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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21
Up flt q Paper Balloon.
THE SINGULAR INTENTIONS OF AN AMBI-
TIOUs KRONAUT.

In the basement under the hat store of
Bunting, in the Globe building, is being
completed for an early voyage to the clouds,
a mammoth balloon, made of brown wrap
ping paper, with which Donaldson, the
daring aeronaut, of this city, proposes i'll
few weeks to make an ascension. A re-
porter of the Eagle entered the apartment
this morning, and was invited by the aero
naut to come inside the mammoth gas
chamber of the balloon, which had been
partly inflated by air. Crawling through
the lower opening he was soon standing
among the aBrOnaut and his men, who were
busily engaged in putting the finishing
works to the chamber.
The balloon is made in the usual man
ner, out of brown wrapping paper, the
sections glued together instead of being
sewed, as are the ordinary cambria cham
bers To construct the present one it re-
uuired 255 square yards of paper, and will
require to fill it 10000 cubic feet of gas
| The basket nettings and other paraphre-
MALTA together with the chamber, will weigh
70 pounds The bolloon when filed will
be able to carry 400 pounds or $50 pounds,
deducting weight Of nettings, basket and
| other necessary articles. In this frail con-
Germ he will start in about two weeks frem
! the corner of Fifth and Penn streets. He
| will ascend to the proper altitude, strike
/ the eastern current of air if it is possible,
/ aud make his way 10 the Atlantic coast
! This ascension is to be merely an expert
ment, and if ascertained that the quality of
| paper can be relied on, a second ascension
/ viii be made immediately afterward, at
| which time the balloon will be exploded in
| the clouds, the Bronaut TO descend with a
parachute. This will be the first paper
/ balloon ascension ever made in this coun-
/ try, and as recognition of business tact
and enterprise Donaldson will name the
air ship 'tJohn d. Mishler.''
| Respecting his proposed Atlantic ocean
voyage, his plans are being perfected daily
In a short time he will appear before the
! Franklin Institute of Science, Philadelphia,
| to explain his method of successfully car
| rying out his transatlantic voyage. Prof
John Wise, the father of American aero
nauting, has been in constant correspond
ence with the aeronaut Of this city, and the
proper arrangements have been made be-
| tween them to Join fortunes and undertake
the voyage together. From the present
state of the case it appears that the Mayor
! Of Boston has offered the Common gas
! free, ETC., ifthey decide to start from Boston,
on July 4th. Nothing definite, however,
| will be known until after the session Of the
! Franklin Institute. Donaldson has pre-
| pared several very handsome drawings
which he will take with him. Other aero
| nauts and scientific men have also written
him many encouraging letters while those
| received from persons throughout the coun-
! try who are anxious to accompany him can
be numbered by tho hundreds. Duo an
nouncement will be made as to the exact
time Of his ascension in the paper balloon.
-A6Idi6g Eagle.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21

these last arc not the besetting sins of
Congressman nowadays. They have be-
come 'the companions of thieves every
one loYeth gifts and followeth after re-
wards"
We have detected the ostensible and pa
raded religion of theseEmen to be not of
the true, but false. And
TO CURE THESE EVILS
of our time, the greed of gold, the wor-
ship of Mammon, corruption, bribery, pc
culations, and perfdy, l have no short cut,
no new patent. Only the old time sover-
eign remedy can l suggest and earnestly
inculcate-indi0idud integrity. Do our
youth hold it a first and fast principle
Of life that integrity is better than riches {?
We must begin at home-with ourselves
ard our children-not with conventions
and new machinery, but with consciences
and their training, their bending and holy
binding to the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Character, splendid character, must be set
before the people as
THEsONE CRITERION OF WORTH
not wealth, not conspicuOusness. What
have these men gained? 1t were better
their names had never been upon the lips
Of supcrcilious and obsequious votaries,
than that now they should be folded in
these dark clouds of bribery, or even suspi-
cion. And we are come to a time when,
| in choosing our rulers and legislators, we
must choose between personal worth and
party fealty.
Mr.. COLLIER concluded as follows
The world and the fashion thereof pass
eth away-Oh how soon and how sudden
ly-yes, it is like the morning dew. But
( God, and character, and love, endure feI-
ever. Reyerently let US commit ourselves
! to heavens guidance. Manfully let us beat
I back the tenpter, till we are sure in the
all-atoning sense of strong, assured charac-
! ter. Truly, like God, let US love and help
one another. And humbly walking the
path of duty, the flowers Of beauty and
peace shall spring up, greet and bless US
/ on the way.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21

WHILE America has been suffering from
the severest cold experienced for forty
years, and England has seen snow, ice, and
stormy weather to an extent entirely alb
normal, in France the weather has been
the miIdest recorded for, it IS said, hun
dred years. Trees III Paris were covered
with leaves in January, and the spring
flowers were budding, butterflies, house
flies and beetles, instead Of dying, have
been flying about asmerIy and comfortable
as crickets. IN the rural districts the rasp-
berry bushes have commenced to bear as
paragus to thrust its pointed, laminated
head above ground in fact, as in the beau
tiful simile of Lowell in reference to the
awakening of Spring. In towns the peo-
Iio have been enjoying themselves as tho
it were midsummer. The little tables in
the streets, 80 dear to the gossips, the GU
rious and the genuine lover Of open air life,
have been full.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21

4 Nan hARRIEs THE GRANDMOTHER OF
His CHILDREN.-The Memphis Ledger
brings us the following extraordinary mar
ratiye. Some months since in one of our
courts there was filed petition for divorce,
which exhibits a strange freak of human
nature. The petitioner was married IN
1852, and his wife died in February, 1871,
leaving surviving eight children as the
fruits Of said marriage. His mother-in-
law took great interest in her grandchil-
dTen, and the complainant in the divorce
bill, at the time feeling that the grand
mother was nearer and dearer to his chill
dren than any other human being, and was
bound to them by the ties of common az
fection, married her, believing that the
marriage would better subserve the inter
ests of the children, and more largely pro-
mote his own happiness than any other
course then left to him hence, on the 10th
day Of September, 1871, a marriage was
solemniZed between the parties in Shelby
county. The parties lived together as man
and wife for two months, and IL never Oc-
CURED to either of them that there was
any improperly, legal or moral, in such
establishment of relationship as husband
and wife. The step was suggested to both
parties by 4 tender cOnsideTati for the
welfare Of the eight children. In NoVcm-
her, 1871, it was intimated to petitioner
that under the laws of the state Of Ten
nessee such a marriage was illegal and
void, and greatly surprised at such infor-
nation, petitioner sought the advice of an
officer of the church to which he belonged,
and from those learned In the law, and
was informed that such marriage was
void, owing to the previous relationship of
the parties. In November the parties
ceased to live together and agreed to ap-
ply for divorce hence they applied for
divorce UilcuL0, or chat the marriage be
pronounced i nullity, and that the said
parties, complainant and defendant, be de-
clared free from the supposed obligation
and lis consequences. In July, 1872, a de-
cree pro contssS0 was granted by the court,
annmIling the marriage, the parties being
within prohibited degrees Of kindred, and
that the defendant be restored to her ori-
ginal name.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21
The Haunted !SchooI-House.

We are able to lay before our readers
these interesting extracts from letter
written by Miss Lucy A Perkins, teacher
at the haunted schoOl-house in Newbury-
port, in answeI to inquiries concerning an
account Of the affair published in newspa-
per:
The account you send me is true, with a
few exceptions When first saw the boy,
be was neatly attired in n brown suit of
clothes, trimmed with braid and buttons Of
the same color When l reached forward
to grasp him he seemed not like the boy,
but vapOr, or, as | can only describe it,
like thin cloud scudding across the room !;
still he seemed to have the boy form. Re-
ports from some of the Boston papers say
l tainted such is not the case. l knew
where l was and what | was about just as
well as | know l am writing.
One day | sent = boy oHt to hang up the
brushes. etc. He was out about five min
utes. After he had taken his seat, three
raps came on the door Of the room where
the brushes we're hung. He said, ''Miss
Perkins, can | go ont and see who's there?"
l told linn, Yes, and to leave the school
room door OPEN" He did so, and when
he opened the brush-room door Il sat
where l could see all this every one of the
brushes, both long and short handled,
came falling of The nails where they were
hung some struck him in the face, some
on the shoulders, and the broom directly
on the top of the head. The dust pan,
hanging on a nail at some distance above
the brushes came tumbling down to the
floor with vengeance. 1t then stood on
its handle. then on the bottom edge, and
continued on so till it entered the school
room, and then it was placed as nicely
against the partition as if l had done it my
self. Just as soon as I'd raise the ventila-
tor, black ball like cannon ball, would
begin to roll around the attic, and make
such 4 noise l would be obliged to lower
the ventilator. One day the room was as
quiet as it could possibly be, and all at once
some one in the attic called out, ''Dadie
Pike - Dadis thought / spoke, and said
''W hat IN ?'' l said to him, ''Can you say
your lesson ?'' Since the boy affair took
place the attic has been fastened up
Lock and keys are of TO use, however, for
there is as much walking up-Etairs, and
sometimes the hammering and mailing
Once in while sounds as Of some one
walking will come down the attic way, go
across the entry and open the outside door
and be gone perhaps ten minutes after it
is quiet again, the door will open, and he,
she, or it, will go upstairs.
| am not 8 Spiritualist never attended
a sitting, in fact never had anything to do
with person of that belief, and never saw
any manifestations. Why anything of the
sort should take place where l am is more
than l can account for.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21

THE Now York World publishes the
names of the twelve Democratic congress
men who voted to give Goat Island, in the
Bay of San Francisco, to the Central Paci-
fic Railroad Company and it very properly
characterizes their conduct as suspicious
1t is well known in Washington circles that
the lobby was we'll supplied with money TO
be used in securing votes for this grant
The principle involved in the bill is wrong,
and, after the earnest protests Of the peo-
pie Of California, we do not see how any
honest man could vote for the grant The
twelve Democrats who consented toyiol2tc
principle in this matter were. Harper and
Leach, of n. Carolina Warren, Townsend
Michigan; Caldwell and Garrett, of Ten
nessee Voorhees,, of Indiana Sloss of
Alabama Mitchell, of Wisconsin, and Nc
Henry, of Kentucky. Ten out Of the twelve
were elected last fall by their constituents
to stay at home. In the opinion of the
Lancaster IHtsHigencer, as well as of every
honest Democrat in the land, the World is
acting with precise propriety in publishing
the names OF these men and c0ndemning
them AS it does. In so doing It is setting
an example which Democratic newspapers
throughout the country would do well to
follow at all times. Let them learn to
strike at every exhibition of corruption,
within the limits of the party, as freely and
as nercely as they do when it occurs out
side the organization. By so doing the
party will be purged and the confidence of
the people Will be secured to such an ex-
tent that will insure future triumphs. If
all the Democratic members of the PEW
eylVania legislature had preserved tbsiJ. an
tcgrity this State would have been redeemed
from misruls long ago.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21

THE Poor RELATIONS IN PENrsYLvA-
EIA.-There are some curious laws on the
Pennsylvania statute books. It was only
the other day that mention was made of
the law i'll this State which authorized n
married man to refuse his mother-in-law
access to his wife and to forbid his wife ac-
cess to the church Of her faith. A case in
Philadelphia court, lately, developed an
other quaint regulation in force in the land
of Penn. and that is, that in addition to the
ordinary duty of man to support his wife
and children, if he have any, the law Of
Pennsylvania also requires that where a
'poor person is not able to work. and has
parents or grandparents, children or grand
children, such ancestral progenitors, or de
scendant posterity, as the case may be,
''shan relieve and maintain such poor per
son" at the rate to be prescribed by the
Court of Quarter Sessions. Pennsylvania,
then, is the Paradise of the '.poOr relation
that social and family waif the pathos of
whose existence none who is not himself or
herself poor relation can ever truly know.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21
THE CAMBRIA FREEHhH.
EgENsBu2c, pa,
Friday Morning, February 81. 1873.
A LETTER in q recent issue Of the Phil

A LETTER in - recent issue Of the l'hll-
adelphia Press charges that $ICo GOO have
been raised by the liquor men to defeat thu
Local Option law, and is now IN Harris
burg to be expended for that purpose
Senator Wallace has given notice that the
Democratic members will not assist in re-
peaIing this Republican measure, i'll view
of the fact that the people demand it
Gov. Hartranft has also been approached,
and says he will respect the voice Of the
people, and veto any repeal. This settles
the question. AS the Pittsburgh Post We
hemently exclaims, we shall soon see which
Is the whisky party.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21
NEIdows' Appraiaemsr

n office Is hereby given that ths' III
~ praiScments of Real EStass -'a
Property OF dsceGents. sCIecT0 E-s
Tor the Widows of inrestaIeS uHs-. =
Asse mbly Of 14th April. A. D.. lE- Il
fllcd in the Registers Office st Er=s
will be presented TO the Oruhsns !
proNRl, on Wednesday,, the 5tE -,
to wit:
Inventory and appTaisaT1cnt of
perty elected TO be retained 10y Pa
c., widow Of Christian Bif7lgeI !.
msugh berOugh- deed. sGJg.-H.
Inventory OF personal prupeItyE
set sPRrt FOR Mary & Adams. r-'
Adams, late OF Washington tly D.. --.
AppTaiSeUe eEts of certain rca. 81
10 he retained by Eiizzhsth El".
Dan ! Miller, lRts of LoTctto JUrc-i- I
$500.
AppraiEsment Of certain .psrso-i
set apart for the- use Of Aary Al j
widow Of Peter HerriEan. lsse u =
o"nship, deceased. S3yg,L-
inventory and sppraiscmeHt O. p -
perty elected to be- retained hT III -
IaAac Rsighart- late OF RicLlsui tsf-L
ceased. SIel.cO.
JAHES i. SiNgI.--.--
Registers Once, EbSnsburg. fe'. -.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21

a WISCONSIN TEAMsTER EATEN BY
WOI.vKs.-A Chicago correspondent of the
\. \. World, writing under date Of Feb.
18th, says: Mall advices from the little
town of New London, Wis, brings news
of the discovery Of a terrible tragedy near
PeTrys Mills. As Heinrich Bloch. Ger
man farmer, was coming out Of the woods
north of the mills his attention was attract
ed by the appearance of the otherwise un-
broken snow round a large tree. The crust
was broken and bloody, aud upon it lay
heap of what seemed robes or furs sur
rounded by various indescTibahle objects.
Going nearer, he was surprised and hOrTi-
fed to discover that the heap of robes was
a pile composed OF the bodies of two dead
wolves and dead dog, all gashcd and torn.
The other things were the skeleton Of a
man, from which nearly all the flesh and
entrails had been picked, some OF the bones
being quite torn off and lying in the snow
at some distance, bearing marks of abTa-
sion from the sharp teeth of the merciless
brutes. Some rags of bloody clothing were
there. The feet of the skeleton which
we're enczsed in very heavy boots and thick
socks, had escaped. The probability seems
that the unfortunate man was lumberer.
going from one camp 10 another, who was
overtaken by the pack and killed ere he
could climb a tree. after stubborn fight
The immensely deep SHOWS and consequent
scarcity of game have made the wolves.
usually cOwardly, desperately fierce. SO
that the miserable mans fate must have
been what conjecture, shuddering, sets il
down
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21

A man at Lock Haven, Pa, recently
found a wasps' nest, with its occupants ap-
parentIy all frozen to death. lie was heed
lessly throwing it about, when one of the
insects fell down the back OF his neck.
The warmth revived the little yellow jack
ct, sudden glow suffused the mans face,
and he commenced undressing in hurried
manner, talking to himself all the time
with great volubility and animation. he
has since altered his opinion as to the effect
Of cold on waSps.
The deaths of the past year in the
Pennsylvania coal mines resulted from the
following causes: By falls of COAL 25
falls of rock and top slate, g falls into roll
eTs, screens and machinery, explosions
of gas, II explosions of powder, B dis
charge of blasts, !; being crushed with
mine wagons, 8 !; crushed with mine tim
bers 3; falling in slopes, shafts, and from
cages, II suffoeating, making the total
So, and of the number reported as injured
only 27 have since died, swelling the actual
mortality to 11S.
| "A monomaniac, by the name Of Viii
/ liam Rysam Oracle, died in New York city
recently, who, for over fifty years, has be-
/ leved that lie was the grandson of Prince
! Charles Edward Stuart, who died at Rome,
January so, 1873. He claimed the title OF
! William the Fifth, King Of England. His
! strange hallucination alienated his family
from him, so that for many years he has
lived alone. He always had pistol and
clasp-knife under his pillow, as he was con-
/ tiuually haunted with the idea that the
present dynasty of Great Britain was in &C
tive conspiracy to take his life.
Salt Lake City has been greatly excited
by the report of the Presidents so-called
aggressive policy" towards Utah, and by
the report that troops are to be transferred
to that Territory. The Salt Lake News, "
Mormon organ, says that if the news prove
true, the faint-hearted would do well to get
out of the way, but those who are deter
mined to endure to the end will welcome
the occasion to prove faithful, though even
unto death. The Evening Journal, Gen
tile, says loyal people were never more en-
couraged and hopeful than now in view of
the stern determination of the President to
enforce the laws.
An awkward question has arisen in
Kansas. What shall be done with the
money that Senator Y ork says he received
from Senator Pomeroy? Seven thousand
dollars is sum too large to take care OF
itself. York handed it to the officers OF
the Legislature, ''quit claiming his title.
1t does not belong to the officers, and it is
not likely that Senator Pomeroy will claim
1t, if it ever was his. In fact, this sn az lit
tie sum seems to be knocking about with.
out an owner. This is remarkable fact
in Kansas politics, and if, in the course of
human events, it should turn out that ii
shall escape all the private traps which are
usually set for waits of that sort, and find
its way into the State treasury, then there
is some room to hope that even the tricks
of politicians have a limit.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21

WE direct attention to the advertisement
in another column announcing a grand
Mass Convention to be held in Philadelphia
tomorrow, February 22d, to provide for
the celebration, in 1876, of the Centennial
anniversary of American Independence.
Eminent speakers from our own and other
States will be present and address the con-
Vention. This centennial commemoratiou
promises to be the grandest and most mag
nificent affair that has ever been projected
In this or any other country. That it de
serves to be conducted on a vast and stu
pendous scale every true American will
freely admit. Its success appeals directly
to the pride and patriotism of every sincere
friend of our great and glorious country,
to extend to SO commendable an undertak-
ing all the material aid in his power. tits
estimated that it will require an expendi-
ture of ten millions of dollars to make the
enterprise an assured success. This large
amount must be raised by the people of the
different States, and surely PENNSYLVANIA
will not be backward in her efforts in fur
thering SO noble 4 work. Who will doubt
the propriety of our Legislature, now in
session, extending liberal aid to so patriotic
purpose and one so intimately connected
with the honor of the State. We trust it
will be done, feeling assured that the peo-
pie will sanction the act. We earnestly
recommend this great project to the serious
consideration of the people of this country,
and trust that they will extend to it libe-
raj and generous support.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-21

Still Hope FOR SToKEs.-StOkes, after
all, is to have another chance for his life,
Judge Davis, in Supreme Court Chambers
on Saturday morning, granting stay of
proceedings until such times as the excep-
tions raised on the second trial could have
a hearing. His Honor, however, at the
start desired to have it understood, ,hat
he excludes from consideration the afiida-
Wits used on the motion for a new trial and
all the questions growing out of them.
The application before him was for a
writ Of error to bring the judgment record
and the bill of exceptions before the geneT-
al terms of the Supreme Court for review.
Judgment having been pronounced in the
case, his Honor adds {: ''No other mode Of
review is open to the prisoner, and it is ap-
parent that to grant the writ without an
order expressly staying his execution would
be an idle and cruel ceremony"
The exceptions taken upon the trial of
this case are numerous. The great ma iori-
ty of them l deem to oe either frivolous or
OF such slight importance that they cannot
be regarded as having prejudiced the pris-
oner. But in my opinion they are not all
OF that description. Some ofthe exceptions
TO tho rulings in receiving and excluding
evidence, will, l think, deserve attentive
consideration upon argument. l cannot
here consider them in detail. The excep-
ton upon which l have the gravest doubts
..
Understanding the charge of the learned
Judge to have declared as legal PROPOSE
ti0n that the law implies the malice from
the killing and the circumstances of the
case, so that the charges of the Indictment
were fully and entirely made out unless
the prisoner proved by evidence sufficient
to satisfy the jury that his act was less
crime or no crime, cannot but feel, in the
light of the cases referred TO, that there are
such grave doubts, both as to the correct
ness of the charge and its probable effect
upon the deliberations of the jury, as to
bring this application within the fair
scope of the rule that should govern me in
determining it. IT is neither necessary
nor proper that | should form or express
any positive opinions upon these questions.
1t is enough that 1 cannot say that my
mind is free from grave and painful doubts
/ reach my conclusion in this case with re-
gret but having reached it I shall per-
form the duty that springs from it with no
hesitation
The immediate effect of this decision will
be to defer the execution. which was to
take place a week from Friday next; but
whether 1t viii result in changing the yer
dlct or not remains to be seen.