The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-09-10
Political and new Items.s

The Toledo RtIC!e predicts decline
in the price of wheat and -four. and advises
farmers not to hold their crops for rise.
AN Indian burial ground was lately
dog up on the Little Red river, Arkansas
Ihe skeletons found there are of great size,
some Uf them eight feet in length.
Fourteen Thousand people in The Red
rlver country, north of the Minnesota, are
IN danger OF starvation, grasshoppers hav-
ing made almost a clean sweep Of their
crops.
Archbishop Kenrick, of st. Louis. i,
is said, has instructed the Catholic clergv
of his archdiocese 10 denounce planche,ie,
aud warns Catholics that if they do TO;
desist from its use, after reasonable ad-
monition, they will be excommunicated
from the church.
During tine eight years of Radical
rule they have stolen money enough 10
pay all the actual expenses and three
times the honest and legitimate expenses
Of the late war. And they are asking
the privilege of stealing for four years
more. An the Indications are that the
people Nre not willing.
The Radical Revenue Commissioner
Rollins, who, like Stanton, refuses to re-
sign position he is unfit TO fill, has beer
arrested for Sonspiring with other Radical
thieves to defraud the Government. His
political friends are trying 10 make light
Of the matter. That is the way they treat
all such transactions.
The late Queen of Madagascar was
h,,- IL
and box of coin, which If took fifteen
men to carry, was buried with her. Tie
mourning requires all her subjects to shave
their heads and so barefoot for ninety days.
They must Slso sleep on the ground and
do no work for that time.
"A lady named White, living two
miles from Spring Hill, Aaury county,
Tenn, one day last week, gave birth tn
four male children, weighing in the aggre-
gate twenty-three pounds, and ~ formed
and healthy. She has been married about
three vezra, has child now fifteen months
old. which weighed two hOndred and nine
pounds two weeks ago.
The largest planning machine in the
UHited States, if not III the world, it Is
stated, has jnst been completed at the
Government workShop in Charlestown,
Nass, Il has ben ssEeral St'rs IN build
ing. Il will plano mass Of iron forty
fesl in lese.h, twenty feet in width, and
twenty feat in height. One of the bed
pieces weighs over forty tons.
:. Pinch back, the negro Senator of
Louisiana who recently declared that if
the negroes were not allowed 10 have
their own way, thousand torches would
be applied to the City Of New Orleans,
received his training in the workhouse.
In 1862 he was tried and sentenced TO
that institution for two years. 4 fitting
champion for the Radical theory. EI.et
US have peace"
..On Saturday night horrid murder
was committed in SharPsburg, Allegheny
county The Vi tim was shot through
the heart while sitting in his own honse
by an unknown man. Two Germans,
named Christ Boch and Analt Fernon,
were arrested next morning on suspicion
of committing the deed. The victim
leaves q wife and grown up family.
That miserable milk-sop Geary has
been making speeches ont in the western
part of the State, in which he abuses bet
ter md abler soldiers than himself, because
they support Seymour and Blair. Geary
canao: speak ten consecutive sentences of
grammatical English to save his life. He
is an ignorant, malignant and conceited
ass, and bis own party are ashamed of him
wherever he goes. They had better tie
him up.
.Notwi;hsta nding the rainy weather
ten thousand people assembled in New
York on Monday afternoon to witness the
great match betweea the champion clubs,
Athletic and Atlantic. First innings,
Athletic 2; Atlantic nothing. Second
innings, Athletic nothing Atlantic 4.
Third innings, Athlelic 4 Atlantic .
Fourth innings, Athletic =; Atlantic
nothing. Fifth innings, Athletic l.; At
lantic 2. Sixth innings, Athletic II !;
Atlantic 3. Seventh innings, Athletic 9;
atlantic nothingi Eighth innings, Athlet
ic 5 Atlantic /. Total, Athletic 81
Atlantic l3. The batting of the Athletic
on the sixth, seventh and eighth innings
was tremendous, and said TO be the best
ever witnessed in any previous match in
the country.