The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-01-25
NEWS OF The WEEK.


ly for $540O.
eY-The Nevada G.egislaturs has elected
Hon. Jas. W. Nye U. s. senator.
sYTwo men were frozen to death in
Brooklyn night before last.
sT-The q Pr sdentisl Mansion" jeff.
Davis late res dence, in Richmond, is offered
for sale, Price $40, 900.
sS-A mother and her two daughters were
married at the same time, and in the same
church, at Laport, Ind, last week
sE-A special from st. Joseph, Missouri,
states. that recent arrivals from Northern
plains report snow deeper than has been
known for many years, in some places the
drifts being twenty feet deep.
The receipts of the Cincinnati dsilies
for advertising during the year 1866 are as
follows: Commercial, $ls6397; Gazette,
Sl35. 452, Enquirer, $694 452, Times, s7l, $50.
eE- John NJ. Langston, the colored law
yer of Obcrlin, has been admitted 10 prac-
tice at the bar of the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Washington specials state that Pres
ident johnson lately told delegation of me-
groes that since they had cast their lot with
the Radicals and made Sumner their God,
he could do nothing for them This ends the
farce of Moses.
s%-A row occurred at Wizards Hotel,
Washington, between Gov. Oummins, Of
Colorado, and Mr.. Holbrook, Democratic
delegates from Idaho Fists and canes were
used, but unfortunately neither party was
much punished.
eEA little girl aged twelve years was
smothered. in the snow in Boston, and Com
modore Blsl,p, an old officer Of the navy,
sixty-two years of age, was lost in the storm
on Thursday, ir that city and has not since
been heard of. ,..,.s--.
EEashingtOn specials state that Gov.
Orr is in Washington urging Greeleys plan
Of reconstruction, to wit: Universal amnesty
for universal suffrage. Congress does not
appear 10 be much in favor of amnesty.
E%-The Kansas branch Of the Union Pa
ci6c Railroad is completed twenty miles
west of Fort Riley, and graded fortyfive
miles beyond. The earnings are expected to
average one hundred thousand monthly for
the present year.
gEThe Cleveland Plain Dealer says: On
Saturday night, mother gave birth TO a
child on the train ON the Lake Shore Road,
near the Euclid Station. Theycamc on TO this
city, and strange TO say, the mother was
entirely able TO care for herself
lE-The Conservatory attached to the Exc
cutive Mansion Washington was badly dam
aged by fire last Friday. At least one third
Of the valuable plants therein being destroy
I'd. The loss on the building is $4,000.
The plants destroyed we're Of the rarest char
sciet Of foreign origin, and cannot be replaced
in Yeas, and at cost of hundreds of
thousands of dollars. ..-.-I IN
Horace Greedy is on trial in Charles
ton, s. O. for the murder Of a man named
Rhett. 1t is said the evidence against him
is so strong that he will undoubtedly be
found guilty and hung. The trial cxcites
crowded. 1t may lie well enough to add
that the prisoner is adncgro bearing the
white coated philosophers cognonlen.
s%-T The Steamer Platte Valley struck the
wreck of gunboat in ths Mississippi below
Memphis last Thursday and sunk in few
minutes About sixty lives were lost. Most
of her cabin passengers were saved as far a.
known, as the passenger list was lost. A
family named Roberts, consisting Of 10, were
all lost. The bost was loaded to the guards
and was under full headwsy at the time.
The indianapolis Journal says: "If
anybody is under the impression that things
are not workiL', even in church affairs, he
could have had his moral amaurosis removed
in yesterday hearing a congregation of one
of our prominent Methodist churches en-
Enthusiastically encore, with clapplDg OF hands
and stamping of feet, fiuely executed piece
of music. We longed for a boquet."
sE-It appears from an official report Of
Major General ]. @. Robinson, commanding
the Department of the South, that the
twenty two heerdmen recently burned 10
death in the Kingston (South Carolins) jail,
we're wautonly burned up by the sheriff and
tailor; who PERMITTED the only white prison.
er in the Jail TO escape.
sYThe Ottawa County Union says that 3
few days ago a man walked on the ice from
Putin Bay Island to Port Clinton, twelve
miles, Obtained marriage license, went back
"by the same conveyance" the same day,
and was married in the evening. Walking
twenty -four miles on the ice and getting
married besides, must have been q hard day S
work.