The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-05-17
General News Items.

small gold brick, valued at $500, has
been received in New Haven, from the new
mines near MorgaBtown, N. @.
Philadelphia is to have its society for pre-
venting cruelty TO animals, and one man
gives $1,000 to set it in operation.
The Kanawha (W. Val journal says that
the coal bed in that region extends over 40,
600 acres and is seven feet thick. 1t is said
to be very superior coal.
After a suspension af three manths, the
rolling mills in Youngstown have resumed
operations. The boilers resume work st the
wages on which they stood out. r II
The rebel pirate Alabama lies where she
was sunk by the Kearsarge, in fifty fathoms
Of water, off Oherbourg, and the French gov
ernment has refused all applications to raise
her.
By the arrival of the mail steamer New
York, from Liverpool, we have report of a
speech delivered by Col. Burke on his con-
viction of the charge of high treason for par
ticipation in the FeDian outbreak. 1t is fill
ed with true Irish eloqucnce, and has the
ring OF Emmett oratory. We commend its
perusnl to our readers.
The Georgia injunction suit has been dis
hfAooON tiC OupiCitc OOuIb Ou Tic SiOuuu
of want of jurisdiction. The Mississippi
by making Arkansas party to the case and
introducing Gen, Ord's action with reference
to the Treasury fthe latter State, The case
will probably be argued on Friday.
The Eight-Hour Law recently passed by
the Legislature of New York, and signed by
Governor Fenton, is almost identical with the
Illinois law. 1t provides that eight hours
labor, between sunrise and sunset, shall be
deemed legal days work where there is no
agreement to the contrary. These provis-
ions, however, do not affect farm or agricul-
tural labor, or service by the year, month or
week, nor prevent any person from perform
ing extra work under special contract.
The Dubuque Herald says that whole
fields of grain in Western Iowa have been
stripped of their crops by immense fiocks of
pigeons. One farmer residing two miles
east of Independence had sown three acres
of wheat, and was preparing 10 harrow it in,
when the pigeons made their appearance and
gathered up every kernel before he could get
it covered. Some fields containing forty
acres were absolutely covered with pigeons,
and although the sportsmen waged an inces-
SAINT warfare against them and killed great
numbers, their places were, soon supplied
with others.
America takes off one of the first and best
prizes at the Paris exhibition,-that for rail-
way locomotives. England, France, Austria
and Russia competedwith some 30 different
but the sAmerica, made at Pat,
erson, N. j., took the gold medal away from
them all. The continental judges objected
to the American machine for its lightness,
and said it was more for show than use; but
the English judge, being acquainted with our
roads, explained the cause of the light
weight, and strongly defended our claim to
This is fine feather for the
,aps Of our railway mechanics. y "a. ~
A riot occurred at radical Convention
held in Brownsville, Tenn, yesterday.
Three negroes and two whites were shot, but |
not fatally. The reports assigning the cause
If the disturbance are conflicting; some say
ng that it was an organized plot TO break
Up the Convention, and others laying it up
IN an incendiary speech made by a colored
peaker. 71.iirs r'-'afo7 .asnJ