The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-10-02
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

has a capital of s33. 600 900 and deposits
amounting to s67, 900. 900. These figures
are not equaed by any United States bank.
Most of the camels in the mensgeries
now comes from Bastrop county. Texas.
and are descendants Of the herd imported
by the Government for use in army trans
portatiOn.
"A resident of Rea1ng, Pa, on July
in housing wheat accidentally covered up
chicken in the grain. The chicken was
taken out on Monday of last week, and was
found alive after an imprisonment OF 73
days.
On Saturday evening a gang of four
men robbed August JaTreck's store at Erie,
Pa, of $500 worth of diamonds. The pro-
prietor was called from his store to the
sidewalk. when the robbery was commit
ted. A plucky citizen grappled one of the
robbers and recovered the goods.
Charles McCsrty, ChicaRo rough, got
into quarrel with his brother James on
Sunday, in the course of which he pulled
revolver and fired. The shot missing its in
tended victim it struck and almost instantly
killed jeremiah McCarty, the young mans
father, who was standing near. The para
eide was Immediately arrested and jailed.
"A cheese dealer says that much of the
so-calIed English cheese is made in this
country and shipped to England, whence it
Is returned, enhanced in value by the sea
voyage. Sometimes cheeses are shipped
backward and forward two or three times,
each voyage adding to the richness of their
flavor.
The unusual occurrence of twin sisters
MIA
Myers, KY, the home of the brides: father,
q week or so ago. The brides are aged 10
and the grooms p years. The brothers re-
semble each other in almost every respect,
while tho sisters just the opposite is the
case.
The embaIming Of Lincoln's and Gar
fields remains failed. Some of the most
successful embaImers maintain that it is i'm
possible to preserve body for any length of
time unless the method adopted by the
Egyptians is followed, which requires pri-
mariy the removal of the entire internal
organism.
The great granite building for the State,
War and Navy departments is approach
ing completion. 1t covers four and a half
acres of ground, and will cost about Sl0,
25O, 900. The only wood about it Is IN the
| floors over the stone for comfort and in the
doors, which are of mahogany, hung in iron
| castings.
In speaking of the story telePraphed
| hence last week, that Jumbo being afflicted
! with an incurable disease, was purpOseiy
permitted to be killed for advertising ef-
! feet, Mr.. Barnum announced it as "a mon
1 ster lie from beginning to end" He says
! Jumbo's death upsets all his plans for a
/ European tour.
! Sufferers from the effects Of quinine,
| used as a remedy for chills and fever, will
! appreciate Ayers Ague Cure. powerful
tonic bitter. composed wholly of vegetable
/ substances, without particle CT any noX
! ious drug. Its action is peculiar. prompt
and powerful, breaking up the chill, curing
the fever, and expelIing the poison from the
! system, yet leaving no harmful or unpleas-
ant effect upon the patient.
A horse about 80 years old, owned by
! William E. Bergen, ST., OF Cranbury, \. D.
has within a short time changed his color
from a dark brown to a dapple gray. A
profusiou OF gray hairs first began to appear
about the ar'maI's head end then sc! The
entire body. Persons who have known the
horse for many years, but have not seen
him for few weeks, fail to recognize him.
AT nesting of the Board of Health at
Montreal on Saturday it was stated that
there we're known to be 1900 cases of small
pox In the city of the most viruent type.
Over one hundred dwellings and stores were
closed on Sunday by order of the Provincial
Board of Health. This was brought about
by the detectives employed TO ferret out
cases The deaths to-day were forty-fouI
There were $50 deaths during the week.
On SUNDAY last while about to enter 3
hotel in Abingdon, Va, Judge George W
Ward, Commonwealth Attorney for Wash
1nGton county, was fired upon by DIR. W
n. White, Independent candidate for STATE
Senator, who was in ambush on the oppo
site side OF the street Ward fell, filled
with buckshot, but recovering on his knees
fred three shots from his pistol at younG
relative OF White. White and two relatives
then shot Ward eight times. Ward will die
His assailants were arrested.
The greatest Socialist meeting, abou
which so much has been said and which tht
police threatened to suppress, was held a
Limestone, London on last Monday with
out interference on the part OF the authori-
ties. Fully forty thousand persons tool
part in the demonstration. The speaker:
INDUCED in violent denunciations of thC
present state of society, but no undue ex
element was displayed by the i'm
mense audience and the affair passed off il
the most peaceable manner. The police
Kept ca refully out of sight Of the meeting
The policy of the authorities OF making III
display of force had, it is thought, much Il
: do with the absence of disorder.
AT Cottonwood Point, Mo-, on Frida!
night two intoxicated strangers got into
dispute and bad a rough and tumble fgh
over the weight of a bale OF cotton but wer
separated by the bystanders. Shortly afte
the men renewed the fight and mutuall,
agreed, in order that neither should have al
: advantage over the other, they should cias
their left hands together and fight onl
with their right hands. Thus arranged
r each man with a revolver in his right han,
began the blsody work. Seven shots wer
! exchanged and one OF the men fell dea
with four bullets in his head and breast
} while the other sank to the ground bI~edin
4 and dying from two or three desperat
wounds.
On surdsy at the fair grounds q
O. -oston, w. Va, Tom Montgomery
wildcat was pitched into cage. eight b
ten feet, with three vicious dogs, one at
time. The cat whipped all three in fror
!. one to two rounds each. Finally a thirty
pound bulldog, owned by Policeman Fole,