The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-02-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

-Ino HreSlQ6DI on
Judge Lewis Dent, a brother-in-law OF Gen.
Grant, as Minister to Chill, in place of Gen.
Fitzpatrick.
Mr.. Peter Harper Cwhite), carpet
Dagger in the Legislature of Louisiana. has
translated his professions into practice by
marrying Eliza Jane Brooks [colored).
The Marquis of Butte, the English mil
lionaire nobleman who lately Joined the
Catholic Church, it is said, will probably
become priest.
"A woman in Rigdeway. Lenawee coun-
ty, Michigan, lately sued saloon keeper OF
that place to recover money spent by her
husband for liquor, and after an exciting
trial, a verdict of Sos was rendered in her
favor.
The birthday of Washington will be
ftly celebrated in Philadelphia. The Dem
ocratic Association have secured the Acade
my Of Music for the occasion. and the orator
of the day will be the Hon. Thomas A. Hen
drick's, of Indiana.
Frederick N Wells. aged about "a
years, was instantly killed on the 9Th inst,
in a saw mill at Claysville. Washington
county-leaving wife and one child, WHICH
was born but few hours previor'0 % tne
death of the father.
for nart;oipation in the murder of w. A.
1sea. was acquitted on Thursday morning
last, the jury having deliberated all night.
Hester, Duffy and Pryor ar yet to be tried
as his accomplices.
In compliance with the urgent solicita-
tions of the friends of Mrs. Surratt, the Pres
ident week before last ordered her remains
to be disinterred, and to be delivered to her
relatives for re-interment in the burial
ground of her church.
Mrs. Cunningham, residing near Pigeon
/ n = L II l.
| last week to three fine healthy boys all of
whom are alive and doing we'll Mrs. G. is
the second wife of ner husband. he being
seventy years of age, and she only about
thirty-ive. -.
| -Trask the anti-tobacco phllanthroPist,
| says that gentian root. coarsely ground,
! chewed well, and the saliva swallowed, will
| cure the appetite for tobacco if its use is
| persisted in for a few weeks. Take as
/ much Of it after each meal. or oftener, as
amounts to a common quid Of tinecut or
! cavendsh.
/ President johnson has issued pardon
! for DR.. Mudd. one of the Dry TortugaS
! prisoners, coLfned for alleged completely
! with the assassins of President Lincoln
! Efforts are being made to secure the release
of Arnold and Spangier, confined at the same
place on a like charge.
Repeated experiments prove that paint
applied betw cen November and March, will
last twice as long as that applied in warm
weather. The reason is that in cold weather
the component parts of the paint form a
hard substance on toe surface, almost as
hurd as glass but in warm weather the oil
penetrates the boards, and the paint wears
! of.
A young woman named Annie O'Neil
was discovered in one of the corridors Of the
White House, on Wednesday evening. NOV
! ing towards the private apartments of Pres
! ident Johnson. When asked her business.
she said she had been sent by the Almighty
to kill Andrew johnson. An unloaded
double-barreed pistol was found in her pos
session. This young lady is supposed to be
/ insane.
! Carlo, a Dubuque dog-large and
/ strong-is said to have saved the lives of
four persons. He dragged creeping babe
from under the feet of paving colt pulled
| two drowniuing girls from Lake Peosta. and
! gripped his masters coat tail one dark and
stormy night. as he (the MASTERY headed for
a stream where the bridge had just been
swept away Carlo has the unmuzzled free
/ dom of Dubuque at all seasons.
! "A correspondent writes thus about the
United States Senate at is only few
weeks since one of it's members was expelled
for the fourth time from a temperance socie-
tv: another has recently been shown to be
deep in q half dozen land swindles. conld
name dozen who have become millionaires
! under very suspicious circumstances and
now comes another corruption, smelling
quite as strong as any of its predecessors"
The remains of David E. Harold and
! George A. Atzerott have be.n by order Of
the President, removed from the arsenal
grounds and turned over to their friends
Application having been made by the rela-
| tives of the late j. Wilkes Booth for his
remains, it is thought they will likewise be
delivered up and reinterteG at Greenmount
Cemetery, Baltimore. near the grave of his
father, Junius Brutus Booth, the great
| tragedan.
Considerable speculation is caused by an
official report which shows, that Of the ad-
ditional bounty claims paid and rejected up
to the end Of last year, Maine had $4,000
Pennsylvania 1855. Now when we con-
slider that Pennsylvania furnished five times
as many troops Maine, and yet has only
few more than half the number of addi-
tional bounty claims allowed and paid,
speculation is increased. Who can fathom
the bounty mystery?
DIR. Jennings, we'll known and highly
respected physician of Trtusville, came to
his death involuntarily on the 9th inst, by
| taking deadly potion OF tsncthTe OF 0conlfc
root, which he mistook for tincture of orange
peel Feeling unwell, he went into the
drug store, as was his habit, and the vias
standing on the same shelf, and being OF
the same size and general appearance, and
/ holding conversation with friend at the
moment, he seems to have accidently taken
! the wrong one. This was before breakfast,
and about II O'Clock he was corpse.