The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-14
News and Political Eten1s.

The boiler of flour mill at New Ha-
ven, Indiana, exploded on Thursday. killing
three persons and injuring three others seri-
ously.
r. A. Simpson. of Perry county, announce
in the Perry County Democrat their with
drawal from the Radical party. Other i'm
portant changes are noted in various parts of
the State.
The marriage of Colonel Jerome Napo-
leon Bonaparte, of Paris, and Mrs. Caroline
Leroy Appleton Edgar, grand daughter of
Daniel Webster, was celebrated in St. Mary's
church Newport, on Thursday, by Rev.
Father Grace.
Benjamin S. Schndle. Of Lancaster, has
a singular bunch of apples, grown on the
farm of M John McFalls Five perfect
apples seem to have sprung from one bios
som, and to have grown together on the top
of small sprig.
On the coarse blanket which protects
the poor laborer from the pinching fros:s Of
winter. grasping and greedy radical mono>
polists have imposed the enormous tax Of
two hundred and forty per cent. They
have done this 10 their uubounded compass
sion for the poor
"A twelve year-old boy in Cincinnati
stole trunk full of his sisters clothing and
500 of his papa's money and dug out''
with his sweetheart. aged eleven. They
have been gone week, and all the authori-
ties of Ohio have been unable to obtain the
first clue to their whereabouts.
The nomination for governor of Corne-
lius Walsh, a millionaire, by the radicals Of
New Jersey, is regarded as equivalent to a
democratic victory in the Safe. Walsh is
very unpopular among the poorer classes
1t is thought that Hudson county alone win
show change sufficient to wipe out the
1000 radical majority of last year.
A coIored man, named George Troupe,
in Alexandria, Va. recently attempted to
play Elijah and get fed by the ravens Two
weeks ago he left his employer, dressed in
his Sunday clothes, saying he would work
for man 20 more. as the Lord had promised
to provide for him. He was found nearly
starved to death and so weak that he could
not crawl, having eaten only two peaches
and pear in twelve days. Not single
raven came to feed him.
Mrs. Margaret Finley, living near
Wabash, Indiana, murdered her three chill
dren on Wednesday forenoon. She took
her babe by the feet and beat its brains out
on a stone. She cut the throats Of her two
eldest children, aged nine and eight years
respectively, The woman was arrested and
husband having died last winter. She seems
perfectly sane. and says she killed the chill
dren to get rid of them.
A terrible murder was committed on
NJ nday night last at the residence of john
Harper, owner of the race horse Longfellow,
near Midway, KY. Jake and Betsey Har-
per. brother and sister of John, had their
throats cut by some unknown person, sup>
posed fer the purpose of robbery. Some
negroes living within few feet of Harper'S
residence knew nothing of the occurrence
till the morning, and no clue has been OBJ
tained to the perpetrators of the bloody deed.
"A dreadful tragedy occurred in Wilkin-
son county, Georgia, about midnight on
Wednesday last. a party of unknown
men gagged and killed Matthew Deason,
sheriff of Wilkinson county, aud also a negro
woman in his employ. and threw their bodies
into mill pond near by. The bodies were
recovered on Friday morning. The sheriff
had a gun shot wound in his head and the
remains of the woman gave evidence of
having been mutilated with a knife. No
arrest have been made so far.
Dolly Love. aged 81 years, the widow
of Robert Love, who served as private in
the Revolutionary war, is living at LLOYD
opposite this city, where she has always re-
sided, in terrible affliction. Up to the first
of last April she had enjoyed uninterrupted
good health but since then the flesh on her
limbs has cracked open, and some parts of
her body have commenced mortify ing. She
is really dying alive. She is as patient and
submissive as a lamb under all her mental
facuties.-Poughkeepsie Press
"A terrible accident occurred between 9
and 10 O'Clock on Saturday, at the crossing
of the St. Louis and Vandalia Railroad and
the Colinsville plank road, two miles from
East ST Louis. A party of pic-nickers,
composed of sixteen grown people and sew
eral children. left the city 10 a large furri-
ture wagon to spend the day in Illinois -
When at the crossing they were struck by
an excursion train going to Highland Three
in the wagon were killed outright, two were
mortally, and four or FIVE severely, wounded
Mrs. Margaret Finley, the triple muir
deress at Wabash. Ind. atten pied to com
NIT suicide on Monday. She broke the
lamp chimney in ber cell. and with a por>
ton of it cut frightful cash in her throat,
almost seyering the windpipe. The sheriff
had severe struggle in trying to take the
glass from her, and was compelled to call
assistance aud bind her TO the bed before the
physician could dress the wound. She said
that she had sent three children to hell and
going there herself. She was not ex-
pected to live till morning
The Lawrence (Ks.) Journal contains
the particulars of the killing by DR.. Marsh
of himself, wife, and child. About O'Clock
in the morning, hearing unusual sounds in
the doctors room the servant went in and
found him lying on the floor, bleeding pro-
fuseiy from wound in the neck. On the bed
lay Mrs. Marsh bleeding. and near her was
her little daughter completely covered with
blood. Before medical aid could be obtained
they were both dead. The deed was done
with razor DR.. Marsh has been partially
insane for some time on account of the death
of his father.
"A hail-storm passed through Rocking
ham county. Va. a few days ago The hail
in many places drifted from FIVE to seven
feet deep. Liuville creek was so banked up
with hail that the fish became frozen, and
were picked up along the banks in great