The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-08-07

ance.
Mr. w. II. Stinemau, Cf South Fork vbc
Is ageLt for the sale of General GRANTS Per.
sonal Memoirs. has been in town dnr,no
the present week soliciting subscriptions for
the WORK referred to, and we understand
mas met with encouraging success. Mr..
9''ht mans held OF operations does not ex-
. tend 10 this section Of the county. beyond
( ihe northern l!ne of Cambria township.
To close out our stock we have two
Mhourn wagons, one Brown wagon. one
I champion hay rake, one Empire Grain
drili, THREE Perry spring tooth harrows and
/ QUE Henche su ky corn cultivator. Farm
eTs are notified that it will not be safe to
J make Us a respectable bid on these goods
/ OF they will be sold. LEMUEL DAVIS.
Mcdonald, OF Loretto, sells II lbs. of
/ good brown sugar, for St.OO; IA lbs. white
sugar, sl-O0; lbs. tea 81 90; 10 lbs. coffee.
/ Sl.Oo; good molaSses, SOC. per gallon. good
/ syrup, 40c. per gallon; -four 81 per sack.
/ salt, 81 40 per barrel; ? brooms. 25c en-.
smoking tobacco, 25c. per 10, plug smoking
! tobacco, 35c. per 10; good chewing tobacco,
4Oc per h., all other goods at equally low
/ prices for cash or good marketable trade.
| Two old turkey hens with their broods
/ OF toTty-one young turkeys, and an old hen
/ with sixteen young chickens (fIfty-one birds
/ in sl), strayed away from the farm ward of
/ Mt. Morse HaZlett, iu Bedford county, on
/ the 8th uit., and one week later all but ten
OF the turkeys and three of the chickens.
which were missing, were found twenty
miles away, with broad stream and two
mountains between them and home.
/ During the warm days of last week
Knight of st. Crispin, residing in this
place, overcome with drowsiness, left his
shop door open to Invite the refreshing
I bIeeZes and peacefully went to sieep on his
/ bench. His pleasant dreams, however, were
rudsiy Interrupted by something sounding
/ ike wateTsPout, and his astonishn.ent can
be better imagined than told when be found
/ his neighbor's cow making herself as much
at home in his shop as she would in her
! owners stable Exit COW.
The following is said to be AL excellent
/ recipe FOR the manufacture of blackberry
wine: To one bushel Of blackberries put
/ two gallons of water, and express the Juice;
/ to each gallon Of the liquor add one pound
/ OF refined sugar. Put into a cask peck of
[ freshly burned charcoal broken into small
/ pieces; then pour the liquid upon it and let
/ it ferment. As soon as the fermentation
/ subsidies close thR cask tight and let it re-
main until January then rack off and bot
| tie, and set in a cool cellar.
/ Fire brCko out in the residence OF Mr.
/ Peter Di5hOnV, a farmer residing in JAcks
| son township on Friday afternoon and, as
/ all the family were at work in the fields
| when they discovered it, it had made such
headway that when they got to the house
the building was past saving. They sue
| ceeded in Uesecuring some of the furniture,
but the greater part of their household
goods were burnt. 1t was two story plank
house and was insured in the Home Insur-
ance company Of New York, for $500 The
loss is estimated at about $1,000.
When Indiana was first organized there
was no pr-mium paid for wolf scalps The
industrious citizens residing along our
southern border were much annoyed by
wolves and they caught large numbers of
them in trap. When one was caught be
was secured by ropes and taken across the
river to the Westmoreland side and there
killed, thus securing the scalp fee from
WestmOreland county. SO says Major Leb-
eDgOod, and be was there and knows all
about it. The man who picked up one of
the ''old settlers" for a fool let him
down right quick Messenger.
The HoIldaysburg correspondent of
the Altoona Tribane Of Wednesday says:
The board of direc tors of the Cresson and
COaIport Railroad company had a meeting
yesterday in the office of the secretary, Mar
tin Bell, Esq. Among other matters of
business transacted yesterday, was the
granting of an order for the payment of the
construction Of the road. The work is pro-
crossing rapidly and it is expected that car
will be running from Cresson to CoaI port
along the banks Of the Clearfield creek by
November
"A destructive tornado passed over por-
tiOns OF Clearfield and Jefferson counties on
Monday evening. In Hend erson township,
jefferson county, great damage was done To
standing timer and crops, large number
of farm buildings we're unroofed. A large
barn on Squire Miller's farm was com
pletely demolished and an orchard of $50
trees on the Bean farm was entirely de-
stroyed. The people in neighborhood viii
lagos watched the funnel. shaped cloud as it
passed from west to east, and were filed
with fear lest the whole section should be
devastated. The whiriwind, however, soon
rose from the earth and passed from their
vision as quickly as it came. The path of
the storm was several miles in length, by a
half mile in width.
The CarrOlltown correspondent Of the
Altoona Sunday Aorr,ing says that while
Mr.. Frank Schettig, a farmer living a few
miles from that place, was as work several
days ago in the harvest field with his team,
a violent clap of; thunder frightened the
horses aud they broke and ran away, but
there was no apparent stroke Of lightning to
do any injury in the vicinity. A day or two
after, however q di saRreeably strong smell
emitted'from the basement of his saw mill,
attracted attention and an examination de-
veloped the fact that nine sheep we're lying
dead, hudded together in the basement of
She mill No mark or injury of any kind
was visible upon any of them, out the pre-
sumption Is that the shock OF the heavy peal
of thunder caused the death of the sheep.
One OF our citizens residing In the sub
urbs of the town one night last week was
nervous and restless, and was annoyed by
the Standardization OF number of cOw-bells.
lie finally got up aud took a chair near
window, and while gazing over 10 the ii
rection from whence the sereuade was CON-
ing saw his neighbOr's meadow dotted over
with all the cows in town. He concluded