The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-01

"A marriage took place at Concord, y
H, on Wednesday, in which the bride was
only sixteen years of age, and widow at
that She was married first when she
was only thirteen years old. The bride
groom on this occasion was twenty-four years
old.
Miss Mary Grant, of Richmond, was
married in that city, on Thursday last, to
Mr.. Ford, of Goochland county, Va. 1t
will be remembered they were the subjects
Of the article in the Soathern Oplniol which
resulted int killing of its editor, II. Rives
Pollard.
Dispatches from Greenvilie state that ex-
President johnson, after suffering intensely
for some time with gravel, is again up and
in his usual health. 1t is announced that
he will speak at Knoxville April 3. at Nash
vile April 6, and at Memphis and Louisville
on the 26th.
Butler says Schenck is the king of the
whisky ring, and is prepared to and will
prove it. There is considerable prejudice
against Butler, but few more men like
him in Congress would make it great deal
better or great deal worse. He's got
pluck-Butler has.
-Twenty-one murders in ten days in In
diana, and only ten arrested For State
barren Of Ku Klux, filed with ''trooly loil''
people enjoying a Radical Government, this
exhibits a most lamenlable dea4th of high
moral ideas. New England should send out
its missionaries Immediately. sr.
Henry Murty, deck hand on board
steamboats, belonging to Pittsburg many
years ago. and more recently employed on
St. Louis and New Orleans packet boat.
lately fell heir to about malt million of
dollars left, by distant relative who died
some two years ago in St. Louis.
A gentleman from the West recently
/ applied for an appointment under the pres
ent administration, and based his claims
solely upon the fact that he had courted one
| of Jesse's sweethearts and therefore was
connected with the family. j is needless
! to add, the Western lover was successful.
| To the credit of the Radical newspa-
! pers be it said, that fercely and vindictive-
| iy as they assaulted Andrew johnson dur
! ing his official career and afterwards,
| when it was announced that he was danger
! ously i'll they ahated their rancor of spirit
and spoke respectfully, if not kindly of him.
| The illness of ex-President johnson was
| in the nature Of paralysis of the right side,
/ and was the result of a complication of dis
| orders from which Mr. johnson has long
been a sufferer-neuralgia of the nerves in
the region of the right eye, frequent vio.
lent vertigo, and the formation of stone IN
the bladder.
The female clerks in Washington re-
ceve a very bad character from lady who
writes about them in the New York Lade-
| pendent. "a prtt face" she says, IS their
recommendation to Office. Scores of them,
she says, never DO days work. What it
is they do she intimates rather broadly for
us to repeat it.
An old Indian silver mine, on the trail
| from Fincennes. Indiana, across to Patoka
| river, has recently been discovered. Fur
naces were found where the Indians Ead
melted the GRE, and in the bottom of one a
quantity of fine metal was found. Upon
one of these furnaces there stands tree ff-
teen inches in diameter.
Mr.. Robert Douglas. jr., of PhiladeI-
phia, is an applicant for the position of
Minister to the republic of Hayti Mr.
I Douglas is colored man. about forty
years of age. and native Of Philadelphia
He has Travelled extensively in Europe. and
speaks the French language with the huency
Of native of that country.
A little white boy who sola apples and
peanuts in the building appropriated to the
meetings Of the North Carolina House, has
been removed by the s'Hon." Z. Miller.
(negro) doorkeeper of the House aforesaid,
who has set up stand for himself. This
is against the new constitution, which abol-
ishes all distinctions of race or color.
Female relatives of the Grants, the
Dents, and the Simpsons, are in demand in
the matrimonial market of the West. Ad-
vettsementS from young men appear in the
papers soliciting correspondence, with a
view to marriage, with young ladies CON
nected with these illustrious families One
chap put in: mo objection to an aunt, if
not too aged -
President Grant cannot say with Abra-
ham Lincoln, or some other man, Il have
no friends to reward. and no enemies to
punish" he is rewarding all his friends
and his wife's friends and relations. He
even contemplates giving a lucrative posi-
ton to Mr.. briggs, who permitted Father
Grant to fall down the steps of the Capitol
on Inauguration day, without seriously in
juring himself Fortunate briggs.
One of the latest gifts to the President
is a pair of patent-leather boots trimmed at
the top with gold fringe and tassels. the
American coat of arms on the leg, and a
pair of solid gold spurs attached The boots
are made of the finest quality of leather and
in the latest style, and lined in the inside
with yellow kid. They are valued at 5000.
The shrewd donor will probably be made
Postmaster at Buffalo. ~.
"A fog whistle, recently erected on Cape
Fourcher, Yarmouth Harbor, Nova Scotia.
IS said to be the most powerful signal in
North America, and can be heard fifteen
miles in. calm weather in stormy weather,
five to eight miles with the wind twenty
Eve miles against the wind, FIVE to eight
miles. 1t has been heard inland With the
wind twenty five to thirty miles. The light
house at Cape Fourcher contains revolv-
ing light 135 feet above the sea level. COB
In Chicago, on Sure day week at Cath
olic church. the congregation was asseunded
by the sudden appearance at the altar of a
young man named Martin Ivory, who en-
gagged in an alteration with the officiating
priest. He Informed the priest, the Rev.
Father Damon, that he was an imposter,
and, taking hold of him, eudeavored to
force him from the altar. Several people
rushed in and seized Ivory and banded him
over to the police. 1t is thought that he is
insane. ae lE5 rrl - .sssc.'9 s-sI 20 .,-.-