The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-08-31
EBENSBURG, PA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 81, 1877.

hand, and sent it whirling across the room.
For moment he seemed powerless, par
! alyzed at his failure then AS his strength
catiie back, found that 1 would be but
as child in the hands of the powerful
German SO | slipped out Of his grasp, and
| as he rt1siied at me, | struck him a power
| full left handed OH the nose. The blow
sent him spinning across the room, una
covered his Face with blood. This was a
/ style of fighting that he was not used to.
With "A howl, he gathefed himself up
and dashed throughthe door. | followed,
shouting stop him ~ at the top of my
| lungs, and al last we ran him to earth in
| his lair, the shoetnakers shop. AS the
reader has probably guessed, the man with
| the cats eyes, the murderer, and the Ger
| man shoemaker were one.
| He was quickly secured. In the back
! room of his shop we found the shoe with
the marks of blood hried upon the sole
| he had neter even taken tie precatition to
| remove the stain-and the watches and
! pocket books wi n the tluhey intact, of
/ his victims. He killed for the pleasure of
| killing.
| Afterwards, 1.ien visited him in Jail,
! lie told me that, from the moment he frs
saw me, something told him that should
| bring bim to justice, and he had deter
mined to kill me with the same weapon,
the sharp hatchet. with which he had dis
! patched his other victims,
| The man whose nature was so deeply
| impregnated with the b:ute's love for
| blood mad also the brutes' instinct of dan
| ger.
Need I add, that the Governor of West
| Virginia, handed. over the five hundred
dollars, or that the gay and festive inhabi-
tants Of c. gave a farewell supper to
the ''gallant detective, who was an homer
to New York State, but ought to settle IN
West Nirgiuia?' / for the first time in
my life was carried home on a shutter.
AN INGENIOUS MAP.-About the first of
January. 1876, Prof. Hitchcock of the Ge-
Ological Survey, and his assistants began
the construction Of raised map of New
Hampshire. the design of which was to
combine all the present knowledge of the
geography of the State which had been oh
, tanned in the geological survey made by
Prof. Hitchcock, Prof Huntingdon, and
others. This map has Just been completed
and placed in the State House.
The map is fourteen feet ten inches long,
representing 7s miles in length (being con-
structcd on n scale of one mile to the inch
and ninety three miles in width, from the
mouth Of the Piscataqua river tn the north
west corner af IIinsdale, showing the eE.
tire surface of the State, 9, 336 square miles.
1t also shows all the rivers and brooks,
he town lines, railroads, etc. The names
of all The cities and towns, rivers ana prin
cipal brooks lakes and ponds, mountains
and high elevations. are given COnspicuouS-
ly, so that any one can find at a glance
what they ds sire to look up. The height
of the hills aud mountains is given
scale of one inch to one thousand feet,
and actual measurements are given where
known.
The map is constructed of pine and bass:
wood, aud the process of work was this
\ map was first drawn Oh paper OF the same
size as the raised map, wi Ii all the on lines
of towns, streams, ponds, etc, and contour
lines for each five hundred feet were dra WI.
1racings of the contour lines were made on
inch layers of pine and bass boards, main
tainining accurately as possible the la
tive size and shape. These were fastened
upon each other, and the valleys were bev-
eled out with chisels. Concord Monitor.
An ELDERLY APPRENTICE.-A gentle
man who is fifty years or age. and who for
owe" twenty five years has held a clerkship
in the War Department. was recently dis
charged. He had large family, and lie
became neatly Grassy. knowing nothing
whatever OF the world, and being almost
too old to do anything, having given his
best days tO the Government as a clerk, he
wandered ABOUT the streets III SeatCn O1
some employment. He was unable to find
any unil, seeing an advertisement in a
newspaper stating that some printer need
ed an apprentice, he applied rDr the posi-
tion, andi strange as it may seem, his ser
vices were accepted: and now if any one
takes the trouble to visit certain piinting
office in this city, he viii End An apprentice
fifty years of age learning his trade. rereiv-
ing for his wages about three dollars per
'Ia l.
through his time in thIee ycaIs, and that
then, having trade, ho vill bc what lie
has never -iudepeuG-nt. He thinks
his three dollars per week. iudciocSiy ez
pendedswill go long kay in :he purchase
Of bread and milk, and he has already be-
grn to sympathiZe with the thousands of
poor fellows Gagged up in the depart mcnts
who are the most foi saken looking objects
in the world when they get discharged
Washington Cor. Hartford Times.