The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-11-26
News Of the Week.

cants for Office nnder Grant have already
appeared, and awe are coming, Father
Abraham, three hundred thousand more "
1t is said that President johnson is
bestowing more than usual care on his
forthcoming message; and that 1t will be
one of the ablest papers ever issued from
the Presidential Chair.
"A poor man, with wife and four
children starving, recently stole bucket
of coal in London. He was seized, tried
and sentenced TO two months imprison-
ment His wife tainted in court.
"A little boy of IS, having placed a
penny on the railway track at Brunswick
Me-, 10 see the locomotive crush 1t, one
of the train hands threw a stick of wood
at him and he was instantly killed.
"A Washington couple, having the
misfortune to loose a child, and wishing
to convey the body to Baltimore, evaded
the express charges by dressing the cEild
in its usual clothing and took it in between
them on the cars.
Lewis Brush, sixteen years old, and
son of prominent citizens of Fremont,
Ohio, slipped under freight train, on
Sunday evening, while trying TO catch a
ride, and was so badly crushed that he
died in few hours.
Governor Geary declines TO accredIt
to Congress any representative from the
Twenty first district, in which it will be
recollected the candidates were Messrs
Covode and Foster. He leaves the whole
question to Congress.
"A South Carolina negro has OBJ
tanned ''forty acres of land and mule. ="
But it was not through politics, but by
letting them alone and attending TO his
business, when he was remembered in the
will Of his former owner.
The reason why Grant received more
votes in Allegheny county than Hartranft,
it is now ascertained, Vas, because Grant
received less votes in Westmoreland and
Indiana than Hartranrt. CoYode didn't
need them in November.
The New York Gazette thinks Gen.
Grant "will be likely to attach more
weight to special fitness and competency,
and less to party service, as qualifications
and claims for office, than has been done
for good many years past"
"A little daughter or Mr.. Miles Rice,
of Ravenswo ood, jackson county, w. Va,
was burned to death in his dwelling,
which was consumed by fire on the night
of the 9th. The child was locked up in
a room when the house took fire.
Governor Hoffman, of New York,
received tie largest vote ever cast for any
candidate in that State, viz: 438, 459,
and the largest vote ever cast for any
candidate in any State in the Union since
the foundation of the government.
Men like office as naturally as pigs
and ducks like mad, or negroes sunshine
and sleep. Throw an American up into
the air five miles, wheel him around five
thousand times, and when he comes down
his arm will be stretched to Ihe utmost for
an Office.
General Grant is impartial in his
distribution of favors in New York. He
dimes with Pierrepont, War Democrat !;
breakfasts with Greeley, Republican !;
and dimes again with Hoffman, Democrat,
at a dinner given in honor of Evarts,
johnson Republican.
1t is a singular fact that no President
of the United States up to the present
time has had child born in the White
House. 1t is understood that the fact
will not exist long after the 4th of March
next. ApPomatox's wife is said to be in
an interesting condition.
w. w. Richardson, of Coosa county,
Ala, a Radical Justice of the Peace,
hung himself on the 1Ith inst He left a
letter stating that one of the causes which
led him to commit the act was remorse
for the manner in which he had treated
the white people Of his neighborhood
Two large bears were killed last
week, in Clarion county. One was shot
not far from StrattanvilIe, by a Mr.. Han
hold, and weighed nearly four hundred
pounds. The other was killed near Jones
& Johnson's mill in the upper part OF
Clarion county, and weighed over four
hundred pounds.
..Colfax's latest denial is that he didn't
during the Scott campaign, write bogus
letters from tie South to the Louisville
Courier. AS the editor of that paper
publishes a letter, dated New Orleans,
which Colfax sent him from South Bend,
Ind, the denial must be put along with
that of know-nothingism.
"A careful estimate of the number OF
white men disfranchised in the State of
Missouri fixes the figure at nmetg thou
sand. That is specimen of the way the
recent Presidential election was carried in
the States of the South. Is it strange that
the Radicals are able to figure up by ma
jorities for their candidate.
The Leavenworth (Kansas) CONNER
ciat tells this story: Yesterday a child
was born on Cheyenne street which was
half black. the right side of the face and
and body being as black as a coal Ma
ture plays strange freaks sometimes, but
this is the strangest which has yet come
under our notice. The child is a boun-
cling, healthy boy, and will undoubtedly
be great curiosity in the scientific world.
Mrs. Mary E. Hall, widow woman
aged 81 years, was brutally murdered ii
Philadelphia, on Sunday night last, by be.
ing beaten by poker and then thrown
out of a second story window. Her son,
in-Iaw, Geo. B. Twitchell, jr, and hi:
rxyifa hau ham kaI