The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


dead in bed.
-Pinchbeck, the only Federal appointed
| in Louisiana who has Visible admiXture,"
| declines to serve.
An Albany tippler swallowed a chip
from a molasses cask with glass of gin and
molasses, the other day. and it killed him.
The Springfield Republican says Gen.
Butler carries u knife IL his heart for the
President. Where does he keep bis spoons
-Stewart's big dwelling house in New
| York is TO cost him three millions-almost
as much as that place in the Cabinet was
valued at.
j. P. Wickersham has been re-appointed
Superintendent of Common Schools for this
State, TO serve for three years from the first
of June next.
just to show that Galepa WAS not ex-
hausted after it produced himself, Grant has
given six prominent foreign and domestic
appointments to that place.
"A rail-splitter in Howard, Wisconsin
was lately caught in the cleft of a log by
the slipping out of the wedge, and DIED ai1er
a few hours of extreme torture.
The Buffalo Aduertiser (radica) says
| Ashley's ''infamy is notorious" and 'hopes
| he has the grace to feel like detected
sneak - which he hasn't of course.
Another story about Noggle, Grants
| Chief Justice of Idaho is, that 10 Wisconsin.
where he comes from, he is known as "the
man who spells God with little j.
At the funeral of Mrs. Brenizer, at
Reamstown, Lancaster county, recently,
| FIVE of her sisters were present, the youngest
! Of whom was over eighty years OF age.
"A case is going the rounds of the news
papers of a man who married his mother.
| This is horrible enough but only suppose
| il had been his mother-in-law !-Chicdgo
Times.
"A newspaper in southern Illinois notes
the passage of Virginia family on their
way to the far West. consisting OF the old
max, the old woman, fourteen children and
! eleven dogs!
| There is woman living in Metcalf
! county, Mo-, has given birth to five chill.
dren. within the last eighteen months, at
two births. At the first she had triplets,
the second twins.
1t is said that great dissatisfaction ex-
lists in the Haytien capital at the idea
of n culored representative of the United
States being sent there. They think they
should have a white man.
William Stu-gis. of Chicago. who has
just gone into bankruptcy, reports his Ilaol-
tiles at four millions four hundred and fifty
five thousand dollars They do every thing
On liberal scale in Chicago.
Among the presents sent to the Pope
on the ffteth anniversary of his consecra-
tion to the priesthood was an ivory watch,
of excellent workmanship. made in France,
which is perfect tim mskeeper.
Leonard Huyck. President of tbs late
Merchants National Bank, at Washington,
has been sentenced to two years. inprison
ment in the Albany Penitentiary, for the
larceny of $I3 900 worth Of bonds.
BY a singular freak an Iowa cat with
kittens and hen with chickens have swap
ped charges The pnllet spreads her wings
with cluck and covers the baby cats, and
the pussy protects her natural victims.
Nine persons were killed on Friday
morning by an accident tbeLong Island
Railroad, near Queens, the cause being
broken rail, which threw the rear car
from the track, shiverng it to spinters.
Frank Spital and John Harmony. of
Cham bersburg, went out hunting, on Mon
day week, having a gun and a flask of
whiskey with them. Spital was shot dead,
and Harmony was found quite drunk near
the corpse
"A Western Radical journal says; cash
lev is not as honest as he might be but
where, in these degenerate days, can any
honest man be found ?-and surely the Office
should not remain vacant waiting for an
honest man to turn up"
An infant child three months old, in
the Monroe county (Ohio) Infrmary, was
fatally gnawed by rats about the breast and
stomach one night last week. The mother
was sleeping in the same bed with her
child at the time it occurred.
"A man named Wagner, living near
| Green Bay, had fight with two old wild
F cats, and their three well-grown young ones.
He came off victor, after struggle, in
which his clothes were torn from his body,
and his flesh was severely lacerated.
| IL. - nfn m
Gently applied to the Board of Registration
of Voters of the First ward, of that city, to
E have their names placed upon the lists of
citizens qualified to vote. They were refused.
Negroes vote and hold office In Washington.
Philadelphia is puzzled to know where
f Twitchell got his prussic acid. 1t was the
strongest known to science. is never kept
for sale by apothecaries, and must have sent
him out of the world as suddenly and surely
as if he had been blown from the cannon's
mouth.
"A gull struck its talons into a fish on
the Potomac. the other day, but was unable
either to bear it away on account of it's
weight or to loosen itself from its prey. AT
ter long struggle the bird was exhausted.
dragged screaming beneath the water and
drowned.
The ''colored troops'' of Cuba continue
to fight with the same bravery which distin-
guishsd their relatives the main land
during the Tebellion-they are summing
themselves at home on the rice, sugar and
tobacco plantations, while massa is absent
in the war.
The Tenth Provincial Council of the
Roman Catholic Church, embracing the Dio-
ceses within the province of the Archbishop
of Baltimore, convened at Baltimore on
Sund ay. A large number of Bishops from
the Southern States, Pennsylvania and Del
aware were present.
1t is stated that the Pennsylvania. Rail-
road has obtained contrel of the new road
from Cincinnati to Louisville. This, with
their interest in the Indianapolis and Gin
cinnati Railroad, gives them. in prospect,
through lines between New York and St.
Louis and Louisville.