The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-10-24
Ne,cs ana Pos,tscas items.

john Surratt is writing book about
a cat at Nicholsonviile, Kentucky, is
raising a family of three kittens and three
squirrels.
"A white woman iII New York was re-
Gently held for trial on Il charge of abandon
ing her colored baby.
"A party of forty persons, men, women
and children, from Lowell, Mass, are
about to settle at Los Angeles, Cal.
Mis-. Stowe has burnt up the manu-
script of book she has been busy about
a year in writing. She don't like it.
The President has issued proclama-
tion appointing Thursday the 9th day of
November next as day Thanksgiving.
There is a well in Butler county from
which column of gas has been pouring
forth with tremendous force for three
years
Miss Agnes Lee, the youngest daugh-
ter of the late General Robert L. Lee, died
in Lexington, Kentucky, last Tuesday
evening.
Ellis II. Roberts, member of Congress
from New York, having just returned from
Europe, has covered his back pay into
the Treasury.
A mother in Armstrong county told
her son to shoot chicken. He did as re-
quested, but also shot his brother, killing
him instantly.
A Chester countiau has rooster eight
weeks old which has taken charge or
brood of eleven chickens He goes through
all the movements of 4 devoted Cluck.
Mr.. Thomas, aged ninety-one, who
died in Vermont, the other day, said that
he'd worried more over buttonless shirts
than all his business affairs put together.
Col. Hughes, the Republican candidate
for Governor of Virginia, denies that he
+ was the bearer of challenge for duel,
Il,
duel.
Captain Jack and SchOnchin, it is said,
were decapitated after the execution, and
that the heads are to he sent to Washing
ton in alcohol, to be deposited in the Army
/ Medical Museum.
Capt. Cooper of Lawrence county,
who was our nominee for Surveyor Gener-
! al in 1871, has been elected Sheriff of that
county by nearly 400 majority. The Rad
/ icals carried the county by $40 majority.
The Democrats Of Oneida county, y.
/ Y, nominated Horatio Seymour for the
/ Legislature of their State. Such men are
needed at this time to purify legislation
and raise the character of our law-making
bodies.
The steamer Mary E Poe took fire
about noon on Saturday last, at Island
No. &C. about eighty-fivc miles above Mem
phis, Tenn, and was burned to the waters
edge. Out of seventy persons on board
six lost their lives.
There were thirty deaths from yellow
fever i'll Memphis on Friday, an increase
of four over the day previous. Among the
number were Fathers Sherry and Leo,
/ making five priests and five Sisters that
! have died since the fever began.
+ 1t deserves to be recorded that the
Harrisburg state JoUrHak ADM is OPP
posed to the last scheme of the President
who is desirous of erecting mansions III
Washington for members of his cabinet
and Senators at the peoples expense
/ George Francis Train, who recently
returned from Europe, having become dis
guSted with this country, its politics and
people, has sailed away again, leaving
America, he says, forever. The affiiction
sore long time we bore
In Kansas recently, while a violent
storm was raging, the roof of Mr.. Mole
gusts house WAS blown away and the
family, consisting OF five persons, took
refuge in tlle barn. The barn in a few
minutes was struck by lightning and the
/ whole family killed.
+ The AtchisUn Times says: ''The mag
Riffcept farm of S. c. PomerOy, IN this
county, together with his lots in this city,
have been attached by the proper officers
on suits brought by creditors at Topeka
and elsewhere. One large item is said to
f. be that board bill of last winter.'
! Matthew Smith, of Block House. Tio-
ga county, was instantly killed last Friday
. while working on a timber job at Three
Runs, Clearfield county, by the falling of
. tree. His remains were taken to Lock
/ Haven on Saturday, and thence sent home.
lie was twenty-five years old and married.
Seriously, even solemnly, if we may be
permitted, the particular friends of the
/ President should take him in out of the
wet on questions of finance. His ignor-
ance could be forgiven if it were not for his
/ amazing conceit. He has been fiattered by
the squad about him until satisfied that he
is a universal geuius.-Cin. Commercial
On the first Tuesday of November
elections Will be hello in the following thir-
teen States: Arkansas, Florida, Illinois,
Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada New
Jersey, New York and Wisconsin. After
that day we can gather some idea of the
power TO be welded by the Changers
hereafter.
The testimonial of the Dominion Gov.
enment to the Rev. Mr.. Ancient recalls
the courage of the parish clergyman on
that dreadful April morning at Mars
Rock. The reply of Mr.. Ancient is as
modest and simple as his conduct was
heroic and grand, and she good man stands
out central figure among those whom
al mankind delight to honor.
The New York Herald has a letter
stating that Col. Hughes, Republican can
didate for Governor Of Virginia, is inelici-
bic, having conveyed challenge to fight a
duel to Elhert Fowler of Bristol, Tenn,
La 1870. The Constitution of Virginia pro.
Vldes that no person who knowingly con
yeys challenge shall be allowed to vote OF
hold any office of honor, profit or trust
About year ago, Thomas Curtin, OF
San Francisco shot and killed William
Johnston. for having seduced his daughter.
Curtin was arrested and imprisoned. dis
trial for the murder of Johnston came off
on the llth inst After a tedious trial
the jury was charged and sent to their
room, but returned within fifteen minutes
with verdict of acquittal. Judge Durell
remarked that he did not regret the verdict.
! -Barnum, the great Snowman, has