The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-05-19
General Ne WIS Items.


been beaten By the American yatch Sappho.
The lion is no match for the ca gle on the sea-
"A Louisville despatch announces the
death of Theodore Clay, son of Henry Clay,
and for fifty years an inmate of the Lexing-
ton Lunatic Asylum.
Nearly sixty thousand copies of the
Mcfarland trial in pamphlet form have been
ordered. We may expect to have a crop of
emotional insanity after this.
AT a recent election in Cumberland,
Md, one hundred and thirty negroes voted
for the FIRST time. The result was gain of
two Democratic councilmen.
Prominent members cf the administra-
ton. like Senator Sherman, have proposed
that the Office of Secretary of the Navy be
abolished. and that its duties devolve upon
the War Department.
Edward Paine, who was running cir
cular saw in the saw mill of Aaron Boyd, in
Slocum township, Luzerne county, fell be-
twain. on the 9Th inst.
The steamer War Eagle, at Lacrosse,
Wis, was burned ION Saturday, together
with the depot of the Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railroad Company. The passengers
on the boat all jumped into the river, and
two were drowned.
-Ex- President johnson, according to a
Southern paper, intends to resume, though
in a wholesale way, his tailoring business,
and to that end, it seems that he has pur-
chased large and commodiouS brick build
ing in Greenville. Tenn.
"A few weeks ago, Mr.. Samuel Jones
Of Metal township, franklin county. saw
fawn coming from the mountain towards
his premises. His cattle were near his
house and it went in among them. 1t was
captured, and has became quite tame.
"A house has just been erected in Scran-
ton by private citizen which is said to far
exceed "the costly splendors of the Eastern
world, the Mosque of Omar. and the Golden
Palace of Nema Sahib at Calcutta, as well
as the regal dwellings of the Queen of Eng
land"
-Zachariah Snyder alias John Deal. the
murderer of Richard NJ. Harlan on the night
of the 9th of October last was hung on the
18th instant in the Jail yard at Reading
About two hundred spectators were present
This was the fourth execution for murder'in
Berks county.
Grant has cottage at Long Branch
which cost. according to Forney's Washing
ton Chronicle, the snug sum of S32 000.-
Grant has somehow managed to accumulate
money much more rapidly than any other
President ever did. lie makes tie office
pay himself aud all his numerous relations
"A Boston gentleman who could not
waltz, offered a young lady enc hundred
dollars if she would let him hug her as
much as the man did who had just waltzed
with her. 1t was a good offer and showed
that money was no object to him, but they
put him out of the house so hard that his
eye was quite black.
Mcfarland was offered ten thousand
dollars and foreign consulship if he would
abandon his wife aud children to Richardson
Richardson had the money, but who had
the power to confer the consul's appoint
ment2 Rumor says it was Vice President
Colfax, who was a very intimate friend of
Richardson. "The Republican party has
all the morality 20
On Friday last, some boys in Portland
were playing with an old musket. when
John Tanner carelessly pointed it at Patrick
Curtin and pulled the trigger. and the gun
was discharged, blowing off the top of Cur
tins bead. He lived in An unconscious state
for about two hours. Tanner was so trou-
bled at the result of his careiessness. that
he jumped into the river and drowned him
self.
The report published on Friday of the
assemblage of the Fenian 6libusters on the
Canadian border is confirmed by the Duluth
papers. The Fenians are mastering in diff
ferent parts of Minnesota, and three huldred
are in St. Paul, waiting for transportation
and'subsistence. 1t is undecided yet whether
the Irish army will concentrate in the Red
River country or march direct to Fort Viii
liam to oppose the landing of the expedition
from Canada.
The Radicals and negroes of Charlton
county, Mo-, have recently been enjoying
themselves in rather belligerent STYLE
The negroes attempted to force their children
into a white school, and some thirty of
them came armed to the sch ool house. Tie
district is composed almost entirely of Rad
icals, who, upon learning of the movements
of the negroes, collected in considerable force
and drove them off. Several negroes came
near being killed.
"A bill has been introduced in the Con-
necticut Legislature providing that when
an intoxicated person commits an injury to
persons or property, the person who sold
him the liquor upon which he became iptox-
icated shall be liable for all damages and
if in any case one is killed by an intoxicated
person., the person who sold the drunken
person the liquor shall be Liable for all dam
ages TO those who were dependant upon the
murdered man for support.
Dawson, prisoner in the Wisconsin
OtaVe IrlSon LOT lie, during the recent lire
went into the engine room and blew off all
the steam. thus preventing an explosion of
the boiler which would have killed num-
Der of citizens and prisoners. He came out
of the engine room burned to blister. A
movement is on foot to secure his pardon,
partly on account of this exhibition of bra
very, and partly because it has been proven
that he was innocent of the charge which
imprisoned him.
"A poor German couple, residing in
North William street Williamsburgh, have
female infant. whose face and head are
strangely deformed. The lower portion of
the face resembles that of horse, and the
whole front portion of the upper jaw is
wanting. and the nasal bone and cartilage
are extended down over the lower law.
making two large nostrils. which connect
without division with the mouth, thus max
ing but one large oriice in the face. The