The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-10-28
General News Items.

General Sweitzer has been appointed
Superyisor of Revenue in Western Pennsyl-
vania. Another Judas pockets the thirty
pieces of silver.
Friday morning last. at halfPast i've
O'Clock, an earthquake shock was felt IN
Boston, Springfield, Concord. Portland, Au-
gusta aud other places in the New England
States.
-Feuianism continues lively in England
and Ireland. Meetings are numerous ok
thousand persons attended the tunerai ot
Martin, the Fenian, who died at Kings Cot
lege Hospital.
The election of J. B. Crockett and Viii
liam l. Wallace, the Democratic candidates
for the Supreme Bench of California, IS con
ceded. California has had quite enough Of
Radical misrule.
Franklin Pierce was the fourteenth
President Of the United States. There are
fourteen letters in his na,ne, and the first let
ters in the christian and suIuames being F.
and p, stand for fourteenth President.
An Irishnan from Dublin worked .his
way oIt to Jacks nvile. Fla, year or two
ago and borrowed money to stroll up the st.
Johus. He now refuses twenty thousand
dollars for the place he settled upon,
The remains of six men and forty-six
horses, supposed 10 DC tHose Vi d tAii'9'"o
portion of General Frelnont's exploring ex
pedition. twenty years ago, were tcuod re
Gently in the Opal Fork of the Rio Grande-
On the farm of Mrs. Joseph jump, near
Denton. Caroline county, Md, is pear tree
which has already borne two crops this sea-
son, and is now in blossom for a third 1t
is entitled TO the belt as a champion bearer
Mrs. Griffith, of Pulaski county, Tenn,
has presented her husband, within the past
twelve months. with five children-two at
one birth. and three at the second. The lit
tie ''darlngs'' are all hale, hearty, and
strong.
The petrifed giant at Syracuse is still
the cause of considerable speculation. The
Onondaga Indians claim that it is the re-
mains of Abel who vas killed by Cain, while
DIR. Boynton maintains that it is An old
statue.
On the nth inst, near Purdy, Tennes-
see, Gilbert Cerubs shot and killed his broth
er Jacob, who was defending his mother
against an attack of Gilbert. The affair
grew out of the distribution of the property
left by their father. Gilbert has not been
arrested.
After the recent food in Hartford
large pumpkin field in that city presented
singular appearance. The freshet covered
the field with six feet of water, and the
pumpkins were anchored by their stems and
bobbing costly up and down. The surface
of two acres of water was completely cover
ed with them.
There is now on exhibition in San Fran
cisco nugget of gold weighing ninety-ive
pounds, and valued at twenty-five thousand
dollars. 1t is the largest piece of gold ever
found ia California. 1t was taken out from
the Monumental Quartz Mines The mug
get was found at depth Of twenty-five feet
from the top, on the eighteenth of last Au-
gust.
Mr. C. W. Keller, the county treasurer
of Erie, while engaged [the 18sh inst.,) in
conversation with strange man, was asked
by the latter to take an apple. MI. Keller
accepted the apple. and shortly afterwards
he eat it. About two hours after he had
eaten it he was seized with convulsions. and
at the last accounts was in a most critical
condition. No clue to the murderer, or the
motive for the crime. has as yet been found.
The Treasury Department is just now
exercised over the fact that it has received
over ninety thousand dollars worth of Coun
terfeit bonds These bonds were stI icken off
from the plates in government possession.
How many thousands or millions there may
be in the hands of the people, bought and
paid for as genuine, no one can say. Evi-
IDENTIFY oar Treasury Department has been
pretty costly and loosely managed concern,
and is likely to remain so. 1t is about as
well to make change in the head of that
concern.