The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-02-20
NEWS 0F THE WEEK.

The Raleigh IN Q } Standard says
there are FIVE hundred persons in Wake
county who are suffering the most acute
paDgs of cold and hunger"
The Rev. Father B. Smiddinck, of
Chippeway Fails, Wisconsin, has suffered
the amputation of finger, which was
frozen while he was sitting N the confeSA
sioEal.
A Radical lately expressed fear to
Horace Greeley that the Radical party
will have to swallow Gen. Grant. 1t
will have the delirium tremens if it does.
Louisville Joar
1.-Two young women, who were wa.ch~
ing the body of supposed dead child in
Aberdeen, Miss, were somewhat startled
when the youngster sat up and requested
something TO eat.
Governor Geary has granted a full
pardon TO William Meeser, editor of the
Sunday Mercury, convicted of libel on
William B. Mann, District Attorney of
Philadelphia.
by direction Of the President, Secre-
tary Seward had taken measures to secure
the ablest counsel in the United States to
go TO England and defend the American
citizens who are under arrest for compli-
city in the Fenian movement.
The destitution and suffering among
the working classes in almest every
Northern State has never been SO bad in
the memory of man as at present. The
country is traversed in every direction by
mechanics in search of work.
One of the most celebrated actresses
in Paris, Mile Thuiller, is about to take
the veil at the convent of the Carmelites,
and Madame Arnould Plcssy is likely to
follow her example. 1t appears that
Father Hyacinthe, the celebrated Lent
preacher, effected these conversions.
In Howard county, Missouri, on
Saturday, son of MIR. Harry Dickerson,
nine yeare old, attempted to release hog
which had got fastened in gate, when a
number of other hogs attacked the boy
ard mangled and bruised him SO badly
that he died the next day
They have new way Of granting
divorces in Rhode Island. The minister
who tied the knot tore up the marriage
certificate, and pronounced the parties
free. He did SO at the demand of the
parents OF the bride and groom, who were
quite too young to take the marriage vow.
"A PENSACOLA paper says the woods
IN that vicinity are filed with robins, who
are driven by the cold blasts of northern
cilme for refuge in a milder climate.
HuntsTaea are having fine sport in shoot
ing them, and robin pie is very common
dish on the table of the poor white as well
as he aTistocratic freedman.
"A little girl in Norwich, Conn, who
had received various little knicknacks
from her mates, thought it was her duty
the other day TO reciprocate the favors.
Size accordingly provided herself with
box of cathartic pills and distributed them
among her associates, creating thereby
decided sensation amcng the pupils.
james p. Thomas, a barber, and
Miss Antoinette Rudger, both colored,
were married in St. Vincent's Church, ST.
Louis, on Wednesday. The ceremony
occupied two Haurs and half, and was
imposing. The bride has 100000. The
husband has nearly the sam6 amount. he
presented the bride a check for $4,000
as wedding gift. The bridal veil cost
$3.50, and the bride wore earrings costing
$4,000. Rev. Thomas Burke performed
the ceremony.
Il. Z. Pinkham, seventv-onc years
of age, died suddenly in Lafayette, In
diana, last week. He was in good health
till about half an hour before his death,
when be went down stairs and remarked
81 am going home; in half an hour-in
thirty minutes shall be corpse" He
quietly proceeded to give directions about
his business, and, commending his soul to
his Maker, expired in exactly thirty-four
minutes. His relatives wanted to go for
a doctor, but he said, "It is no use l
shall 60 hence in half an hour"