Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-09-08
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Inc Touc COuaty Press, Wisconsin, says the
{ woods in that county abound with deer this
season. They are very fat in consequence of
the abundance of feed.
In Rails scOunty, Missouri, lately, a strip of
ground, about thirty feet wide, extending
straight out from the river into field some 900
yards, gave way and sunk to the depth of % or
80 feet The earth around the edges of the ex-
cavation remained perfectly solid.
Boston reporter was publicly cowhided by
an indignant female on Thursday, who, having
been cruelty deserted by her faithless husband,
and had been referred to by the knight of the
quill as ''pOor abandoned creature"
A Missouri paper states that iron is found in
thirty -four counties fthat State lead is found
in thirty -one; coal in thirty six; copper in
twenty two; silver in five.
northampton county, Virginia eastern
shore, with white population oftwelve thou
sand, and fifteen negroes, furnished only
$50 soldiers during the war to the rebel army.
The official statement of the public debt on
the 1st inst. has been issued from the Treasury
Department The total is S. 757, $685. ,57I, on
which the yearly interest is $l38 OBJ, $40.
Medical men are advising setonization as a
preventive of cholera. The philosophy is to
raise the pulse, and keepit raised during about
thirty or forty days, during the time the epi-
demic is at its greatest hightin any locality.
A band of seven incendiaries has lately been
discovered in Batavia, N Y, after they had
burned up bridge and a large number of
buildings and barns at various times. One of
the band Dragged of his exploits to the girl of
his heart, and that was the end of the secret.
! All crops in Georgia, except peaches and ap-
pies are very poor. Nearly the entire State has
suffered from protracted drouth, not enough
cotton being made for domestic wants. Con-
| sequently, at the end of the year. the people
will not have the means to begin the work of
restoring their ruined homes and fortunes.
A correspondent who has been travelling tbro'
Nevada thinks the silver resources of that State
''are sufficient to pay off a national debt of
twenty billions, present each returned soldier
with silver musket, and then plate all our war
vessels with silver thicker than they are now
sheathed with irOn.'
Pittsburgh is much excited over the discov-
cry of the murder Ofa unknown man. who was
found in the outskirts with his throat cut In
addition the excitement is increased by the ar
restof a woman for wholesale poisoning.
Mrs. Senator Kate Chase Sprague, following
the example of more common people, has ba-
| by-a. boy about seven weeks old. Mrs
Spragues mOther-in-law presented her with
$500, 900 for having a boy, and settled 800, 900
on the fortunate little stranger.
In Chester county, Penn, there is male
calf two weeks old which has a strangely form
ed head. The upper Jaw is double and has
four nostrils; the lower is single. The front
face appears double, united in the middle
There are three eyes-One in the middle of the
face. 1t has two ears only, and they stand
much further back than is usual. The calf is
in good health, eats well, and bids fair to live
VIM. H. Russell, in his new volume on Can
ada, states that the landlord of the New York
Hotel said to him in January, 1862, as he was
about to take the train for Albany and the West,
| "You had better stay, sir, for few days. j
| have certain intelligence that the AbolitiOnists
will be whipped at the end of this week, and old
| Abe driven out of Washington. This land
lord is Democrat" and his hotel has long been
the headquarters of the Democratic" Copper
head party of New York City,
Daniel Andrews, late postmaster at Glencoe,
| Mo-. who committed suicide short time since
| left confession, in which he acknowledges hav-
ing murdered a returned Californian, ten years
ago, and robbed the body of $l05. He also
robbed the mails at various times; was the
means of killing two of his children, and med
itated the murder of his wife.
An enterprising correspondent who has visited
Galena informs the public that General Grants
salary while in charge of his fathers hide store
there for two years before the war, was $40 a
month. He was unable to find out whether the
General voted for Lincoln or Douglas in 1860
as none of the neighbOrs took interest enough
| to remember
| The prize for impudence, at the London Dra-
matte Show was won by young lady, who,
after persuading the kindly manager of the place
to get her some flowers, stuck one in his putton-
hole and charged him two and sixpence for it.
That was said to be an awfully funny scene
at Cape May, last Sunday, when the thunder
storm surprised the ladies' while they were
bathing, and they were forced to hurry back to
| their hotels in their bathing dresses. Some
three thousand queerly clad beauties ran the
| gauntlet of the crowded piazzas amid the ieers
and laughter of the brutes in patent leather
boots, who carefully noted the feminine dismay
and rudely commented upon it.
On Friday 25th, the scaffolding of the new
| Seneca Street Bridge at Cleveland gave way pre-
cipitating the eight workmen who were on it at
the time into the water some thirty feet below
In this fall a Mr.. Brakem was struck by the
falling timbers and instantly killed, and two
other men were seriously injured.
The Cleveland Leader says: While Gen. Cox
is energetically opening the campaign in North
ern Ohio, Gen. Schenck is pushing it bravely
in the Southern part of the State. He spoke
on Wednesday at ChillicOthe to a crowded au-
dience, and discussed the great issues of recon-
struction and suffrage ably and clearly.
At the great German shooting festival in Bre-
men ten thousand rifemen attended. In their
| procession portrait of Mr.. Lincoln and the pic
ture of man representing negro slave with
| broken manacles were conspicuous. In the
| Ixr obofs
target 1000 feet off were allowed, three men hit
the centre with both shots and drew lots for the
prize of $1,000. Among other prizes were an
American gold watch, sent by the Baltimore
Schuetzen an American buggy, sent by the
New Workers, and a Springfield rife sent by
Governor FentOn.
Those who imagine that the negro is univer-
sally lazy and the white man universally busy,
that pride takes the place of labor, and labor be
little more than slavery, should read the reports
tnat come from all parts ofthe South. We find
in Knoxville that of 359 persons who applied
for Government relief 957 were white and two
black. And yet this is a community where the
black men preponderates!
The Cleveland Leader reports that on Satur-
| day last woman in that city fell into death
| like trance. The pulse stopped and respiration
| to all appearance ceased. The body was even
lapse of several hours the seeming corpse came
to, and there now is a prospect of the woman's
recovery.
never did repent for trying DIR. Robinson's
Unrivaled Tooth Paste. and shall now, there
fore, advise all afflicted with unsound Teeth
and bad breath to use it. Sold by all Druggists.
| "Life hath but shadows save promise given,
Which lights the future with fadeless ray;
| o, touch the sceptre.
Use DIR. d. H. Seelye's LIQUID oATARRH REM
EDY, and you will be able to join in the univers
al commendation of this truly invaluable spe-
| cifc.
Thomas M. Key has been nominated by the
Democrats of Ohio as a candidate for the Su-
preme Court of that State Is he brother of
| the Key who was on Gen. McLellan's Staff in
| 1862 and dismissed from the service by Presi-
dent Lincoln for suggesting, after Antietsm,
that at wasn't the game" to beat the Rebels
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