The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-09-13
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vania amounts to %, 294 The colored vote
in the State cannot be much more than 1o,-
+ 600
The President has appointed one Poor
to be receiver of public moneys at Spring
/ field, Dakotah Territory. He viii come
out Rich.
/ The second trial of DR.. Schoeppe at
( Carlisle for the alleged poisoning of Miss
! Steinecke, closed on Saturday, and resulted
in verdict of not guilty.
A man and his four Sons recently tum-
bled off a barge at Wheeling, W. Va. but
he managed to hold the boys up until they
/ could be rescued, when lie fell back and was
drowned.
Pope Plus IN. has written t6 promi-
merit prelate in New York. stating that he
cannot visit the United States, much as he
desires to do so, because of his many trou
bles and solcitude for the Church.
w eston, Conn, has a man whose legs
are bent backward at the Knees, who has
but one eye and hardly any nose. l he
only redeeming feature to this monstrOsity
is the fact that he can scratch any part of
his back with either foot.
"A young man at Connection, Ind, has
been allowed a divorce because his wife
didn't pan out to be so much of - woman
as she seemed to be before marriage.
That court evidently appreciates plump
ness without artificial aids.
II
hShed card stating that III the days when
the Known Nothing bubble was at Its big
gest he was present at a knOwNothing
lodge in Washington ut which Henry
Wilson was also present, mdorsing Its
principles and participating in its orgies.
In 1852 General John y. Logan, now
Grants chief fugleman in Illinois, intro
duced a bill into the Legislature of that
State to sell all negroes found there to the
highest bidder General John thinks the
Democrats very inconsistent III preferIin9
Greeley to Grant.
-Berks county farmers report a singr-
lar disease among their cattle. Within a
few weeks a number have gone blind, some
III one eye, but most of them iii both eyes.
One farmer has twelve head. some entirely
blind and others partially One calf at
three days old, never out of the stable, lost
its sight.
Peggy Arlington, colored, died at
Brookneal, Campbell county, Virginia, last
week. She was born in Petersburg, Fir-
ginia, in 1856, and was grown woman
when the Revolutionary war broke out.
She was 116 years old, and was able to walk
about up to the last two days of her exis-
tence.
Caleb Shercer, a wealthy farmer of
OsSawottomie township, Kansas, in d sup
posed fit of insanity, murdered his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Wallace. last Friday evening. and
mOrtally wounded his own wife and his
son-in-law, Wallace. The latter. while /
defending himself, struck Shercer with n /
club and killed him instantly
1t Is now ascertained that Alfred Hal |
croft, John Mcdowell and Henry Baulden .
all died from wounds received at the ex- |
plOSion of the boiler of the Northeast Roll
ing Mills at Cecil county, Md, last Satur-
day Forty hands We're engaged at the !
time III the mills, and over a dozen were |
more less wounded fatally
The administration party III New York |
names for Presidential electors at large, /
Frederick Douglass, who was formerly /
slave, and Stewart L. Woodford, who was |
formerly the accomplice of Appleton Oak |
smith i'll the slave trade. This is dividing |
the honOrs pretty equally, and it is no more |
than fair, after all, that the negro should |
be put ahead.
Charles Bassett shot his mOthcr-in-law.
Mrs. Harrison Staples, in Lakeville, Mass,
op Saturday, intlicting dangerous wound.
He gave himself up. BaSsett alleges his
wife. to whom he had been married three
years, was parted from him through his
mOther-in-law' : influence, and that, being !
refused to see her. he was provoked to
commit the act.
On Friday night a mob attacked the
Jail at Beardstown, Illinois. for the purpose
of lynching Diffenbachcr, who was confined
there for the murder of man named
their attempt to break into the Jail they
revengefully set fire to the town and burned
down whole block of its best buildings.
More trouble il anticipated.
VIM. J. Aiken, the New York police
man, caught in the act of burglary week
or two since, has been tried, committed
and sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment. This while Stokes the assassin is
enjoying luxurious quarters in the Tonbs
without any prospect of immediate trial.
Aiken was poor rascal without friends or
money. Stokes has both, and therein lies
the difference i'll the two cases.
The Norfolk TirgiHiaR comments sad
ly on Mr.. O'Conor's letter 1t says: ''He |
enjoys a large revenue, an ample fortune
the luxuries of life, and sits under his own /
vine and fig tree with none to make him
afraid. He can afford four more years. or
a dozen of Grants rule, but we cannot, and
in losing sight of this Mr. O'Conor has
shown more devotion to distractions than
to the cause of suffering humanity
While on drunken spree, in June last.
Patrick Morrissey, Of Buffalo, struck and
killed his mother. He was put on trial
and three weeks after condemned to death |
The sentence was carried out on Friday
last i'll the jailyard at Buffalo, in the pre-
sence of about fifty witnesses. Morrissey
seemed worry penitent, had been very quiet
while in prison, and handed to a priest a
history of his life for publication He said
his crime was not premeditated.
Our national debt, including legal
tender notes or greenbacks, is about 81
500, 900, 600. That of Great Britain is S4.
BOO, 600, 600. 1t costs us under Grants
to manage our debt, a good
ieal of which manages itself, $3, 143, 94S
1t costs Great Britain to manage its debt
which is double ours, only $479, ,375. That
is to say, it costs us nearly seven times as
much to manage debt as it does Great
Britain to manage twice rs much as ours
And yet there is praise for Grants admin
stration.
The REFoRMER.-Pcre Hyacinthe. the
Carmelite Friar who created such a sensa-
ton i'll Europe and America in 1869 by
hrealS kim with the Cnthnli.. Cl,,r,...h L. |