The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-03-17

Five masked men entered the house Of
James Crosby, a wealthy farmer, living or
tbe Allentown road near Farmer station.
ON the Northern New Jer, ey R:i'fo1d. early
Sunday morning. and carried off 500. 600
/ worth Of United States bonds and 5000
! worth Of silverware and jexelry.
On Friday n lady by the name ot Mrs.
Street, living one mile east Of Sharon,
went out of her house for a short time,
/ leaving her daughter, aged eight years.
| alone iii the house. When she returned.
J she was horror stricken to Sind her cliild ia
! bed burnt to crisp. 1t appears that VIII 'ie
/ the mother was out, the child went to the
stove and her clothes caught fire. burniug
! her entire body 20 a crisp. DR.. ieIlnan
/ was called, but the burning was frtal. the
/ child dying after about three hours terrible
/ suffering.
! -Foar Of the six principal buildings for
| the Centennial Exposition are completed
and are waiting forexinibitoIs. The goods
! Of foreign exhibitors are constantly arriv-
! ing, and are being bat in shape in the
main building. The American exhibitors
| have only tive months an which 70 get their
wares into position, aud they are urgertly
! requested 10 hurry them forward. IN order
| that there may be 5S little IammcTing away
at fixtures on the opening day. May 1O,h,
as possible. Only two months remain in
which to get things ia shape.
! The GTughsc i authority for The state
| men that a manufacturer Of boots aua
! shoes on Broadway, New York. Is no.T en-
/ gagged in preparing two pairs Of shoes fur
| The Exhibition from the skin of hlI-slan
/ being n pair from the skin OF an anaconda.
! n pair from attlcsnal5e skin. q pair from
! the hide Of kangaroo, and another pair
! lOm the skin of a catfish. The leather og
| the iast ranied Is equal ia its texture to Iii,,
! linost silk, and OF the skin uf "a human be
| ing the quality w"uid he rated anywhere.
| perhaps. il we did not know hat il was.
| as supegfiUe.
| -Recently widow. past the nrime or
| life, sued prominent citizen of Tidiouie
| for the amount of \ note. about =2H. 60
| which had been discovered after the, death
| of her husband. Tho geutlcnan claimed
| that the note was not just one and con-
/ tested il in the courts. Torture favored
! the widow and she wnu the suit Soon af
| ter young man began cJurtiug her. and
| few weeks ago they were privately V married
| After tire marriage hai been cn, sumnlafcd
! the citizen carried the case up to the su
| prone court, where he got decision IN his
| favor. II is supposed th this Ganpenrd
| the young mems love: at amy rate the
| whole family has suddenly disappeared
! from Tidioute society.
Captain J. B. Bent. n retired LAWYER
| of Mt Sterling. Ky, aud n gentleman well
; knowI for reliability. arrived i'm Louisville
! on Monday night with specimens of hosh
! which fell on The Friday previous i'm Bath
! county. TIE flesh covered two acres OF
| ground. and resembled muttou, and left
| traces of blood on trees and fences which
! were touched by tue falling flakes. Chick
ems and hogs devOured il with evident rel
| ish. The heavens were clear tho sun
| shone. and ouly floating clouds were visible
at the time-2 p. NJ. March 3D.. QUAINT
| ties of the flesh have been presely ed.
That brought to Louisville was given to
| Prof. Lawrence, well known scientist
who says no doubt il is animal flesh
I Hundreds of persons are willing to attest
with afidavits to the truthfuluess OF the
entire matter
"A four year old boy in Bonneville. XIV.
is just crammed with dates, figures facts
and a volume OF lore such as ordinarily re-
quires life time to acquire. In history he
is n very encyclopedia of knowledge. The
ancient kings, their wars, the rise aud fall
of the Roman Empire. the career Of Bona
parte, the times of the death and the age
of the rulers of England, the settlement of
this country, and similar f5cts, are as fa-
miliar to him as the alphabet to an older
person. He can name the capital of every
State i'll The Union, and of every foreign
country. lie repeats whole chapters of the
Bible, and speaks in child like manner
just as though rattling off the veriest com
monplace rem arks of other children of his
age. His memory appears to be strong by
nature, and manifested its power before he
was Taught to read.
The vicinity of Galloway's Prairie,
Maries county, Mo, has been the scene of
considerable excitement recently. on ac-
count OF strange and mysterious occur
rences at the residence of Martin Rogers
Esq. Several evenings since the attention
Of the family was attracted To thumpings
OF rappings, which seemed to emerge from
between the ceiling and weather boarding
of the room. Mr.. Rogers, supposing the
noise to be occasioned by rats, struck upon
the wall immediately over the rappings,
when, to his surprise, no cessation of the
strange noise followed, hut the harder Mr.
X. struck the wall the louder the humping
sounded. The noise con tinued nightly, to
the great annoyance of the family. a pc
calarity of the rappings is that it com
mences as soon as Miss Mary, daughter
of Mr.. r., retires, and is in close proximity
to her bed. Ii is noticeable, also, that
when Miss Mary takes the Bible to bed
with her the rapping ceases, but rs soon as
the Bible is taken from the bed il com
mences again.