The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-12-11
NEWS ITEMS


lstufe last winter has been received and
gone into use.
A brakeman on the A. & G. w. Rail
road was killed on Sunday morning.
He was standing up on freight train
when bridge struck his head killing
him instantly.
The case of James NJ. Brown, charged
with the robbery of the Treasury of
'Goshocton county, came on for trial be-
fore the Common Pleas Court Of Lick
ing county, this week, and was pOstpon-
ed until January next
g. w. Alexander, assessor Of inter
nal revenue for the Reading District of
Pennsylvania, has just been con
victed of aiding TO remove whiskey SO
as to defraud the government, whose
interests he had solemDly sworn to pro-
tect
The impeachers of the Governor Of
Florida have lost their case. The Lieu
tenant Governor and his supporters
having left no stone uuturned to carry
the impeachment can now do nothing
more creditable to themselves than stay
beaten.
The track of the Central Pacific Rail
road has reached the South Fork of the
Humbold river, four hundred and fifty
miles East of Sacramento, within two
hundred miles of Salt Lake, and is pro-
crossing at the rate of two and half to
three miles day.
The County Treasurer's office in Can
field, broken open two weeks ago, did
not sustain as much damage as was
feared, the thieves being unable to open
che inner door of the SAFE About
$4,000 belonging to the county and
private individuals was deposited in the
qafe, and escaped unharmed. 5os.
A despatch from Washington says
that Senator POmeroy has bill ready
to present at the opening of Congress
proposing an amendment to the Consti-
:
tuition, which gives suffrage to all citi-
zens of both sexes, leaving it to the
States to fix the age when the exercise
ofthe right of suffrage shall commence.
The Lancaster Eagle says that boy
living in Rome, Ohio, recently picked
up a glittering stone from the gravelin
the town. A Cincinnati firm offered
him &475 for it, but not satisfied, he
took it to another establishment who
said II was either a ruby or a diamond,
and probably worth $1,000.
The Indians in Humbold county,
California, have been committing de-
predations upon the settlers for some
time past An expedition organized to
punish them surprised their camp. Six
Indians were killed and a quantity Of
arms captured. One white man was
killed during the fight The settlers
intend using vigorous measures until il
is beyond the power of the Indians tc
further modest them. l04-
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad
has at last effected the actual consolida
ton With it Of its two main Western
connecting rOutes. The Pittsburg, For
Wayne and Chicago, and the Pitts
burgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Roads
thus become practically a part of tht
Pennsylvania Central, and over one
thousand miles of railway, streaching
from the seabOard to the great cities o
the Mississippi Valley.
By a strange fatality Navarro starl
county, was the scene of another acci
dent on Saturday last by which
young man by the name of AndreV
! Richheimer was almost instantly killed
With two or three other workmen b,
was engaged in taking down the fran,
Of an old paper mill, when a portioi
giving way they were precipitated t,
the ground, heavy timber striking snc
falling upon young R., iDhicting ipjurie
from which be survived only twent,
minutes. The other parties were bu
slightly injured.
"HarpeTs Weekly and "Frank Les
lies" have this week lively cartoon
showing up the heartless barbarism G
the little State of Delaware, in perpe
tratiDg the horrors Of the pillOry an,
the whipping post The scene is fror
life. A crowd of men, boys and schoc
girls are gathered in front of the pillor
where young wretch endures its hol
nd agony for an hour. Underneath
poor old man of seventy years Of ag
undergoing the torture of the lash I
the whipping post for stealing shirt.
We have the end of the JEFF Davi
Trial for treasons foreshadowed.
novel plea is made up by his cOuns,
> out of the recently adopted XIVt
4 Amendment to the Constitution, to th
. effect that disfranehisement was th
, constitutional penalty imposed for trei
son, and that those charged with
could be liable to no other penalti,
than those the Constitution itself pre-
cribed. On the motion to quash tt
: indictment pending the Circuit Cou
= dipides-Chief Justice Chase for quasi
ing the indictment and Judge Unde