The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-09-03
NEWS ITEMS.

Judge Mcdonald, of the U. s. District
Court, died at his residence in Indianapolis
on the morning of the 25th.
| The frst ball of cotton from this years
Southern crops was sold at auction, on the
the 2Sth in New York, at 40 cents per pound.
Nasby has two new lectures for the COM
ing sessOn-Oue nOn-pOlitical. AssOcia-
tons may make application to E. R. An
drews, Rochester, N, Y.
A prominent Democratic member of the
last State Senate comedies the State of Ohio
to the Republican party by ten to twelve
thousand majority this fall.
1t appears that it is part of the arrange
ment between the Erie and the consolidated
Buffalo and Chicago line, that the former
shall lay third rail from New York to Buff
falO to constitute a through narrowgauge
from the seabOard.
A Mrs. Ames, Of Mound, 0gle County,
Illinois, poisoned herself and her young
child, on the 22d. Family trouble the
cause. .,e--a l.,,F 80.
A young married woman, who had Just
come into possession of $2s, 900 took her
greenbacks and eloped from st. Josepbs,
No.. on the 22d, With another man. The
husband started in pursuit of the fleeing
greenbacks.
Conrad Meier, the convicted murderer of
the Peddlar, Solomon Feldenheimer, near
Toledo, has made application for new
trial, and complains bitterly against what
ne claims to have been unjust haste in
bringing him to trial.
Another Atlantic Gable is to be laid.
This one will connect Russia with the Unit
ed States and is to be completed within two
years.
The Peoples Convention, in Toledo, on
Saturday last was composed of few sore
headed Republicans, and mass of Demo-
crats. Part of them had quarrel in the St.
Nicholas Saloon, aud some blood was spill
led. a very nice party.
Mr.. Pendleton has not avowed change
of opinion since 1868, and the letter of Cen
eral ROsecrans shows that his opinion remains
unchanged.
1t was reported that the treaty with Chi
ma had been rejected by that country.
Such, however, is not the case. That cOun-
try only defers considering that document
until the return of the Eplbassy which is
now in Europe.
At the recent Social Science meeting at
Salem, Mass, while considering the trichina
que stiou, Prof. Agassis 50 id be .'hoped the
appetite Of the cOmmuu ity would not be
disturbed by this scier .tifc discussion, as
such worms ara present in all meats and
vegetables, and there is no danger if they
be properly cooked. Persons eating raw, or
rare, meats and uncoOked vegetables may
destroy the warns by thoroughly chewing
their victuals.
Alaska may be good for something after
all. From there We can ship ice if winter
fails to secure US a suffieiency; from there
we can obtain much valuable timber. Al
ready the fur trade of that territory is be-
coming important, and now iron has been
discovered in rang g of mountains, and the
hills so abound with the ore that the COM
pass is made to dev late ten degrees in that
region. @
Ths Methodist estimates the total vote
given in the Methodist Episcopal church on
the question of lay, representation at $780,
OOO-with msjOrity of two to one in the
afirmative-out Of a voting membership of
7O6, s4S adults, or little more than one
third of the whole.
3 The Memphis AUaIdnche, which has been
one of the most bitter and negro prosecuting
of all the rebel press, has recovered its rea-
son and thus speaks in its right mind: "a
few malcOntents and mischief-makers are
shouting, "nigger niggerl" For Gods
sD&e and the sake Of decency, let the poor
negro alone. He Is irTsVOca6ly free HsisG
citizen sOitb all the rights Of treemen. He yiE
neOsF be skoTn of his rights. Then aOhy not
let him alone, and recognize the privileges
'Ohich he enjoys and tohiols soiR nsuer be taken
from him. sr
General Haye', in one of his recent cam
paigD speeches, made an excellent point on
Mr.. Pendleton. Reading speech by Mr.,
Pendleton delivered in 1862 in which he
expressed his opposition to the war as con-
Quoted, and declared that his sentiments as
then expressed coincided with his views an
nOuncsd in 1861, Governor Hayes then read
the letter of ROsecrans of few days later,
in which be denounced the utterers of such
sentiments as traitors, ''Traitor." said
Governor Hayes, sis q hard word, but it is
not mine. am but repeating what one
chosen leader of the Ohio Democracy says of
the other !" +.