The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-06-09
general News Items.


John q. Dennis was canv icted of attempting
to commit suicide. The case was taken 10
a higher Court, on exceptions.
"A man arrived in Sioux City on the
9th with AZ COO muskrat skins, 500 mink
800 otter. and 500 wolf skins purchased
from the Indians in the vicinity.
Hon. John Cramer, of Waterford, New
York, the only surviving member of the
Jefferson Electoral ticket. died Thursday
evening in his ninety-seventh year.
An eastern newspaper states. on the
authority of a Rome correspondent, that the
Pope will soon create new Bishopric in
Pennsylvania, with the seat CT the diocese
at Reading,
"A common hoe that costs the farmer
81 % now, under the operation of Radical
tariff. could be bought, were there no tariff.
for 81 %. That's the way a tariff protects
home industry"
A painter in Cheyenne fell from the
roof of house and broke his leg. He car
ried his pot of paint with him. and portion
entering his stomach he died from the poison
| a few hours afterwards.
No antidote without its bane; no joy
without its sorrow The transient delight
of an Ohio man on learning Of his wife's
! elopement is turned To bitterness by discover
ing that the companion Of her fight is "a
kind of redish molatter."
-Ex- Mayor Cahoon has been Indicted at
Richmond, Virginia. for forgery. and John
II. Sands and Richard S Sanray for con-
| spiracy to defraud the State, these parties
have appropriated to their own use the es-
tate of Jacob Harnstein-
WIN. r Davis. who murdered Avery
Ballard, an old aud inoffensive citizen Of
White Hall, H.. abou: two months ago. and
whom a mob attempted to lynch. died in
jail at Corrollton. ILL.,. Tuesday, by voluntary
starvation. Davis said be was from Logan
county, Ohio. and was supposed.to be insane.
A white woman. the widow of a Union
! soldier, has been turned out of the Fourth
Auditors Office of the Treasury Depart
ment. at Washington City. TO make room
for lady ob color, whose father is thought
to have great influence with coiored voters
Radicalism does not love the soldier less, but
the negro more.
The Pres Mt sent to the Senate on
/ Friday the nomination Of Wayne McVeigh
as Minister to Turkey, thus suporseding E.
joy Morris. who has represented the United
! States in Constantinople for the past nine
! years. McVeigh is a law of Senator
Cameron, with whom the President is shortly
| to go trout fishing.
( A man named Elijah Monsell. of Mon
1 son. Mass, recently caught the small l-pox,
and. ignorant of the fact, spread the disease
/ in his family. Iii wife. mother, and two
| children died from the effects in two weeks,
and he. left alone, the sole OCCUPANT of his
once happy home, became despondent, and
/ was driven to suicide.
"A crazy man made his appearance in
the streets of Rouduut. lately, carrying in his
| hand tin, which he importuned every one
/ to bite upon. He also solicited some ladies
to dance JIG in the streets and as he bran
dished a large knife above their heads the
ladies complied and cut it down beautifully,
greatly to the delight of the crazy fellow.
! The troubles have not vet ceased in
/ Canada Fenians have departed, but the
! Whine Nggers are still active. Advices
/ from the Red River Territory make it GER
tain that the military expedition, now on
/ the way TO the Lake of the Woods, will
/ have to do some fighting before the rebel
/ ious half breeds submit to Canadian apthor-
| ity.
A new patent is cut for making steel
rails direct from the pig. The iron is melted
/ in cupola. run into a reverbatory furnace,
/ (where it is carbonize4) } run into iugots,
! allowed to set, reheated, run through the
/ rollers, and made into rails, which it is said
can be sold prnitably at fifteen dollars per
/ ton. This is valuable invention. provided
/ the rails are good for anything.
An old man presented himself before
an overseer Of the poor in Minnesota the
! other day, with six horses and other stock
| valued at 81 500, which he desired the
| county to receive and in return support
| him the rest of his life. He said that he
was too old to take proper care of his stock,
| and having no relatives with whom be could
| live, he preferred tn go to the poor house.
/ AN unattached car with lumber and 25
! workmen, ran off the track of the unfinished
! Delaware and Laekawanna railroad. near
! Passaic bridge n. j. on Wednesday morn
/ ing last, aad dashed through some treste
work to the ground, distance of twenty
/ FIVE feet Agar Campbell and Charles COST
were killed, and William Horning and ChsS.
/ Backing were mortally injured. Ten other
/ man were badly lnjured.,
There is trouble among the negroes at
the National Capital. They are already di-
vided into two classes. one comprising a few
rich and exclusive individuals and the other
embracing "the common run of niggers'''-
| A Washington journal, appealing to the
negroes to vote for its favorite candidate for
Mayor speaks of 'such aristocrats of the run
! as George Downing. who wouldn't have his
! daughter married in colored church. and
! Sella Martin, who seems to have pretty
fat thing of it in the way of contract job
bing"
The procession Of the Catholic Central
! Union at Louisville. KY, on Sunday last
was one of the finest evel witnessed in that
city. The procession was over two miles in
length and contained twenty five bands
1t was taken part In by all the different
Catholic societies. Numerous large arches
were erected in different parts of the city i,
and many houses were decorated with ever
greens and displayed flags and banners in
scribed with notices of welcome, etc The
marshal of the procession attracted attention
by bis emmense beard. 1t was over ten feet
long.
Senator Morrill,. of Vermont. has put
on record very high compliment to Gen.
F. P. Blair. jr.. the late Democratic .candi-
date for Vice President. which seems now
to be unearthed for the first time. In a
speech in'the Senate. be asserted that but for