The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-10-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

resulted in large gains for the Democracy.
-Juarez has been elected President of
Mexico, on the Radical plan-fraud and
bayonets.
"A co!ored man in Little Rock, Ar
kansas, killed fifty one rattlesnakes in an
hour, near that town a few days ago
A movement is on foot to bring Chief
Justice Chase prominently before the ma
tion as the Republican candidate for the
Presidency.
JOHN Quincy Adams is the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Massa-
chusetts, and John Quincy Adams is the
Republican candidate for Police Justice of
Brooklyn, n Y.
-McDougal, horse thief, with irons
on, leaped from car window, near Car
mel, on the Maine Central Railroad. and
escaped. The train was running fifteen
miles an hour at the time.
The municipal authorities of Harris>
burg, Pa, offer a reward of $1,000 for the
detection and conviction of the ruffian .Yho
so shockinsly outraged Miss Sewer of
that city on Wednesday evening last.
BY the elections this fall the Demo
Gratis gain three United States Senators
in the next Congress-in California, Ohio
and Connecticut-but this sis of no con-
sequence we are told by the Radicals.
The New Albany Indiana) Court
lately granted divorce to a man named
Banks, on the ground that his wife was
victim to klopemania-an irresistible
desire to stea'. Why not call it Radical
ism?
Miss Mary Davis, of Petersburg,
Virginia, aged about twenty-five years,
died on Tuesday last from excessive cor
pulency. She had been confined TO her
led nearly nine months, and was utterly
helpless
Aaron Hurt, the Conservative negro
orator of Columbus, was tarred and
teatEe ed in Savannah cn Thursd4y, by
six Radical negroes. Will we hear of
this outrage IN the Tribune, or "my two
papers, both daily?
Sixty day ago Cheyenne, Dakotah,
was bowling wilderness now it has n
Mayor and Common Council, publishes
ordinances regulating city life, and has a
newspaper, rum shops, and various other
lHCluenlS OF ClFlilZ9tlOn.
"A lady remarked that, after reading
of the proceedings of Mrs. Lincoln in the
matter of her wardrobe and jewelry, she
thought that even the Democrats would
not deny that the husband of such a wo-
man was F'Our Martyr President
-Rev. Father Murphy, ofPortsmoutb.
was Invited to offer the prayer at the opens
ing of tie Supreme Court, in Portsmouth,
\. II, on Tuesday. This is probably
the first instance in the State where a
Catholic priest has been thus recognized.
The church in which General Wash
ington was married to Martha GUSTS, in
New Kent County, Virginia, is very
much dilapidated, and its congregation
too poor to repair it. Contributions are
therefore solicited to aid in preserving this
historical relic.
The President of the United States
has recommended Thursday. November
29, to be observed throughout the Re-
public as day of national thanksgiving
and praise to the Almighty Ruler of ma
tions" for all HIS goodness and loving
kindness during the year
An elm tree at Hampden, Ohio, far
nlshed seven thousand feet of inch boards.
clear stuff. The tree was six feet ten
inches IN diameter, and weighed sixty
thousand pounds. The concentric circles,
which are said to indicate one year each,
numbered seven hundred and ninety-two.
"A prairie fire on the 9TH instant,
swept into the government stockyard at
Fort Ransom, Dakotah, and DESTROYED all
the government hay. The same fire ran
into half-breed camp and burned ten
halt-breeds to death, and ten more were
so badly burned that their lives are de-
SPARED Of
Returns f;om thirty-four counties in
California render it certain that both
Sprague and Fitzgerald, the Democratic
candidates for Judges, are chosen by
handsome majorities. The Radicals have
not redeemed the State, as they said they
would, after the contest for Governor re-
suited in their defeat.
Seven yC ars ago ST. Louis merchant
caught burglar in his chamber, but let
him go on promise of good behavior.
1he burglar made his pill, during the war,
whereas the merchant failed, and a few
days ago the former paid his debt of gra-
tItude by loaning the latter $4,000
with which TO start in business again
Near Sherman, Texas, recently, Mrs.
Beatty, a widow lady. met her death in a
most singular manner She was in the
act of getting on a horse, when common
sewing needle, which stuck in her dress,
caught in the saddle AMI was driven in
her body near her breast, slightly piercing
her heart. She lived only about half an
hour.
"A Democrat of Ohio came all the
way from Chill, in South America, to
vote at the recent election. That is the
right kind of a Democrat He deserves
TO be Eeld up as model, and his patriotic