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

ner, gang ooyS proceeded TO "chaflYarf
the newly married couple. The father of
the bride first warned the boys to desist /;
then fred two or three blank cartridges at
them then loaded his gun with peas and
at last sent = load OF shot among them,
Wounding five Of them severely, but not IA
tally.
The MeadVille Republican of Wednes
day last says little boy two years old, son
of Peter Stoyer. of Cochrantown, in trying
to climb through fence, lost his foothold
and in falling his head locked between two
rails. and thus he hung until life was extinct
His mouth was pressed down so that be
could make no cries, nor could he breathe
through his nostrils, SO that he soon suffo-
Gated.
--George Truman, colorsd, was hanged
at Frederick, Nd, on Friday, at half past
twelve O'Clock, for the murder of an un-
known white man on January 3Otb, near
Point of Rocks, Maryland. The murder
was committed to get possession Of a car
pet bag which contained clothing valued at
S25. Truman all along displayed the utmost
indifference to bis fate. He made a full
confession previous to his execution.
"A dispatch from Chicago Saturday
night says: A report reaches here by spe-
clal that about half the town Of Shipman,
ricane last night. Brick and wooden houses
alike were prostrated and unroofed. The
water tank, windmill and the building of
the Railroad Company were blown down.
The damage is immense. No particulars as
TO loss OF life or personal Injuries have been
received.
The New York Tribune makes the
grlevous complaint that "some forty freed
mems schools have been closed in MARYLAND
because the teachers could NOT find homes
with the white people," Could lot they
carry their IDEAS Of social equality 30 far as
TO take board with the negroes, or are they
so deeply imbued with the prejudice of caste
that they would rather leave the poor Afri-
can uninStructed than to consort with him q?
Our Radical friends should be consistent on
this su biect.
We learn from Mr.. II. Van Hoose, of
Fayetteville, Askansas. that silver ore has
been discovered in Northwest Arkansas,
thirteen miles from Fayetteville. The de-
posit Is silver and copper mixed, between
strata OF slate. and an experienced miner
states that it is equal in richness and extent
to the silver mines OF Nevada. Some of the
metal extracted from the rocks was forward
ed to this city, and pronounced to be nearly
pure silver. The ore is said to very abund-
ant.-St. Louis Republican.
Tho Pennsylvania Central Is the frat
railroad IN the country to make through
connection from the seaboard to Chicago
y lease of the Fort Wayne and Chicago
road has been perfected and signed by the
directors Of both com mpanies. It's terms are
mutually advantageous, and as PennsylYa-
mans we are disposed to rejoice at the success
Of one OF our greatest railroads. There is
and can be no antagouism between the peo-
pie and such institutions when they are
properly managed, as the Pennsylvania Gen.
trail is.
An extraordinary ti5e Of immigration is
setting In upon our country at this
time. All tie German steamers up to
September have full complement of pas-
sengers, and the likes from Liverpool and
Queenstown have stopped booking for one
month. Already the number of arrivals
this year is greater than for the same period
OF any proceeding year. Many of tho new
comers will bend their steps Southwark, if
the Radical press will cease manufacturing
and publishing raw head and bloody
bones" stories, for the Northern political
market.
"A man living In Taney county, Nilsson
RI, sent his boy to mill, distance Of ten or
twelve miles, and. he not returning as soon
as usual, neighbor sent his boy to see what
had become of him. The second boy not
returning In due season, party started in
search OF them. After travelling some four
miles, they saw, by the side of the road, 3
large panther tearing the flesh from the re-
mains Of one of the boys-the last sent out.
His father fred and killed the beast. After
going a short distanc further, the mutilated
remains OF the other boy were found
Hester Vaughan, whose case excited 80
much sympathy among the woman's rights
people some time ago. has gone back to
England. She was convicted Of infanticide
in Ph iladelphia and sentenced to death. but
so strong an influence was exercised In her
behalf. and so much sympathy was aroused
for her, that Gov. Geary first commuted her
sentence. and finally set her free, on condi-
tion that she would Immediately leave the
country. This she has done. with the aid
OF friends in New York, who subscribed
money to pay her passage. But where did
Gov Geary Ind authority to- require Hester
Vaughan to go back to England =?
"A strange woman has Just died in Ten
nessee. named Rebecca Freeman. While vet
IN her teens, and an orphan, she engaged to
be married but her lover died, and she
oetook herself to cabin built on the top of
high and rugged hill, in an almost impen-
a
hermit until her death, at the age Of seven.
ty-two. She kept the white slippers and
the apparel in which she was to be made a
happy bride, until the day of her death, and
would brood over those remernbrances for
half day at a time. Whenever the spirit
OF sadness fastened upon her she went to her
door and blew long tin horn, bequeathsd
10 her by her mother, for hours at a time.
"A negro who uas hung Ios+ ,-..I- =;
Maryland, confessed how he had waylaid a
white man and knocked him sensless Then
he robbed bis victim and went home; but
came back In the evening with a gun and
put 1t to the head of the still breathing man
and blew his brains ont. AS this was a
murder perpetrated by negro on a white
man, 1t created no excitement at the North.
sumner dld not propose to eject the repres-
entatlVes Of Maryland from Congress, nor
did Ben Butler suggest the ravishine of the
whole country In which the deed was done