The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-10-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

tunate dealers in greenbacks under Uncle
Sans rule. Silver is refused for any
amounts over legal tender.
"A legless imposter was soliciting aims
on St sLouis. trees recently, His poverty
was investigated, and he turns out to be
owner IF property in New York city to
the amount Of sixty-fve thousand dollars
1t is said the Mexican usurper Juar-
- has ordered Generals Corona and Mar
uuez To- ,ooIonize Mexicans upon The waste
lands west or he Rio Colorado, in order
to forestall settlement By United States
citizens.
General Scott's will, just p,,.bated.
qu saths all Lis property to bis daughter,
the wife of Colonel Scott; his Pulaski
sword TO the West Point Academy, and
his sword worn ia Mexico to his grandson,
Winfield Scott Hoyt.
B. w. Green, who murdered his
wife in Hartford several years ago, and
was acquitted on the grounds of insanity,
died at tho private hospital of Dr. Buell.
IN Lltchfield, Conn, on Friday. He was
| about sixty-four years of age and leaves
an estate of nearly 100000.
"A shrewd villain in Nashua, N. H.
on Thursday, walked deliberately up to a
store window and broke in a pane of
French glass, and when asked to pay for
1t as dellb, b,raely drew out 500 bill,
which the storokeeper took, giving him
$40 in change. The bill proved to be
counterfeit.
"A serious acci.!!cnt occurred on H.
EennsyiVani@ Northern Central railroad,
at Mliiersburg, on Friday morning. The
uo anu down express trains collided, in
Juring the locomotives and scattering the
baggage IN every direction. A co{ored
boy from Harrisburg was killed. \ few
passengers received slight contusions.
Nicholas Hyman, OF Buffalo, the nat
ural guardian of Anna Hvfnan. q little
girl Of twelve years, sues Ellen Burk, wife
OF VIM. Brrk, for wilfuIIy cutting off two
large black curls from the said Annals
he9t and converting the same to her own
use. The suit is in the Supreme Court.
and the damages are held at $4,000.
Mr.. Martin Gates. of DuncansyilIe.
Blair county, Pa, was severely wounded
in the chest during the late war. lie
came home and got well. The other day.
he extracted large brass button from the
wound The button, which was fiattened.
had been driven into bis body by the bull
let, and had remained there fully three
years.
"A man, suppos, to be q returned
Californian, committed suicide on the 22I
by hanging himself to a Tree a few miles
below Detroit. lie was az entire straD-
ger n the neighborhooI, but letters found
upon him indicated his name to be Clar-
ence Brewster. He also had s.. 200 in
his pockets and in belt, nearly all in
gold.
A gentleman left New Orleans and
came North until the fever abated, and
while in New York he purchased ticket
in the Georgia State Lottery for the bene.
fit OF the Masonic Orphans Home, and
drew the capital prize Of thirty thousand
dollars, on the oath ofSeptember, ultimo.
Lucky TO avoid the fever and get thir ty
thousand dollars by his visit
"A year ago, DR.. Youmans was call
ed to attend man in Pontiac, Ill. The
man died, and the doctor ran off with his
widow. There being suspicious afloat,
tue body was taken up, and it was ascer-
tanned that the man had been poisoned
by arsenic. Ever since officers have been
in pursuit Of the doctor, and he has been
arrested at KeWaunee, Wis.
Near Rock Island, Illinois. recently.
Mrs. Campbell Barthell was bitten by
rattlesnake IN field Of watermeIons The
whisky cure was Immediately tried, guam
titles Of the article being administered
but this remedy, as well as the skill of
physicians subsequently called, failed to
counieract the poison, and Mrs. Barthell
died six days after being bitten.
Fires, floods, railroad accidents, crimes
of every grade, and suicides, have peri
odical turns in which they rage, one or
another taking precedence, Just now,
suicides ara prevailing all over the country.
The papers come from all parts laden with
shocking details of self-murder, sometimes
accompanied by the murder of others, and
sometimes without such horrid accompani-
ments.
"A severe storm passed over DanvilIe,
Pennsylvania, on last Wednesday after
noon. Several houses were unroofed, and
number of trees blown down. About
seventy feet of the steeple of the Naho-
ming Presbyterian Church was broken of
by the wind, the point passing through the
roof into the audience room. The bridge
across the Susquehanna river was dam
aged.
At the trial of one McGarrety, for
an outrage upon the wife of canal boat
captain, in the Patterson, New JERSEY.
courts, singular scene occurred The
| accused brought forward three friends to
! establish his innocence, when each was
successively recognized by the woman as
his companion in guilt, there being four
implicated in the crme, and only AIcGar-
rety having been previously identified and
arrested