The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-12-25
NEWS AND OTHER sOTINgS.

"A raft of 800, 900 feet of hard wood tim
Der is being made up at Two Rivers. Nova
Scotia, and will be towed to New York.
For women in delicate health, no medi-
cine equals Hunts Remedy. All female
complaints are speedily cured by it, It
never fails
The COW of Mr.. Norton, of Hudson.
Mich, gorRed herself with oats and was dy-
ing, when Norton cut a hole In her side,
took out two bushels of oats and saved her
life.
The new British mRn-of. war Camper
down, built of steel, at at cost of g., ,375, 900
IS :he heaviest ship ever launched in Eng
land. 1t will be three years before she is
ready for sea-
1t Is belieYed that in ten years Yankton,
ID. T., will be an inland town. In front of
the city, where the liver ran twenty feet
deep five years ago, there are now 100 acres
six feet above high water mark.
The Connecticut Supreme Court IN the
case OF Griswold Us. the New York & Eng
land railroad decides that railroad compa-
ny is not responsible in damages for ininI1es
to person travelling on free pass. Girls
void was killed and his heirs sued
"A report received at the Treasury De-
partment from Special Agent o. L. Spauld-
ing, at San Francisco shows that during the
three years ended August ]. 1885, the num-
Der OF Chinese who left the United States
was Al, 1872 and the number who arrived 2O,-
or.
In Georgia cOlOred people own COO, ,OeO
acres of land and pay taxes on about S1O,-
OOO.OOO of property. In the whole OF the
South their taxable property is put down at
about 100000. In South Carolina So 429 of
the 122, ,O93 pupils of the public schools are
coIored.
Madame De Lesseps, wife of NJ. De
Lesseps, the well-known engineer, who has
been delivered of daughter, is only thirty
five years Of age. NJ. De Lesseps is now in
his eightY-irst year. This is their eleventh
child. At their marriage be was sixty-fye
and sne nineteen.
"A young man in the vicinity of Kimban.
Dakota, made his tongue so offensive to Ia
dies that the ladies gathered feathers. the
men tar, and some 40 of them turned out to
equip the fellow in that unifsrm, but ne
sa the shadow Of the coming event, and
skipped the country, and will not be likely
to return.
An object OF public curiosity, near New
Philadelphia, Ohio, is man who never
shears the wool from his sheep, or plucks
his geese, nor rings his swine. He saws
1t is sinful to interfere with nature. His
own hair and beard are never shorn, nor
are his nails cut. Every ubensil about the
farm is home made.
The sheriff of Monroe, Ca, last week
attached the animals of a circus for a debt
OF $40, 600. An elephant, monkeys, a sea
ion, &c. were quietly turned over to him,
and he has since been in a quandary He
cannot handle or do anything with the ami
mails, and the circus men simply stand off
and enjoy his discontinue.
The negro Andrew Jackson, who per-
! petrated the horrible crime at Mink Prairie
! Texas, on Friday night, was run to cover
on Saturday by boodhonuds at point about
/ fifteen miles from the scene of the murder.
| When the dogs got the seen they followed
, him day and night for "a hours through a
/ most eircuitous path in the dense woods.
| The murderer waded creeks for long dis
| tances to throw the dogs off the scent, but
| they bayed him and he took to a tree, where
| be was captured by officers some hours later.
/ He was taken TO the county Jail badly cut
| up around the legs and face from his wild
! chase in the under brush. 1t is thought an
! attempt will be made to lynch him.