The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-05-21
LATE NEWS ITEMS,

"A correspondent says the JOINT OF
Grants right thumb is crooked Rumor
supplements the story by assigning a fre>
quent crook to his elbow.
An eagle swooped down upon a
baby at Quincy, H., that had been left
alone by the river bank by its mother,
and carried it away, and it has not since
been seen.
On Saturday night salutes of one
hundred guns were fired at Hartford, New
Brunswick, Springfield and other places,
in honor Of the great Union triumph at
Washington.
-Satrap Meade has agreed to pardon
the seven young men lately sent from
Green comfy, Alabama, to the Dry Tor
tugas, for committing an assault upon a
notorious character named Hill.
Ben Wade says he'll be ID if he'll
resign, and he wants to know what the
ID is the use of man having vote if
he can't make something by it. This is a
pleasant way that Ben has OF conveying
his views to pious friends.
Mrs. Jane Kinney of Virginia, War
rem County, Penn, recently became a
grandmother at the early age of 8 years,
she having been mother at 16. The
daughter has well followed the maternal
example by doing the same at Is.
The Supreme Court has fixed the
27th instant TO hear argument of the con-
stitutionality Of the registry act, at Har-
risburg and their decision will, we trust,
be delivered in advance of the actual
operation of the most infamous political
law that ever disgraced the statute book.
1t is stated that John Brown, an
American sailor who landed at Valparaiso,
Chill, few years ago, penniless, friend
less, and with nothing but his carpenters
trade to depend on, Is now worth five
million dollars, and lately loaned the city
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
gold.
Some people in Hartford, Conn.,,
moved thereto by floating newspaper
paragraphs, recently collected several
hundred cats wherewith TO feed the ami.
mails in a menager;e now on visit TO
that city. The menagerie men refused
to purchase, and the cats had to be turned
loose upon the neighborhood.
Bogus reconstruction Is fourishing
in the South like the green bay tree
With half the white men disfranchised
and all the negroes voting twice, with
Mongrel candidates to count the ballots,
and shameless cemmandants 10 declare
results, it is not surprising that the late
elections have gone more or less heavily
in favor of So called moral ideas and I'M
moral practices.
The New York Times says: F'Our
stock of knowledge about Grant is con-
stantly being enlarged from new and
lively Sources" ana gives us an ilIustra>
ton of Grants idea of clans, which is
that they are ''gutta- -percha oysters" So
now they have Grants full stock of
knowledge, embra cling "horses," 'spups,"
and ''cldnis' The Times evinces a
worthy pride in being the first to publish
what Grant says on CLAIMS.
Mrs. Ernestina Pohl hung herself
at Dubuque, Iowa, on Tuesday. Some
neighbors going into her house found her
little children tuggirg at the dead wo-
mans dress, as she hung from nail, and
trying to make her speak TO them. Her
baby was found unhurt, but covered up
under beds in such a manner as showed
that she INTENDED to kill it. She was
poor and had become low spirited in con-
sequence of the failure of her efforts to
procure her first husbands bounty money
for their children.
A cute chap in the sleepy town of
Nodaway, Missouri, rugged up his whisky
dispensing apparatus like natural spring
and employed a scribbler to advertise the
sensation. The result has been that nearly
all the newspapers of the country have
been taken in by the phenomenon of a
natural whisky fountain, bursting forth
from between two rocks, looking like BRAN
dy, tasting and intoxicating like whisky,
and likely to realize fortune fer the
''farmer'' upon whose premises it IS
Rather still joke.
! A committee of citizens of Shanghai,
| H., report that more than twenty two
thousand dollars worth of property was
| destroyed by the last tornado there, and
| they appea! for aid for those who have
been reduced to utter destitution, and are
| besides, suffering from wounds received by
the fall of buildings. Two persons were
killed outright; two others have since
died; three are mortally injured four
are dangerously hurt; twenty six received
severe wounds, and the names of twenty
four others are given whose injuries are
| only slight.
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