The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-08-28
NEWS of the WEEK.


hensive of an attack by Glrabaldi.
b The Cleveland, Ohio people, think Mrs.
Victor will soon be well enough TO be
hanged.
FrvE Thousand bales of hay we're shipped
last week to Europe, and as many more go
this week.
PASSENGER trains on the Central Pacific
Railroad are now running 10 Browns Sta
tion, 235 miles east of Sacramento.
CLEvrLANDrRs are making extensive
preparations for horse fair to be rOld on
the sth, 9TH, 10Th and IIth of September.
CHroAeo has completed, aud viii complete
this season, seven million dollars worth Of
buildings.
John G. HEENAN and Mike McOOOle are
matched to fight for large stake. The
particulars have not yet been made public.
A Fossil elephant has been dug up at
Esstou, Maryland. Many portions are
nearly perfect including tusk eight feet
long.
THE President has officially proclaimed
that the Legislature Of Georgia has ratified
the fourteenth amendment 10 the Constitu
ton Of the United States.
FIVE tons Of peaches were shipped from
Dayton by the United States Express on
one train, Thursday evening. The crop has
ouly begun 10 come in.
There arc now one thousand and seventy
couvicts in the penjtentiary, decrease of
thirty in the past month, said decrease be-
ing caused by expiration Of sentences.
Tnr gas works at Southbridge, Mass.
were blown up on the night Of the 22d, and
seven men are reported killed and four
seriously injured.
TIE bronze guns appropriated by Con-
gress TO the Sixth Army Corps, for a monu-
ment at West Point, have been cast into a
uIl-leugth figure of Major General Sedg-
wick at the bronze works in Philadelphia.
Tax work of improving the State Fair
grounds at Toledo, is rapidly progressing.
All the halls, with the exception Of the
fine arts hall, are already erected. From
present indications the fair promises TO be
a great success.
LETTERS received in Washington from
members of Congress leave little room
Ia expect Meeting in September. Almost
all Congressmen are so absorbed in the cam
ya;gn that it is not believed possible quo
rum can be obtained.
A VOTE was taken in one Of the cars on
The Rock Island train from Chicago on
Wednesday morning, and resulted as fol-
lows: For Grant, 90; for Seymour, g.
Two gentlemen of Cory, Pa, who were in
the car, stated that votes had been taken on
all the trains on their route, and that Grant
in every instance. got third vote, and
in some cases four-ffths.
Tax Canadian authorities will not now
permit the transportation Of cattle from the
States through the Dominion. JOhny Bull
is evidently afraid Of the cattle disease. In
consequence Of this fear She cattle that
have been received at Detroit within few
dars past, destined for Eastern markets,
are being sent TO their destination by the
way Of Toledo.
THE Cattle plague has appeared in Gin
cinati. One Of the dsirymen the other day,
notified his customers that he could no lou
ger supply them with milk, for TIE reason
that his COWS had been attacked by the
terrible disease which has been recently
observed in Illinois aud New YORK, and is
thought 10 be traceable to Texas.
THuksDAr night of last week venerable
clergyman, residing in obion county, Ten
nessee, aged over sixty years, was dragged
from his bed and given sixty lashes by a
band Of disguised Democrats, for the osten-
sible reason that he had denounced the Ku-
Klux organization, and on Tuesday night J
oolored man in the same community shared
a orse fate and was left for dead.
The Frankfort Commonwealth learns
that the Ku-KIux Klan invaded Pulaski
county. Ky., from the vicinity of Crat
Orchard. last week, killed James Baker ant
whipped Noah Blakenship, until life is
sesnaired Of besides whipping seTera
.,,tber Union men. The late National sol
siers of Pulaski have notified the rebels
of that vicinity that if this thing is repeat
t,,ev will take such measures Of self
defense as may be nescessary.
THE rebel papers Of Nashville arc trying
10 prove that Brierfeld, who was murdered
by the Ku-Klux Klan, at Franklin, Tenn.
was killed, not because he was UniOr
man. but because heincited some freedmei
"a murder young man named Ezell, Ii
retaliation for the lynching of one of thei
race. In its desperation to excuse the fright
full crime, the Nashville Dispatch tries Il
argue from The Old Testament that Brier
field Who was an Israelite, was justly pun
,shable with death, according TO the Aosai
law.
The DemOCIdtlC " nAOO IVY -
,,,osecute their canvass after this fashion
At indianapolis on the sth inst, after sack
ing a colored mans grocery on their wa.
home from a political meeting, They wen
10 the Colored Baptist Church, where
festival was in progress, drove of the wO
men with violent and obscene language, an
bv throwing stones. bricks &c, brok
nm The windows and seriously damaged th
church. Several shots were also fire
here"
In Hickman county, Tenuessee, on Oh
10Th inst. six mounted Kd Klux rode up t
the house Of one Louis Prowl, negro, an.
demanded food for their horses. Having
seen them, ProWl hid himself in a barn
about one hundred yards from the house
while his wife told the chief they had n
Germ or oats or anything with which TO fee
tbe horses. They then demanded some
thing to eat for themselves, which was alz
refused. the people being very poor. Ihre
nj the men then walked up TO tie woma
and fred at her deliberately in the presshe
Of four Of her children killing her instantly