The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-04
NEWS AND OTHER NoT,Ses.

NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs
The Flint river swamps, in Sumter
county, Georgia, are full of Wild turkeys, as
many as 80 and 60 have been seen in a drove.
-Isasah Walton, a farmer living near
Byron, Ga, says be has five married daugh-
tiers whose aggregate weight is over 1000
pounds.
AT Cherryvale, Kan. where all the
women vote. or can II they so desire, ot
more than one-third OF them registered for
,he spring election. They had voted once
and the novelty WIS gone.
John Dageett, of Schenectady, offered
to let William Black shoot six bullets at him
from revolver at sistance OF 200 feet for
a silver dollar. William accepted. butdids't
come within two feet OF hitting him
Miss Eliza Bliss. Of Rehoboth. Conn. .,
invited an applicant for charity into her
house the other day. While she was prepar-
ing food. the tramp sang Nearer Ny God,
to Thee and at tine same time stole the
lady's pOcsetbCok and SIS from the bureau
drawer.
just as son OF DR.. Todd drove up 20
his home 10 Campbell county. Georgia. n
swarm of bees attacked horse buggy and
boy. The boy ran into the house and shut
the door to keep the horse out The horse
had TO be wrapped in blankets TO get tie
bees of The horse is no. expected to live
and the boy is very i'll.
A Detroit newspaper is responstb,e for
the statement rhat Virgins, the misfit
weather prophet. has made no predictions
because
told him TO shut up or leave its employ
This statement will give rise in this coontry
to more friendly feeling toward the Cana
dian government than seems 20 have existed
heretofore.
Charles Clarke, fsrmer living near
Decatur, HI, recently lost I3 head of cattle
which he had been feeding all winter ON
wheat straw. As the animals were. per-
fectiy free from disease. Clarke bad an, ex-
animation made of three of them and found
In tie stomachs of elch, A. ball of twine the
size OF a base ball and of the kind used on
bis twinebinder during harvest.
"A case of actual ''hard cheek ia repurt
ed from Detroit where a sixteen .year-old lad
las been in the habit OF "thrusting pins and
needles, which he collected on the sly, into
]
was recently sent to a hospital for the in
sahe' with the hope that he might be cured
OF the mania. At the time of his departure.
Il is asserted. he had between thirty and
forty pins buried 10 the head in his cheek,
besides an unknown number of needles,
which We're entlrley out of sight.
Father Damien is the name of the he.
role young Belgian priest who in 1873 vol
unfairly took up his abode on the Island OF
Molokia, whittier are deported lspers from
the Sandwich Islands, and has since labor
ed to tighten the brief earthly lot of the
| wrssehed Outcasts. After thirteen wears OF
almost miraculous immunity Father Damien
| was seized recently by the deadly disease
and cannot last long He continues to min
lister to the wants OF the poor Iepers, assist
ed by Father Joseph, another devoted priest
| who Joined him two years ago.
Mike Matthews, living near Howard,
OAK, tells tie following. which is voucbed
for by all his neighbors During the biz
zErd of January IL last he lost hog, which
at the time weighed over 200 pounds
Nothing had been seen or heard of it until
I last Friday, when he was working at hay
stack some distance from the house and un-
covered the hog, which was still alive and
the mother of = litter OF ten pigs. all alive
and weighing about a pound piece. The
mother weighed when taken out about &c
pounds, shrinkage of over 40 pounds
She was confined IN the stack about three
months without food or water
Tom Kaigier, a negro preacher living
on Sheriff Gilmore plantation, near Allan.
ia. has created considerable excitement
among the negroes on account of a revela-
tior he claims to have had. 4e saws tina;
the lord has revealed 20 him that on GER
tain day he will carry all the negroes to
| Egypt. and that he (TomJ IS t0 be the lead
| er, The day and bOur of departure is set
( What causes the prophecy to be believed is
that the Older negroes say that before the
war the same prophet prophesied that the
/ negroes were to be set free, and that the
4 prophecy "as literally fulfilled. They are
/ getting their clothing aud other things iu
/ readiness for the departure.
-One of the familiar faces at the Navy
( Department has been tnat OF Lindsey
Muse, an ancient coiored man who has
| stesd guard at the door OF the Secretaries of
the Navy ever since 1928. He came into the
service of the Government with the admin
istratien of John Quincy Adams, when
Samuel Sothard was the Secretary of the
Navy, and has been on duty every since
He approximates his age at eighty years
Of late be has been growing feeble and
about ten days ago be caught a cold thai
| settled into rheumatism and forced him tC
leave his post and stay at home. 1t is no
| expected that he will ever resume his sta
| tion at the Secretary's door.
! One day last week the 4-year-old son Of
A Il. Stringer, of Hot Springs, Arkansas
went to the back yard 10 play. He haC
| been outdoors but a few moments when
big game cock of great strength and ferce-
ness flew into its face. The little fellow
| WAS knocked over. His screams attracted
Mrs. Stringer, who ran to her child rescue
When the boy was borne into the house il
! was found that his face had been scratched
| by the ROSTERS spurs, but aside from these
abiasions there were no other marks on his
body Half an hour later the child swooneC
| and went into coEvulsions and at 10 oAclocE
he died. When the doctors made their pos
mortem examination this morning the,
found that the boys neck had been disIoca-
| ted by the game cocks assault, and tha
1 cOncusSjou of fha ht in bad oauoa5