The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-03-14

On The Highlands, back of Newport,
KY. O tramp called at the house of Mr..
TruesdAl q vell-to-do farmer, aud finding
Mrs. Truesdale alone, knocked her down
and tearing a sheet into strips, bound her
firmly to a bench with her hands tied un-
der it, and feet dashed to q peg in the wall.
He then robbed the house of a small sum
of money and some valusbles. The To-
man remained five hours in this condition
till the return of her husband aud in the
meantime had become mother. The
tramp left, but force of forty mounted
men at last accounts were in pursuit Of
him. Mrs. Truesdale's condition is very
precariOus.
An Australian inventor has discovered
process of singular utility, which he in
tends to apply to the freighting of live cat
tie to England. He injecte subtle huld
into a vein of the animals ea-, and the sub
ject a. once becomes unconscious aud re-
mains in state of suspended animation
for any length of time, being aroused
whenever it rs deemed desirable to arouse
it by process as simple. Unhappily, says
the New York World, this beneficent in
vention has been made public too late to
allow of Mr.. Logan being duly injected
and put away with Mr.. Hayes photograph
in the Centennial safe which is 20 De open
ed on the 4th of July, 1876.
Paul Boynton arrived at Gallipolis
after floating 102 miles in 2S consecutive
hours, in heavy fog, with the water only
two degrees above the freezing point. He
was near being run over in the night by
mboat from behind, but he yelled and
blew his bugle just in time, and the vessel
sheered aside, the guards passing above
his head. After daylight he saw two gyp-
sizes in a boat from one OF the floating
houses on the river, and, suddenly standing
upright, asked them the time of day. One
man, pale with terror, leveled a musket at
Boynton, who screamed out a warning just
in time TO save bis life. He was received
at Gallipolis with great enthusiasm.
Mason was an unsuccessful grocer in
Lttleridge, Mich. BE had been a Meth
odist, but BANKRUPTCY in business led him
! to cArelessness about religion, although he
was exceedingly superstitious. He had
read of the devil buying souls, and made
up his mind that for satisfactory price he
would sell his own. He wrote out a formal
offer, the purport of which was that he
was to he given twenty years of wealth and
then his soul was to go into the devil's pos
session. This document be suspended
over fire, round which he performed in
carnations of his own invention. Although
several weeks have elapsed be has not gain
+ ed wealth, nor received any intimation that
/ the bargain has been closed.
Very Rev. Martin Kundig, Vicar Gen.
eral of the Roman Catholic diocese of Mil
waukee, died on Thursday morning of con-
/ gestion of the heart, aged "a years. He
/ said early Mass at the Cathedral, a few
hours before his death, Father Kundig
I was native of Switzerland, aud came TO
this country with Archbishop Henni. He
was stationed in Detroit during the cholera
epidemic of 1884, and was conspicuous for
his herculean labors in attending the sick.
! In their behalf he spent all his private for
tune, and in addition incurred load Of
] uh
He was transferred to Milwaukee in 1912,
and has been Vicar General for fifteen
years.
"A farmer at Glenburn, Maine, pur-
chased some supplies il Bangor, among
which was pint OF whiskey. To avoid
bTeakage, he placed the bottle in box of
/ rice, but found on reaching home that the
bottle was broken and the rice saturated
| lie threw the rice behind his barn, and a
big turkey soon paid bis respects to it. In
due time the turkey became dead drunk,
and was found in that condition by the
farmer, who thought that disease or poison
had killed him. The bird was still warm,
and the death evidently recent. The farm
er would not eat BIN himself, but plucked
him for market and lef; him in the stable
The Oext morning he found the bereft
gobbler shivering naked on his roost, and
looking on him with reproachful eyes.
"A letter from Sand Hill, Beaufort
county, 5. c., says the Augusta, Ga }
Chronicle tells of shocking occurrence
which has lately transpired in that section.
On the 18th ult. Mrs. Amanda Pope and
her :wo little children started from her
home to pay visit to her brother Mr..
Frank Wheeler, five miles distant. She
attempted to take by path through the
woods and missed her way. Nothing was
heard of her until the 23d ult., when she
was found nearly dead from exhaustion
!
lying prone on her back with child, dead
from exposure and hunger on each arm.
Her condition was asceTtainec by two COL
Ored men, who happened to be passing by
that way and heard her groaus. The dead
children were aged respectively three and
one years.
There was a disposition on the part OF
the loungers about the telegraph Office in
Xenia, Ohio, on Thursday, to steal peeps at
what was going on within. The Rev. n.
NJ. LongfellOw, OF jamestown, and bis
daughter, Eashti 3. LoDgfelloI, were
standing by the instrument, while a dozen
lady friends crowded around. The opera
tor at Wichita, Kansas, was shaken mp by
the Aenia operator, who asked if John A.
Smith was present in Wichita. "Presen,
and ready" was the reply over the thou
sand miles wire, aud then the preacher pro.
ceeded to marry John and Vashti. This
was done because young Smith could not
leave his business in Wichita and Vashti's
parents insisted that she should be married
before leaving her Ohio home for her uew
nest in Kansas. After The novel ceremony
Mrs. Vashti Longfellow Smith, bride
started for Wichita by the next train, The
crowd at the depot cheering her Justify.
Between one and two O'Clock Sunday
morning a fire broke out ia the wagon shol
: of Mrs Henrietta Bausch, on Broadway
, East s.. Louis. There being no fire ap
paTatus in East ST. Louis, and no call be
} ing made on the fire department of The
city, oGe brick and five frame buildings
were destroyed, eBtailing a loss of about
$40, 900. In the second story OF the wagoI
shop. which was occupied as residence
by Mrs. Bausch, there were sleeping be
} three children by former marriages, named
, Charles Guehenbach, aged sixteen years
: and John and Emma Zipp, several year
r younger, together with Henry Schopper
koetter, a blacksmith, and Mrs. Cathariu
9 Borst, who was spending the night witt
: Mrs. Bausch. These persons were a.
burned to death, being unable to escape b.
e reason of the door leading to their apart
ments being fastened on the outside. Mrs
T Bauscb, who was also asleep in the sam
: house at the time, jumped from the win
5 dow and was so severely injured that SD
j will probably die.