The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-12-10
News or the Week.
At Lewistown, Maine, the other


little girl of ten years was fined ten
dollars for stealing, and was committed
for want of the money.
The fellow that made matrimonial
bet on the election now says it was all a
joke, but the young woman intends 10
give it point by holding him to his wager.
In the piously loyal city of Alleghe-
ny, a man by the name of James Runs
BILE, the other day, committed rape on
the person Of little orphan girl, twelve
years of age.
Grant asks for more troops, Meade
asks for more troops, Sheridan asks for
more troops. Troops! troops troops
We believe somebody said that the cleo
ton of Grant was to bring ''peace %
The New York Tribune exults in the
prospect of having at least one negro re-
preventative in Congress. 1t says the
''colored member from Louisiana NAV
be expected at Washington to take his
seat at the approaching session.
Mr.. Corcoran, the wealthy Wash
ington banker, has determined to erect an
asylum suitable for the accommodation of
''sixty aged, INDECENT females of respecta~
bility," with permanent endowment SUI
ficient for their comfortable support
The Courts of Charleston have de-
cided the recent election of a radical
mayor in that city illegal, and a new
election is to take place. The radicals
do, once in a while. carry elections in a
way that their own courts cannot approve.
"A special despatch from New Orleans
says negroes IN Jefferson Parish, Louisi-
ana, ''refuse TO be tried by colored jurors
Same thing happened the other day in an
Alabama county. You see the Man and
Brother rather likes "rebel barbarity"
Agrees with him.
..On Friday week a man named Egg
gleman, living in Carlinsville, Illinois, cut
the throat Of his divorced vile, nearly
severing her head from her body Egg
eleman was arrested and lodged in jail,
but on Monday a mob of country people
took him from the Jail and hung him
in Dardanelle, Arkansas. a few davs
ago, the wife Of q citizen of that place shot
and killed Jennie Gross, dissolute wo-
man, of whom her husband had become
desperately 'enamored, inficting a mortal
wound. The fire was returned without
effect when the husband shot the wife,
killing her instantly.
1t is a remarkable result of the late
election that in Juniata county Seymour
received exactly the same lumber of votes
that Mcclellan received four years ago,
ach 1853 At the recent election Grant
eeceived 1873 votes-which by reversing
rhe two last figures making 73 to read 81
twill denote the exact number of votes re
ceiyed by Lincolu four years ago-l437.
"A mother C) in Philadelphia who
whipped her child "a bright little fellow
of tweIve) frequently and severely, rem
dered his life SO unhappy that he appro-
priated a bottle of poison from a shelf in
the drug store where he was employed,
went home, ate his frugal supper, got up
in the morning, swallowed a portion of
the poison, and in half an hour was a
corpse Text and sermon, all in one
One of the Radical Presidential cleo
tors of South Carolina having resigned,
ON account Of disqualification, aulder' the
fourteenth amendment, Wilson Cook, ne
gro, was elected TO fill the vacancy
South Carolina only casts six electoral
votes. What must be tie condition of
The Republican party of that State when
six white men cannot be found in its ranks
qualified to act as Presidential electors!
New York City elects the democratic
candidates for mayor and corporation
counsel, Hall and O'Gorman, by upwards
of 1000 majority, in a vote of $4,000.
The radical candidate received but about
10000 votes, less than one-half the num-
Der given to Grant a month ago. Does
it not seem as though frauds had been
committed by the Grant men, rather than
by the friends of Seymour
"A private despatch from Washington
to the RerOiut'oR says Senator Pomeroy
has bill ready to present Immediately on
the opening of Congress, proposing an
amendment to the Constitution giving suf-
lrage to all citizens of both sexes, leaving
the States to fix the age when the exercise
of the right may begin. This will be in
ducement and encouragement to the equal
rights women TO press their petitions to
Congress with redoubled energy
Mrs Leslie and her two children
were burned to death at Sing Sing, N
=, on Saturday evening, in consequence
OF the upsetting of kerosene lamp. The
mother was holding her infant in her arms,
and her little boy, aged three years, was
playing under the table on which ker-
osene lamp was burning The little fell
low in his play kicked the table, and the
kerosene spilling over ignited, exploded
the lamp. and set the clothing of all three
ON fire.