The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-09-24
Political and New Items.s

james Glines, of Lynn, few days
ago made fifteen pairs of ladies' CATERS in
less than ten hours, making $7,5O.-the
greatest feat known TO be accomplished by
any shoemaker.
..Geary, the Chief Magistrate, says
he knew General Grant in Mexico in
1876 As the Chief Magistrate didn't
arrive in Mexico until l847, it is surmiscd
that he must have good memory.
News of defalcstion by Radical Off
Gals are of almost daily occurrence. The
latest is that of Col. E b Olmstead, who
has just absconded with big pile stolen
from the Post-office Department at Wash>
ington.
"A paper mill, in which was manu-
fnctured paper used by Benjamin Frank
lin, in his office, is still in operation in
Delaware county, Pa. 1t is named the
'sIvy MILL" and was erected as long ago
as the year 1873.
"A Ku Klux Klan in Terre Haute,
Indiana, turned out TO be Radical or
ganizatlon. got up with a view TO com
mitting offenses and then charging them
upon the Democratic party. So says the
Terre Haute Journal
Edwin NJ. Stanton was announced
to take the stump in Illinois. The Radi-
cal committee squelched him, by frankly
declaring that his appearance in the State
would be dangerous to the party, and
might be dangerous to himself
Nearly all of the bank note paper
used in this country is made in Philadel-
phIa There are two other mills in this
country, but the one in Philadelphia does
the most work by far. The paper is made
of only linen rags, imported for the pur-
pose from Ireland, and is as white as snow.
The Radicals, during their ten years
ascendency in the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture, increased the expenses of that body
one million one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars. Yet all this time there
were exactly the same number of Senators
and Representatives that there were under
Democratic rule. What became of the
money?
Ten years since there emigrated to
Nebraska party of one hundred Irish
men, all of them without dollar In the
world. They were worth only their
spades and Democratic vote apiece
They took land in Douglas county. around
the then unknown town of Omaha, and
now all of them are enjoying affiuence and
many of them wealth,
The citizens of the Nineteenth Ward,
Philadelphia, in which the murder of the
little girl named Mary Mohieman occurred,
have offered reward of 81 900 for the
capture and conviction of the murderer,
and wealthy citizen has offered hand~
some brick house TO the captor The re-
ward thus far is 81, 200 and handsome
brick house
One of the "loyar' members of the
Georgia Legislature recently announced
that in three months one hundred and
sixty negroes had been killed in Stewart
county alone The Coroner of the county
lately testified that but five had been killed
in two years. The carpet bagger at once
folded mp his "bloody Shirt" put it in his
carpet bag, and has said nothing upon the
subject since.
"A dispatch from Fortress Monroe,
dated 17th, Says: Yesterday afternoon a
fiendish outrage was perpetrated on the
person of a young girl residing about four
miles from Hampton, on the Yorktown
road, by two negroes named Henry Har-
rison and William Jones. The young
lady belongs to highly respectable family.
The perpetrators were arrested and are
now held in military prison awaiting their
trial by the civil authorities.
One of the Grant electors in Alaba-
ma is an ex-Confederate captain, who
swore solemn oath never to take a Fed
eral prisoner alive. Being a convert to
Radicalism, he is now regarded as a
sound teacher of the people, and his pre-
viOus sins have all been cOndoned. Any
fellow that blows the Radical bugle and
carries a carpet>bag, is considered a fit
champion for Grant and Colfax, no matter
what may have been his conduct during
the war.
Joe Brown, of Georgia, the landlord
of Andersonvi.le prison, and one of the
rebels who helped to nominate Grant, ex-
poets to make good thing out of his new
fledged loyalty. He is high priced
patriot, and demands FIVE thousand dollars
to act as counsel for the Government in
the prosecution of the alleged Ashburn
murderers. OF course he will get it
Gen Meade, being anxious about his
personal vindicatiOn," has urged the
employment of the 'soriginal secessionist." s"
Some of the Radical State or Nation
al Committees are flooding the country
with documents which find circulation
under the forged frank of Hon. Samue! J.
Randall While this contemplate trick
does not surprise us, coming, as it does,
from the Radicals, it demands prompt
suppression. Any Democrat who here
after receives Radical document with
the honorable gentleman's frank, will
know that that frank is countsrtcited Our
exchanges will please notice. EVsnarS
Herald.