The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-25
NEWS AND OTHER SOTINGs.

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dropsy and kidney diseases"
GILBERT CLARK. n. ID.
-DurIns the progress Of baseball game
10 NeV York on Monday. Henry Fleming,
! OF Brooklyn, was struck on the head wIth .
ball He went home aud complained OF the
injury. A physician vas sent for, but be-
fore he arrived Fleming was dead.
| -Ex Governor EugIish, OF Connecticut,
aged seventy three, is reported to be about to
marry a Saratoga belle, aged seventy-three
| wears. He was three times a Congressman,
twice Governor Of his State, and has fre-
| quentlY been mentioned in come elton with
the Democratic domination for President.
| If your hair is turning gray, don't use
the poisonous dyes which burn out Its life
and produce many diseases Of the scalp.
| Ayers hair Vigor is positively harmless, and
| will restore the natural color of the hair,
stimulate It's growth, and bring back It's
| youthful gloss and beauty.
-Bismsrak, Dskota, is ed by Dis
trio. Attorney Long, OF Msndap, IS being
''the home OF more dishonesty, Rkullduggery
rsscality, scoundrellsm, fraud, perjury.
subornstion of perjury. bribinG OF juries,
corruption in public and private places,
than any other city Of the same size on the
face of the globe.
The work of dissectin9 Jumbo's car
csss is progressing rapidly under the direc-
tion of Professor Ward, OF Rochest er. The
flesh is being cremated as fast as cut away.
The hide of Jumbo weighed 1000 pounds,
and requires ton of salt and $50 pounds
of elm bark to cure it. It was shipped in
vats to Rochester. N. Y. on Saturday.
-Ex-Assistant Postmaster General Hay
is lying at his home in Pittsburg In a pros
trated condition. he arrived from Cresson
Springs on Friday night in a special train
and was carried from the car to his residence
on q stretcher. His friends say he is not Sc
riously III, but several persons who saw him
say his condition is critical.
Adam Brabender the convicted Prssi-
dent of the Erie County Savings Bank,
started from Erie for the Allegheny Peni-
tertiary on Saturday morning. He made q
statement at the depot to the depositors,
duplicating the stockholders and directors
of the broken bank. His statement, It is
said. will lead to the prosecution of all the
stockholders of the defunct institution.
An Ipswich, Massachusetts, man started
20 years ago to build house. He bought
some land, laid out q garden and planted
fruit trees. Fifteen years ago he went down
in Maine and bought lumber, which he mas
from time to time moved about to keep from
becoming vaueless. The man Is now nearly
go years of age, and last week commenced
to dig the cellar.
The peach crop of the Delaware and
Maryland peninsula has been sent to mar
ket The yield was about 3 900. 900 baskets,
which sold for 81 0e0, 900. The crop was
! nearly 800 900 baskets short of last year.
The producing belt is moving steadily south
ward. One orchard in the new territory
| paid Its owner s12. 900 this year and the
| tenant as much more. During the past
seven years it has paid for seven farms.
Mr. L. NJ. Hall, superintendent of the
| Women's Reformatory prison at Sherborn,
! Mass, publishes that out of 40 examination
| of 2O4 inebriate women he has found that
128 began their drinking by the use OF beer,
| 81 by drinking whiskey Gas punch at FIRST
| usually, 20 began with wine, with gin,
aud II could not remember what beverage
was frst used. Several hopeless drunkards.
far gone toward insanity, had never drunk
any other IntOxicaut than beer.
-"Bishop" John Sharp, the Utah director
of the Union Pacific railroad, appeared in
court at Salt Lake City on last Friday week
and pleaded guilty to the charge of uDlaw-
full cOhabtation. He said the ''plural mar
risee" in question Twas entered into before
there was any statute against it, 10 good
faith, according to his religion, but he rec
ogniZed the supremacy CT his adopted coun-
try's laws aud would live within them
henceforth." He was fned $500, and was
discharged upon the payment of that sum.
Patrick McCsfirey, a brakeman on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, while standing on
the caboose of the wreck train as IL passed
over the bridge near Spring City on Wed
nesday, endeaYored to catch his hat which
had been blown off by gust OF wind. He
lost his balance. fell on to the trestlework
and from there into the canal below. where
he was drowned. Mr.. McCaffreY was knock
ed unconscious and rose but once In the
water. When picked up by the train hand;
life was extinct. He was "a years old. and
was resident of Reading.
"A measurement of Jumbo after deatt
showed these dimensions: circumference
of fore leg, feet inches; around front
foot, feet inches; twice around his foot
ia about his height; viz, IL feet; length OF
trunk, feet inches; around his tusk, ]
foot 81 inches; length Of fore leg, feet
|
of rats, and that the only other things thai
he seemed to dread were cats and mice
His daily provene consisted OF 400 pound,
of hay, one barrel of potatoes and a bushe
of onions. The skeleton will be sent mp tC
the Smithsonian Institution.
, The announcement by the Cincinn at
Price Current, whose estimates on this sub
are usually trustworthy, that the corn croI
will reach ], 1,e9o, 600 bushels is the most i'm
: portant and encouraging crop news 10 fiv'
? years, This Is the largest crop on record
the first adequate yield since 1880 and tel
per cent. larger than the phenomenal crop
of 1879 and 1880 This corn crop and tn
pork product sure to follow 1t make q soil,
basis for Improvement. Let rs thank Provi
dence, stop croaking aud 90 forward. 1t |
|. a great country and corn is the bigges
| thing in it.
: Information has been received OF
3 meeting of the Knights of Labor at Butte
/, Montana, at which it was decided to driv
The Cinnamon from the place. The China
men have been given until October 1st {
leave the city. II they do not leave the
the workingmen say they will drive ther
! out by violence. The CelestIals were ais
: ordered to leave Anaconda, and they imme
< diately obeyed There are number of CHI
}. Damen In Butte. which is one of the creates
f mining points in the West. If they do 80
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