The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-04-16

keg that holds one gallon oil llquld. II
is bound around with wooden hoops.
This singular-looking keg came from !
Wales. and Is very old It is a great
curiosity and attracts much attention.
"A controversy has arisen in respect
to a property recently sold at sheriff's
sale in Montgomery county and the title .
to which is in the name of Mrs. Eveline
c. Cole. the wife of Henry Cole, the fa- :
nous forger who was convicted in the
United States Court at Trenton in Jan
uary. 1879. Cole was alleged to be the
greatest forger of his day.
King Theebau has his imitatOrs out
in Nevada The Eureka Sentinel of
last week says that a number of Indians
recently buried warrior known as
''Old Adam alive. The Indians eX-
planned that Adam was about TO die
ANYHOW. This world is hardly yet
Sunday school out for an airing, even if
we do live in the nineteenth century.
Fourteen thousand English clergy
men have signed 4 memorial to the
Bishops of the Church Of England,
calling upon them TO use their influence
as members Of Parliament to put more
restrictions on the trade in Intoxicating
liquors, and declaring it TO be their oon-
yictjon that the condition Of the English
people can never be improved. physically
or reliCiously. till this IS done.
"A locomotive which, il it equals eX-
pectation. will run ninety consecutive
miles in ninety minutes, is being built
for the Reading Railroad. 1t is to be
used between Philadelphia and New
York. Its driving wheels are foot
larger than common in diameter, its
weight is five tons greater, and its wa
ter tank holds 1000 gallons thus no
stop will be necessary by the way.
Matthew Mckay. of Oswego, y. Y,
has been bothered at finding his clock
stopped mornings. He had it examined,
but the repairer could find nothing
wrong. He watched and discovered
the family cat TO be the cause Of the
mischief. Attracted by the ticking Of
the clock. she climbed up TO the shelf,
pulled open the door, and paved the
hands around the dial till it stopped.
"A two-story tenement block. at Ha
verhill Mass, occupied by ten families,
was burned Sunday morning. Smith
II. Brown. alias McHenry. aged thirty
eight. and Charles Abbot. aged about
fifty-six. who occupied an attic, were
suffocated and their bodies partly burn
ed Mrs. Emma Roberts was severely
burned in the face and injured internally
byjumping out ofawindOw. Loss 3, GOO.
The e1-Empress Eugenie, before
starting for Zululand, presented her
imperial crown 10 the Church of NOtre
Dame des VICTORIES, Paris. 1t Is OF
great value on account OF its artistic
composition and the number Of precious
stones it contains. She left it behind,
with most of her valuables, in her hur-
ried fight from the Tuileries, but in the
subsequent arrangement of her affairs
after the Commune it was restored to her.
4 L. 81.
utter hypocrisy OF the Hayes civil ser
vice order fOrbidding he taxing Of Fed
eTal officers for campaign purposes. His
report explains how the Republican
managers extort money from Federal
employees, and how Hayes approved of
the plan By which Sl06. 900 was wrung
out of poor clerks and others in Wash
ington. The whole thing is not only q
fraud, but fragrant violation Of the
law of 1876.
An unknown man supposed to be
from Warren, Pa, Washington, y. G.,
or New York, has been found dead on
the p. r. r. bridge over the SIsque-
hanna at Maysville- 1t seems that the
unfortunate man, while endeavoring to
get on the bridge to 90 eastward some
time during the night, must have fallen
from the top OF the abUtment to the
rocks beneath. distance Of some 80
feet, striking on his head and killing
/ him instantly.
Recent dispatches from Buunah 10y
way Of London bring the news that 700
human beings sacrificed by King Thee
bau at the Burmese capital to propitiate
evil spirits were not burned to DEATH
but were buried alive. The full depth
Of this horror probably viii not be faith
Omed until English correspondents
reach Mandalay, but il is now known
that 700 meE, boys, women, girls. priests
and foreigners have been entoicbed un-
der the towers OF the city walls.
William Fitzgerald. 4 painter, and
Michael Nestnau, a butcher. have lived
in the same house in st. Louis for some
time past and their families have been
I in almost continual warfare Sunday
morning the men had an alteration
about the position Of some waShtubs
placed at the hydTant 10y Mrs. Fitzger-
aid. Nestman proceeded to remove the
tubs, when Fitzgerald commanded him
to let them alone Eestman paving no
attention to this order, Fitzgerald drew
4 revolver and shot him, killing him al
most instantly. Fitzgerald then fled.
"A negro outraged the person of a
white widow named Martha Haney. a
few miles from Memphis, on Friday
/ morning, under circumstances of the
most brutal character Mrs. Ranev
was coming into Memphis on foot, and.
/ being met 10y the negro, was stopped by
him. when he made imprOper proposals
TO her. She rejected his proposals, and
sought 20 cyade him by fastening on
her journey. He knocked her down
with q piece Of board. outraged her and
left her insensible. lie was subsequent
: " arrested and committed for hearing.
His name is Mumford Mcdowell.
Z At noon on Thursday a desperate
effort was made to kill q keeper at the
Western Penitentiary. in Allegheny.
Robert Hays, the victim, had taken
three prisoners into the laundry. and
/ while his back was turned to one OF
them he was knockek senseIess with q
billy. He fell, and they tied his hands
and feet, ard gagged him. They then
made rope and attempted 10 scale the
wall, but when half way mp the rope
broke and they fell back and were iniur-
cd. An alarm was given, and they were
captured, The keeper is badly cut OF
the back OF the head and forehead.
-Enoch Moslander, bachelor, -
years Old. living alone on farm ir
West Virginia, three miles from Bel
laiTe, Ohio, was found on Wednesday.
burned to death. in his house \ large
hole was burned in the floor but, by
some means, the FIRE had been extin
guished. The theory of the neighbOr.
IS that robbers had tortured him tC
death, trying to get him TO confes.
where his money was Three years age
three masked men almost burned hin
to death, for the same purpose, and il