The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-02-05
NEWS AND oTnER NoTIXGs.

For early loss OF physical power 4
sure cure is feud In Hunts Remedy. Neve
fails
The oldest and largest tree in the world
is chestnut near the foot of Mt Etna
The circumference IF the main trunk is z11
feet
We do not sound a needless alarm wher
we tell you that the taint Of scrofula is II
your blood. Inherited or acquired, it il
there, and Ayers SarsapariIla alone will
successfully eradicate it.
Gross leVee, which separated Roberts
island, Cal, gave way on Sunday, allowing
the water to cover 35 600 acres of land, of
which 13 600 acres were in wheat. The en-
tire loss is estimated at 5000 600.
The Geographical Society of Marseilles
estimates the total number Of Jews in the
I world at 6 377 COZ that IS 4O7 SOP in Eu.
4-r0pey. SOC, 600 IN America, 245, 900 in Asia
/ $4,000 in Africa. and L, 600 in Oceanica
According TO the latest information at
! tsinable the three largest cities in the world
/ are London, with population of 3 1856.
/ AL; Paris, with 2 269 ,O23, and Canton,
/ with !, 200 900. New YORK comes fourth on
the list and Berlin fifth.
The storm which ended Sunday night
had ragged for for forty eight hours and
caused great damage throughout New
Hampshire. Reports received from some
OF the largest fIuit growers in the State say
7 that their orchards are entirely ruined.
The biggest snow storm ever known
there was raging az Fort Smith, Ark, on
Tuesday. Snow has fallen for twenty-one
hours and is still falling. Il is now ten inch
es deep. All travel is suspended, and the
trains are neither arriving nor departing
In trap haited with live goose, =
farmer in Harnett county, Y. c., recently
caught bald eagle whose wings measured
ten feet from tip to tip. The bird had been
ravagine the vicinity for many weeks. car
ryinP off large numbers of poultry and
sheep.
An old and intimate friend Of mine is
Parker's Hair BaIsam. have used It five
years, and could rot do without it. It has
stopped my hair from falling, restored its
! natural black color and wholly cIeansed it
from dandruff.- Miss Pearl Aneson, St.
Louis, Mo.
1t is estimated that fully Is 600 head of
cattle lie dead and frozan on the prairie
within radius OF seventy-fve miles of
Fort Elliott, Texas. The prairie dogs are
nearly all dead. Several persons were bad
ly frozen. The lowest recorded by the mer-
curry was 10 degrees below zero.
On "Wednesday week there died in
Windsor, Ont, an Indian-Spanisb negro
named freeman Clark. who was born in
Buckingham county, Va, August T. 1894
being over 121 years old. He lived in Vir-
GINA for so years working at his trade as a
cooper. aud then went west to OHIO, after
ward going to Detroit.
European sugar refners have lately dis
covered in central India forest tree which
seems likely to come into general use as n
substitute for the cane and the beet. 1t is
called the Maheva and abounds in southern
Hipdostan. It's blossoms yield an immense
amount Of juice, which is easily converted
into sugar of an excellent quality.
Father Le Pailipur. founder Of the IA
nous and benefcent Order of the Little
Sisters Of the Poor. is still living in Paris,
where the Order was started in 1910 His
golden jubilee last month. The first sister.
Marie Augustine de Ia Compassion, is re-
siding in the mother house. There ale now
249 houses and nearly 1000 sisters within the
Order.
1t is said that the forthcoming report Of
the agricultural department Of Illinois will
show condition Of affairs not known be-
fore for twenty-five years, there being a
deficit IN the crop Of 5000 600 bushels The
acreage harvested in 1885 was l O6s sf4
The amount annually required for eeed and
consumption is 13. 739 O29 bushels. but tre
amount produced as shown by the rerurns
was S, ,2g9 243.
-CoioTed people OF Hampstead. Tex.
have been thrown into excitement over rbe
news that whole family of negroes were
poisoned 1T Ho~th station on the Texas
Central railroad. The family Of whom Nor
ris johnson IS u he head. were poisoned nv
eating the fiesN Of a stolen hog, which had
been doSPa With strychnine TO trap hog
thieves. Bil Harris and Henry Clay, two
guests of Morris Johnston, and JOhnsoD's
step-daughter, have died and several of the
family are in a critical condition.
The property known as Jackson's Mills.
on the West Fork river. in West Virginia. is
for sale under p decree of court. On this
property StOnewaH jackson spent his bov-
hood with his uncle, Cummings Jackson.
He lived there when he was appointed con.
stable for Lewis county; and that was his
home when he left there for WASHINGTON
auu outdlDtu MS appointment TO West
Point. The property has gone down con-
siderablv since those days, although it Is
yet considered valuable
Burt Coatman, a cowboy convict from
Wyoming, serving a sentence Of three years
at the Joliet Iu.) Prison, was released on
Monday having served his term. When
Coatman was brought to the Clerks office
to he discharged the Clerk handed him
package of bills amounting to nearly sf1oo
and Informed him that $1,000 Of the amount
bad been sent to him as a Christmas present
by one of the cattle kings of Wyoming
The ex-eonvict was nearly paraIyzed with
astonishment at his good fortune, and left
the prison doors with light heart.
Few realize what a mammoth Stete
Texas is. 1t is as large as eight South Car.
olinas, has IS. 900 600 acres Of timber and
1900 miles Of railroad. Its crop for 1885 IA
1900 900 bales OF cotton, 80, 600 900 pounds
Of wool, 80 900 600 bushels of corn and
600 600 bushels Of wheat. 1t has 2S2 varie-
ties Of grass and graZes annually II 600 600
mead OF cat'ia. It's population Is . 800 600
us weaith, 1908 goo 600 Each county has
70 600 acres OF land for school puTn ,ses and
each university 22O 900 acres l.; <, booi
fund amounts to $500 900, and it iS y mo-
cratic by 100 600 majority TruIy q 80,