The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-06-28
GeneraI News items.

The Connecticut Senate has passed the
eight hour law. Il had already passed the
House and goes into operation the first of
January next. t..t --.s-
Texas papers contain accounts OF a deyss-
tatiuR storm, which visited portions Of that
State on the ID and 3d inst, BY which many
lives and much property were destroyed.
"A report from Cuba states that royal de-
cree has beenirecsived in,ihat Island, freeing
ell colored children born of slave parents on
and after the LIST OF July nsxt.a .gsi d s.
In New Orleans few days since, about
ten thousand dollars in Confederate money,
mixed with other waste paper, was sold at
four cents pound. s.H eSa szeF
Chicago, according 10 its new Directory,
has 355 lawyers, 333 doctors, 1856 hotels, 763
groceries. l36 drug stores, I52 dry good
stores, 2O3 meat markets and III saloons.
There are ss.lO3 names in the Directory.
The Atlantic Cable Company now propose
TO send messages by telegraph from New
York 10 foreign countries in the language of
these countries. The operators to be en-
Ployed are 70 be good linguists. sssbisa1 Is
The dog-woOd blossoms are unusually
abundant this year. This is regarded by
prognosticators as q sure indication of
heavy corn crop. - & "a ss
A steamer has arrived at st. Johns, dis
patched by the Brifish, Admiralty, 10 run
line of soundings from Plseentia, N. r., to
Island 81. Pierre, aud thence 70 North sid
ney, Cape Breton, for . new cable TO be laid
TINS summer. hsy1sss7sg szs vssif 3 4s9gs. -
General Sheridan autographed General
Grant, on Thursday, that the returns made
the number Of registered voters in Louisiana
81, 4S6. There win be a large number Of
whites entitled TO register, who will decline
on account Of objections To the military bill.
The steamer Niagara, while proceeding
from Mobile to Montgomery, sank in the
Alabama river on Friday evening. She was
loaded with supplies for the poor inhabitants
living in the interior Of the State. The boat
was valued at 81, 200, and her cargo at an
equal sum. -. g
In Utica they have started a Sabbath
School on wheels. The children along the
line Of the Black River Railway are gathered
in the cars furnished by the managers. The
frst Sabbath there yee fCrty-two scholars,
and the next sixty-seven. .sHEBEsS
The most frightfui tornado that has occur
red for ten years past swept over Dallas
county on the night Of June ID. Fences
and growing crops were prostrated, and
quite number OF houses were blown down.
Several persons were killed, aud others IN
jured. - -. - .-..,.-. ...
Gen. Sheridan has issued an order, remov-
ing from Office Deputy Sheriff john L. Whit
more, and Constable L. b. Wright of JET.
feFEon, Texas, for refusing TO execute war
rant, legally issued, for the arrest of man
who committed an atrocious murder. The
military authorities are ordered to arrest the
murderer. a2s
Duringa recent wedding in church in a
village near Troy, N. T., when the clergy
man asked If anybody knew any reason
why the ceremony should not proceed, a
woman rose in the audience and forbade the
bans on the ground that the groom had
promised to marry her when her husband
died. Theclergyman decided that she had
no right TO look so far head, and went on
with the performance.