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

A TRAMP FOILED BY a WONAN.-In our
advertising columns will be found p card
giving notice TO the public. required by
law, that an application for The pardon of
John Ensley will he made To the Pardon
Board at their meeting on the 7th of Janua-
ry next. Ensley was convicted in the Quar-.
ter Sessions of this county, ut last Septem-
Der term, of larceny, and was sentenced TO
two years imprisonment in the Western
Penitentiary. He has wife ard small
child, and, limited by Judge Dean
when passing sentence, it is owing to this
fact that his period OF Incarceration was
made unexpectedly light. Mrs. Ensley
seernS greatly attached TO her husband and
il is through her iustrumentaIity that the
effort for pardon is heing pushed. One of
her irst aims in this direction has been 10
secure. wherever.pOssihie,t the names of the
jurors who convicted EnSey to her petition,
and in this, we understand she has been
quite successful. This labor of love led her
through one of the northern townships of
the county the other day, and while driving
along in q sleigh in a gloomy part of the
road she encountered n man who was travel
ing afoct. His subsequent actions would
seem to sustain the assertion that he belong
Ell to the genus tramp, for lie made a vigor-
Ous effort to seize The tridie of the horse and
bring the sleigh TO stand still. Mrs. Ems
ley however proved equal to the demands of
the occasion. With one hand SIZE struck the
horse a quick blow with the wiiip, and with
the other drew pistol from her pocket and
without a moments hesitation fired. The
bullet whistled harmlessly through the air
but :he tramp imagined that the pistol had
been loaded with seventeen hundred Sings
ami that each one had hit him. He took
time to utter one yell of mortal terror before
putting himself on the safe side of the neigh
boring hill, and Mrs. Ensley proceeded on
her journey without further interruption.
A STRANGE SroRY.-I had been reading
yesterday, says Preston county, w. Va,
correspondent of the Bedford Gazette the
singularly remarkable case of Miss Fancher,
of Brook lyn. as copied into the Gazette from
the n. Y. Sun, to an old gentleman we'll
known in this county and highly esteemed
as an intelligent and truthful man, when he
related to me the following strange incident
of his own life
I'm the spring of I184S said he. II was living
with my wife. whom l had recently married,
about two miles from where are now sitting,
in small log house, ard. as was common in
those days. the fastening TO the only door was
a wooden latch. Some two-and a half miles
south OF us lived married brother oJ my wife,
and between the brother and sst er more than
ordinary affection existed. One morning abous
three O'Clock, was suddenly reused ont of
sound sleep by noise as If some one had forced
open the door by tnrusting against it with the
open palms of their hands The moon was
door. which was now wide open, | saw my
wife's brother. of whom have made mention,
come hurriedIy from thence TO the bed where
my wife and were lying. He came so close la
me; that could easily have put out my hand
ana touched MIN. 'Dan1ei, what are you doing
here sud. BENDING his head down close to
NV face, he replied, Mn JCife Is dedd,' and. in
the same hurried manner in which he approach
ed the bed. he passed out through the open door,
and vanished The whole occurrence had hap
pened SO suddenly that lay for moment be-
wildered, and with mortal fear upon me, I
then got up and went to the door, and found
hat tne catch of the latch was split of and was
iYing on the nOoT. My movement woke my
wifc. and informed her or her brother DanieI's
visit, and his sad Iidiugs, and also that he had
broken the latch when he camein. During the
morning message came to our house stating
that DdHfrtS 1Cife had died about three o'cIpck
That morning subsequently learned that she
had gone H. he'd toe night before iE good health.
and. furthermore, that Daniel ICds not dtUdy from
ms "lrh house dH instant during that night or
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