The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-06-12
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGs.

- son ul Henry Nhfu DccchCis hoN'co
Herbert Foote Beecher. has been appointed
Collector of Customs at Puget Sound.
The Kansas wheat crop is reported to
be failure on account of the Hessian hy
and the chinch bug. The yield is estimated
at 81 900 900 bushels less than last year
-Pittsburg turns out 5000. 600 bottles
and vials every year, besides ~ 400, 900 lamp
chimneys, many of which are exported to
Central and South America and Cuba.
Vigorous health is mans finest estate.
If weak and nervous, send for circular and
free trial package of Pastiles "a radical
cure. Harris Remedy Co, st. Louis, Mo.
I -Quinsy troubled me for twenty years
/ Since | started using DIR. Thomas Eclectric
( Oil, have not bad an attack. The oil cures
/ sore throat at once. Mrs. Letta Conrad,
/ Standish, Mich, Oct. "a, '8S.
An inhuman mother, named Mrs Nettie
/ johnson, OF Franklin Grove, Illinois, has
been arrested for holding her little girls
/ hands on hot stove until they were burned
/ to crisp, because she had diso5eyed her.
"A dispatch from Fort Pitt says Captain
Steele, with seventy mounted scouts and po-
lice, had an engaGement with Big Bear In
dians last Saturday, driving them across a
I
During a thunderstorm Sunday after
noon, on the Jamestown road, few miles
from Harrisburg horse driven by Benja-
min Buck was killed by lightning. One of
Mr.. Bucks legs was bIstered by the electric
fluid.
The smallness of the contributions so
surprised some of the officers of McDuffie
(Georeia) church, that they decided to be
little more watchful. Their vigilance re-
suited in the discovery that one of the col
lectors had tar on the top of his hat.
"A wedding on the instalment plan as to
the fee of the officiating clergyman was
celebrated in Weybndge, Macs, few
davs ago, the newly made husband agreeing
to pay the preacher one dollar week for
five consecutive weeks, which he did with
promptness and punctuality.
"A negro cook in the employ of Fl. B.
Harper, of Wilcox county Ala, poisoned
the entire family on Saturday by putting ar
senic in the coffee pot. All of the family are
very low, and it is feared tha the sufferers
will die. When arrested the woman had
pound of arsenic in her pocket.
Mrs. John RemmeI, of Kingston. eau
toned Albert Lewis aged 1s years, to be
careful of gun in his hand which was point
ed toward her. She had hardly spoken
when the weapon was accidenta lily discharg-
ed by being struck against fence, and the
charge entered her head with fatal effect
Mrs. Maggie Parrish seIZed Benjamin
Zan ders by the nose Tuesday morning, in
GOTdon's cigar factory at Detroit, Mich
and gave him thorough thrashing with a
whip. Zanders had spoken insultlDgly of
Mrs. Parrish, and when this came to her
ears she sought vengeance with a raw hide.
Thomas Knott, aged 65 years, ot Lehigh
county, went into bis orcha re on Wednes-
day, climbed up an apple tree, fastened one
end of rope to the limb of a tree aud the
other end around his neck and jumped of.
killing hitlself instantly. Dependency
was the cause. He leaves a wife and FIVE
children.
The June crop report of the agricultu-
raj department estimates the total wheat
crop of the countrv At 500, 900 600 bushels, of
which 2J7 900 900 is winter and $4,000
spring. The condition of winter wheat is
lower than ever before in June, being now
90 against 20 in May. The condition of the
spring wheat is 81.
A South Norwalk (Connecticut) firm
has made Sitting Bull straw hat, 90 size,
or 13 sizes larger than the average hat It's
~ inches deep and has brim of 10 inches,
and its greatest outside measurement is 30
inches, or larger than ala ordinary umbrella.
1T was made of green peFeOpiue straw, and
is to be worn by Sitting Bull on his visit to
the Great Father at Washington
Hugh j. High. the Fottstown bIcycIer.
en- rO1te to Seward, Nebraska, reached Mid
dletOwn, Iowa OIL the 5tb inst So far he
had Travelled !, ,00S miles and had three hun
dred yet to his destination. Heavy rains
had rendered the roads almost unfit for trav
ell, compelling the plucky wheelman to push
his machine for miles at time He was
given very cordial reception in Burlington,
Iowa, by wEeelmen.
"A Rhode Island doctor, who wants to be
appointed Medical Examiner In the Pension
Office, has forwarded his application and
testimonials in a handsome Russia leather
ease, accompanied by diaREams OF difficult
surgical operations performed by him, and
two handsomely engrossed poems, one with
a Latin title. the other having as its enliven-
ing refrain "Hew to ths Line, Cleveland
Hew. hew, hew 10
An Interesting estimate of the amount
in weight, of one inch of rainfall on one
acre of ground, is thus given. An acre of
ground contains 6. .272 $50 inches square.
kain one inch deep would give that manv
cubic in ches 1, ,72s one cubie foot. Rain
one inch deep would give $500 cubic feet.
A cubic foot of water weighs 623S pounds
2 coo pounds make ton. This will givie
Ills tons and 875 pounds to the acre, of rain 1
one inch deep.
Il never patronize patent medcIn s.
Don't you? why not % You patronize /
patent articles of a hundred varieties /
Why not patent medicines p Because tbev I
are often worthless True, Dat not always.
frequently they are the very best in theworld
representing the widest experience. At
least we know that DIR. Kennsdy's Favorite
Remedy IS one of these, and for all troubles
of the blood. liver and urinary organs ID
stands on It's merits, and not on advertising
On Wednesday James Benson, of New /
port, r. l., who. has been drinking heavily.
procured keg of powder, which he took IN
to cellar, knocked in the bead and poured
a large quantity of powder on the floor
Then with razor he eaaascuated himself
and with match fired the powder, making
terrible explosion, resalting in the blow
ing out of tae entire fE0nt of the building.
Benson cannot recover. little girl pass
ing in carriage was badly injured in the
arm, and boy was also injured, but not
"A dispatch from Pine Grove. Pa. saws
The Inhabitants of this borough were