The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-11-01
BRIEF MENTION.

| A disastrous FIRE in Memphis on Saturday
night destroyed whole business block; the
loss is estimated at 100000. -. Gener-
al Pope has ordered the military to assist the
civil authorities in collecting the State taxes
| in Alabama -. :. General Sheridan rece-
ited an ovation in Rhode Island on the 22d
Governor Burnside was the spokesman of
the citizens. ....... The city authorities of
Nashville have determined to place one of the
FIRE engines in charge OF company Of freed
men Commodore Fanderbilts Noun
Boy trotted a mile, Monday, at the Fashion
Course, in 2:221 an Agricultur-
al Fair recently held in Saline county, No.,
the American flag was taken down at night
and torn to pieces Saline county was ore
of the hot beds of treason during the war.
......-. Jose Maria Lalunza, one of Max
imillau's ministers who has been executed
buried and embalmed by the newspapers, is
alive aud well in Havsna. -. Every Ward in
Philadelphia has formed Grant Club -.
The President has pardonei the rebel Gen.
eral Marmaduke. John Wentworth
has recently sold real estate in Chicago to
the value of $400, 900. 49,. The Emperor
of Austria is Paris, on visit to Napoleon.
On his way there he stopped at Baden, and
made call on the King of Prussia -.
Carpenters, painters and upholstere,s are
busily engaged preparing the Capitol for the
approaching session of Congress The
Chinese of San Francisco gather up and
ship to China cargoes of old boxes..-.....
Colorado increases her population rapidly,
the vote being 9,349 against 6,9O6 last year,
the Republican majority is S76. -. The
Emperor Francis Joseph, Of Austria, is on
visit TO the French Emperor. ....T Three
lady clerks have been appointed in The Clevs
land Post Office. Great Britain has
thirty millions of people, having increased
two and a half millions since 1852, although
Ireland has increased 800, 600 900 during the
same period. -..-.. A correspondent of the
Gesaga (Ohio) Democrat says that cows,
which last spring brought $50 to $75, are
now selling, on account of the drought, for
$25. The cheese factories will soon have to
suspend operations for want of milk. ..-...-
1--WE deaths from cholera at Philadelphia on
Saturday $1,000. The greenback currency
has been contracted four millions during
October. .......Jesse Corwin, Esq, broth
or of the late Hon. Thomas Corwin, died in
Butler county, Ohio, last week. The
vote on the Constitutional Amendment has
been counted at Columbus, but the result
has no yet been announced .--.---- The
proposition for continuous session of Con-
gress to the end of Mr.. Johnsen's S term, is
favorably received by the Republican mem
ben. Gen. Logan is confined to his
room BY inflammation OF the lungs, induced
by his labor in Ohio before the election
A cooperative store is to be established at
Dayton ..... Turkey has refused TO cede
Csudia to Greece. This will afford Russia
a pretext, for making war, if she chooses TO
do SO ..... Gen. Francis G. Barlow, Sec
retary of Stale Of New York, was married
on Thursday last to the sister of Col. Shaw,
the hero of Fort Wagner.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
We clip the following items from the Tif-
fin Tribune
A BRICK RooF On jefferson street, near
the south end of the city, is recently con-
structed building with brick roof. The
brick or tile were manufactured by Mr.. Ja-
cob Hellman, whose building is covered
with this novel roofing.
BuRGLARY.-Thc store of Steinau l. Bro.
was entered on the night of the 18th, and
furs aud iewelry carried off to the amount
of 500. The thief or thieves were evident
ly well posted on the quality Of goods, as
none but the very best we're taken. No clue
has yet been discovered to the whereabouts
Of the goods or robbers. "7-'''
SERIOUS ACcIDENT.-A sad accident &C.
CURED to an old lady, the mother-in-law Of
Mr.. Jacob Painter, on Saturday evening last
When about retiring for the night, she mis-
took the stairway, in the dark, for win
dow, and approaching it to enablo her to see
more distinctly, stepped off and was precip.
itated to the bottom of the stairs, breaking
both her arms and cutting deep cash on
the forehead.
4 WOMAN DROWNED IN A WELL.-A mar
ried woman, the wife of Mr.. Whealen, who
resides in the second ward, on Tuesday
morning arose early and started out of the
house. Her husband, after doing some
chores, went to the kitchen and missing his
wife, started 10 look for her. By what in
dications she was supposed to have fallen
into the well, we have not learned, but her
lifeless remains were there und, and in-
slant death must have been caused by eth
er drowning or dislocation of the neck.