The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-11-12
News OF the Week.

the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Gold is reported to have been found
| in New Hampshire and Vermont in quan.
titles sufficient to pay miners,
1t is predicted that President John
son will receive the Democratic nomiDa-
ton for Governor of Tennessee.
A woman in Vienna is realizing a
fortune by means of trained goldfinches
that draw numbers from small bowl.
The champion drinker of lager beer
in Cleveland has accomplished 100 glasses
IN one day, and invites any one to beat it.
The ldiana farmers are selling Their
corn in the field at so cents bushel, TO
be fed to hogs, which soil for s cents
pound.
The Louisville Journal has united
with the Courier of the same city. They
will be published hereafter as the Louis
Vile Courier and Journal
Mrs. Partington (P. B. Shillaber)
was a Democratic candidate for the Mas
sachusetts Legislature ln the recent cleo
ton, and was defeated.
Mr.. John Quincy Adams was
candidate for Representatives from Quincy
as well as for Governor Of Massachusetts,
and was defeated in both instances.
Over ten thousand dollars were ex-
pended in keeping alive the John Allen
prayer meetings, at New York, and now
Water street is worse than ever before.
james II Herrick, of Lodi, Illinois,
aged eighty-one, was married last week,
at Dover, Ohio, to Miss Mary Chatfield.
the same age The parents made no OBJ
lection.
"A gentleman of Newport, r. l., has
invented and patented new apparatus TO
answer the double purpose of heating
railroad cars in winter and vcntilatin2
them in summer.
"A haunted house in Savannah had
three fearful midnight raPs every night.
People kept awake until it was found that
the next door neighbor knocked his ashes
out of his pipe at that time.
The latest returns from New York
show that Hofman's majority for Gov>
ernor in that State will be more than
thirty thousand. The majority for Sey-
mour is about thirteen thousand.
Only four hundred miles more of the
Pacific railway remain to be constructed.
Two hundred miles will be finished this
winter, and the road will be completed
probably by the middle of May.
Ashley whiues like a sick puppy
over his defeat, and says it was brought
about by Islander The fellow who
can slander Ashley must have genius
for lying that would beat the devil.
Seven negro preachers have been sent
to one prison in Mississippi for breaking
into houses, and for stealing children
They were al shining members of the
Loyal League, but now they are "sweet
blighted lilies"
Butler has bottle Of wine 10S years
old, which he pretends a Southern gentle
man gave him. More likely some South
ern cellar gave it 20 him when the gentle
man was absent. Those Southern celia: ;
were very liberal to Butler.
The crowning statue for Gettysburg
national cemetery monument has arrived.
1t represents the Goddess of Liberty,
stands twelve feet high, and weighs a.,
600 pounds. 1t was modelled and cut in
Italy by Randolph Rogers.
Two negroes in Connecticut have
been sentenced to the State prison for life,
for rape. 1t would be just TO send the
white rascals, who have encouraged them
to suppose that they may do anything
with impunily, along with them.
"A new merhod of laying down the
rails on the Union Pacific Railroad is
| about being tried, by which it is believed
the progress of track laying will be greatly
accelerated The ties are to be placed
and the rails laid down simultaneously.
The negroes are fast adopting the
manners and customs of the ''poor white
trash" An ebony couple were united in
matrimony in Evansville, Ind, the other
day, having fed to that place from Ken
lucky 10 escape the wrath of ''cruel pa
rients.''
AN Alexandria lady, who has been
unwell for some time past, night or two
since, in her sleep, wandered away from
her home, and, after visiting the grave
yards, was found in field adjoining the
northwestern suburbs of the city, in her
night apparel.
The total vote cast by the three
States of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana,
at the October election, reached the enor-
nous figure of I,5l2, ,O94. The same
States, at the Presidential election in
1864, cast only 1924 ,O84 votes. so that
in four years the number has increased
I89,01O
The Radicals of the interior counties
of New York, as last means of getting
rid of Domocratic rule, propose a divis~
ion of the State, setting off New York
city and county, Kings, Queens, Suffolk
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cratic majoriiies, into ne,c State, to be
called Manhattan.
Minnesota has not so high an APP
probation of ability to play the black
guard in Congress as Massachusetts. =
Ignatius Donnelly has been defeated in the
former State, and Butler selected by a
large majority in the latter Minnesota
has much to learn before she can consider
herself thoroughly Republican State.
The fountain on the grounds of Mr..