The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-08
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

practitioners at the Reading Bar. died on
Wednesday, in the Z lst year Of his age.
Harrison Turner. q well. known citizen
of Baltimore. committed suicide oa Thurs
day, leaving wife and twelve children.
BY boiler explosion. on Tuesday Of
last week, near Sauk Rapids, MINI seven
men were injured, Of whom two will pioba-
bly, de.
On Tuesday last two men were drowned
at Queens Run, while rafting-the raft not
making the shute but going over the main
dam sweeping the men of.
From Washington the remarkable fact
is reported. that since Grant proposed to let
the Quakers control Indian affairs. all the
Indian ring politician have taken to wear
ing broad brim hats.
In Southern Africa. a tract Of country
FIVE hundred miles in length. and from if
teen to one hundred and fifty miles in
breadth, has been burned over. involving
great destruction of life and property.
The Episcopalans of Vermont propose
to erect a monument to the memory of the
late Bishop Hopkins at Burlington. A
monument could not be erected 20 the memo
ry of more worthy christian and gentleman
Parties called on Gov. Geary on Monday
to endeavor to obtain a reprieve for Geo. 5.
Twitchsll, Jr., sentenced to be hung in
Philadelphia to-day, Thursday, } but so far
AS known the Governor has declined to in
terfere in the matter.
After months fight, in a Congress
each day of whose session costs millions to
the people, the tenure-of office law is 81
amended" that nobody can find in it any
substantial change from what it was before
Thus is Radical legislation Costly. rather.
-Ou Thursday the 18th of March :hree
young white ladies were outraged by ne
gro near Chambersburg. On the following
Thursday the legislature Of Pennsylvania
ratified the Fifteenth amendment placing
negroes On political equality with TIE whites
The La Fays Courier says tBen
Davis who was sentenced to the penitentia-
ry this forenoon, was local politician of
some note. Eleven of the jurymen wanted
to send him TO the Legislature, but finally
compromised Oh two years in the peniten-
tiary."
The greedy Washburue sucked the
lemon of the State Department during his
two days occupation and threw the ska to
his successor. While in Office he recon-
mended no less than forty-one persons for
Consulships, six of whom are from GAlena,
Illinois.
Another horrible story comes to Us
from Cairo, Ill. A father attempted to
starVe his three children (the oldest being
not six years old) to death by locking them
up in vacant room, where they were dis
covered after being several days without any
uourishinent.
About the weakest and meanrst fight
any man ever made in this country was
Grants tu-sel with the politicians. fter
the first round his hackers threw mp the
sponge, the General heing in such a dam
aged condition that il was impossible for
him to come to 'time."
AT an early hour on Sunday morning
last the Beneficial Savings Institution in
Philadelphia was broken into by burglars.
shortly after the departure of the watchman.
the safe drilled into aud the lock picked.
aud over $3.50 900 in bonds aud greenbacks
abSLracted. No clue to the robbers.
An observant advertising agent says
''No merchant ever beat the newspapers
out of 50 enormous an amount of gratuitouS
advertising as General Grants first choice
for Secr,tlry of the Treasury by the mag
nI6cence of his cffr TO relinquish his busi-
ness which cJul3 not be a,cepted."
Three uen had an a!tercation about
claim iu Howard county, Southern Kansas.
| last week, which resulted in the death of all
three. Two of them attacked the third for
| jumping a claim, aud were shot and killed
/ by him aud the latter also received wo1ued
IN the melee which proved fatal soon after.
General Knipe is now out of the post
Office at Harrisburg. and politician Bergner
Is IN. General knIpe, being neiiier rela-
! tive of Grant or Scott, nor tool II Cameron.
/ he must 60, Of course, not vi thstauiing his
| having gallantly fought for 1.-The dear old
flag" in the same war that made Grant
| President
| The Radical newspapers are circulating
report that one of the Democratic candi-
! dates for tie State Senate in Indiana was
| beaten al the recent special election. There
| is not word of truth in the story. In
the district alluded to the Democratic ma
| Jority was increased some Eve hundred over
that of last fall.
A boat containing two soldiers from
Fort Adams and boy namsd Lynch, was
capsized IN Newport harbor Tuesday. Miss
Ida Lewis. daughter of the light keeper on
the Slie Rocks, put ont in boat and res
cued the two soldiers, but the boy surk just
as she reached him. Miss Lewis has before
! saved a life under similar circumstances.
Cleveland is proud of citizen woman
who has had seven husbands within eight
years. One was killed in the army and one
IN street fight. The other five survive,
she having been divorced from four Of them.
Her daughter has been twice married and
divorced, and is now ready to snap up
third man before her seventeenth bir thday
Genes round.
"A remarkable instance of longevity is
noted in New Hampshire paper as occur
TIng III the family of Mr.. William and Mrs.
2achel Sprague, of Phipsburg. The family
number twelve-fve sons and seven daush
ters-who are all enjoying good health-
The oldest is eighty-one and the youngest
fifty -four years. OF the seven daughters
SIX are widows.
"A man named Blackstone, of the firm
OF Fusion & Blackstone. picture frame ma
kers, PhiladeIphia, literally chopped his
wife and two small children to pieces with
an axe. on the morning of the 29th ult, and
then drowned himself in the Delaware river.
The tragedy was not discovered until the
afternoon OF the Both. Blackstone was
probably insane.