The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-01-08
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The city limits of Warren, Trumbull
county have been extended. ri
The Cretan insurgents have at last
submitted to the Turkish authority, and
provisional government has been es-
lablished. 800 h
All intelligence from Missouri is to
the effect. that Hon. Carl Schurz is sure
Of election 10 the United States Senate
from Missouri. @ -"
The State Board of Agriculture met,
in Columbus, on the 4th lust The
election to fill yacances ia the board Of
directors took place on the 9th. ra
A sleighing party at jackson, Pa,
while driving across a pond On the oath
uEt, broke through the ice, and report
says 50 persons were drowned.s olnl
A Cleveland sharper, the other day,
gave German emigraut 500 coun-
terEeit bill for his meerschaum pipe,
receiving in exchange $50 good money.
A Society Of the Army Of the Poto-
mac, similar TO those ofthe Western ar
miss, is about to be formed. & call
will soon be issued for a meeting on the
2zd Of February. 5 -iisda fs.
A man named William Ashbach,
murdered bic wife with a hatchet in
Cincinnati, on the SOth uIt., aud then
blew, bis brains outwith an Enfield rifle.
Cause, Jealousy.
JM.& A. J. Franks, Of Omaha,
have failed. Liabilities from $50, 900
to 100000. They were in the clothing
trade. Part of their liabilities are Gov
cred by mortgages on read estate.
By fire in Toledo, on the 9Th inst,
the butcher shop aud residence Of Mr..
f. Smith we're destroyed, and the Star
Saloon adjoining badly damaged, Loss
mainly covered by insurance. He
The editor Of the State Journal in a
recent number of that paper, becomes
exststic over the juicy freshness Of a
''qusrter" of an antelope, received from
Col. Carringtou, of Fort Sedgswick
Colorado.
The livery stables Of Briggs Brothers,
the largest in New York, we're destroy
ed by fire, on the night of the sOth ult
One hundred and fifty horses were
burned to death OF sufTocated. Twenty
carriages and a large quantity of harness
we're also destroyed. Loss estimated
at 100000. % 1c4
Lew Davis the murderer Of Davis P.
Skinner, while on a burglarious foTey,
near Cleveland, some upnths since,
having been convicted was on the SOth
uIt, sentenced by Judge Prentiss, to be
hanged on the 18th day Of February,
next The prisoner manifested no emo.
ton when the sentence Of death wa'
pronounced against him. l.oa .a
Among our exchanges there is none
we open with greater pleasure than; tbr
yS,oie JomRaL. We have one decided
objection TO il, however,-it does no
reach US until evening of the hert day
after it is PubHshed--all owing to Uncle
SsDuers mail arrangements, we sup
pose. 1oH Do
Sumner is preparing d speech OF
finance, in answer to Norton's. Sum
uer ifsvors speedy resumption Of sPeci,
payments, adopting inithis respect th'
views of Horace Greeley. Soon afte
the recess he will endeavor to call N
his bill for the resumption Of specie pay
ments on the 4th of July next whicl
he introduced on the FIRST. .dsy,of th.
session. .A br re'asiI
The sleeping car attached to th
night mail traih on the Railroad from
Niagara Falls rsn OH tie track at East
wood, Canada, on Monday night an
rolled down an embankment eightee,
feet The car contained eighteen pei
sons, twelve Of whom are l.saIs- -oV, les
injured, and two Of whom, it is fesre,
fatally. n
The first two days of 1869 withesse
= conference Of distinguished Virgin
politicians in the city Of RiqhmoDd
which may yet produce results most in
portant to that State and the nstiOn 4
large. A preamble and resolution
we're agreed upon which set forth ths
the white people Of Virginia do not be
heve that the negroes, in their unedu
Gated condition, are yet fit for suffrage
vet in view Of the expression OF publ
opinion IN ths recent national election
and in the hope Of restoring harmon
aud union, they are wiling to accept {
universal suffrage, coupled with uuiveF'