Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-03-29
News Items. &c.

| suspension Ds1OgeS OF more Jntn 4UU 1eet span.
Sneering is an easy way of assuming a great
deal of wisdom and concealing much ignorance.
There are now no Cadets at West Point from
the seeded States. The last of these fedgling
traitors has futtered off to the "sunny South.h
Mrs. Caroline NJ. King of New York, last
week killed herself by taking corrosive subli-
mate, because she found a pair of lady's gloves
in her husbands pocket.
A venerable revolutionary drummer, named
Alexander Miner, aged 10l years, deposited his
| Republican vote in person, at the late charter
election in Rochester, New York.
The subject of the new fresco by Maclise, in
the House of Lords, now being painted is the
meeting of Wellington and Blucher after
the battle of Waterloo
Mr.. John J. Piatt, who is connected with the
Louisville journal, has been appointed to
81 200 clerkship in one of the Departments at
Washington.
Sir Roderick Murchison, at a late meeting of
the chronological Society, said there were now
living in the forests of Poland, animals which
have hitherto been supposed to be extinct.
There have been one hundred and fifty cases
of small pox in Frankfort, Ross Co.. and vicinity,
of which only nine were fatal.
Carl Schurz has been appointed Minister to
Portugal.
Mr.. Forney, clerk of the House of Represen-
tatives has disbursed nearly 100000 since the
beginning of the late Congress. Not a single
item of his accounts has been suspended or dis
allowed.
The total population of Missouri according to
the official returns of the last census is 81 173,
317, including 81 055369 whites, 114,965 slaves,
and 1888 free colored. The population of st.
Louis county is lSl, ,535.
The indications are that some kind of an ar
rangement will be effected between the Repub-
licans and Douglas Democrats of the California
Legislature, whereby moderate man of the
latter party will be chosen United States Senator.
The captain of the ship Adelaide Bell has sued
the editors of the New Orleans Crescent for
$4,000 damages, on account of certain reports
in regard to what was alleged to be a Black
Republican flag that was unfurled from the
mast head of that vessel.
A family recently lost an infant child of ex-
ceeding beauty. After his death a lady in
qured of his little sister, four years old,
if she knew where Eddy was? Her reply was,
"Oh yes; Eddy was so pretty that God was in a
hurry to see him, and so he sent for him."
Probably no sporting man in the country
made as good thing out of the late Presden-
tal election as Senator Bright of Indiana. The
Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press says he won from fifteen to twenty thous-
and dollars by betting against Douglas.
The Vicksburg Wing regrets that no report
of the discussions at Montgomery, on the forma-
ton of permanent Confederacy, has been pre-
: served. Undoubtedly this omission was inten-
tional on the part of the participants. They did
not wish the details of their treason to form a
part of the history of the times.
In Portsmouth, N. H., during a great storm
on the 16 of January last, hen was covered VI
, by the snow. On the 18th of February tht
I snow thawed sufficiently to uncover her, wheI
q she stepped out as briskly as if nothing had oc
! cured She had, however, apparently los
about half her weight
Capt Garnett, who was sent by the Unitec
States.. Government to Europe, to observe artil-
lery improvements visited, a few months since
the cannon depots" of Paris, and saw the French
9 men go through their evolutions. He says tha
: their proficiency in cunning is greater than tha
of the English.
Fearful storms of wind threaten again to de.
0 vastate Iowa. On Sunday night terrible tor.
{ nado passed South to North, Just west of Keo-
kex, unroofng houses, prostrating fences, tearing
p down the first toll gate and doing considerable
y damage Its track was three or four rods wide
Mr.. Ayling, clerk in dockyard, recently
= married Miss Spry. Her creditors pOunceC
q upon him for her debts, amounting to $4,000
=. created by her fashionable tastes and persona
- extravaganza. The husbands place was wOrt
= but $500 per annum, and he had to go into bank
i ruptcy Both names are suggestive.
@ The Augusta [Ga. Chronicle advocates tn,
n discontinuance of many small Post Offices il
- Georgia. 1t says that for the year ending Sep
l. tember Both, 1889, the net proceeds of each o
9r five Offices in Florida was under ten cents. Thre
d of them received four cents each, and one o
them three cents.
The Bank of England lost E2,l50--abou
$l0,000-last year by forgeries. This is les
4 than the average.
Il The imports at New York are less than hal
~ the amount of those of the corresponding perio
y of last year. Since the first of January the fall
e ing off has been over nine millions of dollart
10 and after the lst of April when the enhance
tariff goes into effect the decrease is expected
be still larger
:. - FLOYD, the great robber and traitor has thr
u legal technicaltes, escaped the meshes of ii
ly law. At the bar of public opinion, however, l
ID has been tried convicted and sentenced. tt
IN mark put upon him he will bear until the graz
shall receive his remains, and in history
aS crime will stand connected with his name.
r. o. Byron Young, the patriotic Southemer, WI
n vowed he would put dagger into Abraham
gh bosom, if no one else was daring enough to con
a. nit President-cide, has been arrested in Ne
Orleans for attempting to swindle his boardiI
'o house keeper, with a worthless check on "b
ch merchants" who were so unpatriotic as to der
all knowledge of him.
Our Southern brethren at Atlanta, Ga, ha-
been amusing themselves by hanging a po
Northern printer, who had been seen to speak
. negro on the street. The victim of the
fiendish fanaticism was thrust into the groun
IA as soon as dead, without shroud or coffin. Al
:, this under the greatest government the sun ev
~ shown upon. Happy Dahomeyl It shall
more tolerable for thee in the day of judgmel
= we fear, than for our Southern brethren,
Waterbury gold-so called from the pla
IA. where it is principally manufactured, in Co
-, necticut--was first discovered in France and
!" strongly resembles gold as to deceive all but
expert The Soreide" is composed of copp
Ve zinc or tn magnesia, sal ammoniac, lime a
IN cream of tartar, fused carefully together. T
- cost of the metal is very light and the expeI
'u of manufacturing it into articles of ornament
eir reduced, by machinery, to so low point as
an leave handsome profit to those who present
nod full set of jewelry to the purchaser of bo
II. worth one dollar
ua. The officials who are now to vacate the Uni
a. States offices at New York, shave made &c
'lso thing of it," according to the correspondent
eFs the Charleston Courier in that city Collec
re- Schell is believed to have pocketed his $780,
and Surveyor Hart nearly as much more r.
ders, in the United States Marshalship, has
by enough to keep him snug and comforta
he the rest of his days; besides the valiant Capt
Gu married lady who, to her other charms, uni
ap- that of substantial dowry.
the A gentleman lately from Montgoml
81 a Alabama, states that the new slayehold
anne Confederacy does not promise we'll