The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-11-02

both pits of the High Blantyre Colliery,
near Glasgow, Scotland, and it has been
ascertained that $50 persons perished.
Hon. Sobieski Ross, ex-membcr of
Congress from the sixteenth district, shot
and killed himself at Coudersport, on Wed
nesday. For the past year Mr.. Ross has
been in very poor health his nervous sys-
tenn seemed completely shattered and
there can be no doubt that he has been
partially insane for long time. His suf-
ferings were more than ne could bear aud
dethroued reason led to the fatal act.
The Philadelphia Record, an inde-
pendent psper, says that the statement
made in imaginative aud lively journals
addicted to intense politics that Judge
Turnkey, the Democratic candidate for
the Supreme Bench, is running around the
State electioueering for himself is untrue,
of course. Tie rascals who print it know
IL is untrue. They would be offended with
the imputation that any one believed they
believe il.
"A party of emigrants from Pittsburgh
to Arkansas are going to their new homes
in a cheap aud novel manner. They have
built themselves a large boat, on which
they intend TO place all their household
goods, and to float by way of the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers 10 the mouth of the
White river, from which latter point they
will have their boat toSyed up that river TO
the lands in Arkansas upon which they in
tend TO settle.
A woman named Rosa Sorocco, aged,
shrvelled aud haggard, made living by
picking up stray grains Of corn, coffee, &c,
on the piers of New York. She was
severely injured ON Friday 10y several bags
that fell Oh her, and when taken 10 her
home the officer surprised to tiud tina
she was the possessor of Il comfortable and
neatly furnished cottage. That shows
yyl ind n
things Will 10.
An unknown person entered the house
of l.. ;. McNey, a toll gate keeper on the
CircleyIlle pike, six miles north of Chilli
cothe, Ohio, last Friday night, and shot
McNey through the heaIt and his wife
through the head, killing both instantly.
a little girl, the only other occupant OF the
house, hearing the shooting, jumped ont
of bed and escaped. The murderer, after
ransacking the house for plumber, set it on
fire, and escaped to tie woods.
"A double tragedy occurred at Liver
pool, O, on Tuesday last. Ralph Winter
gill cut his wife's throat with "a razor and
then his own, about , o'clock p. VI. She is
dead and he at last accounts was dying.
The cause was domestic trouble. Both
were highly respected. They had been
married little over year, he being a
widower with a family, and she the widow
of Robert Hailes, a deceased soldier, The
house reScmbled a slaughter house.
AT an early hour on Sunday morning
the cooper shops of ID. B, Moore, in Pitts
burg, together with the keg factory. were
totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $50. 600 :;
no insurance. \ few minutes later a fre
broke out on Cliff street, where a sable,
which had been fired, was entirely de-
stroyed. About twenty minutes after this
another fire was discovered in Carey's COOP
er shop, in Mulberry alley, and the shop
and contents were entirely destroyed. Loss
about 50, 600. The fires were all incendi-
airy, and it is beived that an organized ef
fort was made by some one 10 burn ihe
whole city. A man named James Melvin
was arrested for attempting To fire house
on Locust street and is now in custody.
New York politicians are admiring the
taste of a crow. which belongs to a retired
sea captain, of Brooklyn, which takes grog
like an old salt and seems TO thrive on il.
At political meeting on Saturday one of
the candidates offered to treat the crow. a
glass was half filed with old rye whisky /:
the crow made for it, drank it up greedily,
gave hoarse croak of maudlin delight
and fell over on one side. Its recovery
was rapid, and it soon walked off. This
dissolute bird is in the habit of getting
drunk two or three times a day during the
campaign, while whisky is plenty, and
takes as naturally to political meetings as
any ward hummer a speaker who watch
ed the crows ways was heard to remark !:
There's good deal of human nature
about that bird
Women who look under the bed for
man have been so successful of late in
! finding him that men will have to hunt up
/ some more secure hiding place. The now
well known Miss Johnson found n man and
pounded his head almost to jelly a young
woman in Ashland saw some masculine feet
sticking out from under her bed and she
! ran into the street and woke up the neigh
borhood, while the masculine feet escaped
! in Carbon county a bankers girl found a
man ander the bed and screamed until he
jumped out the window, and now comes a
case in West Virginia where the man was
captured AMI turned over to the authori-
ties. 1t is getting to be extra hazardous to
hide under bed now, aud no really iu;elii-
gent robber will think of such thing. He
knows be tter.-Phi!a. IihfoS,