Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-02-12
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There are 1871 taverns in Pennsylvania, not
including Philadelphia.
The Maine legislature is considering the pro-
Priety of removing the seat of government from
Augusta TO Portland sasJ $50 b sfs5l 81.
Prentice says he is for appropriating cords
of wood to the loyal poor, and cords of hemp to
the dislOyal rich
The Patent Office has accumulated $4,000
since the lst of July last, after paying expenses
An old topper says the tive most precious
things now included in hoops are girls and kegs
Of whiskey.
An old bachelor says he received basket Of
peaches this summer that looked as though
pretty girls had watched their growth and tint
ed them with their blushes.
Over one hundred thousand veterans have re-
enlisted since the first of October last. ssa
If a woman has heart she should never suf-
fer it to lie in her bosom dead capitaEit ought
to circulate and pay interest. -a 80
A Parisian doctor has discovered that brandy
orr rum is the best antidote for chlorotorm, and
that ii win at once counteract the effects of an
overdose. ie ai4-4 g
"Bob," said a young fellow to his companion
on this side "Never mind, Bill, retorted
Bob, "I'm sighting all the misses on the other."
A count of the rings in the wood of oneof the
big California trees, cut down several years ago,
shows that it was not more than y255 years old
1t was twenty-three feet in diameter.
Abraham Quick, aged one hundred and sew
enteen years. ten months and twenty six days,
died on the 26th day of October last, in the town
ofFloyd, Oneida county, New York He was
born in New Marlborough, Ulster county, New
York, on the 9th day of November l745.
Capt. Samuel Black, Quartermaster, was SEN
fenced by the Court Martial at Louisville to be
dismissed from service, with a loss of pay and
allowances due, to pay fine Of $1,000 and be
imprisoned for two years. The charges were
neglect and violation of duty, conduct unbe-
coming an officer, making false report &c.
During the recent performance of Romeo and
Juliet, at Marblehead, Massachusetts,, the fair
Juliet's question in the soliloquy before taking
the sleeping draught-"What if this mixture do
not work at all ?"swas answered by an urchin in
the pit-"Then take dose of pills" The ef-
feet upon the audience can better be imagined
than described. -lr t.r-,.}-lB l...lri
There goes familiar proyerb that "open con-
fession is good for the soul. George Francis
Train has discovered the truth of it. In a
speech recently delivered by that impuIsive To-
connective, at Omaha, Nebraska, he is reported
to have declared himself %the best played-out
man in the country" lii'ai
The Toronto Globe reports the discovery o
gold in large quantities this side of the Rocky
Mountains, within British Territory. 1t wal
discovered by American miners, who are flock
ing to the locality.
Sanguine politicians are constantly asserting
that Slavery is dead. When the nation attend
its funeral and witnesses its burial we shall b
satisfied. As yet it is terribly lively corps
in Kentucky.-DaytonJ Journal ssiaI 8
At aFernandiwud's" great party in Washing
ton the other night, the United States Marin
Band, which he employed for the occasion, ere
ated sensation by playing %John Browns sou
is marching on. -....f, -
The wife of Mr.. John W. Davis, of Acushnet
4, Mass last week presented him a daughte
weighing one pound and eleven ounces.
The new comet discovered by Prot. James O
Watson, of Ann Arbor Jan. 18th, is announces
as rapidly approaching the earth, and viii B
visible in few days. gi.grtf r
On Christmas day, in England white straw
berries and spring and summer wild flower
, were gathered from the hedge rows.
I The New York Sunday Mercury, for a lon
, time officiating with McClellanism, is disguste
with his official report and dismisses him con
temptuously. ~
The Office of the Ohio Eagle, the rabid con
perhead organ of DR.. Olds at Lancaster, wa
: mobbed on Monday by party of exasperatel
returned soldiers. N lot much damage was dont
only few fonts of type being destroyed. TIL
same party compelled Olds tohang out the star
and stripes from a window of his residence
Mink skins now worth from 81 to 81 eacl
were formerly heavy in the market at quarte
piece. Fashion has adopted the mink, whic
| makes all the difference. His fur is no glOssie
and no warmer than ever.
The people of St. Paul, Mimi, are congrata
lating themselves on the return of mild weather
Advises dated the 9th of January report: aFh
mercury is % degrees below zero this morning
but the weather is calm and bright, and gres
! improvement over the past few days.
The Green Bay wisconsin, Adrocqte record
the DEATH in the town of Bellevue, of Chariot
Buretha, aged one hundred and twenty -fiT
years. The AdCocdte says she had gone throue
many of the early Indian wars, and in one des
r perate struggle had both her ears cut off.
One of the recently published French work
! maintains that every ten thousand five hundre
years, the waters of the sea pass from one pol
to the other, submerging and overwhelming /
their passage the earth and all its inhabitants
According to the author of this theory, NJ Pan
de Jouvenel, the last of these deluges occurre
4,5OO years ago; the next one is due in 81
thousand years more. 4
1t was Dow, Jr.-scared by his memory-wh
II lcaf haiti 20 g ! u,
side and back; tread on the corns of your neigh
Dor; poke your nose everywhere all hand
round right and left. Bob your cocoa-nutA
the figure is ended. Time hangs up the iddl.
and death puts out the lights.
General Mcclellan is said to be the snld;a,
candidate for the Presidency. Why is 1t the
that all the friends of General Mcclellan ar
e now endeavOring in the State Legislatures !
q have the soldiers disfranchised Govern
Seymour is a friend of General Mcclellan an
we all know that he vetoed the bill aIIovin
the New York soldiers TO vote In the last Stat
{ election. sa5az , :,
On the night of the 22d inst, the bodies of al
! deceased Federal prisoners were deposited II
the dead house of the hospital at Richmond 4
await the coming of the undertaken with coffins
The next morning one of the bodies was gone
and the plank knocked from the house shove,
the way the ghost went. He had been ssplay IN,
pOssum,' and was laid out among the dead onl1
to get up and run away when no one was look
ing. ta a eg
The Chicago Journal states that fresh ex
citement about Lake Superior lead and silye
has broken out in that city, and that the LAX,
Superior mining regions are now looked upoI
as second only to the mines of California
/ Specimens of ore have been received in Chicae,
which contain liberal quantities of lead and sil
yer, and 200 acre tracts have changed hands a
an immense profit on their original cost. q
Abel Stearns, of Los Angeles California, IS
landholder and cattle grower on big SCALE
His lands are embraced in 81 grants, which mum.
Der over $4,000 acres. His cattle make a drove
of $4,000. He lost 1000 head this winter fol
lack of food. So states the San Francisco BllI-
letiR.
The .Aduertiser says man committed suicide
near Tiffin by deliberately throwing himself un-
der the wheels of railroad car. He made sew
eral attempts to destroy his life before succeed
1 ing. M = .