The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-09-20
Miscellaneous.

The Atlantic cable earned $l,660,000 last
year.
The man in the Wbi'e House telegrspbed
his congratulations over sour victory in
California to Vallandigham and PendletOu,
in Ohio.
The first locomotive used in America, was
the "John Bull" in 1888, between Albany
and Schenectady. Her copper hxiDgs wers
made by Peter Smith Of Albany. The
John Bull is still alive and is kept as 4
curiosity at the Albany Iron Works, near
Troy.
A wretch at Hastings, Mimi, poured
kerosene oil over a couple OF horses, last
week, and set fire to them. The cries Of the
animals aroused the owners, who quickly
extinguished the fire, but not until one
horse had been ruined and the other Sc
verely injured.
The reports from the Southern States are
particularly cheering. Advices from
Alabama and Georgia indicate that those
States will give 10000 Republican majority,
and it is thought that all the other States are
safe beyond all question.
Messrs. Charles Reads and Dion Bouei-
cault are writing, in conjunction, a uew
serial story for the Atlantic Monthly, for
which they are to receive a larger sum Than
has yet been paid by an American periodical
to an English author, with the exception,
perhaps, of Mr.. Dickens.
If we would have powerful minds, we
must think if we would have faithful
hearts, we must love; if we would have
muscle, we must labor and these three
fhnuohf fnuo 1ahO i, III EL,N
valuable in life
When Van Amburgh's show was in
Burlington, Iowa, few days ago, and
parading through the streets, the old elephant
Tippo Sahib refused to venture on the Main
street bridge; no persuasion could induce
70 cross: It is said this same animal fell
while attempting to cross it, and be Is- -
posed to have remembered it
A sad accident occurred at KeIly's island
last Thursday. As the steamer Grant was
putting off from the wharf with a party of
Fenians on board, young woman and
child got caught in the coil Of the stern line,
which as it suddenly tautened wi h the strain
of the vessel, tore a leg off both uDfortu-
mates. The young woman was named Mary
Glenn, aged "a years and the child Kate
Golding, aged IL. Both belong in Sandusky.
On Monday last young swell, in ex-
quisite attire, entered Fulton Avenue car
in Brooklyn, and soon displayed his breed
ing BY plentifully anoiuting the floor with
tobacco juice. During his expeciOrsting
exercise, he stained the dress of lady who
sat opposite him. Regarding the foul ap-
plicatiOn with disgust the offended
passenger requested Of him handkerchief
to repair the mischief This the gallant re-
fused to furnish whereupon the lady turn
ed up that portion of her garment soiled by
the fellows vulgarity, and wiping it upon
the dandy's trowsers, again resumed her
Composure. The subdued hero suddenly
remembered that he had an errsnd on the
street.
There is a small Episcopal Church in
Philadelphia called by the church-going
citizens "The Church of st. James the
Less" Irreverent street boys, however,
style it "The Little Jimmy" Another
church in the same city, to the construction
of which Jay Cooke contributed largely, is
known as ''the Church of the Holy Five
Twenties." TIE "irreverent street boys"
of Syracuse call, aud not without an amount
of appropriate humor, either, on account Of
its peculiar spire, the church on the corner Of
Berkeley and Dover streets. "the Church of
the Holy COrk-Screw." We remember to
have heard church on upper Broadway, in
New York, built Of alternate layers Of red
brick and white marble, called THE Church
of the Holy Zebra.