The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-09-10
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGS.

cule all diseases OF the Dloous hNei anu
Miss Louisa Cash, of Rhea county,
Tenn, died on Monday of last week after
fast of seventy days and nights, during
which time she had not eaten a mouthful of
food. She started out to fast ninety days.
On last Saturday the city of Ripon, in
Y orkshire England, celebrated the thou
sandth year of its exIstance as a municipal
ity. 1t is only when we read such things
that we are reminded what frisky young
ster the United States really is.
The secret of successful advertising is to
tell the truth. When we say that Drey-
dOppePs BOrax Soap is the best and cheapest
soap you can use for all purposes, it is plain
statement of fact, and the best way to salts
fy yourself is to try pound.
James Hern, farmer of Wilson cOun-
ty. Tenn, expressed a desire to get melon
from a melon patch on his farm on Tuesday
night of last week, and went out after it,
when his son, suppOsiDg him to be thief,
shot and mOrtally wounded him.
How MANY baId heads you see. Work,
worry. disease, dissipation. Ihes do IT,
PaTker's Hair Balsam stops falling hair and
restores gloss and youthful color. Excep-
tionaily clean, elegant, a perfect dressing,
not greasy. Prevents dandruf.
By new process of manipulation, hats
more serviceabe and finer than anything
now on the market, are made of wood pulp. /
1t IS claimed that felt hats will have back .
seat as soon as the new hats can be placed .
In the market in sufficient numbers to sup .
ply the demand,
A man died recently in Mexico who was I
followed to the grave by eighty.seven sons +
and daughters, aud had buried thirteen, so
that he was father to the grand total of one
hundred children. There is another man in
Mexico who has bad two wives, and has
living forty-fve children.
"A dispatch from Madison. Indiana, says
hog cholera in that and adjacent counties
will entail loss of many Thousand dollars
upon tie farmers. No remedy prescribed
appears to have any effect in checking the
disease. Numerous individua! losses of more
than one hundred head are reported.
"A telegram from Chicago says during
the last three months more than 500 burga-
ries in that city. Ever since the bomb ex-
plOded in Haymarket Square, the police
have been looking for Anarchists, and in the
meantime burglars have worked through
certain districts with as much impunity as
though there were DO policemen in the city.
Mgr. CapeI, who IS living near San
Francisco attending to the publication Of
two books one relating to the power, state
Z and influence of the Roman Catholic Church
/ in the United States, recently received news
| of the death of his venerable mother. OF
her ten children but three survive, one a
2 nun, another the priest and the third a
merchant.
r A rich man died up in New Hampshire
, the other day who divided 81, 5000 be
s tween two little towns numbering only s.
las population together, to be devoted to
t the establishment of schools and libraries
t for the poor This gives an aggregate OF
I S413 to every inhabitant, a larger amount
} propOrtiony than ever before was given by
u any one for such purposes.
- Three young ladies were crossing the
trestle work bridge near Sauk Centre, MINI.
last week. when a Manitoba train came
O along. They lost their presence of mind anc
J. started back but the Dgine was too close tC
T be reversed. Miss Alien was instantly killed
y and mangled and Miss Flayen severely in
t jured, while the latter's sister jumped in tht
). water and escaped unhurt.
. Willard Pierce, who died in the insane
p asylum at TYngsboro, Mass, last week, haC
. been an inmate Of the institution for fort,
d years, having been rendered hopelessly in
sane by the heartless action of a young lad,
II to whom he was engaged to be married
His tickle sweetheart preferred to marry
: NV York broker, and the grief weighed 8
IL heavily on his mind as to Tender.him hope
u less lunatic
At Savannah, on Thursday of last week
- Postal inspector Simpson, of Atlanta, eject
Il ted a. n, Wilson from the postofice an,
n. placed Captain G. W, Lamar in possession
Wilson had positively refused to turn owe
le the Office unless force should be used, an
o. went ont saying, Il am still postmaster 0
IF Savannah. President Cleveland had n
n, right to suspend me under the constitution
Wilson was suspended for offensive parti
sanship,
About a hundred persons a day visit th
! condemned Anarchists in jail in Chicago =
~ Half the visitors are ladies. They are nc
n sympathizers with the cause of anarchy, bu
es regard the prisoners as one of the city
to sights. The physicians at the county hosp
be tai are endeavoring to get between $4,000 an
If $4,000 extra pay for their services 10 tandin
d, the policemen who were wounded duun
e. for attendance upon paupers,
us The Sonora, Cal, Bonner says that o
u Dry Creek the bears are becoming so Dol
e and numerous that they have taken to KILN
~ horses. Recently on the place of Dave vii
= Jams, near the Philadelphia mine, mar
1d and her colt were attacked by a very larR
h bear. The mother fought nObly for he
be offspring and succeeded in saving it, bat wa
d, herself killed. The colt much frightene
"a ran to the house, and Mr.. Williams, think
lg ing all was notfight, went out to investigate
u A short distance from the house he found tn
III mare dead and bruin sitting upon the bod
III eagerly devOuring it,
- in addition to the $500, 900 contribute
M by Miss Caldwell, Of New Yoik, To tn
,ir Catholic University to be built at Was hinG
r. ton 100000 has been contributed froI
D. other sources. 1t appears that the east ha
'st been quite generous, while the west is u
D. somewhat apathetic toward the pTOjec
er While such contributions as $50 600 froI
e Eugene Kelly, of New York, and 81 ,OC
=, from others in Washington, Baltimore an
Philadelphia, show how great is the ntere:
he felt in the movement by wealthy Catholic
r in the East, nothing is heard of large col
nd tributiOns from the West.
OF The Salt Lake Tribune says that Il
al following Is the oath taken by the ''Destro,