The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-12-25
Nn1eHnoRHoop NEWS.


SENECA OoUNTY.-Mrs. Hawes, an elderly
lady, of Tifiu. sprained an ankle and broke
her leg in two places by falling from her
door step. The Tifiu papers, in comparing
the prices of meat in that place and Fremont,
complain that the TiHin butchers ehasge 6
cents pound more for steak than the FIRE.
mont butchers do, which is the truth. Our
Tifiu neighbors must do their marketing
here-.A correspondent of the Tribune
" does Fort Seneca as follows; Fort
Seneca is about seven miles from the Tifin
City Court House, on the Sandusky river
and what was formerly the Upper Sandusky
and Fremont plank road. thas about enc
hundred and fifty inhabitants. It's business
is comprised in the following; Three dry
goods stores, two blacksmith shops, twOs shoe
shops, one wagon shop, one good aJuring
mill, one cigar store and two doctor offices.
/ Another thing we have which is hardly
worth a name Il is where they make
drunkards indiscriminat4ly of old or young,
and on week days or Sundays. Liquor is
sold to everybody. Recently an old gray
headed man was made drunk there, and
while in that condition fun was made of him
He formerly stood high in community--in
fact he was a Methodist elsss-leRder. Thus
will liquor bring a man down. We also
have two neat churches here, one of which
is possessed of bell and the other an organ,
Both are in a fair spiritual condition, and,
among other important things, have good
Sunday Schools in progress.--0ur schools
are 10 Aourishiog condition. We employ
two teachers and the attendance is large.
LoRAIN oouNTY.--on Tuesday evening
of last week, Mr.. Mattison, merchant of
Oberlin, While on his way home from his
store, was Knocked dOEn hY rObber. He
recovered consciousgess aud voice in time to
save his purse. Thursday forenoon
Mr.. Rsuben Hayhss, proprietor of the
Oberlin steam saw mill, met with severe
accident while saving out lsth on the bolt
ing machine, Apiece Of timber struck b IN
IN the face cutting and bFuisipg it badly.
This is the second accident he has met with
iu his m Il within year.
HErRY CoUSrE.--John Patrick, one of the
pioneers il Northwestern Ohio, ded at
Nadoleon on the 18th Dec. He ssttled in
Henry county in 1926, when there we're not
half dozen white men in the county.
WILLIAMS CoUNTY.--Frem the Bryan Press
we clip the following Nus. whining, re-
siding in Bryan, on Monday, stepped out Of
the bsck door, fell and fractured an arm.
A lad named hando Brown accidentally fell,
while playing With soms boys at school in
jefferson township on Mpaday last, and
broke his leg. The fractured limb was set
By DR.. Long ION Saturday the dead body
of an infant was found under q bridge in
West jefferson. 1t had been dead for some
time--the result of foul play. WHO placed
it where it was found is not known, al
though suspicion strongly POINTS to certain
parties as the guilty ones lin the woods
not far from Bryan. there is a natural curiosi-
ty in the shape of gross. TFO trees grow
ing near together have crossed their limbs at
right angles and the limb Of the one has
oVergrown aud imbeded itself in the other,
forming knot that eOnnot be united or cut.
The limbs are nov fully twelve inches in
diameter. We understand that on Friday
last party of woOd-choppers while at work
10 the Black Swamp, discovered, stored
away in the butt of large hickory tree. an
old eartbeu jar. On examination it proved
to contain number of English aud Spanish
coins, of dates ranging from 1897 to 1902.
There vas nothing found with the Coins to
indicate how they came, or by whom they
were placed where they were found. The
jar was such one as is frequently unearthed
10 Indian moupdS, and crumbled to pieces
at the slightest touch. How the CONS came
there is nut for the wise ones to crack.
Those who found them are Of the opinion
that not less than one hundred years have
passed since the jar was placed in the butt of
the tree.
HIGHLAND COuNrr.--Tbe Maps6eld skat-
ing rink was opened on the 10th inst, with
great success. -. The grocery stores of s. O.
HickOx and Rhodes & Fair, Mansfield, we're
burned on the IItb, and the auction store Of
z. Kincade adjoining, was partially destroy
ed. The total loss to all parties was about
S6 900. Insurance about $1,000, The fire.
men had disgraceful fight at the FIRE, in
which several we're hurt--Herald
HANCOCK CoUNrY.-The vote of Hancock
county at the late Senatorial election was
I96l-939 Republican, 1881 Democratic. =.
Shippers of poultry 10 Findlay have been;
doing a thriving business. One firm took in
over $4,000 worth in three days during the
late cold snap.
HtRnS CouNTY.-Ths Huron County
Musical Association will hold its senli-annual
at Plymouth, O., commencing
ou Friday, Dec, 20, aud ending with grand
concert on New Yeas evening The con-
veution will be under the direction of Prof
B. F. Baker, Of Boston.