The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-03-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

article of said constitutional amendment.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
N-Gov. Swan has declined the U,
Senstorship of Maryland.
W-The Union men Of Maryland are ia
king ground for Univ raj Suffrage.
t8The President has Issued proclsma
tion declaring Nebraska State in tn
Union.
WMr. DeBow, editor of DeBow's Review
died on Wednesday at Elizabeth, N. Y.:aftei
short illness.
HThe negro murderer Horace Greeley
was hanged in Charleston last Friday. He
admitted his guilt.
sE The Republicans of Auburn, N. v,
elected their mayor and entire ticket last
Tuesday Elmira, ditto
Only two colored votes were polled
for the Democratic ticket in Georgetown, d.
c., at the recent election.
HA doctor in New Albany, Ind, va.
choked to death on Wednesday by piece
of meat sticking in his throat.
EA colored ,man, who had been twice
married, just dies in Richmond, Virginia,
leaving thirty-f's children. a ea
sE At the charter election in oswego,
N. Y, Tuesday, The Republicans elected the
mayor and three out of four aldermen.
The Senate in it's Saturday session
confirmed John A Dix 20 Minister 10 France
and Hugh Ewing as Minister resident at the
Hague.
The Directors of The Atlantic Tele-
graph Company hold a meeting on the 18th
of March to determine what reduction can
be made in tolls.
EThe Nicholson pavement is to be in-
troduced in New Orleans. General Beaurc-
gard is laying down two squares of this pave
nent at his own expense. t
aThe Columbia Is. CD Phoenix came
out in mourning on The 17th inst, the anni-
verssry Of Sherman's en;srDce into that
city and its destruction by fire.
There are one hundred and sixty
'Posts" of the Grand Army OF. the Republic
in Ohio, and indications are that the num-
Der will be doubled before April Ist.
~ Senator Wade Of Ohio has been nomi.
mated in Republican caucus for President
of the Senate f,om March 4 by vote of %
to for Mr.. Fessenden. Mr.. Wade was elect
ed and assumed his duties on Monday.
HThe GAINESVILLE City Times learns that
the gas works in that city has become quite
a fashionable place Of resort for persons bay-
ing children with the whooping cough-its
air being considered healthy for this disease.
WA report from Buffalo says that five
dead bodies-two men, two women, ard one
ehild-have been found at The Grand Trunk
r. R. Depot, packed in barrels and directed
to party in Ann Arbor, Mich. The bodies
have not been dead more Than a week or ten
days.
sE-The well-known Siuyvesant pear tree
at the corner of Third avenue and Thirteenth
street, New York, which was planted two
centuries ago by Governor Stuyve.ant, has
been destroyed by a wagon having beer
thrown against it with sufficient force TO
knock it down.
W Major General Mansfield, Adjrtan
General Of Indina, in his report to the Leg
islature on the condition of the State militia,
says it consists at present of Major Cen
ersl, Lieutenant-G General, Quartermaster-
General and no privates, and be recommends
the passage of a militia law that will add
some privates to the force.
s9A crazy Second Adventist in Herki-
mer county, n. Y, has for ten years been
feeding a big OK for a feast vixen Christ
should appear. He has starved his other
stock, and spent nearly all his property in
purchasing food for that OF: the OK few
days siuce died of surfeit, the owner hav.
ing but two days before refused $1,000 for
the animal
EThe first water was let into the Lake
Tunnel at Chicago last week. enough only to
sweep out the smaller debris, The expert
mental flooding will be protrscted through
several days if not weeks, with view to
testing Of every portion of the
structure. The city will be supplied
through the new channel, if all goes well, in
about four weeks.
The Eaton Register says that lively
debate was recently held among the ciii-
zens OF some of the ~out townships" Of that
20 unity, upon the question: "Does the earth
-evolve on its axes?" A Democratic JUS
ice of the Peace headed the party on the
negative side. They thought any fool could
zee that if the earth turned over, the water
would all run out of the wells
~ Surratt takes his imprisonment very
and Is said TO be improving
n health since his arrival here. He spends
lis time in reading the Bible and other books,
md when not thus engaged he PAGES the
,CrridOr in front of his cell. His sister has
lad several interviews with him. His brother |
rrived from the South on Tuesday. and
ought an interview yesterday, but was de-
lied admission.
sE Freight Conductor Sillmsn, On the
Dayton q Michigan Railroad, was killed at
1ontogAny, Wood county, on Monday morn
Dg. The train stopped at that station for |
he hands to get breakfast, and as it started, |
Conductor Sillman got upon the locomotive. |
Immediately afterward he attempted to pass
rom the engine to the tender, when his foot
Tipped, and he fell tetween the cars upon
he track and the train passed over him.