The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-06-04
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Butler, IS sad TO be the only prisoner the
Doctor ever took.
Brown, the Canaan child murderer,
has made a lengthy written statement,
which be will read from the scaffald.
II. Stevens in his rage remarks that
the iinpeacement is ''the meanest trial
before the meanest tribunal, ofthe meanest
man in the world
"A letter from Fort Lynn, Colorado,
says the C lebrated Kit Karson died at
that post on the 23d inst. from the rupture
Of an artery in his neck.
The Radical ticket would suit an
Fn -Iish cockney. 1t is 'arf an'> >arf-
Grtnt is the whisky and Colfax the water
Nice dose for temperance men 10 swal-
low
A wild man, covered with hair and
having tushes several inches long has
been discovered in the woods in Mssissp-
! pi, and some of the Radical Carpet Bag
| gers are after him to make a voter of
The Boston Post says an expedition is
! about being organized to 90 in search of
! Manager Boutwell,. The last seen Of him
lac was mounted upon kind Of prose P,-
gasus, and going to search Cor a hole in
the sky.
"A girl who is playing Undine in a
! spectacular circus now peregrinating in
| Illinois, is the daughter of banker in
Philadelphia, graduate of school, and
a final iallerin-love with a circus-rider
Hence these fights.
A boy from Salem, Mass, was sent
to the State prison for five years for
burglary at the Iasc term Of the Essex
Supe.i)r Court He is but eighteen years
of ace, and has been sentenced to the
House of Correction twenty one times
A Hamilton % } paper saws Of a
certain Ohio Radical editor: "He is a
blackguard, and not fit to be an editor
He ou -ht to be in Congress, with Don
nelly and Washburne II the press, he
is above his leve! in Congress, he'd be
on i. -
Much suffering exists in some of the
counties Of South Carolina, in consequence
OF The impoverished condition Of the peo-
pie. Hundreds of persons are upon the
| borders of starvation. Ore meal in four
! days has been the average in number of
| families for a month past.
-C9burne anl M'Coo'e are undergo
ing a spell of forty days training in the
Jail of Dearborne county, Indiana, at the
request OF Judge Wilson, who sincerely
regretted that he could not extend the
time. His regret will be shared by ihe
people generally everywhere.
Harmon V. Strong, u member Of The
last Grand Jury of Albany county, New
York, committed suicide on his. farm few
days ago. 1t is believed that he inncently
divulged some secret Of the jury room, and
subs quenfly learning the penalty attach
ed to ;Ge offence, was overcome with re-
morse.
Grant made a stammering speech 10
mob who called to congratua him on
his nomination. in which he fatly prom~
ised, if elected, 20 be drunk during the
whole four years of bis term. His lan>
gnage was that bis "rocord in the past
should be the guide of his future" Good
heavens, what a threat
The Council of Roman Catholic
Bishops at Quebec have chosen Bishop
Lynch, of Toronto, to be Archbishop of
the Province, subject to the final con-
firmation by the Pope 1t s also ar
nounced that Father Dowd. of Montral,
will be appointed coadjotor Bishop of that
Diocese, in room of Bishop Lynch
The Kansas people have found a wav
to circumvent the grasshoppers. 1t con
sists in turning sheep upoE the wheat 10
eat il down, 50 that when the insects come
and find nothing, they leave in disgust
The wheat RECEIVERS from the feeding Of
the sheep, but if the grasshoprers 90 over
It, they take root as well as stalk
An ingenious Iocksmith, in the quie:
little city Of Baireuth, claims TO have in
vented a printing press which will work
twice as fast as Hoes best presses. and
costs only one~eighth or one ninth IA
much as the latter He is coming here
with his model and will take out pat
ent for his invention in the United States
Buffers in4nisition has demanded
that the COMMUNICATIONS Wooley'' be or
dered into solitary confinement, and, on
motion Of Bingham, and under the op-
Grafton of The gag, the conspirators of
the Rump House ordered the Sergeant MT
arms to fit up two cells in the old Can .
itol prison for his reception. Justice will /
overtake those despots sooner or later.
The Chicago Tribune (horribly black !
SAYS Senator Yates (also horribly black) |
''has ether vices, besides drunkenness, /
which ought to be reformed" Were the /
vices of a majority of these MoEgrel Sen
ators to be abandoned, there would not .
be enough left of the rascals for identi-
ficafion Their best friends would not /
know them. They would not know |
themselves
John s. Hubbard, of East GIasten- |
bury, CT, reports that on Sunday morn
ing, with a noise like thunder, the water
in his we'll under his house burst through !
the floor, Hitting up the wall of heavy
stones with which it was built, and ris>
ing over twenty-five feet in five minutes,
subsiiing in about half an hour and leav>
ing in the water on Monday morning a
thick yellow scum