The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-11-01
Ne,cs ana Po5ittcot Items.

-Colored recruits for Grant n. c flOcking
into Michigan from Canada.
Hendricks is the first democratic gov
ernOr elected in Indiana since 1856.
"A Kansas lady lately obtained a di-
vorcc from and was married to her husband
all in a week.
A Wisconsin tornado recently blew
down 200, O0O, 900 feet of pine, and killed
40 yoke of oxen.
Nine divorced husbands are in one bus
mess house in New \ ork, two Of whom are
members of the firm.
The Louisville Exposition contains 4
lock of hair six feet long, cut from the
head of Swiss peasant girl.
"A Republican ut Sharon, Pa, won on
the elections $3 600 in cash, eleven suits
of clothes, and two hundred kegs of nails.
"A vote for Horace Greeley is vote in
favor of amnesty, fraternity, peace, and
good will among the people of all sections
of the country.
AT recent funeral in Georgetown,
California, man tainted and tumbled
headlong into the open grave, dying in a
few minutes aftor getting out.
Indiana is excited over the birth of
pig with a countenance as much like
Christian as any other inhabitant of the
town III which its parents live.
"A New Albany (Ind.) man is blessed
with fifteen daughters, and he is looking
bless each of them with wife.
William Craig, a negro who committed
rape on Mrs. LOttic Dayton, white woman
seventy-two years old, IN Cumberland, Md,
has been sentenced to be hanged.
General Loomis, who was leader of
the Michigan Loomis war battery, lately
died at the insane asylum at Washington,
and was buried in the Potter's field.
"A Washington boy that defies classifi-
cation has white neck and body, a mu-
latto face, and black ears; all surmounted
with crown of pure white nappy wool.
"A couple were married in Michigan,
lately, the bride being aged Sc and the
groom 81. Neither had been married be-
fore, and they had known each other for
forty years.
Mrs. Horace Greeley, after lingering
and severe illness, died on "Wednesday
morning at an early hour. Her husband
was at her side, where he has Le N a watch
full attendant.
A fearful hurricane swept through the
province of Syracuse, in Sicily, on Sunday
last, blowing down several houses, and it
is reported that thirty-two persons were
buried in the ruins.
A letter from ST. John says the potato
crop of Newfoundland is to a great extent
destroyed by blight, and that the cod fish
cry will certainly not be more than two
thirds of last years
Some Dan L ranClSCO lOTkSmltAS have
innocently incurred a severe penalty by
making keys to post-office boxes at the re-
quest of owners The offence Is pGlnisba-
BILE by ten years imprisonment.
The New Jersey Fre;e ZeituHg, orEe of
the staunchest Grant organs, published in
German, has exhibited its wisdom and
sound common sense by hauling down the
Grant and Wilson flag, on Saturday EEsorD-
ing.
a II so,+c of oTFr-o-,lfrarv cr---,--z-,,.,..
are constantly transpiring in Georgia
The laL st story Is to the effect that tIr-
ties heao, which had been cut off for sew
eral days, BIZ y ducks neck and killed the
fowl.
"A North Carol 7ian, aged within fouF
years of q century, Ia 1nder indictment for
killing his wife, few 'ars his Junior, and
rendered insanely jealous W her flirting
with other young fellows.
In Indiana the so-called Is, -:Ight-out
Democratic" ticket received 13L votes
The total vote was 81, 900. The o.9cial
majority for Hendricks is l, las. Mon u
called Hendricks "a minority Governor,
but he has 1000 majority over all
"A dispatch from hatamoras states
that the steamer Guatemala, of the Pana-
ma and Acapulco line, was wrecked on
the bar of Savala Ghaipas on the 18th inst,
and twenty three lives lost. Those saved
are at Tchuantepec awaiting transporta-
ton
Mr.. John c. Logan, employed at saw
mill at Williamsport, recently shouldered
nineteen boards, measuring 603 feet, and
carried them to boat which was being
loaded near the mill. Another employee
of the same firm intends to compete as a
champion litter.
An Auburn convict, having been re-
leased after three years service, sought
out the widow of a former acquaintance,
known before his sentence, and paid her
a small sum of money he had borrowed of
her husband while the latter and himself
were at work together in Elmira.
The flue of steam boiler in a ship
yard at Norfolk, Va, collapsed on Satur-
day. Two men were killed-Peter Evans,
the colored engineer in charge, and Peter
Tynes, who was passing in the street at
the time. The watchman and several
other employees in the ship yard were badly
injured
An ordinance for the regulation of the
liquor traffic in the town of Sterling, H.,
provides that if the windows or doors of
drinking saloons shall be obscured by
means of screens, paint or other devices to
conceal what is going on within, the pro
prietors shall be liable to a fine of from five
to twenty dollars.
Molly Strong, of Newton, Michigan,
dug well forty feet deep, last summer,
and received $3.50 from her father there
for. She received numerous offers of mar
riage from young farmers just after her Job
was completed, but refused them all, de
claring she would marry no man who want
ed her just because she could work.
"A man named William Thomas was
killed i'll Cincinnati on Thursday by boy
about fifteen years old. Thomas was
whipping his wife, who fled to the house
of neighboring woman. The latter ex-
postulated, when Thomas commenced beat
ing her, and her son coming in, shot him
with 4 revolver, killing him instantly.
Troops have been applied for by the
Louisiana Radicals, to help them carry
the election. We are becoming so famil-
iarized to bayonets at the polls in the
South, that if Grant is elected we may ex-
pect the same sort of electioneering in the
North in 1916. 1t will be a queer mode of