The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-07-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Is one OF the best lawyers and purest men
In the State
"A Montgomery negro, confined for
yaSrancy, tried to hang himself, on Mon
day week. The door of the cell being
opened to prevent his purpose, he rushed
out, ran to the river and drowned himself.
Farm hands are wanted in the West,
| and the demand for them comes from all
quarters. The enormous crop now almost
ready for harvest viii require, to properly
secure it, more hands than can be procured
in the West.
A murderer in Chicago who shot his
wife, mother, child and others of his
family, wept like a child az his convic-
ton, He should be tenderly sympathiz-
ed with, poor soul, and made as. COM
| Portable as possible.
In New Hampshire, the dominating
Radicals debar all Catholics from holding
Office. And yet they boast OF their in
telligence, liberation, regard for freedom;
and the ''rights of man" What hypo-
critics and fanatics!
AT Fredisbnrg, eighteen miles from
| Now Albany, Indiana, last Wednesday,
Mr.. Kice was stung on the lip by a bee,
and the poison spread through his system
so rapidly that he was speeches. in thirty
minutes, and died In about three hours.
A stepmother whipped five year
old child at Sterling, Ill, nearly to death,
| recently. She beat it and emothered it
with pillow till life was nearly extinct,
when the neighbors took the child away
| from her and found its back literally cut
| to pieces,
Old Matthias Oberfield, of Akron,
Ohio, wanted his wife to buy him glass
of cider, the other day, and upen her re-
fusaI to do so, he put a pistolto his mouth
and blew his breath away forever. He
was determined to get a draught of some
thing, and he got it.
"A letter from Rome says that among
| the notabilities now in that city is ritual
ist clergyman of the Anglican Chnrch who
appeared at all the Catholic ceremonies
| attired in full dress of a pilgrim or hermit,
and assists most devoutly at ali the re-
h5ious functions of the season.
The boilers III the Fulton cotton mill,
at Lancaster, Pa, exploded On the morn
ing of the 18th inst, demohshing great
part Of the building and killing some nine
OF the operatives and iniuring several oti,-
ers. One Of the boilers was carried full
square, redognding twice from the earth
in its passage.
The Lancaster ErpresS, Radical
sheet, says that Tbad Stevens had bought
! lots in several cemeteries, but finding that
there were not ''any of Gods childreo''
buried in them, he cancelled his purchases.
A ''copperhead' organ remarks that
s'He seems to think as little OF his grave
as he does of his bed
| In Mexico negroes vote and possess
equality, and what is the state of affairs Z?
continual revolutions, conspiracies and
wars. Neither property nor life has been
at any time secure in that country since
the enfranchisement of the blacks. Mon
grelism has cursed Mexico as it will curse
the United States unless the Radical party
schemeTs shall be controverted.
"A man named O'NeilI, says the Ve-
mango Spectator Of the 18th, employed on
the Allegheny Valley r. r., was drown
ed near tae mouth of Big Scrubgrass, on
Saturday last, whilst attempting to ford the
| ripsr on horseback. His body was re-
covered the same day. Another man,
name unknown, was drowned whilst
bathing near the same place, half an hour
| afterward.
immediately succeeding the surren-
der of he city IF Mexico. Gen. Baez, the
Juarist commander, ordered the nuns to
vacate the converts within forty-eight
hours, and, in accordance with the order,
on the 23d of june the eight hundred and
sixty nuns were driven out. Henceforth,
il is said, there are to be no more converts
in Mexico This is the s'liberar' course
pursued by the self-styled Liberal party
of Mexico.
A terrible murder was perpetrated
about midnight on Friday last, in Spring
field, H. An industrious and sober
-laborer, by tho name of John Graham,
beat out the brains of his wife while she
was asleep. When arrested, he confessed
the murder, said he was drunk when he
committed the deed, but was jealous OF
his wife and wanted 10 get rid of her.
They have been married about ten years,
and have four young children. Graham
heretofore bore good character.
! Water is purified by French chem
ist by using alum. lie states that two
grains of alum TO a pint of water will
clarity water which is unfit to drink, and
the taste Of the alum will not be perceiv-
ed. Another French chemist, in Algiers,
shows that muddy water viii became
drinkable in the course of from seven tc
seventeen minutes by adding half grain
| of pottassi alum to every quart of water
Ten years ago citizen of St, Loui:
county, Missouri, made viii, in which
/. he provided that certain of his slaves, ter
in number, should each receive five hun.
dred dollars on condition of their emigra
ting to Liberia, or ''such other country as