The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-09-16
Political and News items.

-Geary was quite poor when he became
! Governor He has recently offered to invest
! $50, 900 in a farm. His salary is but S5,-
| coo year. Where did he get the money
Within a very short time five young
women in Louisville, ILL.,. have been seriously
poisoned by the use of imported face pow
der adulterated with lead. In each case
the cosmetics caused paralysis.
The Press says, Democracy and re-
| pudiation are synonymous" What party
nominated Heny W. Williams for Judge =?
What party repudiated portion of the
| debt of this State, by altering the interest
| from coin to greenbacks2
1t having been ascertained that Will
liam Tell is.a myth, somebody has now found
a manuscript which will lead people to doubt
the truth of that story of Newton and the
apple. Let us be thankful that we can still
cling to Washington and his hatchet.
In Ohio the Radicals have already ar
ranged a general system for cOlonizlng
voters-taking them from strong Radical
counties and placing them in doubtful ones.
as means of carrying the State Legisla-
ture. This is what they call 4 tfree ballot"
An Indian named Joseph Shawwe-nos-
se-qua lately carried half bushel of pota-
toes twenty miles to pay his subscription tc
a paper in Luddington, Minnesota. He can
better informed neighbors to read the paper
for him.
Gen. Candy has issued his proclama-
tion announcing the result of the Virginia
election. The election Of six Walker and
/ three Wels'~ Congressman is announced.
The State Legislature will meet October 5th.
On the 21st inst. Walker is 10 be installed
provisional Governor-only provisional.
mind you.
The main shaft of the Warrensburg
Coal Mine. at Carbon Hill, Mo-, caught fire
last Monday. Fifteen men were in the mine,
seven of whom got ont by clinging to an as
cending car. they being badly burned in the
passage. The rest were brought up from
the mine after the fire was extinguisbed.-
A II were injured and the foreman is expected
to die.
The death of the Hon. VIM. Pitt Fes-
senden is ascribed to the effects of the pois
onng by which the enemies of Mr. Buchan-
an attempted his life, when he went TO Wash
ington to assume the Presidency. Mr..
Fessenden was then at Browns Hotel. and
never entirely recovered from the illness
with which he and many others we're af
fected.
At Pittston. on Thursday morning.
while the special train for the scene of the
! Avondale disaster was leaving the depot,
crowded to overfowing with human freight.
man named John Tocher, in attempting g
to jump on between the platform cars. miss
cd his hold and fell upon the track, the cars
cutting him in twain and killing him in
stantly.
Though you may have lost both arms
and both legs by railroad accident, aud
thus be deprived of all power to earn liv-
ing for yourself or to sustain those depend
ent on your labor for support, the "caIami-
ty BILL" approved and signed by Governor
Geary. gives you but three Thousand dollars
damages from the railroad company for your
irreparable loss.
Things look as squally for Radica ism
in Texas and Mississippi as they have proved
disastrous in Virginia and Tennessee
Grants promised support to the extremists
has had the effect of uniting all the moder-
ate men of the two States named in behalf
of the Conservative movement. and will un-
doubtedy lead to the triumphant election
of the Conservative candidates. So we 90.
"A meeting of mill owrers and others
interested in lumber was held at Williams
port, Pa. last week. Nearly every firm in
the trade was represented, and entire unau-
unity prevailed. 1t was resolved that but
one-half of the usual stock of logs be cut
and manufactured on the West Branch for
1870. A committee was appointed to ar
range 20 have the resolution carried into ef-
feet.
Grant did not tarry long by the grave
of his friend Rawlins. Tho clods had hardly
ceased to rattle upon the coffin until he was
| off again. He is expected in Harrisburg
shortly, and rumor says he is to be the guest
of Simon Cameron again. The probabili-
ties that he may be Influenced to make
Don. Cameron Secretary of War. Simon is
olu Il r. -
lavors.
As train on the Columbus and In
dianapolis Railroad, On Saturday evening,
reached crossing about a mile east of Ur-
bana, Ohio, it struck a one-horse carriage, in
which man, wife and three children.
in the middle, throwing the horse off on one
side and the carriage with It's inmates on the
other; yet nobody, not even the horse, was
injured. One of the children, the baby, was
deposited so near the track that the passing
car wheels almost touched it, but it Law quiet
and was unhurt.
1t is asserted by the Radical journals
that Governor Geary's name was used in
connection with the Gettysburg "dance OF
death" without his knowledge or consent.
To this the Gettysburg Compiler answers ::
1--WE know that the ball card was arranged
at the Springs Hotel on Tuesday evening.
whilst Geary was staying there. Is it likely
under the circumstances, that he would have
been assigned the prominent position oil
Master of Ceremonies without his knowl-
edge or consent 2''
An old lady named Sparhawk, at Wal
pole, n. H., last Saturday, was sitting in a
room with some other women and her grand
son, boy of eleven years. when the report
of pistol was suddenly heard and she fell
dead upon the floor, with ball in her brain.
Although the report was distinctly heard by
several persons, and the smoke was seen, nc
one was able to tell where the ball came
from, or who fred it, but on Monday the
boy confessed that he did the deed He
had had a quarrel with his grandmother
and said he did it Ito get the CID critter
out of the way"
"A drowning casualty that was surround