The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-08-06
Political and News Items.
A Maine girl swallowed an 6

day, sprouted into young OAK tree.
| Edward Williams, Of Scranton ac-
| complshed the feat of swimming nine
miles in one hundred aud fifty minutes
The country has lived ten days with
out Congress. Some rash people think it
! can survive the misfortune whole month
| We shall see.
Grants "peace"-negroes outraging
white women and shooting their male re-
| latives-a common occurrence In Ten
nessee and other satrapies.
There is TO be picnic of fat men at
Utica. No person will be allowed to
participate in the festivities who weighs
under two hundred and fifty pounds.
Mr.. Greeley says that in order to
elect Grant they must "get out every
voter" The Connecticut legislature has
''got out" good many-out Of prison.
The aggregate amount appropriated
by Congress is SI61, 100000 And
''that's the way the moaey goes''-for
Freedmen's Bureaus and bayonets dow
South
President johnson has officially pro-
claimed the ratification of the treaty be-
tween the United States and Prussia con-
corning the matter of citizenship in both
! counties.
| .Eiehty>eight members Of the Union
League OF Philadelphia were expelled in
one batch from the ''gin palace" on Board
street Cause-wiil vote for Seymour
/ and Blair.
A firm in New Bedford is making
! three-wheelel wagons and carriages -
: I'bpU Sa,a f,, Il.
less danger of uPsetting, and are better
liked by those who Lave tried them than
fUur-wheeled vehicles
"A truly loyal citizen of Cincinnati
writes TO the OHinIerciM that if Grant
aud Coifax are elected they viii be assas
sinatod before March The duty of every
humane person is ihen To see that they
! are not elected and put in such peril
The owner OF lhe trotter Ben Butler
was asked the other day why he had be-
slowed the bottled hero's name upon his
horse, Well be replied. Il called him
Ben Batter because / thought wherever
. tie was entered he would be certain to
carry Off the plate San Francisco Er
From June TO July the national debt
rose $53, 100000. Fifiy-three millions
n month is six bundled and thirty-si
millions year. We wish the bondhold-
ers JOY of the prospect of The debt ever be-
ing paid in anything, if the Mongrel
party is allowed to keep itself in power
another Presidential term.
The wealthy Jews are holding meet
ines in various places to denounce Grant
persecution of their race. Ii turns out
that the object of Grants order banishing
tie Jews from their homes, was 10 give
his father a certain monopoly of trade.
But the Jews are after him with some
thing sharper than stick.
- 1t was General John +. Hartranft,
of this State, the candidate Of The Radi-
Gals for Auditor General, and not the
gallant Hancock, who hung Mrs. Surratt
The Republicans considered it great
exploit at the time, bat now they would
like 10 divide the honor. Let all tie
odium of that affair st where it belongs.
"A Frenchman has patented a very
Ingenious plan for teaching the young how
to spell and real. lie prints all the vowels
blue, the coDsOnants red, and the letters
not heard in pronur citation black. On
the opposite page the same lesson is print
ed in the usual tyre, to accustom tie
pupil to the ordinary lesson book as well.
"A Philadelphia democrat, whose ad-
dress is the Mercury Office in that city,
Offers the following He will name
twelve States and will bet $4,000 on
each State ihat Seymour will carry them
$50. 200 that Seymour, if he lives. will
be ih4 next President (; $4,000 that no
Radical viii dare accept the proposition
and put up the money.
"A new method of manufacturing
steel consists in grinding pig iron to pow
der by rapidly moving cutter, the ex-
treme friction producing heat so intense
that the iron is turned and falls down as
a reddish brown dust. The superfuous
carbon being thus got rid of, the iron dust
is melted in a crucible, and when cool is
found to be converted into excellent steel.
..OrVilie Grant, a respectable merchant
of Chicago, and brother of Gen. Grant,
recently gave a check of 81 900 to Dern-
ocratic Club of that city. In consequence
Of the habits Of his brother, the now Gen
era!, he Las not, for a long time, been on
very familiar terms with him, and will
not vote for him, deeming him utterly
unfit for the Office to which the negro
party h ave nominated him.
The Muscatine, Iowa, Courier says:
GA day or two ago, raftsman by the
name of Gore, was struck by lightning,
near New Boston, and instantly killed. -
lie had remarked several times on the
trip that he would not live through it,
During the storm he said he didn't care
a d-n for anv ljrhtpipu Cod aver mada >
Immediately the bolt struck him on the
head, and he was dead man."
"A Rad. in Springfield, Massachusetts,,
in order to compel colored Methodist
Church to sell its premises, has built
fence around The Church as high as the
caves, only eighteen inches distant on one
side, and about yard on the other. To
render it still moro offensive, the fence is
painted black on the side Hext the church
| The church is, of course rendered dark