The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-05-27

three O'Clock, the boiler of an oil we'll owned
by J. W. Humphrey, three miles from Titus
vile, exploded. instantly killing the ebgin-
eer and dangerously wounding the fireman.
The boiler was thrown distancs Of one
hundred yards.
"A woman calling herself 'the female
Blondin. :" while crossing rope sixty feet
high at a circus at Bolton, England. missed
her footing. but in falling grasped the rope
with her hands, and was afterwards caught
by the crowd below. She escaped with
little injury.
An engine on the Burlington County
Road exploded on Friday in Monnt Holly,
New Jersey, killing Charles L. Platt, fire
man, and wounding the engineer. Edward
Joyc-, seriously. The engine bounded from
the track and fell into creek. The cars
were much damaged.
The temperance party. rs distinct po-
litical party, is making preparations for a
fight in the coming fall elections. ConVen-
tions have been called in Naine, Iowa. Wis
consin, and Minnesota. In all of these
States the TEN mperance men propose to run
Independent State tickets.
Two citizens of Madison, Iowa. went
out cunning one DAY last week. One of
them, who was tipsy. and who woIe spot
ted paDtaloons. lay down to sleep. his legs
hanging over a rock. The other chauced
to pass tLat way. saw the spotted legs, and f.
mistaking them for huge snake, fired a
load of buckshot into them.
The Fredericksburg. Va. Herald says :
We saw last week a piece Of solid gold
worth, we suppose, $50. that had been
picked up on the surface. since the recent
rains, on the property owned by the White
Hall Gold Mining Company. Some time
since a piece worth $50 picked up, aud
a short time before the war a piece worth
$500 was found on Pulliam's farm, Ia the
same gold belt.
DIR. Rives of Prince George comfy, Va,
while passing out of his house with his gun
on his shoulder. was called back by his
wife. He turned suddenly in answer to her
voice, ana in turning accidentally struck
the gun against the door post, with snch
force as to cause it's discharge, The entire
load eptelel the body of Mrs. Rvcs. causing
almost instant death. The pair had only
been married few days.
Governor Wells. of Virginia, addressed
mob of negroes at West Point in that
State, on Saturday, and in the course of his
remarks reflected upon the character Of
Mr. Douglass, who arose and denounced him
"a liar. A terrible scene ensued, the ne
groes making an irfurated rush at Douglass
and his friends. and beating them bruta1ly,
They were with difficulty extricated with
their lives. All the parties were "loil."
Robert Il. Ssyers, of the Lehigh Val
ley railroad company, with number of
prominent iron manufacturers in that sec
tion. are making preparations for trip to
England, for the purpose of studying the
process of manufacturing steel rails They
sail ON the 2nd of June. o. their return
they will establish manuf2ctory of this
kind at Bethlehem, the construction Of
which has already begun.
"A bout six O'clock Friday evening Dr..
Kitty, for many years a citz.n of West
Dayton, Ohio. committed suicide by shoot
ing himself throught the heart. He had
been fo- several days severely afflicted with
neuralgia in the head and the dreadful act
was committed in a moment of temporary
insanity. The doctor was about seventy
years of age. He was for many years a
Methodist missionary, and was extensively
known throughout The West.
One day recently eight or nine boys
from nine to fourteen years Of age arrived
at Oak Station, on the Evansville ard Crasv-
fordville Railroad. on foot, having walk ed
all the way from Western Missouri, at the
rate Of thirty miles day. They were bound
for Sullivan couaty. where they formerly
lived. Their parents had died in Missouri,
and the little orphans. left among strangers.
bravely trudged back to the old home and
old friends. The good people at Oak Sta
tion paid their fare to Sullivan.
There has recently been some change
in the arrangement Of the officers of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mr.. j.
Edgar Thompson is still at the head of the
Company. The Vice Presidents have been
increased to four, namely Col. T. A. Scott,
H. j. Lombart. Edmund Smith. (late Sec
retary) and George B. Roberts. Joseph
Lesley has been appointed Secretary w. J
Howard, General Solicitor Theodore Guy
Ter. General Counsel. and Major Firth is still
continued as Trcasurer-PhIa. Ledoer.