The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-10-18

An Indiana farmer las purchased the
''Caydiff Giant for a gate post.
hon. II. Milton Speer is the only Dem
oc.atic candidate for reelection in the
State who increased his majority at the
late election.
a New Hampshire judge has decided
that it is an illegal oflense to spit tobacco
spit ON the door of public place, and has
fined an offender ore dollar and costs.
Love induced beautiful and accom-
plished girl Of Chicago to mary blind
man with club foot. He was poor man,
while his wife has al income of 81, 800 a
year.
The baggage master of the p. & E.
Railroad at Lock Haven station was muir
dered on Monday morning, about o clock.
No clue as to who the murderer is has yet
been obtained.
A Scranton paper sensIb'y says that
large patchwork bed-cover displayed at
fair, by little girl six years old, shows
great industry, with much time and pa
tience devoted to it that might have been
physically more profitably used III romping
ard play.
Harrisburg, Pa, October 15.-In the
case of Emanuel Shaffner on second tlial
too day, for the murder Of his two wives
and John SharlCck by poisoning, the pris-
oner pleaded guilty of murderin the second
degree and was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for thirty-six years.
"A mail bag filed with mail which was
started from Somerset, Somerset county on
the 2d Of last June, reached the Pittsburg
Post Office on Sunday last, The bag had
been missed for some time and its uneXpect-
ed appearance yesterday OccasiOned con
siderable surprise. Some of the letters in
the bag had grown mouldy, and were al
most falling to pieces
Goldsmith Maid, the famous trotting
mare, is said to be stolen property, and
lawsuit for her recovery is impending.
1t is said that about five years ago the sta
bles of a great Kentucky stock raiser were
| burned down and very promising young
mare stolen; and that the groom who had
( charge of her has Just seen the celebrated
Maid, and is ready to take an oath that she
( is the stolen animal.
The crops in Western Europe this
} year have turned out very favorably.
France, Germany, Belgium, and SwitZer-
land have been favored with an abundant
harvest, and the little land cultivated in
/ Spain has yielded well. Italy forms an ex-
ceptiOn, and adviceS from Genoa are to the
effect that in two-thirds of the country
/ such a bad crop has never been seen since
1853. In Hungary the Danubian Princi-
! palities, and Russia, the results are gener-
! ally unfavorable, and the expectations from
/ Turkey are expected to be smaller than
usual.
The Union League has taken up the
cudgel of party tyranny, and as an echo to
what had already been done by Russell
Erret, as Chairman Of the Republican State
/ Central Committee. has Illuminated its
thunder against Forney, Curtin, and Nc
! Ciure. y resolution passed by the mem
bers of the League on Saturday evening,
completely sewers the connection between
the gentlemen named and the managing
leaders of the party. They are literally
read out, though some OF them refuse to
acknowledge the authority that is proposed
to be thus exercised over them. The edi-
tor OF the Press is recalcitIant He kicks
violently, and positively refuses TO go out.
He will vote for Grant. He viii support
; Grant, and yet these men, who are bent
upon his political destruction, evidently
! have the countenance and support of the
President.