The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-02-26

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! coming county, i.om the 17;h to the goth
of March. Barney may thank St Patrick s
/ day for three days more OF life, the COVER
| nor having postponed the execution be-
cause the 18th is the anniversary OF lre-
lands patron saint.
"A match factory in Gottenburg, Swe-
den, crowded with working people, took
fire a fe W days ago The flames spread with
such rapidity that the employees In the
upper stories were cut off from escape and
many perished in the flames or were killed
by jumping from the windows. tIfty-one
lives are reported lost
"A cat was recently found sucking the
breath from child about two months old,
pear Conneautville. The baby was left
alone in its crib. and the cat was found
with its mouth and nose pressed into the
cbld's mouth and its paws on either side
of the babes head, and it Was with difh-
Guilty the cat was removed.
The wife of Lewis Garner, Of No-rise
town. committed suicide Thursday. By
standing on a chair she had tied one end
of a rope to one Of the braces Of the joists
in the cellar of her home. After placing
the moose around her neck she had evident
" jumped from the chair. OF late she had
been unusually melancholy, she having
been sick for some time.
A case of the most.-ezt t -eme brutality
comes to MS from West Buxton, Me. 1t
appears tnat rQaD, whose Ddfne Is not
given has kept his wife, who ut times is
insane, in an open room chained, ali win
ter. She was discovered the other day, by
accident by one of the neighbors, and re-
leased Her feet were both frozen, and
her whole body fros: bitten.
During the absence from home OF
Elisha A. Kingsley, wealthy farmer of
Fiat creek, Schoharie county. n. Y, on
Sunday evening, his barn was discovered
10 no nv, fra by his wife who with a
young woman. were the only persons in
the bouse. They saved the stock, but
Mrs. X. was wedged in the flames by
falling beam and burned to death.
"A novelty IL the mode of hanging
criminals was recently introduced at New
gate, England. Instead of erecting the
usual scaffold above ground, pit was dug
in the soil, and trap-door made level with
the ground opening into the pit. The con-
vct was pinioned by the executioner on
the top of the trap, and at given signal
the drop fell, and the unfortunate man
ceased to live.
"A Canadian wood cutter recently dis
covered polished stove tomahawk imbed-
ded in the wood os an oak tree. 1t is sup
posed to have been accidentally left in the
side of the oak W hen the latter was sap
pling, and the increasing fibre Of the tree
finally covered the weapon. Judging from
the rings counted the tree, the toma-
hawk must have been stuck in its old po-
sition one hundred and one years ago.
An immense Catholic temperance dem
onstration was held in Baltimore, Md, on
Sunday night. Father Dider admins
tered the pledge to three hundred Of St.
Vincent's Society, the audience, number
ing 5000, rising to their feet as it was ad-
ininistered. The Catholic Societies of the
city were present, with banners and re-
gala, and the meeting IN zeal was not
equalled since Father Mathew was there.
A girl was smotbered to death while
on a sleigh ride near Bangor, Me, on one
Of the recent intensely cold nights. a
party of young people were out on frOlic,
filling a long sleigh. This girl grew very
cold, and to keep her warm her sweetheart
wrapped her closely in huge blanket, COW
ering her head and face. Too drowsy and
beuumbed to stir, she suffocated without
her companions being aware that she was
dying.
A dispatch from Oneonita states that
during the intense cold of last week three
children named O'Brien, ranging in age
from to II years, were forced by their
parents, basket makers, residing in Exeter
to start on tieiI usual peddiiug tour. The
following morning the bodies of the chill
dren were found on the road between Ex-
eser and n neighboring town, frozen to
death, he oldest with his arms around the
neck of the Youngest.
"A remarkable mortality has prevailed
among members OF Congress during the las
three months. Three members elect have
died since November last-Mr. Allen, Of
New York Mr.. Mcmillan, of Georgia, and
Mr.. Head, of Tennessee. In addition, four
members of the present House have died
Messrs. CroclIer and Hooper of Massachu-
setts, Hcrsey of Maine, and Rice of Hi
nois-and to those named must be added the
recent death of Senator Buckingham
~ Of. +. l,cF 10 80,
cred, if one may believe the report that a
FrencEman named De la Bastie, who has
p mt nearly six years in experimenting, in
connection with learned chemists, has |
solved the problem. The glass produced /
by him is said to be as mallcabie as copper !
or iron, and SO capable of resisting the ac- /
tion of heat that it can be used for frying /
pans and all manner of kitchen utensils. 1
as well as for lamp chimneys without risk I
of fracture.
The Lewistown Democrat says that 1
cat belonging to James Gibbs, of the west /
end of town, two weeks ago gave birth to /.
a double kitten. 1t had two complete (
heads, -four complete and four smaller legs, I
and the appearance of two bodies, though /
from shoulder to hip they we've Joined in-
dissolubly together. The kitten walked .
and ate and lived for ten days, when,
strange to say, Mr.. G. killed it, because of .
superstitious notion that its birth was an
omen of evil.
The Boston Globe has this mention of 4
rose-bush in Newton, Mass: s'At the /
greenhouse of Mr.. Mansfield, in Ward II,
there can be seen white Lamaroue rose /
tree, upward of twenty years old, covering /
radius of over 100 square feet, which has .
had a prodigious yield the past season. /
Since December it has furnished twenty to
thirty buds daily, and it is estimated that .
its yield for the season will be at least p
500. At 50 per hundred, profit of S225 !
will be realized
The blunder of Mr.. Wheeler in the !
House, Saturday, in reading from the /
Globe of 1856, the speech of Leander F. (
Cox. a Kentucky Wing, On the subject of
Federal interference with local State gov
ernment, under the impression that it was
the language of Hon. S. s. Cox, who was