Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-08-25
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address mass meeting at Perrysburg on Tues
| day, Sept. 5th. Arrangements are being made
for grand time
Over $9,O00,O00 in certificates of indebted
ness were redeemed during the week ending on
Saturday, and $4lOOOO in mutilated currency
has been destroyed.
copperhead at Verona, Indiana, lately cow
hided his daughter till her back was all raw
because she surreptitously read a memorial
volume of Mr.. Lincoln.
A lad some fifteen years old, named George
Boxer, jumped into a wheat-bin In Bartlett d
Clock warehouse, at Clyde, last Saturday, and
was taken out some thirty minutes afterward
dead from sufocation.
]. J. Janney, Esq. Secretary of the Board of
Control, of the State Bank of Ohio has resigned,
the Bank being about wound up, only two
branches remaining UR4-A
The State Convention of the Democracy" of
Maine have declared the franchise the ri1ht of
all american citizens. Negroes are citizens, and
thus the Maine Democracy pronounce in favor
Of negro suffrage. ss5sst
The British Consul at Abyssiuia was, at last
accounts led like wild beast with an iron col
lar around his neck and has a good prospect of
having his head cut off. The Emperor tells
England to come and take him if she wants him.
The "buoy'' which is reported TO have been
seen near the supposed unfortunate end of the
Atlantic cable was doubtless the "OH bov," TO
whom the submarine wire has probably gone
1t is stated that for three years in succession
the citizens Lancaster, Pa, have offered by their
suffrages the office of constable to James Buch-
anan, but he has thrice refused. "Did this in
Caesar seem ambitiOus?"
The New York Times Washington .dispatcb
says statistics show that during the rebellion
our armies captured over 100000 prisoners, be-
sides about 10000 more at the final surrender
A blind lady living in Kennebunk, Maine,
who was over II years of age at the beginning
of the war, has during its continuance knit for
the soldiers So pairs of stockings.
The Sharps rifle factory at Hartford was en-
tirely closed on Saturday night for the first
time since it has been in operation. All the
government contracts have been filed
One hundred and fifty gamblers were recent
ly arrested in Chicago in day, but they
were only fined five dollars apiece and rather
An enthusiastic young surgeon says the war
is worth all it has cost in the improvements it
has brought to the science of amputation.
James L. Orr is reported to have said that
"the North never subdued the South on the
battlefield. They did it at the Treasury De-
partment."
Many of the ex-rebel officers who went to
Mexico, it is said, are now glad to get back un-
der the old flag.
"NOt for many years" says the India CORES
pondent of the London Times, "has such terri
hIo baat hat which Doyu
India"
Timothy O'Sullivan, a returned soldier at
Plymouth, Indiana, got drunk and undertook
to show jeremiah Horan how they fired salutes
in the army. He loaded his gun with ball
cartridge and shot his friend Jerry through the
head.
Quilp says that when he first married his
wife called him "hOney," but since their silver
wedding she addressed him as "Old Beeswax."
Disrespectful lady.
An American officer who is on Juarez's staff.
writes from chihuahua, Goth ult., that the lib
erals are bound to win. He says they have
about 1000 American soldiers enlisted, every
man of whom has been in the service either in |
United States or rebel armies during the late |
rebellion.
The Albany Journal says that, now that Gen
Mcclellan is self-exiled, Gov. Seymour hope
lessly sunk into oblivion, and Gen. Sherman
declines to be entrspped, the ghost of Mrs. Sur
raft is the only recognized leader of the Demo
cratic party.
A fellow in Burlington, Vt, has eclipsed Don
Juan himselfin turning the heads and destroy
ing the virtue of foolish women. He not only
seduced three married women, but has eloped
with ell three at once to Canada, hotly pursued
by the husband of one of them.
A magazine exploded at Richmond. on the
14th inst, by which large quantity of ammu-
milton, 3 900 pounds of shell, shot and rifle cart
ridges and other ammunition were destroyed.-I
1t was accompanied by terrible loss of prop
erty, and the loss of several lives
A writer in the St Louis Democrat giving the |
details of the killing of the Rev E. P. Loveioy,
and the destruction of his printing establish |
ment by an Alton mob in 1887, says, it may
prove interesting to know that the Young man
who killed him was himself killed in a most
barbarous manner a short time afterwards, in a |
fracas in bar-rOom of the st. Charles Hotel, at
New Orleans, and that the man that fired the |
roof died in the Ohio Penitentiary, where he |
was sentenced for seventeen years, for highway |
robbery in Cincinnati.
The Springfield, Mass, Union tells US of |
wealthy old man being put into the insane asy- |
lum because he exhibited no desire to die and |
bequeath his property
There are now but five prisoners at Fort |
Warren: A. II. Stephens, late Vice President of |
the Confederacy; Mr. Reagan, late Confederate |
P. M. General; Charles Oeshire, formerly new |
York Contractor; another is British Blockade |
runner; the fifth "private rebel who refuses to
take the oath.
In the days of the draft good looking but |
poor young man married rich old maid to get |
money to buy a substitute. That fellow mar
ried as military necessity.
Kentucky has sent 2S,sl8 colored men to the
war. By Act of Congress the wives and chill |
dren of these men to the number of 5000 have |
been freed, making the whole number of slaves
freed, in connection with the army, I0O664
1t is said the friends of Jeff. Davis, in Wash |
ington, are raising money for Mrs. Davis, who |
is represented as being in state of destitution
in Alabama.
In Salem, Mass, a woman was sentenced on
the 9th of February to the House of Correction
for three months. In four days after she gave /
birth to child; and four days later she took
a walk through the town, stealing two sets of /
jewelry, two handkerchiefs, straw bonnet and /
two pieces of alpaca, all at different places
The next day she went into duress for three
years.
The Missouri Democrat tells story of fe-
male rebel, who, on her way from Canada to the
States, attempted to smuggle fancy alarm
clock beneath her hoop skirts. The Waggish
dealer in clocks, who knew she intended to arun
the blockade" with her purchase, set the alarm
SO that it would strike just as she was passing
through the custom house. The officer had got
through examining her, when the "whir-r-rS of
of the alarm betrayed the whereabouts of the
contraband goods, and led to its capture.
A bachelor friend remarked to us the other
day, that be believed that all the pretty women
would go to Heaven whether they wanted to or
not. Perhaps if he knew as much as married
men, he would think little repentance was
needed,