The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-06-05


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/ why not patent medicines p Because they
are often worthless True, put not always.
| frequently they are the very best in theworId
representing the widest experience. At
| least we know that DR.. Kennedv's FavorIte
| Remedy Is one OF these, and for all troubles
| OF the blood, liver and urinary organs it
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| "A party Of gentleman interested in
mining have discovered in the EASTERN part
! OF Knox county, Ohio, unmistakable evil
dences. OF gold, and the find has caused no
little excitment. The metal is found in gold
bearing black sand, and in quartz in ouan-
/ titles that viii undoubtedly pay for the
working. The gentleman refuse TO disclose
! the exact locality of the find until leases of
the territory can be secured by them. but
they expect to take active steps within the
coming week to thoroughly develop the
extent of the vein they hsge struck.
"A special from st. George, Tucker cOun-
ty West Virginia, says that last Saturday
evening Crosby Payne and Mary Gregory.
girls eighteen or twenty years old daughters
OF farmers living near that place, quarrelpd
over the attentions that were being paid
them by young man named Brown. and
engaged in a fight which was witnessed nv
several men, who refused to interfere until
MISS Gregory had been badly used I'D. Miss
Payne picked up a stone. and holding it in
ner hand hit Miss Gregory several times in
the face with it. While Miss Gregory was
blinded with blood Miss Payne picked her
mp and threw her into pile of hot embers
| left by burning brush. and Miss Gregory
was badly burned about the hands and arms.
There is now 10 doubt that the HessIan
fly is doing as much damage, IL not more,
than did the cold weather last winter, and
! the surplus wheat OF Kansas will dwindle
down to small proportions. Fields that four
weck ago promised one-halt to three -fourths
of crop are ruined and will be turned over
and millet put in. The fly is not confined
to any one section, and II observable more
In one place than another, thai place is
witbin the great wheat district where there
Is more wheat for the insect to thrive on.
Before the rayages Of the insect became so
widespread some conception or the wheat
crop could he formed now no one can form
any estimate, and all guesses are wild ones.
In the great valley OF Kansas, the gypsum
In Saline county, where wheat never fails,
entire fields are being pIowed aud miIIet
sOwp. This Is repeated in all parts OF the
State,
John Laurer, a contractor and brick
maker or Pittsburg, who disappeared from
home In December last, has returned home.
| He says that the first six weeks af-
ter his departure are blank to his memory.
At the end Of that time he found himself in
a Cincinnati hospital, suffering from soften
ing OF the brain. He remembered his family
but had forgotten where be lived, and wrote
to his wife at New York, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton and Baltimore before he thought of Pitts
burg and succeeded in reaching her His
son was sent to Cincinnati for him. aud
Lauer says: With him every thing com
menced coming back. Ny business. which
had gone entirely out of my mind was all
clear to me, but 1 wouldn't come home.
was afraid to. l believed that If l came
back I should 90 hope lessly insane l left
the hospital and went to work at my trade
as a carpenter. l believe that saved me-"
He is now slowly recovering.
"A snake such as was never seen IN that
region was killed few days ago by Jay
Webb and Constable William Wilmarth, OF
Thompson, Susquehanna county, near that
seven inches in diameter, with peculiar fat
head. Around the neck is a circle of short
stiff hairs. The color of the serpent is
brown, with red bands about the body at
intervals of few inches. The snake was
discovered on James Fosters farm by Mrs.
Webb, Mrs. Vale and Mrs. Thompson, who
were gathering greens. It was lying at the
foot OF a small! ledge and had newly born
a hpuf ha n w frfo htp apd
women ran to Wehb's house aud told what
they had seen. Webb aud WIlmarth went
to he spot, and ending the snake helpless
from gorGnC. Killed it with a fence stake
They dragged It home, and it now hangs on
Wehb's barn door, an object Of much won
der and curiosity 10 the entire DeiRhborhood.
Reports Of 4 terrible earthquake IN
Cashmere have Just been received from Cal
cntta. Since Sunday fearfuly destructive
. shocks have occurred at intervals of about
ten minutes. The loss OF life Is enormous
but at present unknown. The cavalry bar
Tacks at Shrinagar, the capital 9f Cash mere.
have been destroyed. Fifty Of the inmates
| were killed outright and a great NUN Der
wounded. One part OF the city has been en-
tirely destroyed, and many hundreds OF peO-
pie are supposed to be buried In the ruins
Definite Information is unobtainable, as tb g
place is almost deserted, citizens having be-
come panic stricken and fed The river
which flows through ShrIEagar, as we'll as
the Lake Of Cashmere, Is covered with boats
THAT are packed with refugees. Many 9TH
ers have sought she tier 10 hastily construct
ed huts and tents outside the walls. Hun
dreds OF animals have been killed, and the
I destruction of property is enormous. The
distress which prevails is appalling, and the
dispatches which brought the first intelh-
gencs of the disaster contained urgent ap-
peas for assistance. At last accounts the
seismic distuy Dances continued 1Dabated
and the complete destruction OF the city of
Shrina0ar was imminent