The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-01
NEWS AND OTHER SOTINGs.


suits for orders.
"A recent breach of promise trial in the
New York Supreme Court developed the
fact that young girl was to be sold by her
father for 500, and the man who got her a
husband was to receive a bonus of $40
-Quinsy troubled me for twenty years.
Since l started using DR.. Thomas Eclectric
Oil, have not bad an attack. The oil cures
sore throat at once. Mrs. Letta Conrad,
Standish. Mich, Oct. "a, 's3.
Last Friday Trenton firm shipped to
st. Louis the longest and heaviest wire cable
ever made. It was "a, 800 feet long. weigh
ed 81 $40 pounds and was ~ inches in d.
ameter. A 16-wheel car, bought especially
for the purpose, had to be used TO ship it
over the Pennsylvania Railroad.
"A 3-year-old child of Andrew Bachver,
of South Twenty-seventh street, Pittsbure,
was seriously injured on Thursday of last
week by heavy piece of timber falling on
it. Both its legs were crushed so badly that
amputatiOn was necessary. The child was
taken to the Homeopathic Hospital
The community at Eldorado, Kan, is
excited over the case of Harry Liebfried,
who is said to have become deaf, dumb and
blind in consequence of a stroke of paralysis,
but is able to read large print and recognize
people, apparently by a keen sense of touch.
HIS physician, family and other friends say
there is no deception.
"A farmers wife, in Indiana, who cuti-
Yates vegetable garden of half an acre,
not only kept large table bountifuly sup
piled, but sold last year more than S1OO dol
lars worth of vegetables to the town-fOlks
q, farrr fTa- r
more profit than any four acres which the
husband cultivated
Postmaster Bailey, of Camden, n j., was
suspended on Friday last because he had ad-
mitted that he had purchased two pianos
and about 81 600 worth of merchandise and
paid for them in postage stamps. The eff
feet was to increase his apparent sales of
stamps and consequently his salary, prac.
tIce which the President did not regard as
good policy.
AT Mt. Vernon, Lawrence county, Mo,
John A. Tennis and George II. Moore, old
and well-knowE citizens, between whom a
bitter feud of several years standing has ex-
isted, met on the street on Saturday evening
and Immediately drew revolvers and COM
menced firing. Tennis was shot through
the head and Moore through the heart, and
both died in five minutes.
Isaac W. England, publisher of the New
York sun, died at his home in Ridgewood,
n. j., on Saturday afternoon, of dropsy of
the heart. He was born in England and
came to this country when a lad. He was
city editor of the Tribune during the war,
and was for time with Chas. A. Dana on
the Chicago Republican. He became pub
Usher of the san in 1868. He was 50 years
of age.
President Costello of the Coal Miners
Association, has issued a circular to the stri-
king railroad miners declaring the strike al
an end, and advising the men to retufn to
work at the price offered by the operators
A number of meetings were held iD the dis
trct on Saturday to consider the situation.
and, as the reports were very discouaging,
it was deemed useless to longer continue
the struggle.
Near Columbia, S. c., one recent Sun
day. colored preacher notified his congre-
CATION that be would not preach until he
was paid So. The hat was passed round,
and when returns were made So. 80 was in
the pot, whereupOH I've preacher said be
must have S1.5O more before he would
ond time, and the 50 made up, when the
congregation was treated to one of the pas
tors happiest efforts.
"A probably fatal duel was fought at
Louisville, KY, by two young farmers, on
Wednesday morning of last week. John
Augusta and Abe Taylor were rivals for the
hand OF Miss June Greathouse. they quar-
relied, and friends arranged meeting, which
took plsce at daybreak. They fought with
pistols at fifteen PAGES, and both men fired
at once. Augusta, it is thought will die
from a woHnd in the groin, and Taylor re-
ceived a wound in the thigh Taylor was
arrested and held for trial.
The dominion of the Gar of All the
Bussias cOnPTiSes one seventh part OF the
land surface of the earth, or one twenty
eighth part of its whole area. More than
one hundred million people call the Car
tabhers and are under his absolute govern
ment- A child IS born IN Russia on an aV-
erage every eight seconds throughout tile
year, and death occurs every II seconds. -
The population will double in about sixty
years at the present rate of increase.
-Bhere muss be an open road between.
the food we eat and the substance of which
our bodies are composed. Ii the road is
elOgged or closed we sIckeD, faint and die
THIS road Is Dlade no of the organs of diges-
tiOn aaC assimilation. OF these the stOm-
dCn anu liver are GnieI- Most people have
had more or less experience of the horrors
of constipation. Prevent il and all its fear
full sequences by using Dr.. Kennedy's "Fa-
vOrte Kennedy" u is the first step that
costs.
Martin Perkins, aged 81 years, was kill
ed on Friday last By falling from the roof of
his house, on South Mount street, Baltimore
He was recovering from a pYOtTacted spell
of typhoid fever, bet had latteTIy exhibited
symptoms of mental alteration. While his
wife slept he went out upon the roof of his
house and was not noticed by any one until
a policeman saw hTn hanging from the cor
nice by his hands. Almost Instantly Per
kins relaxed his hOla and. fell to the pave
ment. De died an hour later.
in the heart of Wyoming Territory is
mountain of solid hsmatite iron, with six
a mile wide and over two miles in length
bed of Ignite coal big enough to warm the
world for centuries !; eight lakes of solid so
da one Of them over six hundred acres in
extent and not less than thirty feet 10 depth,
and petroleum basin. which contains more
oil than PeuusY lvaDia and West Virginia
combined, from which in places the oil is
oozing in natural wells at the rate of two
barrels day.
Milton j. WagOnhurSt, aged 40 years,
a wealthy and well known citizen of AlbuT-
tbs, Pa, who is an applicant for the postmas-
tershiD at that place, has become violently
insane. He has been working hard for the
position, and il is thought the strain on his
mental system and the delay in receiving
the appointment by President Cleveland are
the causes of his mind being unseated He
has become so violent that it requires the
strength of six men to hold and bind him
Medical aid was summoned, but the physi-
clans state that they can do nothing for him
Arrangements are being made to tai ke Wag.
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