The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-03-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

be like lead-it readily receives and perma-
nently retains Dsnts.
Prentice says that hereafter one of the
necessary inquiries in regard to every Radi-
cal candidate for the Presidency will be =
Has he relations enough to fill all the of
fcesF
The Georgia Legislature has adjourned
after rejecting the Negro Suffrage Amend
mont, and all the Radical newspapers are
urging Congress to declare the State out Of
the Union.
Patrick Carroll, employed by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Pitts
burg, was run over and instantly killed on
the 10th inst, by backing train near the
Union depot.
Jesse r. Grant prognosticated the
Presidency of his son when he wrote (for the
New York Ledger that Ulysses, when a
very small boy, was very fond OF money
and presents"
There need be no immediate anxiety
about the Alabama claims. Mr.. Grant
will not be ready to attend to our foreign
relations till he has satisfactorily settled all
his own poor relations.
On the 9th inst, young lady. Miss
Emma Crantharnel, was burned to death,
at Line Lexington. Montgomery county, by
the explosion of a kerosene lamp as she was
proceeding up stairs to bed.
"A young German in Newark, New Jer-
sey, being refused by the girl he loved, shot
her at her residence on Sunday, killing her
almost instantly, and then with the same
pistol. put an end to his own existence.
Woodbury.. n. J gave Grant MAORI
ty Of 306 at the November election. On
the 18th instant the democrats carried the
city, electing the Mayor by % majority,
change of S35 votes in a little over four
months.
Six years ago General Grant promised
a man an office should he ever become Pres
ideut of the United States. The man is re-
ported to have been Frank More, of the
Rebellion Record. who was appointed Sec
retary of Legation at Paris.
The Bishop Of New Jersey, it is said,
has given notice that he will refuse, at con
frmation. to lay his hands upon the piles of
false hair and chgnons which des6gure
the heads Of 80 many young ladies seeking
| admission to the church and communion.
A package recently reached Fort Dodge
addressed to the BEST Boy in Town.
Brysnn Hutchinson, ndorsed By seventy five
of the leading citizens as the proper owner.
claimed. received it. and found himself the
owner of valuable collection of pictures.
"A Washington dispatch says that it is
definitely settled that the wealthy negro,
.Joubsrt, is to be the Assessor Of the First
District of Louisiana, and that Secretary
Boutwell, sent for and has rendered him the
office. Is Joubsrt a relative Of the Grants
The Delaware legislature has prompt
ly rejected the Negro Suffrage Amendment
1t can not be ratified bv the requisite mum
Der Of States before next fall, and the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania will have IN opportu
nifty to elect Legislature pledged to repeal
it.
Among the latest applicants for office
under the new administ, alton are seven
semi mi-bleached Digger Inlians. who have
come all the way from Cal frlia. Grant
was once stationed on the Psific coast, and
their claims are based upon some sort of re-
la,ionship.
The Chicago Times says the appoint
ment Of a sun Of the late Senator Douglas
as Private Secretary to the President is not
a compliment to the lameuted Douglas, but
it is to the radical and impertinent speech
made not long since by the young Douglas
in North Carolina.
| In Mahaska county last week a gay
old boy named Lyon. aged seventy-three.
and blushing damsal named Lamb. Htat,
! sixty-nine, were united in matrimouy. Is
| the millennium. when "ths lion and the
lamb shall lie down togsther. and be led by
little child,'' at hand z
A man near Montpelier, Vermont, re-
Gently attempted 20 get through q snow
drift. After houndering awhile. he stood
erect, with head and shoulders above the
SUI face. ID you touch bottom 2" asked
| his companion. No; am standing on
the top rail of fence" Eighteen inches of
! snow has fallen since that.
AT the election Of last Friday. Norris
town elected the radical candidate by a
4 Gl0 n
| The democrats elect four of the seven coun-
| cilmer, all the election judges, two of the
three justices, and all of the assessors. Last
| year the radicals had majority in councils,
and majority of ward officers.
Another disease Of Asiatic origin has
reached our shores. It is called Jungle fever,
and partakes of the typhOidal type, and is
very malignant and rapid in its progress
The ship Bosworth, which arrived at New
York on the 18th from Java, lost six of her
crew on her passage. and left six others at
/ Table Bay sick with the disease.
Col Reutb Goshen, the famous Arabian
giant, has purchased an estate in Algon-
quin. McHenry unity, H., and settled
there. He is seven and half feet high,
weighs six hundred and fourteen pounds.
and is with one exception, the largest man
in the world. He is native of Jerusalem
and rame to America in 1860 He is very
intelligent and speaks twenty different Ian
guages.
On the 9th inst, as Richard Smith of
Juniata township. Perry county. was ar
ranging the sights of his gun, the gun, ly-
ing across the table, his little boy by some
means raised the hammer, and letting it
slip discharged the piece. part of the con-
tents entering the head of little daughter
at the other end Of the table, causing her
death next day.
"A curious phenomena occurred in
Bethel, Mamie, on the 14th. damp snow
fell in the evening, which was followed by q
powerful wind, that rolled it up into balls
frequently as large as four gallon keg.-
Hundreds Of them were counted in single
field. Prof. Cleveland described singular
phenomenon that occurred about the year
1907. when they were as large as barrel
There were two outbreaks of convicts