The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-08-03
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.Netcs and Political Items.

Sumner says, ''As for myself, / shall
vote for Horace Greeley"
-Four hundred new oil-wells are drilled
in the oil-regions every month.
The trial of Tweed began ON the 18th
in the Supreme Court at Albany.
Sir James O'Connen, brother of Dan1
O'ConnelL died IN London ON Monday last
A Richmond man has worn the same
pair OF linen trousers foTty-nine summers.
They have been III style seven times.
Two married men of Whitehall, H.,
recently eloped with OIe married woman;
and three divorce suits are on the tapis in
consequence.
"A Stewart county, Georgia, hen has
got herself into no end of trouble by setting
on fourteen eggs and Matching out twenty
four chickens, with seven eggs to spare.
-Swindlers selling bags and carpets by
sample at half price, are travelling through
some of our neighboring counties, dupmg
the innocent and msuspecting. Look out
for them.
General Milo s Hascan of Indiana,
who was a Grant elector four years ago,
has written a letter announcing his inten-
ton of supporting the Liberal Republican
candidates.
And now it seems that there has been
a fraud Of from Sl5, 600 TO $50, 600 in the
Freedman's Bureau. 1t is doubtless all
right, though the money is gone and no
body knows exactly where.
Two boats were capsizCd in the Niaga-
IA River recently. two men being III one
and two children in the other. They were
all carried over the falls and no trace of
the bodies can he found.
-Hartranft has been in Office bat six
years. yet the State has lost through his
negligence, if not criminality, over two
millions of dollars to say nothing of the
rObbeTieS of the State Treasury he has
winked at.
| Col. John III. Kcatiy formerly Of this
/ county, says the Hollidaysburg Standard,
always a Republican, and potent in the
councils of his party in Iowa, where he has
/ resided for several years past, has declared
/ for Greeley and Brown.
I -EX-Govemor Joseph +. Brown, whose
advent into the Chicago Convention that
nominated Grant, and whose speech on that
memorable occasion was hailed with such
vOciferous applause, heads the Greeley
party in Georgia. So we 90.
-Four counties in Iowa-Allam
Clayton, Dubuque, and Jackson, are cred
tied with 5000 majority for the Reform
! ticket. If 01her portions of the State vote
in parallel columns with these. Grant viii
/ lose Iowa by decided majority.
-Hartranft is better mathematician
than soldier. He, assisted by Kemble and
/ Evans, figured the State out of over 81
| 600, 900 in less than three years. Addi-
| ton, division and silence-EvanS, Kemble
| and HaTtranft-thc rule of three that did
! the business for us.
! John Cessna has been named for re-
/ nomination to Congress by the Radicals of
! Fulton county, and the New FORK Eceni3ag
! Post says If the Republicans nominate
! him again, they viii again deserve defeat,
/ Mr. Cessna is not fit man for Congress- =
The Post people are evidently posted in
relation to Mr.. Cessna.
-AtPocahontas, Ark, fortnight ago. a
woman, while passing house, was torn in
pieces by pack OF dogs, \ day or two
after another person was attacked by the
same pack and narrowly escaped. The local
paper says the proprietor has since agreed
| to keep his dogs tied up, which indicates
very accommodating spirit.
Mrs. DOTCas ZahniZer, or jefferson
township, Mercer county, died recently. in
the ninetieth year of heI age. She was
born in WestmOTeland and went to Mercer
when twelve years of age. She lived to see
her fourth generation, children, grand
children, and reat-grand-children, num-
beIing in all two hundred and sixty
"A terrible steamboat explosion occur
| red onthe Mississippi river, two miles above /.
McGregOr, Iowa. at l y. m. on Tuesday .
last. The raft boat James Melburn. bound 4
up exploded her boiler with fearful effect /
Of twenty-five persons on board only ten
were saved as far could be ascertained
and several of these are badly scalded.
Near NarSham, about five miles west
of Cincinnati, on Tuesday evening. a col
ored girl, Mary Alice Craig killed her step
father, Wright Smith, also colored by
striking him on the head with a hoe.
Smith was alocal Methodist preacher. The
girl has been arrested. She alleTeS that
the act was in self-defence as Smith the
murdered man, attacked her with a razor.
Gen. Lemuel Todd, one of the Con
gressmen-at-Large on the Radical State
Inl l<pf 1
| He organized that party in Cumberland
| county, and was elected to Congress as its
| representative. He has never renowned
| his faith III the narrow, bigoted, intolerslnt
! spirit which made war upon race of men
| because they happened to be born in other
| lands, and destroyed their property because
| they We're not of his religious faith.
! ~ terrible accident occurred about 1
| o clock Monday morning, on the Kansas
! Pacific Railroad, one hundred and thirteen
miles east of Denver, Col \ westward
! bound passenger train, consisting of two
| sleeping cars, one first-claSs and one second
| class coach, and the baggage and express
cars, ran through a bridge over Coon
| creek The entire train, except the sleep
| lng-cdTs, was wrecked. Five persons We're
| killed outright and number were wound
! ed, some of whom will probably die. The
| killed were all in second-clasS cars The
| accident is supposed to have been caused
by waterSpOut bursting over the creek
and washing out the supports of the bridge
There was born on the 9th ult.. near
| Academia, Knox county, Tenn. an infant
having two well-developed heads. with
! distinct shoulders and upper extremities.
| but uniting little above the chest. form
| ing one body with two well-formed inferior
extremities, corresponding to each head.
and bhghted one with three toes. The
child or children was still-boTn, but mea-
sures have been taken for the preservation
of the human curiosity. The father is
well-to-do farmer-merchant, named Cald
well, and is a highly-respected citizen of
Academia, Mrs Caldwell being the daugh-
ter of a well-knoNqn citizen OF Knox comfy.
The account of the great physiological
wonder is entirely authentic