The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-12-07

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i'm search of two cattle thieves. found them
at church at White Sulphur. Ky. where
upon. pistol in hand, he informed preacher
and congregation that they were all under
arrest. While every body looked astonish-
ed, he picked out his men marched them
ont Of the building AT the muzzle OF his
weapon, and, turning ON the step, shoutcd
to tho minister that lie could 90 on with
the bcnediction.
"A Michigan court has sent William ".
GCdley. aged forty five, tn the State Prison
for life. at hand labor. His offense WAS an
attempt to murder Mehitable Page. aged
eighty years. his mother-in law. Incited
10y greed for her little property, in August
last. while alone with the old lady he :licd
to administer piussic acid - ner. Sire re-
sisted. was beaten, choked, thrown down
the cellar stairs and stamped npnn. but al
timately recovered, and OH the sTal tried
to screen her aSsailaut.
Two years ago Lyman Rlackmau,
farmer living near Beamingham. Mich,
decided his farm to his son Henry or con
ditlon that the latter should support his
parents aud sister. lie failing 10 dp tl.i<.
his father started rnr Pontiac on SATURDAY,
10 get out the necessary papers fnr l,ynk-
ing the deed. During his absence lituiy
quarrclled with his mother and SISTER.
which resul cd in his shooting aud killing
them both, after which he SCI fire 10 the
house and barn. Tho murderer j nov iu
jail at Pontiac.
"A despatch from Moorstield. Hardy
county, W. Va, saying that the destruc-
tion IN that county alone by the recent
floods will reach 800. 600. There are not
thousand shocks of com in the valley OF
the south branch Of the Potomac. Farms
have been washed completely away. and
land that was worth 800 an acre Is NOW
utterly without value, The suffering
among ,ha cattle is very great. aud hun
dreds of turner's are ruined. The torrent
reached from muumtaiu TO mountain, aud
was twenty feet deep.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sayres, who was shot
by her husband i'm the Church Of the As
ccnsion, Philadelphia, on Sunday, The 18th,
died Thursday afternoon. 1t will be re
membered that he walked mp the aisle Just
before the close of the service, euiercd
the pew in which his wife was standing
bowed his head reverentially while the
clergyman pronounced the benedic iuD,
and at its close placed a pistol at his
wife's head and fired, and then quietly
left the church, He made no resistance to
ares, and, as he was given to fits of mel
ancholy, he Is supposed to he insane.
-In illustration of Wade IIampton's re-
cent speech nj Rockford, H., pleading for
peace and fiateruization between the sec
tions, we have, says the PaduC sh Ky
position and example are most remarkable.
The firm is composed of two members A.:
one came here from Ohio and the other
tennessee one was Federal soldier
and the other Confedeiate-bothc carry
/ ing scars from wounds received i'm battle
during the laie war. No two business
partners were ever more friendly and conf
dental; indeed, their intercourse is as
beautiful as that of brothers dwelling to-
/ " a he in mi nd 4
one is a Scotch Presbyterian and the other
an Irish Catholic, we think we show the
raIest and strongest case on record
At Mont eOmery, Ala, Sunday morn
/ ing, the bodies of Antouia Nicrosi and VI :ss
Amelia Sharp were found in the cemetery.
a pistol ball hole in each head. They
went out to walk Saturday afternoon. when
the deed is supposed to have been done.
/ They loved each other, and a note from
/ Nicrosi indicates they were willing to die
together. The ball entered Miss Sharp' :
/ head above the left eve. 1t is supposed
/ Nicrosi shot her and then put the pistol TO
! his left ear and fired into his own head
! They were both dead when found and ap-
/ peaIeh to have been so for many hours
. NicroSi was clerk in his brothers. store and
had been i'll America only a few years
lie was no; more than twenty :wu years of
age. Miss Sharp was sister of the mana
ger of the Singer sewing machines i'm Ala
bama quite pretty and highly esteemed.
Mathew Davenport, an EnClishman.
aged fifty years, Of Northampton, Mass,
whose wife left him about month ago.
and who has since been living with man
named Pratt, D. Is alleged. as a paramour.
concealed himself IN Pratt's cellar Wed
nesday night, aud early Thursday morning
when Mrs Davenport came into he cellar
/ he pounded her OH the head with a base
ball club aud then stabbed her in the right
breast with butchers knife. Pratt, at
tracted by her cries, rushed DOWN stairs
aud grappled with Davenport. The two
fought some time, when Pratt received a
sixnch cut across the abdomen, which
let hls inteSiines ous. The neighbors,
hearing the cries, rushed in and separated
them. Pratt cannot live long. aud the
woman's recovery is doubtful. Davenport
rs in Jail. Pratt is an American. about
bfty-iive years old anG is s.,il ~ nave been
Il Methodist pISaensI,