The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-01-23
NEWM 0F THE WEEK.

K zoaAi, a Pole, exiled>to
Michigan, actually bore under that name
for 107 years and only succumed to it last
week.
Moses Nye once took dinner with
Geo. Washington. He is now in the
poor house ct Sandwich, Mass. Such is
tickle fortune.
The Grant RAIDS intend TO nominate
A. L. Stewart, the "merchant prince"
for Vice President, in order to get a few
of his millions as a corruption fund.
"A wife thirteen years old, living in
Dayton, has child six weeks old, her
husband is twenty years old, and the
whole party looks on life as an excellent
joke.
In Saxonville, Mass, on Sunday,
Edward Bowers was drowned while att
tempting to rescue a young girl who had
broken through the ice, The girl was
saved, bat the brave boy went down.
BY an explosion of firnn..;3 in Pits
burgh, on Saturday l.nsi, Anna Campbell
and Frederick Ramsey were instantly
killed, and a lad named Schrock so se>
riously injured that he died on Monday.
"A father at Cheyenne city, named
John Williams, lately fogged two of his
children so that one died and the other
is not expected to live. Williams was
taken to Fort David Russell to prevent
the mob from lynching him.
The erpoSe of Grants treachery has
damaged the General among business
men in New York city. The President
was SO advised by a prominent merchant
of that city, whereupon he smiled grimIy
and was no doubt well satisfied.
1t is said that sister of Chas Lob
dell, assistant editor of the La Crosse
Democrat. who was slaughtered by the
Lake Shore Railroad accident at Angola,
has become hopelessly insane. She re-
sides at Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The President has issued instructions
to all his suhordinates to hold no com
munication with the War Department
through tho-f4-te-loper Stanton, and that
nnder no circumstances viii he be rec
ognized as a member of the Cabinet.
A resolution thanking the Senate for
reinstating Secretary Stanton was offered
in the Virginia Convention, on the 18th
instant, by a negro delegate, but his blacl,
and white brethren wouldn't toe the mark.
and it was tabled. Poor Stanton
"A frightful explosion took place De-
cember %, at The gunpowder mills OF
Messrs. Hall, at Faversham, England,
Eleven men were in the counting house,
at work, when the explosion took place
They were all literally blown to pieces,
A Radical scoundrel, named John [.
Nicks, formerly Assessor of the EImira
(New York; District, confesses to having
stolen S27, 900. We will get rid of these
scoundrels after the next election, whether
the tenure of office act remains on the
statute book or not; for the people will
find way
"A lady in Lawrence, Mass, suddenly
awoke in the night with the impression
that her little girl was in danger Feel
ing her way in the dark to the childs
crib, directed by a strong impulse, she
put her finger in the little sleeper's mouth,
and to her astonishment took from thence
a large pin.
The Columbus (Ga.) San says that
since General Meade took the place vaca-
ted by General Pope's removal, the peo-
pie Of the State are engaged in considering
whether they have not ''swapped the devil
for witch" Appearances seem to indi-
cate that they have, and that on the whole
they have got the worst end of the bargain
Hon. Fernando Wood, Democratic
member of the Rump, the other day call
ed the new obstruction bill 'Ea monstrosity,
and the most Infamous measure of this
most infamous Congress-" for which he
was called to order and vote of censure
passed upon him by the infamous RAIDS
The country endorses Mr.. Woods decla-
ration and honors him for it.
General Grants singular conduct
in the Stanton imbroglio has considerably
damaged his Presidential aspirations will
the honest, upright men of the country
who love fair dealing in politics as wei
as in business. A little more sssingulal
conduct of the same kind will complete,
ly destroy his chances for the Republican
nomination. and send Chase stock up.
Within twelve days from the time
that the Uuited States flag was hoisted al
Sitka, seventy Americans had arrived
there. There were a few miners and
mechanics amongst them, but the majority
was men of business. In less than week
three stores, two ten-pin alleys, two drink
ing saloons, and a restaurant were opened
The spirit of speculation at once showed
itself Furs rose to nearly San Francisco
prices lumber was held at one hundred
dollars per thousand until timely arrival
from Puget Sound reduced the price one
half Deer, which sold at one dollar be-
fore the transfer, now command from two
dollars and fifty cents to nine dollars, ae,
cording to size ducks rose from seventy.
five cents to three dollars dozen; Salmon
from forty cents to three dollars hundred;
CLAIMS froe taigty cents to one dollar and
twentg- ena bushel, and other
:. No-ndifis - action.