The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-02-13

De0VcF, Co1OfdOO. Dut III 1901 OF SPRING
field township. Bucks county, enlisted
when only eleven years old and served
with the Third PENNSYLVANIA Reserves.
"A few nights ago 4 demented old
lady, aged about 80 years, named Mrs.
Anna Mellott, wandered away from the
residence of her son, in Belfast town
ship, Fulton county, about midnight,
with nothing on save her night clothes.
Her lifeless body was found on Monday
some distance from home, where it was
traced over the frozen snow BY her blood
marked foot prints.
Mrs. Durham is left alone most of
the time at Seymour, Ind, her husband
being a railroad official. 1t is well
known that there is always considerable
money in the house, and formerly bur
glars visited the premises frequently,
but of late they are shy. Whenever she
hears them working at a window, she
fires away At random with revolver.
Three times within two years the es-
Gaping robbers have left blood in their
tracks.
The latest case of absent minded
ness comes from Tennessee. A young
gentleman of Memphis loves a girl who
lives in the country, up the railroad
Wishing to see her, he hired horse and
buggy and drove out to her house. hitch
ing the horse at the door After while
he came out, happy, serene and delight
ed. walked down to the railroad station.
got ticket and rode back to Memphis,
leaving his horse hitched near the coun-
try gate.
Father Martin Nasty, at the early
age OF forty-two, has Just been conse-
Grated Bishop of Dakotah. For several
years he has been working among the
Indians. Alone and unprotected, he
wandered among the most hostile tribes.
He has studied the Indian languages,
and so thoroughly acquired that of the
Sioux that he has written grammar
and dictionary which have been of great
use in instructing the teachers sent TO
the Indians.
About four years ago Samuel c..
CadwalladeT, of Upper Wakefield. Bucks
county, sold horse to a man in Phila-
deiphia. On last Friday morning the
same hOrse, having escaped from his
Philadelphia owner on Thursday night
and travelled thirty miles, trotted up the
lane OF his former home and went into
his old stall. This is regarded as a
wonderful proof or attachment, seeing
that so long a time had elapsed between
the animals sale and his return.
"A newspaper man has interviewed
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Fold, = now in the Tombs in New Y York
and the shepherd asserts that he is the
victim Of grievious wrong perpetrated
by his enemies, who taught the children
what they should say to the legal author
tiles. Mr.. Cowley claims that he is
guilty If nothing which was not conduc-
i've Of the spiritual welfare OF the child
rem. from which we must infer that he
is an ardent advocate of the efficacy Of a
CTuciliXion of the flesh.
At Lucan, Ontario, on Tuesday
night Of last week, a gang of men, with
( blackened and masked faces. entered
the dwelling of q somewhat notorious
family" named Donnelly, and murder
ed the father, mother, son and niece
: boy named ConnoT escaped bv hiding
under a bed. The nurderers set fire to
the house, which was consumed with
the bodies of their victims 4 son Of
Donneiiy, who lived three miles from
the homestead. was called to his door
and shot dead about the same hour the
others were murdered.
Dan RybOlt started for church. nj
Freesyille, Mimi, and on The way ask
ed neighbor who was to preach. Par
son NewlIng,n was the reply. I'D
; rather die than hear him. said Dan.
and turned of toward a wood He was
afterward found hanging lifeless TO q
tree. The belief IS that. rs the clergy
man was delivering a course Of sermons
on the dreadfulness OF sin, and as Dan
was an unregcnerate sinner, an awaken
! ed conscience led 70 the suicide but
the ScofTers have theory that dea III
might reasonably he preferred to hear
ing one of NewlinE's long discourses.
Sympathy for Ireland, in practical
( way. is manifested in India, where one
banking firm Of Bombay has given So
. 600, and in France, where the clergy are
making appeals for means to aid the
starving. 1t would not be surprising il
even African potentates should give tC
! relieve suffering that has awakened
, the sympathies of the world. 1t iSright
/ to give, but in giving it ought not to bs
{ forgotten, SAYS the Chicago Dailg Ee,Cs,
( that the starving are starved because of
! the laud-system Of the English owners.
! The world is helping to redress the
} wrongs of the innocent-wrong infiict-
! ed by English aristocrats.
DR.. W. w Hibben, OF EmpoTia,
/ Kansas, has Just come into possession OF
/ an old French snuff-box that was pre-
( serted to George Washington by Lafav-
cite in Philadelphia in August, 17777.
! The presentation was made at the first
meeting Of thetwo men Of beloved mem
/ ory. The box particularly delighted
/ Washington, for it contained then and
still contains R correct likeness Of La
/ fayette as he appeared when q young
man. After the death Of Washington
/ General Israel Putnam became owner ol
the box Before Putman's g death he on,
I closed the relic in chjmneypiece in
Cambridge and there ii remained hun.
dred years
At a recent dinner party in New
y ork fashionable circles an S8, 600 di2-
mond ring. recently purchased, was
passed around for inspection among
eighteen or twenty ladies and gentlemen,
and, the conversation turning tC other
topics, was gradually lost sight Of
. When thought of again the last person
handling the ring could not be deter
mined, and il was given up as lost. As
the party were about separating gen
tleman found the ring, minus the stones
in his oveTcoat pocket. He called fol
the production OF the jewels. but no one
Z could help him, and the robbery still re-
mains as great mystery as ever.
"A negro cabin thirteen miles mort h
/ OF Columbia, n C., was destroyed by
fire on Tuesday night of last week
| Two men. woman and six children,
perished in the flames. The fire wa:
I discovered by colored woman, who
ran 10 the burning building and pulled
off a board, when she heard one Of thC
| children attempting to awaken its faith
er but without success. Before othel
assistance arrived the cabin and its oc
cupants were burned up. The chimney
a crude affair. made of clay and sticks