The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-10-25
OLD TIMES.
FREMONT THIRTY YEARS AGO.

We are under obligations to CLARK WAC
eokEH, Esq, editor Of the Toledo Commercial
for the loan of bound volume of the earl,
newspapers published in this place, the
known as "Lower Ssndusky." They rul
I. a. far back as 1887 and Is4l--thirty year
, ago. The Journal was established eizh
years prev ous 10. 1897, but no files of j
were preserved and we presume there ar
no copies 10 existence. ss4s.R
In looking over the old papers in this vol
ume, We have found great deal Of loca
history worth re, reducing, and have nj
doubt it will be as intete testing to those o
our readers who are comparatively new
comers, az il will be to those who lived here
in The old days and took plrt in the scenes
and events recorded in the faded pages be-
fore us.
The first paper in the volume ia No.
. Vol. of the IotOsr Sdndasky Times, dated
. Saturday, September 9, 1887; Published
by A. G. WHITE, at $500 per Annum in
Advance" In size it is less than half that
of the Journal now, and printed in coarse
type. In the first column Of the first page
We find the cards Of two lawyers, one doc
tor, one hotel and one grocery. RALPH P.
BuCKLAND and PErER YATES were the
attorneys and counsellory at law
DR.. WILLIAMS offered his services TO the
public in the practice Of Physic and Sur
| kofa fko q
House, and Eastern, Western and Southern
Stage Office and Steamboat Hotel, by D.
l'W. GOULD" A. MoREHoUsE kept "Whole-
sale L Retail Grocery, one door east OF the
sOhio Mansion House 20 and JOHN BELL
gave notice that he had Just received from
the Venice Sash Factory 1885 window sash,
which be would sell at 5 cents light The
only other business advertisement in the
psper il that Of B. & F. MEEKER, who had
New Store and New Goods Cheaper than
the Cheapest All the rest Of the adver-
tisements are Sheriff 8 Sales, with the ex-
ceptiou of two Fever and Ague medicine
advertisements "a disease which tradition
says did once exist here y and Fahnes-
'tock's Celebrated vermifuge for Worms"
There are twelve or fifteen Sheriff 3, Sales.
IsrDoRH D. BEAusRGED was Sheriff. He has
proclamation to the electors of Sandusky
county notifying them to meet in their re-
spective townships on the second Tuesday
of October and vote for representative and
county officers The townships were named
as follows ;-sandusky, York, Greencreek,
Townsend, Riley, Portage. Ballville, Bay,
Salem, Harris, jackson, Warrington, Clay,
Madison, Carroll, Scott and Erie-17 in all,
Eve more than there are now. A portion of
Ssndusky county was formed into Ottawa
county sometime afterwards.
Among the selected matter in the paper is
one of Major Jack DOwniDg's letters, giving
" Hail Columbia to "Gineral JAczsoN,
who was then President. 1t seems strange
now to read of the Sub-Treasury -
Oonstitutionality of q United States Bank"
-"Hard Money etc, in these old papers
which, like their politics, have been folded
up and laid away among the forgotten things
of the past.
The latest Foreign News received in Low
er Ssndusky was by the Liverpool mail Of
July I4th, two months old From st.
Louis, dates to the l2th of August-one
month only had been received, giving no.
tics of the purchase from the Chippewa In
dians of the territory now known as the
State of Minnesota.
The newspaper then sought after by pol
iticisns was the Washington Globe, published |
weekly, and which reached here in a month |
probably. alt is amusing" says the Times, !
to observe the esgerness with which every |
body looks for the Globe. Have you seen
the Globe . is dozen times asked daily |
: after its arrivsl."i Think Of that, all you
gentlemen who crowd into McCuLLocH's /
now two or three times day to get your N.
York, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Toledo
dailies, morning aud evening editions As
GREELEY truly says "the world moves"
By the way, there was no Tribune in exist
ence in New York at that time, the big gun of
the Metropolitan press being the New York
WeeIdy Star. There was Cincinnati Chron-
icle and Buffalo Advertiser, which latter
"s;ill lives"
We 80 not find any local market prices in
the paper. but an item clipped from Buff
falo paper on the crops, ETC., says "a Pota-
toes are down 10 % cents per bushsl, and
1t is expected will soon be as low as I2tSc.
Bntter is from IL to Is cents, and cheese
from 10 cents. The poorer classes will
not the coming year, buy one pound of
their -four at aprice exceeding $5a barrel"
There are two editorials in the paper and
call for Wing convention to be held at
the court house in Seneca county. There
were no county buildings here at that time.
One of the editorials is headed Another
Wing Victory Rhode Island Regener-
ated The other editorial article aims
to expose the inconsistency of the Locofoco
or Democratic party and its singular facil-
ity of assuming different guises to suit the
{ times and to excite and retain the affections
of its votaries." the concluding paragraph
of which will also conclude our first paper
on " Old Times
President jackson cried out against the
United States Bank and recommended local
and State banks as 4 substitute The De-
mocracy cried Down with the monster !"
Put the money into the local banks The
next thing brought upon the. tapis is the
golden humbug. Metallic currency Away
with your bank rags Showers of gold,
cargoes of mint drops were to float up the
Mississippi and the land was 10 overflow with
{ sinners. Nov the project is-What think
you "a Nationsl Bank aye, verify, Ma
tionsl Bank based upon the National Treas
ury with Treasury Drafts for a circulating
medium and exchange III In New York
The Bank party constitute the Democracy.
In Ohio the latter are anti bank In Vir-
ginis they are different from those in Penn
sylvsnia and 30 in almost every State 10
the Unior the party, like the chameleon,
changes its hue to the color Of the object
upon which it is supported. I" =
Mr.. WHITE, the editor and publisher, is
now a resident of Elmore.
Transfers Of Real Estate, for the week
ending Saturday, October l2, 1867, prepared
BY A. F. GALLAGHER, County Recorder