The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-07-02
Political and News Items.

the air is filed with them.
A wo-years-old girl who has al
the physical development of woman OF
thirty is on exhibition at Chicago.
Milwaukee brags about a meteor
which came along that way aud exploded
oyer the lake-with a loud noise.
LET us have peace" says Grant,
with his heel on the neck of the Ssuth and
his hand in the purse of the North.
Grant viii make no speeches this
campaign. Prentice says he will smoke
Lis cigar and Colfax can take the stump.
=. Mrs. Surratt visited Stanton recently.
Stanton, like Banquo, said, ''You cannot
say did it, and referred her to Bingham.
"A Radical exchange says, ''the
GRANTEES are gathering" So they are,
and like a boil, getting ready to ''bust."
..Geary says, "Drunkards, like pi
rates, are public enemies" Then of
course ''Hans' will not support Grant for
/ President.
Captain j. E. Thomas and four
other persons were lost on Wednesday, at
the mouth of the BrazOs, by the sinking
OF the steamer Selma.
Mrs. Lincoln and her son Tad are
going to Europe They will be under
the protection of Hon. Reverdy johnson
until they reach liverpool.
The locusts in Tennessee have the
letters IN '.W' clearly designated on
ther wing, which the natives Ominously
believe signifies '''No,her War."
The Radicals met with terrible de-
feat in Mississippi, and, it IS said, through
q. 70 Of bo {
true, is the "unkindcst cut Of all. -
IF Grant gets as many votes as he
sacrificed Federal lives in his military
career, he will not run SO very far behind
his Democratic competitor at the coming
election.
"A Radical paper announces that TIE
campaign under Grant viii be "ofIen
s;ve" That it wilI-offensive to the
great mass Of the white people Of the
country.
Greeley has given one hundred copies
land and ireland, They can't exactly
refuse to take them. but what bore it
must be!
..Oa Wednesday night man named /
Roosevelt, while, intoxicated, fell through |.
a railroad bridge, near the LochieI Iron /
Works, in the neighborhood Of Harris /
burg, and was killed.
There is trouble in Louisiana, be- I
cause the darkies refuse to attend their |
own schools, but insist on mixing with !
the whites. The weather is too warm
for equal rights there.
j. NJ Mckinney and J. s. Barr
were run over by freight train near
Bonaparte, Iowa, on the Valley Road,
Thursday night. The former was killed
and the latter will probably die.
Some enthusiastic Radical says that
''Grant speaks but little and thinks a
great deal" No doubt about it; be
thinks a great deal about being Presi-
lent, but that's all the good it viii do him.
The wall Of the Hospital Of ''St.
Mary Of the Conception" at Chicago, in
course Of erection, fell down on Wednes-
lay, burying FIVE wogkmen in the ruins.
NO of whom have since died Of their in
uries.
Near Elgin, IL, is forest of pine
and arch, the trees of which average two
eet in diameter and twenty feet in height!
Less !han ten years ago the ground was
aw prairie. The estimated profit Is $50 .
,er annum. /
Boxer has written sonnet on Grant, ,
n which he represents him as Moses. /
Dhe principal point of resemblance is not
mentioned, which is that both Grant +
nd Moses had to get somebody else TO !
lake their speeches. !
Six months ago Greeley said that i,
chose who are pushing Gen. Grant for /
resident will land where the Wings did
nth Scott in 80 they utterly mistake
ne time of day" Greeley's own clock
GEMS to have run down. :
"A Georgian humorist remarks on the :
tory that sFThad Stevens sent Brownlow
,ord to die hurrahing," " that ''there is no
,lling Just now how he will die, but he s
certain to commence hurrahing for
'ater shortly afterwards"
The Democracy Of the State are al Q
eady engaged in planting hickory poles. :
We expect to sec them standing thick f
efore the campaign is over. 1t is a good c
Id fashioned Democratic custom, and l
eserves to be perpetuated. l
Phillips snarls at Grant, the Radical u
ferman organ at indianapolis refuses to Z
lpport him, and Yates says the people :
{ Illinois will repudiate the Chicago
latform by fifty thousand majority .
Why don't they ''have peace ?' s
The Baltimore american says that i
he election of Grant ard CoIfax is the d
will of God" We are not authorized i
of the will of God but we +
hink that we shall be able to show in !.
November what is the will of man. y
Grant is to start on an electioneer- a
1g tour, or an ''inspection Of military U
fairs in the West," some time this +
reek. 1t is to be hoped that he will not 4,
ecome afflicted with the dizziness which 1
roubled him when ''swinging around"
With A j.
In 1864 Gen. Grant wrote: 81 !
you'd regard such a consummation'' Gas
be election of Grant to the Presidency
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