The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-08-20
Political and News Items.

ry thieves
."The Rebels thirds of the
white people of the country.
."LoyaIty"-The Radical apology
for public robbery.
"Traitor"-A Radical argument |
which costs the country $500, ,OOO,O
year in time of peace.
"The People"-All the niggers and
as many whites as can be induced to vote
the Radical ticket.
Grants friends say he shuns public
demonstrations, but the Louisville Jour
nal says the demonstrations shun him.
Why does it cost S44 Alb, Isl more
to support the army and navy in the year
of peace, 1867, than it did in the year of
peace, 1866
The number of threshing machines
in this country is said to be 225, 900
Grant will think there are several million
of them in November.
AN exchange says those who preach
against sin and serve Satan are but little
better than those who denounce intemper-
ance and 60 for Grant
Somebody makes the statement that
General Sherman is going for Grant and
ltc INiilCdl pau II Is pIeSuu1eu luat
he recollects when the Radical party acent
TOR him.
Mr.. Topley, the great English cham
pion pedestrian, astonished the Williams
porters, on Monday, by walking seven
and half miles in fifty eight minutes and
fortS-two seconds.
The death of Thaddeus Stevens is
bewailed by the Radicals as loss to the
country, by which they mean loss TO
their party. The crack of his whip gave
them the votes Of thousands of towards.
."Hans Patrick LeConnor," the nom
de plume Of a reporter for the St. Louis
Times, lDemocratic,J was recently mobbed
and badly beaten by the Radicals at
! Springfield, Illinois LET Us have peace. -
"A great mortality is noticeable
among the flies in Nashville, and the
manner of their dying is said to be similar
! TO that which has been observed several
/ times before the coming of terrible and
sweeping epidemic.
AT St, Louis, on Friday, Adams
/ Express Company was robbed in an adroii
manner Of $1,000. Their messenger was
/ seized, chloroformed and afterwards
/ knocked senseless with an iron bar. The
scOundrels perpetrating the deed escaped.
Miss Ann Lee, of Lawrence, Mass,
lay fat on the bank of the river the other
day, and held her face in the water until
she drowned, her clothing not having
been wet at all. 1t was the d1ycSt sui
eide by drowning on record
The fraudulentIy elected batch of
carpet -baggers, who impudently call
themselves the Legislature of Florida,
/ have resolved to cast the vote of that
State for President. The people of the
United States will never allow it to be
counted.
"A novel pedestrian feat was recently
performed in England. A man ran,
walked, wheeled barrow, trundled a
hoop, and hoped on one leg distance of
five miles, in separate feats of mile each,
within one hour, for $40, and won with
two minutes to spare.
"A watch, known as the Douwaencr
watch, from the name of the inventor, is
manufactured in SwitzeI land. 1t is par
TALLY wound up every time the cover is
raised and closed. Each operation effects
a winding for four hours, or six for the
twenty hours any excess does not
affect the watch.
John Allen, the "wickedest man in
New York." who has been foisted into
notoriety as a penitent, by the Independent
and others, now advertises that he has
got tired of that sort Of thing, and ''re-
spectfully requests no curiosity seekers TO
call on him, unless they wish to spend at
least 81 at the bar"
Ninety thousand is the majority in
Kentucky against the Radical revolu-
tionists. Three times as many white
volunteers were mustered into the Union
army during the war as voted the Radi-
cal ticket at the late election What has
become of them Did they emigrate, or
join the Democracy!
The Radical State Convention cate~
chisesT General Hartranft concerning the
State debt, but they do not ask him any
questions about the fraud by which ore
1lyus, of Lancaster county, drew 800
from the Treasury. Either Gen. Hart
ranft or Speaker Davis can explain this
little matter. Mr.. Grow might coax one
or the other to clear it up, if he would
only ask them some questions about it.
Butler, the spoon thief, has come out
for Grant, and humby licks the boots
of the man whom he once SO boldly de,
nounced as butcher, and the murderer
of Union prisoners whom he refused TO
exchange Butler is capable of any mean
ness. He voted 70 times for JEFF. Davis
Tor President at Charleston, and would
vote for him tomorrow if he could make
money by so doing. The Radicals are
overjoyed because Butler now supports
Grant
The clergyman-whether blac!, or
white, we do not know-who, on the oc-
casion of Mr. Stevens preliminary funer-
al, made speech in which he quoted Miss
killmansigge and her Golden Leg, took
especial pains to refer to the prayers oI
: the negro preachers by the dying mans