The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-26

Monday in MAY. The State will realize
about SO, 600 from the officers iu the
! shape Of fees for their commissions.
! Mr.. Nelson Stephens, residing in
! East Goshen township. Chester county,
/ has 1T present no less than 4S lambs on
+ HIS farm premises Fourteen pairs of
I these are twins ana three are triplets.
1 The curious part of this lambkin item is
/ that one of the tTiplats mentioned is as
black as Erebus, while the other two
are perfectly white.
. The Chambcrsburg TdIley SPIRIT
! chronicles the case OF young man
named Oberhoitzer. In Green township
that county, wLO was paralyzed in both
. legs in 1878 and remained so until q
few days ago, when he stated That ne
. had placed his faith in the Lord that
He had healed him, and, to the aston
/ ishment or his parents, the long af-
flicted young man got up and walked
about the room.
A Pittsburg dispatch says that John
Hough. the boy who was so severely in
jured by being struck on the head with
piece Of iron during a quarrel with a
companion over a chew OF tobacco AT
: BTaddOck, a few days ago, died on Fri
. day from the effects OF the blow
. Thomas Cochran, his assailant, was
still in the Central Station, where he
ifds DtGu ilCll SiitCt Lllc Ottt!l lcuCE 10
await the results of the injury.
The Governor on Friday afternoon
fixed the day for the hanging OF Henry
I Wise, Josiah Hummel, and Israel Brant.
( three OF the mIrderers of old Joseph Ra-
! Der. at lndiantOwn Gap. Lebanon cOun-
y, on Thursday, May 18th, next Wise
was refused a Communication 0f the death
sentence on Wednesday previous. The
applications of Brant and Hummel for a
. Communication of the death sentence to
life imprisonment is to be considered at
the April meeting of the Pardon Board.
A girl at Washington, Ind. was
( disliked by her lovers family, and 50
they did their courtIBg out 0s doors.
The weather being cold on an evening
. that they met. they built fire Of brush
wood and sat down by il. The girls
clothes took fire and she screamed.
The fellow might easily have put ont
the blaze, but he feared that her cry
wouid be heard by his parents and 20
. expose his disobedience; therefore he
ran away and left her 70 be burned to
death.
The mysterious box o. Jewels. which
has been in the vault of the Govern
ment Treasury at Washington for over
thirty years. has just had its annual
busting and examination. Nobody
knows how it came there, though Secre-
tary McCullOch expressed The opinion.
in a report to Congress. that it was part
. OF the proceeds of a robbery at the Pat
eut Office. The contents include sever
al hundred small pearls and diamonds
and two Jumps of gold, all worth about
$1,000.
Thomas Cochran. the youth who
Killed a companion near BraddOclZ few
DAYS ago in q quarrel over 4 chew Of to-
haccO, IS in the Allegheny county jail.
His mother. who had not seen him since
he was two years Old. at which time she
placed him in 2 charitable institution,
from which he escaped several years ago,
called upon him on Friday and was very
much affected. She did not know that
be was living until she called at the Jail
and recognized the youthful murderer rs
her son.
While n RAILWAY train on the Kan
sas Pacific was travelling along near
Granville. Kan. on March 18th. an old
. lady rose from her berth and while still
asleep opened the door Of the car and
walked of the platform. As the train
was moving at the rate Of twenty-five
miles an hour, the conductor expected
10 find the mIRGled remains Of the lady
on The track, bpt when the train had
hacked mp he found ser hObnling along.
bruised hut not seriously injured. She
''f'9 ''hif'bAC ~ l'tlsl tAIhT SaAN Als-NA ltAA
the car.
Daniel Conroy. a stonecutter, or
Erie. Pa. has become insane from at
tempting to solve the l3-I5-14 puzzle.
After working a it several successive
days and nights. hedcvelOped uumistaE-
able evidence % mental arrangement on
Monday morning last. II required four
policemen to take him 10 jail. where lie
!s now confined. lie is so violent that
less torn oil ali his CIothiu" and refuses
food. On the wall of his cell he has
scratched Il diagram Of the puzzle. to
which he dcv0tes his attention in his
calmeT moments.
Mary +. Miller. daughter Of An
. drew Miller, recently murdered at Jcr-
Sey Shore, has confessed that George
Smith came into their house the night
Of the murder and said to her mother
Z that they had hung Miller up in the
barn. She also saws that there was an
other man with him. but IS he was out
side she can't tell who ne was. The lit
tie girl was undoubtedly instructed IL
her mother to testify falsely before the
COT0neT's jury. but now being freed
. from her influence she tells the truth to
. Constable Stephenson Mrs. Miller and
. Smith are both in iail
"A man named Clarencs F. Davis.
i whom the Chicago authorities have in
their keeping on charge Of bigamv.
turns out to be the boss married man of
the century, some Of the Mormon high
priests alone excepted, it may be. That
he vas entitled 10 the award from he
very first as the prize bigamiSt has never
been denied, but the returns have since
been coming in in way perfectly as
founding. Thirteen wives have already
been heard from, and considerable por-
ti0US of the country are still u2reported.
The Chicago people are beginning 10
feel aS If hey had an escaped Mormon
on their hands.
In East Nottingham township.
Chester county, IS a boy, hfteen years
old, who isOnly Jinches in height. meas
ures Il inches around the waist. and
weighs 9S pounds. He IS 50 fat that
when he lies down ii Is impossible for
him to get up again without assistance.
His cheeks are so puffed with fat that
his eyes are nearly closed, and one Of
them he can scarcely see ont of a. all
The boy is a son of Mrs. Timothy Nc
CasSell, residing near Oxford. Il is said
that she was offered by =. T. Barnum.
the great Snowman. SIS a week and
board for herself aad son. if she would
permit him TO have the boy to exhibit,
which Mrs. McCassell refused.
At Tear Down Church. Warren
. county, Iowa, live the families OF How
RE and WestfaIl. between whom q dead
y fend has long existed. The other
day Reuben Westfali was shot in the
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