The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-12-20
LNTE NEWa TTRNIS.

=. LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The stave and barrel factory of c. Stevens
d Co.. at Perrysburg, Ohio, was destroyed
by fire on Friday last. Loss $500.
In New York, $4,000 work people are out
of employ, pretty evenly divided among the
various trades. ar
Two children were eaten by. wolves, iu
the woods in Saint Malachi, Canada, Thurs
day. The mother had narrow escape.
In Mansfield, Ohio, on Friday, little boy,
six years old, named Timothy Corbett, fell
into boiler and was scalded 10 death.
The inventory Of the estate of Elias
Howe, Jr., fled in the Probate Court at
Fairfield, Conn.,, amounts TO about $6l8,0O0
Gen. .Jubal Early, uniecOnstructed Con-
federate, lives in the little Canadian village
Of DrummoDdville, shout half mile from
Niagara Falls.
The Dakota Legislature met at YanktOn
on last Monday. The Legislature has Re-
publican majority for the first time in the
history Of that Territory.
Weston writes 10 friend in Cleveland
saying that he was outrsgeously swindled
in the distance travelled 10 lis late trip. He
complains Of his assistants. He expects TO
be in Cleveland about Christmas. ,fi..
The Memphis market is glutted with wild
pigeons from Arkansas. They have fallen
to fifty cents per dozen, and many are
thrown away. re...r as. rh ia
Generals Meade, Tbomss, Scho6eld and
Sheridan are expected in Washington soon,
for consultation with General Grant in re-
iation to army affairs iE rIulr 50
Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer, the wealthy Phila-
delphiaus, who were arrested as the ring
leaders of the seyen-thiIty c,unterfeiting
business, have been discharged for want Of
evidence against them,
Mrs. Aaron Rowe, living near Mount
Vernon, Ohio, day or two since gave birth
to five children three boys and two girls.
They we're all doing well at last accounts.
Eight hundred boats are ice bound in the
Erie Canal, between. Syracuse aud Troy,
Most of them are loaded with valuable and
perishable cargoes. ..f,,.t
E. A. Stevens, OF HOboken, n j., is re-
ported to be about 10 furnish the Parisians
with the Yankee novelty of horse-railroads,
and no less parsonage than Little Mac
is TO engineer the job. m -a.a
On Saturday night some adroit burglar
entered the sleeping room of Solomon Spear,
at Gslesburg, ILL.,, took from his pocket his
store and safe keys, went to his store, un-
locked his safe and took therefrom about
81, 900. Two men were sleeping in the
store at the time. +i iH
When Grant went to Washington to re-
ceive his appointment as Lieutenant General
be stated to Mr.. Lincoln his plan, which was
10 occupy with the Army of the Potomac
the main rebel army in Virginia, while
Sherman Destroyed the Confederacy. Mr..
Lincoln replied; Il see you will hold the
legs, while Sherman skins"
By the will of the late Robert A. Alexan-
der, the famous breeder, sll his Kentucky
and Scottish property goes to his brother,
John Alexander. The extensive Illinois
estate is to be divided between the two
sisters, Mrs. james l.. Walter, Of Chicago,
and Mrs. Deeds, Of London. Some devises
are made to other relatives.
A large number of volunteer officers have
been mustered out, among them Gen.. How
ard, who will be retained as civilian Assist
ant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau
in the Washington district. A number of
officers in the Veteran Reserve Corps have
also been mustered out.
A dreadful railroad accident so-called,
on the Vermont Central Railroad
Wednesday Of last week. A car. containing
men, employed in repairing
bridge recently burned, was backed off the
abutment, through the carelessness of the
engineer. About a score of the unfortunate
men met instant death, and almost all of the
received serious injuries.
A private letter from Boston says tina
Ticknor 4 Fields have already made an ar
with Dickens for the volume he
expects to write on the United States after
his return. The book viii be issued very
soon after the authors tour is over. After
his readings are completed be will trayel
through large portion of the West and
South, for the sake of observation, taking
copiOps notes. aete
POLITICAL NEWS AND RUMORs.