The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-04-12
General News Items.

Genefal News Itemss
A horse race came off few days since in
Denver, with the thermometer at ten degrees
below zero and the snow q foot. deep.
/ A dispatch from Boston says that letter
from Hsyti says that President GuffraFd has
I1esgnedand left for Jamaica.
Senator Sherman left Washington on Sun
day evening for New York, whence he in.
lends sailing for Europe in the next steamer
Senator Oonness will shortly follow.
The religious revival at Pittsburg has re.
suited in the conversion of nearly two
thousand persons in that city and its sub.
RIBS.
The removal of the Union dead from their
graves near Cairo, 10 the Government Gem
etery at Mound City, has commenced and
viii be rapidly prosecuted.
Ayoung lady performing in New Orleans
menagerie recently had her waterfall bitten
off by lion, whose appetite had been ex-
cited by the pOmatum on her hair.
The Dayton Journal reports The case of a
citizen of that place, alunatic, who has not
tasted food for thirty -four days. He is much
emaciated, but still able to sit up for a short
time each day.
j. P. Davis, proprietor of the American
house, at Fon du Lac, Wis, committed sui
eide on Sunday by swallowing morphine.
No cause is assigned. He leaves-a wife and
large family. 49,.
The strike of the miners in New Jersey
/ still continues, and is. increasing. Two
thousand are idle or engaged with the strik-
ers, and all the miners in Morris county have
suspended work. r
We regret to announce the death of Quow
Daddy, king of Aquapim, West Africa.
| He was man and brother, snd luncbed
/ off cold missionary, when in season, with
/ great regularity
Among the billsiust signed by the Cover.
nor Of Pennsylvania is one Incorporating a
society for "the prevention of cruelty to ami
mails"
Brigham Young has Just liquidated. with
! full interest, board bill which he contract
ed aud forgot to pay when he left Port By
ron, n. Y, his native place, thirty years
ago.
The President has issued a pardon to
Governor Vance on the recommendation Of
numerous Republican Senators and Repre-
sentatives and other prominent officials.
Senator Wilson, after short visit North,
has determined upon making an extended
Southern tour. He will speak in Virginia,
North Carolina, Charleston, Mississippi,
New Orleans, aud probably Georgia and
Alabama,
Rev. Hart L. Stewart, of Stewart Divorce
case" notoriety, was advertised to lecture iu
Crosby Opera House, Chicago on Wednesday
night. At the hour named for the lecture to
commence there were eight persons present,
three ofwhom were deadheads.
The Lindell House. in st. Louis, is 10 be
rebuilt; $3.50, 600 were subscribed by citizens
of ST. Louis for that purpose, and commit
tee was appointed TO collect the remainder of
the required sum. e..t ae.--
A Washington specisl says: AS there
seems to be no opposition, the President has
determined to release JEFF. Davis in April.
Ii is said that the distinguished prisoner will
at once advise reconstruction of Mississip-
pi under the military bill as soon as be is
free.
A sudden inundation Of the Mississippi
has drowned out the town of De Soto, Ark.
From eighty to hundred negroes were
drowned. The place lies opposite Vicks-
burg, and strenuous efforts were made 10
rescue the poor wretches. De Soto is a col
ored settlement. ...a
The Department of Agriculture, at Wash
ington, expects a supply Of beet seed, adapt
ed to making sugar, early in may, from both
France and Germany, and will distribute it in
limited quantities, for experiment.
Colonel Mosby the once notorious
guerri la leader, is contentedly engaged at
Richmond Virginia, in the manufacture of
corncob pipes which he offers for sale TO the
tobacco smokers of that region.
The Louisiana papers call attention 10 the
fact that one hundred aud fifty steamers lie
rottirg in the Red River, and declare that
unless New Orleans builds road to the head
of Red River navigation she must @go under
commercially. E
The most wonderful echo in the world is
at Austin. Nevada. The guns which were
fired there on the morning of Washington's
birthday did not cease TO reverberate till 8
o'clock in the evening.
The Home Journal says white muslin era
watts, for ladies, are coming in fashion again,
and are worn in the morning, in place Of
collars being embroidered aud trimmed
with lace,
Mr.. Joab Squire one of the earliest set
tiers Of Erie county, Ohio, died at his home
in Florence, on Sunday, March 3lst. He
was widely known through that and sur
rounding counties having lived where he
originally located for fifty-two years.
General Joseph Bailey, the builder of the
dam which served 10 extricate Commodore
Porter's fleet from the rapids of Red river
during the war, vas murdered on Tuesday,
the 10th ult.,. by two brothers, while dis
charging his duties as Sheriff of Vernon
county, Mo. A reward Of S3, 900 is offered
for the arrest Of the two men. 7H-
During the past few days there has been a
large contribution of facts from various
sources respecting the character of the Rus
sian American territory. 1t now appears
that comparatively little has been known
concerning it. The result of these new re-
velations is that there is better prospect
than there was few days ago for the rat
iication pending.
Wendell Phillips was recently invited 10
lecture at Mount Pleasant, Illinois, and on
reaching the town, was met by the Secre-
tary of the Lecture Association, who in
formed him that the people could not decide
WHICH they most wished TO hear-the lee
ture on ''The Lost Arts, or that on The
Peril of the Hour" Mr.. Phillips was ready
to deliver either, but the Secretary grarely
proposed that he should deliver both The
cturer thought it a pity TO spoil good
ioke, consented, and beginning with "The
Lost Arts gracefully glided into the The