The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-09-17
THE JOURNAL.


-e SHoe ne review IS ldcOnil
sertentous, very brief, all contained in on
Word-nsy, the injury consists inI the us
Of kngle letter-ths injection Of a cspits
letter into enc of ny words. aBehold how
great q matter little fire kindleth." !" II hsv
somewhat against thee.'' s'Deep are III
wounds Of a friend" "a good name is "a
thet % be cSlaOsen than great riches" Eoy
could you do me this great hurt, with thes
proverbs before your eyes2 Have YOU eve
heard of putting q club into your enemy
hands to beat out your own brainsr Tha
is what have done. But 1 did not know
you were my enemy. Here is where tn
pain is.
After all, you may be innocent. Tn,
thought has just struck me. It did no
knock me down, but it was sumner. Yes
you may be as guiltless as a dove. Hov
good am that did not say any hard thing
against yOu-did not call you names-threv
no sand in your eyes, nor any mud sgains
your white pants. That were boyish, ye
how many men are children in this respect
But how true it is that "a soft answer turn,
eth away wrath" Still, this does not hee
the wound; and this leads me back. Some
one has injured my reputation-Who is it
Ali another thought 6ccurs, or rather re.
Election, Editors, even pious ones, have
dealings with his Satanic majesty. Religious
piIpers, the Bible even, owe him their very
existence. Startling, is it not? my readers
find many startling things in what 1 write
original thought contains numerous start
ling points. Do you doubt what 1 have
lst said about religious publications? How
are they issued if not printsd9 How printed
without inkf and who applies the ink7 Mr..
Editor, l believe you are your own printer,
You have a d-d-devil' You see it makes
ne stammer to speak the word. Ugbl it
makes the cold chills run over me. Cold
chills2 do you ask. Yes-no-I mean cbills-
cbills are never anything else than cold.
Warm chillsl droll expression, is it notH
much like 'fhot fever" "hard ice, )" ''bright
lightning" and other such phrases. The
fact is our language is so rich we are given
to piling on the expletives. But am wan
dsring. / said Mr. Editor, that you are pos
sessed-tbat is, you have an evil spirit-I
do not mean that neither, for then the SER
vices of an exOrcist were needed. But you
have devil. And, now, 1 wish to ask
because the degree of my injury depends
upon the snsWe--Of what sex is yours
his or her iuky msjesty3 If a lady has done
the hurt, it were the unkindest cut of all.
But 1 cannot retaliate, for what gentlemen
lays violent hands upoa lady7
1 said a single letter wrought theevil. It
is powerful letter. Sometimes it flames
Like the sword that guarded Eden. 1t is the
letter g. You may not know its significance,
but some Of your readers do. Now look at
my signature in the last article, in your No.
Of Aug. 9th, and you win say it is no
wonder feel griTed. F-O-G-G-Y, FOG
Cyl Am 1 not wonderfully cool in view of
such wrOngi Many man would have ragged
like young hurricane in a teapot am
used to being called a Fogy. which is my
name. Indeed, considering the abomina-
tiOns of these fast times 1 am proud of the
HppellatiOn. A fogy is in politics, or busi-
ness or society, or education, or even in re-
ligiOn, much like the anchor or ballast of a
vessel. A Radical resembles an angry boy
turning grind-stOne. As the urchin would
give such centrifugal force to the revolving
implement as to burst it into a thousand
million fragments, so our modern go-aheads
would drive the ship-of-state and al the rest
Of the feet, all sails set, before a tempest,
full upon the destructive breakers. And
the passengers, not dreaming of the danger,
are wild with exultation. So long as the
craft rides the waves all is well. They praise
the wind and the bellying sails and the
sharp eutKEter, and deride the anchor and
the rudder bat when the foamy waters re-
veal the dreaded reefs all eyes are taken
from the radical canvas and turned in mute
entreaty 10 the iOgy rudder and anchor.
"Furl the sails3 Helm hard q portI" and if
the course cannot be changed, "oast anchorI"
shouts the skipper, and how many tear
full eyes beam with thankful Joy if the ship
Obeys or does not drag her anchorl
But verify, what a. conservative enlOgy
from fall-BlOOded Republican. And yet
would not unsay a word. TIE truth is
there is great difference between fogy and
a traitor: conservatives hold steady course,
but they do not necessarily make the ship
water-logged and leave her to founder at
sea.
Again 1 am wandering. Now, Mr.. Editor,
did any of you change my name on Pur-
,-asef You see it is a serious thing to have
ones composition called fOggy-that is,
cloudy, muddy, smoky, hazy, misty or in
any other way iDdistinct, indefinite, ambig-
uous or of doubtful meaning. But 1 must
leave so painful q subject with this briei
notice and turn my way hOmeward.
Five years ago, statistics say, Fremont
had Courthouse aud jail, churches, 4
pewspaper-Ofices, 2 banks, an iron foundry,
q woolen-milI, 2 sash-snd-blind factories, 9
steam Touring mills and 2 hotels, besides a
covered bridge over the river. The num-
ber of other places of business, such as
stores aud groceries, is not stated. In 1850
the population was l, ,725; in 1860, $500, in
1865, 5000, and il Is7O=well, the next
census wiliteII. Quite handsome increase
Just how much these various places of labor
and trade have increased cannot say, but
among the more marked Improvements !
take pleasure in alluding to the, partly I'm.
ished new Presbyterian church, of which
the Fremonters may well feel proud. Spa,
c;ous. convenient, comfortable and beautiful
it is in strong contrast to the old, mouldy
cramped, c.cheerless, ungainly, building
which though once deemed a master piec
of art, long since ceased to confer honor up
on the young city.
Speaking Of hotels, reminds me that the
sometimes have bus-drivers. One Of thos
inJFremont has and he ought to have an hon
orable discharge. he is better fitted for an
other position; at least be is not the man t
drive hotel hack. Ispeak from experiences
for after getting his promise to call for III
myself and my better half had to walk to tn
depot; and we arrived just in time to see th
fast receding passenger train picking up
cloud of dust in its rear. We had to take
freight-trsin, and the difference in speed, j
comfort and time Of reaching home made U
wish that bus-driver in Guinea or some othe
foreign land.