The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-12-18
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

Mrs. Diantha Jones, of Batavia, Mich
is in her Tooth year. and has meyer needed
spectacles.
The gin palaces and beer shops of Lon
don, if placed side by side, would form a
row rs miles long.
Rev Anthony Atwood, of Philadelphia,
says Hunts Kidney and Liverl Remedy
has cured my wife of dropsy in its worst
FORM
"A horse thief who had secrete I himself
and horse in school house near Dustin,
Neb., was routed from his hiding place by
people going to the building to hold a prayer
meeting.
So strict are the election laws in Eng
land that to give rattle to a voters baby,
with winning the mans favor in view is to
risk fine. imprisonment, and disqualification
for public office.
Near Miliersburg, KY, on Monday last,
John II. Wren, a farmer, shot and killed
William Ross. aged 76 years, on account of
a quarrel which they had on the previous
day concerning a dog,
-Ex-Governor B. Gratz Brown, ex-United
States Senator and candidate for Vice. Presi
dent witd Greely In 1872, died at his resi-
dence in Kirkwood, Missouri, on Sunday
last of heart disease.
"A man appeared on the streets of Den
yer recently, driving a spanking pair of full
ly developed eIks, worth 81, 500, and capable
of.tTaveling 100 miles a day. The children
thought Santa Claus had come to town.
In one of the many Bibles scattered
about hotel in Grand Rapids. Mich. for
the use Of its guests matter of fact drum
a in 10
an appeal for "less Bibles and better beds.
The Fairbanks Canning Company. has
Just received an order from the French Gov
ernment for 200 600 pounds of dressed beef
for the use of the French army, The con-
tract involves the slaughter of 25, 600 head
of cattle.
Some idea of the magnitude of the Es-
curial, the great Spanish palace, may he
formed from the statement that a tonr of
all the apartments would involve a Journey
of about 12O miles. There are 4, 900 doors
and II 600 windows in the edifce.
Ten per cent. additional of the syndf-
cate coke ovens in the ConneIlsviIIe region
have been fired up, making 90 per cent. of
the total number now in blast, against 80
per cent. few months ago. The coke
trade is now better than it has been for
years.
The Suez Canal is % miles long and 26
feet deep. the construction having covered a
period of II years and tho 20 aritaI or,,,ll,-,,,1
a,,,,,,,,.7 .. 50 ,lo 90, = - '' "
yea I" 800 ooO'OOO IN round numbers.
OF the tonnage between the East and the
West, the proportions are 1e4 voyages by
the canal and so by the Cape Of Good Hope.
Mary Reedy shot and killed her sister
oa"e an" young man named Trout on
sunday night at Sanders Crossing Y. G.. as
.he two sat together in her fa+har,s borse
r,,,,,,-- t.. -,
oS'"u9o AiouL ''a" 'iah0ieiIeu "i9 @iecJoDs
IRON herself 70 Jane Mary then mounted
a horse and rode away. and has not beeu
heard of sfnca
I''e S'"Iy Is Ioin I'D modaie' iowa, Jhat
q certain partisan father promised his dauCh-
ter new silk dress if she would pprsuade a
csrtair baobaior ,f t,,.. ,,,oo, ., -. -.
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- 0'i'ooi "''' ''oNe'' Inc young woman R"t 10
the vote by promising her band in marriage.
Nov She rafuSac to wed and tho old bocra-