The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-12-06

Chicago was flooded lasi week wlIh c"nn-
terfeit two dollar gleenbacks all Of which
are numbered 1870. TIE engraving is poor.
i BnPtismal water from Che river Jordan
and communion wine from Jerusalem, all
] hrsegh, over by the returned excursionists
from the Holy Land, were used at B echer's
church last Sunday.
The cold spell last Saturday spread itself
all over the country. At st. Paul, Mimi,
The thermometer stood at zero; at Madison,
, degrees below and at Chicago below.
Memphis is fortunate. its newspapers,
boast of a rapidly reyiving business. and
state that there is the prospect of larger
cotton trade than during any year since 1860.
The Pacific Railway has .surmounted the
Sierra Nevada of California, and trains now
run from the waters Of San Francisco Bay
through the great tunnel and down the
Eastern slope Of that great mountain range.
A German emigrant girl. who came 10
| this country 10 marry her cousin, aud found
him too poor to marry her, committed sui
eide in Now York recently by the extraor-
dinary method of cutting off the heads pf
matches aud eating them. She refused to,
take an antidote, se, a8JH
The Cleveland Herald says the iron bridge
across the Guyahoga river at that place.
built for the accommodation of the Toledo,
and other Roads,, was successfully swung
for the first time on thei23d ult iasI
A Newbury, N. Y.dsilover left his horse
and carriage some distance II on the house
of his adored on recent dark night, and
went 10 steal his affianced away from her
cruel parent who had forbidden the banns
When the loving pair got back to the car
riage they found the old man holding the
horse No marriage has yet taken place.
The retail dry goods dealers in New York
are about TO enter on general cutting down
of the wages of clerks, already unusually
low. The losses of the heavy dealers are
said to have been very large. 1t is stated
that A. T. Stewart's losses amount to over
million, and other large houses have lost
from 800 900 to $500 600, and this by the
decline in prices Alone A number of small
houses, wholesale and retail, have failed,
and the large establishments TO whom they
were indebted have to bear the loss. The
shrewdest old merchants say great many
failures are yet to come.
During the fiscal year just ended in Ohio
there were three hundred companies incor-
porated, of which ninety -one were for man.
ufacturiDg purposes; forty -one for building
associations; forty-four turnpikes; twenty
six mining corporations twenty rail-
ways; twelve oil companies eleven insur- |
ance companies; nine gas companies; eleven
insurance companies, and nine cooperative |
associations. There was also wrecking |
company and paving association incorpor-
ated. bH
Mr.. Charles Dickens is something Of a
lion in Boston, but it is of the quiet and
modified species. He goes when and where
he pleascs, but the hunters are iorbearing,
and thus far there has been no organized |
rush at his person. There have been no
balls, no receptions, no public dinners, no
deputations, no State visits TO the theater,
no fights among the painters and sculptors
for sitting, no demand for locks of hair
nor has Mr.. Dickens advent brought red
waistcoats into fashion, as it did when first
he graced our shores and was overwhelmed
by our tumultuous hospitality.