The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-04-15

Smith Ransom, an old farmer living
alone on the Hall Hill road, in East Long
Meadow, says Springfield (Mass.) despatch
of the 10TH was found dead this morning in
his bed with his skull broken in two places.
He cannot live. He was seen about five
O'Clock last night in front of his own house,
and soon after Henry Bridge, man who had
been suffering with dellrlum tremenS Tor
two or three days, was seen in the vicinity
acting in a strange manner. Later in the
evening Bridge was brought to this city for
drunkenness, and This morning when told
that Ransom had been killed he confessed
that he had done the deed
The Perry (Ga.) Home Journal says that
several weeks ago, during an excessively wet
season, a gentleman was on the way to Ma
con via the wagon road. At EchecOnnec
creek he saw SOW and five pigs in the
swamp on place that was dry land before
the recent rains. The water of the creek
had risen so rapidly that the sow was cover
ed within three inches of the top of the back.
The pigs, to escape the water, had climbed
upon the back of the SOW, and there they
were across the sow, their hind legs dangling
in the water on one side and their noses occa-
SiOnally whipping on the other. Our informant
vouches for the truth Of this statement,
Martin Shannon, of LackawaXan, Pa,
has received 4 letter from a man named
Springstead, in which the latter cOnfesses
that he drowned 4 boy named Samuel Asher
at Lackawaxan on June -, 1877. The
drowning was supposed at the time to have
been accidental, but SDTingstead states that
he upset the boat and kept the boys head
under water until he was drowned, and that
he did it because he hated the lads father
The self-cOnfessed murderer is at present
confined in the PasSaic county, \. j., jail to
await the action of the grand Jury on the
charge of planning to murder and rob citi-
zen of Passaic. He had been in the employ
of the Passaic postmaster.
"Minersville'S beauty Miss Ida c.
Reed, NJ D., declares that she was adjudg-
ed to be the beauty sought for and went to
Philadelphia at the request of FOrepaugh's s
agent. While negotiations were pending at
the Colonnade hotel, both FoTepaugh and
the manager confessed that the $40 600 offer
was all sham, but that they would give her
salary of $50 per week and pay expenses of
herself and companion. This offer Miss
Reed refused to accept and the money COM
pensation was raised from $50 to SIS but
she would not agree and so the arrangement
fell through and she came home. The lady
who has been selected TO fill the position
has agreed to do so for $50 per week for a
term of thirty weeks.
The Americus (Ga.) Republican saws
There IS young man living a few miles
from AmerlcuS who, we are informed, is ter
. Tibly frightened whenever the wind blows
hard. neighbOr of his tells us that fre.
/ quently when blowing and heavy breeze
springs up he has seen him leave the plOw,
and running to a stump throw his arms
around it and hide his head as near the earth
( as possible until the wind subsidies One
nlght last week the young man jumped from
ms bed while asleep, ran out on to the YER
andah Of his house, and grabbing one of the
posts stayed there for an hour or two when
some one having to go out found him fast
asleep and nearly frozen. He said when
awakened that he was dreaming that a ter
Tible storm was sweeping awaV trees fen
ces, etc, and was greatly frightened His
people cannot account for his strange fear
of wind.