The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-12-03
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

"A Mich igsn soldier has refused TO take |
his pension on the ground that be has recov- |
cred from the injuries upon which his appli- |
cation was based.
The largest tree in California is In Tu- |
lare county, and is 450 feet high, and the |
trunk is 13S feet In circumference. 1t is
called the Father of the Forest
There are about 200 600 men interested
In brass bands, either as players OF makers
of instruments. There are 30 600 brass bands
in the country at this present time and the
number is rapidly increasing.
By the falling of an embankment in New
York city 0E last Thursday morning, Patrick
BarkiD, a laborer, was engnIfed in earth so
that only his face and one OF his hands
were visible. He was rescued after nine
hours Imprisonment
Mr.. Brsndenburgh, of Philadelphia, s
the owner of the largest dog in America. -
KOloss is Danish hound of NOBLE ancestry
is feet long and feet high. He has an
immense head and a huge body OF tawny
color streaEed with dark gray.
-O'Donovan Rosa now states that he re-
signed from the headship of the Fenians.
Itself mot to sanction any attack upon Can
ada or any other territory Oh this side of the
Atlantic, unless England be at war with
America"
! James &. Miller, cashier OF Minneapolis
bank, and his friend, W. G. Rudy, of Wash
ingtOn, went to st. Paul on Thanksgiving to
view the city. On their return they attempted
to board a moving train, and fell. Miller
was mangled beyond recognition, but Rudy
escaped unhurt.
AT the age of ten, Mary Yors, whom
Michael DaVItt is to marry, narrowly es-
capped being drowned. as the result Of an
accident upon a bridge. She was precipitat-
ed, with her mother, into a California river,
twenty feet below, and when rescued by a
| passer by was unconscious.
Mrs. McCann, OF the First ward of Ia
coma, Washington Territory, has given birth
to baby weighing twenty-one pounds, for
which is claimed the honor OF being "the
biggest baby on the Pacific coast This
might as we'll include the Atlantic coast and
| all the other coasts, probably, for the young
McCann is whopper.
The story is told in Boston of man who
christened. "What are you going to call
him?' asked the priest. Luther Calvin, -
answered the proud father. The venerable
priest was taken aback for a minute, then be
exclaimed, "Well. 1 will baptize him Mary,
and you can 60 home and call him what you
like.
Lately a redwood tree was cut on the
south fork OF Elk river, Humboldt county,
Cal, which was sawed into tveBty-one cuts,
| four nt which were sixteen feet long, twelve
were twenty feet long, and five were twenty
four feet long, making the total length 424
feet. An accurate tally at the mill showed
that the tWenty-one logs had furnished 79,-
736 feet of lumber.
Last spring a New Jersey Organization
sent out large quantity of pumpkin seed
offering at the same time prizes for the
largest and smallest pumpkins raised from
the seed. The largest pumpkin was sent
on Saturday to the headquarters of the
! organization. 1t weighs nearly $50 poun Is
and is a monster. When it was half grown
the grower cut on the outside OF it, 'Gruyer
/ Cleveland, 1886" The letters snow to ad-
vantage
Last Tuesday the remains of Jim Swan,
alias Jack Sheppard, the prince OF North
western hghwaymen, we're found among
| the Zig Horn Mountains, Montana. He
| escaped from the Sheriff some time ago
/ while handcuffed and was never caught
afterwards. He died from starvation, as his
manscled condition prevented him from
/ procuring food. A knife and revolver
| with the chambers empty. were found be-
! side him.
John Doane, OF Wagon Wheel, Idaho,
died recently, and his mother, widow, and
his two unmarried sisters went to the town
/ to attend his funeral. They were the only
unmarried women in the place, and before
the flowers bad withered on Johns grave
! the widow had been married to the Mayor Of
the town, the elder sister to the Sheriff, and
the younger to prominent citizen. The
three weddings we're held at the same time
and all of the town attended,
Thirteen persons Of the family of l.. II.
| Perkins, Superintendent Of the Springfield
/ Silk Mills, in Springfield Massachusetts,.
were poisoned on Monday by drinking pois-
oned tea. The tea was left on the piazza Of
the house where the family lived, Saturday
! night, IN small tin box with the advertis-
/ Ing card of a local tea store. The tea was
| stepped for dinner noon, and thirteen of the
/ fourteen persons who sat at the table drank
! OF it. All are expected to recover 1t IA
thought the crime was committed by some
! discharged employe of the silk mill.
"A young man of GrIffin, Ga, took a
! stylish girl to church the other Sunday. and
on the way thither he told her that it was
| the general custom to put a FIVE dollar gold
/ piece in the collection plate. Then he
! clenched the statement by showing her a
| FIVE dollar gold piece which he was going TO
put into the plate that morning. Such an
interest in religion plainly made q great I'm
| preston on the young lady. But unfortu-
nately for the young man, the minister
| announced the amount of the collection at
( the close of the service. 1t was just S3.75.
John ORletree, one Of the leading young
white men OF Knoxville, Ca, stols Miss
/ Kate Ellis from her parents for the purpose
OF marrying her. Being closely pressed In
their flight the young couple called upon
Rev. Z. n. Sargent, a colored evangelist
whom they met in the road, to marry them.
He did so just in time to prevent the girls
rescue. Her parents now treat the marriage
oy the colored preacher as a nullity and in
sist upon the ceremony being performed bv
a white preacher. 1t is proper to state that
the Rev. Mr.. Sergeant omitted to kiss the
bride.