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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12

CAUGHT BY ''FROG. Near the Citv
OF Detroit man by the name of McAr-
thur was crossing a railroad tract. when
hls foot caught fast in ''frog,'' and his
efforts to extricate it were of no avail. His
boot lifted so closely that he could not
draw his foot out, and at length he could
hardly move his leg for pain He found
that he must either be run over by the
next train or make known his situation
lie shouted himself hoarse, but no one
came. After having been a prisoner for
upwards of an hour he heard the whistle
He had matchbox in his pocket, papers
IN his bundle, and the idea came to him to
signal the train. Tearing the papers off
his bundle, and getting at some iotters, he
rolled them into heap, and for fear that
the flame would die out too suddenly he
added his clothes. The bundle was then
made fast to the end Of his walking-stick,
and he waited until the headlight of the
locomotive should appear. 1t finally greet
ed his vision and he struck his match. but
a gust of wind blew it out ! Another
match was struck, and in an instant he
waved his signal back and forth, and lust
whom he thought death was certain he
heard the whistle for brakes. He was
saved, but the engine had only thirty feet
more to go to crush him. The fireman
camo forward, got a crowbar and released
him, and he was taken back to the ca
boOSe.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12

A NOBLE CHARJTY.-The will of J. Ed
gar Thomson, if it can be carried out ac-
cording to the intentions of the teStator,
will cause very noble charity TO be found
ed. We know of no class of people, says
the Lancaster I3tcYigeHc5r, who are so
much entitled to the kindly consideration
and the sympathy of the public as the en-
ployees of railroads, engaged, as they are,
in very dangerous and pOOrly-paid call
ing. To their skill and vigilance we are
indebted for the safety and comfort we
enjoy in travelling. We confess to having
always entertained high appreciation OF
the obligations we are under TO the en-
gine-driver for exposing himself to peril,
for encountering the heat of the day and
and the storm and darkness of the night,
condemned to constant watchfulness, sep
arated from his family, never enjoying
comfortable meal, and compensated for ali
this service and danger with less than
Thousand dollars year. 1t is n small re-
ward for so great exposure and risk.
We are glad that one who bad so full 4
knowledge of the merits and sutterings of
all who are employed on railroad trains
has seen fit to testify his appreciation of
them, by the dedication of two million dol
lars to the support and education of the
female children of those who are killed
while in the performance Of their duty.
! We fear, however, that in the weakness
! of his last moments Mr.. Thomson has
! practically nulified the provisions of his
! carefully considered will His affection
( for hls niece induced him to add cOdicil
/ in which he declared his desire that in the
settlement of his estate she should be con
! sidered as though she was his daughter. -
! Under this testament, the lady. if she Is
disposed to take all the advantage which
/ the law gives her, may very well claim, we
think, that she inherits, after the death OF
Mrs. Thomson, the whole property. We
presume, however, that Mr.. Thomson
knew her and was satisfied that she would
( not take more from his estate than she
thought he would like her to have. We
do not doubt therefore that the vii! vii
be carried out according to its manifest III
| tent.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12

JOHN p. JONES, native of Wales, is
ono of the Republican United States Sena-
tors from the Silver State of Nevada
His journey in life has been quite n 70
nance, and if we had time or space in our
paper we would give history of his ca
reer. He is the richest member of tho SEN
ate, and although q Republican, is a hard
money man. lie delivered a speech few
weeks ago In the Senate on the subject of
the finances of the county, which attracted
very general attention for the reason that
he announced views in direct hostility to
the present financial policy of his party
Last week he and some other Republican
members OF Congress had an interview
with the President on this question, and
Grant reduced his views to writing and
gave them to Senator Jones for pub
lication. We have not room to publish
his letter, and will only say that it roads
very much as il it had been written 10y
James Buchanan, or some other Demo
cratic President. In his letter to Senator
Jones tho President recommends the re-
peal of the legal tender act and prompt
and speedy return to specie payments
This letter, or as it is called, the n.oBa0r-
0aduia of the ideas of the President, has
caused a profound sensation in Washing
ton and viii split the Radical party in Con
gress into factions.
The Harrisburg Patrtot, in referring to
the letter of General Grant to Mr.. Jones,
says
"Thc conversion of the President to this
sound democratic doctrine will give new
hope TO the country. Had he five years ago
acted on the principles euuuciated to-day
the legal tender act would have been an
nuiled by decision of the supreme court de
claring j is unconstitut tiouality. 1t is better
lato than never. We welcome the advent of
the President upon a sound financial plat
form and trust that he may stand firm where
he has planted himself in defiance of the
great bulk of his party following
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12

The time fixed 10y the Democratic Coup
y Committee, at its meeting at the Court
House last Monday, for the election of
delegates TO the next County Convention
is Saturday, Sept. 19th-the Convention to
meet on the following Monday. Although
this may seem to he a late day on which
to hold the delegate elections and for the
meeting of The County Convention we fully
and heartily endorse it, and we will keep a
column open in the FREEMAN from this
day until the meeting of the County Con
vention in order to enable all the candi-
dates for the different county offices to an
nounce their names. If man is or ,,rs-
tends to be candidate, he ought not to lie
afraid to say so and to announce it nublicIv
in the Democratic newspap pers of the conn
ty, so that the members of the party NAV
know and fully understand for whom thew
are voting at the delegate elections. Wo
recommend each and every candidate to
show his hand and let the people under
stand their political aspirations.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12

Hon. w. a. WALLACE read an address
on Thursday last in Philadelphia, upon
the occasion of the Inauguration of the
cludcs as follows:
As the end and aim of good government
is the happiness Of our species, 80 the ohjeC-
tive point of Toal education is the thorough
knowledge and practical training Of the fac
ulties and powers of man. The Greek le-
gend, "know thyseif, is as truly the embodi-
mcnt Of wisdom now as It was three thOus-
and years ago. Skill in the natural sciences
is not the highest attainment possible to our
powers, nor is the practical application of
the wonderful discoveries therein the nobest
field for the exercise of our faculties. The
study of the world of matter, its mighty
agencies and it's hidden forces, teaches us
their control and enables us to grasp their
secrets, and WELD their powers for our per
sonal advantage or for the material develop
ment Of our land or nation. Through the
knowledge here obtained we may make the
rich valleys and the rugged mountains of
the State tcem with an industrious and pros
pcrous people, and cities, towns and ham
lets to dot her surface in every section. We
may thus harness the elements and compel
them TO aid us in dragging riches from the
earth; may cause valley and mountain, river
and hillside to echo with the shrek of the
engine, and evidences Of energy, of indus
trial enterprise and Of valuable production
10 De eEcryW here apparent Beyond and
above such study and such results, for it in
clndes them all and infinitely more, stands
the study Of our powers and capacitics-of
our true relations to creation and to AL
mighty Power. To learn to fathom these to
measure and to guide them, is to At man to
rightly wield his sCeptre the central Fl q
/ ure OfcrcatiOu. Anatomy, surgery and medi-
cine bring us into intimate relation with our
own being; they grasp our physical nature
aGd tell us of the form aid to reconstruct
the casket that contains the jewel-the i'm
mortal soul Other sciences tell of the world
but fail to show us how we are connected
with 1t; these point ont the law of our exist
ence and show us the wondOrOus mechan-
ism of our bodies. They teach us all we
know of the mysterious connection of norve
and WILL of brain and thought, of body and
soul; they traverse the shadow land between
life and death, and with cautious stop
seek FOR facts upon which they themselves
advance and from which reason, philosophy
and skepuciSm weave their ingenious the
, Ories Ages of toll enable them to tell us
what we are and by their aid reason and
philosophy will yet be enabled to sound the
depths OF our poverssand TO prove us pos
scssed OF faculties that fit us for unlimited
progress. With firm hand, praying eye and
careful step they onward move, construct
ing with patient toll the pedestal upon
which rests the uperstructure-man's know
ledge of himself.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12

MOST peculiar case, as reported. is that
of the murderer, Charles Eggler, a Ger
man, seventeen years old, who killed EJtie
Conking, fourteen years old, in Cayuga
county, New York. The murdered girl
WAS an orphan, who had been taken from
the asylum and adopted by an aged couple
living on a farm in the southern part of the
county. Eggler was employed as farm
hand by the old couple. One Saturday in
April, 1873, the old people went to a neigh
boring village, leaving the house in charge
of the girl. In the absence of the farmer
and his wife, the murder was committed,
there being about a dozen knife stabs on
her person. According to Eggler's story,
the girl Ettie had teased him, as was her
habit, refusing himianything to eat, jeering
him with his ignorance of English, and,
finally, in the heat of the quarrel. seized
knife and tlourlshed it. She was large and
strong, and he says he feared for his life
In the struggle which followed he stabbed
her repeatedly and escaped, leaving her to
he found dead on the return of the farmer
and his wife. Being about to be hung on
June D, he was, after one rSfusal of respite
or communication by the Governor, condi-
tionally pardOned. notwithstanding. 1t
seems that the treaty with Germany as to
criminals is that subject may be taken
home for punishment for any crime-which
is just what is to be done with Eggler.
But as the law of Baden, from whence he
came, spares from death those who commit
capital otfenses under the age of eighteen,
Eggler will have to be punished in some
other way. The efforts of his counsel.
through the German Minister at Washing
ton and Governor Dix, have saved his life
after all. lie has been brought to New
ork, and will be imprisoned in Baden
until sentence is pronounced in that coun-
try.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12

a TERRIBLE TORNADO. DO.-TwENTY-O ONE
DWELLINGS DEsTROYED.-A dispatch da-
ted TampicO, ILL.,, June 7th, says: a ter
rible tornado passed over this village last
night, making a complete wreck of it
Wonderful to say, no lives were lost though
number of persons were injured, several
seriously. 1wenty-one dwellings were to-
tally destroyed and every house in the town
more or less damaged. The elevator of
Glass, Horn Il Bryant, containing $4,000
bushels of grain, and that of Beach con-
tanning 800 bushels, were totally DESTROY
ed, and the depot of the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy Railroad were badly dam
aged. Tho most serious casualties are
those of Mrs. j. G. Gates, leg broken in
two places Marie Baues, jaw broken and
dangerously injured another Miss Gates,
severely bruised Mrs. Pearsoll badly in
jurcd ; Mrs. Gales, shoulder broken Gran
vile Conner, badly hurt about the head :
J. G. Gates, bruised seriously. A num-
ber of others we're injured, bnt none seri-
ously. We cannot estimate the amount
of damage yet. The people are hunting
up and gathering together what little tho
storm had left them. The tornado struck
us at 11:1O, and was accompanied 10y rain
and severe thunder and lightning. The
storm came from the west and lasted but
few minutes. As soon as information of
the calamity reached the officers of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
they volunteered a special train which has
Just arrived, bringing Drs. Edwards and
COOK from Mendota to our assistance
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12

PROFITS OF SHEEP FARMING IN Ne
BRAsKA.-The farmer who settles on the
fertile prairie of Nebraska, should make
''live-stock" a watchword. A correspon-
dent in that State sends us the following
encouraging showing" made by Mr..
Myers, of Gage county, a sheep farmer,
who has been about four years in Nebraska.
Gage county is in the southern portion of
the State; and branch of the Burlington
& Missouri River Railroad runs through 1t.
The land is good and the natural grasses
sweet and nutritive but it is no more
than fair average Of Nebraska, south of
the Platte.
Mr.. Myers thus figures the problem
of sheep farming i'm Nebraska, with
flock of l 200 head 100 tons of hay, cost
ing $500 per ton for putting mp, $500 :;
500 bushels Of sheaf oats, 500 shepherd
ing for s months, $50; wages Of one man
for 4 months, 500; do, one month $50 !;
washing, shearing and packing wool, $500;
salt, $50 ; shedding for winter, $50 ; looses
at two per cent, $70-totaL, 81 ,035. By
4, 500 lbs. of wool. at 4Oc. per lb.. 81 800 !;
400 lambs, at $3.50, 81, 600 total, 50, 500.
Mr.. Myers considers his allowance for
! expenses very liberal. He charges hay at
too high figure; and the percentage of
! loss is not generally so large as stated as
/ sheep are subject to no disease whatever,
! on the Nebraska prairie. One man also
could take charge of flock of a thousand
/ during the summer months and, in win
ter, one boy could feed them, as it is best
/ to let the sheep run to the hay all the
/ time, and the oats are to be fed i'll the
/ sheaf. Mr.. Myers further claims that if a
/ farmer will do most of his work himself,
! hiring help only VIII en- it is necessary-for
/ harvesting hay. sheaTing, &c, She sheep
! will pay him $500 per head, as against
| $500 when help is hired literally. Mr..
/ Myers estimates his sheep to be worth
! $3.50 each. On 1000 sheep the invest
meut would be $500; and as the net pro-
/ fit shown above amounts to 81, 7G5. the
return on the investment is over 80 per
/ cent.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12
lIeeti..0 OF Me Cou!.lu con.H.tttee.

The proceedings of the Democratic
County Committee, which met at the Court
House on Monday last, will be found in
our local department. 1t will be seen that
Mr. Jobp Hannan, of Johnstown, was
elected the additional delegate from this
county to the Democratic State Convention
at Pittsburgh, and that lie and his col
league, ex-Sheriff Blair, were instructed to
vote for RoBERT L. JOHNSTON, Esq, of
this place as the Democratic candidate for
Judge Of the supreme Court. Our read
ors are aware that there arc ttc2 addition
al Judges of the Court to be elected next
November. And as under provision lnthe
new constitution no elcctOr can vote Tor
moro than one candidate, It follows of
course that both the Democratic and Re-
publican nominees will be elected.
We have heretofore spoken favorably of
the pmination of Mr.. Johnston for rea-
sons stated 10y us, which it is not especially
necessary now to repeat. The Supreme
Court, as at present constituted, consists
Of fire n:embers-Judgo Agnew, of Bca-
vor county, NOW Chief Jasticc,) Judge
Williams, of Pittsburgh-both from the
extreme western portion OF the State
Judge Gordon, from jefferson county, in
the northwestern part Of the State. Judge
Mercur, from Bradford county, in the
north, and Judge Sharswood, from Phila-
delphia. If the Republican State Conven-
tion should nominate, MS its candidate,
Judge Paxson, of Philadelphia, as it seems
to be conceded IL will, his election being n
fixed fact, wouId give that city tlcO mem
bers of the Court. An effort is being made
to reuominate Judge Ludlow, of the same
CITY, who was the Democratic candidate
against Gordon last fall, and if this move
ment should prove to be successful, then
Philadelphia would have three judges of
tho Court and tho north one and the west
three, thus leaving the central or mountain
region of the State without n voice on the
bench of that Court. This would not be
fair and would not be doing even haudcd
justice to the Democracy of the interior
part Of the commonwealth, and it seems to
us that this consideration alone ought to
have controlling Influence in the conven-
ton Mr.. Johnston's locality among 'the
frosty sons of thunder is, therefore, re-
commendation in his favor in the contest.
He is known and admitted to be an able
and accomplished lawyer and an honest
man-onc who could never be swayed from
a faithful and conscientious discharge OF
his official duties by any personal, much
less any base or improper consideration
We, therefore, roncw our former recon-
mendatiou in favor Of his nomination and
submit his name to the fair and lnpartia
consideration of the Pittsburgh conven.
ton, knowing that no moro competent oI
worthy candidate could be nominated.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12

a PERsEvERING GERMAN WoOER.-
The Smyrna Del Time rel tes the follow
ing story ."There is enough of romance
connected with the marriage which we
publish this week to cram a three hundred
naoe novel, if some sensation writer only
had the text. Miss Fisher, the bride
named in the notice (sister of Mr.. Oscar
Fisher, ieweler). is q modest, CHEEKY little
German girl, who for nearly six years has
been a resident of our town Nine years
ago Mr.. Kleemann, on visit to his home
in Germany, after gaining a clever compe-
tency in the gold mines of California, met
Miss Nathalie in her fathers home in the
little city of OStrowa-where both were
reared-he Il bachelor of thirty. She 4
school girl below sweet sixteen. Mr.. Klee-
mann would daily visit Mr.. Fisher, to tell
him of the wonders of America, and while
so doing his heart went out after the little
school girl. He proposed. She, or her
parents for hel, declined by reason of her
age. He left for America, with no abate-
mCnt III his passion, however.
Two years later the Fishers also came
to America to join Oscar, the young lady S
brother, who had settled in this town
cir. Kleemann happened to be in Philadel-
Dhia while the family were there, en-
route for Smyrna. Again he met Miss
! Nathalie and pressed his suit with more
earnestness, but she, not yet satisfied as
/ to her age and the adyisability of the
/ change of situation, still declined. SO for
/ the second time they separated-he fol
! California, she for Smyrna. For nearly
/ six years they remained thus far apart un-
/ til Friday, 22d ult., while Miss Nathalie
was looking from her brothers store win
/ dow, she espied her suitor in the pilotagl
! Of Mr.. HOUSTON, one of our spry old wild
overs, who was directing Mr.. Kleemann
/ to her abode. The marriage notice fin
/ ishes the story.
after courtship summed up in three
interviews III nine years, the twain ar
made one and left Philadelphia for thei
| home in San Francisco on Thursday last
In the six years that intervenod between
the second and third interviews, the co,
maiden refused a second suitor, hoping t.
accept the offer she had twice refused be
Z fore And she did. -
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12

NoMAN's PERIL WITH SNAKn-A
lady residing near Coopertown, Tenn.
had very unpleasant adventure with a
snake the other day. She had lust step
ped into the edge of a grove when she
lelt something moving about her right
foot STOPPING forward to see what it was.
4 large adder struck her in the breast. his
tangS fastening in the bosom of her dress.
1t then dropped back, and she discovered
that she was standing on the reptiles tail.
Her first impulse was to run. but before
she could move the snake had begun coil
ing itself around her ankle. With GREAT
presence of mind, she seized an opDortune
moment to place her left foot on the rem
tlIe's head. There she stood. one foot
upon the head of the snake and nearly his
whole length coiled around her other an
kie. She was too far away from anv one
10 summon help and she was compelled To
undergo he loathsome ordeal Of unwind
ing the coils that the monster had thrown
around her. This she succeeded in doinc,
the snake meantime writhing and twistinc
with all its power. She then by \ onioIr
movement, dashed its head against \ tree
ana wiille 1T lay stunned, pounded its head
TO Jelly with stone. For several hours
a1terward her hands and arms were mncL
swollen and of dark color, but This soon
passed away.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12

a HERO ENGINEER.-There are heroes
filling private stations, drawer than ever
poetry sung or romance recorded. Our
workshops and our fields can produce men
who are moro entitled to the spurs than
any knight who ever won them in the
field of battle, or shivered lance in the
tourney. Every day brings to our notice
the act of some brave man, who, in the
discharge of his simple duties, displays
more true herOism than many OF those
whom history has recorded AS 'sfghting
like Richard Lionheart and dying like
Philip Sidney" One of these examples
comes from Bcllefonte, and in these words
is told the story Of Ed. Nolan's bravery.
GA little child lay down on the Snow
shoe railroad day or two ago and went
to sleep The train was laundering along
at furious rate, when Conductor Ed.
Nolan discovered the little one sleeping
peacefully, with its tiny arms thrown over
the rail a short distance ahead. To stop
the train III time to save the child was inn
possible, SO over the top of the cars fe W
the conductor. In a moment he was on
the cow-catcher; in another twinkling OF
an eye there was spring, the heavy train
dashed by like the wind, and down the
bank, with somebody's household pet in
his arms, rolled brave Ned. Nolan. There
were none but the train hands present to
note this heroic action, but neither the
grass, nor the rocks, nor the mountains
could hide it from the eye that never
sleeps, and upon the pages of Heavens
book there was no brighter mark that
day, than that which went to the credit 0!
that gallant CONDUCTOR
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-06-12

AN amusing incident occurred on train
IN New York State, recently. A newly
married couple entered tho car and took
seat. The husband wanting to smoke,
lett his wife and went into the smoking
car. The bride began to dose. and while
she slept stranger entered the car, and,
"a it was crowded, quietly took a seat be
side the young wifo. Shortly she began to
nod, and doubtless imagining that her hus-
band was still in the seat, gently reclined
toward the stranger, and soon her head
fondly nestled on his breast At this
Juncture the husband returned. He stood
IN mute astonishment in the aisle until the
lady awOke, and, realizing the situation,
drew back in amazement, suffused with
bushes. Stranger explained. the husband
was satisfied, and wife tried hard to ap-
pear uuconcerned