The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-08-01

Erie mas a nl4l lblltl Sttntldl Will
thrilling details that would make excel .
lent reading for a sensational journal.
The wrongdoers are the postmaster,
Thos. NJ. Walker. and the wife of
prominent citizen. Both are connected .
by marriage with some of the wealthieSt /.
and most respected families of Erie. /
Result-injured husband leaves wife,
and threatens suit and bodily harm to
the destroyer of home and happiness, I
while the latter. with a bandaged head
having been roughly handled on the
night of the discovery by the brothers
of the lady-departS for the West, and
shame and disgrace pervades the air in
the homes of the deserted wives and
their relatives.
The New York SIN says that Ferde-
meyer, the wheelbarrow man, if he has
proved nothing else by his tramp across
the continent, has shown up the falsity
of the theory that the Indians of the far
West are always eager to take a white
mans scalp. He travelled more safely,
by night and day, among those Western
savageS than he could have done in a
five months journey through the streets
of New Y YOrk. Indians in plenty he
and his companion saw, but they did not
harm a hair of the two travellers nor
did they pilfer from the much-trundled
barrow. 1t was prudent for Ferdemey-
er and Potter to let the Indians alone,
and that policy became their ample pro-
( lection.
While the panic-stricken people of
{ Memphis are crowding the trains for
/ the North there is one man who insists
/ that there is no yellow fever in the city
and offers to back up his opinion with
/ his money. His name Is Goodbar, and
/ he publishes a card in one of the papers
/ proposing a wager of $500 that no genu-
inc yellow jack can be found, $3.50 that
/ there Will be no epidemic this summer,
and $3.50 that there will not be over
I thirty-iive deaths per week for the next
] four weeks. If the fever could be kept
away by wager Goodbar ought to be
/ induced to raise his bet. Thus far the
bet has found no taker. Nobody seems
eager to win the money by furnishing
himself an undOubted case of the fever.
Bishop Haven, the religio-pOliticai
enthusiast, has opened his mouth again
and is yelling for a perfect government
through the strikingly odd combination
of the clergy and the United States
marshalS. The full text of his late
T speech shows that, in his opinion the
/ Democrats are hyenas, that recOncilia-
/ tiOn pandeTS to the vilest passion of
I caste. and that the only salvation of the
country is to appoint United States mar
shals to control Congressional and Pres
idential elections, who shall prepare
the list of voters, challenge them. re-
ceive count and announce the vote -
The West Chester JrftrSoHjan thinks it
would be decided advantage to the re-
ligion which Bishop Haven represents
to have him bottled up until after the
election is over.
"A special to the Louisville Courier
. JOjGHGJ from ClarkSville, Tenn, July
y, says a report has reached there Of a
terrible tragedy at or near Dover, Tenn,
the day previous. William Burchel. a
former citizen of Clarksville, and a car
penteT by trade. was married not long
since to Mrs. Yates, widow of J. H.
Yates, formerlya policeman and sexton
of the City Cemetery at Clarksville
. Mrs. Yates had a daughter by her for
mer husband. Burchel, in fit of fren-
~, shot his wife, his stepdaughteT, who
was full grown. and then shot himself.
Burchel died almost Immediately, but at
, last accounts Mrs. Burchel and Miss
Yates were alive. but in a very critical
condition. No cause is assigned for the
act. Burchel had the reputation of be
ing quiet man. 1t is believed that he
must have been labOring under a fit of
2 temporary insanity.
"A gentleman in this county. SAYS
llit Littill4lblt lNrtt DNI ftftf q lt0 tlit
following account of horned snake
= He states that while hOeing in a field OF
e corn he saw a large snake crawling
along with its head and tail raised about
2 eighteen inches from the ground. He
I decided to Kill the snake. and raising hi:
2 hoe started in pursuit. The snake see
ing him turned back to meet his foe
4 when the gentleman. considering pru
dence the better part of yalOr, turned
: on his heels and fled, the snake in pur
suit. \ large white oak tree was stand
| ing not far off, and to this he made hi
| way. Just as he jumped behind The
- tree the snake struck at him, and tn,
= horn, about two inches long, was buried
1 in the tree. The snake, unable to ge
his horn out of the tree, was killed. The
StrangeSt part of the affair is that in sil
2 hours the leaves on the tree, which had
been perfectly green and flOurishing
I I began to wither. and in less than twelve
hours were perfectly dead. The gentle
+ man who relates the above is a reliable
! farmer.
Y Three generations since. two mar
7 ried daughters. the only children of Col
| William Baker, moved from the United
States into Canada and settled in the
I Ottawa region. subsequently the Col
r onel's two brothers, like him, soldiers Of
2 the Revolutionary war, died, leaving
him their properties, which, together
= with his own. he bequeathed to his
= daughters at his death, which occurred
{ in 1SO1. For some reason the womeI
: laid no claim to the estate. which has
{ enormously increased in value. There
, are now about thirty grand children OF
f the daughters living in Canada and
| Northern New y ork. and who, as joint
7 claimants, have taken steps TO recover
= the property. 1t is said that a large
: portion of Philadelphia has been built
upon it, and that, in addition thereto il
includes a tract of eleven square miles
, on the shores of the Hudson, another in
the coal fields of this State, besides scat
2 tered properties in New York city and
/ ! elsewhere. The coal property was leas-
ed by Colonel Baker for ninety-nine
E years, and the lease is just about to eX-
| pire. The property is estimated to be
E worth 5000 600, 600.
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