Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-12-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK,

The official vote of this state will give Gen.
Cox majority of $4,000.
1t is reported that the United States Circuit
Court is to sit Immediately at Norfolk, Va, and
the rumor is that jeff Davis is TO have his trial
before it. @
The large Government building at Camp
Nelson, KY, occupied by the Quartermaster
and Commissary Departments as offices, was
burned on Friday last.
The authorities of Cincinnati are hard ON the
slaughter houses, soap manufactures and tallow-
chambers of that city. The Grand Jury have
indicted them all as nuisances- as
English capitalists have in contemplation tire
organization of National Cotton Company in
this country, and the employment of Freedmen
General Howard favors this project
Elaborate preparations have been made in the
halls of the capitol at Washington for the APP
preaching session of Congress Desks have
been put in for our erring brothers.
A report comes from New York Of story
which is said to have gained some credence, to
the effect that the late Preston King did not
commit suicide, but deceived his friends, and is
now alive at an asylum of his own selection
Many facts not generally known are said to
support this statement.
I.0rd Russell made an ADDRESS at the mayor
banquet on November 5th but gave no intima-
nation as to the policy of the Ministry. With
regard to the American war, he expressed the
none that the Republic, 'freed from the sin of
Slavery, would prosper for centuries to come"
The Star regards the speech as an encourage
ment to the cause of Reform.
The President has approved the death sem
tence of two citizens of Georgia, named Christie
pher @. Rease and John N. Brown, who were
convicted by a court-martial of the murder of a
nepro woman named Nellie West in Taliaferro
County. in that State The executions are to
take place on the first Friday in January.
Dispatches from Meadville announce another
great fire at that place, on Sunday night
Property to the amount of about 81 5000 is said
TO have been destroyed, and the eentire consump-
ton of Water and Dock streets was with diff
Guilty prevented. Arrests of supposed incen-
diaries have been made.
President johnson has rescinded the order of
Mai. Gen. Thomas shutting up the Episcopal
churches of Alabama until such time as they
should repent, and become ready, like good
Christians, to pray for the President of the Uni
ted States. Mr. johnson is evidently ofthe
opinion that, while the effectual, ferveEt pray
er of righteous man availeth much, 1t makes
very little difference whether rebels pray for
MIN OF HOb-NfttSuyO AAOIuO0"O'es
OH1o SrATE SoRGo ASSOCIATION regular
annual Convention of the ONO STATE SoRGo
Association, will be held in Cincinnati o., at
the Lecture Room in Mozart Hall, commencing
Tuesday Evening, Dec. 5th. This has been a,
very successful season with the Cane, and anew
interest has been excited. We understand that
a quantity of the Seed forwarded from China,
by the agent of the Department of Agriculture,
has been sent to the Editor of the S0Tgo Journal,
bv the Commissioner, to be distributed among
the members of the Convention. A sample of
Sorgo Sugar from China will also be exhibited.
A colored man in Cincinnati recently COM
menced suit against the Passenger Railroad
COMPANY to recover damages for election by
the conductor from a car. On Friday the jury
returned verdict for the plaintiff and assesses
the damages at $500. Judge Storer in his
charge to the jury said that passenger car COM
panies were bound to receive into their cars all
persons, not intoxicated and not guilty sus-
pected of crime. They might exclude felon
or piekpocket but not any person on account
of his complexion.
On Tuesday night an attempt was made to
break into the National Bank, at South Char
lesion. The Burglars got into the bank by the
rear entrance, and attacked the safe at the back,
cutting away the iron and removing the filling
of cement. They thus came to the inner steel
lining which was burglar proof and resisted
their utmost efforts. Defeated here, they went
round to the door of the safe and attempted to
break the lock- In the midst of their under
taking, it is supposed that they were frighten-
ed away, as their tools were found lying near
the door. Some papers were found on the spot,
which indicates that the same gang contemplate
making general visit in this part ofthe State,
and try the safes of other banks. Look out for
them; ''forewarned, fOrearned. '--Ddyto1s Jour
nal
PoIsoNISG CAsE.-Mrs Amelia 81. Phinney is
locked up in the Cleveland Jail, charged with
having poisoned her husband, who was a pros
porous merchant of that city. Phinney visited
the woman in Albany, New York. and married
her about six weeks ago, and returned to Oleve-
land. On the 9th of last month"; he was seized
with violent cramps, and died soon after An
ANALYSIS of the contents of the stomach, showed
the presence of sufficient arsenic TO kill six men,
A bottle of the poison was found in the bureau
drawer, of which Mrs. Phinney had the key
The question is whether he committed suicide
or was poisoned by her.
The BENEFIT OF ADvERTIsIEG.-lna answer TO
6 correspondent, the New York Tribune states
it is true, as reported, that druggist who has
q speciality now before the public is paying
that establishment $4,000 year for advertis-
ing. 1t says he paid 81, 500 for. the insertion
OF one mammoth advertisement, and adds on the
general subject: Bonner once paid us $4,000
for one insertion of an advertisement of the
Ledger. He knew that through judicious ad-
vertising he could insure a fortune The old |
prejudice OF druggists and physicians against |
advertising is dying out, and they, as well as |
others, see that the cheapest mode whereby |
they can make themselves and their medicine
known to the public, is by wise and liberal
system Of advertising"