The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-04-15
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. Twitchell is said TO he unGer n
structions with view to becoming mem
Der Of the Catholic church.
William Hill boy aged 16 years. son
Of Jacob HILL of Oiey township. Ber6s coun-
tv, committed suicide last Sunday by hang
ing himself in his fathers barn
The first child horn in White Pine sill
yer district, 9 900 feet above the sea, has
been presented with several thousand dol
lars in silver bars by the miners.
One hundred thousand dollars we're rais-
ed in Washington by the Republicans and
sent into Connecticut to defeat Governor
English. Nothing like United States
Treasury.
A good many persons appear to think
that if Twitchel cheated the eallOws by pois
oning himself the galows cheated Eaton out
of the life that God gave him by killing an
innocent man.
The remains Of two Indians have heen
exbuned in digging cellar in LYNN. Mas
and probably have been sitting there two
or three hundred years.
Governor Gearv under advice from his
Attorney General, Ia. vetoed the bill allow
| ing the Governor Of this State to conmnte
the sentence of murderers frem the death
penalty TO imprisonment f0i life.
Grant hiss pair of testimonial boots
fsom Buffalo, with the American arms on
the legs and gold fringe oD the top. The
! hootmaker thinks those boots ought to get
him at least a first class mission.
A negro was drowned by a catfish in
/ Lake Coneoriia. Natchez Mss. few DAYS
| since. The negro was trying 10 haul the
cals'h out, but the fi.h hauled him in. and
| he was drowned hsiore assistance could be
! rendered.
! invented quilting attachment to q Swing
| machine. and adds herself TO the roll Of those
who are a standing refutation of the slander
| that there are no women'S names in the pat
/ ent Office reports.
/ Tile MORO Harris, who was nominated
/ for Lieutenaut- Governor Of Virginia by the
/ Radical Convention at Petersburg. last week.
/ has white woman fer a wife She was
YANKEE sohoolmarm" from New jersey.
| They were married since the war.
The Democrats carried Scheucctady on
/ Tuesday. eiectjng Van Worst Mayor by 327
! majority. and the whole city ticket. Rradt,
the Democratic candidate for City Treasur-
/ er, had Gao msJnTity. The Democratic ma
/ jprity in n vember last was hut 81
IS 1.een days ago Mrs. R!ackmore. of
! Hamilton. Hancock county, Illinois. appar-
| emily died very suddenly. She warned her
!
a trance into which she would pass. she is
still uuburied, and decomposition has not
set in.
Tho new Postmaster General has
/ removed James LsHrens0n, a clerk in
! the Post Office Department, WHO has been
| connected with thar department through all
! administrations fer fifty years He was one
| Of the gallant defend RS OF Baltimore in the
war of 1912.
/ Hon. p. K. Herhein, one of the Asso-
ciatc Ju iges of Columbia county. on Tues
day of last week. was found dead in shall
| low stream of water, near his mill. with
marks of a severe wound upon his head
! These. IN connection with other circumstan-
ces, lead to the suspicion that he was mur-
dered.
John KinCslsud, an inmate Of the Eas-
tern Peuitentiarv, convicted and sentenced
for twelve years for the murder of his wife
! N Bradford county, committed suiride the
/ "ther day by stabbing himself to the heart
/ with knife made out of piece of iron
/ found in his cell. lie had served about two
/ years.
California sends a friehtful batch Of
| news. New discoveries of silver; great ex-
/ element rush of miners frightful storms :;
/ roads lined for miles with brskep and stalled
! teams; mud exle deep; pneumonia :;
smallpox: attacks from hostile Indians
earthquakes. Such details are calculated
| 10 produce nervous shocks ut least
The Philadelphia Stars scientific cor
respondent. Towers, whose predictions have
| been singUlarly accurate calculates that the
| probable periods for to ms high tides. earth
quakes, and probable suroras for April and
| May, 1869. are about the nth and 26th of
/ each month if the localities are connected
by telegraph. we will hear N a short time.
! The complete returns of the election in
Rhode Island on Thursday last give Pandle-
ford. radical. tor Governor, Z ,27l aud Pierce,
democrat, s75- Radical majority 1896.
! The Senate stands radical %, democrat I :,
ard the House radicals, 60 democrats u
Grants maj'rity was GAS. We fail to
see much of an endorsement of the uniyer
sal suhraga amendment in tbs
The question of the genuineness Of
will IN case tried few days since at La
coma. n. H.. tnrned on the consistency Of
Its date with the paper it was written on
It bore the die of the Hampshire Paper Com.
panv, of Hp!yoke, and I. w. Southwark
Of thai company, testified that the com
pany did not exist at the eleged date of the
will, prov ing the document forgery.
Tho PRESIDENT has appointed and the
Senate viii doubtless confirm j. I.athron
Motley as Minister to England. Andrew G
Cnr'ln as Minister to Russia. John jaw, of
New York, as Minister to Austria Ehenszo.
d. Bassett. of Philadelphia as Minister to
Hayti, and several other persons as Minis
ters to points of minor importance. Bassett
is the fifth or sixth negro nominated bv
Grant within the past few weeks.
There is girl in Lynn county, Iowa
only sixteen years old, of whom the follow
ing Is narrated For six weeks of the cold
est weather OF last winter. during the sick.
ness OF her father and mother, she attended
carefully and well, forty-eight sheep, seven
head of horses. twelve head of cattle and
two calves. besides milking three cows. driv-
ing the cattle quarter of mile every dav
to water. cleaning the horse stable. doing
the Homework, and taking care OF her SICK
parents.
-SomebooY has nresAnted Gannra11c.-..