The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-11-19
Eews OF the week.

ford is q convert to Catholicism.
The hair of James Furguson, Of Buff
falo, worker in copper, has, it is said,
turned perfectly green.
The losses Of American vessels by
in the last ten months exceed
twelve million dollars.
.Seventy-two persons have already
been announced as ''sure" of appointments
in President Grants Cabinet.
Oregon goes for Seymour by two
hundred majority. Oregon is now, and
will remain, a Democratic State.
The majority for Seymour in Louisi-
ana is only $500; Forty thousand ne
eroes voted the Democratic ticket.
The price Of wheat IN St. Paul, Min
nesota, has gone down to Is and 80 cents
per bushel, and -four sells at So per barrel.
The murderess, Kate johnson, was
on Saturday sentenced to be hung at Buf-
falo, New York, on the 18th of Decem~
Der.
Two old bachelors of indianapolis
made novel bet on the election. The
loser was either to marry within ak weeks
or forfeit $500.
AN incorrect itinerant item says that
Buchanan and Stevens are buried in the
same graveyard. Their bodies lie more
than mile apart
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad,
it is claimed, has 532 locomotives lar
ger number than any other railroad cor
poration in the country.
"A woman and four children were
burned to death in the hotel at Mckinsie,
on the Nashville and Northwestern Rail
road, in Tennessee, on Friday morning.
"A New York paper suggests as
means of paying the National debt that
every office-seeker pay dollar a week
towards its liquidation until he gets an
office.
Gen. Sheridan, ii is said, reports
that he has seen herb of buffalOes nine
tymiles in length and twenty-five miles
in width, and estimates the number it
contained at 100000
"A party of thirteen families, and
numbering seventy>three persons, recently
left Clarion county. destined for Dickson
county, Tennessee, where they had pre-
viously arranged to locate.
Mrs Victor, vino was to be hanged
on the Goth inst, for the murder of her
brother, VIM. Parqnet, has had her sem
fence commuted by Governor Hayes, of
Ohio, to imprisonment for life.
General Mcclellan has been elected
President of the University of California.
The election is probably simply intended
as a compliment to the General as it is
not likely that he can accept the fneriton.
Thursday morpjgThe body of Jas.
GlenP engineer of the Holiday Street
Distillery, Baltimore, was found in the
crushed to shapeless mass.
1t is supposed he was accidentally caught
by the crank.
:. In one of the hydraulic mines in Cali
fornia, stream of water struck a man,
named Edward Tyler, threw him down
and broke his neck. His body below the
neck was completely paralyzed at once,
but the head lived for three days, and felt
as we'll as ever.
Moses Smith, coIored man, died at
Washington, u. c., on Wednesday, at
at the extreme age of l20 years. De-
ceased was formerly slave. His wife is
still living, who is nearly as old as her
now 60 years of age.
..Rev. J. A Roger, Rector of the
Church of the Blessed Virgin, and leader
of Ritnaiism, Published card in the Ap-
peal Friday morning, renouncing his allie
glance to the Episcopal Church, and
declaring his intention to unite with the
Roman Catholic Church.
John Deare was killed by John
Grove, In Temperanceville, near Pitts
burgh, on Saturday night. Deare, it is
was intoxicated, and while en-
deavoring to enter Groves house was shot
and instantly killed. Grove has surren-
dered himself to the authorities.
The editor of the Norfolk T1irginian
has discovered new use for sumac. He
says that the blossoms and tender leaves
of the sumac, when dried and added to
ones smoking tobacco, gives it an exqui
site favor, which the Grand Turk never
enjoyed in his perfumed Lakatea.
The Mayor of Macon. Georgia, lately
caught negro thief, at midnight, robbing
his garden. The Mayor shot at him and
brought him to halt. Nothing dauntcd,
the negro Indignantly exclaimed that the
s'time was coming when the people would
go where they pleased without being
halted.''
The great Tennessee snake story was
a good one, but Vermont has the credit of
beating it. A paper OF that State says
shat Mr.. Stanley, of Randolph, caught a
large cricket, and dropped it into the
of a burning lamp, and there
came out of the cricket snake some five
or six inches in length, and alive and dart
ing out his tongue. Nobody will have
the courage and effrontery to try his hand
at going ahead of that story.
Since the signal defeat sustained ir
Georgia by the hosts of Radicalism,
meeting of white leaders of the party has
been held and an association formed, the
object of which is to be the exclusion of
the colored people from politics, and the
formation of a~white Radical party in
Georgia /; these men being satisfied that
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