The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-03-30

"A New York lawyer stated to e. y, =
tective Nettleship last November that he
had $3.50, 600 stolen government bonds and
offered larger inducemcut to Nettleship
to- secure accomplice IN the bond de
par.ment at Washington to convert them
into money. Nettleship pretended to 90
into the scheme and thus secured the ar
rest Of the thieves.
w. Maxwell and his son. aged sixteen,
stockneu, lately of Stuart, Iowa, aud loca-
( ted In Colfax county. New Mexico, were
murdered on Friday last by a negro, who
/ has been captured at Trim idad. Colorado
Robbery was the probable cauEe as Max
Wen WAS supposed to have money with
hun. The bodies were fuund on sunday
shot through Tho mead
-iheodore II. Dannehower, Of Norris
town. is in luck. Sume years ago he
bought an old bureau, which lie offered To
sell last week for "a, but could not fiud n
! purchaser. One of the drawers he subse
; quently found didn't work tieht. and he
undertook its readiustment, when in Jerk
; ing 1t out be j.rked out with IT. an old
p"cketbook containing 800 bill.
Mary Sheridan. of Bayonne, N be.
came eniaRed because ber little hoy of
! three years upset can Of beer by accident
! She fastened him To pully line at n height
of about twenty feet from the ground,
hauled him out about six feet fIom the
house, and ief. him there while she went
! Tor more beer. The child was In couvul-
sions when rescued by the neighbors.
The editor Of the San Francisco Post
has been shown q monster orange, which
! weighed 81 pounds and measured in cir.
! cumferenne "a inches. 1t was grown ut
Riverside, San BernarCino county, upon
the grounds ofG. w. Gascelon. The tree
/ which produced it is just four years OLD,
aud had a number of other oranges besides
tins one, which we're but slightly smaller.
In Pittsburgh, on Friday night, FIRE
broke out in the stables of Weldon & Kelly,
on Virgin alley, jus: below Wood street,
and spread rapidly, destroyed The furnace
and range marufactory of the same fru,
j. G. Bennett & Co. IS hat manufactory and
stoiehouse, and four tenement houses.
| lhe total loss Will probably aggregate
$40. 600, with an insurance of about $50, 00c
/ The trouble at Scranton was concisely
stated last week by a stalwart man who
said 20 the Mayor Your honor | have a
family of eight children who have been
living for two weeks on bread and water
They now have the water, but the Lo,d
knows where the bread is to come from
1 must have b eld inside of forty-eighl
hours, whether l get it by fair means ol
foul"
The bodies OF two murdered men were
found five miles from Georgetown, Ky, OF
FRIDAY aud identified as employees a
Pound Gap, where they had just received
their wages. James Robinson shot and
killed a negro named Henry Crittenden il
Midway. He pleads that the negro drew
a pistol upon him about ten days ago and
shot and dangerously wounded another
negro.
Madison Wells and his family are urg
ing war claims before the Southern Claims
Commission which amounts to nearly sever
III, n . -. G., "A,
lent bill, but Hayes ought to see that lie ID
paid, for if Madison Wells had not been
dishonest fellow, merceDary and con-
scieuceless, Hayes would never have been
seated in the White House. Hayes really
owes him the money.