The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-10-20
poIIttcau and News Items.

for forty years. c.,.. T.,ol,a,
have disposed :of the Daily Democrat to
James Fl. Lambert
The Democratic State Convention, at
Fitchburg.. Mass. on Wednesday unanl-
mously nominated John Quincy Adams, Jr..
for Governor.
fearful gale, on the 18th. Shipping suffered
severely. and marine disasters are reported
The Chicago Times thinks Ben Buffers
innate wickedness is accounted for IN the
fact that be has always lived in low 'eli |
N Massachusetts
Missouri has furnished the latest dehni- !
tion of ..disloyalty." 1t consists in an effort
TO confer on white men equal political privi- |
leses with the negroes.
Gen. Lee married the adopted grand !
dauobter and heiress of Gen. Washington.
by whom he had five sons all of whom were
in the Confederate service.
Hon. Samuel Clark. formerly Demo
cratic NJ. c. from New York. and afterwards
Governor of Michigan, died at Kalamazoo,
Michigan. October %. aged II.
A resident of Saratoga was suddenly
stricken with total blindness On Sunday last,
and on Monday afternoon his sight returned
TO him as suddenly as he had lost it,
"A man named Pardon. in the employ
of the Waterbury Stock Company, Water
hurry, Conn, was caught in a belt on Mon
day and drawn around shaft and torn in
pieces. :,
"A gentleman who had once been one of
the wealthiest citizens of Albany, appeared
at the station house of that city. the other
pight, and requested the sergeant to send
him to the almshousc.
The new Constitution of Illinois, which
compels residence Of ninety days in every
voting district, disfranchises over seven hum
dred Methodist ministers who are competed
to move this fall by the action Of the Confer
ence.
"A railroad conductor at Troy. n. Y,
recently deserted his own wife and ran away
/ with his neighbor's The neighbor has fall
! len heir to nice little fortune of S73 600,
! and nnw the fugitive wife wants to come
| back and live with him.
John c. Nolen. alias Shay Nolen. who
/ was shot at the meeting Of the return luoges
! in the State House. Phiadelphia, Thursday
| last, died at two O'Clock Sunday morning
! Crawford the return Judge who fred the
fatal shot, is still ia custody.
The daughter of Prof Claire. OF Utah.
| recently poisoned one who loved her. but
whom she did not love, and killed herself
with dagger, in the presence OF the man
WnOm sDe Oiu love, OoCduSO HO Noo'N N1oN
| bel ieve her innocent Of the crime.
The wife of the Hon. Hester Clymer
Mrs Elizabeth II. Brooke Clymer) died at
Reading on Saturday week. after a lingering
illness She was widely known and respec-
ted for her kind and charitable disposition
and her many acts of berevolcnce.
United States Marshal Quinhy received
on Saturday morning the pardon papers tor
the Fenian prisoners Starr. Mann. aud
Thompson, and has forwarded them to the
agent of the prison at Auburn. The prison,
ers were set at liberty the same evening.
On Monday morning last at O'Clock
! melancholy shooting affray occurred a.
Cumberland. Nd Mr. Black shot and
Instantly killed w w MK.g, Jr for tht
SEDUCTION of the formers sister. Three bali:
took effect, one passing through the heart.
Judge Dean. ex-membcr of Congress
from New York, died on Wednesday Ht
was an eminent lawyer. ard formerly
judge of the Supreme Court If that State
He was counsel for Mrs. Cunningham. tried
several years ago for the murder Of DIR. Bur
dell.
: The difference between a Radical ad
: ministration and a Democratic admini>tra
ton of the government, as shown by th
statements, is that the latter taxed the peo
pie about 81 % per capita. and the forme:
, during tie last year. have taxed the peopi
$40 so per capita.
Radical economy is illustrated as fol
lows: ''If you owe debt of $500. cnllec
taxes to the amount Of 81 900. pay the deb
!, with halt the money, and steal the remain
: der That is the way Grants am1Distratio
reduces the public debt. 1t will answe
4 until the people find ont how it is done.
Oscar Mclaughlin, brakesman on tn
Pennsylvania railroad, was killed oD Friday
about a mile west of Steamboat station
> Lancaster county. he was not missed unit
, the train reached the station, when scare
!, was made, and he was found dead OH til
track, his head and one of his limbs bein
: crushed.
; There is an old negro in Mobile. 8
years of age, who is now living with hi
J, seventh wife, and is the father of IL child
. rem. the youngest being five months Old
= He was born iu New London, Conn, wa
: stolen and brought to that place when
: child, and has lived there seventy years.
+ His name is Stephen Short.
= "A very novel case of wife-selling occur
h red short time since at Painsvilie, Ohi(
Two men. named Miller and Gregory. me
:, in saloon. One had silver watch. an
:, the other 8 handsome wife. Miller ca
- longing ewes upon the watch, and Gregor
. ditto on the wife. They agreed to exchang
4 and left the saloon shortly afterward, a
. three apparently well pleased with the bal
% gain.
! The fable of the living jackass kickin
the dead lion is very forcibly illustrated b
:, the order Of Mr. Boutwell, to the collector
= Savannah, in. regard to the custom hou:
" flag. which had been placed at half mast f,
: the death of Robert f. Lee The dead liol
al however, did not complain. and the liviu
jackass brayed triumphantly, just as his fs
al lows of the Radical press will do in this il
. stance.
;. The Archbishop of Quebec died on SIS
urdav night last Of dropsy of the heart. age
seven.y-two years. He was the fifteen'
Bishop and third Archbishop of Quebec
is lie was taken suddenly ill about two montl
In ago. while on pastoral visit. His boo
to lay in state in the Archepiscopal Churc
u, till Tuesday, when the interment took plaC
e, The Canadian Bishops assisted at the fnner