The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-01-16
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of putting powusr in sticks OF wood Tor
your neighDors to steal is an old and bar
barous one, and when we passed by house
the other morning, and saw the family
shiyering out in the yard over broken
stove, and heard the children crying Tor
breakfast, our heart was filled with bitter
reflections OIL mans inhunanity to man.
On Sunday morning, at Harrisburg,
another dead body Of a man was found IN
the canal. The man was apparently about
40 years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches IN
height, medium built, darkish hair, and
wore heavy goatee of n sandy color, mix
ed with gray. On the third finger of the
left hand was a heavy silver ring, with
shield of gold on the top, with the initials,
'.P G.' The inside of the ring had the
word ''coin" stamped. The body evil
dentIy had been in the water or 10 days.
"A Detroit man who has been married
about six months was last week finding
fault with the prices at the City Hall mar
ket, saving that he couldn't understand
how it was. They used 70 figure, as he
sat with his arm around her waist OF a
Sunday night, that pound of sugar, two
ounces of tea, two pounds OF meat, half
peck of potatoes and ten pounds of -four,
represented by $3.50 cash, would run
them a week but the fact was he useo up
iftecn dollars pei week and Was then hun
CRY half the time.
"A man named John Kelly, residing
near ShamolliD, a few days ago, committed
& deadly assault upon his wife on the pub
lie highway aud left her to die. The wO-
man was in the company of man named
Richard Edwards, who barely escaped with
his life. The lifeiess body of Mrs. Kelly
was found along the side Of the road next
morning. She had been drinking with
Edwards. She WAS about thirty years
old, and leaves seven children, the young
est a babe of three months.
There is exhibited in st. Louis just
now a curious bit of work III amateur art.
This Is a medallion of a sleeping face,
very well executed, it is said, not in clay
nor marble, but in butter. 1t came flOm
the head and hands of an Arkansas farm
er's wife, who caught the idea while IN
her dairy. She made quantity of studies
with the aid of her butter paddle, cedar
sticks, broOm-strawS, and a camel S-bair
pencil, and at last succeeded in modelling
Il really creditable head. 1t Is ingeniouSly
mounted il milk pan, which III turn Is
framed
A short time ago, says Henry Waiter
sons Sunday School Organ, a carload of
/ silk-wOrms' eggs passed through Detroit
on the way from Japan to France and
Italy. When those eggs left Detroit they
were worth, according to the Free Press
( 81, ,O00, 900 when they got to New York
] 4
/ but $500, OO0. At this rate of depreciation
/ i'll value by the time they reach their des-
( tiuation they VIII lack large fortune of
/ being worth tinker's dana small piece
/ Of dough, my dear madam. which the tin =
/ ker puts around the place he IS going to
I solder to keep The melted metal from
I spreading too much.
A special dispatch from Pottsyille,
/ Pa, says /: Stubborn feeling exist among
I min in Ba Ei
] ton of the operators has been rejected
| and work is suspended in the POttsyille
/ district Over nine thousand men are
idle, and I'll coal operations are stopped
/ The miners say they will not, under any
circumstances, submit TO the operators
proposals, and unless they are materially
changed there viii be a prolonged strug-
gle. 1t is expected that the miners of
Columbia and Northumberland counties
| and all other affected districts, will be
heard from to-day, and then the whole
region viii have suspended. Within a
few days stirring times are looked for.
On last Sabbath, says the West Ches-
ter Ne50s, Mr. J. McFarlan, residing near
Downington, witnessed 4 desperate, and
what may be safely termed, novel conflict,
while travelling on the Horse Shoe Pike,
near Guthrieyille. He first obseyed large
! chicken hawk dating TO the ground and
/ repeatedly rising in the air. Upon his ar
I irving closer TO the scene, lie was surprised
/ at seeing large blacksnaEc curied up in
| a fighting attitude and as best as he could,
! defending himself against the attacks of
/ the hawk. The conflict continued half an
4 hour, terminating IN favor of the bird Of
prey, which, having killed the snake, ssiz-
/ ed it in his talons and bore him off, no
doubt for feast. Tho bid showed signs
of being wounded.
ON New Years Day. SAYS the Leaven-
n --sT -
/ train was moving at the rate of twenty
/ miles an hour, just as they thundered
/ past Lake JOY, abOut One-half mile south
( of GaTnett, boy who had been skating
on the lake was discovered by the engin-
eer, VIII Lorire, to break through the ice
and sink out of sig In moment, for
( getting everything else but that q fellow
/ being life was in danger, he whistled
/ down brakes, reversed his engine, and
gave the alarm. While the train was yet
III motion he and several passengers leaped
to the rescue. y gentleman by the name
of W. L. Parkinson, a lawyer of Ottawa,
waded in, the ice breaking under him as
he went, up to his arm-pits, and succeeded
IN reaching the boy with a pole anG res
cuing him, The boys name was Willie
Douglas.
One of the most revolving scenes ever
brought about by the bungling Of pro-
fessional hangman took place at JERSEY
City ON Friday, when Jacob Mechella, a
Finnish sailor, was sent to his last account
for the murder of deputy-sherif 1t
was odd and sic6ening enough that Ne
chella should smoke cigar, and even
make an attempt at double-shuf1e dance
on the gallows' platform, but what these
incidents lacked of sensational influence
was amply compensated for when the
rope Iaveled as the fated wretch was syuno
INTO the air, leaving him in the agony of q
man half-hung. There had to be a second
adjustment of the moose, and a completion
OF the CHASTITY work. OF course the oppo
nents of capital punishment will select
Mechella,s case a text for further argu.
ment. Still. upon reflection, they NAV
md difficulty in specifying TO what other
use a cold-blooded rufian like MecheIIa
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