Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-04-22
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An English physician, Dr. Lancaster. says that
IN the course of the last three years as many
females have lost their lives by fire in the city
OF London as were sacrificed in the late terrible
disaster at Santiago, this is to say, over $500
1t is stated that the commerce of the world
requires 100000 able-bodied men to be con-
stantly traversing the sea. The amount prop
erty annually moved on the water is from fff-
teen hundred to two thousand million dollars:
and the amount lost by the casualties of the sea,
averages $25OOO,OOO.
| REwARDED.-John Forney, ofFulton county,
Pa, who killed Lieutenant Ford, for attempting
to arrest him as deserted conscript, was elected
constable, by the Democracy of Todd township,
at the late election, receiving all but three fthe
entire Democratic vote polled
The iron-clad frigate Ironsides has fired since
she has been in service 1851 roundst has been
hit 24l times; has only had one man killed.
has not been seriously injured, and is probably
the best iron-clad vessel in the world.
Amos Kendall, who presided at the recent
/ Mcclellan demonstration in New York. was the
man who connived at the robbery of the United
States mail when he was Postmaster General,
in saying to those who had broken open the
mails at Charleston, S. c., and destroyed por-
/ tions of their contents: ave owe an obligation
to the laws, but higher one to the communi-
ties in which we live, and if the former be per-
mitted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to
disregard them"
| The report of the United States Mint in Phil
adelphia, for the month of March, has Just been
made public, and from it we learn that the gold
deposits were $2S4,3l6 49, and the silver depos-
its $9,744 25-in all S301 $50 o. The gold
1 in tEa IL
gles amounted to $384, $50 IS, and the silver
coinage, mostly in half dollars, TO 500, ,435 65-
in all, $3l0,965 40. There were coined in ad-
ditiOn, during the month, three million and fif-
ty thousand cents-making the entire number
of pieces coined So 124 566, oft the value of $34l
466 40.
Washington letter writer is responsible for
the following:
"A good story is told of Mr. Cox. As is
well known, he is attacked about his book of
foreign travels every few days in the House.
During the last attack Mr.. VOORHEES, turned
laughingly to his sfellow-copperhead and asked
him. Cox, aren't you sorry that you wrote that
bookT Sorry, replied Cox, do you take me
for fool? OF course l am sorryP"
Lieut. Col Farnsworth, of the Ist Conn. cav
airy, Just released from Libby Prison, states,
says the Philadelphia Bulletin, that at one time
there were 300 New England shOemakers on
Belle Island, and that although at that time men
were dying on the island from starvation at the
rate of 40 day, every one of them refused, in
dignaDtly, all offers of extra ratiOns and other
privileges, if they would work for the Confeder-
acy. They would stay there and starve before
they would ever draw stitch or drive a peg
for the rebel COnfederacy. All honor to New
| England shoemakers.
CoPPERHEAD NoNPLUssED.-A passenger on a
Western railroad saw a lady in the seat neal
him, with whom he thought he would scrape
an acquaintance. So he handed her over the
Chicago Times, COpperhead peace organ, say
| ing: "That's the only well conducted paper in
Chicago" The lady looked at it; it was the
woman-traducing organ. STOPPING over she
lifted pair of petite, but rather muddy, rubbers
from the floor, wrapped them in the paper, pla-
ced the bundle on the seat beside her, and qui-
etly drawing book from her satchel, began to
read. The judge of newspapers looked as il
something had struck him.
Earthquakes in England have not been un
| frequent In 1880 one of these drove the peo-
pie of Kent out of their beds In 1897 Scotland
was disturbed by one, attributed to difficulty
between the King and the Kirk. In 1908 Alb
erdeen, suffering from one, attributed it to the
taking salmon in the Dee on Sunday. In the
seventeenth century both Scotland and Eng
land were frequently shaken by them,a some
times with fearful results The Londoners were
terribly frightened by shocks, both in February
and March, in the year 1750. Even the self
possessed Lord Chesterfield admitted he lost his
composure on the occasion. In l755 the great
earthquake at Lisbon was felt in three-quarters
of the globe. The recent earthquake in Eng
land may, by some persons of particular views,
be set down as a warning for the violation of its
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