The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-10-12


Paris exhibition will be y"nth of fourteen
with feet shaped precisely like his hands.
lie can use them for the same purposes,
and plays upon the piano with both hands
and feet, having peculiar chair which en-
ables him to curl his body into the neces-
sary position. He is very good perform
er, and speaks both Eoglsh and German.
His French is yet imperfect
The exposure of the attempt to repeat
in Allegheny county with Hibernians and
Catholics the corrupt and criminal p-acti-
ces carried out with the Molies i'm Luzerne
and Schuylkll in 1875 will, says thesPiits-
burgh Post, have but one effect, and that
will be to consolidate all classes Of Demo-
crats-no matter of what religion or nativ-
ity-in opposition to the ring candidates,
who adopi such insulting practices to con
Time their reign of plumber at the State
capital.
Francis Biron. a French noble, who
many years ago left his country in conse-
quence of family quarrel, and became a
lumberman in the West, has Just died, an
old man, at his home in the Wisconsin
pineries. After his success was assured
his family wished for reconciliation and
bestowed upon him a large estate i'm Cana
da. He was very wealthy at the time of
his DEATH and was very well known in The
Western States. He vas man of noble
and benevolent nature.
In Fritz;own, Pa, lives man who is
insensible to the pain which usually attends
the sting of bees, wasps and hornets. He
can take the honey from the beehives with
out either supplying or destroying the
bees. lie destroys all the hornets and
yellow jackets that he can fiud, aud, al
though frequently covered by the insects
which have aligbted upon him ip swarms,
he has never been known to finch. On
getting hold of a hornets nest he empties IL
by shaking the hornets out of the aperture
"A San Francisco newspaper has ac-
compllshed aremarkable feat in telegraphy.
The morning after the international rifle
shooting Mt Creedmoor it came out with a
broadside of diagrams of the targets bear
ing accurate representations of the scores
as proved by the New York papers received
week afterward. These diagrams had
been transmitted over the wires by new
process, invented and patented by one of
the proprietors of the journal, and not yet
generally understood, but which may con-
tain the germ of great things.
"A German colony was established three
years ago upon Sand Mountain, i'm Alaba-
ma. They have now six thousands acres OF
former wilderness blosSoming as the rose,
and have built upR 7ourishing town, which
pays thousands of dollars in taxes TO the
State. The grape interest is profitable.
One German on half an acre last year raised
$500 worth of grapes. and this year he will
raise $500 worth. The tobacco growth is
eqnal IN quality aud size to the Virginia
leaf. Tobacco, cigars and wine, the chief
products of the colony, find ready sale in
Louisville and Cincinnati
Edward Smith. one Of the Lebanon
Valley bridge burners, who was apprehend-
ed at Troy. y. Y, pleaded guilty al Read
ing, Pa, un Saturday morning to :he
charge of having fired the Lebanon Valley
graaA
others who were strangers 70 him. This
witnsss not being able to idenify front.
( Langiott and Blizzard, Of the defendants. a
noHe pToSeQui was entered I'm their cases
and hey we're discharged. Hiram Mach
trleb, the only other defendant, is charged
with having counselled the offense.
The Lancaster J7telltgsHcsr considers
it very cool for Kurper's Weekly to publish
a cut illustrating that 1.-THE President >
policy has disbautied the Ku Klux ORGAN
izations, when for months before the cleo
tion 1T published the most fiendiSh and in
ccndiary pictures show that such a pol
icy would be the death of the negso. South
Let it come out frankly and give the credit
to the Southern people To whom It belongs
and not TO the party which So long sought
| to evoke race coutiicT. NGrper's Weekly
being most conspicuous in the effort.
VIM. {. Gilman, the New York forCer
was one of the most pious men in that nm
happy city. lie belonged to one or Tie
oldest aud most respected families. His
| father, who died a few DAYS ago was a
merchant of credit and standing. and his
I sister married the Rev. DIR. Thompson.
Gilman was Superintendent of the Sunday
School of the Little Church Around tie
Corner > man Of no small vices, as far
as known, happily married. and few years
ago inherited n snug fortune. He was un-
known as SpeCulator, and what he has done
with the $500. 600 is another mystery -
A special dispatch from Cleveland gives
the details OF terrible tragedy which cc-
cuired near that place on Friday night.
n man named Carper cut his da,Ighter's :
throat. knocked his granddaughter in the
head with a smoothing iron, then cut the
child : throat afierward shooting himself
morally. The doors OF his house were
found bolted reXt morning. Carper was
still alive, but died i'm a few momeDts
he suicide was an avowed atheist He
had been heard 30 say that he had better
Kill his family and get out Of the world
lie came to Bradley county few years ago
All his family who were at home at the
time were murdered.
There is young lady staying in Joliet
whose history is romantic. One evening
three years ago. in the southern part of III
inois, she was out walking with her lover.
They stepped into an oyster-house for re-
freshments, and while seated at the table n
drunken rough came staggering in and in
suited the lady. Her lover warned him
not to do so again under penalty of death.
The rough was just drunk enough TO re-
peat his Insult, and the lover pulled his re-
volver and shot him dead. For this the
lover was arrested, tried and sentenced to
two years in the Joliet penitentiary. The
young lady is there awaiting the tine when
he will regain his liberty. which will be
shortly. She has elegau: clothing, iewelry
and plenty of money awaiting his release.
and then they both expect to be happy.
Mr.. Charles Olton is what the Phila-
delph;a Times calls an enterprising gentle
man, He was arrested about midnight on
| Thursday on the charge of couuterfeiting,
shot at Officer Lyons, sending The ball so
close as to Craze his lips, made his escape
only to run into the clutches of Private