The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-08-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


-Gun-boat Kelly is announced to
stump the state of Ohio for the RAIDS.
At Georgetown, 5. c., a case was
decided recently by jury composed who'll
ly of negroes.
A girl in New York, sixteen years
old, has been twice married to boys of
The first train drawn by a locomo-
tive burning crude oil, went from Tidionte
to IrvingtOn, \. y, last week, and the
trip was successful.
Two deaf mutes in Lewistown had
a fight the other day They called each
other names with their hands, and kicked
each others shins with their feet
The Southern people are reported to
be very anxious for the introduction of
white immigrants. Land is very cheap,
and its fertility surprises Northern men,
John Weson, shiftless fellow living
at Boston Corners, New York, had the
good luck to find box containing So, 900
in Spanish dollars, while picking berries
IN the woods, the other day.
Twice during the Tennessee canvass
the stars and stripes were torn from the
stand where Etheridge was to speak. and
trampled into shreds by the radical ne
groes who support Brownlow.
According to reliable medical testino-
ny, delerium tremens can be throttled at
its very outstart by the use of bromide of
potassium. In no disease has its benefi-
cent effect been more marked than in cpl
lepsy.
In Tennessee $4,000 whites were
disfranchised and 6O.OOO negroes permit
ted to cast the vote of the State, and
through their representatives in Congress,
will make laws for the people of Penn
sylsa IA
A cheerful chap named Cullison, who
has been officiating as Methodist clergy
man in Middlefield, Conn, proves to be a
bigamist with four wives living and the
scent of the penitentiary pervading his
pretended clerical robes.
Susan G. Rodsa, the sleeping wonder
of Kentucky, was never known to remain
awake longer than ten minutes at time
In the last ten years. If some of the
Mongrels would follow her example, the
country would soon be at peace.
At Canton, O., Mrs Tressell was
seriously scalded n few days ago by the
bursting of a bottle in which she was put
ting up berries, and which she had set
upon hot stove with the berries in it.
1t exploded, throwing the contents over
her face.
Simon Cameron supported Summers 5
bill to force negro suffrage by act of Con-
gress upon all the Northern States, and ST.
mon Cameron's influence, it is said, nomi-
mated Judge Williams for the Supreme
Court. ''Straws show which way the
current sets"
On the 21st of August next an event
will occur which has been only twice re-
corded in the history of celestial phenom-
era, the appearance of Jupiter without sa-
tellites. Three of them will be passing
across the planets disc and the other will
be immersed in its shadow. The appa-
rent absence of moons viii! not last more
than two hours.
1T is beginning to leak out that the
treatment of ''reber'' prisoners during the
war was extremely bad-in fact equally
as bad as the treatment of Federal pris-
oners for which Wirz was hung. A full
and fair investigation before a general
court of humanity would probable result
in the execution of Stanton and several
other Radical barbarians
Gov. Geary ordered a salute to be
fired at the State Capitol on the receipt
of intelligence of Brownlow's triumph over
law, order and decency in Tennessee.
White men arc disfranchised by Radical
action, and buliied and insulted by negro
soldiers, and these acts are celebrated bv
order of Governor of this State. When
will white men look at this matter in its
proper light?
The Pennsylvania railroad company
carried over their road, on the 4th day of
July last, no less than thirty-seven thous-
and seven hundred and twenty-four pas
sengers without injury to any of them,
and without the slightest detention 10 any
of the trains of the road. This, while be-
ing feat in railroading, proves the Penn
sylvanla to be one of the safest and best
conducted roads in the country.
Two little boys named Edward Pier
and George Merryfeld, while returning
from school to their homes in Cory, War
ren County, Pa, few days since, stoppad
to play on the sand bank, leaving their
dinner pals by the side of the road The
bank caved in, burying both of them.
But for the dinner pals remaining in sight,
their fate might not have been discovered.
They were both dead when extricated.
Miss Catharine A Sedgwick, the
weli-known authoress, died on Tuesday,
near Roxbury, Mass, in the seventy
eighth year of her age Her writings
have endeared her to two generations of
americans, and gained her much fame in
Europe as we'll as here. She was the au-
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