The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-05-08
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


A roor family in Buffalo have been living
on roast rats.
Thatcher, the New York weather prophet,
says this will be hot summer.
The chole "a has made its appearance among
the freedmen al Grand Coteau, Louisiana,
Victor Emanuel is apoploctic, Napoleon has
the heart disease, Queen Victoria is melan-
choly and President johnson is impesched.
The Waco (Texss) E.ramsiner Of April 2Sth
reports the kill ng of six persons in that,
county in one day.
Miss Harris of Mississippi raised a bale
of cotton last year by her own industry, and
has just sold it for $292.
Geo. W. Julian hRs been reDominated for
Congress by the Republicans Of the 4th
District of Indiana.
In Crawford County, Ohio, the wheat is
reported in fine condition, and the fruit un-
injured and promising an abundant crop.
A woman astonished the worshippers in
church at Utica on a recent Sunday by
taking down her back hair and scratching
her head stH ~ iit
The largest iu come returned for 1867 in the
10th Illinois District, was thst of the estate of
the late Jacob Strawn, of Morgan county,
amounting to $24, 4l9 45t -
A Widow in Virginia buried all her family
iewelry and gold during the war, forgot the
place, and was unable to find it until a terrier
dog dug it up few days ago Is l6f
A farmer in Maine fell on pitchofork re-
Gently. The tine passed through his neck.
between the windpipe and the jugular vein,
but injuring neither.
There is one Democratic member Of the
Ohio Legislature who wishes 10 adjourn.
He gives his reason as follows: II always go
barefoot in warm weather at home, but |
can't do it here" ...-.a,.
S. @. Herring, the safe manufacturer, has
horse six years old nineteen hands high,
and weighing one ton It comes Of Canadian
stock, and is said to be the largest horse in
America. j., q.sB. reF
The California Democracy have indorsed
Gov. Haight as their first choice for the
Presidency, instructing their delegates to
vote for Pendleton in case the former can
not be nominated. f Qf1
A bloodless duel was fought four miles
from Baltimore, on Sunday, between party
from Washington and an dttache of the Prus-
sian Legation. The affairs was amicably
settled after the first exchange of shots 2
Inst week, in Edgfeld, Tenn, family
lost their cook stove and dinner by using
fuel surreptitiously obtained at neigboripg
lumber yard. They got one faggot which
had about fifteen cents worth of powder
slowed away in it.
The accounts Of the State Inebriate Asy-
lum at Bipgbamton, N. Y, show that there
have been applications for admission from 80
clergymen, 80 judges, $50 merchants, 126
phys clans, 24U gentlemen, and 1900 rich
mers's 'sdaughters.
About one year since Maclay, with broth
er in-law, wife, and three children, removed
from Hazel Green, Wisconsin,, to Montana
A report has been received at Dubuque that
the whole family had been slaughtered by
the Indians about month ago.
The Judiciary Committee of the lower
branch ofthe Massachusetts, Legislature, has
made unanimous report adversely TO the
petitions in favor of female suffrage. The
movement finds even less countenance in
Massachusetts, than it did in kansas.
The st. Paul (Minnesotal Dispatch says
the wages likely to rule in that city the most
of the season are as follows Masons, per
day, 80 carpenters, g. 30 to So; stone
cutters, 50 plasterers, $3.50 to 81 ; labor
ers, $l,5O to So; blacksmiths, $3.50; paint
ers, SO.
A copy Of Eliots Indian Bible, a work
which no living man can read, was sold at
auction in New York, April %, for the ex-
travsgant sum of $l,l30, the highest price
ever paid for a printed book in this country.
It was printed in Cambridge, Mass, in 1863,
by Samuel Green aud Marmaduke johnson.
The Providence Press urges the municipal
autbori les to fulfil the pious duty. long de-.
layed, of erecting a monument to Roger
Williams, and proposes that the purchafe of
the cove lands from the State by the city.
! shall be conditioned with appropriation of
half the sum toward this memorial
Housekeeping has been introduced as a
regular brarch of instruction in German
schools Young ladies are required to write
essays upon the probable prices of food, the
weight of fat or lean fowls, the method of
fattenipg beeves, and in general upon what
ever pertains to economy of the culinary art.
The students Of five Ohio colleges have
held meetings and denounced with fitting
emphasis, the odious law which disfianchises
them. They pledge themselves to make their
disfrar chisement poor speculation for "Ds-
mocracy." They will work in the approach
ing campaign with energy and effect which
will surprise the " Democracy"
The boiler of the propeller Governor
Crshman, owned by Dwight Scott, of Clsve-
land, exploded IS the vessel was leaving
Buffalo last Friday. The vessel valued al
$40,c COO, is total wreck. Eleven persons
are known to have been killed. One of the
employees was thrown over an elevator, an
elevation Of one hundred feet. .as +
The Lancaster (Pa,) city election took
place on Friday. The Republicans elected
every officer except the Auditor, who was
elected by SSi majority The Republican
gain ON the Mayor since last year is 1871.
The Republicans gain eight members of the
council which makes tie on joint ballot
For the frat time in many years, one branch
of this body is republican By three majority