The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-05-14
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


rooted two churches, killed four persons
and wounded about fifty others, some of
whom will die.
In certain locality in Salem, Mass,
there are now living six widows within
distance of sixty rods, besides half dozen
smart young ladies on the same street A
choice huntng>ground for marriageable
youths
A Yankee schoolmaster, who was en-
gagged in teaching the young Africans
'.how to shoot" and steal, and the old
ones how TO vote, in Pike country, Miss,
eloped with saddle colored lady of that
place few days since
A man in Bridgeport. Conn recent
ly obtained a divorce without his wifes
having received notice. A short time
after the decree, the wife received notice
that an estate in England, worth $50, 900,
had been devised TO her by a relative.
-Donnelly's eaiogy upon Grant, that
he was like lone of these ancient ware
houses Of the old world, with floor above
floor" would be immensely compliment
tary if it were not noticeable that in these
same very lofty warehouses the upper
story is generally vacant and $50 let"
Near Indianapolis, recently, a man
who was detected in a criminal intimacy
with his neighbor's wife, paid her husband
81 800 to prevent an exposure and law
suit. The revenue officers got wind of the
affair, and the recipient of the money was
compelled to pay income tax upon it, and
thus the shameful transaction leaked out.
A NiliiaDsport paper Gays young
man was recently discovered in an interior
town done up in female toggery, engaged
in the ravishing business of fitting ladies'
corsets. He says he passed through
Easton, Allentown, Reading, PottsvilIe,
and other towns, ard fitted cersets TO
several thousand ladies. Whewi
A young man under the Influence of
the ardent tried to commit suicide at AL
lentown- lately by hanging himself in "A
stable with cow chain. He was dis
covered and foiled. He next hung him
self with his handkerchief attached to a
door knob, and was again cut down. He
next laid himself down in pig sty and
wisely concluded not to shove off Just yet.
The New York Times (Republican)
thinks that if Andrew Jackson were in
Andrew Jobnson's place, with the army
and navy at his command and the Dem
Ocratic party at his back, Impeachment
would not be so quietly and TRANQUILITY
carried out. We guess if Andrew john
son had the Democratic party of thirty
years ago to back him he would show q
bolder front
"A Federal soldier, named Rob't
Watson, who was member of the Tenth
Tennessee volunteers, and had lost q leg
in the service of his country, was, some
time since, discharged as watchman at
the work house, and the place is now oc-
cupied by negro. This is the way men
who fought for the best government the
world ever saw are now treated by the
party in power.-Ndshrile Gazette
There have been venty seven deaths
thus far from the recent sad di-astor on
the Erie Railway, st Port JerTis. Thir-
teen injured persons remain at that place,
all of them beirg exi ted to recover,
whilst the other wounded have been con-
veyed TO their homes. The Erie Railway
Company has already settled quite num-
ber of claims for injuries received in this
accident, the amounts paid ranging from
$50 as high as $4,000.
A little child in Madison, Indiana,
narrowly escaped drowning 4 few days
ago. The mother having occasion to
remove the lid of the cistern, accidentally
LEI the bucket drop into it. She went for
a pole to "hook If oot," thooghtlessly
leaving the place uncovered, and, on re-
Il
when 10, and behold shat should she
draw up but her lite child, that bad just
tumbled down in her absence. 1t was
saved.
The violent rains in Kentucky end
Tennessee have swollen the streams,
covering thousands of acres of wheat ard
oats with from six inches to three feet ei
water. On Sunday, the Sd, eighty ieet oil
embankment and hundred and seventy
feet Of trestie work in the Cumberland
mountains, on the Nashville aud Chatta
nooga Railroad, were washed away, and
the track OF the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, near the former city, was piled
for distance of several miles with drift
wood.
An infant son of hIr. w. w. Lam
born, residing near Lexington, Lafayette
county, Mo-, lost his life on the 2Oth ult.,
in manner at once singular and sad. 1t
appears that the child was playing about
the fire place, and getting small piece
of burning coal in It's mouth, before il
could be removed, the coal passed into
the windpipe, producing injuries from
which it died in three days afterwards
The little fellow was thrown into fits BY
1T, and could not be recovered, though
the best medical aid was invoked.
Mr.. Clarence Logan, of Philadelphia,
just returned from Savannah, having OBJ
served the election there, has made q
statement that in one ward in that city,
several negroes were supplied by a wag
with labels of ''rat and roach extermi-
nator, and voted them as ballots. Some
of the very intelligent suffragans noticing
cut OF a rat OF the supposed ballot,
asked what it meant. They were told
1t stood for the qualification of the consti.