Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-08-18
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The happiest man In the world is the man
with Just wealth enough to keep him in spirits,
and just children enough to make him indus
trious-
The secessionists of Washington have sub
scribed Sc, 500 for Mrs. Jefferson Davis in sums
ranging from $40 to $500.
There has been thirty four suicides at fash
ionable watering places in Germany, this sea-
son-all gamblers.
Col Franklin Sawyer, of Norwalk, IS the
Union nominee for Representative from Huron
county. Hewill be a good legislator as he was
agood soldier
Abd-el Kadir's two Circassian wives are, it is
said very beautiful. One ofthem is dark, and
the other fair; the eldest of them is but four
teen, and they cost $1,000.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin says Mr.. ]. A.
Lapham, who for a long time has kept ther-
mOmetrical register, pronounces the past the
coldest July that has been known since the set
tleulent of the State, the mean temperature be-
ing 65-35 degrees.
A chap named Fuller, who collected $4,000
during the Presidential campaign, under pre-
tense that he was authorized to do so by the
National Union Convention has been arrested
He turns out to be graduate of the Missouri
Penitentiary.
We are enabled to state positively that all the
Jokes relating to crinoline are not used up. For
instance: Why do ladies wear such extraOrdin-
ary things as crinoline2 Because all the heav-
enly bodies move in eccentric circles.
A correspondent writing from Brownsville
Texas, says: IA disease, peculiar to the climate,
called break bone fever, is raging there AL
Al. Nj
agonizing pain, and lasts from eight to ten days
The New York NeUs makes the following
boast: 'eThe circulation of the Daily Netcs in
Richmond, and all other parts of the South, has
outstripped all other papers of the North put
together" fsTt. ffr
The United States are not the only places
which suffer from tempests. From all parts of
France come accounts of frightful storms which
have taken place within the past few days.
Miles of telegraph and acres of orchards and
cornields are reported to have been totally de-
destroyed.
The Hamilton Telegraph says that Sylvester
Irwin, the young man who recently killed his
father and step-mOther, near DartOwn, Butler
county, was the leader of the mob who drove
the negroes away from Darrtown some time ago.
A few weeks since, colored soldier who had
been on picket at Memphis was going into camp
when man named Cleveland came quietly out
of house, and, without provocation, shot him.
Cleveland was arrested, and is now in Irving
block.
A simple mode of keeping butter in warm
weather, where ice is not handy-invert a COM
mon flower pot over the butter, with some wa
ter in the dish in which the butter is laid The
orifice at the bottom may be corked or not
The porousness of the earthenware will keep
the butter cool.
]. A. Orr, of South Carolina, who was two
wears in the rebel Senate, and for two years
held a commission in the rebel army, having
been pardoned by President johnson, came
North a few days ago and purchased complete
outfit for his plantation in Mississippi, consist
ing of corn-planters, sulky, cultivators, grain
drills, dc.
Major John H. Gee, formerly keeper of the
military prison at Salisbury, was shot and kill
ed few days since by rebel deserter Of Char
lotte. N. G. When Gee was asked if our starv-
ing and dying soldiers under his charge could
not have full rations, he replied: ''No, d-n
them; give them quarter ratiOns-thats more
than they deserve. His treatment of his vic
Tins was unparalleled for brutality 3 -.7
General Howard says that in passing through
Georgia and South Carolina under Sherman, he
scarcely anywhere found white child who
could read or write. The average of knOwl-
edge is far higher among the blacks than with
the poor whites. They have greater desire to
learn, and acquire information more readily.
If you happen to be an honest and diligent
Young man; if you possess the respect of your
associates; and have taken a fancy to get rid of
your industry and your honesty; to lose the re-
spect of your friends and the good opinion of
your mates, will tell you how you may man.
age the matter in very little time, and with
very little trouble-learnto drink rum.
The Democrats of franklin county have nom
mated ticket without soldier on it, of course.
The Union men of Champaign county, have
nominated ticket with soldier for Represen-
tative and another for Treasurer
A Washington dispatch says that General
Sheridan has been telegraphed by the War De-
partment TO cause all volunteer white troops.
cavalry, infantry and artillery, serving in the
Department of Texas, that he thinks can be
dispensed with, to be mustered out of the ser
vice. This does not look as if the Government
anticipated trouble on the Rio Grande frontier.
II is known thatthe twelfth diamond for mag
nitude vet discovered in the world was found
by an Irishman digging in Manchester. oppo-
site Richmond, on James river The peculiar
appearance of the stone, even Gin the rough
attracted his attention, and after nearly throw
ing it away as common crystal be sold it for
some five Thousand dollars
The wife of Peyton Langley, of Fulton, No.,
dishonored him. He talked the matter over
with her, when she agreed to let him kill her, if
he would himself commit suicide This strange
and horrible arrangement was carried out
Langley shooting his wife through the heart
while she lay in bed, then placing himself be-
side her, and blowing ont his own brains.
At Randolph, Wisconsin, farmer Windsor
took pretty "gal" with him TO the ciTcus-
Straightway walked his wife to the druggist. of
whom she bought some arsenic. This she in
serted into pie, of which her husband was
very fond. He ate it next day, and that night
was past the region of Irritation. Mrs. Wind
sor's address. at present, is Madison Jail.
Inthe first Constitutional Convention of Ohio
held in 1903, motion to strike out the word
.swhite' in defining the qualifications of cleo
tors. was lost by vote of IA to II. A change
of three votes would have produced different
result. In the Convention of 1850 only twelve
members voted for universal suffrage.
The Albany JourRalsays: President John
sons plan of Reconstruction is that of President
Lincoln. word for word, and letter for letter.
And vet President johnson is severely eensur-
ed for carrying out what our noble martyr ini-
tiated Those who never saw anything in
President Lincoln to praise, have right to do
this, but not those who never saw anything in
him to censure.
The Chicago Journal says: owe learn that
there is at present exhibiting somewhere in this
city an invention which, if successful, will eff
feet momentous revolution in all matters con-
pected with steam engines. The invention, as
we understand it, does away with steam boilers
altogether, the propelling agent being genera
ted by shower bath falling upon hot iron
plates, and passing directly into the cylinder of
the engine.