The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-02-05
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NEWS rrBfts
Davis ths murderer of. Skinner, was exei
cuieaial 0lsEslArd yestefday. ~ /
bpis s pa lsvs deolasdi i iaVOt
Ofa I5aIrnE, kla the Duke q eoiDsh+
sThs.Ashe 81 Hon. Jauiea 9. BIZ - B most
-Prsmiaent euong those mentioned for SPsa.
4kerofihs bszs House. He viii makeun able
presiding 6lIscst. ia.e
An intelligent Dayton chap received a
money order, ard never having seen one be-
fore, and thinking bis correspondent was try :
ing to playa JOKE. threwit into thsfirs. q
JOSEPH. Msiealf the Oldest Mason. in the
Uniied States died at Erie. Pa, on the 9th
ult. He was Rinsts -iDur years old. His re-
mains wee taken to Vermont for ipterment.
G16ce il, sad, has rejected she deeision
of tBePsris cOnfererees and q war seems in !
ey1tsble between Greece and Turkey, Itis
alsslikslyi 10 .enlbroiI. other Powerssa
Al is spoken ofas The conservative oan-
didate fors Gosernor Of Teunossse. he is
expected 10 reach Nashville BY the middle
of March. BE win carry his policy Asith
hims8
Wm. Weeks, Of Wauseon, has the eoatract
for maRiag $1,000 Of Howe's Psfeut R. R.
joints for thea Sd Nj Railroad, 5000
to be made each month until all are furnish
ed e7alsfesli % p
The Postmaster General estimates thec0t
to the Government Of the abuse Of the frank
ing privilege at from one million to enc and
half million dollars. The only cure is total
abolition of The frank -
The Grant-BanIs story still agitates the
MetrOpOlitiOn dailiss It is probable that
the two generals. undefs,ood the matter as
fully before tie corfesppudeats opened their
batteries as they donow.
An insane man nansd Gordon, rsidiur a
shOil tatahcsnsrihof q esslfu. B.sIls county,
Ind, died ip great agony last Monday
morning. &c literally chewed his tongue
of. and frothed at. the mouth, az il suffering
from hydrophObia -
R.iisusa lu6sopDolg bales sfs tisi5g -
strucled b the Illizois bsgislstuTs,, 4 bin
having just passed flhat body. rss,gulatiDg the
charges n TailEosds IN that State, ana pio-
vidfsg severe peBalliss-sBOus thdn In
PrisSnuepf-fOr any violation of the law. :
The passses oftbe oopper.tsria bill, by
the Senate, occasioned exuberant rejoicing
thrOugh the Lake Superior regions. The
reiOieing vas sigasls bat prsrnataFe. ss & has
not yet passed the House, nor evaded the
vctOfk'of4be lsifibls Andrew.
Thomas Malloney, aged sighteen, died
from excessive drinking, in hOvel in
Cleveland, on the 9th ult, When discover
ed, be was lying deed on The floor, and his
mother, with whom he lived, sleeping off the
effects Of drunken debaueb in an adjoining |
room, 4
Dispatches from the best informed sources
at Washington. say that there is very little,
if any, doubt that the decision Of the United |
States Supreme Court win sustain the con-
stitutiOualfty Oftbe Legal Tender Act. 1t
is reported that the Court stands Eve 70
three in favor Of the Act.
william r. Brett was Il work % a saw |
mill at New BufslO, Ind, last "Wednesday,
when a stick vas thrown violently from a |
circular saw, striking him terrible blow
in the left side, BE walked few steps to
ward where his brother was standing, who
caught him in his arms and asked if he was
hnrt, He ecould not speak, aud iumedistsly.
fell down dead without uttering word.
Edwin R. Hatch of Conneaut Ohio, pro-
poses, for the sum of 800, 900, to descend the
falls Of Niagara, in boat of his own inven-
tion, and demonstrate that it can be done
with ease aud safety. He also claims to
have invented an aerial propeller, by which
goods can be carried across the continents,
or TIE ocean 10 q few hours, and bs managed
as sesily az an Ordinary vessel. We wish
him success bot hayeour doubts. &c
TIE Chillicolhe. Ohio. Register, states that
Jack Older, while quarrying stOns on his
farm, near HopstOwn, one day last week, at
the depth of four or five feet overturned a
large piece CT stone under which he dis
covered thirty-fye black snakes, varying in
length from three to eight feet. They were
rolled tightly il huge ball shaped mass
and had evidently lain up for the winter.
Mr.. c, went st them with pick and axe
and killed them all
About two weeks ago mad dog, on the
streets Of Cincinnati, bit some fifteen or
twenty persons before be could be killed.
One of these, Miss Jennie Cole, has al
ready died of hydrophobia.. A mad stone
was applied 70 the wounds Immediately after
she was bitten, and other medical treatment
adopted, but all without avail. This is the
second death from that terrible disease in
Cincinnati, within two weeks.
Tie natives Of New Zealand have reyolted
against English authority, and the first con-
test which occurred terminated in favor of /
the insurgents. The insurgents are gaining
in numbers, and are committing ontrsges on |
persons and property; some fifty families, in
one locality, have been DassscFed BY the /
demons, and horrible time is expected be-
fore the British government will be able 10
subdue the natives.
The Boston company, which holds the
right of the vulcanized India rubber, having |
succeeded, after three years, in establishing
its title before the courts, now has its agents
preambulating the country efFecting settle
ments with dentists who have been using the
vulcsnite base. 1t is thought the company
will realize $4,000 out of the luckless
vrights who were so uufOrtunate as not to
have purchased q right uDder the old patent.
The Season Of Lent nt.-Arebbisbop PuR-
CELL. has lengthy letter in the 0atFolio 7Sl- 1
oordph, which is addressed to the Clergy and
Laity ofhis D.ocess from which we make
the following extracts, as of leading interest
to a large number Of our readers: