The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-11-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


The people of Twin Prairie discov-
cred man setting fire to the prairie grass,
few days since, and caught and hung
him.
Five New York burglars-two of
them wonen-were arrested, the other
day, after having carried off three wagon
loads of clothing from store.
-Thad Stevens-s'sick as he is''-has
written letter reiterating his fanatical
dogma that Congress has right to en-.
force negro suffrage in all the States.
Gen. Lyle, the newly elected demos
cratic Sheriff of Philadelphia, while riding
on the Darby road, on Friday evening,
was run into and had one of his legs bro
ken.
Miss Susie c. Godsa, who has pro.
foundly slept for the past eighteen years,
only waking at intervals of from one to
ten minutes, is now on exhibition at
Nashville.
Mr.. William Kane has a wife in
Chicago, another in St. Paul, and a third
in Savannah, and Chicago paper init
mates that he intends to establish one in
every State in the Disunion.
Several pick-pockets, disguised as
Quakers, got into the yearly meeting of
the Hicksite Friends, at Baltimore, on
Friday, and relieved many of the mem
bers of their watches and pocket books.
The fact that the perjurer, Sanford
Conoyer, is in the penitentiary, and that
Stanton, Holt, and Ashley, who employed
him, are still at large, strikes the public
sense of justice as very singular.
Gov. Geary has issued his procIa-
nation naming the same day designated
by the President, Thursday, 28lh of
November, as day of thanksgiving and
praise to the Almighty Ruler of the Uni
verse.
"A coroner's jury afterainvestigating
the death of child IN Buffalo, brought in
a verdict of ''death from the injudicous
administration of Winslow's Soothing
Syrup, which caused convulsions and con-
gestion of the brain"
The Tribune is strong in faith that
manhood suffrage "a sweet name for negro
suffrage) will yet strike the popular heart
1t has already struck the popular heart as
being one of the greatest conceivable insults
to the white race. 1t has ''St,'uck the pop
ular heart SO hard, that it has knocked
the Mongrel party all to pieces.
The bonds that bound the negroes of
the South was removed by the bayonet,
after four years of bloody war The
whites of the North demand that they
shall be relieved of the bonds that are
binding them, and they will have it,
through greenbacks..
On Thursday the wife of Lawrence
Lightner, a farmer near Eden, Lancas-
ter county, while assisting at threshing,
fell down into the teeth of the machine.
which was making fifteen hundred revo>
lutions minute. When taken out one
arm was literally ground to pieces and the
cap of one knee cut off. 1t is not expect
ed that size will recover.
The testimony before the Impeach>
ment Committee, nSw in the hands of the
printers, shows that as late as the spring
OF 1866 Gen. Grant perfectly agreed with
the President as to his general policy, and
that the proclamation of the President in
reference TO reconstruction is the identical
paper which was prepared by President
Lincoln, and intended by him to be pro-
mulgated as his method of settling all
sectional difficulties
On the night OF the 3Oth ult. Mrs.
Walker shot her husband at Bound Brook,
New Jersey. Charles J. Walker, her
husband, has been &C habiting with wo>
man at that place for several years, which
led the outraged woman to avenge her
wrongs. Walker and his wife lived in
New Brunswick, N. j., and occupied
respectable position in society. Mrs.
Walker fired the contents of the revolver
at her husband, several of the balls taking
effect in the head, causing instant death.