The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-06-03
Political and news Items.

lives were lost.
"A monument to dead soldiers of the
Confederate States Army was dedicated at
Cythiana. KY, on Thursday.
Mr. Ulysses S. Grants sister Jennie
married a widower with an unlimited num-
Der of children. Happy children
Tho citizens of Newport. R. l., are
| building a splendid row boat for Miss Ida
Lewis. the heroine of Lime Rock lighthouse.
-Four workmen were killed Thursday at
the Atlanta, (Ga.) Rolling Mill by the ex-
plosion of an old shell, which they were
opening.
"A blind organ grinder Of Cincinnati, Is
| inclined to grumbie because soldiers who re-
ceive pensions compete with his business
He wants protection"
A colored gentleman of Memphis the
other day set his dogs on a COW belonging
to another gentlemen OF color, whereupon
the latter shot the former dead.
Both Presbyterian Assemblies at New
York on Thursday adopted plan for re-
union of the separated bodies. to be submit
ted to the Presbyteries for ratification.
Brooks, military mayor at Norfolk,
Virginia, during the war, was terribly cow
hided there the other day by young lady
whose character he had been sIar dsriDG.
"A young lad named Ben jamin Chad
dock, committed suicide in Vermont, Hi
nois, few days since. This is the third boy
that has committed suicide In the same
town.
The Westminster Gazette announces
that the Marquis Of Butte, who recently be-
came heir to 81 500 900 year. is about to
found and endow hospital for lepsrs in Je-
rusalem.
Thomas Bondonion. one Of the brave
men in garrison at Fort McHenry when it
! ba aA Iu ho priy -,
| 1914, died at Baltimore on Saturday, aged
! 73 years.
Mr.. S. Wolf, register Of deeds at Wash
ingtOn. D. O., thinks the negro is to become
! 1.-THE headstoDe Of our social and political
culture" This is eVidentl Wolf in sleeps
| clothing.
There is a young lady in Terre Haute,
! Indiana, only eighteen years Of age, who
! boasts that within the last two years she
! has contracted and broken ten matrimonial
engagements.
| On Wednesday morning. James James,
workman in the employ Of the L. I. & c.
| Co.. at Briggs shaft, Luzerne county, while
in the act of driving spike, fell distance
! of fifty feet and was instantly killed.
"A negro doctor in Georgia prescribed
| for rheumatic old woman that she should
/ bury her husbands money under a stone in
| the garden. She did so, and though the
/ rheumatism didn't vanish, the money did.
Two colored infants were Sunothered to
death in car, and little white boy and
! girl lost their lives by being thrown from
/ the top of another car. during the decora-
! ton ceremonies at Nashville, on Saturday.
! "A hail storm of unusual severity passed
over Wheeling. w. Va, on Friday. Thou
sands Of panes Of glass were broken, and
! fruit and shade trees severely injured. The
| loss Is estimated at from $40, 900 to $50 COO
| Mrs. Adkins. the widow Of Joseph Ads
! kins. the Georgia State Senator who was
recently shot and killed in Columbia county
! Ca, by some unknown person, has been ar
rested on the charge of being concerned in
/ the murder of her husband.
! Senator Srague says: Il am the mere
agent or instrument OF Divine Providence
! to set up glorious work of progress and
REFORM" Every body knew be was from
! Providence, but nobody suspected that he
! was from Divine Providence.
! Mrs. Doctor Mary Walker, the persist
ent, pantalooned Office seeker, has bored the
| Post Master General until, to get rid of her
! opportunities, he gave her 5000 clerkship.
| The Cabinet officials may have peace now !;
| but God help her fellow clerks.
The New York Herald says General
| Grant has no more reason to assume that
everybody who held Office under johnson is
| corrupt than the next President will have
| to assume that every body who held Office
under Grant was his cousin"
Albert Tyler, colored, was executed at
Richmond, Virginia, Saturday, for poison
ing Z. hubbard, also colored, whose child
Tyler had attempted to outrage, and who
had threatened to have him arrested. He
confessed his crime On the gallows.
President Grant is reported to have an
| nounced his determination to put an end to
assassinatons and other disturbances in the
South. If he does anything of that sort the
RADICALS and their negro allies will meet
with their deserts. Not few Of them will
be hung.
Tho fastest time on record between
California and Massachusetts, has been made
by gentleman who arrived in Boston, on
| Saturday, from San Francisco, having &C
complished the journey in seven days aHd
eleven hours. including seventeen hours de-
| tention on the way.
john Taylor, for many yeas the farmer
of Daniel Webster, died in Salisbury, n. H.,
Of consumption, On Friday week. aged 68
years. He was buried on the Webster farm
on Sunday. Mr.. Taylor was an intelligent
farmer and an upright citizen. and his rela-
tlons to Mr.. Webster were of gratifying
chara cter.
john w. Read killed his mother few
nights ago il Lynchburg, Virginia 1t
seems she was deranged, and in the middle
Of the night armed herself with shovel and
attempted to kill Reads wife and aunt, and
he, to save their lives, struck her with a
stick intiicting injuries that caused her death
shortly afterward.
The POttsville Standard relates how two
daughters of Mr.. Hoy, residing some four
miles from that place, 30 faithfully practic-
ed the teachings of their radical father as to
allow themselves to be ruined by a negro
whom their father taught them to look up
on as man and brother, one Of whom he
married, leaving the other to suffer for her
folly.
The late accident to Hon. George II.
Pencleton. who was thrown ont of his car
riage near his residence at Clifton, on Mon
day week, turns out to be more serious than