The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-02-28
HKoHBoRHooD ERws,
FBEMoNT.--The Fremont Journal
of the 21st has the following.

peach buds on trees IN the eastern
part Of this county, and fnds that as
yet they have sustained no injury
LAST Saturday morning about eight
o'clock, the alarm Of Gre was raised
aud it was discovered that a Gre had
caught in Bristol 4 Taylor's dry
goods store. Mr.. Taylor, who dis
covered Il, broke through one Of the
front windows aud succeeded in put.
ting IL out before any damage was done
whatever, except burning hole
through the floor. The FIRE caught
from pail of ashes which had been
left, by the boy who built the fire,
standing beside the stove.-Captaiu
Jesse G. Chance, Of this city, lately
received an appointment as I'd Lieu
tenant, in the Regular Army and has
successfully passed the examination
Of the Military Board at Louisville,
aud only waits the confirmation of
the Senate TO receive his commission
in the 18th United States Iufantry,
General Sherman's old regiment
Lake Berg, the painting announced
in lato issue Of the Journal, as hav.
ing been drawn in the Crosby Opera
House Scheme, by DIR. l. w. Groat
Of this city, has been for several days
on exhibition at tho Bauk of Ere
mont. 1t is a lovely Switzerland
scene, with clear, calm lake sleep.
ing in the shadow Of Mountains, the
outlines Of which are half hidden,
half revealed by the mist which is
rising from tho water. On the right
and in the foreground are rocks and
wooded hills. and above, the clouds
breaking away, give glimpses of the
clearest skies beyond the rocks and
mountains, tho fresh foliage of the
trees md the water are natures own,
and the scene is one Of rare beauty,
such as an artist would delight in
The painting shows the hand of a
master, and like all good pictures,
grows in iavoras one makes il study.
II was numbered 16l in Crosby's cat =
aloguc.-Alman Palmer, who was ar
rested about five weeks ago for pass.
nScounterlcit scripin Fremont, aud
confined in the county Jail, succeeded
in breaking out last Tuesday evening
aud making his escape. 1t appears
that he broke the lock of dungeon
in the upper corridor Of the Jail, and
made that location the base of his
operations. With piece of the bed
stead he battered hole in the stone
roof Of the dungeon, with hot poker
burnt holes through a thick oakeu
floor Immediately above, and with Q
case knife knicked like saw, sawed
out a place large enough to admit oI
his passage, crawling up through thi,
he found himselfin a hall from which
opened doors into what were for
merly the debtors apartments. Thes,
doors were open and it seems he en-
tered the nearest room, and jumped
out Of window to the ground. II
feet, From there he had TO pass di
rcctly through the hall Of the Cour
House in order to get to the Street
1t is n wonder hc mat no one, as i
was yet scarcely dark. Up to thi
time he has not been re.aken.-A
tho time of going to press last week
the river was rapidly rising aud eve
rybody who owned property whicl
was below the high water mark wa
nre,,ril,'0 for the annual deluge. On
FRIDAY the river rose rapidly auC
Saturday morning at daybreak th'
the ice was coming do "h 'he swoilei
current in huge m sses, sweeping eV
erything before it. FortunatelJ th'
volume Of water was so great that tn,
ice did not block up above the turn
pike bridge, aud the upper part of
town escaped all injury. Below,
however, from the elevator up to the
bridge, the river was field Of ice,
the great blocks piled one upon an
other and intermingled with rails,
timber. lumber, rubbish aud all the
debris which the swift cuuent had
gathered up in its progress, aud the
water which now rapidly, found an
outlet by spreading out and flooding
Front street below the Kessler House,
and the lower part of town on the
east side OF the river. Pike street,
east of the bridge was under several
feet Of water for long distance and
gondola dug outs and canoes wero
padded about conveying citizens to
and from the delnged houses. The
ice pushed over fences, plowed un.
tremendously through gardens, and
lodged in door yards, smashing in eel.
lar windows and walls, tore up side.
walks, and in short did everything il
should not have done, until it gave
way below on Sunday, and the whole
line slowly took up its line Of march
to the open lake, leaving here and
there Struggling block which had
" broken ranks aud fallen out by
the way.
FosToRIA.--The Neics of Saturday
last furnishes the following;
/ We understand that a fire broke cut
in the town Of McComb, Hancock
county, destroying property to the
amount of S15, ,00O,which was partially
insured in the .Etna Insurance Com
pany. t
Dr, VIM. NJ, Cake met with a seri-
GUS accident last Saturday night, some
four miles North. OF ,his place. -
lie had started to visit patient, aud
when in the woods North of the Van
Buren road, his horse stumbled aud
fell aud tho Doctor being unable to
FREQ himself from the saddle his leg
was caught Nndor tho horse and com
ing in contact with the root Of tree,
fractured the bones Of the leg below
the knee He lay on the ground aud
called for help until HE strength was
nearly exhausted before any one
came to his relief tIe was tslAen 10
Mr., solomon Lihhart's. where he was