The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-04-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A man named Sweeny, a convict in
the West Virginia Penitentiary, has f.llen
heir to fortune of $50, 900 in Ireland.
lie has fourteen months yet to serve.
-Brownlow has pardoned out rascal
just sent TO prison for attempting rape
upon his mOther-in-law, and commissioned
him Captain Of a company of his loyal
militia.
Mr.. Speke, an English clergyman, is
affected with a form of hypochondrasis,
which took hIm off to see some bad girls
one night. CIergymen cannot be too care>
ful of their health
"A year ago A d. Jones bought one
hundred and twenty acres of land near
Council Bluffs for 81, 900. Last Friday
he sold it, for depot grounds for the rail-
road, and at a profit of S35, 900.
The latest piece of Radical vilIainv is
the taxing of poor women, employed in
the Departments at Washington, one dollar
each, TO erect a monument to the memory
of the slate lamenred.''
"A COW in Illinois died suddenly the
other day, without any apparent cause.
She was opened and it was discovered
that she had been in the hardware business.
Thirteen ounces of nails, together with a
lot of brass pins and brass buttons were
found IN her stomach. She MIXED carpet
lacks.
In Troy, New York, not long AGO.
Thomas Palmer, having a trihing sore,
got up one night in the dark 10 apply TO il
some ''paIn killer" He used indelible
INK by mistake instead. The wound was
poisoned, the leg sweIled, and for two or
three days his life was despaired of but
vigorous treatment ut length saved him.
"A lady in Clark county, Ky. wife
VI a minister,-h eaten norhing for five
years. She takes no nourishment what-
ever, unless it be in auid form, and very
little tl.en. 1t would take her all dav 70
swallow cup of coffee, and at times she
does not consume teaspoonful in TWENTY
iogr hours She is in the enioyment Of
good health and attends to her household
affairs as do ott-r women.
by the breathing Of chain connected
with the hosting machinery at the Dia-
mond Coal Mines, in Scranton. Pa on
tuesday week, a platform containing
seventeen men was PreciPitated to the bot
tom OF the shaft, one hundred and eighty
five feet. Eleven were Instantly killed.
ore has since died, and two more it s
ihought cannCt live. They leave eleven
widows and tweniy-eight orphans.
In Evansville, Indiana, on Sunday.
negro named Hopkins went 10 the house
ot Mr. Jack Robson. for whom he worked
Tor more than year. Going at once to
the room where Robson and his wife were
sleeping, he struck the former on the head
with an axe, cutting terrible cash on the
check, and with another blow broke the
jaw bone and almost severed the chin.
The negro then fled to the river, took 4
skitf and escaped.
William Donovan was legally strane>
led otherwise hanged) at York. Pa. on
Tuesday week, for the murder of the
Squ.bb family, In June, 1866. His last
words TO the assembled crowd were 81
here stand IN the presence of the Saviour
OF the wourld, and am as innocent of
the murder rs the Saviour of The world is.
don't know who done it; | was in NV
bed on that Sunday night, and don't know
anything about the murder Donovan
was a neighbor of the Squibbs, and leaves
wife and three children.
- he spirit of bigotry and intolerance
exhibited in the Senate and House of this
State, within few days, by leading Re
Puoiicans, cannot fail to awaken suspicion
that Know Nothingism is to be revived
Religion and nationality is. once again TO
become the banner cry of party. Sink
ing, even with the negro element at its
back, and dcSDairing of rato;p;,cr ,,,,,,,,,
unless II stlrs the worst passions of man
KIND IN It's behalf Let the Democratic
party fail not to maintain eternal vigilance
upon the revolutionary and unscrupulous
leaders of the Republican party.