The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-09-11
NEWS of the WEEK.

a CHILD was iSOCuel5 JUL Ah CluOiHiioei
with but one arm.
OoHETERFET two-dollar bills on the Mu-
tual National Bank of Troy are in circula-
tiOn in New York.
SINCE January first, over four hundred
persons doing business in st. Louis have
filed petitions in bankruptcy.
President PIERCE, who has been very
i'll for some days, was more comfortable at
last accounts.
Tue new Vermont Senate is unanimously
Republican. The House-2l9 Republicans,
Is Democrats. Last year the Republicans
had POS, aud the Democrats %.
The corn crop of Minnesota, the largest
ever grown in the State, is now nearly ready
for harvesting, and will yield from fifty to
sixty bushels per acre.
A GRAND shooting match will come off
during the State fair at Toledo, in which
prizes from $500 to $50, and number of
silver articles, viii be awarded.
A GENTLEMAN who has built fine resi-
dcnce between Springfield and Dayton, has
had the roof fronting the road painted so as
TO resemble the American flag.
HoN. THOMAS J. TURNEE, of Freeport, who
was the last Democratic candidate for Con-
gress against E. B. Washburne, has publicly
avowed his intention to work and vote for
Grant and Colfax.
GOVERNOR HAYES has received a very fine
hfe-size portrait of Ex-Governor Macarthur,
who occupied the gubernatorial chair from
1880 to 1882. This is the fourth Of the
series now being collected by the Governor.
Is Tippah County, Miss, recently, an
eagle caught up little boy eight years old
and flew off with him, but was obliged to
drop him and the boy was killed by the fall.
So the story goes.
GENERAL SHERMAN has returned from his
rip to the Rocky Mountains. He reports
the Union Pacific Railroad finished seven
hundred and ninety miles west of Omaha,
and that It win be completed to Green
river, sixty miles further, by October 1.
OS Wednesday the Democrats of New
York nominated Mayor Hoffman of New
York City, for Governor and Allen Beach
OF jefferson county, for Lieutenant Cover
nor. The ticket is strong one but from
present indications will be beaten about,
twenty thousand.
THE trial of Whelan is progressing al To-
ronto, and the excitement there is fearful.
The loyalists threaten, if justice is not done,
10 take Whelan by force and hang him,
The defense is very despOndent, and the pris-
oucr guarded by an entire regiment Of men.
THE Tennessee Ku Kldx have commenced
operations in new line for the sake of
manufacturing political capital in the North;
they disguise themselves as black men, com
NIT robberies, murders aud rapes, and the
details are published under the head of
negro outrages."
SncRErARY SoHoF1ELD has received dis
patch from Hon. Schuyler COlax from Den
YER City, September 6, in which he states
that the Iudians are committing terrible
ravsges all around that section of the coun-
try, even as near as twenty miles to Denver
City.
The Republican Congressional COnven-
ton for the Second Distsict of Minnesota,
on Thursday, split into two parts. One
faction nominated Iguatius Donnelly for
Congress; the other General L. F. Hubbard.
The division was caused by admitance to
the hall Of the convention being refused to
some Of the Donnelly delegation.
GENERAL N. B. FORREST, the aristOcratic
negro trader of Tennessee, thus speaks of
the Union men of the South 81 am
ashamed to own it that they were nurtured
on this soil. They are too low for me to
speak about, and have no words to express
my contempt for them" The butcher of
Fort Pillow and ex-gang driver Of Shelby
county is becoming fastidious.
IT is stated that powerful and rich COM
peuy has been formed in London, with
Cyrus W. Field as controlling mans to form
continuous line of telegraPhs from Eng
land 10 China, by way of the MEDITERRANEAN,
Egypt and India. This company has pur-
chased the cable line from Malta to Alexan-
dria and are about to relay the cable in
deeper water.
4 GREAT many newspapers are aunoun-
cling that an election has taken place in
California and wondering that the returns
don't come along. In every Presidential
wear. the California state election. which
in other years takes place in Septembsrj is
postponed until the day Of the Presidential
election in November.
DAY after day, the Democratic speakers
and papers assert that in The reconstructed
States the negroes are allowed to vote, while
ube whites are disfranchised. This is lie,
and they well know it. in Tennessee and
Arkansas the leading rebels are, for the pres
emit disfrancbised. In all the others, every
man above the age of 81 years is allowed to
vote. Alexander H. Stevens, the Vice Pres
ident Of the Oonfederacy, is a voter ia
Georgia
The Mayor of Pittsburgh has ordered
The arrest Of every woman found on the
streets alone after o'clock in the evening,