Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-07-28
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recent hail storm which passed over Dur
ham, Me-, covered the ground more than an inch
deep; growing crops were leveled aud des4
troyed.
The number of troops sent from Washington
to their homes, from May 80 TO July II, was
2OS, ,037.
are Alexander H.. Stephens and Post Master
General Regan.
An eminent coroner in London recently de-
clared that there were II, 900 mothers in the
metropolis who murdered their children.
Every Chinese house in San Francisco was
draped III mourning for the death of President
Lincoln.
On the 8th inst San Francisco rowdy, nam
ed Billy Mulligan, shot and killed two men
while laboring under an attack of delirum tre-
mems, and was himself Immediately shot dead
by a policeman.
Fifteen hundred Government horses and
mules broke out of the coral near Winchester,
Virginia, on the Doth inst, and are scattered
over the country.
Major Gen. Dodge now receives SIS, 900 per
annum as consulting engineer of the Union Pa
cific Railroad When he resigns his military
position and takes full charge his salary will be
$4,000.
The Boston Transcript says the contributions
in that State to the Lincoln Fund will amount
to 800, 600, and that active labor for obtaining
subscriptions has now ceased.
The Nashville Press and UntoH says: ''The
Louisville press is afraid of the approach of the
Russian plague. We are not. The Nashville
plague will stink it TO death before it can cross
| Cumberland River"
A despatch from Fort Laramie states that
| over 2 300 emigrants, with about ], 800 head of
cattle, passed that point during the preceding
l6 days their way to settle still farther west.
II mourn for my bleeding country" said
certain army contractor 10 General Sheridan.
| $50 you ought you scoundrel, replied Sher-
dan ''for nobody has bled her more than you"
An epidemic is raging among the cattle in
| and near Wittsburg Arkansas. A twitching
| of the muscles and cords of the limbs is the
first indication of the approach of the disease,
and it generally kills all it attacks in from eight
to twenty hours.
During the recent tornado which swept over
! Iowa, buggy was carried across the Missis-
| sippi River into Wisconsin, distance of twelve
| miles.
A dispatch from St. Paul says that camp
of surrendered Indians have been in a starving
condition for some time near Fort Wadsworth,
| but an immense drove of buffalo coming in that
direction, they were enabled to kill 800 and
obtain supplies.
A terrible freshet visited Leavenworth, Kan
sas ON Thursday night, carrying away two
| stone bridges, Is or 20 houses, and property of
| all kinds. Seven dead bodies have already
been found, and it is feared that many more
were swept away. Loss, $20O,OO0
The wife of the Rebel Gen. Ewell proceeded
! to Fort Warren on the 18th inst. with an order
from President johnson for the release of her
| husband. On taking the oath of allegiance he
was liberated and both left for the South the
same evening.
1t is reported on good authority that John
Minor Bolts will soon issue an address TO the
people of Virginia, urging them to vote for ne
| gro suffrage, as the only hope of the State for
its re-admission into the Union on terms of
equality with the other States.
An alteration occurred between Union SOL
der and a returned Rebel near Miller Station
Missouri, on the Pacific Railroad, last Sunday
when the latter shot the former, killing him in
stantly. The citizens caught the murderer, and,
with little ceremony, hung him.
A man in New York quarreled with his wife,
and by way of terminating the quarrel drove
an axe into her skull, leaving it buried there.
and killing her instantly. That is one way Of
"burrying the hatchet" as a sign of quarrel
being ended
The New Hampshire Superior Court has de-
cided that express company delivering a
parcel marked with the cabalistic &c. o. d. -
I-collect on delivery-must allow person rea-
sonable time to open the package and determine
whether he will receive it or not
cave nearly as large as the Mammoth Cave
of Kentucky, has recently been discovered ten
miles from Fort Ray, California. 1t was found
to be an immense subterranean lake of clear
water. with high walls of limestone on either
side. The ceiling arch is fifty feet high.
The Tribune's Washington special says DR.:
vate letter from Matamoras says that numbers
of rebel officers and men, lately belonging to
the commands of Dick Taylor and Kirby Smith
are Joining the forces of Macmillan in Mexico.
This action seems to be induced by the high
I gold bounties offered by the Imperial Govern
ment.
A disastrous railroad accident occurred on
Friday last on the Ohio Central Railroad, about
one mile west of Columbia, Licking county, in
this State, by which eight persons were instant.
ly killed, and twenty-five others wounded.
Young girl in Lafayette, Indiana, was re.
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fearful swelling, and threatening suffocation.-
The girl S mother, not knowing what else to do
filled the child's mouth with coal oil, and the
effect was most magical; the swelling immedi
ately subsidized, and the pain was relieved.
The Lindsay &C. W. Post speaks of an ex
traordinary colony of caterpillars which werC
seen in that neighborhood some time since
They numbered millions upon millions, anC
were moving in a western direction, consuming
thistles. grass and every kind of vegetation
they met with on their march. So completely
did they demolish thistles, that nothing re-
, NAMED of those attacked save the roots
A new German daily paper is soon to be es
tablished III Nashville Tenn, called the Cum.
beyEdnd Post Thisjournal will staunchly sup.
port the Administration and viii have as the
principal object in view to promote and encOur.
age German emigration to that State.
The 55th o. V. V. L. were finally paid off
3 at Cleveland, and formally mustered out of ser.
vice on Thursday last, aud the members have
returned to their homes. Very few regiment,
l have seen more service than the 55th. The
number of men returned, was 2S0.
The Fourth of July was celebrated in Au
( gusta, Ca, by colored procession with ban
d 1ers, on which death to dsunion and slavery,
d and e'freedom and equality were inscribed Ii
the afternoon the troops paraded, and in tn,
evening there was display of fireworks.
Queen Victoria, in her message proroguine
Parliament, says she 'rejolces that civil war il
North America has ended, and she trusts tha
a the evils caused by that long conflict may b,
t repaired, and that prosperity may be restored
inthe states which have suffered from the strife
f A Marseilles, France, newspaper says th'
bachelors of that city have struck. Over six
teen thousand of them assembled in mass con
yention, and resolved not to ask any young wo
man in marriage until the women practic
J, greater economy i'll dress.
Two young misses OF thirteen and tilteel
years respectively, swan from the outer end o
the ocean Notwithstanding at Newport to tn
shore The loaUe newspaper says: "The dis
tance from where they plunged ia TO tne shor