The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-08-13
Political and News Items.

..One OF the private wheat crops OF
Kansas is ten thousand bushels.
Spirits from another world are nightly
/ bFickbatling house in Memphis.
"A man rolled from the roof Of n six
story house III New York into his grave.
The Princess of Teck leans toward
Catholicism, and London gossips about it.
MILES O'Railiy held an office worth
seventy thousand dollars per annum. He
made a great mistake in dying.
The cost Of the standing army in the
! Southern States, as reconstructed by the
Radicals, was over eighteen millions Of
dollars last year. White men, pay your
/ taxes
Hon. I. T. Backus, a prominent
Ohioan, has lett the Radical party. A
little ungrateful, too Wendell Phillips says
Grant ""orships at the shrine OF Bac
chus !"
The election for Mayor was held re-
Gently in Portland, Oregon. The vote
stood: Boyd, Democrat, 785 Dierdortf,
Radical, 62l-a Democratic gain of l72
since the election in J une.
Grant went to Kentucky to visit Lis
parents, AMI two weeks afterwards Ken
tucky elected Democratic State officers by
over 90, 900 majority, Democratic gain
of over %, 600. 'I-ot US have peace.
Gran. says St. Louis Is the place of
which he intends TO become resident at
some future day" The day is not far
distant, but we never heard that Salt
river was in the vicinity of St. Louis.
IF it takes three years of peace for
tie Radical party to increase the national
debt nine millions of dollars, how many
years would il take that party TO pay it
off! 1t Is hard question, and we will
give plenty Of time ior an answer.
The American House of Represen-
tatiyes," says the London Saturday Re
uptc, ''stands lower IN morality and
craftsmanship than any similar assembly
in civilized countries" To this condition
has Radical rule reduced the nation.
Senator Fowler, in bis answer to
Buffers investigation reports, says that
the official record of bis doing at New
Orleans prove him TO have been a traitor
20 his country, and should have been
tri.d, convicted and executed for his trea-
son.
=. i man named John Carper has been
urging The negroes of Tennessee 10 burn
several cities il chat region and murder
It's inhabitants. The only defence made
for him is that he is a monomaniac. So
was john Brown, but that did not prevent
his being huug.
There is q2i:e rUn in the newspa-
pers now DAYS on wild men and big
snakes Tbs New Brunswick papers
give granhic accounts of a serpent, from
sixty to one hundred feet in length, which
has taken up its abode ia Lake Utopia,
in that province.
An election bas just been held in the
Territory Of Montana. As far as heard
from the Demc cratic majority is l, 200,
with several counties TO hear from. Las;
year The Democratic majority was only l.
100. This Is very big straw, showing
the direction public opinion is taking polit-
ical!y.
according 10 the Vienna Journals the
Austrian empire Is sbout to disappear
from the political vocabulary. In place
OF il we are 10 read the Aus:rC- Hunga>
fiaa monarchy. This decision is said to
have bsen come to 81 the last ministerial
council held under the presidency Of the
Emperor IL Vienna.
The standing army in the South
seems to make one Of the principal links
in the chain CT suat servi.ude of ANARCHY,
~ wh.ch "a cruel u-urpation holds an un-
done people at once IN bondage, poverty
and confuFion If continued over one
portion Of the Union, how long before 1t
will be spread over the whole
A mower in Luzerne county, Pa,
cut rattesnake in two with his scythe.
Shortly after, he took hold Of the piece TO
which the head was attached, when he
Was bitten on the thumb. A bandage
was placed tightly round the arm, when
the poison caased the hand TO burst, and
ii could not be prevented from penetrating
Ike bandage and reaching the heart
Fatal.
Seven miles from Springfield, Mo-,
IS great natural Curiosity called ''Lnco!n
cave" wIich is said 20 rival the great
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. 1t has,
as yet, been explored only about half
mile from It's entrance, and the largest
chamber yet discovered is said to be about
ore thousand yards in breadth, and from
thirty to fifty feet in height, and is said
10 lie very brilliant and beautiful
That distinguished delegate to the
Chicago Conyention, Joe. Brown, rebel
Governor Of Georgia, the wretch WHO
founded the Andersonvile prison, intends
10 have the concern fixed up as place
for holding negro Grant meetings. Over
the entrance viii be posted, in large LETT
tiers, Grants order to Butler to stop the
exchange of prisoners, which was the
sentence 70 a horrible death Of thousands
OF the nations bravest aud best.