The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-08-29
NeaCs ana PoIsticaJ Items.


phia are Coddington Cbeseboro, ninety
four; Horace Binney, ninety-three; and
Ambrose White, ninety-three.
AT the recent Kentucky election the
Republican candidate for State Treasurer
received only 1900 votes. The negroes
and their white allies did got think it worth
their while to vote.
The special committee on woman suf-
frage appointed by the Ohio CoDstitu-
tional Convention will, the chairman
states, report in favor of giving women the
ballot.
"A Cincinnati editor, who has indulged
in heavy life insurance. is said to be fol
lowed, whenever he goes a fishing, by
several insurance companies affectionatHly
bearing life preservers and sun umbrellas.
"A wood-cutter recently died at St, I'm
Ter, Switzerland, in the utmost distress,
and a day or two afterwards he was an
nounced to be the winner of lottery prize
of G, 200 francs. He had no relatives, and
the State, therefore, is the heir.
Schuyler Colfax has been making a
speech at Detroit, Mimi. He pulled the
Northern Pacific and its land grant, and
said he had been to Duluth to see the lots
which he owned there. \ great many lots
at Duluth were given away by the founder
of that place.
The women of Wyoming territory
propose 10 make some use Of the ballot
They intend to send some of their own sex
to the legislature. If that body be as cor
rupt as some other State legislatures the
experiment Will prove to be severe trial
for female virtue.
Lake Tahoe, Nevada, has curiosity.
Half mile from shore tree stands per
pendicular in eighty feet of water. 1t pro-
jects ten feet above the susface, and is fast
ned so firmly TO the bottom that it affords
safe moorage to the largest crafts on the
lake.
During the hot canvass now going on
in Massachusetts it has been proven that
Ben. Butler did not originate the term
''contraband Of war; as applied to the ne
gro. 1t was invented by another and APP
propriated by Butler. Ben. knows good
thing when he sees it and has no hesitation
about appropriatiDg it.
All Illinois journal says: "a daughter
of X. W. Porter, residing near Monmouth
while making her bed the other day, dis
covered a rattlesnake comfortably coiled
up between the sheets. Immediately
after the people Of Monmouth thought the
corporation law against steam whistles had
been violated
"A special from Washington saws the
peace policy men are preparing an appeal
to be submitted to the President on the
10th prOX., for the Communication of the
sentence of Captain Jack and his Modoc
band. As the President has already ap-
proved the sentence, it is not thought that
the peace-makers stand any show of sue
cess.
Rev. DIR. HendIicksOn, Bishop of the
roman Catholic Diocese of Providence r.
l., arrived at his home, from Europe, Wed
nesday evening. He was received by a
large gathering of his people and escorted
TO the Cathedral by a long procession, com
prlslng military and civic associations. At
the Cathedral the Bishop made an address
of thanks for his reception.
A Tennessee lady is getting diseour-
aged. She does not mention how old she
is, but when she first came OUT in So
ciety She made mp her mind that she could
only marry an Episcopaliau, being herself
OF that denomination. Finding not the
man she modified her views, and concluded
to marry no one who was not a Christian
All she Is looking fOT now is a man who
does not drink whisky.
Viii a Troy man was in a beer saloon.
the ether day, speaking to the toast, ''Wo-
man, God bless her." his wife waHzed in
and led him out by the ear and he now
says that on the occasion of another festive
meeting hc viii have that toast changed to
woman something else to which improved
sentiment he viii respond with an eloQuence
that will cast cloud upon the fame of
Daniel Webster.
An attempt was made to assassfnate
General Joseph Shelby, a somewhat cele-
brated rebel General during the late war
and cousin of General Frank p. Blair. ON
Wednesday evening. While the General.
with his two little boys was driving from
his residence to Awhile, Mo. on the even
ing mentioned, some unknown party fred
into the carriage from the bushes and
wounded the General in the hin.
"A correspondent who visited Mrs.-Lee
at Alexandria found her engaged in color
ing bunch of autumn leaves which were
destined Tor fair to be held soon. the pro-
ceeds of which are TO go towards erecting
memorial chapel to General Lee Making
fancy work for this fair and coIoring pic
lures are Mrs. Lees favo~ite occupations.
and so eager Is she to contribute to It's sue
cess that she rises at five clock to begin
her work.
"A Detroit woman was consulting the
pohce the other day to see if she had good
grounds for a divorce suit. She aljeres
that her husband is drunk about twenty
seven days out of every month; that he
cut her hair off while she slept: that he
wakens her at daylight by throwing a nail
OF water over the bed; that he has tried to
force kerosene oil down her throat and
that he puts hot potatoes in her hands and
then mashes them by squeezing her fin
gers. The police thought she didn't need
any better grounds.
~ Ifand Rapids, Mich, a woman
keePs !se7enty-six cats on her premises,
men one dies she has funeral process
sion halt mile long, composed entirely of
cats. AS soon as the grave is covered she
gives a signal and the whole companv
howl IN concert. Deacon Swift, of Grand
RAPIDS, was present on one of these occa.
slons' and was heard to remark afterward
"nile his wife was trying to cure his head
acne WIN cold water, that when he ex-
Perienced the effects of that combined
hoWl he lost all interest in life and in
wardly prayed for sudden death.
= w Snow, a finely attired villain, pur-
portingto be wealthy, went to Woonsocket
Mass, few months ago, and welded a
t" beautiful and refined Young lady of that
toWh. t''NN AFTER squandering her ample for
tune and running away it was discoverad
that he was defaulter, forger and Also
had another wife and two children. Cbas
" esiey Snow is five feet eight inches in