The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-12-03
News OF the Week.

the recent term of the Supreme Court OF
Connecticut, eight have been married since
1860.
Negro boys in their teens voted at
Little Rock. Gray headed white men,
the pioneers of the State, were denied the
right.
"A few nights ago party of Williams
entered the Catholic Church at Rockland,
Maine, tore down the images and decora-
tions and threw them out of the window.
Margaretta Beam, aged twentysfour,
dropped dead in fair, at Newark, New
Jersey, on Tuesday evening. She had
been one of the liveliest saleswomen dur
ing the evening.
An execution for murder recently
took place under the Oneida Indians of
Wisconsin, capital punishment remaining
among them by special statute, though
abolished in the State generally.
Nothing connected with the late cleo
ton for President is more remarkable than
the large maiorities for Seymour in the
Democratic States. Where they did go
against the radicals, they went with
will
Miss Eleanor Caruthers, of Lawrence,
Mass, young woman of twenty years
old, fell dead from exc tement while going
for a policeman TO arrest her drunken
father, who WAS threatening to take her
mothers life.
g. A negro about twenty years of age
committed horrible outrage on the per-
son of lady living on the border Of Green
and Tuscaloosa counties, Ala, on the Sd,
while her husband was al bsent at the polls
The fiend escaped.
"A daughter of AIr. Miles Rice, of
Ravenswood, West Virginia, was burned
to death in bis dwelling, which was con-
sumed by fire a few nights ago. The
child was locked up in a room and could
not make its escape.
a. Elisha 3. Fvro, the husband of tie
woman who was supposed to have been
murdered by burglars, in Delaware coun-
ty, \. Y, on Tuesday week, has by the
unanimous verdict of the Coroner's Jury
been held to answer on the charge of mur~
dering his wife.
"A party of negroes, black and white,
old women of both sexes, have been push
ing woman suffrage and negro suffrage in
a convention at b ston. The negro,
Fred. Douglass, was received on the plat
form with great eclat by the the so-called
white sisters.
Now that the election is over the
Tribune has ascertained that the revenue
law is oppressive and injurious to the peo
pie, and that the officers in the internal
revenue service are using their positions to
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otter words, by extorting from the people,
and in robbing the Treasury.
"A buried city, it is reported, has been
discovered beneath extensive lava fields,
in the vicinity of the village Of Tayahual-
CO, Mexico. Well preserved Buildings
and dried remains of human beings, it is
stated, have been uncovered. a commits
sion Of scientific men has been sent from
the city of Mexico to conduct the explora-
tions.
1t is reported from Washington that
Minister McMahon, Mr.. Washburn's sue
cessor in Paraguay, has been instructed
to call Mr.. Lopez to account for his bar
barous treatment Of American citizens,
and that our South Atlantic squadron will
add emphasis to the Minister'S demands.
We trust there is good foundation for this
report.
The most sensible election bet yet
recorded was that between a gentle man
and lady in New Albany, Indiana In
case of Grants election he agreed 20 mar
ry her, and in case Of Seymour's success
she was to marry him. At last accounts
the parties were very we'll satisfied with
the manner in which the wager had been
decided.
1t is stated that Mrs. Grant has de-
clared that she will never occupy the
White House She says she is unwilling
to exchange Der own comfortable home
for the uncomfortable and poorly arrang-
ed apartments of the Executive Mansion,
although she would be willing to appear
there on state occasions and do the honors
of the establishments.
Twelve railroad laborers working
near Davenport, Iowa, were attacked and
routed last Saturday by an infuriated male
deer, which jumped over high picket
fence. The men rallied twice, and at
tempted to subjugate the brute with clubs,
but he set them to fight, infiicting serious
bruises, and tearing the clothes nearly off
several of the men.
The Government of Russia, not con
tent to assimllate or to destroy the Polish
nationality by torbidding the use of the
Polish language TO Catholics as well as
Jews in that unhappy country, has also
published an ukase of the Emperor enforc-
ing the use of the Russian language in the
family, the school, and even the churches
Of the German and Lutheran populations
of the provinces of Courland, Esthonia
and Livonia.
The town of Greenbrier, West Yir-
ginia, which has a population of I,2OO,
only polled at the recent election eight
votes. All the rest are disfranchized, and
under the Constitution forced upon that
State by bayonets, they never can become
voters. There are twenty-five thousand
in the State in the same situation. They
are required to pay taxes, State and ma
tional, but are not allowed to vote. This
is Radicalism