The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-15
Ne,cs and Political Items.

Scranton is to have silk factory.
A P1ussian circus will visit the United 4
States next year.
Iowa, having taken the census of her /
hogs. finds 1880, 0O0..
Grants horses have the epizootic. |
Like their master, they take everything (
they can get.
After all Greeley isn't the worst beat !
en- candidate in the contest. OConor /
didn't carry State.
A Pittsburg child lately fell into a
post hole and was drowned in the little /
water that had collected at the bottom.
Post holes should never be left without de-
fences.
Grants majority in the State of New
York will be upwards of 10000. The
Republican State ticket will have about
%, 900. Mr.. Greeley had %, 900 in New
York city.
The two strumpets, Woodruff and
Clafiin, do not receive any consolation
from the press of the country. With one
voice apparently, it denounces them as
they deserve.
Anew England bride and bridegroom,
on their wedding tour, were recently taken
from the station to the hotel, in Boston,
in a hack drawn by oxen with white rib
bons on their horns.
London, England, well as Boston,
had quite serious conhagration Satur-
worth of property having been destroyed
in a central portion of the city.
The negroes are as devoid of graft
tude as the protectionists. Horace Gree
ley, the apostle of negro freedom and the
high priest of protection, owes his defeat
for the presidency to the ingratitude of
these classes.
At Newton, Kansas, on Friday last,
Justice Holiday was shot dead by Mich1
. tric 6eSnargHA nj hu
son attempted to arrest Fitzpatrick, when
the latter drew revolver and johnson
shot him dead.
The Maritius has been lost in the
North Channel off the port of Patrick,
Scotland, and twenty-three Of the persons
on board were drowned. This may be
either the ship Maritius, which cleared
/ from Glasgow in the latter part of October
for Demerara, or the steamship Maritius,
of Dublin.
DR.. Samuel Ashman, living in Topeka,
Kansas, in a fit of drunken frenzy, on
Wednesday, the 9Th, shot and killed his
wife, after which he chopped off her
breasts in an insane attempt to cut out
her heart. 1t required ten men to cap
ture and take him TO jail, so desperate
were his struggles.
Horace Greeley beats Winfield Scott,
on the Presidential track, by twenty-five
per cent. In 1852, Scott carried four
lucky and Tennessee. In 1872, twenty
years later, Greeley carries at least five
States Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, Ten
nessee and Texas.
Avery Plummer and wife, an aged
couple of Ellsburg, New York, stepped
from train on the Eandalia Railroad
while crossing a tressel near Marysville
Indiana, and fell on the rocks fifty feet be-
low, instantly killing them both. They
ha1 rl1ista ken the GlpyyinO oF
customary at that place for their station.
/ Western windfalls are becoming more
numerous than ever. simultaneously come
the reports of an Indiana farm laborer
who has inherited nearly $500, 900, and of
an orphan girl in Missouri. charitably
adopted from the Home of the Friendless,
who unexpectedly turns ont to be the
rightful owner of an English estate worth
c30, 900.
A Mrs. BerchOffsberger and Simon
SIrentz, her brOther-in-aw, have been held
for examination on charge of incarcerat-
ing her husband, who is wealthy, in Tren-
ton Insane Asylum, during the past six
months, in order to obtain, as is alleged,
possession of his property. The superin-
tendent of the Asylum and some other
parties are implicated.
+ A special dis; atch from Youngstown.
Ohio, of the 18th inst says Two of the
new boilers recently set up in II e place of
. those which exploded three months ago
at Brown, Bonnell s. Co.'S rolling mill.
blew up yesterday afternoon, instantly
killing the fremen, James Wallace and
Michael O'Mallery, and wounding a num-
Der of other persons, three seriously.
General Grant's friends have not even
decency enough to conceal the fact that
during the campaign the Republican Ma
tional Committee had a picket in every
| Greeley camp of any consequence from
one end of the country to the other, and
he Grant knew day by day every phase
of the coalition situation as well as the
coalition managers themselves" They
seem even proud of their infamy
Colonel Titus Rice, recluse, who
has been living in an old barge at Fortress
Monroe since the war, committed suicide
on the Sth by shooting himself through the
head with Henry rifle. Some twenty
years ago he was a prominent citizen of
Richmond, and Colonel of the famous
black horse cavalry during the war he
acted as government pilot on the James
river. He was native of Connecticut,
and was about seventy years old.
Tobias Horst, young man, 81 years
old, residing at Farmersville, Lancaster
county, a few evenings since committed
suicide by taking dose of strychnine.
Mr. Horst was engaged to a young lady
and had purchased a farm, to which he
+ had intended to move after being married
/ His marriage was to have taken place one
day last week, but the young lady refused
to join with him in matrimonY. This
weighed upon his mind so much that in
his melancholy he took the deadly drug
which deprived him of his life
| After fierce fight with the furious
fire hend, Boston is herself again, and
confidently casts about, with true Yankee
/ grit for the speediest and most certain