The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-08-03
Political and Views Htems.

AN Indiana girl, aged II, is after a di-
vorce.
A mule is cheaper than stylish bonnet
in California.
Florida has grown ripe peach with
green one inside.
1t takes the skins Of 1000 horses to
cover the base-balls manufactured yearly.
Two men were smothered to death in
Kansas to end their sufferings from hydro
phobia.
week before last. when the hail was deep
enough to sleigh in.
Snow is said TO have fallen to the depth
of six inches or more in the southern portion
of Casadaga Valley, Chautauqua county, \.
Y, on the 2lst of July.
An old German who crossed the ocean
to see his friends In Lyons. Iowa. reached
there Just in time to fall dead before a word
of greeting could be uttered.
One hundred and seven bushels of wheat
Ia reported to have been produced this seas
son on two and quarter acres Of land near
Littlestown. Adams county.
Mr. John Slidell, one Of the agents Of
! the southern confederacy In Europe, and
we'll known from his connection with the IA
nous Trent affair. has jnst died.
During a game of base ball, at Tama
club for telling stroke, hit the catcher in
the temple, killing him instantly.
"A remarkable family lives In Dallas
county, Ark. The father is 108 years old,
the mother LOG, and the two are the parents
of 29 children-15 boys and IA girls.
| The Louisville Courier Journal propo-
ses q new Presidential ticket, Greeley and
Toombs, which it says would run like
CREASED hell with tin.pan tied to it's tail"
During a very severe thunder storm at
| Washington, Pa. on Wednesday evening
last, Mrs. John Allen was instantly killed
and her youngest child and lady named
Elizabeth Wolf badly stunned by lightning.
| The Radicals have adopted sectional
hatred and religious bigotry as the the Lead
| ing planks 10 their political platform. They
cannot win upon such issues. The people
are too intelligent to adopt such programme
| IN this country.
| Tho Prince of Wales and a royal party
! are en- rouIe for Ireland. Far better attend
/ to the long deferred claims of Ireland for JUS
tice, than amuse her people with idle shows,
which only point with keener regrets the
memories of the past.
The Empress Eugene, according to the
| Temps, on the occasion of the Papal Jubi-
! lee, sent letter of congratulation to the
| Pope, through Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte.
| together with an Offering of one hundred
| thousand francs in the name Of the Imperial
| family.
The scandal going the rounds of the
radical press about JEFF Davis and lady.
| in a sleeping coach on a Southern railroad, /,
Is too contsmptible canard to be found in
the columns of a respectable paper. In all
| his domestic relations Mr.. Davis bears the
! reputation of being among the best and
! kindest of men.
| One Of the most audacious robberies
| ever placed on record was perpetrated in
! OH, within six miles Of Medina, on Satur>
| day, by two bold robbers, who accosted a
! Mr.. Gay in his garden, charging him with
| b ing a cour terfsiter. after which they placed
! him In irons and robbed his residence Of sew
eral thousand dollars.
| Mr. Joseph Caldwell a welI-to do citi-
Zen of Columbus, Ohio. unaccountably dis
| appeared more than twelve months since,
| aud very recently, as 1t has been discovered,
died in lunatic asylum in New Orleans.
and was buried In pauper's grave. He
/ left an estate worth $3.50, 900, and one OF
| his relatives is now enjoying it.
! At London. in Shelbyicounty, Indiana,
on Sunday, Henry Ellington, rejected sui
! tor, undertood to murder Miss Lizzie Smith,
and in doing this he trsmpled her under foot
to such an extent that. though alive at last
accounts, it Is hardly probable that she can
long survive. Lynch law Is likely to call
Ellington to account for this Wanton act OF
brutality.
Alexander Lovelet, French Canadian,
residing with his family on Navy Island.
and Edward Bogardus. of Chippewa. in at
tempting to cross to Navy Island at IL O'Clock
on Wednesday night last, were carried over
| Niagara Falls. On Friday the remnants OF
their boat were found below the falls. The
bodies have not yet been found. Lovelet
leaves a wife and three childrcR.
1t IS reported that the Cherokee Indi-
ans In western North Carolina. have filed q
claim against the Government for all the
lands lying between the Blue Ridge and
the Cumberland mountains, and extending
from Bristol to Chattanooga, Tenn. 1t i,
said that when the treaty was made ceaing
this land, the Cherokee chief failed to sign
1t, and that it is, therefore, of no value.
When the Misses Collier, of Geneva
n. Y. reached their uncle's house at Reches-
ter. Wednesday, thsy were surprised to find
a hearse standing at the door. and horri6ed
on finding that the dead was their sister Eva,
whom they had come to visit. While Civ
ing way to the outburst of grief which natu-
| rally followed, a despatch came from Geneva
announcing that their sister at home, who
was well when they left her in the morning,
had suddenly died.
The Fulton (Mo.) Fair Play of the 26th
says: ga portion Of a bridge on the Lou
| isians and Missouri Railroad, being built
over Anvase river, eight miles north of Full
ton. fell last Sunday, carrying with it nine
men over one hundred feet to the bed of the
river below. Only one man, A. McGills,
was killed. Charles Gray, George Brsm-
mington, and William Brothers suffered Sc
we're internal injuries and will probably die.
The others are not seriously hurt"
There has been a 'new departure"
taken in South Carolina. More than hun
dred prominent Radicals. white and black,
have gone over to the Democrats. renouncing
and denouncing the Republican party as
false and corrupt. The Carolina Spartan