The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-12-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


"A Yankee has purchased an island
in the Ohio river, and stocked it with
black cats, to raise the animals for the
| sake of the fur.
1t IS said that the Impe achers will
not be able to secure more than thirty
votes in the Rump House, so that matter
is efeetually killed.
1T is reported that the widow of the
late General Thomas Francis Meagher
iag interests in Montana.
I'm Portsmouth. New Hampshire,
/ last week, the Democrats elected their
municipal ticket for the first time, by 800
najsrity, gain Of 470 on last year.
7 Rev. VIM. II. Green, the Litchfield,
Conn, wife poisoner, has been sentenced
to be hung at Litchfeld, Conn, on the
4th day OF December, 1868, one year
hence
Mrs. Lucy Cobb has prosecuted De-
tective Baker for perjury, based upon his
testimony before She Impeachment Com
nittee. Baker evaded the service of the
warrant, however. and cannot be found.
The negro who committed an out
rage on Mrs. Baker at Pierceton. Indiana,
as caught the same night. He made
full confession of the crime, and was then
seiE by mob snd stabbed, shot and
beaten till he was dead. His body was
then dragged through the streets.
Milton Mishler, of Lancaster. at
tempted to commit suicide on Saturday
morning by shooting himself The ball
entered the lungs, and remains in the
chest, the patient being too i'll at present
to have it removed, and refusing all slim
ulants to cause the necessary reaction.
On Saturday, at the close of the regu-
lar business in the District Court of Phila>
delphia, David Paul Brown, Esq deiv-
cred farewell address on behalf Of the
bar, it being the last day that Hon Geo.
Sharswood would preside as President
Judge. Judge Sharswood made an ap-
propriate response,
Owen McGovern was stabbed and
killed by James Monteith, in Pittsburgh,
on Thursday night last. McGovern had
been drinking hard during the day, and
struck Monteith several times. The lat
ter then stabbed McGOvern in the neck,
killing him instantly. The assassin did
not attempt to escape.
The telegraph announces the death
on Friday, at Saratoga, New York, of the
venerable r. Fl. Walworth, ex-ChanceI-
lor of New York. He had been sn emf
nent and distinguished jurist-in his latter
years he compiled and published list of
descendants of one of the noble families
of Great Britain, who are settled in this
country, and with which he was also
connected.
The distance travelled by Weston,
the pedestrian, from Portland to Chicago,
was ,237 miles. He undertook to per-
form the task in 26 days, exclusive of
Sundays, and accomplished it with two
hours to spare. The average per day
was little more than 471 miles. He
made four attempts TO go one hundred
miles III twenty-four hours, but failed
each time.
expenses for the coming year are thirty
million dollars in excess of last year.
This is the result of keeping up stand
ing army to establish and maintaiz negro
governments in the South. All this mons
ey will demanded from the Northern peo-
pie in the form of heavier taxes for the
ensuing year. ''Reconstruction" means
higher taxes as well as negro domination.
One Virgins was recently hung in
London for numbering a woman, he all
the while protesting his innocence and in
sisting that the woman committed suicide.
New facts make 1T probable that poor
Virgins was .ju6iciaIIy murdered, simply
because he had not enough money to pay
counsel and hunt up witnesses. The un-
fortunate man fought his executioners
upon the scaffold and died struggling and
shrieking.
Max Krngler. the German boy who
recently murdered his uncle in st. Louis,
made a confession of the deed on Thurs
day. According to his statement, the
murder was premeditated, and resulted
from desire to be revenged on his uncle,
who had quarrelled with him. After the
confession had been made the Germans
present were so indignant that the police
had some difficulty in restraining them
from lynching the murderer.
The four sisters who met such hor-
rible death in the railroad accident near
Cincinnati, last week, are daughters of
the late Benjamin Morgan, of Philadel-
phia, and lately of New Orleans. They |
were on their way from St. Catharine,
Canada, whittier two of them-Rachel |
and Catherine-had been banished by |
Gen. Banks, during the war, for neglect
ing to salute Admiral Porter and a lady
be was walking with, whom they met on |
the streets of New Orleans.
The Cleveland Leader says: ewes
ton is throughout marvel, a mystery.
The ordinary physical laws which govern