The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-07-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


William Ward, an engineer on a Wis
consin railroad, saved the life of child
lew days since by jumping off and seizing
it just as the train was about to pass over
IT,
Kansas Is unfortunate. Lucy Stone
and others of her type have been scour-
ing the State, and had no sooner left, than
devouring swarms ofgrasshoppers pitched
upon it.
The people Of New London, Conn,
are excited by report that Captain Silas
Buchanan and wife, and Riley West Of
that city, supposed to have been lost at.sea
flfleen years ago, are alive on Pacific
ISLAND.
1T appears that infanticide prevails
10 great extent among the freed negroes
In Columbia, Mississippi, nine babies
were found in one well. Is this what
Sheridan means when he says ssthe freed
men are doing irelE enough r.
The Clover Hill coal mines, 10 Virgi-
MIA, which were the scenes of such terri
BILE explosions recently, viii soon be in
working order. The fire has been extin-
guished, and the preparations to resume
work are being made rapidly.
Young Surratt seems to have the
whole Of the Mongrel Congress, all the
MongreI newspapers and considerable
portion Of the thieves and jail-birds about
Washington, engaged in conspiracy"
20 hang him. 1t seems to be q popular
idea with the Mongrel party, that it is
necessary to hang the son to justify the
murder of the mother.
! Niagara Falls is to be excited over a
female Blondin before many days, in the
person Of M'dle Rosa Celeste, whose thrill
ing feats in rope walking in California
have excelled those Of Blondin. Mr.. De
Young, her agent, is at Niagara Falls,
making the necessary arrangements for
M'dle Celeste, who intends walking rope
stretched across the river below the Falls.
The walking win take place as soon as
the necessary arrangements can. be made.
This daring feat will no doubt call out a
large attendance.
Samuel Cope, formerly a resident of
the Quaker City, and man of wealth,
committed suicide in the township of Falls,
Bucks county, Pa. a short time ago, by
taking Iaudanum. He was morose, me-
lancholy man. The suicide of Preston
King, which was induced by remorse con-
sequeat upon his rough refusal to permit
Miss Annie Surratt to intercede with the
President for the life of her mother, made
a deep impression upon Cope's morbid
feelings, and was the frequent subject Of
conversation. u
Dye, the witness who was troubled
with dreams, and who remembered Sur
rats face because he had rfrequently
seen it in Sleep" itappears was arrested
In Philadelphia in the early part of the
present year for passing counteTfeit money.
Cleaver, another witness, has been lately
convicted for rape and murder, and is now
at large on bail awaiting new trial.
Hobart and Blinn, other witnesses, have
contradicted outside what they said in
court, and the negro wench who said she
saw Surrstt at his mothers house on the
evening of the assassination saw him but
a few minutes, and had never seen him
before or since, until confronted with him
in court. 4z
"A singular circumstance happened at
Welisburg, West Virginia, on Monday,
18th, about midday. At that hour a
bright blaze was discovered rising from
the roof of Marks cabinet shop, which
was quenched without any alarm being
given; and on the spot Mr.. Marks found
a piece of material about the size of a
saucer, resembling lava, or the substance
that escapes from the furnaces, cellular,
sulphurous to the smell, and not very
heavy, which he threw on the pavement,
burning his fingers in the act The blaze
was undoubtedly caused by this substance,
and the mystery is-what is it, and how
did it get there There was no fire in
the shop. or any place near, from which it
could have found its way upon the Roof,
and the general opinion is that the sub
stance is an eroIite, and came kissing hot
from the atmospheric regions. The speci-
men is preserved as curiosity