The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-05-28
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

I ton OF CuFlOSlJl6S T6lus6G 10 QudCN.
Miss Belle Armstrong, of Columbus,
Ohio, has made eighty words out of the let
tiers in ''oyster,' and won We dollars thereby.
Three important acts passed by Rad
ical statesmen" are now in the courts,
namely, the Registry act, the Deserter act,
aud the Income tax act.
In one of the lower counties of the State
of Georgia, where the Radicals elected their
ticket by large majority, the whole amount
of taxes paid by them was Just one dollar
! and eighty four cents.
-Thad. Stevens. for the last twenty
years, has taken half an hours recreation
each evening by betting $50 at faro. So
! SAYS eulogist Of Thad. in the Chicago
! Journal. which is a truly loyal paper.
! Somebody asks why Ben Butler is like
| the dish mentioned in the familiar melody
| of Mother Goose. beginning with "hey. did
! die, diddle, the cats in the fddle,' &C.,
and answers it by saying because 1t "ran
away with the spoons"
Butler says Bingham is a murderer
Bingham says Butler is a coward and
thief. Donnelly says Washburne is
scouudrel and a fool. Washturne says
DOnneiy is a convict and liar. Of such is
the kingdom oc Radicaiism.
Senator Fessenden has received a letter
from one of the Associate Justices of the
Supreme Bench of Massachusetts,, saying
that his opinion on the mpeaChment case is
sound in law and will be sustained by the
Republican members of bar of Boston.
"A brick house was struck by lightning
in Toronto last week The whole side of
the house and two chimneys were carried
off. The sleepers in one room-a man,
woman and infant-were eft exposed to a
furious storm Of rain, and the infant was
badly injured.
The ladies of Barcelona. Spain, have
sent banner to Rome for presentation to
the Papal troops. 1t is made of crimson vel
vet embroidered with gold, silver and silk.
The tiara Surmounting the escutcheon of the
Holy Father is Oruamented with emeraids,
rubies aud opals.
The Lancaster Inteliqencer states that
the condition Of eXPresident Buch..nan's
health Is very critical. He is still confined
to his bed and allowed to see no one the
prostration resulting from his illness is such
as to occasion, owing 10 his advanced age.
the gravest appreheusions as to the result
Mrs. AtweIl. who is now, and has been
for great number cf years, a resident Of
Metcaife County, Ky. aged eighty odd years,
has had her hair undergoing the pleasant
Transformation from the snowiest white to
the richest black, and is now in the posses
sion of luXuriant growth of rich black hair.
The expenses of the War Department
are now Sl88 100000 a year. And Stan
ton still sticks like a leech." or, to use
another vulgar phrase, like death to mig
ger" We pity the niggers. And we pity
the people who have to pay the taxes to
keep Stanton in his great character of stick
ingP1astlr.
-On Saturday, 9th inst. Stephen Heffor-
nan, a fireman on the Central Railroad, saw
l., Il xlr-4 Il
with fear as she saw the locomotive hasten |
ing toward her. HurIying forward to the |
cow catcher he reached down. snatched her |
from the track and lifted her uniniured |
upon the engine
-ColfaX says: 1--WE put into the slaves |
right hand the ballot to protect his manhood |
and his rights" No you don't You DO il /
only so that he may vote you into office.
Down South you have disfrancbised or
beaten nearly to death every colored man
who dared to exercise choice by voting the
Democsatic ticket.
The Chicago convention resolved that
Congress should reduce the rate of interest
1n the public debt "as soon as it can be
lone''-say in a hundred years or SO. or
course the reduction cannot be made so long
as the present interest contracts exist, be
cause the same august body denounced call
The Boston Post has had telegraphcd
to it from Washington some shocking swear
ing, which Butler and other members of
Congress are alleged to have INDUCED in
within the last few DAYS. Some of the
words are truly fearful, and it is grievoUs to
hlnk that any Congressman should allow
himself to get into sucn = frenzy as to use
them.
Since the close of the war, eleven hun
!red political preachers have been indicted
or crimes, principally the seduction Of silly
md conidng females. He who forgets
iod. by God shall he be forgotten" aud
preacher who sells his voice to the Loyal
4eagus makes contract with the devil,
nd will be punished and disgraced accord.
ngly.
Two men in Cadiz, Ohio. have bought
whole township, 23,040 acres, in Stanton
ounty, Nebraska. and will cultivate it as a
arm. Their residence will be put in the
entire, with streets laid out and an avenue
round the whole estate. lined with the
)Sage hedge. ''This,' says a correspond
Mt sis only sample of our Nebraska
armng."
Grant and Cafax are from adjoining
Western States The bondholders. the ex
RENE Radicals and bloated monopolists of
he East framed the platform to suit them ,
elves, and then gave both the candidates to
be West. The people of each section |
we're ignored by the Convention, and their
7ishes disregarded. They will have some I
hing to say at the election s
Senator Henderson. of Missouri, it is 7
aid, is about TO marry New York lady,
liss Foote, daughter of Elisha Foote. Esq,
7ho is employed in the Patent Office at
Washington. Mr.. Henderson iu native of !
'irginia. He left that State when young
Or Missouri, and in 1856 was chosen as
residential elector on the Buchanan ticket.
lis term of service expires March 4, 1869. {
The Nashville Banner says: 1--WE
card from responsible source yesterday,
hat pocket book containing money and
apers of Mr., Chumbly. killed during the
ate tornado in williamson county, was
licked up a day or two ago in Wilson
ounty, between fifteen and eighteen miles
rom where the accident occurred. It was !
lentiied by notes bearing Mr. C's name %
An Austrian condemned to six years
ard labor, has made curious time piece