The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-08-22


people have been killed or crippled for
life. has been introduced ON the Della
ware and Hudson Canal Company's
railway cars. 1t consists of movable
steps, which at stations are let down
within one foot of the ground. When
the cars are in motion the steps are
lifted high, so that it is impossible to .
Jump either on or off.
At the upper end of the third z. K. /
r. track at ThompsOntown, Juniata .
county, is a chestnut tree twenty-five (
feet high, out of which and among the /
branches about half way up grows
hickory branch laden with nuts. The
chestnut tree is also full of fruit. The
suppoSition is that a squirrel carried a
Eut into some crevice, where it was COW
cred with sediment, finally sprOuted
and became engTafted with the chest
nut.
"A pair of sparrow-hawks entered
the barn of r. W. Garrit, farmer of
the town of BallstOn, Y. Y, last spring,
and usurped the nesting place of a pair
of doves, in which they incubated and
reared their young till near maturity,
when the farmer seized the young hawks,
three in number, which he is raising as
mOusers. They are as tame as young
chickens, and their yoraciOus appetites
make them as efficient as a cat in de-
strOying mice.
The Truckee RepubIican, a paper
published away out in California, says
Jennie Graham has discovered a novel
and interesting plaything. 1t consists
/ of team of four grasshoppers, harness.
| ed by means of threads passed around
/ their bodies, under their wings Their
! drawing power is considerable and they
/ work with as little kicking as the aver
age mule. At last accounts several Of
/ these grasshOppeT teams were being
/ caught and harneSSed up by the little
| folks of Trnckee.
Hereafter no recruit will beenlisted
/ in the United States military service
! who cannot see well at 600 yards dis
tance black centre three feet in diam
eter on white ground. This test will
be made by means of cards prepared un-
der direction of the Surgeon General
of the army. The black spots on the
cards will be circular, fOur-tenths of an
inch in diameter, and the recruit must
be able to count them with facility at
twenty feet distance.
Henry Pace killed the young man
who had wronged his daughter, at
Clerkenwell, England. and public senti-
ment favored him so strongly that a
fund was raised to support his family
during the year and a half of imprisOn-
ment to which he was sentenced. His
escape from a worse punishment was
regarded as lucky, and he went to prison
in good spirits. But tile daughter
taunted him with being a murderer,
and in consequence Of that he hanged
himself in his cell.
Groves and Goodnight. Presbyter-
ian clergymen, announced in Texas that
they had received a special divine reve-
latiOn, in which the end of the world
within ten years was foretOld. Their
presbytery expelled them. but they are
making many converts, and have start
ed a sect called the Tabernacle of the
Coming Lord. They preached that
Grant, reelected in 1880, will invade
and subdue Europe, overthrow Roman
ism, and finally meet a downfall-afteI
which the millennium.
The dead body of Samuel +. Al
bright. who mur .ered VIM. X Miller,
of Harrisburg a couple of weeks ago.
because he had married a young lady to
whom he Albright had been paying
attention, was found on Monday morn
ing about two miles from Montgomery S
Ferry, Perry county, Pa. where the
murder had been perpetrated. 1t Is
supposed that ne committed suicide
several days ago, as his body was par
italy decOmpOsed. 1t was thought it
was the body of a stranger until the
father of Albright. recognized it as that
of his son.
Boston has a Nathan murder mys-
tery in the mysterious killing OF J. +.
FRYE well-known leather merchant.
who was found dead on Friday in the
basement of his house, with a dozen
stabs and pistol ball through the heart.
Mr.. Frye's family were away at the
time, and the last known of his being
alive was about IL O'Clock on Thursday
night. The safe had been Titied. but
some valuable plunder was left. Mrs.
Frye is confident that her husband was
mnrdered 10y some one who watched his
movements and entered the house foI
the purpose of murder.
Another turn has been given to the
controversy over Archbishop PuTceE'S
debts by decision obtained from foul
prominent Cincinnati lawyers to the eff
feet that the Church property is not LA
bic for the ArchbiShop's debts wheT
such churches were built from money
raised by the congregations using them
and, further, that his obligations cannot
become diocesan debt, even though he
7 were disposed to make them such. Al
additional point is vet to be brought up
namely, the right to levy on schOo
houses and charitable institutions the
Dean Stanley is, as every one knows
/ an eclectic, and he conducted the mem
bers of the Young Mems Catholic AssO
, citation, led by Lord Denbigh, oyel
Westminster Abbey the other day
quite as happy as if they had beer
: Methodists, or Mohammedans. WheT
) the worthy Dean lectuIed to his move
, audience on the Catholic history OF
: Henry WIS chapel, if they could not
? suppress a smile at the situation, they
} could not. on the other hand. refrain
from feeling grateful for the kind atten
tion of the Dean. DIR. Stanley, by the
|, way, is one of several leading Anglican
, dignitaries whose sisters have joined the
Catholic Church.
Mr.. David BlOss, an enterprisine
farmer up at Pleasant Corner, in Hei
dleberg township, Lehigh county, las
; spring received from a friend III Phila
delphia seven grains of a new variety OF
oats When seeding time came he put
them in the ground, and they soon aftel
, Sprouted and stOoled, and when he cut
> off the product he counted 162 stalks a:
, the yield of the seven single grains
prolificacy that probably never had it.
equal anywhere. The stalks were tai
/ and stout and the heads unusually
large and well filled with fine and plum
| grains. The variety j. regarded by far
r mers who have examined it as highlyval
+ uable for general cultivation.
r On Thursday morning. Lucinda
Gale, maiden lady, got lost while
, blueberrying on the Sugar Loaf Noun