The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-05-02

IA. At . CLOCK L ut9udg lHoIuiuBs uco-
troyed the house occupied by John L.
Keogh and his five children. A son
aged IL and a daughter aged 13 years
were burned to death Mr.. Keogh had
his face and hands terribly burned in his
efforts to rescue his children. His
younger child, aged years, had his
hand and arms badly burned and his re-
covery is doubtful. The house and con-
tents were owned by Mr.. keOgh, upon
which he had no insurance.
The Philadelphia Times opened a
recent half column article as follows
1T is curious fact, TO be noted by
students of American sociology, that in
the North Atlantic States the flood of
the season of gregaTiOuS festivity IS CO.
existent and conterminOus with the pc
riod in which the succulent and gracious
oyster is at its prime The Chambers
burg VALLEY Spirit says that if Garfield
would load this sentence up in his mouth
and fire it OFF ut the Confederate briga-
dlerS in Congress he would scare every
devil of them into commissions.
"A. II. Grimke, a well-known colOred
lawyer of Boston, was married few
days ago to Miss Sarah f. Stanley,
white, the daughter of an Episcopal
clergyman OF Wisconsin. Grimke was
born in South Carolina. slave lie
= y,
this State. and from-the Harvard Law
School, entering the Office of William L.
Bowditch. Both man and wife are ed
ucated and move in the highest social
circles in Boston. 1t viii be remember
ed that similar marriage was chrOni-
/ cled from Cincinnati the other day
An unusually warm summer is pre-
dicted by Professor PiaZzi Smith, the as
tronomer royal Of Scotland. He bases
his predictions on the records of the
. temperature of Edinburg as registered
during the last forty years by the earth
thermometer of the observatory of that
city. These observations show, he says,
that great heat wave comes upon the
earth without presumably from the sun
about every eleven years and it ap-
pears that the next hcat-wave NAV be
expected in the summer of this year.
Professor Smith thinks these seasons are
likely to be gloWingly hot, and the fol-
lowing winter exceptionally mild.
W. J. Wilson, editor of the Spring
Lake Mich Republican. left that place
two weeks ago in company with = young
lady Of respectable connections with
whom ne had been enamored. but who
had rejected him on account Of her par
ents' opposition, saying they were going
to Grand Haven to a party. Friday last
Z the girl S mother received q letter from
Wilson dated Grand Rapids. in which
he said that ''befOre another sun had set
his body would be in a watery grave and
his soul in hell" Wilson was in De
troit Thursday, but his female cornpan-
ion was not with him. It was feared
that he had murdered her and committed
suicide. The affair caused great excite
ment.
"A tramp entered the residence of
. n Ngv= I'll. =
Friday morning during the absence of
the family, and began searching a bureau
where a large amount Of money had
F been placed. Carrie Roberts, a Young
girl, q domestic, who was in the upper
part of the house. heard the noise. dis
covered the tramp at work, approached
him mObserved and suddenly clutching
him by the haiTwith one hand endeavor-
ed TO wrench a box Of valUables from
his grasp with the other hand. Finding
her efforts un3yailing she released her
hold, spTang upon a chair, secured a re
yOlver from the top of a clock and fired
. at the tramp several times in quick sue
. ceSsioH. The latter dropped the box
ran to the yard, scaled the fence and es-
capped. Upon examination it was found
that nothing OF value had been taken.
The State Temperance convention
+ which met in Harrisburg on Thursday
and Friday of last week, adopted mem
Orial to the Legislature and the draft of
temperance law which provides for
holding elections annually III February.
and giving females over twenty-one
years of age the right To vote on this
question. If 4 majority vote in its IA
vor the Court Of the county is to direct
that the act shall 20 into effect after
ninety days. II also prohibits the man
ufacture for sale of liquors and prohibits
the sale of liquor in d club room pro-
yides for the punishment of those who
sell to husband, wife or child. and directs
how damages are jG bc recovered it out
RACES are committed bythose intoxicated.
etc, etc 1t was recommended that
each candidate for public Office be
pledged to support the temperance law
"A special Pittsburgh dispatch to the
Philadelphia Times. dated April 23th
says: At LeechbUrg on the Monongahe-
IL, mile or SO above Lock No. ,. stands
little shanty which for some time was
without a tenant. 4 few weeks ago a
man named James Reed took his abode
there without leaveOT license. Nobody
knew anything of him. No one cared
TO know. He lived very quietly anC
spoke to no one. Yesterday John WI
Iiams, neighbor, was passing his door
Reed called him in and shut the door
Then he seized a bar of iron and beat
Williams over the head, leaving him fo
dead. Two men passing the Shanty
heard groans and entered. Williams
skull was fractured and brains ooZed GU
from the wounds. lie was taken up II
a dying condition. Reed was soon af
terwards arrested and brought to thi
city. Some people think him insane
Others say that lie sought revenge for
fancied OF real wrong.