The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-04-14

track, still keep watch Tor the CITY OF Boston.
Kind. but hopeless.
The keeper of the Lancaster Jail has de-
camped, leaving his wife and family. Be
fore departing be made raise by borrow
ing from different city officials.
"A few days ago little girl IL ithaca
Just before she died exclaimed /: Papa, take
hold of my hand and help me across" Her
father had died two months ago.
"A New York gentleman has ordered
from European mandatory set OF lace
curtains upon which are to be worked the
portraits and monograms Of himself and fam
lily.
james Selby Lewis, london type
setter, has been proven the rightful heir to
an estate in Buckinghamshire which has
been in chancery ninety-eight years.
Strange to say, there is a trifle left of the
property-about 93 100000.
The Griffin (Ga. Star, speaking Of the
present political condition of Georgia, says !:
''As she was among tie first to go out of the
Union, SO she is the last to get back.
Hurrah fer old Georgia the only surviving
member of the old Confederacy."
An organization of juvenile robbers has
been broken up at Altoona, Henry county
Ill. They had their regular passwords. &c
and had accumulated quite stock of plan
der. Their leader was thirteen years old.
and WAS an Unsuitable reader of dime novels
The coal breaker of L. Silliman & Co.,
at Mahanoy City. was burned on Saturday
| night, together with all the machinery, the
work Of an incendiary. The loss is estima-
ted at SEQ 900: insurance $50 900. Two
new sixty horse power engines, just erected,
were destroyed
SO many Ribbonmen were to be senten-
ced at the Monaghan Assizes that the hall
in which the court was held was not large
enough to contain them. The English gnv>
ernment authorities are doing things by the
wholesale in Ireland. But the day of rctri-
button viii come, aud then let Victoria
'stand from under"
There is nothing discouraging in the
result of the recent election in Rhode Island,
in view of the large increase Of the Demo-
cratic vote. as compared with that of 1863
The vote for Pierce, Democrat, in 1869, was
1859; this year it was 6 292; the vote for
Padelford, Radical, in 1869, was Z ,261 this
year it was l0.493, gain Of about fifty per
cent, while our gain is over eighty five per
cent This viii do for one year.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. r. Mumford, living
near Colona. I'll were murdered on the night
of the 9Th inst. by two men who sought to
obtain ST. 600, which it vas known Mr..
Mumfori had received for his farm. Mr.
Mumford's head was completely severed from
his body. The murderers also knocked a
little boy in the head and left him for dead,
but he afterwards revived. The murderers
got the money and made their escape.
The Providence Herald says, minister
in Athol. Mass, few days since, married
young man from Orange to little girl Of
twelve. at the command of the chld's moth
er, who accompanied them. The clergyman
vas very unwilling to perform the ceremony.
but the mother insisted upon it. saying that
the husband should have 40 control over his
child wife until she was seventeen, ald that
all the preliminary legal proceedings had
been complied with.
In a town in this State the other day
the newly enfranchised wanted to celebrate
the passage Of the Fifteenth Amendment by
firing a salute The only cannon in the
town belonged to an old Democrat. He
didn't want 'to spoil their ioll fcation and
ne loaned them the gun. The darks tried
to touch her off, but no go. The cause, they
said, was sit was ccpperhead gum
They brought it to the owner in disgust
and rendered no thspks. On examination
he found they had loaded it wad first.
Mr.. Amos Coslett. farmer of Douglass
county. H., went to Tuscola on Saturday
last with a load of corn to be ground into
meal. While putting the band on the shaft
which runs the cornsheller the two large
cogs caught his coat, and in moment the
body of the unfortunate man was severed in
twain. So sudden was the catastrophe that
Mr.. Coslett lived for fully twenty minutes
after being cut in two. and gave some direc-
tions concerning his affairs. and repeated the
Lords prayer three times. He leaves a
widow and seven children to mourn his loss.
Il L u T
vile, Indiana. a few days since. The Fif-
teenth Amendment proclamation added two
hundred and twenty nine votes to the Radi-
cal strength, and although parties were very
equally divided before, the Democrats elected
seven out of the nine councilmen-one of
the most decisive victories they ever gained.
The conservative Republicans. who were not
Fifteenth Amendment men voted the regular
Democratic ticket in sufficient numbers to
fully counteract the increased strength which
the colored vote gave the Radicals This is
chip showing the drift of the current
On Saturday the United States Treasurer
received a letter from S. L. Carpenter. of
Kansas City, Missouri, inClosing dreadfully
battered up apd ill-used twenty-five cent
note for exchange, but having some conscien-
tious scruples as to the genuineness of the
rag. he took occasion to bessech the Treasur-
er not to brand it as a counterfeit, saying he
was poor boy. and twenty FIVE cents was
a matter of great importance out West,
where money was scarce, and if the en-
closed should prove to be bogus, he was very
anxious to have it returned, as he knew a
place where he could spend it for lager beer
On Wednesday evening diabolical out
rage was committed at Titusville. The wife
of DIR. Baily. of that place, while taking a
nap in her bed chamber. at eight O'Clock in
tb evening, was deprived of her hair. 1t
W slong. dark ard luxuriant. and she was
in the habit of throwing it back upon the
pillow. In this position the hair was cut
very near the head. and so dexterously that
she was not awakened. The door of the
office was, as usual in the absence of the
Doctor. unlocked. and whoever perpetrated
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