The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-12-09
General Nevvs Items.

The Penna. Rallrpad Company mas erect
ed snow fences along Its line of road between
Philadelphia aud Harrisburg.
We learn on the authority Of the Lon
dan Westminster G0zette that a statute of
Mr.. Peabody is 10 lie erected in Rome by
order of the Pope.
An old man named Fisher. at Patoka.
Indiana, told his W ife he was g"ing into the
cellar to commit suicide. She heard his pis
tol and kept on knitting. In about an hour
Fisher came up. thinking they didn't miss
him at home.
The steambaat Rubicon caught fire on
the Mississippi, forty miles above Nicks-
burg, one day last week. but The pilot cling
ing to his " heel, although it was scorcbed by
the flames, saved the lives of the men and
children who were passengers.
The Byrsn scandal by Mrs. Stowe. and
the marriage of Richardson to Mrs. AcFar-
land ny Rev A. W. Beecher iuGicate that
insanity runs in the Beecher family, and
this is gbout as charitable construction as
can be put upon their performances.
When certain Radical leaders pres: nted
to Grant his most costly house and lot. he
wrote to them that he should endeavor to
pursue such a course as they could approve.
He has faithfully done so. He has appoint
ed thrm all to ufiice, and they approve 1t
highly.
"A c3lored woman confined in Jail at
Savannah. Ca, the other day, gave birth TO
twins-a son and daughter. The daughter
is as black as the ace IF spades, and the son
is as white as any one of the descendants OF
the Puritans who landed at Plymouth Rock
long time ago.
An invention for catching mail bags At
railroad stations while the train is passing.
has recently been perfected by John Fore
man Of Pottstown 1t was successfully test
el last week catching the mail bags from a
train at the rate of so miles an hour. A
patent has been applied for.
The latest rumor is that old Brimst ne
BrownIow has turned Democrat. HIS he l.
evidently at drath's door this last political
act shows degree of penteuce for wrongs
committed that was nnt 10 be expected. he
can scare ly live long enough t. il juIe the
party. and for that We are thankful.
1t is now confidently asserted that
?ierrepont, Of New York, the same who
prosecuted young Surratt. and who sub
scrihed twenty thousand dollars to aid in
e'ecting General Grant will succeed H"ar
as Attorney General. New York will thus
have two Cabinet Ministers. Pennsylvania
has thus been twice deliberately Suuhbed.
The Keystone Stlte must have been very
back ward in the Gift Enterprise.
"A wood-sawyer who was pilng wood
near the railroad track at Edgerton. Ohio,
one day last week. noticed while standing
on the pile as the lightning train approach
ed. large stick lying upon the rail. With
ont moments hesitation. he leaped direct
IL before the train and graSped the stick.
At that Infant the train struck him and
hurled him some distance forward. He fell
to the ground mangled and lifeless, but he
saved the train.
Gen. Geo. ". Cole. who killed L. Har
ris Hiscock. for seduciug his wife. has been
appointed a clerk ia tie General p st Office
at Washington, at salary of 81 per
annum. Mrs Abbie Sage II Farlaud r ch-
arison. according to the Nv York Common
,redlth. is to have fund raised for her by
subscription, and it is said, also, that she is
to have an editorial position on the New
York Tribune. aud a sinecure IN the Sub
Treasury at Gotham.
Saturdays Age says: Beecher preached
a funeral sermon yesterday. on the occasion
Of the removal of Richardson's remains. and
in the course of it said that during the war
he had made resolve in PRAYER to God.
that he would forever after uphold any Union
defender in anything and everything he
might do" The history of man might be
searched in vain for anything So foul as this.
what wss reserved for one Of that notorious
brood. the Beechers.
Vice President Culfax is prominent
among those who have been engaged in a
systematic attempt tn make martyr and
hero of A. ID. Richar'issu. His open c"u-
nection with the deciples of free love has
shocked the moral sense # the public. and
some Republican newspapers have had the
decency to censure him in terms Of deserved
severity. The people Of this country are
not yet prepared to endorse the odiuus doc
trineS of the school uf pretended refurmers to
which Colfsx belongs.
A terrible shipwreok has taken place
on the coasts of ZIuzoaa. The British ship
/ Hyderbad sailed on the 9th of August from
Allaput'y, with eighty-four souls board
Of whom thirty two belonged to the crew
| On the 10th of September the ship struck on
a reef some little distance from the ZIrzi
bar coast, and became a total wreck. No
provisions OF water were saved and the sur
vivers suffered the most terrible privations
during the eight days they were en- the reef
Blu. for the fortunate arrival of a coasting
steamer they would all no doubt have per-
] ished. As II is twenty y-one persons died of
thirsk and four were drownded.
The Washington sosSips are just now
much excited over a story, which, if true.
reveals sad chapter Of Congressional life
A few years ago, a Northern Representa-
/ tive, some fifty years of age, brought there
young and bean iful woman. to whom he
( paid devo:ed attention. After years of dis
/ honorable intimacy. the Congressman be-
/ came tired of bis victim, her child was sent
to the fuundling hospital. and she sought
| consolation in strong dring. Occasional fits
/ of deiirium ensued. and it is positively as
1 s,.r 4 . l.. L.
/ throat with the razor of her betrayer, who
/ meanwhile had been transferred to an i'm
/ portant position in the GoverCment. l: is
said that the death wound was sewed up.
and the remains seht away cl1ndestinely.
! A LITTLE GIRL BURIED ALIvE-The Dis
coce7U Made too Ldte-About four weeks