The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-06-25
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Minnie Warren and Commodore Mutt are
married Nature having made them for
each other they have finally concluded 10
let Nature have It's way.
1t is estiEoated that the wheat crop of Mis-
souri, this season will amount to 15,OO0OOO
bushels, being three times larger than the
yield of any previous year. S'A
Returns from the vote of the Methodist
Episcopal church show very large vote for
lay delegation, aud there is very little doubt
that it will be carried by a very heavy ma
jOrity.
The monument at the National Cemetery
at Gettesburg will be dedicated on the first
of July. All soldiers who were in the battle
are invited to participate in the ceremonies.
Senator Morton will deliver the Grafton,
Bsyard Taylor the poem, and Henry Ward
Beecher offer the prayer.
a. D. Mitchell passed through Norwich,
Conn, few days ago, who had Travelled
eleven thousand miles in thirty seven days.
He was only six days and twenty one hours
from San Francisco, twenty six. days from
Japan, and thirty-seven from Hong Kong.
Glover plowed in has three effects; it gives
vegetable mold The roots bring to the soil
plant food out Of the subsoiI; and the acid
produced when the decay is going on, aids
in desOlviDg the mineral parts of the soil. In
granite lands this last is of as much impOr-
lance as either of the others.
a partial indication of the unpopularity of
the imperial government in France is found
in the fact that of nearly s.OO0 900 votes cast
in the recent elections but 4.O53,056 were
given to the government, while 3, ,248,Ss5, or
nearly hall, were cast for the opposition can
didates.
The Congressional election in the Third
Illinois Congressional district, to I'LL the
vacancy caused by Mr.. Washburne's re-
signation, took place last week, and has re-
suited in the election of Mr.. Burchard, the
Republican candidate, by very large ma
jority, on a very light vote.
The British bark Mary A. Troop, Captain
Cain, from Androssau for New York, was
run down and sunk by the steamship Penn
sylvania two hundred miles east of Sandy
Hook on the morning of the 18Th inst. The
mate and three of the crew were saved. The
captain and remainder of the crew are re-
ported lost.
The certificate of the Atlantic aud Lake
Erie Railroad Company, organized for the
purpose constructing Railroad from POwe-
roy, through the counties of Meigs, Athens,
Perry, Licking, Knox, Delaware, Marion,
Wysndot, Seneca, Sandusky, Wood and
Lucas with $4,000, 600 capital, was filed
with the Secretary of State on Saturday.
A farmer who has had large experience in
feeding cabbage aud turnips to COWS, says
his practice is to feed Immediately after
milIing-never beforehand he has never
been troubled with the milk being favored.
He also says he feeds turnips whole, with the
tops on, as there is no danger from choking
when fed il this way.
Reports from Cuba, received in Washing
ton on Saturday night, state that there have
been several skirmishes between the Spanish
forces under General Lesca and the Cuban
forces, which resulted in General Lesca
being compelled to fall back on Trinidad,
where it is said be will await reinforcements
The Cubaus were preparing to follow up
their success and attack the Spanish forces
Secretary Boutwell, has reduced the num-
Der of United States DepOsitories one hun
dred and thirty-eight. The reductions are
in the following States: Massachusetts,
twelve; Pennsylvania, twenty -four; Ohio,
twenty-si1; Kentucky, one; Iowa, two;
Illinois, four; Michigan, two; Wisconsin,
four; Indiana, nine; Connecticut, seven;
New York, twenty-thres; Maine, five; Yer
mont, six; Tennessee, two; West Virginia,
two; New Jersey, four; New Hampshire,
four; Rhode Island. one.
In drunken spree at Youngstown, Ohio
June I7th, Welchman, named David Will
liams, was stabbed iu the breast by his
brother, and died from the effects the next
morning.
The Spiritualists of Indiana held Con-
ventiOn last week. According to the reports
the spirits in that State are active and pro-
gressive to a wonderful degree. Mr. Hook
gave an account of the articulating spirits
in Terre Haute. Mr.. Church, the great
medium there, had got them to appear and
talk to mOrtals. They conversed in loud
voice often, and he had seen these spirits,
and heard them talk, as also had several
others present.
Capt. John Bradford, noted Tennessee
guerrilla, wss few days since taken from
the Sheriff of Henderson, county, by party
of armed men, carried to the woods, and shot.
The Sheriff was conveying him to Jail, on a
charge of counterfeiting and murder, and
when within short distance of the jail
party rushed upOn him spd secured the
prisoner, whose body was found next morn
ing riddled with bullets.
Governor Hoaman's snepoLism" is eKcit7
ing some comment in New York. He has
secured for his father.iu-law two places, out
of which, it is believed, he will make about
$40O 600. He is collector of assessments and
receiver iu the Church street extension, and
holds the same position in the Broadway
widening job. Governor Hoffman thinks
that General Grant does very wrong to ap-
point bis cousin to office.
The largest room in the world is not the
Boston Coliseum, but is to be found in Luck
now, India. The great Imambsrra was
built by one Of the kings of Dude as citidel,
and one OF the rooms gas set apart for the
most solemn ceremonies of the Moslem wor-
ship The architects we're repaired, in
presenting proposals for this building, 10
stipulate that it should be no copy of any
other work, and that it should surpass every
other building in the world in beauty and
magnifcenee.
DR.. James Rush, who died in Philadelphia
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