The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-01-18
NEWS oF.rHE WEEK.

sB~ C. J.. Vallandigham is announced Il
deliver lecture before tho Young Men.
Democratic Club of Boston.
s4-Gen. Butler has sued Brick Pomeroy
editor of the La Crosse, Wisconsin, Demo
crat, for libel. Damages 800, 200.
CETbe sentence of death against tn,
Fenians condemned in Canada has beer
commuted to imprisonment, for twenty
years.
T A bill has been introduced in tn,
Michigan Legislature, permitting aid to b.
voted to a railroad from point in Bay, Ssgi
nav, or Genesee counties in that Slate, t.
Toledo.
eB In the Ohio Legislature on Monday
of last week, the Senate bill was passed, Civ.
ing 800 bounty to veterans credited TO the
State at large.
tB- The wife of an extensive nanulac-
turer of Cincinnati eloped with lover few
nights since, having purchased just before
leaving thirteen thousand dollars, worth Of
| jewelry Oh her husbands credit.
eEA young lady named Christine Kett,
was murdered at Dayton Sunday last. She
was found lying in the kitchen of her house
with her head terribly shattered By pistol
bali There is no clue TO the murderer.
tEChicago is going it" lively. A
nlasquerade,lO long talked ofcsme off on Thurs.
day night, at which the costumes we're so in.
decent that the poliece arrested most Of the
guests and marched them off to the city
prison.
EA State Convention of the Grand
Army of the Republic viii be held in Co
lunbus, on the 30th inst Msjor General
Hubert, Commander in Chief of the order
is to be President, and will address the meet.
ing.
s8A barbarous outrage is reported q,
Norwich, Conn. A man fogged his daughter
with heavy stick because she would moi
be free lover. The man and a woman who
arrested him are in Jail and the building is
guarded 10 prevent mob violence.
tE-A destructive confiagration occurred
in Janesville, Wisconsin, Saturday. The
Hyatt House, one of the largest hotels in the
city was consumed, together with church,
exp: ess office, stores, DC. Loss over 81 200,-
900
The census of New York city shows a
population of hardly three-quarters of a mil.
lion, and Brooklyn has less than three hun
dred thousaud-the two cities footing up
I,02, 764. In New York there are 3S63i
more women than men, and in Brookly n the
excess Of women is 1887.
EThe weight of the flour in barrel is
supposed to be 1876 pounds The Duf-
falo Board of trade has adopted resolu-
tion requiring 900 pounds in each barrel, to
confrom with the GENITAL system of weights
and measures.
sEUnder its head Of Extracted and
Compacted," the New York Gazette pub
fishes the item: "The town Of Detroit had in
1861 eight hundred voters, and sent seven
hundred of them to the war" This may be
compact aud extract, but certainly is not ex-
act
re- The total amount of tobacco annually
produced throughout The world is estima-
ted as follows: Asia, 309,900,000 Tbs; Eu-
rope, 2-I,844 500; America, 2is %, 500; Afri-
CT, 24,3OO,O ,OOU; Australis, 7Ii,0O0; making in
all 9a5 ,O39OOO
.T-Au old woman. rag picker, in
Charleston, Mass, died the other day, in the
greatest poverty, and several thousand dol
lars in gold were found sewed up in one Of
her skirts ir the room.
sEA father out west kicked his daugh-
ter's lover into the street, and the lover re-
venyed himself by csusinga n stick Of wood,
filed with gunpOwder. 10 be placed in the
old gentleman's stoye-effects to be iuag-
ined.
~ Papers from nearly all parts of Wis
,consin complain OF a lack of snow. Fears
are entertained of much injury to winter
wheat aud operations of lumbe rmen, who
have been calculating to get out more logs
than ever, are greatly interfered with. In
some instances, lumbermen have Withdrawn
their men from the woods.
sE~In his report upon the condition of
South Carolina General Sickles relates that
in one case, where freedman was murdered,
the two men who killed him sat upon the
coroner's jury, and united in the verdict that
'the deceased came to his death by causes
unknown"
sEOn Thursday evening of last week be-
tween nine and ten o'clock while the CO.
lumbus train was batting at Berea, the Toledo
train came up auH dashed into the rear coach.
Every platform was broken Oh tie Columbus
train; the boiler head Of the Toledo locomo-
tive was broken in, and its chimney knocked
of Mrs. Mills, in the sleeping coach was
slightly injured.
Il Jpuh LIZ ASSNc1 mas luSbilubCI SuAh
against Gen. Butler for damages. He alleges
that said Butler arrested him at Fortress
Monroe, and took $4,000 in money and
other property, and through a court martial
procured his sentence TO ten years imprison
ment. He wxs sent to Hatteras Island, and
kept for many months, until released by
General Grant. He claims 500, 600 damage
and SIS, 600 for property. -
TA disgraceful scene occurred in the
New York city Common Council. A Demo-
cratic Councilman called the President a
pilferer and a scoundrel, and threw anink
stand at him, which struck the side of the
desk and despatched him with ink. The
President then drew a pistol but was pre-
vented from using it by some bystanders. A
general rush was made on him by some
Councilman but the police rescued him
from the infuriated mob, and took him un-
der arrest. The affair was carried TO the
Mayor, who held the parties to bail.
r3-The Chicago Journal Of Saturday says:
"a gentleman of this city, who visited Joliet
yesterday, says Mollie Trussell, on being re-
ceived in tie Penitentiary, behaved herself
very meekly, but after being clothed in the
striped convict drl SIS she sat down aEd wept
bitterly, aud continued doing SO al day.
She is the "Prettiest" of all the fifty females
now in the Peuiteutiary, and her handsome
face and dark and luxuriant hair are in
strange contrast with the haggard and coarse