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

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will be appointed to succeed Clerical 1
Error Stoughton as Minister to Russia. /
The Montreal Witness learns of two 7.
miracles said to have occurred the other F
dav at VarenneS. One consists OF a
case in which a woman, lame tor five
wears. threw down her crutch at the al
tar and walked upright; the other is
that of a boy cured of partial paralysis.
Michael Sullivan, who buried his
daughters babe while it was alive, at
Springfield. New Jersey, a few days ago,
has been adiudged guilty Of murder in
the first degree by a cOrOner's jury. The
child lived for several hours after being
exhumed but the jury was of the'OpiniOn
that it received fatal injuries when it
was buried.
-Cetewayo knows the moral effect
that a distant body of troops may eXer-
else in a battle. At Kambula the
seeming reserve of Zulu warriors that
crowned the heights was composed of
women. like the Scottish reserve which
at a critical stage of the battle of Ban
nockburn ''bore down on England's
wearied war
Charles Burlington and Rod Brooks,
two negroes. had a butting match at
Greenville. n. c., on Thursday. The
disgraceful affair lasted two hours, when
Burlington fell from exhaustion, being
terribly bruised about the Uranium and
face. and died shortly afterwards.
Brooks will probably be sent to prison,
as he-deServeS.
Irene House. who. it viii be remem-
bered. shot and killed her husband, Or
son AlOnzO MoOrs House, a notorious
New York divorce lawyer, at their cOun-
try house. near Trenton, New Jersey, on
June 80, 1876, has married again, and is
living on a farm. Her husband (her
fourth) is named Frank Parker, is but
% years old, while she is 30.
John Kranz, of East Pennington,
Polk county, Wis, drove into the lake
on Tuesday last, with six children in his
! wagon to water his horses. The horses
I becoming frightened. ran into deep wa
/ ter. The wagon was upset, and kranZ
and five of the children were drowned.
/ One boy escaped by swimming. The
. eldest child was girl of seventeen.
] The Directors of the Pennsylvania
/ Railroad approved Of the purchase Of the
Malvern branch of the West Chester
Railroad. for which negotiations have
been for some time in progress. The
road is to be Immediately put in first
. class order. It is about nine miles long
and runs from Malvern Station, on the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, to West Chester.
. Reading few days ago. hungry, ragged
and disconSOlate. \ year before, he had
made the people of that city stare at his
WAYS of squandering $50. 600 that had
I been left to him. On the latter visit, he
begged a meal at the hotel in which he
had once occupied the finest apartments,
and slept in a barn where he had pre-
viously kept his horses.
a singular case is reported from
RoXbury. Conn. a little boy was Sc
riously i'll with diphtheria. He was the
owner of a small dog, which had been
denied access to the sick room. The
dog managed to slip in and sprang to
the bed and affectiOnately careSSed the
boy. tapping his face and mouth. The
little boy began to recover his health,
but the dog died with every symptom of
diphtheria.
VIII Bosley. while at work on mis-
farm at Darlington. Hartford county.
Md. discovered d black snake, which he
made haste to Kill. On examining the
, reptile. after he had killed it. it was
found to measure four feet in length.
and had two heads. one on each end
and both regularly proportioned. The
animal was noticed to run backwards
and Mr.. y. says it could 90 as fast one
way as the other.
"A terrific thunder and hail storm
/ occurred Sunday at Rockville, Ontario
! Considerable damage was done to build
= ings by the lightning. y tree on the
] American side of the river was struck
= under which the wife and child of George
+ Hutton had taken refuge The chile
2 was killed in its mothers arms, and The
. latter fatally injured. y man named
= LarOcqUe was also killed on an island
- short distance up the river.
= A special says that Thomas H. Ben
2 nett, occupying lodge at Antietam
, cemetery, was shot and instantly killed
; by his wife on Sunday last He charged
her with intimacy with Hayerlield. Su
/ peTinteudent Of the cemetery, and made
an assault upon her. when she seized {
e carbine and shot him through the heart
, The wife was arrested and lodged in
jail at IIagoTStown. She alleges the
} shooting was to protect her own life.
"A gravel train on the Northwestern
< railroad. while backing into Waukegan
, H., on Saturday, with a large number
= of wOTlmen in its cars. struck cow OF
| the track and was ditched. ANTHONY
! Joyce, Michael Sheridan, John Derigar
and Patrick Corners were killed ant
z another workman viii die Of his injuries
Conductors Thomas Halligan and Ton
! NcNally were badly injured, together
$ with several others whose names were
} not aScertained.
? An Atlanta GA dispatch of Mon
S day last says that two negroes were cap
} tured the day previous on suspicion OF
t being the mUrdeTers of the Old couple
DetoOr, killed on Friday night. One ot
I them is the barefOOted negro who was
seen about the house on the evening Ot
2 the murder and whose tracks were noted
= about the house. The negroes DENY
, all knowledge of the murder, and The
= suspicion that the object of the killing
! was not a simple burglary is deepening
VIM. =. Mckee. eighty years of age
was arrested on Friday last at the home
Of his son in MillerstONn, where he is
stopping, and taken to Butler. a charge
of rape having been preferred against
: him there by lady named McGraw
= who claims that Mckee outraged heI
little daughter. eight years of age, in q
boiler house in MillerstOwn. 4 doctor
who examined the child says that from
all appearances such a crime was com.
mitted. The girl herself relates the
disgusting details of the crime, and saws
that Mckee was her aSSailant.
W bile Miss Addie Shelly. a young
lady residing in Watts township. Perry
/ county, was on her way a few evenings
ago TO neighbOr's house, about a mile
distant, she was met by young man
named higgins, who seized her and at.
tempted to do al and more than all that
his name implies. Fortunately her out.
cries brought man named Samuel Al
bright 10 her assistance, whereupOn the
young miScTeant took to the woods and
. at latest accounts had not bonr a1-rpe+aJ