The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-03-19
NEWS I1,EMs.

] ANheA
Gen. Schofeld goes to the Pacific part,
ment so supercede Halleck.
Senator anthony has beee chosen Prtsi.
dent of The Senate, pro tempOre.
The Stateof Alabama gives $4,000 to the
widow of each person assassinated in that
State. Husbands are getting anxious.
The new broom sweeps clean. A number
of incompetents have already been removed,
and other removals will follow rapidly.
The House passed the bill for the repeal Of
the tenure of Office law BY vote of 143 to
I6. twill doubtless pass the Senate, though
it will not until after full discussion.
A petition with $4,000 signatures, praying
for,the sbolition Of the law imprisoniDg deb
tors, was presented to the New York Legis-
lature on Monday.
Two women engaged 10 prize fight in
Someryille, Mass, on the 9th inst. Two
brutes, in the form OF men, forced them to
continue the fight, aud other brutes look
ed on.
Negotiations for landing the Frence cable
at ROxbury, Massachusetts, have been COM
pleted. The company has bought six acres
Of land, and has begun the erection of
buildings.
The Michigan legislature has done hu-
mainly service in passing the bill to pre-
vent and punish prize fighting, and The bill
to suppress quackery in the profession of
dentistry.
The amount Of fractional currency printed
last week was $562, 500; shipments, $3.50, :
700; National Bank notes issued, $l45.6OO;
actual circulation, $299 SOB; fractional
currency destroyed, $759, 500.
At the recent fire in Knoxville, Tennessee,
a cOlored fire company behaved very gallsn-
tly, and nearly $500 was raised by the citi-
zens next day and presented as testimonial
of their efFO, is to subdue the flames.
The New Orleans chivelry do not relish
the coming of Phil. Sheridan to command
at that city. Gen. Early didn't like his com
ing, either, and took his leave. The New
Orleans rebels might go-to Cuba.
Prominent capitalists who have invested
in Pacific Railway bonds, propose sending
commission to make private examination
of the road. Reports that the road was badly
constructed and may be abandoned 10 the
bOndhOlders led to this proposition.
At the Inauguration ball, Mrs. Gov. Nor
tons diamonds were the finest in the room;
Mrs. John Morrissey wore the most elegant
toilette; Mrs. Coalfax wore pink satin, with
a tulle overskirt; Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Gre
ated quite a sensation, as well as Madame Dr.
Walker, who appeaIed in Bloomer dress.
A disgraceful row occurred in the Repub-
lican Convention at Petersburg, Va, on the
9Th inst There were two factions, each
striving for precedence, and in the contest
disgraced the cause they espOused, as wells
themselves.
The President on the IItb inst, on the re-
commendation of Mr.. Rollins, made two or
three days before, revoked the order issued
by Mr.. Evarts suspending or setting aside
suits at st. Louis against Neal, Lawrence,
Able and others for alleged internal revenue
frauds,
The pardon of Martin, the defaulting
cashier of the Hide and Leather Bank, of
Boston, issued by A. j., on the Sd inst, was
among those recalled. Gen. Grant ''means
business, and all rogues and counterfeiters
and especial favorite of the departed Andy
should keep out of his clutches. yyn1l
Hartman, one of the murdersrs of Mr.. and
Mrs. Young, at Indianapolis, some time since,
cut his throat from ear to ear three times, on
the night of the 9th inst. He died in few
minutes. Mrs. Glen, his sister, who had been
convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for
life desired to end her existence in the same
way.
Mr.. A. T. Stewart has begun the erection
of an immense hotel at New York, having a
front of two hundred feet on Fourth avenue,
and two hundred and ten feet each on Thirty
second aud Thirty-third streets. The first
floor will be rented for stores, and the prop
srty is to be managed in the interests Of
working women Board will be furnished |
as cheaply as possible, and the sccommoda-
tons viii be excellent. A quarter of a mil
lion dollars has already been expended and
it is expected the entire work will cost over
two millions of dollars.
1t is'said that the people of Nova Scotia
are about to ask England for release of slI
political connection. They will at the same
time send delegation to Washington to
ascertain upon what iermsthey can be receiv-
ed as state in the American Union. The
feeling in the colony in favor of the measure
is intense and widespread. The subject is
advocated by the leading newspapers in the
colony, and by pamphlets prepared and
Published in Halifax, and extensively circulat-
Cd over the province. A prominent gentle
man in Washington has commenced prepara-
tiOu Of a pamphlet on this subject, in which
be proposes to show that very great good will
result TO both countries by the annexation,
not only of Nova Scotia, but of all the mara
time province,
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