The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-06-06

erS bV the score all over the NOIlu- lies b
dead in foreign land-dead OF small
pox. poor thing, at Bombay. What is
odd abput this heaTt-breaklng young
persons career is the fact that she was +
not a she at all. but a man. Omar
KiDgSIev-such was his name-Was
horn in St. Louis about thlrty-elght
wears ago. ran away from nome When
little bow ioineda circus, first appearing
as a giTI rider. and. finding that girl
riding was highly profitable, kept 1t up
for a score or so of years. lie maze
lovely girl rider.
Rev.-I. C.. Pershing, President OF
the Pittsburg Female College, who IS
charged with defTauding the widow
and children of the late ;. NJ. kler,
prints q card iii the Pittsburg papers,
denvine every accusation. He says:
The estate of :. NJ. Kier is indebted to
me some twenty-five thousand dollars.
7 have been repeatedly urged by my
LEGAL counsel. during the past three
wears. to bring suit. but Declined for
reasons Of personal friendship, and more
recently because | was informed thaJ
could not realize on my clam las sur
viving partneT) until Mr.. kler person.
al debts were pald
An Island Pond lVt.) dispatch OF
Nav both saws: In Newark. ten miles
from here. several children drank water
= Yesterday from a brook into which the
carcasseS OF a horse and some sheep had
baen thrown. The brook ran close to
tho school house where the children
were at school. The children We're
poisoned ten Of them are already dead,
and some sixteen more are not expected
to live. The bodies became putrId ana
were Immediately buried. \ Mt. Car
penter lost three children, and his two
Hi, 4
the name of Morse lost two Children
and a family named Aldrich lost like
number
A great dispute is raging in Madras
over the right to the possession OF halr
which is said to have been plucked from
the beard of NOhammed. The case III
which this precious relic is kept IS guard
ed nv an officer who receives Tor ms ser
vices a pension from the Government.
. There are six claimants for the halr.
The High Court of Madras has been ap-
pealed to. and will have to do some hair
splitting in order to accomplish the ends
of Justice. So great is the competition
among the six MuSSulmanS who claim
the hair that there is possibility of
their splitting each others skulls. con-
trarv to the law and custom long preYa-
lent among them.
The NbbeviHe q. {. Medium says
that Miss Bass, of Lebanon, has tur-
kew gobbler just a little ahead OF any
thing in the turkey line in history or
tradition. Last week the turkey was a
gobbler in all the pride of his gobbler-
hood now he is a turkey hen, and as 4
proof of his change of sex laid three
eurs ON the day succeeding this mon
Strous metauoTph0SiS. This tale VIII
seem almost incredible. but the owner
has the eggs TO show for themselves
How can such an Unheard-Of change be
accounted for What do the scientists
saw. aud what's TO become of us when
turkey gobblcrs turn against their own
sex in this way and settle down into
LAYING hens Oh. it is awful
The wires We're freighted Yesterday
saws the y. Y. ~,u, Of Friday last, with
tiiiugS of calamity. Etna IS IN eruption
again. new craters forming. streams of
lava crawling down upon the contiguous
villages. and the pOpulace IN panic.
The news from the yellow fever in IiaNtI
is not encouraging the latest victims
, Teu0rlpd are the French Minister. his
private secretary. and the first secretary
, of the Legation. OFF the cost of Peru,
two Gillian meu-Ot-War and Il Peruvian
iroucIaI have sent one another to the
bottom. In our own country we get re-
r ports of two men killed by Indians in
b.
2 dead out of twenty-seYeu poisoned by
drinking from polluted Vermont
r stream. and the rest not expected tC
live: and at least one person, probably
j several burned to death in q hotel fire
- ut Uager5jOwn. Md.
Mr. Reynolds. the father Of Alice
2 wife 0t Orlando Greenfield. who was st
, bTutallv murdered in 1ST5. came to this
city. says the NSWego \. y Tunes. on
{ visit to-day from New Jersey where
he has been living for several years past
To- lie went out from this place in the
e. Eighty-lirSt Regiment and served thTO
Y the war. He met General Sullivan this
10 morning. and. after exchanging greet
- iugS. the General said to him that ht
- supposed he had come up TO attend The
% trial Of Greenfield. The man looked
dazed and asked what Greenfield was {,
20 be tried for When informed that il
$ was for the murder Of his reynolds
S daughter. the man Was completely GazeC
e and said that it was the first he haC
a heard of the murder and had supposed
[ that his daughter was alive and well
n He was on his way TO visit her when ht
/ heard the news of the murder.
About two O'Clock Monday after
e noon, Peter iIouer, tax collector, anC
Re- Constable Leiningar went TO the resi-
t dence OF William Uhrich. at Lebanon
?. Pa. for the purpose of selling certain
It goods which they had seized for taxes
o / pom entering the premises | hrich ap
Z pcarcd and. with an oath. declared b
'- would shoot the first man who attempt
e ed to remove any article belonging t
him. LeiuiugeT went toward Jhrich
@ when the latter fired. the shot takin.
effect in IeiniHger'S abdomen. I hricl
l. instantly turned and fired at Uouer. tn
$ bullet grazing his shoulder and tearin.
=. his coat and the powder burning hi
IS face. jhrich then placed the pistol
II his own head and discharged it. tn" bal
& passing through his head. killing hin
r, instantly. Lciniuger is in very criti
l. cal condition. Jhrich served in tn
Twelfth Pennsylvania cavalry durln
u the late war.
l. IA special despatch to the y. \
II " World from Mid,lletowu saws that +
y january last Henry Van Amburgll. liy
d ing near iowell's, that county. ofIere
r Joseph Wood, of the same neighborhood
e 81 and kitchen table in exchange 70
J. his Wife Wood agreed to the transac
p tion. Mrs. Wood went home with Va
e AmburEh and changed her name to his
j. On the 9Th Of Nav she was at Howell
station. She started home on the Fri
D Railway track. Sine was run over by
e train and killed. Van Amhrgh hs
p brought suit against the proprietor q
a Cases hotel TO recover damages for ho
II death under tie civil damage act. claim
+ ing That Case sold her liquor, which le
II 30 her death. Wood also comes f0rVar
1. au;i saws hat no .1l,J NOT {-aY, \ l1,,r-I