The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-01-08

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The wife Of Mr. Kelley, lising ten
miles south Of Brookfsld, Linn county,
Mo-, few days since, gave birth to
three children, two boys and girl)
weighing respectively 8, u and Z
pounds. The father is doing as well
as could be expected.
a Mich gan farmer was engaged, a
few days since cutting down a straw
stack, when be came upon a COW that
had been buried in the straw thirty
four days snd was still alive. She was
fat when she disappeared, but had, by
the confinement been reduced to a
mere skeleton. 'u7
We regret to learn, as we do from the
Cleveland Herald, Of Wednesday, that
Gen. Russell Hastings, United States
Marshall for the District, is again laid
up by the roopening Of bis wound re-
ceived az the battle Of OPequan in 1864,
while serving under Gen. Sheridan in
the Shenandoah Valley. Major Harry
Thompson is in charge of the Office.
F. C. Gulley, Esq, recently Of the
Bowling Green, Wood Co, o., Ssati,,el,
has purchased the Journal at Eaton
Rapids, Mich, and enters upon its pub
lication this week. Mr.. Culley made
the SenfHei live paper and gave it 3
degree of success highly creditable to
bis newspapeEisl capacity. We wish
him abundant success in his new field
Of labor ae..s-IF rsd
A widow lady, in Sussex county N.
Y, by the name of White, made con-
fessiou on her death bed, on the 27h
ult, that she had poisoned her child
seven years ago; that one year later she
had poisoned her father-in-lav, and still
later had poisoned her husband. She
had been a member of the Methodist
Church, and had always borne a good
character.
Caleb Gushing, it is now asserted,
was sent to BogOts, to close a contract
for building a Ship Canal across the
Isthmus. Il is also said that Gen.
Grant had been consulted about the
matter, and that he had expressed him
self as favorable to it, and regarded it
necessary to maintain our commercial
and naval supremacy on the Pacific.
The government will guarantee one mil.
lion dollars.
Oar Ancient Mariner is in trouble.
That Appropriation Committee thinks
the Old Salt extrayagant, and is curtail-
ing his allowances right and left. 1t is
even hinted that under the lead of Gen.
Grants personal friends; there is to be
an opposition to the large expenditures
for squadrons on foreign stations. The
Bsrnscles begin to fear that, with al
these uew-faDgled notions, things are
coming to pretty pass indeed.
On Saturday afternoon tin box con-
tanning $4,000, principally in United
States bonds, and $3.50 of negotiable
railroad scrip, was stolsn from the Of
fee of Bierwirth d Rochelle, No. 90
Pine Street. New York. The box was
brought from the bank at IL A. NJ,
and subsequently four suspicious char
acters Zone Of them a wop:;aS) were
seen about the premises. Aalarge re-
ward is offered for tbe discovery Of the
perpetrators of the robbery.
A German .linguist Professor Carl
Neuman, of Munich, it is stated, has
discovered from the Chinese year-books
that a companyvof Buddhist priests en-
tered the continent of America via Al
sska, 3 thousand years before Colum-
bus, and explored thoroughly and in
telligently the Pacific borders, pene.
tratihg into Aztec territory, or the
land Of Fusung, so called after the
Chinese name Of the Mexica aloe,
A fight occurred, in Van Vert, on
the 29th ult, between negro barber
and a white man, in which the latter
was badly cut With razor. Itappears
that the white man, named Miller, had
delivered load Of wood to the barber,
for which he neglected to pay. Miller
fogged him and not getting, his pay
''went for him. again, the same eve
ming, and was getting the best Of the
negro, when he whipped out razor
and cut him severely. Barber made
his escape t..r laGF 5.t t-'.
RetreBehment honesty and capacity
we're very fOrcibly indicated by Scbuy-
Ter gOlfa&, in his speech at Philadelphia,
on Saturday, as the three. great index
marks along the only road whichlcan
lead the American people back to a
right administration of their govern
ment and to a restored public credit.
And in that road, the Republican party,
led bEl Grant and Colfax, purposes to.
march ouE iWehsve 20 use whatever
for any ''buinmers," to plumber along
the TANKS, and al such win come to
grief If they forget when Ue1t March
comes around. l-a .iH fn
Library Association AT the annual
meeting Of the Library Association, held
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