The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-11-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

from San Francifco in fourteen days.
The latest development of the war of race,
is WestOu's foot race from Portland to Chi
cago.
A school census of Washington anc
Georgetown shows the population Of Wash.
ipgton to be 100000, and Georgetown Is. .OOO
The new asylum for idiots, at Columbus,
will be ready for occupancy next spring. &C,
comodating 300 inmates, at a cost of about
$2O0, 600.
The County Court of Sqngamon county
ILL.,, has declared the estate of the late Presi-
dent Lincoln settled. The estate realized
$1l0 1851, of which sum Mrs. Lincoln re-
ceives $36 865. 30, and her two sons each a
like amount.
An interesting episode of city life occurred
in Providence, on Tuesday. Two boys,
named Fitzgerald and Cilly, while playing
at marbles, quarreled over the game, and
the latter boy, in burst of fpassion, murder
ed his playmate.
At the meeting of the Society of the
Army Of the Tennessee, in st. Louis, the
Committee on the MCPHERSON Monument
reported over $4,000 on hand, which was
left in the hands of committee for disposal.
A Photographic artist in Cleveland by the
name of Gregory, murdered young wo-
man named Isabella Roy, in his employ by
shooting her. and then killed himself by
cutting his threat on Friday last.
Two clearly defined cases of Tfichina are
said to have cceurred in the City Hospital at
st Louis, which resulted fatally. post
mortem was held, and the muscles of the
deceased were shown which contained the
worms in great numbers.
The latest report is that the United States
Government is to pay eleven and balf mil
lions of dollars for the Danish West India Is
lands. including st. Thomas, St. John and
Santo Cruz, subject to the claims of France
in the latter, or seven millions and half for
st. Thomas and st. John.
The Hearld's special says. The garrison of
Washington has been considerably reinforce
ed within the past week or two, and it forms
a military post of more imposing strength
than it ever did before in time of peace.
Anxious iuquirers learn it is because the
troops can be furnished better winter quar-
ters there than elsewhere.
The State Department is Informed that
five million dollars worth of property was
destroyed by the tornado in Texas on the
Sth of October. Six hundred houses were
destroyed. All ranches for thirty miles
around Matamoras were thrown down. At
the mouth of the river scarcely house is
left, All Fiyer steamers we're wrecked or
disabled, except one. Twenty persons were
killed, and forty or fifty wounded.
A singular Gao of petrifcation has come
tolightin Hartford, Conn. The body fWm.
Butler, which was buried thirteen years ago
iu the old North buryiDg-grouud, has Just
been exhumed for reinterment in the Spring
Grove Cemetery. On removing the body it
was found completely petrifed, or changed
to substance resembling limestone, and
so heavy that four men could with difficulty
carry it.
A few nights ago, as the family of VIM.
Dickinson, of Frederick county, Nd. were
about retiring for the night they were arous-
ed by the smell of fire. On searching, they
found smoke coming out of rat hole, and
at once cut away some wood. work, discov-
ering rats nest on fire, and piece of the
match that had not been consumed, half
an hour later and the house, aud perhaps
lives, would have been lost, while the cause
of the fire would have eyer remained mys,
tey.
The past week has given evidence that
the noble spirit of Southern chivalry is not
wholly dead! E. A. Pollard, who wrote
history of the Rebellion from the Southern
stand point, und the title of "The Lost
Cause and in which he punctHred the gas
bag of Henry A. Wise of Virginia, while
walking the streets Of Baltimore, last Thurs
dsy, with his wife on his arm, was attacked
by two sons of Wise. Both of them drew
resolyers and Gred at him, one ball taking
effect in his right arm, crushing the bone.
Pollard also drew his revolver, but as it was
with his wounded arm be could not raise it.
The police interfered, and the chivalrous
Wise men were bound over to keep the
peace. Pollard is getting along tolerably
we'll,
Thursday night of last week, the 18th
inst, the astronomers and star-gazers were
on the look out for another meteoric shower,
and it seems they were not altogether disap-
pointed. Reports from Washington, Rich
mopd, Charleston, Detroit, New York and
other points state that the display was very
fine. The heaviest shower was about
o'clock in the merning. At Washington
l25 meteor tracks were mapped down before
4:30 O'Clock, when the meteors flew SO thick
that they couldn't be counted. At Rich
moDd they fell at the rate of 1900 per hour
At New York, 500 were counted in twenty
minutes. At Detroit they were counted at
the rate of 1869 an kour. The reports Of
observations are mFde by scientific men.
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