The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29
NEWS AND OTHER sOTINGs.

A skeleton seven feet long, supposed to
be that OF an Indian and to have been bur
led many years. was uuearthed near New
Castle. Pa, a few days ago.
james Key killed a rattIesnake on Wills
Mountain. near Bedford, recently, which
measured FIVE feet In length. three inches in
diameter and had ten rattles.
The knights of Labor count among
their colleagues one Governor. one United
States Senator, three Congressman and 125
members of State Legislatures.
The first elephant born In this country
was In the old Ridge avenue street car sta
ton, at the corner of Twenty third street
and Ridge avenue. Philadelphia.
Ex-senator Thurman will not accept the
Democratic nomination for Governor of
Ohio, So much the worse for Ohio She
has not material for a better Governor with
In her borders.
Over brain work and excesses reduce
the vitality and cause nervous exhaustion,
etc. The Pastille treatment is radical
cure. Harris Remedy Co., st. Louie, Mo.
Send for free trials.
Medical men nave on exhibition at
the hospital a. Kingston, Ont, a colOred
man named Thomas who has two heefts and
two sets OF ribs, and who can move the ribs
downward In his body with a motion resem-
bling that OF churn.
-Quinsy troubled me for twenty years
Since started using DR.. Thomas EcIectric
OIL, have not had an attack. The oil cures
sore throat at once. Mrs. Letta Conrad,
Standish. Mich, Oct. "a. 's3.
1t is estimated that l. 600 new families
settled during the past winter in Florida as
permanent residents. They are said to be,
as a general rule. intelligent and progress
i've, and to have means enough to improve
the properties they have purchased.
Three steamers and one bark carried
from Philadelphia last week to foreign
shores 186, 744 bushels of wheat aud corn
The grain shipments for the present year,
which have been in excess OF last years
shipments, amount to 8. 62e. .124 bushels.
Thomas Coleman, at Carlisle, last Fri
day attempted to kill himself by cutting his
throat with razor. Troubles growing out
of fire by which he suffered loss, and the
refusal of the Court to grant him license to
sell liquors, are supposed to have induced
the rash deed. Coleman is expected to die.
Albert Ford. aged 25 years aud married,
who outraged a highly respected school
Oneida county, n Y. on May 13, and rob
bed her of her watch and chain, was arrest
ed and pleaded guilty. and the other day be
was sentenced to the Auburn State Prison
for thirty years for the two offenses
Last Thursday night the msnRled re-
mains Of Charles Weber, German, were
found Oh the tracks of the Penn Incline at
Pittsburg. 1t was supposed that be had
committed suicide, OF had accidentally fallen
off the car, but the detectives now claim
that they have evidence that will chow he
was a victim of foul play. a searching in
/ vestigation will be made.
/ On Thursday of last week Simon CLARK,
a well-known farmer of Brush-Cre town
/ ship, Fulton county, aged about forty years,
/ committed suicide by hanging himself to a
maple tree, short distance from his resi-
/ denee, with hitching strap. He bade the
son who procured him the bItchinR strap an
affectiOnate fa-"veII. Trouble as to the 10y
atty of his wife was &e cause.
The contract betweeu the State OF Tex
as and a syndicate of Chicago capitalists,
under which the latter were to build the
State Capitol, receiving their pay in public
/ lands, IS about being terminated. The syn
dicate are unable to dispose of sufficient
land to settlers to enable them to profit by
their undertaking, and prefer to lose the
$3.50. 900 which is the penalty for non-per-
formance of their contract, to fulfilling 1t.
: The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Carried "a 600 emierants from New
\ NH'"rK I, the west since the beginning OF the
year, and it is carrying them over its line
! at present at the rate of nearly two thou
: sand per day. Eastern papers note the fac
, th ut the majority of tue newcomers ar
! bright, clean and gsnteeI. Most of the EN-
: grants are ticketed for the far West .
great many English, Germans and Austri
= ans are among them
4 The body OF William Kelly, a cloth ped
e dler who mysteriously disappeared sewers
months ago from Pittsburg, was found foe
y ing in the Ohio river, near the State lin,
: on Saturday with a wound on bis head sue
= as blunt instrument would produce. A
q the time OF his disappearance he was know
h to have had in bis possession about $40
d which was not found on the body. 1t
y supposed that he was robbed and the
n thrown into the river
e Il never patr onize patent medicines
Don't your Why not % You patroni,
d patent articles of a hundred varieties
: why not patent medicines p Because the
/ are often worthless True, out not aIway
: frequently the are the very best in the wor
- representing the widest experience 4
a least we know that DR.. Kennedy's FAVOR
: Remedy is one of these, and for all troubl,
OF the blood, liver and urinary organs
stands on its merits and OF on adyertisin
1t is reported that great frauds wei
II perpetrated In the manufacture OF the aru
J. supplied to the British soldiers in the Sou
= dan. In battle many bayouets were bel
= = out of shape at a moment when the soldier
- life was in deadly peril. Instead OF usir
" steel in their composition, dishonest contra
"a tors made the bayonets OF soft iron.
a some instances the weapon was drive
h through an enemy and become so bent tn
e It could not be removed to use a secur
Is time.
l. During fearfnl thunderstorm whiC
5, passed oyer Wampum. Lawrence count
II this State, on Saturday last, Mrs. AIbe
!. Guy went to the door which was only pa
= tally opened, when the lightning struck q
corner of the house, tearing of one boa
and striking tie unfortunate woman, kilir
her instantly. She never uttered a wor
e but died in a moment The lightning to
?. the shoes from her feet Mrs. Guy vi
I . about 30 years of age, and leaves a husbau
! and four small children
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