The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-09-06
Foreign Gossip.

A statute Of Napoleon |. has been erected
at Montereau, France, on the spot where the
Emperor uttered the words, "The bullet
which is to kill me is not yet cast.
The new cable from Brest TO New York,
is 10 be laid in May next. The Northern
route has been selected as the safest and
most practicable. The Great Eastern has
been chartered to perform the work.
Reports continue from rebel sources of the
success of the insurrection in Spain, and es-
pecially in the province of Arsgon. Latest
advices report that the insurgents have cap
tured and hold the city of Saragossa.
The convicts in the Austrian prison are al
lowed to read newspapers, use snuff and
smoke tobacco during good behavior. 1t IS
said that the threat Of forbidding tobacco acts
instantaneously upon the most hardened Gu l.
prit
It is reported that the Russian Govern :
ment is organizing a system OF common
school instruction for the emancipated serfs
of the kingdom. SCHOOL, are to be erected
and teachers maintained by the Government,
without regard to the priests, who have
heretofore monopOlized too much business
of instruction.
The Register General of ireland records
the death at Magherfelt of a man aged eighty
| five years. He had an immense pendulous
tumor growing from the side OF his neck
which was computed by several medIca
men who saw it, to weigh from thirty tC
| fifty pounds; it was of forty years growth
and lay over the front of the right side ol
the chest and arms.
The Italian journals report that water
| - l. l., ba utllaRa nF PaLaZ-
colo, near Udine, in Italy, and did grea
damage. Not fewer than thirty houses wer'
DESTROYED and seventy damaged. Ten per
SONS were killed and twenty eight injured
by the falling buildings. Out OF tliteer
thousand inhabitants, upwards of four hun
) dred are without an asylum.
A private letter from Paris states that d
Alexander Dumas is engaged on new novel
the scene of which is laid in this country
the time being that Of the civil war. IL /
understood that many of the details and IN
cidepts have been furnished by the eccentrl
eglestrien,ae, Adah Isaacs Menken Heenan
or what ever else the lady's name may bt
l Miss Menken is not without literary proeiIvi
3 ties-of a certain order-and is reported Il
have kept a journal in which are amasset
many remarkable occurrences, which are t
be 'WOIKeu up III lue NC" iO'HoHN ~
Dumas own incompatible manner.
l A surgeon at Netley, England, recent
took a long walk in the neighborhood
/ southampton, accompanied by his dog,
/ fine Newfoundland. In the evening l
1t missed some letters from his pocket and b
" dog. The latter did not surprise him, as
DOE often wandered from him in his walk
M The next day, annoyed and puzzled at Il
10 loss of his letters, he thought it possible
" might have drawn them out of his pock
r. with his handkerchief during ais previo
Id DAVIS walk. He resolved, therefore, to r
It. peat the walk, for he might have dropped {
to letters in an unfrequented path. About 70
as miles from the hospital he came sudden
mt upon his dog lying on the ground, with I
'as letters close by. The dog had laid by I
en- side of the letters for sixteen hours. 1t
been rechristened "Postmaster- General"