The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-12-08

AT Monmouth, Illinois, on Thursday
morning. while an omnibus containing three
Young ladies was standing at the railroad
depot. the horses were frightened Dy the
wanton blowing Of the locomotive whistle
by one of the railroad employees. The hor-
ses ran of, wheTeupon the young women
bumped out, and one of them was fatally
injured The people threaten TO lynch the
man who blew the whistle.
-Greencastle, Franklin cotynty, has re-
Gently been perplezed by ths physical iorm-
alton of a colored man. He has double
organization and can change his heart into
four different positions, whilst his bowels
revolve around like ball with crest rapid
ity, back ward and forward. and when their
motion ceases an extra set of ribs slide down
and cover the entire abdomen. DE says he
does not suffer in the least from this cu:ioos
freak of nature.
-Callicot, the fellow who sold out to the
Radicals after being elected as Democrat
to the New York Legislature, and who took
to stealing after being appointed ReVenre
Collector, has been pardoned by Grant
We suppose the President thought 1t hard
that one thieving Radical should be COM
PEELED to endure all the diseomforts of life
within the walls of prison, while such a
multitude of similar rogues walk about in
broad cloth. honored and influential men,
bers of the Republican party.
"A child, twenty-one months old. was
at play on the track near tie depot at Rut-
| land, on Saturday. when locomotive slow
" backed toward her. and the rear end OF
the tender slightly touched the child on the
| ear. and, without breaking the skin or other
wise iuuring her only in the slightest mans
| ner, moving her along some feet. the child
constantly rolling over. until she fell into a
space between the ties which was somewhat
/ lower than the other places. and In this con-
dition the engine and tender passed entirely
! over her without any further injury.
| 1t is customary in Massachusetts to
| open the sessions of the Supreme Court
with prayer. At the recent term in Fitch
burg the clergyman in attendance, after
asking Divine favor and guidance for the
presiding Judge: proceeded to earnestly i'm
| plore the Lord for similar blessings upon
| the Judges wife, and children, that they
might be spared in life and health during
| nis absence, and that, at the close Of the
term, lie might be once more restored TO the
bosom of his family. As the presiding judge
never was married, his feelings durlng the
service may be imagined.
The cooperative principle is about
being introduced into the coal region Of this
| State. The Anthdrtic MOnitor, which repre-
| sents the operatives, is in favor of q Co-part-
| nership system betW cen workmen and en-
ployers, and arbitration. There is no indus
trial interest in the country, to which the
above reforms can be so easily applied, or
with such salutary results. aS to that OF
coal mining. With system of co-operatiuG
and arbitration, such as has been adopted
| in the majority of the mining aud manufac-
turing regions Of England. the protracted
and disastrous strikes, which have been so
| frequent in Pennsylvania. could not occur.
We have been informed by reliable
citizen of Berkeley county, West Virginia,
of starting revelation of crime in that
| county. 1t seems that sometime during the
year 1861 young man by the name oi
Robert Daniels, living near Gerardstown.
left home and was never heard of afterwards
until Ia. week. when a man by the name
of Light, living at the foot of the Ronnd
Top, on his deathbed, not only confessed to
the murder Of young Daniels, and stated
where his remains might be found, but also
confessed to robbing of DIR. Coe, Of Gerar6s
town. about the same time, and list oi
other crimes which death cut him short in
relating.
The advantage Of having plenty Of
money, even when one has no social position
is we'll shown by the fact that Laura Fair
the huTCefeSS OF OulLleHucnJ was ualDIliS y
carried to Jail, attended by nurse and doctor
and is treated with all possible consideration
A San Francisco correspondent grows pa,
thetic about the matter, and talks of how
in the cell next that occupied by the harlo
and murderess, there lies on a pallet O
straw a woman who stole to keep her child
ren from starvation, while her neighbor i:
as comfortable as possible. However. a.
each made her choice of the sort of crime i
would he well to commit. each takes th'
legitimate consequences of her act, and i
money will not help one in adversely, wha
in the world is the use of money