The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-05-07
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

into Grants Cabinet. No doubt, if it is
not kept locked.
At Lancaster, New Hampshire, the
Connecticut river froze over in the month
of April, after the winters ice had gone, an
occurrence unknown before.
An exchange reports that a cat in
Newport, Rhode Island, had adopted three
chickens Two have died and the third
is fed, Gursed and purred over by pussy.
A Radical exchange says: Gamma
Dickinson has lost her voice, and Heaven
help her who finds it, This is ungallan',
but then Anna's ''loyalty" is more than
suspected.
A lad Of eighteen, in.Wisconsin, the
son of wealthy parents, was recently de-
tected pilfering money from his employer
He hung himself through modification at
the exposure
The propeller Gov. Cushman, ex-
pIoded boiler whilst running ont of the
creek at Buffalo, on Saturday morning,
! by which eleven persons were killed and
three wounded
The Democrats of Hagerstown, Md, .,
carried their whole city ticket, last week,
gaining 12l on last years majority
There is no let up anywhere in the reac-
ton against Radicalism.
A temporarily insane man named
Isaac Mace, living near Clifey, Indiana,
on Saturday last shot his brother and
! badly wounded his unCle and aunt. Dis
! appointed love was at the bottom of it.
One "DoctOr'' De Land and his wife,
of Adrian, Michigan. attempted to cure
their grown>up daughter of fits by tying
her into chair, stripping her clothes from
her body and deluging Der with cold wa
| ter. Her screams aroused the neighbors,
who interfered and had the practitioners
| arrested.
A little girl aged eight years. daugh-
ter of Levi Sanders, of Pond Hill, n Y,
was found on Saturday near her fathers
| residence with her throat cut and life ex-
tinct Her person had been horribly out
| ragged. A half-witted boy named VIM
H. Carswell is supposed to have commits
ted the murder and has been arrested
-Carbonic acid compounds, it is stated,
have been used with success for the pre>
servation of the dead The Iiq1id is ap-
piled externally and by injection into the
body The progress of decay, it is assert
ed, is completely arrested, the color of
the skin even being unchanged.
Early on Saturday morning, an ex-
press messenger on one of the cars of the
New York Central Railroad was gagged
and bound by Two men. who entered the
car as the train passed Garrison. the
robbers then secured about $4,000 and
succeeded in leaving the car. upon. its ar
rival in the city, before the situation of
the messenger was discovered.
Twenty persons were either seriously
or slightly injured by The late railroad ac>
cident on the Allegheny Valley Railroad
They were mostly residents Of Franklin,
Venango county. One passenger car and
| the baggage car tumbled down "a twenty
foot embankment, rolled ever several times
and were broken to pieces Cause-run>
ming at too high rate Of speed around a
curve.
The prisoners in the Cleveland jail
have revived the story that that uncomfurt-
able domicile is haunted by the ghosts of
two or three murderers, who have been
hanged in the yard adjoining the building.
DR.. Hughes, the wife-slayer, is the most
regular of these ghostly visitors, dropping
in every night, just after the stroke of
midnight, and slowly promenading the
corridor
When the Canaan child murderer.
Brown, had received his sentence, to be
hung on the 30th of May next, be remark
ed all right" While Judge Peckham
Was passing sentence Brown was perfectly
cool and unconcerned After he was
placed in the ''murderers CELL" he said to
by-stander: ''Why didn't they make
1t to morrow; what do they want to keep
me in this sinking hole so long for 20
The Irish Church Esta ablshment. the
''great scandal and tyranny of the age"
has received its death bow. The Minis
try, backed with the wealth and nobility
OF England, the Crown with all It's hered-
itary rights, have been Obliged to yield to
the demands of the people. Its abolition
was determined npon in the English
House OF Commons, on the night of the
3Oth ult., by a majority of sixty>fve.
This result will likely lead to the disso
luton of the English Ministry.
"A shanty belonging to Patk Laughlin>
| about a quarter of mile cast of Erie Rail.
road depot, at Great Bend, Penns ylvania,
caught fire on the night OF the Sd inst.
I-aughlin and his wife were away from
home ard the house was in charge of pirl
sixteen years of age, who, with six chill
dIen OF Laughlin's, was asleep when the
flre broke out. The girl Immediately OF
awakening went to the rescue of the chill
dren and succeeded in saving two of them;
returning to get the others she was sufFo
Gated ana the four remaining children per-
ished with her.
PREMONITIONs.- is stated that Palm
Sunday, two days before his death, D'Ar