The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-23
News and Political Riems.


Three colored men were hung in St.
James parish. Louisiana, on Saturday, Tor
having committed a murder on the 10th day
Of last May.
"A little boy. aged years, belonging to
the strong woman of O'Brien's Menagerie.
died of starvation at Stormville, n. Y, on
Thursday night.
"A duck few 246 miles in two days in
August 1t was taken from Canada by a
Michigan man, and after staying a week,
flew home again.
Goldsmith Maid'' defeated Lucy" in
a trot at Minneapolis, Mimi. on Saturday.
trotting the first heatin 2 1Sh, the second in
174 and thethird in 2-21-
Judge Underwood. of Virginia. has pub
lisheG his opinion (unofficial) that all women
will be permitted to deposit their ballots in
the Presidential contest of 1872.
Lightning struck a Crestline building
in which were a number of card players
Trey were so affected by the incident that
they tore up their cards and sent after new
pack
The women's rights movement has at
tackled Georgia poultry, and some of the
hens at Madison have gone off, leaving a fee
BILE rooster TO take care of whole brood of
chickens.
Twenty members of the q. 8. Sen
ate have signed a paper insisting upon re-
storing Summer as Chairman of the Corcmit>
tee on Foreign relations. This is the first
stone at Grant.
Two children of Mrs Brown, residing on
Taylor street. Chicago, were smothered TO
death on the 18th, by smoke in the kitchen.
where they had been placed under lock while
the mother was at church.
France has offered to jnin the United
States in an effort to compel Corea to respect
the common rights of humanity. and the
usages of civilized nations. England will
also make one of the alliance.
Two white men were lately met walk
ing on a railroad in Virginia by nine colored
men, all armed. vino. to make sure of get
ting all the valuables of the two men, made
them strip. and took clothes, money, and all.
At Wakefield. Va, on Saturday, a
brutal step-father tied his boy on the railroad
track. and then went to seek switches to
beat him with. While he was gone a freight
train came along and frightfully mutilated
the poor boy.
Even Rausier. the negro Lieutenant.
Governor of South Carolina. denounces Grant
and Scott's project to proclaim martial law
in South Carolina. Ransier thinks the civil
power is strong enough to take care of disor-
derly persons.
- "A dreadful punishment for cruelty to
dumb animals is reported in Buffalo. A
little boy tried to shoot a cat which had
taken refuge under a bed He did not kill
the cat. but he set fire to the bed and burned
his fathers house down.
"A mammoth cheese, weighing 5000
pounds, the product of one days milking of
1000 cows. yielding 80. 1O5 pounds of milk.
manufactured in Erie county, was deposited
for exhibition in the International Industri-
al Exhibition, at Buffalo, on Saturday night.
The mountain lakes in the Austrian
Alps. between the Moll and Malta valleys,
were frozen in July. and the Alps, for a
considerable distance from their SUBMITS,
covered with snow. The lakes are situate
about seven thousand feet above the level of
the sea.
John G. Breckenridge, say the Lexing-
ton papers, is now one of the hardest work
ing lawyers in Kentucky, and is likely to
make good deal of money by his profess
sion. He seldom discusses politics in these
days, having discovered that they are in no
sense remunerative.
Our peripatetic President is still on the
wing. He was last heard from at Cincin-
natl but where be will next turn up is diff
fcult to state. but it is very evident that he
may be looked for in almost any other place
than where be should beat the national
capital, at Washington.
Bailey, Hodge, Evans and Norton, are
all Republicans, and all have stolen enormous
amounts of the peoples money. The Louis
vile Courier Journal thinks the most accom-
plished of the gentlemen is Colonel Bailey,
as he not only stole all the money he could
lay hands on. but stole away.
When our travelling President visited
H. L. -. L
to which were sold to outsiders at two doll
lars head. A loyal coloreG citizen of Afri-
can "scent" bought one, but was refused
admission to the banquet. Titusville darkies
are now disloyal to the administration
John W Norton. assistant postmaster
under the late James Kelly, and lately super
intendent of money order department in the
New York post Office, is defaulter to the ex-
tent of from 500. 600 to $50 600, and John
Moon. clerk in the same Office has been de-
tected opening money letters. He was arrest
ed and held to bailiin the sum of $4,000.
Major Hodge, the defaultiug Paymaster.
had two sureties. each of whom gave bond
for 500 900 and this Is all the government is
likely to save from that half million steal
1t is almost es bad as Evans. whose bond
amounts to but ten thousand dollars But
then they are loyal you know, and loyalty
should protect what loyalty steals.
The Boston Hearld says there is man
residing in that county whose parents died
several years ago. and their bodies were
placed in a tomb. Not long ago it was de-
cided to have them buried. and consequently
their bodies were placed in box and laid
away in the grave, and the son took the
boards that composed the coffins home with
him to be used in patching up his barn.
The Treasury Department and the Paw
Department. at Washington, are disputipg
which is responsible for the existen ce of a
huge deficit. for years, in the accounts of
one Paymaster. How many more may be
in the same condition 2 What must be the
system that admits of such a condition of
things? 1t is like the four years allowed to
Evans at Harrisburg. when the law quired
an annual settlement.
-Welton Malott. farmer residing few
miles north of Marion, Ind. has a turkey
gobbler that is quite a curiosity Some tina