The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-06-11
LATE NEWS 1TEEEs.

refused TO take Mr.. ChaSe'S hand, there
was clear saving of soap and water to the
Chief Justice.
The Rev. NJ. Junkin, father-in-law
Of Stonewall jackson and President of
Washington College il It's early days, died
in Philadelphia lately, Mt an advanced age
The National currency is to be re
tired because the portraits of Chase and
Fessenden appears on it. A great num-
Der of petitions are daily sent to Congress
on this subject
-joseph Robideaux, the founder Of ST.
Joseph, Mo. died in that city on Wed.
nesday, at the age of S4 years. He es
tablished an Indian trading post at that
point 60 years ago, and resided there ever
since.
Gen. Schofeld has been appointed
Secretary of War by the President, and
confirmed by the Senate. He entered on
the duties on Monday week. Since the
acqui:tal Of the President Stanton has left
the War Department, and can't be heard
from
AT the city election held in Norwich.
Connecticut, 81 few days ago, the Radical
ticket was elected by one hund ed and
seventeen majority--a Democratic gain
of nearly two hundred on lat years vote.
The vote Polled was ten hun'r d and
fifty three, The largest ever cast.
1t IS stated on good authority-we
have never tried it-that putting peas into
boiling water for about one minute before
planting, the crop produced viii be free
from the bug. This seems to be an easy
and plausible remedy the parboiling Of
the seed will also doubtless help oernina-
ton.
AT South Bend, Indiana, on Tuesday
evening, Misses Mary Miller and Dephine
! SeiXas with Engene Seixas and Charles
Natcrhouse, went out for a sail upon the
river above the dam. BY some means
they lost control Of the boat, which drifted
into the swift current and went over the
| dam. and all were drowned
The editor of the Veaango Spectator
has been shown a specimen OF lead ere
which IL found III that county, and is said
to yield siNty-eight per cent Of lead and
eighteen Of silver. The Spectator SAYS
there is an old tradition Of silver mine
having been known TO the Indians near
the spot where this ore was obtained,
Said the Tribune few months ago,
| 'Grant cannot carry our banner unless he
wears our uniform" Imagine Ulysses
walking down Pennsylvania avenue with
liorace's old hat and white coat. a busheI
Of newspapers in his pockets, and one leg
OF his pan,aloons stuck into his boot. The
effect of the picture would be heightened
by little staggering.
On Wednesday evening, near Bucy-
rus, Ohio. a brakeman named Henry
Crumiey, while st irg in ihs cab os,:
talking with the conductor, suddenly fell
to the floor, exclaiming, "My God, my
legs :" He remained in an insensible con-
dition, and died shortly atterward, on q
passenger train upon which he had been
placed for removal to Fort Weyne.
During the rain storm last Friday,
waterspout swept down Moody's Nouns
tain, in Hope township, Knox county,
Maine, cutting three ravines down the side
Of the mountain, one of them four rods
wide and eight feet deep, and also uproot-
Ing In lis course trees ten inches in diam
etcr, and raising LincolnviIle Pond, iu one
night, three feet higher than ever known
before
Michael Barrett, convicted, against
conclusive evidence of innocence, of firing
the fuse that started the Clerkenwell ex-
piosion. has been hung 70 appease the
latest English cry for Irish blood Sixty
five years ago Robert Emmett gave ~ his
life for cause not unlike that for which
Michael Barrett died, and Ireland -tiII
hated England and plotted to break her
CALLING yoke.
The telegraph agent of the Associat>
ed Press in San Francisco on Wednesday
gave rather neat specimen OF what the
late lamented Artemus Ward used to call
''sarkasum After announcing the, un-
der the circumstances, really wonderful
Democratic victory IN Oregon, the wao-
gish agent adds: ''I'he nomination Of
Grant and CoIfax excites great enthusiasm
here" Now that is really good for
'eleGraPhic Joke
A week ago last Saturday, in Chey-
enne, Dakota. one Hooke found his wife.
whom he had married out of hand, too
intimate with a John Owens. and there
upon sought the presence of the fraii PAIR
only TO swallow some strychnine aud die.
The influence of example was too strong
TO be resisted and the girl and her para
mour then and there did the same thing in
turn, to be buried all three together Chey-
enne promises some more soon.
Our Irish fellow citizens have good
cause for pride in the details of the storms
ing OF Magadala which have just been re-
ceived by mail. 1t seems that the brunt
OF battle and hardship was borne on the
plains OF Abyssinia, as it has been borne
IN so many other fields, by the Irish SOL
diers OF the Queens army. What that
army would be without the recruits it
draws so freely from the Emerald Isle,
we need not stop to conjecture. ~ Y.
Tribune.
In Cambridge. Ohio, on Tuesday
night, B F. Sipes, proprietor of the
" ashlngton House, was killed by boar
der named Kennou. Sipes broke into
hennon's room in order to extiuguish
hight which he had left burning, and
which, as kennon was III the habit Of