Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-03-04
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man who strikes the water-the consequences
OF the blow are sure to fly up in his face.
Rhode Island has coal mine with forty mil
lions of tons in it.
j. am on the trail of dear" as the fellow
said when he stepped on one the female street
sweepers
Forests of standing trees have been discoved |
IN England, many feet below the surface of the |
earth, completely imbedded in stone
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The |
Angel OF Life winds them up once for all, then |
closes the case, and gives the key into the hand
of the Angel of the Resurrection.
Two soldiers on guard were recently found |
murdered in St. Petersburg. 1t was suggested |
that the eyes Of the murdered soldiers should be
Immediately photographed, in the hope of sue
lcessfully testing the discovery recently made |
when, to the surprise of all, the result was the
production of the portraits of two soldiers ofthe
private guard at the palace, on whose breasts |
were the insignia of the cross of st. George
The murderers were at once sought out and ap- |
pretended.
The Detroit Tribune says: The opinion is |
generally prevalent at present that the gang of |
robbers now infesting our city are some of the |
guerrilla Morgan's men, who made their escape |
into Canada and crossed thence to this city, |
where they are now reviving their old style Of
honorable warfare"
Il love to look upon young man. There il
a hidden potency concealed within the breast |
which charms and pains me-"
A daughter Ofa clergyman happening to find |
the above sentence at the close of a piece of
her fathers manuscript as he had left it in his
study, sat down and added:
"Them's my sentiments exactly, papa, all but
the pains
Mrs Matilda Cutler died in Delaware County
Ohio, few days ago. Mrs. G. was born in Co.
lumbus in l809-then hamlet in the great viii
derness. Her grandfather built the first cabin |
on the present site of the Capitol of the State of
Ohio.
The seaport town of Gloucester, Mass, was
nearly destroyed by fire. Fifty stores, the i'd
UeTttser Office, town clerks and telegraph Office,
three lawyers offices, Fremasons' Lodge, and
fifteen dwellings were burned. Forty families
are houseless. The loss will probably reach
100000. Owing to the absence of vessels, the
loss of this property is trihing. The ruins COW
er one-half the principal streets and wharves.
The Chattanooga RebeIsays: General Hum
phrey Marshall is a candidate for Congress from
the State of fKentucky. As he weighs about five
hundred pounds, the presumption is that if
elected he will be able to FILL his seat He is
much better qualified for Congress than for light
infantry.
A woman at Johnstown, New York, recently
foretold the time of her decease, made all her.
preparations for that event, did days work at
washing and baking, took her clothes and hung
them away, saying she should never need them
again, and next morning was found dead in her
bed.
A good story is told of rustic youth and
country girl who sat facing each other at the
supper table of a husking party. The youth
smitten with the charms of the beautiful maid.
and now and then touching Patty's foot under
the table. At that time there being no bloom
ers, the girl either fearful of the purity of her
stockings, or determined to make the youth ex-
press what he appeared so warmly to feel, bore
with his advances little while in silence, when
she cried out, Look here, if you love me, tell
me SO, but don't dirty my stockings"
In Idaho nothing goes as circulating msdi-
um but geld dust. Every man carries his little
buckskin pouch, and no matter what his pur-
chase is, ne pays for it in the precious legal
! tender of the realm, which is weighed out in
scales kept for the purpose whether the article
bought be cigar, horn Of whisky or something
of more utility and value. The minimum Of
values is quarter of dollar, and the weights
are graduated from that sum up.
Messrs. Stevens q 20. recently shipped a
splendid stallion from Cincinnati, to Gen. Grant,
which will probably surprise the Western Hero,
as he has no intimation of the matter. Messrs
Stevens d Co. have been retaining the charger
for long time, intending to present it to the
most successful General of the war, and they
have concluded that Grant is the man.
Ar a recent Temperance meeting in Scotland
convert got up to speak "My friends, said
he, ''three months agoI signed the pledge
! Cheers. In month afterward my friends. l
had sovereign in my pocket, a thing l never
had before Loud Cheers. In another
month, my friends, had good coat on my
back, a thing | neAer had before. tCheers much
louder.] A fortnight after that, my friends, l
bought coffin, because felt pretty certain
that if kept the pledge another fortnight
should waut one." No cheers.
! There is said to be charming young lady in
Paris, with wealth. beauty, and all that, but
destined by an extraordinary fate, to go through
the world unmarried. She is twentY-six wears
old, and has been engaged twelve times, but
each time the lover has died within few weeks
of the time appointed for the marriage. He
must be brave fellow who will become the
thirteenth.
BLooDHoUNDs.-It is related in the narrative
ofour officers who have escaped from Richmond,
that some of their number were tracked on the
Peninsula by the rebels with the aid of blood
hounds, and recaptured. This use of blood
hounds is striking Illustration the peculiar
ideas inculcated by slavery. The hunting of
white men by dogs is no worse than the hunting
of blacks but the difference is that the whites
are not used to 1t.
There is serious schism in the Mormon ranks.
The seeessionists declare against polygamy and
content themselves with one wife, at least one
at time. An organization founded on this
idea has been formed in Cincinnati, under the
leadership of Joseph Smith, Jr., and Israel L.
Rogers. They say that they have missionaries
operating in Brigham Young's dominions, who
are very successful in making converts Their
present rendezvous is in the vicinity of Chicago
but they have purchased thirty thousand acres
of land in Missouri, where they intend to settle
when the war is over, and 'bnild up city for the
habitation of the faithful.
| Gov Brough has made the following ap-
lpontments: VIM. N Williams, Pay Agent
VIM. o. Blake, Superintendent of Public Print
| ing for two years; Edward d. Mansfield, Com
missioner of Statistics for three years from the
l24th of April, 1864; S. G. Harbaugh, State Lii
1864; DIR. VIM. Awl, Superintendent of State
House for two years from the 2lst of April, 1864.
Gen. Sigel has been appointed to the import
ant command of West Virginia, in the place of
Gen. Kelley. This is a good omen Gen. ST.
gel is well fitted for this command, and Gen.
Kelley is not He is spoken of by those who
know him best as affiliating quite too closely
with the secesh element of that region. And
the rebels denominate him their "chief quarter
MASTER" and say that when they are scarce Of
supplies they have only to go and capture one
of KeIley's trains. Sigel will not be quite so
accommodating.
From the Union officers escaped from Libby
prison we learn that there is a widespread Un-
ion feeling in Richmond JEFF. Davis is held in
detestation, but all who do not heartily endorse
the rebel government are spotted and watched.
There are at this time eighteen persons confined
in Castle Thunder on charges of attempts to as
sassinate the rebel President. These prisoners
also confirm the report that an attempt was made
to burn jeff. g mansion, and that one morning
the servants found coffin and coil of rope upon
the porch.
Amos Myers of Pennsylvania said a vood