The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-09-04
NEWS of tho WEEK.

GENERAL GRANT was sercnsded Saturday
evening. at the residence Of his brother, in
Chicago, by the Tanners Association Of the
city.
The Seth Ohio Infantry win hold re-
union of its surviving members at Marriet-
"a, on the I7th of September,
The number Of deaths in New Yerk wai
increased one hundred last week by eat
iue meat Of diseased cattle lf-1.
LARxrSs G. MEADE, the Vermont scuip.
tor has arrived at Chicago, from Florence
italy, With design for the Lincoln monu'
rsent at Springfield. 8e1 e.aN
Rack PoMERoY made speech before th'
New York Young Mems Democratic Club
the other night, The Herald published i
in full, but the World said nothing about it
A WOMAN and five children we're poison
ed in Springfield, M recently, BY eating
ME baked on a new sheet-irOn pan
Arsenic was supposed to have been used tC
give the pan its gloss. zHaiaq rs.
TIE roof of the Democratic rapeh, IN
course of erection, at Detroie gave way on
the a4th, killing one nRn and severely
vounding six others. The men we're trying
% put upaa flag pole in position. Tbs
event was an omen Of the fall Of DemOe-
racy, and warning fer all to stand
from under. {rr s-fi cr'Es
A GREAT alarm was created in the north
ern part Of Boston, on Saturday, by the
sudden illness of some seventy children,
esased by eating castor. beans, quantity
of which ihey Iound and astoOk for pea
nuts. An are in a fair way TO recover !.
MR. W. Ii. FosrER, living near Cannon
City, in Rice county. Minnesota, raised this
wear on thirty-fiTe acres of new land over
eleven hundred bushels Of wheat being an
average of thirty -four bushels to the acre.
Who can beat i'll
A YOUNG girl named Mary Ann Russell,
VINO was killed on Thursday night by being
run over by train on the Hudson River
Railroad, at Peekskil, proves TO have been
violated by two men, and left on the track
iuseusitIe. The villains are still at large.
JoBS ALLrs who has been extensively
advertised as the "wickedest Man 10 New
York. closed his house on Friday night
and announced that it would be converted
iu,o a Magdalen asylum. He PrOfessed to
have been converted, and declared that he
vogld now work for the reformation Of his
entire nei ighborhOOd.
AWEsErEEN paper says that the great
reach orchards on the east shore q lake
Michigan are loaded with fne fruit which
begins 20 reach the market. The peach
weld this year will be at least double that
Of any previous year. The total quantity
is gariously estimated at between half a
million and million Of baskets.
A COLLISION occurred last Saturday alter
noon between freight and wood traiu, on
,he long bridge over Connecticut river, near
Holyobe. One man was Instantly killed,
one thrown into the river, but afterward
rescued, and four badly Woppded, The
engine and twelve cars we're badly wrecked
but the bridge was little damaged.
On Thursday an immeuse segment Of
E,,eke.t Mountain was detached from near
the top. and rolled down toward ihe Ten
n.ssee with terrific noise. The Louisville
7,.,,,,,,.ot is informed that one solid piece
slo.e must have weighed five hHndred tuns,
I, is thought that some internal forces are
At work disintegra6ng the mountain. The
pepple in the neighbOrbOOd are apPrehen-7
siye o. some impending disaster and are
all focking into ChatanOOga. n ia troa
4 GurrENxE dispatch says that six hun
5rsd sieuk Indians, on The ewar path, crossed
the railroad nesr Fort Sanders, on Friday.
Wood choppers were attacked six miles
from Fort Sanders on that day, and one
Indian was killed. Red Clouds Indians
are moving down in force from the north.
Three men were killed, aud two hundred
head of stock run off on the Big
Thompson, on the 27lh. An Indian war is
generally ,loked for. Volunteers are 70 be
raised at Cheyenne. t 80 se.
TBs Providenoe Press says: Mr. David
Mskepeace Of Norton, Mass, viii be IOl
wears old in the month of September next.
He still does work on his farm, and last
July moved on a wager against a gentleman
Of 81 years Of age, beatibg him about rod
He has voted for every President of the
United States, and intends to vote for Grant
aud .oolfax at the coming election. lie
voted for General Washington at his second
term Of Office, and remembers many incl
dents connected with our war Of indePen-
dence.
TuE steubenville Herald says: This
morning, near the hour Of noon, a little
child of John Slaugherty. a babe of eight
cen months old was playing near the gate,
when a large hog came on the pavement |
s;ezed the little one, aud made off across
the street for the common. The screams Of
the child attracted the neighbors, whose
cries in turn attracted the attention Of Of
acer Love, near by, who ran to the street,
and after much difficulty killed the savage