The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-12-27

Crudge against the 1tFat 3TfD Oh nSlCHum
& Mitchell, in Nebraska, aud succeeded 10 !
convincing MOB that they were horse !
thieves aud bad murdered deputy sher- 4
iff Tie mob hanged the accused men, !
whose innocence was afterwards made 1
clear. Then the mob hung Stevens.
One day last week, Mrs. Henrietta
Snyder, living near Cherryville, North /
ampton cOGnty, left the house to get
bucket of water. While absent, the cloth I
ing of one of the children caught fire, and I
the mother, hearing screams, rushed into !
tile doorway, and was met by the child, !
when her own clothing was set fire to-
She ran into the road, and soon fell eK-
hausted and was burned TO death. The
child lived but short while.
-James Strachan, who works at the
Soho Furnace, Pittsburgh, fell from
height of forty feet in 1864, from the comb
Of the roof of the Panhandle shops at
Urichsville. In 1867 he fell from the top
of derrick in the Thirty sixth war5,
Pittsburgh, height Of sixty-two feet, and
in 1859 from the ST. Louis bridge, height
of ninety feet. Ia the last fall he was toll
erably well pClverized, but is nevertheless
able to do good days work yet.
Allen G.. Laros, the Pennsylvania par
ricide who escaped from the Insane Asy-
lum some months ago, has been recaptured
in Arkansas and will be returned to Har-
risburg a. once. He killed his father and
mother aud man named Schug, by poi
! soning them, at place near Easton, Pa.
! in 1873. He was sentenced 20 be hanged
for the crime, but was subsequently pro-
( nounced insane and confined in the State
( Hospital, from which place he escaped.
! Mrs. Jones, lady supposed to be
about one hundred years old, who has been
+ insane for several years, and who has been
living by herself in an old log building on
her sons farm. about two miles north OF
. Raovpr cnuptV " burned
death between eight and nine O'Clock
/ Thu sday night. 1t is supposed her clothes
caught from the fire place. The fire was
! discovered 10y her son from his house, Who
went to her rescue, but too late to save her
life.
-Serkys tea, which gives the firmuess
and freshness of youth to the oldest face If
drunk copiously and regularly, is all the
rage in Europe. It has the color Of amber,
resembles no other tea. is drunk with or
/ without sugar or cream, acco<ding to taste,
and is a very agreeable beverage. Louis
XIN.'s physician, who speaks of it in his
/ travels, says that he has soen women of
seventy who, having drank Serkys all their
lives, did not seem more than twenty or
twenty five.
The New Orleans Times furnishes
some corrections for the touching story of
Anuie McKeene, the beautiful and daring
wife of a noted guerrilla, who turned nun,
while nursing yello8 fever patients during
the recent epidemic as published on our
fourth page this week. These corrections
are to the effect that no nurse died under
the circumstances mentioned, that there
was no nun in New Orleans called Sister
Celeste, and shat Mrs. McKeene never took
the veil.
The other evening, while a number Of
boys were skating on the mill pond, at
! Hogdon, Me-, little son OF r. T. Bickford
, slid off the ice some distance into the wa
ter. Joseph Harrington, n boy of - or i
years, seeing his danger threw off his coat
and plunged in to the rescue. Reaching
him just as be was sinking for the third
+ time, he held him above the water aud
, wi h bis feet swan To the edge of the ice.
= Being unable to get upon the ice without
= assistance. he held the nearly drowned boy
e there until help came.
The dead body of Joseph Reber was
, found in a Lebanon county stream about
= two weeks ago. On his life be bad in.
4 Surance Of $4,000, and according to the
= Lebanon Times the companies in which he
was insured have had three detectives a,
I rork IN toe neigh bnrhood to ascertain the
i facts in the chse, aud from the evidence
!, ELECTED there Is every reason to believe
+ that the man was f0ulIy dealt with. Pre-
i vious attempts had been made, it is said
e to murder him, and the whole thing has
e The Mack murder trial is making
. sensation at GAINESVILLE, Wis, Frank Dick
IA erson, aged %, having confessed his Grim
= iual relations with Mrs Belinda Mack,
5 pretty woman Of 30, with three daughters
the eldest one aged IA She promised t.
marry him after her husband was put ou
d of the way, and, her paramour swears
d killed Mack, and having carried the bod,
e to the stable. laid it ON the fioor behInt
d the horse, which she led several times owe
the corpse to make it seem that her hus
a band had been kicked and trampled t
n death.
n Speech has been restored by chlorOforu
10 in the Wagner PoOrhouse, near Detroit
/ Lizzie Spoffhrd lost two senses, sight an
If hearing. when she was nine years old, an
before she was thirteen she was not Onl
D blind and deaf, but had forgotten how {
m talk. Last week she sprained her wrist
le and the attending physician adlninisi ere
E. chorofUrm in order that he might examin
l. the injured parts to better advantage, o
Or regaiuing consciousness, she began first [
whisper and finally to talk aloud App;
ID rently, she has only to sprain her oths
lg wrist and a second dose OF chlorofurm WI
IN restore her sight.
IL "A Virginia paper tells story of
n young Bedford man, who, crossing I'll
n, Blue Ridge on foot, los. bis way and wal
dered until night. Afraid to sleep on Il
IN which had been broken off by the wind All
- seeing that the hollow top was filed wi
a leaves, crawled into it. The tree prove
nd to be hollow to the roots, and the your
" man went plump 20 the bottom, a distant
St of about 40 feet The only aperture thr
which he could breathe WAS small no
y, not larger than his hand. He at once b
IT. gan to enlarge it 10y picking off the woo
hu with liis fingers. Shortly before lark
a the following evening he dug his way on
re- The New York Sun says that offlc
lis ;. B. Wells, of the police force of that cit
for who cied suddenly ON Tuesday, was f.
merly the pastor OF a fiourishing MethodI
IN. church in Connecticut. 1t is said of hi
Ter that about fifteen years ago he bscau
RS. convinced that it vas his duty to Law ash
ars the comforts of his position and 90 into Il
nd highways and byways to preach. He G
of tablished his wife and children on a we
he titled and plentiful stocked farm near Nc
md ,ol 4,