The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-11-22

The New York Herald SAYS that the
Greenback National party claimed in its
official organs go, 900 votes in New York
and got less than 80 00O 1t claimed
100000 in Pennsylvania and got 81 600
1t also claimed 125 900 in Michigan and
got az, 600. 1t claimed ninety Congressman
and got eight, and it showed once more
that !: Is an excellent club in the hands of
the Republicans with which TO defeat the
Democrats, but that is all. Fortunately
on the 1st of January the country will re-
sume specie payments aud then. unless
the Democrats break up their own organi-
zatiOD and join the GreeubBck party and
march on to sure defeat under the banner
OF Imitation. we shall hear no more of the
Greenbackers unless they come out in their
true colors as land spectators md subsidy
mOngers.
"A dispatch on Saturday last from Ma
/ hanoy city, Pa, says The Philadelphia
aud Reading railroad have q line Of small
engines and parloT cars combined, used by
officers OF the road for business trips.-
One OF these, called the Gem, made a trim
today, and upon arriving at the MahaDOv
depot, the superintendent aligbtec and
stepped into the telegraph Office To send a
message. While he was scared at the ia
Ole me bolicr OF the engine exploded witb
terrific force, tearing off the roof of the Of
hce, and knocking out one end of The de
pot building. Engineer w. F. Broci1s
was blown to pieces; Jacob Trout con-
ductor, had his b: ad blown clean off. Will
lie Wenrich, aged nine, had the ton of his
bead blown off; two brothers named Geo.
and Horace Hagenbuck, who were distrib-
uting handbills at the 6eDOt were ba6lv
injured, the former fatally. Calvin Int
aged twelve, was killed by the shock. =
-Four or live persous were injured. A Gu
nous ciTcuns' aDce OF the explosion is that
while the engine and boiler are blown to
atoms. the car apartment remains uniniur-
ed. ''-
"A terrible tale of crime comes from
Coal Bluff, Washington county. At ,bat
place there lived. until the first Of ,h;s
week, says the Pittsburgh Teleorapb Of
Saturday, a coal miner named Henry
NaIls, his wife and eight children. The
eldest daughter, aged about twenty two
years, is the mother of a little giIl five
years old, and the father Of the mother and
child are supposed to be one aud The same
person, viz, Henry Walls. On MoDdav
last he and the daughter left home on the
A. NJ. train on the Pittsburgh, Virginia
and Charleston Railroad FOR Pittsbnrch.
and at O'Clock in the afternoon. took
passage on boat down the Ohio intend
ing to go to the far West, probably Kansas
The wife of Henry Walls was driven to
distractlnn by the bad conduct of her bus-
oahu ana daughter and on the following
ri ~
herself in, and was drowned. Her bo5v
was recovered, aud buried on Tbprs5a,
he chlidren who remain at home are in a
destitute and deplorable condition. and the
excitement in the neighborhood abont the
sudden flight of the father and daughter
and suicide of Mrs. Walls, is intense.
at Zanesville. Ohio, shortly before
uaynSht thursday morning, a policeman.
seeing something suspicious i'm the move
ments OF party in a wagon, ordered them
10 halt. instead Of doing so the driver
whipped the horses into a gallon and es-
capped, The policeman secured aseista,cs
and overlook the fugitives after a chase of
elgnteen miles, when the party iumned
from the wagon and disappeared in the
S Soous. ~ the wagon were found tie bo-
dles OF four prominent citizens who had
oeen buried on Monday. During the
chase policeman was wounded.by a pistol
shot from one OF the bOdy-Snatohers
man whose name is given as Cyrus FIliott
anc also as Lyman Easton. was arres,ad a.
columbus next day on suspicion of being
concerned IN the grave robbery, and
promptly confessed his guilt, duplicating
TWO others. One Of these was subsequently
ascertained to be Captain Hilliard. promy
lnent citizen of GAINESVILLE and leader of
tue gang, and the other n doctor named
HeyL resident of Columbus. Both tIe
latter have been arrested, aud the Grand
Jury on tuesday last found indictments
against all three of them. IL Is thnngbt
.nu ll'iiard' WHO is much affected by his
position, will make full confession.
"A man named Buder a. Norwegian nv
oirth, and twenty-three years of age re-
ported at the Washington Navy Yard. on
saturday, that he was one of the crew or
the nited States steamer Huron, wrecked
on cape Hatteras, on the Gath of Novan.
oef, n" lie explains his long absence
oy s'"uhg thai he was picked up at sea
has just returned. no