Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-12-16
Items of News, &c.

Items of News, &c.
SINGULAR DEATH.-A correspondent of
the Albany, (NY) Standard communicates the follow
ing particulars Of singular death that occurred In Timer
Glenville, Albany county, N. Y:
after dark, about half a mile from my house. A man
about 30 years Ofage, In full health and strength and
back. He had with him little jog Of whsey IL quarts
and would seem tied the end Of the halter into the
handle Of the Jug and then hung the jug his neck
he left when II quite dark he found by the side
Of the road dead His horse, from Appearances had fall
len, and in the fall the jug had made around his
neck and choked him to death In his struggle horse
too, had been involved In the halter that It had fallen
the second time and wound the halter around his
neck that II upon its back and nearly dead would
have been had not relief came did. The horse and
He was not drinking man. that is in the general accep
tion OF the term.
There has been a sort of Sickles affair at
Canandaigua N Y A Mr.. and Mrs Warren we're invited
to party but the wife persuaded her husband to attend II
without her. she being indsposed. Mr. Warren consent
cd, but on his way met Mr.. Phelps bachelor OF that
beautiful village and very prominent and esteemed cit
izen and having his suspicious aroused followed Phelps
saw him enter his Warrens, house have friendly teiea
se with Mrs Warren, after which the guilty pair retired
TO Mr. Warrens bed. Mr. Warren knocked but receiving
broke in the door, confronted Phelps before he
could escape from the bed room and beat him to jelly
son. and the father told him to get carving knife
but the boy would not telling his father that he would be
hung If he killed Phelps. Phelps escaped but Warren
again caught him aud hrashed linn again, and did not
et up until an officer interered. This the evening
before Thanksgiving and the affair discussed the
turkey at most Of the tables Phelps is wealthy
A young German from this city, on a
visit to friend in Woodstock Ulster county, few weeks
ago while his rambes discovered bright pebbles
in brook and put them in his pocket On his return to
city he showed the pebbles to scientific men, who
them specimens of baytes Of the finest kind
and told him that Il worth twenty five thousand dol
bought one hundred acres of the land including the mne
lie has since sold onehaf Of the property to companies
this city for $4,000 large machine will be sent to the
grounds In few days for the purpose of crushing the min
eral.-N. T. Post.
John Fletcher, formerly of Washington
city: %. o. lately gave vent to sedous language in
presence of several persons at Norfolk Va Information
was lodged against him with the authorities and con.
stable dispatched to arrest the offender The officer
his house and attempted to seize accused when be
resisted, drew knife end swore that he would kill the
constable he tried to take him The constable finally
gathered posse Of citizens and threatened to enter the
surrender and was carried off to the lookup.
A man in Hartford is living with his
third WIFE his first partners having left him because
he did not to their ideas of what kind careful
husband should be. Neither of the ladies procured
cree of divorce yet each of them has second husband
The father and mother OF this practical free lover have
each been married the time although their separa
uon was simply mutual agreement
A countryman, who was on a spree in st.
Louis few days ago. fell in with chap who pretended
to be broker from whom he purchased what he
to be bar Of gold paying for it S275. The metal was
weghed with great soemntty, and end filed of to
just the weight Nextmorning when he awole found
plug of tobacco nicely done up in gold foil
The Liverpool Times says that the dis
closures taking place Wakefield at Gloucester show
that electoral corruption there has been reduced to
science liberal registration agent for the last years
testified that at the last election the price of votes varied
from $50 to s75, and rose as high as $780,
A KentuckiaD. writing from Mayfeld,
Ky states that $4,000 reward Gddngs has been ras
ed in Richmond and tata plot is now in existence to
seize Hon. Joshua r. Gddngs hurry him into Virginia
or Kentucky and then put him to Death He advises Cid
dngs to keep far from the Ohio river as possible
We think this viii not frighten Old Gid great deal He
has always gone where he would and done he pleased;
butt the southerners want to bring the rrepressbe
| "still lives."-O. S. Journal
Thomas Corwin, twenty-nine wears spo
yesterday took his seat in the House Of REPRESENTATIVES
as member rom the same district represented by
him. There is not member of the House with him who
was there when he first took his In less than gem
Grafton there has been an entire change.
Asa A. Gore, of Preston, Conn, died in
that town the st Instant at the age of egbtvone
years and five months He the last survivor Of tbe
Sli Mylomng massacre having been carried away when
tions, but his mother, killed
Gerrit Smiths wife, by the consent of her
husbands physician visited him at Utica on Tuesday last
So nearly restored to mental and bodily health is this
leman that his family look to reunion of all its mem
bers at Peterboro on Christmas Day.
James G. Gardner, jealous Democrat,
formerly of Jackson county, Ia is in prison in Martins
burg, Va the charge Of being an abolitionist and
spy He was on his way to Washington to procure a land
warrant.
Rev. James Peeler, of Tallahassee, Fla.
has invented pow of which he has sold the patent right
twelve States realizing therefor S25l 600 He has given
away OF this sum s2OO0UO for church purposes
A clergyman of a neighboring town and
one Of his elderly parishoners walking home frrm
cnurch one icy day last winter when the old gentleman
slipped aud fell fat on his back The minister looking
AZ hni moment and being assured he was not much
| hurt, said TO him:
! "Friend, sinners stand on slippery plaeesp
The old gentleman looked up, If to assure himself of
| the fact, and said:
| 81 see they do, but can't"
Tie BRAG AND THE PERFoRMANc
the 4th bf March, 1854, the Richmond Enquirer said
Zone hundred southern gentlemen, armed with riding
whips could chase an army Of invading aboonists into
Performance; The mad foray Of seventeen abotonists
at Harpers Ferry led by "0ld Ossawatome" In 1859
made Virginia call out three thousand State troops de-
clare martial law, put the railroads under bavonets and
| ticut Yankeesl
The st. Louis Bulletin has received fur
ther intelligence about the discoveries Of gold in soutb
east Missouri which confirms previous reports Assays
have been made and later experiments have settled be-
yond question: that there rich deposits of gold in the
southeast. The information given is mere eon6ration
OF the facts which published few days since The
oe imbedded in hornblende rock and contains about
per cent OF precious metal and will yield at least SlO
600 per ton.
The Scientific american states that there
are IN the city of New York about 100000 smokers each
using two cigars daily making 100000 cigars every day
These at average of four cents each make the
nous sum OF $4,000 daily consumed in smoke In New
ork alone There are some 900 cigars manufac-
tured in New York annually which, at the same price
amounts in one year to $50, 900, ,OO0 '
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