The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-11-28
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.

chester, England, on Saturday last.
Official returns from all but three
counties in Minnesota give the RAIDS $500
majority and defeat negro suffrage by
1000.
Wisconsin by the last election is a little
over 1000. They also make some gains
in the State Legislature.
When the ladies at the Court of
Sweden got through hugging and kissing
Admiral Farragut, they each and all ex-
claimed-F'farry goot''
One of the negro delegates to the
Virginia Convention stole horse and rode
TO the election in style. The Convention
will miss him, as he is now in Jail.
"A couple of female practical jokers
frightened young married woman into
insanity, at Milwaukee, the other day, by
telling her that her husband was dead.
Six burglars worked four hours, on
| the night of the 5th, to open the safe of
the Treasurer of Lake county, Ohio. If
they had been successful they would have
| got nine dollars.
Doesn't it look like humbug that in
every State where they control through a
free ballot, the Radicals repudiate the neN
gro Even in Kansas, settled by New
| Englanders, the vote for woman exceeded
that for negro suffrage.
Dispatches from Rome announce,
that the Holy Father, in accordance with
the advice Of France, has ordered the re-
lease of all the Garibaldians, who were
taken prisoners by the Pontifcal forces
during the late campaign.
An old man named Jacob Rudisill
was killed on the Pennsylvania railroad,
at Dillerville, on Thursday afternoon. At
the time Of his death he was gathering
coal along the track, and was struck by
the Columbia accommodation train and
instantly killed
The Pope, who at first was strenuous
ly opposed to any conference whatever for
the settlement of the Roman question, has
at length withdrawn his objections, and is
in full accord with tue proposition of
| Napoleon. The Government of Bavaria
has signified its acceptance of the French
plan.
The long uncertainty as to the fate
of Dr.. Livingstone is happily terminated
by the announcement that at the date of
the latest trustworthy advices from the
interior of Africa he was safe and well,
pursuing his explorations of the wastes OF
Africa hundreds of miles from the sea
coast.
The town of Winchester. in L;tch-
field County, CT, puts the pauper whites
of the town up at auction, once year. to
the man who will feed and keep them al
the lowest price and the way they are
kept" it is said, would breed reyolu-
ton on a Southern plantation in twenty
four hours.
Some inhuman monster in Wethers-
field, Henry county. Illinois. last week
left her infant Ia stable, expecting it to
be found and adopted Directions were
pinned to the baby's dress, also a FIVE dol
lar greenback. The child was deposited
IN such AN obscure place that it was not
found until it had perisheG of starvation
A Texas editor noticing Ben. Buffers
argument in favor Of paying the Govern
ment bonds in greenbacks, says He
knows that to pay such an enormous
debt in coin would cause such a rakina
and scraping after the precious metals as
might endanger his collections of spoons
The inference is very unkind, but may be
true.
A uew Radical paper is to be start
ed at Harrisburg, for the reason that those
now published there are not '.bIack''
enough. 1t is to be named the estate
Guard" and one of the proprietors will
be the present Secretary of Gov. Geary.
Would it rot be more descriptive of the
character of the paper to call it the estate
Black Guard %
"A diminutive negro about fifty years
of age, living in Frogtown, southwest OF
the capitol, Washington, well known to
many of the residents of that locality as
"Jef, and who is an indefatigable PISS
terer and whitewasher, is now living with
his third wife, and has been the father of
thirty children. Of the thirty all were
boys, with one exception.
A young man in Maclias, Me-, was
caught 10 the act of smuggling liquor and
selling IT in a black bag, selling bottle OF
brandy for $l.50. He was sentenced to
Jail for thirty days and fined $40. The
Justice took the black bag, saying he
would pour it out in his back yard, but q
self constituted committee, who visited the
premises next day, ''couldn't smell it,
| The hurricane which swept over the
West Indies on the 29th ult was the
most destructive in the memory of man.
On the Island of Tortola not house is
left standing. The plantations were swept
bare, and hundreds of lives were lost. On
St. Thomas and other islands the destruc>
tlon of property and life was very great
too great to form any estimate at present.
The editor of the Wheeling Register
has been shown newly laid hen egg, with
the letters &C O. D" plainly visible on
its side. The egg was laid by hen own
ed by MIR. Stockton, Agent of the Adams