for ''only dol
lar,' but 1t wouldn't go. Then it was put
down TO % cents, and StiN it wouldn't GO.
Now, the State Committee is Offering it for
ncJnlng, with chrome or two thrown in,
AID still 1t hangs back, somehow. Poor Rea-
yer.
Walter DORIS and Thomas Walker, aged
70 years, had dispute on Friday evening at
I shreveport, La, and parted company threat
ening each other. Sunday morning they met
/ on the street, when DORIS drew revolver
/ and leYeling it at Walker told him that he
/ mad three minutes to say his PRAYERS At the
{ expiration of that time DORIS shot him
| through the head killing him.
! "A special Grand Trunk cattle train which
/ lett Toronto, Canada, on Monday for the
east, was thrown from the track over a CO.
! FOOT embankment, near Highland creek, 20
miles from that city. Nine cars were com
! pletely wrecked. Out of 162 cattle 100 were
I Killed outright, and several go badly injured
/ that ehey had to be slaughtered The train
hands saved themselves by jumping.
! -Dnring BaFDum's exhibition at OswegO,
/ n. L, Jumbo fixed his eye on lady who
was pushing her way though the crowd to-
| WaLd him, and strained at his tether endea-
! VoF1ng to reach her. His keeper manifested
great surprise and asked if she had ever
| seen him before. She replied that she had
often fed him nuts and candy by the hour ia
| the London Geological Gardens. The great
! prute 5 actions plainly showed that he recog-