The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-10-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Gen. Barr is defeated for Senator in
Allegheny by Russell Erreti by only 5 400
votes. The General made good run.
A quiet, inoffensive Democrat named
Richard Taylor was 80 badly beaten on
election day by Philadelphia Radicals
that he cannot recover.
The President has pardoned sixteen
soldiers who were convicted last summer
by court-martial of joining in Feniaa de-
monstrations at Buffalo
1t is believed in Chicago that Mrs.
LincolD's circumstances are not 80 straight
eaed as represented. 1t is intimated that
a wedding is In contemplation.
Sharp Yankee skippers now load
their schooners at Boston with molasses,
and, during the passage to New York dis
till the stuff into whisky-saVing the rev.
enue.
A gentleman taken sick with yellow
fever on board Mississippi steamer was
pst ashore and remained on the river bank
tor tao days, was robbed of his clothes
and money, and finally died of starvation
and neglect
-Counterfeit United States T-3O bonds
of the A Il series to the amount of So
900 have been disc covered at the Treasury,
where they were ssat for redemption
They are of the 81 900 denomination and
we'll executed.
The public money that Radical ''re-
construction wiH-eost ~oRd bay enough
lard in South America upon which to
coIOniEa ali tic Southern negroes ard pay
81 r a. u
to the bargain.
Three Louisiana negroes recently
killed a young man, keeper of store, by
choppinS his bead and face with an axe,
cutting his throat and stabbiRg him seven
times. This they did to procure money,
rum and dry goods.
Two nice young men of Virginia, ILL.,,
named Thompson, have paid $50 and
costs each, for breaking up dancing party
by sPrinkling Cayenne pepper on the floor
of the hall when the fantastic toes were
tripping one evening last week.
The Pacific Railroad is now receiv-
ing hemlock railroad ties from Chicago,
FIVE hundred miles, and then up the road
four hundred miles-nine hundred miles
by rail-at a cost delivered at the Missouri
River, of not over eighty cents per tie.
The Catholic priests in New Orleans
have many Of them died of the epidemic.
The Times speaks enthusiastically of the
zeal they show in fulfilling the painful du-
ties imposed upon them in minister;ng to
the spiritual wants cf the sick and dying
The cashier of the First National
Bank of New Milford, Connecticut. is a
defaulter 10 the amount of $4,000. He
WAS regarded as an honest and religious
man, but got into stock gambling with the
common result. He has gone to Canada.
Two Tennesseass built Ere under a
COW to make her move, and the creature
died Of torture. The next day one of these
men passed the place en- horseback, the
horse became frightened at the dead COW.
thFhv his rider snd nearly killed linn, A
neat case of Poetical Justice
Levi sHlliman Ives, d. D., L. T.. D.,
formerly Bishop of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church, of North Carolina, and well
known for his religious writing, Philan-
thropic works, and conversion to the
Catholic faith, died at his residence in
Manhattanville, Il. 7. Monday afternoon.
"A lew uayS ago MARX DcEnpSeY, an
engineer on the LehiSh Valley railroad,
fell from the train, the wheels of which
passed over and cut his body into pieces.
He was dragged over one hundred yards
and horribly mutilated. His fragmentary
f.. remains were found strewn along the track
| for the above mentioned distance.
In New Orleans, according to the re-
ports of the newspapers of that city, there
have been no less than 10000 persons
who have had the yellow fever during the
present season. The New Orleans Times
attributes the wide spread of the disease
to the neglect of the public authorities to
keep the city in good sanitary condition.
The editor of the Louisiana Depocra,
saw, few days ago, in Alexandria, an
old negro freedman, at least eighty-fve
years old, with two large navy revolyers
buckled to bis waist, pepper-box revolv-
er in each breeches pocket, huge sugar
canesknife in his bosom and loaded walk
ing cane in his right hand He was a
delegate to the Radical mongrel conven-
ton.