The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-08-15

ing Catholicism in favor of the EpiScO-
I pal form of the orthodox faith, has aug
mented that sensation by publishing a
retraction and his resolution to return
to the Catholic Church, that opens its 4
! arms to receive an erring child -
Henry J. Stewart, of Jasper, Ga,
i sends to the Savannah NelrS a natural 1
curiosity in the shape of a sweet potato. I
The Nelrs SAYS: 1T was grown by G.. II. (
Ancrum. and is a wonderful freak of ma
tuIe, being an exact imitation of a snake
coiled up as if in the act of striking.
The resemblance is really startling. This
curiosity is of the 'niggeT killer variety
"a very appropriate name. -
Preston, Conn, is greatly exercised
over a cat and her antics. y resident
of that place being troubled by rats,
/ bought what passed for a good mOuser. !
When the servant girl went into the
cellar the other day she was shocked to
see a large rat eating from the same
dish with the new cat. Other members
of the household were whispered to and
stealing up on tiptOe witnessed the spec
tacle.
-Caspar w. Nye, one of the princi-
pal witnesses in the Raber murder trial
at Lebanon, has been arrested on sus-
piciOn of having beaten to death Cyrus
Craig, colored man who was found
dead short distance from Dauphin,
Pa on the Doth of July last InfOTma-
ton was made before Harrisburg AL
| derman on Friday 10y a brother of the
| deceased, and Nye was committed for a
; hearing.
At the funeral of Mrs Tiff, at
| Mystic Bridge, r. l., a neighbOr rum
maging in a bureau drawer found
watch that had long before been stolen
from him. This led TO a search by other
persons whose residences had been visit
ed by burglars, and it was found that
the Tiff house was a store of plumber.
: The thief proved to be the deceased wo-
: mans son. who had been an active
member of the Baptist church.
The Olathe KanSaSl Progress says
that Miami county can boast of a fami
l " containing three of the heaviest per-
sons, for their age, in the State The
weighty trio are boy seven and half
5 years old, weighing 1I14 pounds;
/ lady. seventeen years of age, weighing
Z 272 pounds and a young man of twenty
L years, who pulls down the beam at 295
pounds. They say the warm weather
1 affects them ouly by increasing their
= flesh.
"A ship carpenter at Belfast, Me,
: has concluded to spend the rest of his
life in a chair. When wages were re-
5 duced he declined to work any longer,
+ and seated himself in a rocking chair
!, neal his Sitting-roOm window. There
+ he remains all day long, only rising togo
to his meals or to bed. His chair rock
e erS have worn grooves in the floor, and
u, on the window sill. where he drums idly
: as he rocks to and fro. are the imprints
/ of his fingers. lie is supposed to have
|. some savings on which he and his wife
o live.
q Nathan G.. Sayles. Of Golden. Cal.
e who is sane now, and probably has never
# been insane has had some hard expert
n ence in being confined as a crazy man.
The prosecutors were his wife and
e daughter. who would be benefited by
n his dying intestate. He says on oath
k that they induced a juryof six of his enc
st mics to pronounce him insane, hired a
d . brute to keep him upon his farm, reviled
him when, in an effort to escape, he was
10 lassoed and had a leg and hip broken 10y
= his iailor; and finally that they stole his
T., property
y curiosity was shown usthis morn
If ing. says the Lancaster -Ne,r Era OF
n Saturday by Mr.. ID. H. IIeitshu, drug
gist on y Orth Queen street, in the shape
~. of q twO-bOdied chicken. Two sets of
N organs were evidently formed, as the
7 bodies were Joined near the head. The
20 bodies were perfect. and are Joined
-e about half the length of the body. 1t
~ was sent to Mr. Heitshu to put in alcO
hol for preservation, and is the property
rs of Nh Nicholas ZUppleT. living on tht
,f farm Of Mr.. Ben Evans. on the Fruit
,f vile turnpike.
If Nine wears ago young man named
II Iafeton. employed by William Wallace
80 Ward. proprietor of a small hotel nea1
o. the Market street depot. Jersey City
was taken sick and died Mrs. Ware
g took care of him. and her husband
y buried him. Some time afterwaTd III,
i young mans mother, living in New
Ia Ork. heard of her sons death, calleI
sd on Mrs Ward. expressed her gratitude
N and on parting said You VIII hea
So from me again. On Tuesday Mrs
Ward was Informed that Mrs. LafetOI
g had Just died and left her $1,000
r. Perhaps the most remarkable eXhi
n bition of pluck and prOmptness on recor,
r was recently shown by a miners son a
20 Hollis. H. 1t is said that the father
Y Thomas Harland. lighted a slow mattel
as leading to a blast, and SiCnaled to b
ri drawn up the shaft lie struck a pro
lection and was thrown back to the bot
10 tom of the shaft where he lay with
~, rib broken. Realizing his fathers peri
= Young Harland Slid down the seyent
II. feet of rope, lacerating his hands terri
nj bly,, but reached the bottom in time t
81 tear the match from the fuse and pre-
Il vent the explosion.
,o The trial in Philadelphia of Eugen
. Waltz charged with feloniOUs assault Ol
,s the person of Viola Savoy. child eigh
= a years old. one evening recently. occur
OF red on Friday. before Judge Peirce
ar The prisoners head was bandaged b.
~, reason of wounds inflicted by the child
m father at the time Of the hearing. Tn
II proof against him was complete, and
III verdict of guilty was promptly RENDERED
by the jury. Judge PeiTce sentenced
d, him to pay a fine of IS 900 and underg
he an imprisonment for fifteen years a
o. separate, solitary confinement at IabO
nv in the eastern penitentiary. The sen
or tence was received by the audience
he with cheers, though the prisoner pro
m tested his innocence.
ed "A special dispatch to the Philadel
pha Times dated New York. Angus
70 9th SAYS Edwin Forrest, driven b.
~, John Murphy, made the fastest mill
:, that was ever made in the world, thi
Il afternoon. on the three-quaTter track OF
l1a Mr. BOnner's farm, near TaTrytOwn
l,a The first quarter was made in 324, tn
he three-quarteTs in .3S4 and the full mil
,r- in 2.1l3. Three watches were held d
him. The fastest made the mile in ,. L
90 and the slowest in ,. u. The time. &C
n cordiDg to rule. is 2.1ls. Forrest.
II wear ago. before Mr.. Bonner bought him
if tTotted mile in public at Hartford i
mo- ,. 14B, and it is Mr.. BOnner'S intention