The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-04-04
EBENSBURG. PA, FRIDAY, APRIL H. 1877!

alighted at the station at Hurdui, and
hired a conveyance to take them to their
village When they had gone half-a-
dozen miles on their way, the driver pull
led up in lonely spot, demanded their
jewelTy, and upon their demurring, tied
the pair to the vehicle and seized the
trinkets. Then bethinking himself that
dead women could tell no tales, the ruff
fan drew out his knife but slipping
from his grasp, it fell into a ditch. He
plunged his hand in the water to recover
the knife and as he clutched it, black
snake fixed its fangs in the wouId-be
murderer's hand. He succumbed to the
poison, and in ten minutes was past hurt
ing anybody. The women were dis
covered by some villagers and released :;
alone until the police, coming on the
scene, removed the body to the police
station.
On the 14th of October, 1877, Miss
Lizzie Wise made her twentieth balloon
ascent at st, Louis. She had no COM
panion, and soon after starting found it
advisable to throw out ballast The
balloon shot up a half mile, but only to
descend as quickly again and the aer-
onaut determined to make a dart for
earth. Now says she, ''came the
most trying of all my balloon expert
enceS. | could not see thing on earth,
and the balloon made fearful ulsplunges
through the woods, crashing and crack
ing the limbs of the trees as it went along.
All of sudden l was up several feet
above the tree-tops, but only to plunge
down more suddenly between the tall
trees, when the balloon became hedged
in, and l partly made up my mind to
have nights lodging there. In another
moment l heard voices. and called out
for help, to which came the pleasant re-
sponse Where are you ?" 1 cried
up here in the tree-top; help me down
please - Mr.. Sheva asked how he should
do it ; and [ threw him rope, and he
pulled and pulled, but could not get the
balloon low enough. My car was now
partly bottom up, when he babe me slide
down into his arms. He was big and
strong. 1 slid down head foremost into
his arms, and thus reached the ground
UnhuTt
AstOniShed as the deliverer of the dis
tressed damsel must have been at coming
upon a lady up a tree, his surprise was
not greater than that of the wheel-ex-
. af hf =
leg from under one of the carriages OF
an express train, and found that it be-
+ lOnged to a sailor eoiled round the break
rod, who had adopted that risky mode
. of travelling for want of the wherewithal
to pay his fare and was quite uninjured
after journey to EuStOn, a distance OF
eighty-two miles. accomplished in a coup.
le of hours although when the engine
while at full speed took in water from
the between-rail tank. there were only
six inches between him and the trough
"a striking example of the foolhardi
ness of Jack Not but that railway
servants are just as reckless as sailors
putting their limbs and lives in jeopardy
.
( swelling the tale of railway disaster fOl
they are not always so lucky as the Et
tingshall signalman who, attempting t.
/ cross the line in front of the "Flyine
Scotchman,' - was caught by the buffer
of the engine and sent whirling over the
embankmen nearly twenty yards deep
to come down on his feet unframed
/ Chambers journal.