The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-07-03
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Gold is said 10 have been discovered in
De Kalb county, Missouri.
A State Firemen's Convention will meet
in Columbus, August 18th.
Watermelons are selling in Louisville at
one dollar to one dollar and twenty five cents
each. a. s1f
General Sherman has adopted the son of
the late Kit Carson, and will provide for his
education at Notre Dame University, in In
diana.
The Mayor of Pittsburg has issued pro-
clamation prohibiting the fire. cracker nuis-
ance on the Fourth. i-
Alexander H. Stephens and Herschel v.
johnson, of Georgia, are urged to be pres
ent at the meeting of the National Demo-
cratic Convention.
JEFF. Davis fell and hurt himself, on Satur-
day, at d hotel in LennOxville, Canada. He
was going down stairs with a child in his
arms, at the time. .F i.sa
General Mcdowell telegrspbs to the War
Department that the result in Mississippi is
not positively known, as not half the pre-
cincts are heard from 1880 g
The young lady at KeOkuk, Iowa, to whom
it is reported that Mr.. Colfax is to be mar
ried, is Miss Perry, daughter ofs prominent
and wealthy citizen.
The President has pardoned another coun-
terfeiter who was convicted four months
ago, and sentenced TO five thousand dollars
fine and fifteen years Imprisonment.
Virginia farmers are Just beginning to har-
vest the wheat crop. Papers from all Sec
tiOns of the State say 1t is the best crop made
since the end of the war. Corn is reported
very backward. a.. .,.s
| A squad of Rebel Ku Kluxes went to the
house of an ex-soldier of the Union army,
named Nathan Dawson, in Woodburn, Simp-
son county, Kentucky, a few nights ago,
called him out and shot him. They also in
ficted dangerous wounds upon his wife,
Reports of the Associated Press that Mis-
sissippi has gone Democratic are nOtcredited
at the War Office or Army Headquarters It
is net yet possible to tell what will be the
result. ..s-. .i.s.f
The poor grasshoppers are the recipients
Of many an editorial puff in the Iowa papers
just now. All sorts of deviltry is laid to
them. The latest is that a citizen Of Des
Moines went in swimming the other day,
and found on eOmming out that the grasshop-
pers had carried away his clothing. He
made his way home in cool costume.
The latest gossip from New York takes
this shape: '.After a complimentary vote
to Pendleton, the Hon. Horatio Seymour
will beehosen by handsome majority as the
candidate for the Presidency. Il is stated
that his recent speech was evoked with this
view. The New York delegation are ali
present, and unanimously in favor of Sew
mour's nomination" arI .l1f2 s'1
A GAINESVILLE paper describes moDs1ositY
70 which woman give birth in that neighbor-
hood lately. The body of the child is pa' ?
urslly formed and pefect in all respects; but
the head :: instead of mouth, has well
formed trunk, like an elephants proboscis,
through which is received all the nourish-
ment that the child partakes. The young
ster is said to be as intelligent as children cf
its age generally are, and enjoys coed health.
The troops viii not be Withdrawn from
Arkansas or any other restored State at
present, but will, as in Tennessee, aid the
civil authorities when called on by the Gov
ernor, 1t is the hope of Gen. Grant that
the people themselves will take such course
as will justify very little interference by
the military. No orders have been issued
to commanders of other States, and none will
be given till the representatives are received
This being about the season when farmers
are pocketiDg the cash for their wool, there
are reports of very extensive combinations of
thieves, who are organizing for raids through
the woolgrowing districts, expecting to plum
der the farmers houses. H3
Valentine Steiler and his wife, while nd :
ing to New Albany, Indiana, to attend mar
ket, on Tuesday morning, fell asleep, aud
their blind horse fell over precipice Of sixty
or eighty feet taking with him the wagon
and its sleeping freight. The man and
woman both received terrible injuries, their
recovery from which is doubtful.
The denomination Of Gen. Garfield by
acclamation, indicates that the reports Of
dissffection in Trumhull and MahoniDg
counties were illusory If General Garfield
continues true to himself he has useful
future before him.
Reve;dy johnson sails on the first of
August to Liverpool, and it is understood
that upon the same ship will go Hon. Samuel
Shellabarger, of Ohio, whose health requires
tender care and banishment from legislative
excitement.