Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-08-04
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IT E M S.
He who has bad wife has Purgatory for a
neighbor.
The largest Indian tribe now in this country
is the Camanches. They number 20, 900.
Bets are freely offered in Boston that the At
lantic cable wont work six weeks.
Three candidates for the British Parliament
ran on temperance principles, and all three
we're defeated.
A contract has been let to build 81, 500, 900
bridge across the Niagara, at Buffalo.
A gentleman in Portland, Me-, has offered to
tsupply ice for 20 drinking places on the public
streets, provided the city furnishes the tanks
The most monstrous tyrant, Henry VIII.
was so ardent wOOer that he married his wives
first and AGED them afterwards.
Mayor Gunther, of New York, reports an in
come of $40, 647.
Judah P. Benjamin has arrived in Paris. 1t
is said he is abundantly supplied with money:
Gen. Mcclellan is spoken of as chief engin-
eer of the New York Fire Department, with
salary of $4,000.
Robert Dale Owen is to have two years for
writing his life of President Lincoln, and his
publishers pay him $4,000 when he begins his
work, and SIS, 900 when he ends it.
Wheat is rapidly advancing at indianapolis.
The price for old grain is 81 81 per busheI-
The crop in Southern Indiana is almost a fail
ure but the bins are full of last years grain.
/ Pauline, the youngest daughter of Mr.. p. 7.
Barnum, the Snowman, was seriously injured in
Fairfield CT, on Saturday, by being thrown
from her horse. She is not expected to recover.
| The list of income returns, published in Chi
cago shows that there are in that city AZ per-
sons whose income exceed $50, 600, and 300
whose income exceed the sum of 20 900.
The last of the Rebel pirates-the Shenan-
doah--is reported as engaged in capturing our
whalers in the Arctic Ocean. Eight have al
ready been taken and burned, and it was ex-
pected many more would fall her easy prey.
MANY persons who invested all thew had in
Confederate bonds are now blowing out their
brains But it is not thought the destruction
of brains amounts TO very much.
/ Howell Cobb is reported to have remarked
when he heard of Gov. Browns arrest: "Yes
ld-n him, he II go to Washington a prisoner,
and be sleeping with Andy johnson in less than
fortnight"
/ A German on seeing one of the posters an
/
adise Lost and reading this line "a Rebellion
in Heaven" suddenly exclaimed-''A Rebell-
ion in Heaven Mein Gott Dat lasts not
long now Onkel Abe ish tare. -
Queer demonstrations by dog at Danbury,
Connecticut, the other day, attracted a man to
a place in some woods where a boy was living
sick and insensible. Restoratives were ap-
piled which saved the life of the boy, who was
year before the master of the dog.
The census-taker has found in Plattsburg
Vermont, French Canadian who is in the one
hundred and sixth year of his age, and his wife
is ninety five years old They are both of them
lin quite good health, have lived together se-
venty eight years, and had fourteen children.
A correspondent of the Dunkirk Journal saws
that the celebrated Indian warrior "Bloody
Hand" of the Seneca nation of Indians. died
on the Cattaraugus Reservation on the 10th in
slant, nearly one hundred years old He is
represented to have been ''terrible with the
ltomahawk and scalping- knife. "
General Scott says that people think he is
proud and pompus simply because he is tall
and erect. To a recent caller, who expressed
isurprise at his affability, he remarked tSir. it
has been the misfortune of my life to be six
fleet four inches high, and to have straight
lspine. Had been round shouldered, or had a
hump on my back, it would have relieved the
odium in the public eye.
Judge Wright of the Boston Police Court
has issued a valuable pamphlet of 30 pages. en-
Titled Juvenile Criminals, and plan for saw
ling them" We quote a single paragraph
aThe significant result of this investigation is
this. that of the 30 564 children in the CITY un
der l5 years of age with present systems of
Juvenile culture, sufficient number are now
suffered to grow up without the restraints of
law and virtue, to supply each year, to the
terminal tribunals of the city, eighteen hundred
icltildreH, who are in some way disposed of as
criminals.
No rain has fallen in portions of Eastern
Mississippi since the first of May. The crops
will be very short especially the corn crop.
Caleb StinsOn, candidate for the Kentucky
Legislature, was shot and instantly killed in
Granger county, in that State on the 18th. The
assassin, supposed to be his nephew, secreted
himself by the roadside, and fired at him as he
was riding along, accompanied by his daughter
The Memphis Argtls learns that bitter an
imosity exists between the people up the Ar
kansas. Frequent alterations occur between
those who served in the Rebel Army and others
from the Union army, who regard each other
with malicious hatred Some days since, at
Spades, party of discharged Union soldiers
met number of paroled Rebels, and, after an
angry discussion, fight ensued in which fire
arms were freely used, resulting in killing four
men.