The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-14

The Fourteenth Article being now
a part of the Constitution, Maryland
and Kentucky must either give the
negro the right to vote, or be oontented
with rroportiouate reduction of repre-
sentation in Congress and the Electoral
College, when a re-sppointment comes.
The fish are dying in great numbers
in Rock river, Wisconsin. The Water
town Republican says that at one time
the dead earcasses became so numerous
on the banks of the river that it was
necessary for parties to turn out and
bury them, fearing that the stencil
might create sickness. This devasta-
ton among the fnny tribes is attributed
to the extreme heat of the past few
weeks. The red horse and sucker
species seem to be the principle suffer
ers.
The woods on the Rocky Mountains
were on fire week before last and a
Denver paper says that "the flames
seem to leap from thousand to five
thousand feet. Eight yoke of oxen
were consumed, and about five thousand
cords of corded wood. The heat could
be plainly felt one and half miles
distant from the fire, and at distance
Of half mile could scarcely be borne"
Hon. George H. Pugh, in a speech
before Democratic meeting in Cincin-
natl, manifested his sense of decency
by speaking of General Grant as fol-
lows: eff any man has come hither
tonight expecting to hear me abuse
General Grant, I tell him that he is
mistaken in the person. l don't abuse
him, I shall give him all the honor,
and great honor It IS sOlich he deserves,
and if it were a question of giving
him honor, the most devoted of his
political supporters should not be ahead
of me-" ,e
The Sandusky Register gets off the
following: Two or three bachelors were
standing together at an evening party,
when two ladies passed, one Of whom
had her waist pinched so horribly that
it could be spanned with two hands.
Her lips were blue and her complexion
sallow-of course. One of the gentle
men, after following the wasp-waisted
fair one with his eye, said in an en-
phatic undertone: "No woman who has
a waist like that can ever be the moth
er of my children" The only wonder
is that such creatures ever live to be
the mother of anybody's children.
The heels of fashionable shoes worn
by ladies are so small at the bottom as
to afford little or no support to the an
kles, This in part accounts for the pc.
culisr walk of those who wear them,
and this is causing many weak and
sprsined ankles for which there is no
cure An ankle once sprained, is ever
after liable to be injured by very
slight cause. No lady who values her
comfort in life and her limbs upon
which she depends for locomotion viii |
wear high heels tspered off as is now
the fashion.
A correspondent writes that the Sc
cesh feeling is very pronounced among
the Southerners at Cape Island, and
illustrates it by little incident at one
of the shops" a few evenings ago,
when,r ,rby way of joke, little Union
flag was piDed to the dress of one of
the children of the visiting chivalry.
The first to discover it was the amazed
and angry mother, who called her bus-
bands attention to the insult; and he,
more demonstrative, tore off the offend
ng emblem, and trampled it under his
ieet These amiable people are evident
y heating another poker for them
selves, and when it is used they viii
probably realize not simply the folly
but the danger Of their insane courses.