The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-08-26
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Political and News Items.

Two negrees accused of having feloni-
ouslv assaulted young white woman, have
been taken from the Jail at Front Royal, Va,
and lynched.
brick mason of Peru, Illinois, drowned her
self and daughter about three and hall
wears old in well on Sunday night
Mr.. Joseph Weaver, of Marysvilie,
Perry county, raised from a single Potatoe.
weighing two and a half ouEces' twenty
three pounds Of potatoes, measuring nan
bushei. ~ 90
have two old ladies living in the same mouse
, in that city, sisters, each over one hundred
and ten years. They were both porn III
Ireland.
"A disreputabe Down East paper says
esGraut was so delighted with the blonde
lydia Thompson, that he would have ac-
cepted her as present, if it had not been
for Mrs. Grant"
Calvin Logsson murdered an old woman,
her daughter and grandchild, in Fortress
county, Tennessee, and is to be hanged on
the 18Th of October. Although only y
years of age, he freely confesses to eight
murders.
There is a dwarf pear tree on the prem
ises of Mr. John Hykes, in Londonderry
township. Dauphin county, on which hangs
PIP pairs, measuring p inches IN curcum-
ference. The tree is three inches thick and
IL feet high.
1t is stated that the Pennsylvania Cen
tral Railroad are going to put on train
which will run from New York to Chicago
in thirty hours-a proceeding which will
probably compel the rival lines to shorten
their time also.
"A country woman, whilst picking
black berries, on Thursday of last week, on
clearing near Collins station, few miles
west of Bainbridge, Lancaster county, was
bitten by a black snake and died before
leaving the field.
"A few days since the rumor was rife that
Andrew johnson would not be returned to
the United States Senate. But that rumor,
it seems, was unfounded in fact Andy will
come back sure, and when he does he will be
very apt to make the fur fly from the backs
of some of his Radical enemies.
"A dinner was given to the Farmers
Club of Pennsylvania, by Judge Packer, at
the Mansion House, Mauch Chunk, on the
evening of Thursday. August o. General
Nea de, General Robert Patterson: Colonel
Robert E. Patterson, Samuel V Merrick.
Franklin Comfy, Solomon Roberts. Charles
Hartshorn and others were of the party.
Adam Titus was sentenced at Carlisle
on Tuesday last to be hanged for the mUr-
der of Henry Stamm. DIR. Paul SchoePHe
was denied new trial on Friday and was
! sentenced to be hanged. He made a state
ment, denying his guilt. William Gould,
! the court crier, az old man. dropped down
/ dead as the sentence on Schoeppe was pro-
nounced.
! On the 18th inst, one Albert Brown.
/ a negro, committed a rape on Lenora Han
non, white, aged sixteen years, in Troy
/ township, Bradford county. The family
/ were absent, and the wretch in human form
! took this opportunity to accomplish his
/ design. The details are of the most revolt
! ing character. The negro was lodged in Jail
| on Sunday Of last week.
! "A couple were married at the Everett
! House. in ST. Louis, on Friday, who bad
been divorced from each other for several
years. They had journeyed in different
directions during that period, and came to
the conclusion that the "old love" had re-
turned again. The parties belonged to
| Oregon, Mo. The only witness to the cere-
mony was their own child, bright-eyed
| girl six Y ears old.