The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-01-01
NEWS ITEMS.


Is I Wenty millions Of redeemed Govern
rneutnotes were burned at the Treasury De-
psrtment on Thursday. ~ .g1il
/ E0The' artesisn well at 81. L1ais is $500
festadesP and, still the boring is kept up,
prrather down, at tn rate of three feet rer
sdfem.HoT ief 8H Fia9 f
e. Au. effort win be made in Congress early
next mouth, to reduce the pay Of Brigadier
and Major Generals in the regular army.
Right. diH ,sl7alo e 142 3ys'
j. O. Di@nick Of orweR, Ashtabula
county, BOtehered a hog seven months nd
ten days Old, few days ago, that weighed,
when dressed, 36Opo1n ds. 3'i7s
The cattle disease has broken out in Gen.
trsl Massachusetts,, Several cattle belonging
to farmers in West Springfield, died
sudd e0ly last week
The large marsh, at 4he mouth Of TOu-
saint creek, has been on fife and a large
amount Of property, eSDprising hay, fences,
timber &c destroyed. '21
LalhroP, Ludingtoh d o., of No. 326
Broadway, heavy dry goods and wholesale
dealers, failed on the morning of the 9th.
Their liabilities are set down al S4.OO0O00.
r The Auditor Of State of Indiana has
issued ciucular directing the real estate
sppraisement, which was made on gold
basis FIVE years age, to be made the coming
year on q greenback basis
Reports from the Par West state that the
Union Pacific Company propose extending
their road straight on TO San Francisco, and
have abandoned all thought Of jCpcliOn
with the Central Pacific,
A hre broke ONT at Am6erstburg, vt.
December 2Sd, in the South ward of the
Luhstio Asylum. One woman was sufFo-
Gated and two others batlIy burued, The
bhildiug was saved with difficulty.
There was FIRE at Decorah lows, Decem-
Der q, on Water street, burniDg two grocer
les, two saloons, one shoe store, one tailor.
ing establishment one harness shop, one
dwelling house and barber shop. Loss,
about $50, 1000, partially insured,
: An old man named B rown who has been
peddling apples on the ferry boats at St.
Louis many years past, received intelligence
on Thursday, through Archbishop Kennick
of a fortune having been left him by a de-
ceased friend in Ire land, amounting to
eSOOO0.
General Grant, instead Of taking the word
of those Arkansas rebels who complain so
loudly of the outrsges committed BY the
Coiored State militia, has sent member Of
his staif to lake syidence on the spot ard
report On this report General Grant will
The following eollcquy was overheard By
a. lady who lives opposite, in Napoleon,
Henry county, Ohio last week; Signing
lover, before the kitchen window--s It
lonely ye are there without me? A voice
within rtplies-Eot at al, Henry: WJRie's
been here for an hour. --5.--<
a The new bridge spanpipg the Mississippi
T;yer, between punleitb aud Dubuque was
completed on TUESDAY the y uIt. Its en-
tire Length isl,76O fset, consisting rOf four
spaus of 225 feet each, two of $50 feet each;
and the draw, $50 feet long. The entire
bridge is eoppOssd of iron and masonry,
and cost with the approaches, 100000.
A dOEn-east inventor has origina ted
new idea in washing clothes. A fslse bot
tom ,Ofiiu. preforated, is placed in com
mon boiler Beneath it are placed soap
and Watsr above it the clolhes to be
cIeansed. From either end of this bottom
rises acarved tiue tube SO sh,ped that the
streams Of Nasef fcon:fig- through them
pour into the middle ef the boiler. This
being plased upon stove. the heat produ-
css expansion Of the water at the bottom,
which pOurs up through the tubes and falls
on the clothes The suction from below
draws me water downward tbror eh the
goods making eonstant circuit Of boiling
subs drawn through tbs meshrs Of the fs.- |
ric TO be washed. All that is necessary to
DO done sftsr this is to remove the goods, I
when they are clean. The machine runs
itself
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