The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-09-14
Burglars entered the dwelling of Mark

D.. Williams in Huston township, Centre
cotnty, on Thursday evening, while the
family were at worship. and stole trunk
containing, among ether things, ten thous-
and dollars in uo.es and bonds and six
hundred dollars in gold and silver accumu-
lated before the war.
james Moffit. Of Orange, Conn.,. merits
high place among audacious thieves. He
went to a lot the other day, drove out FIVE
steers pasturing there, took them 20 a
neighbOring town, sold them for $50.
then went back to Orange, paid the owner
Of the cattle 81 which he owed him, and
then took the cars for New Haven.
AT Wapakoneta. Ohio, on Wednesday
night the county treasurer WAS seized aud
then taken to the court house, where, after
being subjected to a severe odeai Of fire
which was placed between his feet as he
lay upon the floor, he was compelled %
divulge the combination Of the county safe
and some $40 900 were taken therefrom.
AS Mf. John McAndrew. Of Oiyphaut,
Luzerne county. was digging potatoes in a
field, he dug ont Of .he hill a doubled up
piece of gold which proved to be a gninea
IL vas somewhat corroaed by age. bat
every representation and letter can be dis
tiDctly seen upon the coin. IL bears the
date of 176S as plainly as IL stamped but
yesterday
Louisa Reynolf. of Athens. aged Il.
was found in York The other day dressed
in boys clothing. She left home early i'm
June with young man named Charles
Powers. and has travelled over n good part
of the Union since. She has now become
tired OF her seducer, and is anxious to 20
home TO her parents, who are people OF
respectabiity.
Samuel Humphreys, alias John Leary.
locomotive fireman, has beeu arrested in
Connecticut and taken to Reading in this
State, on the charge of having been one of
the three leading incendiaries who fired
the Lebanon Valley railroad bridge. dur
ing the recenS strike. For ten DAYS pre-
Vious to his arrest he was fireman of a To-
comOtive IN Connecticut.
Nj. RecOrdou of Geneva has invented
machine by which blind people can write
at once in characters meant for their blind
brethern, and in ordinary letters legible
with the eyes. A writer in n Paris paper
says that he saw il in ope: alton and a
few PIN ases which he himself wro'e with it
without any preparatory study, were de.
ciphered with surprising rapidity.
Second Lieutenant Willard Young. of
the United States engineering corps, and
one of the late Brigham Young's numerous
children, and who for some time was sta
toned at Oideu weldertown, Nor hampton
county, attached to company \, is said to
have received 100000 not long ago as a
gift from his father, and now he comes in
with the Others for share of the estate.
-bisop Dubois, of Galveston, was twice
captured by the Texas Indians Once the
savages tied him to tree and were prepar-
ing to burn him to death. when he pleaded
with them, speaking the Spanish language
told them he was chief and asked to see
their chief, He was sent for. and the good
Bishop represented himself as a chief in
the Church, wheroupOn he was released.
The Board of Pardons of PENNSYLVANIA
has refused favorable consideration of the
application for pardon of James Court
wris ht, convicted of embezzlement of State
funds. They recommend pardon to JAS
Thomas, of Northampton county, convict
ed of arson in the fall of 1871 and sentenced
10 the penitcntiary for thirty years and six
months, and to pay n fine of 81. 500.
st. Stephens Catholic church. New
York, is one Of the largest on this conti-
nenf, 1t being 200 Y - feet on the ground
1t seats 5000, but 5000 have. it is said
stood inside the e,lifice at times, Six
ciergymen minister nj 81. S,pplens The
parishioners number from 20. 900 to- 30. OaO
OF 5,2i2 churches in the Roman Catholic
diocese of the United States. only II or IL
bear the name of St. stephen
"A Welsh engineer has invented an en-
gine of warfare which consists of a cannon
so arranged as to discharge n sharp sword
blade crosswise in the direction of the on
emy. the knife being so poised in irs course
through the air rs 20 cover the whole space
III longitudinal direction Described hy the
blade itself An inch ball would carry
sword IA feet in leng II GOO yards MOVING
Gown every obstacle in its path.
The Pope preserves his high Spirits
nnahaied. On reading in the RsBujlio.ts
frdncdl@ that he has been dead fIr sever
al years and is persOnated by priest.
His Holiness burs. into a fit Of laughter.
and ordered subscription to be taken i'm
his name to the paper for five years ''We
snail see who lasts the longest - he said.
aho hoW 1T will vex them to put the
Pope's address on their wrappers -
In New York, on Thursday. a woman
was discovered in an alley where, with two
little children, she had lain for forty-eipbt
hours, not having had in all that time a
morsei OF bread or cup of water An in
Vahd, deserted by her husband back i'm
her rent she was elected by her landlord.
VINO cared not whether she lived or died
10 the alley way into which she and her
were thrust by the constable.
On opening freight car which had
oeeh standing on siding on the West
pennsylvania railroad, AT Allegheny. sever
al workmen saw the body of a man stand
ing I'D an erect position. The man had
hung himself with handkerchief to a bar
az the top of the car and when discovered
he had been dead several days. 1t is SUP
posed that he was stealing a ride in the
car ana unable to get out, had committed
SulciGe through fear of starvation.
homas Francis Curley, who murdered
'la'y Ann "hItiy, was hanged in the pris-
on at Norristown. on Monday morning last
10 the preseuce of about two hundred peo
PIE, Including officials. After the services
ot The Catholic Church, the drop fell at
lO;4o and death followed almost instantly
he oody was allowed to hang TWENTY-FIVE
and was then delivered to the at
ehdant priests. CuTley's only remark
lpon the scaffold was, Gentlemen. l bid
Fou all good bye''
Mrs. catharine Waddle, woman liv-
ing near the house of the murdered connie
was arrested at Hillsborough. MARYLAND.
on sunday, upon suspicion of numbering
James Fitzgerald and wife. AGED u years