The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-10-16

On Thursday some boys in the woods
near Girard, Erie county, found the sLele
ton Of a man hanging twenty feet from the
ground, suspended by rope The remains
could not be identified. In the pockets Of
his clothing nothing was found but a pair
of spectacles and = tobacco pouch
The greatest distress prevails AMONG
the Guarrymen in the neighborhood of
Bangor IA Wales. About 3. COO men en-
ployed in the slate quarries of Lord PEN
rhyn struck for higher wages some weeks
since. Lord PcDrbyn refused then to ac
cede to their demand, and has Just declined
to submit to an arbitration, a proposition
which had been made on behalf of the
quarrymeD.
Fitch. the Lieutenant who recently
captured Gen. Sherman's daughter comes
from family OF Fitzpatricks who lived in
DrumbrUckles, Cavan county, Ireland.
where they were called Fitch for short
When the Ljeuteuant's 5 father came to this
country he retained the abbreviated name.
Thus SAYS a correspondent of the Chicago
Tiu1ss, who gained the facts from a Brook
lyn Irishman who knew all about it in Ire
Iand.
According TO the FrsemGn's Journal.
Gen. Sherman is not a Catholic, bat when
he c0urted Miss Ewing he was reauired.
before Father Ryder could marry them. to
promise as an officer and gentleman that
he would never interfere with his wife ia
the practice of her religion, and that her
children should be brought ND Catholics
The Journal adds that the pomp and fuss
attending Miss Shcrmau's wedding belong
to something besides religion
The clerk Of tie county court at Csla
well, O., desires information of the present
residence of John Hoagland, who. in 1920.
jointly with Terrence McCune became own
er of 1880 acres of land in Tioga county.
Pennsylvania, which is now worth over
five million dollars and in course of litica-
tion. 1t was ssld for taxes in 1898 and
new the heirs of McCune are claiming tIIsiy
share in il, and are anxious that John
licagland or his heirs should share with
them equally this immense fortune.
And now there is another reported
convert to Catholicitv : this time. indeed.
one of more note even than were the re
cent accessions TO that church in England
1t is the aged Queen Dowager OF Prussia
who is announced as having gone over, and
the assertion is further made that she
means to eater convent. This singular
statement comes over the wires to the
American Press Association. 1t sounds
so strange, considering the attitude of the
reigning family in Prussia towards the
/ Catholic ecclesiosticS. that it is no easy
matter to give it credence.
-one OF the most pathetic reminders cf
the recent Fall River disaster is the habit
| OF woman whose three daughters were
killed, but who still believes they are alive.
Every day, when the factory bells are ring
| ing for dinner, tho woman. who saw her
three daughters borne away to be buried.
takes n tin pail, as she used to do. and
starts for Granite Mill No. 1. Sometimes
her neighbors divert her attention bv tell
ing her that it isn't bell time. but other
days she walks to where the mill once
stood, sees nothing that she can recognize,
turns back in a dazed way, and goes to her
deserted home again
Edward p. Sipler, who has a wife and
three children, removed to Washington
CITY several months ago. and has since
then been in charge of the large circular
saw used for cutting heavy timber in the
navy yard. Saturday afternoon. while ad-
justing the guides Of the saw. which was
running at the rate Of eight hundred revo-
lutoDs minute, he missed his strike,
when the weight of the hammer head car
ried him in front of the saw which iustan-
taneously cut off his right arm. The few
horIor-stricken employees endeavored to
render assistance. but another revolution
cut his body in twain above the hips. In
the inangling process the left arm was
barred entirely, the flesh being torn off, and
D
They have a hermit at Dingman's Fer
ry, Pike county, Pa. named Austin Shell
don, who has lived thirty years in cave
six by eight feet in size. He is now seventy
years of age and his face has not been
shaved for forty years. His beard, which
Is several feet long. is as white as snov.
lie has worn the same suit for twenty
years, and now fastens the rents together
with hickory withes. lie subsists in the
summer on roots and berries and /, tbe
winter on wild game. He is well read and
intelligent, and firm believer i'm the Chris
tian religion, devoting most of his time to
reading the bible and ether sacred works.
lie is SO deaf shat it is necessary to com
muuicate with him by writing. He is a
bird charmer, and has captured and reared
large number. He has never used q
lamp nor candle in his cave. His bed i:
composed of straw scattered upon a solid
rock. Sheldon enjoys his peculiar mode
of living, and says he expects to make this
cave his final resting place.