The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-09-13

| "A young man III Hanford, Cal, caIle d
upon q barber and had his hair cut A.
usual the barber applied some oil 10 tn
young mans hair. The young man retired
to his blankets that night, but about 2
O'Clock III the morning be awoke with the
feeling that someone was trying to saw the
top OF his Uranium off. Upon lighting a
lamp he found that the only trouble was
that the oil on his hair had attracted a few
thousand ants.
"A slaughter OF swallows has been or
ganized on a large scale along the southern
sssbosrd of France. The POOR creatures
alight on wires provided for the purpose
tired out after IoGg flights 10 or from Italy
and the East. and they are killed in thou
sands by means of electric currents. This
modern massacre OF the innoceuts has been
ordained In the interests of fashion, and
the slaughtered birds are used foI the dec
Grafton of the hats or bonnets of dainty
danes and damosels in London, Paris or
New York.
Detectives have discovered tha. Mrs.
Robert Ray Hamilton, the woman in Jail
at Mays Landing. N j.. duped her hus-
band into marrying her. Mrs. Hamilton
claimed to be with child to Hamilton and
on that score he married her. She then
procured a child from a mid wife and claim
ed 20 be its mother and Hamilton the father
Mrs. Swinton, New York woman, and
her son. Joshua a. Mann. a lover of Mrs
Hamilton's, are in the Tombs prison.
charged with being in q conspiracy with
her to get money from Hamilton and prob
ably murder him. Mrs. Hamilton is still in
Jail in New Jersey for sJabhing the ndrse
Mrs. Donnelly, but the latter is now rapidly
recovering. The duped husband declares
that he will have nothing further to do
with his wife.
On the banks of the Trinity. about
mile aud a balf from Galveston, stands an
old log cabin dating from the earliest DAYS
OF Texas, This cabin, il is claimed, is
nightly the scene OF ghostly orgies, calcu-
lated to freeze the blood of any living crea-
ture within sight and hearing of them A
party of young men in a spirit of adven>
ture visited this haunted hoyel a fe " nights
since and report that they found it niumi
mated by an unearthly blue light, which
emanated from no visible source and filed
with sudocating fumes of birthstone and
sulphor. Invisible hands snapped and
tugged at them and snrieks of diabolical
laughter and Iamen tstion too pitifuI for de-
scription mingled in a dreadful chorus
Half-enbodied figures could be dImly seen
through the hazy atmosphere of the room.
"A party of spoTtsmen from Fort Stok-
ton, Tex, while hunting .anteIcpes in the
Sierra Charrote a few days ago, made a
most singular discovery. Riding up a mar
row gorge they caught sight of a gigantic
rattlesnake trailing bis hideous length
along the steep crag just above their heads.
Several of the party. states the truthful cor
respondent, fired at the reptile. but zone of
the shots had any effect beyond causing
bis snakeship to accelerate his leisurely
movement. The sound of their shots
brought man out of a cave in the rocks
and after some talk the hunters were invited
to enter. They found woman and chill
dren there. The woman lighted a torch,
revealing the cave swarming with snakes of
every description aud size. They hung
from rocky projections in the roof and sides
OF the cavern, Kissing at the unwonted
light, and glided about from one corner to
another. One great Shiny black monster
lay across the throat of a sleeping infant,
gently wayIng its horrid head above the
chiid's mouth. An older child was eating
something from an eartheuware vessel and
large rattler leaning from bis shoulder
would swing over and eat from the dish.
while the child would strike il wi tn its bare
hand whenever its strange messmate seemed
getting more than its share.