The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-11-19
NEWS AND OTHER SOTINGS.


eight million colored people In this country,
there will not be cOlored Congressman in
the next House.
A farmer Of Dry Point township, near
Shadyville, Illinois, has just lost seven head
of fine cattle from black leg" The disease
was quite prevalent throughout that section
last winter.
The fact that you read the newspaper is
evidence that you desire to keep posted up
in what is going on. This paragraph is to
Inform you that DTeydoppers Borax Soap is
the best soap made in America. Try it.
Casper DeGsch. an old citizen of Read
Inc, died su ddenly on the Cincinnati express
west on Wednesday last, near Lewlstown,
while on his way to San Francisco, acconpa-
MED by his daughter
Jane Calhoun, aged 1O6 years, lives in
Ulster county, New York, Her husband
bullt,w his own hands the house in which
she lives for her to enter as a bride in l779,
and since then she has never lived In any
other.
Tine National Convention of United
PresOyterians, in session at PIttsburg on
We nesdsy week, adopted a resolution, re-
ported by the Committee on Resolutions, in
opposition to the use Of the organ in the
church.
Rosie Hall, aged years, and living on
Bush hill Creek, near Easton, disappeared
from home on Saturday. and was found on
Monday under pile of leaves in the woods
nearly dead and hugging to her bosom a kit
! ten.
The Ghilzal rebels in Afgbanistan have
been attacked by the Afghan general sent
TO subdue them and badly defeated. The
| general sent to Cabul ten cart loads Of heads
of rebels killed in battle, as a token of his
| victory.
Mrs. MaTiuda Thompson, OF South By
ron, n. Y, missed some frewoOd from her
! yard, and accused Mrs. Rachel Bushman, her
next door neighbOr, of stealing it, A jury
has just given Mrs. Bushman $500 damages
In an action for slander.
"A year ago New York carpet weaver
named Harrison Soper married Cora Brown, L,
aged 13 years. He died on Wednesday in
the village of Shrub Oak. The widow, who
still wears short clothes, has baby two
months old.
Tom Finty, the biggest railroad tie mer-
chant In the West, was formerly a section
hand on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad
He is now the richest man in Clay county,
Illinois, and employs 100 men. He lives
alone and dresses like day laborer.
Alice White, aged five years, of Boston.
was on Friday awarded IS, 900 damages from
the Boston and Albany railroad on account
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| chimney at the Columbus ave. station while
she was passenger on the defendants car,
by which the girls nose was cut off.
Rev. E. A. Tanner. of PlainweIl, Mich,
has been asked by his congregation to resign.
In his sermon last Sunday he said that "any
Christian who refused to vote the Prohibition
ticket ought to be yoked to the devil and
made to toll for thousand years on the hot
pavements of hell"
Fred Archer, :he great English jockey
who died on Monday of last week, had won
in bis career not less than 2, 200 races, and
in 1888 had PAL winning mounts, the best
record ever made by any rider. His fortune
amounted to fnlly $500. 900 and in this year
I was required to pay tax on an income of $50,
OOO
Thomas Stevens, whose tour around the
world on a bicycle has made him famous, ar.
rived in Hong KOhG October 4. He was not
permitted to cross AfRhanistan, so took q
steamer from Calcutta to Hong Kong.
whence be will go on his bicycle % Canton,
and thence to Shanghai, where he will take
steamer for Japan.
The mulatto, Polk Hill, who fired a
Bolton, the wealthy planter at LIev e'Iyn
Precinct, Texas, was captured on Wednes-
day morning by Sheriff Davoi while asleep
in cabin seven niles from Brerham
He bad eluGed the bloodhouDds by
rubbing his boots with tobacco.
The director of the mint estimates thai
not less than seven millions of dollars in pen
nies are now in circulation in the United
States. The Philadelphia Mint is now turn
ing out minor coins to the value of So ,OOC
per day, but the demand for such coin /.
$500, 900 ahead Of the supply. The amount
however, will soon be made up and the de
mand fully met.
in Omaha 100 saloons each pay 81 ,oOC
license. The money goes into the schoo
fund, and in consequence the Omaha school
bave no superiors anyWhers. But man.
people think money obtained in this wa,
should not be used for this purpose. DO an
Of these sentimentaIists refuse to sell good
, to saloon keepers, and. II they do, what d
they do with the money so receive17
Francis Murphy. the temperance apos
tie is meeting with wonderful success /
! Ohio. at Bellefontaine he secured 1,3O
signers to the total abstinence pledge; a
; Tiffin $500, and at other places as man
J more. His son Edward obtained 2, 900 sign
| ers at n lies, Michigan, last week. He wa
! ! assisted by Catholic priest. He expects {
obtain $1,000 more signers before the end {
the year.
The S. w. Tyler Patent Mower Comps
T ny, of New York, has begun four suits
=" the United States Court at Chicago for $500
600 each, for infringement of narvrstin
; machines. The defendants are tie McCor
mick Harvesting Machine Company Wn
+ DeerinR, the executors OF Cyrus II. McCol
mick and VIM. Deering aud Elijah E
: Cannon. The iufringed machines al
D claimed to have been manufactured
3 large qua ntItIes between 1873 and 1881
= The November crop report OF the Depar
. ment of Agriculture shows a general averac
of cotton two or three points lower than IN
dicated a month ago, The yield of corn
% bushels per acre, making total produ
Of ], ,66S 600, 900 bushels. The potato crop
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