The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-03-26
NEWS ITEMS.


DIR. DOugherty, Mechanicsburg, Penn,
claims to own pure, first quality diamond
weighing 45O carats, found in lower Vir-
ginia nearly century ago by an old gentle
man, who gave it to his children for toy.
The largest real diamond known, weighs
only S67 carais. -
The case ofKauffman, the German barber,
charged with killing a boy named Eddie
Miller by shooting him with revolver
while in a rage, for looking into bis shop,
,aad which caused considerable excitement
at the time, ives put on trial at Pittsburg on
Monday.
Three hundred and thirty three emigrants.
passed through Columbus, Ohio, last week.
0fthis number 80 propose 60 settle in Iii
nois, So in Missouri, IS inWiscOusin, 70 in
Indiana, 50 in Ohio, q in Minnesota, II in
Kentucky and in Iowa.
The Herald, in alludiDg to the eighth see
tion of the Treasury act of 1889, puts this
query: If Jay Cooke we're placed on the
witness stand and asked on oath what interest
the Hon. Hugh McOulloch had, while Secre-
tsry Of the Treasury, in Government secuti.
ties in his house, what would be the answer
of Jay Cooker" ,ra
The death Of Hon. James Guthrie, late
United States SenatOr from Kentucky, took
place at Louisville on Saturday. He was
President Pierce's Secretary, of the Treas.
ury, and was subsequently, for many years,
conspicuous and well known in financial and
commercial circles for bis eminent ability ne
President of the Louisville 4 Nashville
Railroad Company. r-t
A book has been published iu Savannah,
Ga, entitled the Great Earthquake BY
which the Destruction of Savannah and the
Surrounding Country, Within Radius of
Fifty Miles is to be Accomplished. The
date of this dreadful mishap is fixed on the
7th of. June aexE The contents of this
book are invisible until exposed to a very
strong heat, when they will Immediately
appear in red or brown characters.
A Boston man named Professor johnson
claims TO have invented portable heating
apparatus by which, without evaporation,
loss of water or possibility of explosion,
pint of water and heat enough 10 boil it will
warm good sized room. 1t is made of
common sheet-irOn, with wire heater, and,
in addition to It's merits as heater, it is
claimed to be one Of the best ysntilatOrs
ever devised. This apparatus is said TO be
rapidly coming into use in Boston. Il
The SteubenFille Herald says that year
ago Patrick Kenney deposited eight hun
dred dollars between two stones in the four-
dation Of his house, on Water street. After
a lapse Of a few days, needing some of the
''stamps, he repaired to his concealed
treasure and found il missing. no clue 10
the missing money could be found. On
Thursday mason of that city, while ezca-
vatiDg the foundation Of the chimney Of Mr..
Kinney's house, came across rats nest com,
posed entirely Of the eight hundred dollar.
The currency, being very much mutilsted,
can not be presented as legal tender.
As an evidence of the change which few
years make in the fortunes of individuals, the
ST. Louis papers recently pablished the ap-
PlioatiOn of Captain U. S. Grant, dated
August Is, SO, 10 the Court of County Com
missiOners, fora position as county engineer.
The application closes as follows: Should
your honorable body see proper to give me
the appointment, pledge myself to give the
Office my entire attention, and shall hope to
give general satisfaction" His petition IVES
signed by the following citizens: Taylor
Blow, L. A. Benaist, G. W. Ford, John How,
Judge Monday, W. S. Hillyer, Colonel
Reinck, George W Fisbback, John F. Darby,
and fifty others, nearly all Democrats. The
application was rejected. And now. after
lipse Of only ten years, this rejected sppli-
can't occupies the highest position in the gift
Of the greatest nation on earth. /