The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-06-24
political, and news Items.

One of her future Aldermen
AN act has passed the Legislature infiics-
ing a heavy penalty upon all persons VINO
NAV hereafter be guilty Of mutilating or des-
troyed handbills.
A nortiou of Clinton Mountain, in Ar
kansas including about one hundred acres,
has sunk. carrying trees entirely out OF slSht,
and the space is continually eDlarglnS-
The distribution of the S2O, 600 to suf-
ferers by the Miff1in fire has caused great
dissatisfaction. Just what might have been
expected. One evil brought Oh the other.
The intermarrage Of two families In
Maine is remarkable. One, consisting OF
four sops and one daughter, has married all
of a neighbours children, four daughters and
a SOD
named Charles Fisher. aged Is, who left
his home in South Hermitage, Lancaster
County, on 18th of April last, and has not
| been heard'of since.
In New York on Sunday, DR.. James
Connolly, while laboriug under deirlum
tremens, murdered his two little daughters'
aged respectively years and months ana
then committed suicide.
The editor of the Bellefonte WdtchDtdn'
who was at Harrisburg at the time, says
that of the one hundred and thirty deiegaIeS
who composed the Radical State Convention
! Hon. John Y. L. Mcmahon, one of the
| Oldest distinguished lawyers of Maryland
died in Cum berland on Thursday night last.
The Youngest sister of Mr.. McMahon was
the wife of the unfortunate Vallandigham
In view of the disturbed condition OF
Europe on the temporal power OF the POPE
ouestion. Victor Emmanuel has thought
| proper TO still further postpone the removal
| of the Italian capital from Florence to Rome:
Putnam, the Radical Postmaster OF
| Mobile, one of General Grants recent APP
| pointments, has been arrested and indicted
| for bribery. From office to the PenitenGary
seems to be the fate of Radical officials South.
"A few days since, one year old child oi
! Rev. Shindle. Lutheran pastor at Perrysvile,
| Juniata county, got hold of a box OF percus-
sion caps and swallowed quantity OF them
1t was taken ill.,, and medicine was admiDls
! tered, which expelled hirty-One caps. 1t
died the day following.
"A while ago, a poor wayfaring man
come to Durham, Me-, but would not re-
veal his name or residence. He died, and
an examination of his effects shows that be
was Prof. Greenleaf. the author OF the
/ grammar and other school books famous IN
this country thirty years ago.
The Fulton Democrat says: Mr. isaac
! Culp tells US Of blacksnake killed on the
! farm of Mr.. j. B. Lynch, of Bethel towns
ship, whose length was seven feet, the head
and about six inches Of the body was white !;
it ihen continued about three feet speckle
and the balance wound up black.
"A Newfoundland dog and hound met
! on log across a stream out in NebrasEa.-
| Neither would go back. Finally. after eye
! ing each other, the newfoundland spread
wide his legs on the outer edges Of the log
and the hound darted through under his
body. Here was canine sagacity.
"A negro in Georgia robbed his employ
er OF pistol, and, while fooingswith 1t shot
[ himself through the hand. He went to Au~
gusta and told that he had been Ku-Kluxed,
/ and had the United States troops out forty
i eight hours leooking for them, and while
they were gone Sambo stole all their rations.
On Friday last son of William Roth
rock. ticket agent at Milerstown, Perry
county, was run over by Pennsylvania
railroad freight train and killed. He had
been on the track with his father and be-
I coming confused ran right into the jaws of
death. The boy was about seven years old
The Pennsylvania State Medical Socie-
/ ty, IN session at Williansport, on Thursday
rescinded their rule against women physt-
! clans. by a vote of so to 40. The rule pro-
! hibited, on pain of expulsion from the So
ciety, consulted with female physicians, or
with those who CONSULTED with them or
taught them medicine.
Walter johnson, aged fourteen, and
| Stephen Whitman were fishing from boat
! at Saltwater, on the Hudson river. on the
! 10th, when the boat drifted u3der the falls
of the dam and capsized. Whitman swan
| ashore. Thomas Doran, aged twenty-five.
! Jumped in to save the boy johnson, but was
| Sc lied with cramps. and bott were drowned.
! At negro Sabbath School picnic, near
| Montgomery. Alabama, the darkies COM
menced quarreling over the merits of rival
| Radical candidates, and three were stabbed.
! A similar row occurred at another black
! Sunday School picnic in the same State, and
! three more were wounded There were no
! Democrats at either gathering. 1t was
| purely family fuss.
If ex Congressman Bowen gets two
years in the Penitentiary for having two
! wives, how many years should Brigham
| Young get2 He must be within the jurisdic-
| ton of the laws Of the United States, as one
of his sops, by one of bis wives, is now re-
| ceiving an education at the expense of the
| people at West Point. Equal and exact JUS
tice is an excellent sentiment.
Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, says the Pitts
| burgh Post, has been quoted as opposed to
! the ninth resolution IN the Pennsylvania
| democratic platform. This is not true. He
was in Harrisburg during the sitting of the
! convention, being engaged in the supreme
court then in session. and gave his opinion
in writing expressing in the boldest terms
the binding obligation of the several amend
ments to the constitution.
The news from the far east, if founded
! in fact, is horrible. Famine is said to be uni
versal in Persia, and in some parts of that
kingdom the famished people are charged
with killing and devouring their Children
1t is difficult to believe such a horrible
tale; but the improvidenc of Mahommedans
in all countries, and the backward state of
! agriculture, combine to render even such
horrors possible. If there Is grain in Europe
some of 1.-THE surplus-cannot be better