Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-10-19
NEWS or TIE WEIR

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The report Of the State Auditor Of Iowa
shows that there are 700, 59S cattle 912. .932
horses, 1851 mules, 2;3s3,3l6 sheep, and 6l,-
2l4 swine in the State.
The proposition made to send from Cali
iornia section of the Original Big Tree" to the
Worlds Fair at Paris, is said by DR.. MCGOWAN
to be inprscticable, for want of saw long
enough to cut it The cutting win require a
saw 40 feet long. r ~ ..,.,o
The New York Seventh Regiment will
visit London and Paris during the National
The President recently ordered the release
of all the guerillas confined in the Frankfort
Ky. } jail, while nine Union soldiers were left
in confinement. .l{ sar e5=
The average earnings of the Atlantic Tele-
graph Company for the last flfty-five days have
been S4,S00 day. These figures do not by
any means confirm the report that the cal lie was
earning at the rate of four millions and half
per year.
"A counterfeit of the new ive-cent coin is
| in circulation. The metal is much softer than
the genuine.
The War Department announces that sol
diers enlisted for three years or during the war,
who we're discharged by reason of the close of
the war, shall be decided as having served their
time and entitled to bounty. -.s-..-
"A blind man in Cincinnati, on getting up
Friday morning, found that he had been sleep
ing all night with corpse, his roommate hav-
ing died during the night 5
| Dispatches from Louisville report the des-
truction by fire of the Louisville Fheater on
Friday night. Soon after the audience was dis
missed the fire broke out. and in an hour
and half the building was mass of ruins.
The commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that when an individual incurs loss by
sinking wells for the purpose of obtaining oil
such los shall be deducted from the income de.
rived from his business during the year when
such loss occurred. -E
/ The Governor, Auditor and Secretary O
State have advanced Toledo to a city of the
first class having been satisfied with the evi
dence that its population exces ds 10000 i
being in fact 24,4Ol.
"A half mile trot came of on Friday be-
tween the horses Dexter and Patchem OF
Wheeling Island, near Wheeling for $4,000 I
side. Race won by Dexter in three heats
Time, a:35, 9:26Hs, 2:a314.
The Attorney General, with the concur
rencs of tho War Department, has instructed
General Barry to return the arms seized from
the Penians in the late raid upon Canada, will
the promise that they shall not be used in vio
lation of the neutrality laws. s.s. Z rl
A terrible fire occurred at Quebec last Mon
day. 1t is estimated that two thousand fiv,
hundred buildings were destroyed, aud eigh
teen thousand persons are rendered houseless
One person was burned to death. sias
An army officer who has recently returned
from South Carolina where he was visiting
states that he learned while there, that th'
twenty ninth South Carolina rebel regimen
had been reorganized, and that they boastet
that they had offered their services to the Presi
dent TO sustain him in any attempt which h
might make to suppress Congress.
The new policy Of the English Govern
ment is shadowed in an article in the Londol
Times, advocating the calling of commission
of jurists of all maritime powers, to deliberat
on the duties as well as rights of neutrals, ant
urges the payment of the United States claims
if the commission so decides.