The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-04-10
NEWS AND OTHER SOTINGs.

The United States forests comprise 4l7
species of trees.
1t is stated as q remarkable fact that
! heshy people never commit suicide.
AT Parker, Pa, ice goreed against the
/ iron bridge on Thursday night, and the struc--
/ ture gave way. Two sections were swept
| down the river.
Mrs. }. s. Brady, OF Toomsboro, Ga,
! was astonished few days ago by her hus-
! band. whom she bad not seen since early IL
| the late rebellion. walking into the house.
Vigorous health is mans finest estate
/ If weak and nervous, send for circular and
/ free trial package of Pastilles- radical
/ cure. Hsrris Remedy Co., st. Louis, Mo.
The matches consumed In the United
/ States require wood to the annual value OF
/ s3. .29s. 562 f; the railroads use about s3 ,Ooo,-
/ 900 OF wood for fuel and 81. 600, 600 for ties
each year.
Sarah Solomon, of Pittsburg, rescued
from stove in which she placed them, sup
posing 1t to be fireless, sufficient vestige OF
81, 100 in money and drafts to have them re-
! deemed.
/ Owing to the critical condition of Gen.
eraI Grant, the President has postponed in
definitely tho general evening reception to
the public, which was to have been given on
Tuesday.
! Henry Sch1uhals, foreman Heury KruR
Packing Co, st. Joseph, Mo-, uses DIR.
Thomas Eclectric Oil with his men for
sprains, cuts, bruises. chspped hands, etc.
1t is the best
Howard Casper, the negro who assault
ed young lady near Baltimore, and who
was pursued by large number OF citizens
with the design of lynchinR him, has been
captured and jailed.
Rival parties led by Pearce and Hum
phries on one side and Day ahd Bowling on
the other, fired twenty or more shots at
each other without effect, at Moorhesd. KY,
on Thursday Of last week.
The six children Of Kansas man have
no names, and he proposes that they shall
choose names for themselves when they get
old enough. There will be trouble should
all the children happen to want to name
themselves after their pa.
Norman j. Coleman, the newly appoint
ed commissioner OF agriculture. is in quan-
dary as to how be shall manage his big farm
near st. Louis and his government bureau in
Washington. He says he has AZ colts Just
| resdy to break and all are promising trot-
| ters.
Miss Lillian Smith, Californian anIy
10 years old, at San Francisco on Thursday
last broke 100 glass balls with Winchester
rifle in two minutes and thirty FIVE seconds.
This beats all previous records, DR.. Csrver's
best being two minutes and thirty-six sec
onds.
-Colored Clergyman J. H. Farnham, OF
| Chillicotte, n. G., is six feet eight inches
high, weighs 41o pounds, and spreads a foot
eight inches broad and twenty-five inches
long. At latest accounts he has entered as
competitor in the smaIl-fOot- controversy now
aRitatinR "our best society"
-O'Donovan Rossa, the Irish leader, is
about to leave New York for a short time,
to lecture in Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago,
Indianapolis and St. Louis. Rosa begins
his lectures ia Cincinnati, April IL, and con-
cluJes in st. Louis, April Is. His subject will
be " "Ireand's Attitude Toward England. {"
The board of Pardons after an executive
session of several hours on Thursday even.
ing OF last week, decided to recommend the
Communication Of death sentence in the case
of Edwin Botberas, of Luzerne county, who
was to have been hanged on Tuesday last,
for the murder Of William Nichols, at Ha-
zIetOn.
Fire at o'clock on Monday morning at
Detroit, Mich, damaged the PeninsuIar
DtONo hOTkS. 1CH ibOuSdnu uOiiATS QArQ-
age from flooding stock makes the total loss
$50, 600. Four hundred and fifty men will
be thrown out of employment until the dam.
ages can be repaired. The FIRE started and
was confined In the japan room. The flames
were extinRuished about $50.
ID. A. Beckley, Postmaster at at Blooms
burg. Pa, was arrested on Saturday end ia.
ken before the United States Commissioner
charged with malfeasance and embezzIemen'
In office. 1t was brought out that his broth
er-in-law was the guilty party, though the
! Postmaster is, of course, the responsible per
b. son. He was placed under bail for his ap
2 peRrance at the United States Court. Il Il
5 Thought the deficiency wIll-be made good
/ John F. Fibuerty, ex-member of Con-
gress, and several other persons attempted
: to speak at a political meeting on Sunday
: night at Chicago in a rough portion OF th,
Seventeenth ward known as Little He'll.
! but we're howled down. Finally the crow,
began to throw rotten eggs. The speaker
/ retired from the building, but were pursue,
!. anR egged for considerable distance alonI
s the street. Several persons were hit, anon,
v them a lady.
= John Wills, colored, formerly a waite
e at WeIcker's saloon, Washington, d. C.
g has entered suit for 81, 600 damages aRaIns
: Butler Malone, son of Senator Malone. O
! Virginia. He sets out that Butler Mabop
. assaulted him at WelckeT's on February 13tl
last, and fred three pistol shots at him wit
4, intent to kill him, and one OF the shot
r wounded him that he is still suffering frou
the wound, aud has since been incapable o
q attending to his business.
= The towboat Harry Brown ON her down
t ward trip struck the pier of the Panhandl
: railroad bridge at SteubenviIIe, Ohio, on Sun
y day morning, damaging tie barges whlc
she had in tow. Five barges were sun
within a few minutes, containing thirt
: thousand bushels of coal No lives were re
= ported lost and no one was injured, as far a
could be ascertained. The cause of the co
a lision was not given, but the supposItion
o that the rudder chain broke.
t "A dispatch FROM Zsnes Vile, Ohio, say
n that the mother OF S. S. Cox, minister t
q Turkey, died there at midnight on Thursda
q last, surrounded by her four daughters, he
s brother, Col. Sullivan, and her SON. Sh
u was daughter of Judge Samuel Sullivan
. pioneer in Ohio, who settled at Zanesvill,
: in 1904, whel the city was q the woods.
). = Her name was Maria sullivan. She wa
born in Philade.phIs in 1901 The famll,
y was driven West by yellow fever The
r came from Nav CaSt'r Delaware
The Arabs of Sahara are very supers.
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