The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-04-07
General news Itenls.

General Thomas will be inferred al
Troy, n. Y, on the Sth list, with military
honorS.
San Francisco was shaken by an earth
quake on the 81 inst. These visitations are
getting far too frequent for comfort.
The town Of Lyndon. Washtenaw coun-
ty. Michigan. has been settled for mere than
thirty years, and yet it has neither church.
hotel. store, postoflice, grocery, nor mail OF
any kind.
Three persons were murdered and fifteen
badly injured on the Erie Railroad. two
miles east of Wellsburg. 4 Y, on Tuesday.
Nobody to blame, of courSe--only Jack
Frost, who is not employed by the company.
Sheriff .Foote of Wyoming says that the
jury at Laramie City was composed of eleven
men and one woman, and not of eleven wo-
men ami one man. and he asks his correspon-
dent show he would like to have been the
woman"
The New Orleans Times proposes na-
tional subscription To the members of CIn>
eress-a cart load or two Of ten cent postage
stamps-to induce them to yield TO the uni
versal demand of the people for the abolition
of the franking privilege.
Naturally enough Baker apd Sheridan
are trying to show that there was not so
many Piegan Indian women and children
butchered as at first published. mime little
Injins swinging on gate one tumbled off
and then there were eight"
Two Maine boys. thirteen and eleven
years of age, saved their fathers life when
a tree fell and crushed him to the earth. by
digging trench under him. They knew he
could not live until they came back, should
they run for assistance, and the tree was
too heavy for them to lift with levers
L. i =.
Wyoming. Six citizens pear Atlantic City
have been murdered and horribly mutlated
The stage from Big Sandy, due at South
Pass, is missing. and it is feared the passen-
gers have been captured or killed. Among
them are two United States Army officers.
The Mcfarland trial commenced in New
York on Monday. From the peculiar sur
rOundings of this case, it will command
large share OF public attention. Horace
Greeley. Rev. Beecher and Rev. Frothng-
ham will be examined as witnesses. The
general belief is that the accused will be ac-
quilted.
Forty two years ago, young girl. now
the wife of joseph Bectal, of Ashland, Ohio,
while eating fish. got in her throat bone
an inch long and about the thickness of an
ordinary sewing needle. herefused to sub
NIT to a surgical operation for its extraction,
and the bone remained in her throat till
Wednesday Of last week. when, in it of
coughing, it became loosened and few out
of her mouth.
The Supreme Court of the United States
recently held that titls to lands seized and
sold under the Confscatinn act of July, 1862,
could pass only for the lifetime of the person
who owned the land, and therefore his heir
must now come into possession. This deci-
sion is of great importance in all border
States, as well as in the District of Columbia,
and shows that these confscated titles are
merely good for the lifetime of the person
for whose offense they were cnnfscated
The Freedom county MINI STANDARD
gives the following particulars of the freezing
tn death of an entire family: ''On Tuesday
night of last week. in the midst of the most
fearful part of onr late storm. house be-
longing to one Griswold. in the town of
See'ey. Farihault co1nty. took FIRE and burn
ed to the ground. In it lived family by
the name of Bates. consisting of the heads
and three children. The house appears to
have been remote from other settlement, and
the man went in search of assistance. He
became bewildered. and wandered about on
the prairie till morning. The wife and
children became chilled with the cold. and
crawled into some out-shed for protection.
where they all frnze, and their lifeless bodies
were found uext day"