The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-02-26

James johnson, Of Allegheny city, Peuna.,
claims to be the original inventor of the
Elershauser process for making iron. His
claims will be heard by the commissioner of
patents, in May next.
Mrs. Loren Hampden, of ROckPort, near
Cleveland, was bitten on the hand, on the
18th inst, by dog believed to be mad.
She Immediately had the wound cauterized,
but breads the result.
1t is argued that we need great many
more lighthouses along our coast. During
the past eleven years 4, $50 American ves-
sells have been wrecked, involving loss of
over 100000, ,O9O.
B. F. Blymyer, a prominent citizen of
Mansfield, Ohio, and member of the firm
of Blymyer, Day d Co, manufacturers of
agricultural machinery, died suddenly, Sun
day morning, of apOplexy.
Jonathan Burr, of Chicago, recently de-
ceased, left will disposing of property to a
large amount. 100000 of it was for charit-
able purposes, The will cannot be found,
and relatives suspected of getting it out of
the way.
Rents are rapidly coming down in Day
ton. Stores that used to rent for 81, 500 are
now offered for S2,25O. There must be
corresponding reduction everywhere. The
prices of real estate must also necessarily re-
cede.
The Toledo Commercial is glad to learn
that Gen, John G. Lee, Lieut.. Governor of
Ohio, has completed his arrangements for
removing from TIfiin to Toledo, where he
will associate with himself James NJ. Brown,
Esq, of Lima
While protesting peace Louis Napoleon
has quietly filed every town in France with
arms and munition of war. His people are
anxious to know what it means. The seething
oaldron will one day overflow, and involve
the world in war.
The murder of Conductor Corwin is caus-
ing more than an ordinary effort to discover
the perpetrator Of the deed 81, 600 is now
offered as a reward for the arrest of the MUIR
derer Rumor now makes case of family
difficulty the cause of the murder.
John W. Coleman is under arrest in Bos-
ton, charged with abscOndiOg from Baton
Rouge, La, with funds belonging to the
Freedman's Bureau, with which he was
formerly connected at that place, He denies
his guilt, but the proof is said TO be strong
against him.
Tie woman suffrage proposition has met
with another defeat in Kansas, but defeat
which like others it has experienced, only
demonstrates its growing strength. The
Kansas Senate voted down the equal suffrage
proposition by only three majority. Next
time it will succeed.
A farmer, recently PlOwing near New
Market East Tennessee, was greatly aston
ished to see his horses sink into a cavity
eighteen feet deep, "skinning off, their har-
ness, and leaving the plow behind. Both the
animals were suffocated. This sudden occur
renee was the first indication that the earth
below was caYernous.
AT St. Louis, on the 18th, four parties en-
gagged in painting the East wall Of the Central
Police station, fell from scaffold suspended
from the roof. Two of them caught on a
balcony, and were but little hurt. The other
two, named Reener and Heffeman, fell to the
pavement, distance of sixty-fve feet and
we're instantly killed.
A gentleman at 81. Joseph was awakened
the other night by his wife, who thought
she heard some one snoring. Upon investi-
cation he discovered negro under the bed.
Hitting him gently with missile, the snOr-
ing rascal awOke, and desperate fight en-
sued in the darkness at length the burglar
sprang through a window and escaped.
On the evening of the 10th, as the 1850
express train, on the Lake Shore Road, was
going into Wckliffe the engine struck a
brakeman of way freight train, who at the
moment was crossing the track. The un-
fortunate man was struck on the forehead
and so seriously injured that he died while
being taken to his home in Geneva. The
deceased was single man. His name was
George Mitehellton.
The steamer Glendale, from Cincinnati for
st. Louis, caught FIRE, in her pilot house,
when near Evansville, Indiana, on the 18th
inst. She was full freighted and crowded
with passengers, but by the excellent man
agement of her officers was run ashore, the
passengers disembarked, the fire got under
control, after burning the pilot house and the
texas. The pilot stood at his post with re-
markable heroism, until the boat was run
ashore, although he was somewhat burned
by so doing,
4 FRENCH Provincial paper, LTndepeu-
dent, says there is nov in Paris a FRENCH.
man, just returned from Mexico, who asserts
that the Emperor Macmillan is not dead.
According to his statement, when the unfor.
tunate monarch was shot he was carried tc
convent to be buried One Of the monk:
found that he was still alive, and dressed
bis wounds, applied air-pumps to his lungs
and galyanie battery to his neryous system
The Emperor was restored 10 consciousness
and the body of a soldier put in his place
This Frenchman gives the name of the vii
lage where Maximilian is now concealed, anC
shows letter Of credit recently written By
MaximiIian.
The House Committee on the Census hac
protracled session on Friday last, and dis
cussed the whole project. They are in favO
Of taking the census by a new method, an,
not through the United States Msrshals, a
heretofore. A general bill is being matured
1t is proposed to increase the number Q
members Of the House TO three hundred, 70
the reason that If no increase is mad", Ne'
, York will lose five members, Massachusett
two; Maine, Vermont New Hampshire an
Rhode Island, one each. The Wester
\ States will nearly all gain at the next emu
Q mera;ion. The Committee will decide o.
f the question Of the increase Of the numbe
' of members, and the mode oftaking the cen
lsuS.