The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-10-25
Summary of the Weeks News,

<heAVduss hdS Ioeutteu WI CODNlctfons anu
he is sentenced TO banishmeat for eight
years.
The receipts Of Internal Revenue for
the psss week, was one million six hundred
and eighty three Thousand dollars. For the
fiscal yesr, six,y.fve and half millions.
The Heroifs Havana special of the
18th rays: The Elections in Mexico have
resulted in the success of President Juarez
in the states of Mexico and Guadalaiara and
all the principal states Of the interior.
The stables of L. B. Boomer in
Chicago, were destroyed by fire last Friday,
aud eight valuable horses were burnt to
death. Loss estimated at $lO.OOO.
Continuous railroad communication
between Chicago and ST. Paul, Minnesota,
has been completed. The distance is 443
miles, and will be run in about twenty
hours.
a report is iu circulation that Gen.
Sheridan is TO have command Of new dis
trict, comprising Maryland and the District
of Columbia. Too good to be true.
The trial of JEFF. Davis is expected
to come off on the 2s,h. There is an effort
e. cbtsina jury of white men the jury TO
try him now stands nine negroos aud three
white men.
A shockingly brutal crime was per-
petfsted at Wooster, O., on the 18th, by
three tcoundrels, who seized and violated a
respectable young girl Ons Of them hiss
been captured and the others are likely to
be.
A new electric light has been ex-
h.bited in New York, which was so bright
as to light up the ~hole bay. The Inventor,
a Ere; Gilman, claims to he able 10 Eight up
the city with single lamp mole completely
fhsn the gss companies eau do.
1t being necessary TO verify will
ID the Probate Court at Cipciupsti one day
last week, au old lady came into the city
OF the first tims 10 forty eight years. though
eh4 has always lived within ten miles of TIE
place.
Every county in Nebraska, so far as
heard from. has beeu carried by the Repub-
hcans The Democrats last year had a
msiority in every one. Is that the reaction
cur Democratic friends tell abouti
General Grant insists that he is a
Republican, aud will soon define his posi-
ton in letter 10 his friend, Mr. Wsshburne.
He is in favor of all the leading points of the
Republican party, although sc1rcsly TO be
ranked among The Rsdic1is.
Elk Congressman Arnold, of Chicago,
in 8 letter to the Tribune Of that city, sug-
ge.ts that Congress at the approaching ses-
sion make sufficient provision for the family
Of the msrtyred Lincoln TO educate his son
ard decentiy support his widow.
An explosion of the gasoline works
atthe mouth Of the Hooksc tunnel 10 Berk-
shire county, Mass, on Saturday, caused
the burning material 10 fall down the shaft,
which buried the whole gang working at
the bottom of the mine. Thirteen men were
killed, and the bodies will not be recovered
for several days.
A Richmond letter says that General
Schofeld has returned from Washington.
He says that there will be no changes made
in the Cabinet for some time, il at all. The
President has no present intention in that
direction, nor win there be any alteration
in the manner of Southern reconstruction.
A peace council with the Indians
COMMENCED On Monday last, at Medicine
Lodge Creek. which is attended by ten
thousand red men. A dispatch TO the St.
Louis RepubIicGa says that the business Of
pacifcation is progressing finely and there
is good prospect that treaty will be made
aud lasting peace established.
Near Sherman, Texas, recently, Mrs.
Beatty, widow lady, met ber death in a
most singular manner She was in the act
of getting on horse, when common sew
ing needle, which stuck in her dress, caught
in the saddle ard wss driven in her body
near her breast slightly piercing her heart.
She lived only about half an hour.
Robert A. Bakewell, lawyer of St.
Louis is GU. in letter describing the cure
Of a child Of his who for several years had
been bedridden with hip disease, the healing
process having been simply the application
of a sacred relic from the convent Of st.
Louis and the time required for the cure
only few hours
In Virginia City, a poor widow, in
overhauling an old vest Of her husbands
who he'd recently died, found dirty paper
in the pocket. which, 90 examination, proved
to be the deed of three feet of the Savage
claim. The Secretary Of the company in
formed her that it was genuine, and that
-, 500 in dividends we're due on it. She
took the money, sold the dirty paper for
$4,000 and went 10 her home and friends
in the Fast.
The New York Express has some
startling scandal concerning Senator Sum
ner's family. 1t states that in consequence
uf The intimacy of Baron Holstein, Of the
Prussian legation, with Mrs. Sumner, the
Senator procured his Withdrawal from WASH
ipgtou. This retirement has been followed
by Mis-. Summers departure for Europe, but
no meutiou Of criminaGty is made. The
Sumner establishment at Washington has
been broken UP. .
The Treasury detectives have dis
covered some impor,sut facts in regard to
the counterfeit 7-3O bouds. They have
definitely asccrtsined that the plates were
not made jn. Europe, hut in this country
aud slso that over thousand of them have
bseu put in circulation. One OF the nosi
successful utterers Of this heavy queer
ssmei Cooper, was arrested in Brooklyn.
for passing bank bills, and he proved to be
ire Jsan who has passed number OF the
al 600 bonds upoR the bankers Of that city.
He is known as one OF The gang aud ne Is
detained in prison for further revelations.
The mutiIated inmates of the Sob
diers' Home near Dayton, succeeded in ex'
ercisiug their right as electors last t-electon
,r emilia of q hitter opposit:on aud uniform