The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-07-14
General News Items.

| ly rooted over the otber Gay anu bS sD.N
| he might tell the story in a series OF articles
entitled, What an H-G nose about iarm-
ing"
Nearly six acres Of wooden buildings IN
Manchester, n. H.. were destroyed by hre
! I7ri,}ev morning. Two hundred families are
homeless Loss, half million Of dollars
half insured.
The anti Chinese feeling in North
Adams. Massachusetts, is So strong that an
American employed to teach the arrived
Chinese the language has been attacked with
yuleys Of stones.
"A man named Giaudy was fishing in a
creek near Roxbury ,Fraaklin county. on
Monday. He was sitting beneath bridge
which gave way and fell upon him, kI.ilng
him instantly.
The LYMAN gun, made at Reading Pa.
! for tie French government, and which rs TO
/ throw hall ten miles, has been satisiact"T-
I iv tested. and ill now be taken to England
and tried tbtre
A married lady Of Milwaukee becane
! insane. She escaped from the h,'use and ran
| to the river Her husband caught her ny
! the dress, but she drew him into the river
/ and both were drowned.
! The Philadelphia North american says
that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
actively preparing for the establishment Of
! PhiladeI fhia and Liverpool.
I In ssachuseits, after eItetnber LIST,
! if seven citizens Of any town, or fifty of any
! city, demand it, the leuple. by vote, must
dcciie " neither ale, lager beer, or cider shall
! be sold 10 said city or town.
/ "A Cincinnati paper tells of darkey
/ child near that city one gear old, with
! head 35 inches ia diameter and weighing %
| pounds An exchange WAITS To knOw how
/ they got al the weight of tie head.
+ Two strangers recently sta;d at far
/ mer's house II Grundy Centre. Iowa. The
/ next morning one hired the farmer TO take
aim to Steamboat Rcek During his absence
I the other ran away with his wife and chill
| dreD.
Believers in Benjamin Butler will be
I shocked TO learn that he has elected several
hundred negro squatsers from his estates
near Hampton Virginia. The noble freed
man made TO resistance, but they are disap-
pointed in Ben.
! An Irish girl az Erie. day or two since.
caught another girl on the sidewalk who had
ou hhop-skirt. stolen from the party of the
I first part, compelled her to take then','ff and
1 surrender them, then and there. TIE affair
created genuine sensation.
ABOUT the hardest thing said of Grant
was lately wrung from dissatisfied Repub
|
didt't get the Office he was after. In bis
moment of agony he so!emnly declared
Grant has disgracei the Republican
party!' How is that for high, in the way
of abuse?
The Roman Catholic clergynien of the
State of Iowa have addressed letter TO Hon
Richard O'Gorman, of New York city. urg
ing him to lay before his countrymen the
advantages Of that State for enigTant set
tiers. They cl-im that it is an E Dorado
for the poor Gian aud just the spot in which
the Ceit can find a prosperous and happy
homo.
Washington county contributes another
nurisr. The victim was an elderly colnred
man named Samatui Brown. 1t is suspected
that the perpetrators Of the crime are Browns
wife, pretty mulatto woman much yeuu-
ger han be, and colored mau nan ed John
Fulluu, who is alleged To be crimiualiy in
innate with the woman. They have both
been arrested.
-Some tao weeks ago the wife of DR..
| Bigelow, residing in the neighboihood OF
Lewistown Pa died. She and her husband
not having lived agreeably. suspicious Of
fonl play have since been entertained. t.
consequence O which the Doctor delivered
himself to the civil authorities and has been
lodged in the Lewistown i.il. The affair is
now undergoing investigation
The negroes in many of the Southern
States are drilling nightly. Raleigh. n. G 3,
has battalion of negro cavalry. 1t is a
curious feature Of the times that negroes are
permitted without molestation to organize
themselves into military companies, and arm
themselves, while the white citizens are de-
MED the privilege. or if they exercised It.
would probably be compelled by force to
disband
Fourth Of July brought forth crop of
murders. At ST townsville. n Y. Charles
2 Gacker deliberately shot Thomas f. Burdick
school teacher, through the breast, killing
him Instantly. Near Boston. Abraham
Rechberg, a German. was killed during a
drunken row. At the west shaft Of the
Hoosc Tunnel Charles Mccarthy was found
murdered by some person unknown. Three
negroes were killed at Wessou. Miss. A
policeman was beaten to death by rowdies in
Baltimore. and at Union Hill, n. j., Henry
Eppinger had occasion to kill ruffian who
, attempted to rob him.
On Tuesday week some men were en-
gagged in hauling in hay on the farm Of
Mr.. Reynold Wallace, in southampton twp.
Cumberland co. There seemed to be very
little appearance of a storm. The SUN was
shining brightly and there were scarcely any
clouds in the horizon. Suddenly vivid
flashes of lightning were seen and loud re
ports of thunder were heard. Four white
men near the hay wagon were struck down
by the lightning and very considerably stun.
ned, whilst negro on the wagon was not
hurt in the least. 1t seemed to be literally
a ihunder bolt from cloudess sky.
On the 7th inst, man named Peter
Blew, brutally cut the throat of boy c
years old, the son of Mr.. Hoffman, who re-
sides in Kentucky, four miles below Law
renceburg, Indiana, almost severing the. head
from the body. He had entced the boy
into the pig pen, after making indecent pro-
posals to Mrs. Hoffman, who was alone al
, the house. After numbering the boy, he
returned to Mrs. Hoffman. and made an
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